The one word British people can’t say in an American accent

[otheusrex]

as an American, i believe you, but until recently i never thought English people struggled to make rhotic r because they're always adding them in other places. for example, the intrusive r in "i saw r an American today"

[brittany]

R is one of those that is usually telling regionally in America, along with the various 'a' sounds.

[gn]

Interpreter. Squirrel. Rural. And many more...

[randilevson]

I love how you switch effortlessly back and forth from accent to accent. I bet it took a lot, a lot, a lot of practuce

[serenaisproblem]

you’re like the best white obama impersonator I’ve ever seen

[hucklebucklin]

Reminds of of the NDL video where they had to pretend to be American. One straight up tried to be southern as it's slightly easier to pronounce as an English person. I can understand 😂

[sammysalter]

I really struggle with even hearing rhoticity lol it's like my brain deletes it

[PenneySounds]

I find it's the other way around. British actors tend to go WAY too hard on the R sounds when the sound shouldn't actually be that different from most British accents aside from where it is located.

[lfior]

I think ‘water’ is harder and mentioned by a lot of actors

[KyleVoices]

The soft T sounds are the hardest to do for me. We make very harsh T sounds in the U.K. but theirs are almost like Ds.

[Abstract_zx]

A giveaway for a british person pretending to be american is something as simple as the word "man", where the "a" sound is just a bit off.

[brandonmitchell]

It’s like saying “Australia” in an Australian accent. So difficult

[jyrinx]

I'm US-to-UK transplant and it's stuff like this that reminds me that, no, I couldn't just pick up the accent if I wanted to. I'd never even noticed the different R sound and now I can't get myself to do it the British way. (Before seeing this video I would've claimed that the word America sounds pretty much the same in General American as Standard Southern British.)

[Wesmin]

Can confirm British actors normally get it a bit wrong. Not very wrong, passable, but it often sounds just a bit off, unless they stick to a regional dialect, southern is a good example or new York or Boston ect then they nail it, but if they're trying to be the neutral generic American they almost always are a bit off.

[xylh]

The American rhotic r is hard enough to learn that I've had a speech pathologist tell me that she's had to convince parents that their 7 year old child not being able to pronounce it isn't grounds to put them in a speech class because it's fairly normal for the rhotic r to be one of the last consonant sounds to acquire. Apparently it's one of the hardest to pronounce phonemes out there.

[tonyog]

Dang! I thought it was "Carl"

[dixgun]

You’ve got a knack for American accents 😲 and you can transition from one to another seamlessly

[schildkroete]

Not all Americans have that R. It's a very midwestern- or southern-sounding R that tends to bleed into the surrounding vowels (it's called a bunched R). On the West Coast, our Rs are somewhat shorter and not as "heavy" sounding.

[BGTuyau]

Better than the Americans-in-British-English "daughter" video.

[davidmacdonald]

Using the words English & British as though they are the same thing. Which in reality they are.