How to do an 'American Accent' - US Accent Tour

Doing American accents is such fun. What do you think of our accents?

-------MORE FROM JADE JODDLE

[trstmeimadctr]

Standard American is west of the MIssissip (+Indiana and Illionois)i to Nevada, south of Minnesota and north of the Mason-Dixon Line. It is a big chunk of the country, and the "annoying" accent you did was basically a Valley Girl accent, which has been dead for 20 years.

[GODWOLF]

In "porch, " the r is a rhotic r and would be pronounced pretty much everywhere in the US except perhaps for certain places in the NE... Boston, for example. There was a Southern accent that used the non rhotic r, but, as it was the "RP" of it's day, meant to sound posh and upper class, it's faded out and it's pretty well only used by old people, and not many at that.

[bearclawgirl]

It is so interesting to hear how others view American accents. I agree with the other comment that these accents are over exaggerated - probably from viewing TV or movies. 

[grakus]

Hey  Jade  how  would  you say  Bagels  in  British English? 

[kasparm]

Great video. Btw Jade, my grandpa called and said he wants his green army shirt from the 60s back

[ismy]

Lol... That was funny. Thank you Jade :)

[GaGa]

The typical Valley Girl accent, you've got to add a lot of 'like' in your sentences, and add 'omg' in everywhere of your speech. Lol

[takehikomori]

American & British English are sometimes different, so I frequently get confused. By the way, I like bagels but to be honest I much prefer beagles.

[lyingdogfaceponysoldier]

Thanks for trying, you did pretty well, or I could say pretty good.

[GODWOLF]

It's very difficult for most foreigners to get more than a basic grasp of the accents of another country. I can fool most Americans with my Glaswegian Scottish, and possibly, for a short time anyway, someone from the UK outside of Scotland if I'm careful, but I seriously doubt I'd fool a Glaswegian. The subtleties of the accent and even choice of phrasing and words would trip me up eventually, not to mention that there are differing accents within Glasgow itself between areas, class and age. Heck, Glasgow and Edinburgh are only about 40 miles apart, and most Americans have a hard time differentiating between the two. But to the natives of each, the difference is as clear as day.

Given that, it's not surprising that we can hear discrepancies. But still, a very passable job, the "southern" accent excepted. That one can be tricky for someone not born and bred here. And like the previous example of Glasgow, age, education and, for lack of a better word, class/social background show their differences among people in the same town, much less states. I'm from Georgia, my stepdad is from North Carolina, and his accent, while still recognisably Southern, is different from mine.

That said, some of the best Southern accents I've heard in TV shows and movies were done either by UK or Australian actors. I mean good enough that I didn't pick up on anything wrong.

And you should hear the really broad accents where I'm from. They're practically unintelligible to outisiders. Hahbahchanah? or the even more truncated "Bachanah?" is "How about you, now?" and is used as a greeting. Agowiya is "I'll go with you." I suspect our initial settlers being predominantly Scottish is to thank for the "wi'ye" part of our dialect, among others. Aight, is all right. Chewdooin? is What are you doing?  Ha pup air is Hop up there. We just love to cut out the vocalised th whenever possible, and at best, shorten it to a "d" sound unless it's really emphasised. Essentially, we just elide over the "soft" consanants and stretch them out to a drawl.

One notable difference is "Joowanna go?" In UK English this would be understood to be "Do you want to go?" while where I'm from it would be understood as "Did you want to go?" If we are asking Do you, we'd just skip past the do, and say "Yuanna go?" We don't have much use for the w there either, it would seem.

[gingerbaker]

I heard in some parts of Carolina they speak with Gloucestershire accents.

[katherinevaughan]

PLUS, your description says "standard American accent" and there is no standard. There are so many dialects that a standard would be impossible. I honestly just think you're jealous-- I mean, we beat you in two

[BakerNxD]

You could have done the Boston/Massachusetts accent. You know, like Mayor Quimby on the the Simpsons or John F Kennedy.

[VIDSTORAGE]

Oh I feel sooo much better about my American self now...Why you no like me, my feelings are hurt ..I am going to jump off the 10 th floor now ..Goodbye Cruel World :/

[craaash]

It sounded too Scottish to me here and there. Plus, Where were the famous american rolled "r"s? :)

[y_p]

that moment when Perdita called Brandon 1:55 LAMAO

[eminmentes]

I need to make extra effort to speak like this :)) god bless british accent :)) 

[eleonorer.]

sounds funny to my untrained foreign ear :P

[Brerenee]

They are really bad at this. Every accent they tried was horrendous.

[josearqco]

As a spaniard, i find american accent, incredibly uglier than the british one; british is more exotic and beautiful, american sounds soooo low profile