Is This English? Japanese Reacts To Accents in United States

Japanese reacts to accents in United States. Japanese react to American culture.
This time I'm watching Conde Nast Traveler 50 states accents video to see if I can catch American accents and understand them. Can a Japanese tell accents in United States? ...wish me luck!

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[AsagisLifeNoBSJapan]

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[timothyhays]

Television has been neutralizing the regional accents over the years. They are less pronounce now compared to the previous generations before radio and television inventions.

[lifjyruss]

I'm from Texas and yeah you have a generally good idea of southern accents.

[hmshood]

Southern US Accents can be both
simultaneously the most classy and the most unclassy accent imaginable. Depending on if you are talking to a Southern Belle or a Country Hick. Trust me being a resident of Texas I should know this. In my opinion the best US regional accents are the Southern family of accents and the Minnesotan accent. My Grandma has that one.

[jmcosmos]

01:12 Names of carbonated drinks (Ozzies tend to call them "fizzy drinks") are a definite marker for different regions' accents. "Soda pop" is common in the Pacific Northwest, while "soda" alone is common on both coasts, East and West. Across the South, "coke" is the common name for any brand of carbonated soda, while "pop" by itself is heard in the Midwestern states. There are still enclaves of the terms "tonic" and "soda water" or "sody water, " but these are regarded as archaic and declining. "Cola" is uncommon to hear within the US.

02:03 Elongated (not "it long gave me") vowels are a part of accents across the South, from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean and from Kentucky to the Gulf of Mexico.

02:06 The Mississippian is exaggerating, but not very much. I might write it phonetically as "hah y'all doin' da-day?" The Georgian is eliding vowels like crazy. What he actually said was "Y'all wanna (want to) go ta (to) Waffle House? (a chain of restaurants that serves waffles and other breakfast food) C'mon over, we'll go ta Waffle House."

02:40 The Tennessean sounds as though she's exaggerating, but she isn't. I know people who talk with that much of a twang.

03:23 The Vermonter reminds me of other accents you find farther west, such as Wisconsin or Minnesota.

03:57 The Chicago accent is difficult to describe, but it exists. In a conversation with a Chicagoan once, she advanced the hypothesis that it was because nuns from southern Louisiana (around New Orleans) went north to teach in Chicago religious schools, and instilled their own accents into the kids.

04:01 Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska all fall into what's known as "generic Midwestern" accents. Generic Midwestern is prized among television news readers, because it's rather colourless and inoffensive.

04:20 What she's describing is a thing known as "uptalk, " where the speaker ends phrases and sentences with a rising inflection. It's most often heard among younger women of all regions, and is thought to arise from insecurity and desire not to offend male sensibilities. I find uptalk to be intensely annoying, because it often does indicate insecurity and an unwillingness to take and hold one's own position in a conversation.

05:04 She is turning on the Bostonian accent with the intensity turned up to eleven. To translate: "You got to park the car in Harvard Yard and give the guard a quarter for some chowder." Swoopy diphthongs ALL over the place, R is universally replaced by -a or -uh, vowels are flattened as though a steamroller ran over them.

05:25 Maine and New Hampshire share the New England Yankee flattening of vowels. The man from New Hampshire is not wrong to identify Francophone influence coming across from Quebec.

05:32 The North Dakota woman is talking about vowel sounds inherited from Swedish and Norse settlers. The same thing tends to make their regional accent somewhat sing-songy.

05:45 The man from Wisconsin is describing a tendency to move vowels higher and farther forward in the mouth which gives them a tighter sound, so short E becomes more like I, and short A moves up to the E position, hence the "iggs in a beg." (New Zealanders do this too.)

06:36 Baltimore, Maryland has a VERY distinct and noticeable accent with tight vowels and lots of diphthongs. I can't even begin to imitate it, though my brother-in-law, who grew up there, does it to perfection. Locally, they call it the "Highlandtown" accent.

07:11 Florida is teeming with Cuban refugees from the Castro regime, and their children and grandchildren.

07:32 "Yinz" is a tight regionalism. It's a contraction of "you'uns" which is a contraction of "you ones."

[SpawnedInTheHades]

Here in California we have a few accents, like the surfer dude accent and valley girl accent, but they're regional rather that state-wide, so most of us don't sound like that (It is a pretty big state, after all). States from the New England region (the north eastern corner of the country) are often pretty thick. Honestly, even as a born-and-raised English speaker, I have trouble understanding them too. The Eastern side of the country is older and I think the accents are generally more extreme as a result. And, personally, I think Japanese women are cute as hell when they speak English with a Japanese accent.

[WylieCoyoteTX]

The best accent was yours Asagi! Thanks for being patient and understanding of our diverse, interesting regional cultures. When I travel, people ask me if I'm from "The South" and I have to say no, I'm from Texas.

[aliendude]

7:15 “Many Mexicans there I guess”

Cubans actually, that’s the highest percentage of Latinos there. I’m from Texas but have family in Florida, and they’re accents are kind of like that.

[matthewzaloudek]

The girl from Maine describing her accent was perfect. "It's kind of like Boston, but cooler, and a bit more drunk."

[TheCyberMantis]

I really like the accent Japanese women have when they speak English. It's very nice.

[SoraQuil]

If you ever want to learn more about American accents, I would recommend the 3 part "Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents" series from the channel Wired.

[biblesforbreakfast]

Boston Massachusettes is one example of what is more widely known as a New England accent. And yes, it is sometimes difficult for other Americans to understand. My Grandfather grew up in Boston and when he moved to the Southern United States, everyone from the local Hardees (a chain fast food restaurant) loved hearing him talk because no one in town spoke like him.

[SFforlife]

Don’t feel bad about saying Californians sound like they’re on marijuana, Asagi, because most of us are, hahaha. And yes, many here speak happy-sounding because many are! California tends to do that to your voice, lol.

And as for Southern accents... don’t feel bad about not understanding them, most of us Americans can’t understand them either! I had a job once where the company owner was from Arkansas and my manager had to tell me that it was okay to ask him to slow down and speak “less Arkansas” around us Californians! 😆 That being said, I could still understand him and I actually liked his accent. We don’t hear Southern accents often out in California, so I thought it was cool.

[MrFarnanonical]

1:27 Soda pop is an old fashion word. Depending where you're from in the US you'll either say, "Soda", "Pop", or just call everything regardless of the brand "Coke".

[stuartpattison]

Massachusett’s accents don’t pronounce their “r” and until you figure it out, you can’t understand what they’re saying. I was once on a flight to Boston and the lady sitting next to me talked to me about 20 minutes before I figured out her accent. I just nodded my head and acted like I understood every word she said. That’s the polite thing to do being from Texas and all. It wasn’t until she told me they were going from “bah to bah to bah” that I realized she meant “bar to bar to bar!” Then the whole conversation made sense. 😂

[brendanmatelan]

I should've remembered there was going to a reference to "Yinz" when they talked about Pennsylvania. Ughh. Not everybody in Pittsburgh says Yinz people. Lol
Fun video Asagi

[kensanokaeri]

I think it's interesting to know the different accents. Because I feel like we can kind of know the cultural backgrounds through the accents. Thanks for this video!

[burnzy]

"I never thought I had an accent" is one of the most american things anyone can say

[dtikvxcdgjbv]

It is nice to keep Your accent in active speech. It is charming and it is reflecting Your soul.

[musashiblade]

I live in Kentucky. Here in western Kentucky, the typical accent is like a mix between a southern and midwestern accent like that of Arkansas. When I go to Eastern Kentucky, the accent is sometimes so thick I can't understand what the person is saying. They have slang that is pretty much exclusive to the Appalachian region. I always liked the New York and New Jersey accent though. Probably from all of the mafia flicks I've watched lol.