How to tell Accents Apart | Language Expert Explains | REACTION

How to tell accents apart.. and examples of how accents and language can be so sticky. Have you ever/met someone who has shifted their accent over time?

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[vasi]

I live in North-West of England and oh boy the amount of different accents they have here is crazy. You can literally drive 5-10 miles to another town and the accent changes drastically.

[harrymelad]

I am a Brit who spent many years living and working in Asia with many Aussies and Kiwis. And the easiest way to tell them apart is when they say "six and seven", as Kiwis change the first vowels to make the sounds, "sex and siven."

[flaviostoian]

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[MusicalJackknife]

I have a cousin whose mother was doing research in the UK during the few years he was learning to speak, and he came back to the US at 3 years old with the cutest British accent, with parents from NY...it took a few years for it to fade away completely.

[atsleepwalkingpace]

As an Australia, we don't really have regional accents. It's more rural vs urban, but even then you can have people in urban areas that sound 'rural'. You might be able to guess that someone is from Western Australia because they sound vaguely more English, but other than that our accents seem to vary more with class than with geography.

[vegas]

Another great video. Love the variety on your channel.

[jeffjaeger]

I met a girl down in Texas, years ago, who had recently lived in Missouri. she had a lovely southern accent. but she told us she was from NYC, and that she always picked up the local accent after living somewhere for a while... and sure enough, in a few weeks she sounded just like a native Texan. some people just have a natural talent like that.

[dyoung]

There's about 1500 languages at risk of becoming dead. Makes me wonder if there's a similar risk or dynamic with accents. Given the sheer number of accents in a smaller geographic region like the UK...you'd think over time as societies become more mobile, that accents would blend together and become less pronounced.

Accents are also contagious. Takes me less than a week in Texas to start talking like one. My brother also married a gal from Missouri...he has a more southern accent that her now.

PS: False Canadian here. Often confused as one by Southern US residents but I grew up in upper Michigan. House/About are dead giveaways as you mentioned. But sometimes its the words too..."Yous" is fairly common in up there. But we've not adopted "Zed" yet.

[danielman]

LoL am American but can usually tell an Aussie accent from a Kiwi. Not sure why LoL.. what trips me up is the South African accent...

[canspoon]

*Fewer* regional accents. 😂 Love your channel. So many mixed subjects.

[maschaswinkels]

I’m Dutch but backpacking through Australia ( long ago in the 90’s) people would often think I was English because that’s the accent I was mostly exposed to and hung out with a lot of Brits while travelling.
I also remember the biggest diffidence in Australian accents were between rural Queensland and NT and the rest of the country while there did not seem to be much difference between NSW, VIC cities and Perth for instance.
Australian slang was amazingly fun no matter which part of the country you are in 😂😂

[jameswalsh]

4:06 'South of England' arrow points straight to Wales 🤦‍♂️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[ticklicker]

1.) I'm from Boston and obviously it's easier to distinguish our accents by our r's than our o's, 2.) I know someone from New Zealand who sounds nothing like that, 3.) Philly is a neutral accent

[charlesf]

This reminds me of all the times when, upon learning I'm from Nashville, people would say, "You don't have an accent. You're not really from Nashville, are you?" Having grown weary of the question, I started to tell people that I was part of a secret southern organization still upset about the outcome of the Civil War, so they assembled volunteers, bred the southern accent out of us generically, and sent us to the north to infiltrate and conquer from within. The question doesn't come up anymore after that.

I knew that there were different accents in Britain, and could pick out a cockney from a more "proper" English accent; it was pretty easy to tell Australian from English, but that's as far as I went. After this video, I now get that there are many more accents than I knew over there, never mind Australia vs. New Zealand. Thanks for the enlightenment.

[seenhaender]

There's other videos with this vocal coach that I'd argue are much more interesting, like him critiquing actor's portrayals of real famous figures, comparing how much they nailed their accent or speech pattern.

[McLeod]

Singer's posts have always been informative, well produced, and entertaining. I haven't seen high volume, but it's always good quality. I press play anytime the BotFace Algo's send me a bit of his production. *** And you COMSTANTLY smiled throughout this. Ja clearly enjoyed this react. ☮☮ & 💜💜 Very fun to watch your react, and I had not seen this vid of Erik's so bonus.

[mattpotter]

Great video. I've travelled the world, met many different people from many different places and would never have thought of some of these things. I've always found the way to spot an Aussie from a Kiwi is to ask them who has the best rugby union side. Never fails!!! I found it odd that he picked the Brummie accent to compare with the Geordie one as I don't really see the Brummie accent as a southern accent. It is very distinctive though and often gets longer down upon which I don't agree with.

Watching this video it got me thinking about your English accent and where it is from. I'm thinking California maybe (some of that might be based on things you've said in other videos though), but some of the way you talk sounds very much like British English, especially the way you say Birmingham (Burr-ming-um) so I guess you either were taught English by an English teacher from England (if you didn't grow up over here, which I don't think you did), you have been around a lot of English friends and have picked up the way they speak, or maybe it's a mixture of the two? Either way great video, looking forward to more.

[MusicalJackknife]

I love all of his videos with Wired. Many people can't distinguish between a Boston and a Maine accent, but one difference I hear is that same vowel he used with the NY/Boston comparison. We make it more of a diphthong like Boston does, but usually elongated, with a falling intonation and even more of that "w" kind of sound you talked about hearing.

[Ubotit_Unaymit]

Hello, NP! Hope you're doing great!

[Dan-B]

It’s honestly wild to me that someone wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between and northern and a southern English accent, as they sound so unalike, but if you aren’t exposed to the difference I guess…🤷‍♂️