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I am a non-native English speaker, and I tend to subconsciously imitate the accents of native speakers I talk to. It's not meant as mockery or an insult or anything, I just pick up on the 'melody', so to speak, of different accents and dialects.
I'm a native Portuguese speaker and I usually change a bit of my accent whenever I'm into a different region 😂 Same in English, while watching Harry Pottah
@@Tekoa80 yeah my granddad is scouse and if I stay with him for a couple of days I end up like I’m from toxteth. and I’m from cardiff, but when I see my friends from school my accent goes super broad (it should I say breeerd lol)
I read that Renée Zellweger kept up the British accent on set the whole time Bridget Jones' Diary was filming, so when she dropped it at the end of filming, a lot of the crew members were shocked - they assumed she was British. As an American, I agree that it's easier for Brits to do an American accent than vice versa. With good voice coaching, some American actors do a passable job, but it's much more common to find British actors doing a passable American accent. Whenever I try to do a British accent it sounds like it's simultaneously a mash-up of all British accents along with something indecipherable that may be Irish or South African...who knows? And Chris Pratt's imitation was of people on a show called "The Only Way is Essex" that he got hooked on when working in London."
There was an American show called "The Nanny". In that show the actor that plays Niles the butler does so with a perfect British accent despite him being from Georgia. His accent is flawless.
He's actually from Arkansas, but yeah, he did the accent so well that people wrote to him asking if he would PLEASE teach the lead Charles Shaughnessy (a London native!) how to do a British accent
@@skovol007 Ive heard of that too,people thought that the actor who played Niles was British and that the actor who played Maxwell Sheffield was an American doing a British accent,when it's actually the other way around. I also heard that some people thought the actor who played Higgins in Magnum P.I. (the original version from the 80s) was British,when he was actually from Texas.
Some actors try to make a accent more adapted to their character , ex : Tom Holland is from the UK 🇬🇧 but his accent in US is pretry good , especially in the spider-man movies
I never watched the Spiderman movies because I don’t care for superheroes. But I did watch him in recently in a movie with Mark Wahlberg where it sounded like Tom was trying to do a Boston accent. I thought he did well but there were a few nuances here and there that made it sound just slightly unnatural. The funny thing is the would be the Wahlberg brothers “normal” accents but like Christina they tend to switch up for others. 😂
This post doesn’t make any sense. Every actor does that. What point are you even trying to make? I don’t understand what point you’re trying to critique.
Fascinating to hear your discussions about accents. As a Canadian, I find American regional accents and the variety of Canadian accents (English and French) interesting too. Honestly, not so sure your American accents are spot on, at least in the short “American” schtick you do here. Would love to hear you give it a whirl in a more determined way. Do you, for example, hear the accent differences between someone from, say Toronto, Montreal, Detroit, and Chicago? So many interesting discussions to be had! Thanks for the fun talks about language.
Meryl Streep has done so many accents so well. A true thespian. Not all American actors can do other American accents well. I heard her do an American Appalachian accent recently and she was awesome and believable. Personally for British actors I think it depends on which American accent they’re doing whether it’s easier. They seem better at the “general” accent that is promoted in Hollywood. Sorry but I didn’t think think Andrew Lincoln in TWD sounds like he’s from Georgia. His Southern drawl feels like he’s trying. I still enjoyed watching him though. The accents on CSI New Orleans were horrible and the actors were American. 😂
Whenever I do a British accent I imitate the words I heard from Different Brits and therefore my accent imitation would sound weird because it'd sound like mixed of all British accents. And YES British accents are HARD. You don't have to imitate the sounds, vowels, and tone but you got to imitate the melody of the rhythm. I'm an American and Johnny D. sounds more British even when talks normally.
Emily's joke about what happened to her face (Me, floor, friends....Hi, b**ch, are you gonna see me today?...) was hilarious 😆. I rewatched it a bunch of times.
(For anyone wondering - imitating the speech or accent of people around you is totally normal and not something you can necessarily control - it’s an adaptive behavior because humans are social animals - we want to fit into a social group because it’s dangerous not to, so we tend to mimic the way other people speak when it differs from our own speech. Even if we’re conscious of doing it, it isn’t necessarily something we’re choosing to do. There’s a name for it that I, of course, can’t remember lol but it’s completely normal)
What another sweet video. (As a Canadian I grew up with American, Scot, Englsh-North and Cockney-Irish Canadian Prairies. Kiwis and Aussies were SO exotic.)Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
Renee Zellweger had a strong, native Texan accent. Which was why it was surprising to hear that she was chosen for Bridget Jones. But I thought that she did pretty well. Someone British would judge her ability better. I agree that in films the dialog coaches are there for every line to get the accent and inflections right. The Chris Pratt bit was just off the cuff. He had been in London for the filming of Guardians of the Galaxy, and got sucked into watching the show TOWIE, so this was his improvisation from watching the program, which shows his talent, and humor.
Renee may be from Texas but apparently, she studied English Literature at University, so perhaps, she was acquainted with the British accent long before she became an actor? Who knows? 🤷🏾♀️
Renee Zellweger is from Texas. However, before doing Bridget Jones they had her working part time in a London bookshop so that she could listen to and respond to people in a London accent. Because she was using a British accent, no one ever recognized her as Renee Zellweger.
Johnny Depp's had a little practice in Sleepy Hollow. Obviously if you go back a few hundred years, Americans had British accents, since they were mostly British, technically. Therefore, Captain Jack was simply speaking with a very old American accent...
i had a school teacher that was also a theatre actor. he was in west side story and in class he would practice and put on an over the top PR accent and then on stage he could reign it in to be more realistic
He didn't speak that way when he was younger which tells me it was a conscious effort on his part to sound English. The English accent does sound more sophisticated and even the dumbest Englishman can sound quite intelligent just based on his accent. Actually, Madonna did that crap years ago too. She lived in the UK for about a year and all of a sudden she's speaking with an English accent
Is it just me or does the girl with red hair have an unusual accent? Sometimes it sounds British but other times it sounds like it’s from another country.
They're not British at all. This channel is making a very creepy casting by choosing the countries ambassadors. Spanish that doesn't look from Spain (look at me: I AM Spanish!), English that doesn't sound English. Creepy.
Renée Zellweger is from a suburb of Houston Texas. Houston is ridiculously big (like London) and has dozens of satellite suburbs in which you could live your whole life without ever needing to visit them all. Hers is far north of Houston in a beautiful forested area which is a little "hillbilly" for city folks. She said she grew up a tomboy which is no doubt true.
You should definitely make a part 2 and make them react to Michael Jackson trying to speak in a British accent and to Rami Malek and Joe Mazzello as Freddie Mercury and John Deacon in "Bohemian Rhapsody"
some of them are US american, even southern, but with european (non-british) parents, and others from very multicultural places, but agreed and I'm the 1000th like! thanks and have a good one
Robert Downey Jr's accent in Sherlock Holmes and Emma Stone's accent in The Favourite were both very good. Also Gwyneth Paltrow in Sliding Doors and Shakespeare in Love.
See the thing about New York is, there's like 5 different accents depending on where in New York u are from lol. I'm from Long Island so I have that infamous Long Island accent 😂😂😂
I adore the Long Island accent. There was a non-American in the comments of a recent video who said the USA has like 3 highly distinguishable accents. I told him he must be underexposed because some places like NYC have lots of accents and the Long Island one very much stands out. I told him the Northeast has more accent diversity than other regions.
@@anndeecosita3586 Absolutely - it's the same reason the UK has just as many distinct accents as the US despite being much smaller - we've been speaking English longer, so by the same logic, it makes total sense that the northeastern US would have more accents than the rest of the States
@@konkey-dong Yes the Northeast has been speaking English longer whereas other parts of the country were colonized by Spain and France prior to becoming part of the USA. I can hear a distinct difference in the accents there versus the Northeast. Like NYC there are accent differences in New Orleans even for people who only speak English. sometimes I can tell what part of town someone is from based on accent. Uptown vs West Bank. Also a lot of NOLA people sound “Caribbean” and sometimes they are mistaken for foreigners. It’s believed this stems from the slaves being moved back and forth from Haiti and Colonial Louisiana when both were under French control. The same for some black people who are of the Gullah Geechee heritage in South Carolina who lived isolated for an extended time because their owners were afraid of catching Yellow Fever. They sound more similar to Bajans than like most Americans.
I'm from the Bronx so you can imagine what I sound like🙄. When I moved to Atlanta, the people there looked at me like I was an alien whenever I spoke. I quickly learned that it was not my pronunciation that was the problem. It was the speed at which I was speaking. The accents from the 5 boroughs of NYC might be a bit different, but one thing we all have in common is we talk FAST
Aaah...once again, and there were comments about it in the video about UK accents that were hard to understand: the sound quality of the examples should be improved tremendously. Without background music and much louder. Also, comments should be given afterwards, not when the celebrities are talking. It's almost not audible 🤥 And it's such an interesting topic! Doesn't anybody notice while editing the video?
the channel has to avoid copyright strikes so video clip audio will remain sucky, although videos might avoid a strike if both clip and background music were equally louder. Then as you say put commentary after the clips.
I live in france and we learnt english the british way like "can't" and stuff like these we learnt to say it in a british accent. I remember being so confused the first time I heard american people say that word.
The actors who nailed the accent, with a native Brit not hearing they are American, must be really good. I think I've only met one person in my life, who wasn't a native Danish speaker, that I couldn't hear wasn't Danish. Mind you, Danish is a very different language to speak, and even though it's a small country, we have many dialects.
As an American, whenever I try speaking in an English accent it just sounds like an Australian or cockney accent. For some reason the harder, stronger accents are more easy to imitate than the more subtle English accent
I love most British accents. I love a lot of accents. I'm from Texas, I speak English but if I'm listening to someone speak with a southern accent I pick it up with out noticing and once I do I just shut up cause I feel like the person would think I'm mocking them. If I moved to England I'd probably pick up an accent since I subconsciously like mirror a person.
As an American myself, as my Avatar pic suggests, I would say that the reason we Americans have a hard time with doing British accents is because most of our accents pronounce our T's and 'er's a certain way where most British accents don't. And trying to change that in our minds just doesn't work well. The whole "bah'ul uv wah-uh" thing just drives us nuts. Especially myself, because honestly, it sounds like using a severe British accent like that actually takes MORE effort to do do than to just say it in an American accent. For example, the tendency to not say H's and T's is just mind blowing. For example, Gary Drayton, who grew up in Grimsby, UK (east coast, due east of Manchester) who is on the TV show "Curse of Oak Island" would say Thirteen as "Ur-een." Drives me nuts...it's like he struggles with his own accent at times. And the thing is, he lives in Florida over the winter between seasons of the show, so you'd think his accent would mellow out a bit...but no.
Dear editor, please don't reduce the volume of the clips so much, i can either not hear them or raise the volume to the point that the English girls would burst my eardrums.
As foreigner I worked in the UK near Winchester, so really south , and a longer time in Glasgow. Sadly my Glaswegian accent is almost gone (where is James McAvoy to rescue me) and I sound a bit more like Leeds , not sure why. Still have a hunch for dialects but when I tried to rewatch McCallum the TV series I hardly understood anything. On the other hands people from the UK complained about mumbling Tom Hardy in Taboo I didn´t had any problem. I hope that actors from the UK and Ireland stop downing down their accents when they have intereviews abroad - like with Jimmy Fellon Jimmy Kimmel etc.
I find it funny that, most American Would imitate the British Accent whenever they have the chance and British people would imitate Americans in mostly(Valley Accent Girl) way 🤣🤣🤣 and me as an Asian, i know alot of people here including myself we do both.
My favorite criticism of an accent was in the old movie "There's Something About Mary". A pizza delivery person pretends to be an architect with a British accent and was roasted by critics as having the worst British accent ever. The joke is the actor was British and the American accent was the one he was imitating. It seems to me when people begin picking up an accent whilst living somewhere new, they just want to "fit in" or "play with the other reindeer"; so, they subconsciously imitate their speech.
It was amazing. Thanks from Russia. My English is very bad. But I understood it all. The topic of “accent” is very interesting to me. I understand some British accents. Girls, it was cool.
I am from the US South, and it is the same with people trying to imitate a Southern accent. Part of this is the fault of Hollywood, who has developed over the years a "Hollywood Southern" accent that is identifiable as Southern but doesn't sound like anything you would hear in the real world. Some actors, like Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson have a genuine Texas Southern accent because they are actually from Texas, but there are some very painful attempts by other actors in many movies. There also isn't just one Southern accent - it varies from location to location, and even a small state can have several different Southern accents. I do agree that British actors do a better job of imitating an American accent than the other way around.
To be fair Johnny Depp, has spent a lot of time living in the UK, he even appeard on Top of the Pops in 1984 with Shane MacGowan and the Popes, back when he was known for his music and not acting.
See British folk say the same thing as Americans do about the English.. you pick one region but there's many more accents in the US than in England.. they always do Midwestern or southern
American actors always go for the same middle class London accent, probably because that's what they hear in films. When they branch out and do other regions (e.g. Mike Myers, Sean Austin) that's what's really impressive.
I really enjoy the Chris Pratt TOWIE impression from The Graham Norton Show. I'm glad you guys had that clip in here. John Bishop's reaction to it was priceless as well!!
its easier for Brits to imitate Americans because you watch more American tv then we watch Uk shows. Aussie's watch both countries shows equally. So they can do both accents.
I have a theory that we Americans struggle with British accents because of TV - we all sound kind of generic. But there are so many regional Brisish accents Brits know what sounds to drop or twist depending upon region, My 2 cents - as the idiom goes
Think biggest thing Americans trip over doing a British accent is flipping between regions as with the 1st Anne Hathaway. You can't do East End London /Essex/Surrey and Manchester etc got to stick to one area.
First of all - I feel ancient because the only people who think Johnny Depp is British are young enough to not have fallen madly in love with him in the 80’s and 90’s. I was four. He was on 21 Jump Street. And I was IN LOVE. Lol Second - the reverse of this is (for me) idris elba on the office. I did not know he was British and it floored me when I found out. Same with Hugh Laurie on House but now I can pick that out easier because it’s a very heavy sounding white male American accent that white Brit actors use. It works in very very particular roles - like Hugh Laurie as a snotty doctor? PERFECT accent. Totally believable. Works almost as well for Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Strange - his isn’t quite as clean as Hugh Laurie’s though. But Idris Elba?? Holy. Shit. I had NO idea. I’m not sure if it’s just because of where he grew up and the sort of British accent he has translating really easily into AAVE/American city sort of accent? But his sounds nearly perfect. Only after I knew could I pick out little slip ups in his accent. People go wild over tom hollands American accent because it’s SO GOOD. I think he had a brief struggle with it, but once he got it, it’s PERFECT. Very very casual and easy - very believable American teen boy.
It's not necessarily that one population of people is better at imitating the accent of another population, but rather that the people of one population are more familiar with their accent. Therefore, they are better able to criticize people's imitations of their accents and identify discrepancies better than people from other populations.
No Lauren, the reason Americans have a harder time with the British accent is not because it is too hard. It is because average Americans don't practice speaking it daily or have an accent coach like American celebrities have for their profession. We hear the British accent enough that we can copy it to comical effect, but as far as speaking it naturally that would require practicing the British accent constantly with native British accent speakers, similar to the way people learn other languages by exposure to the language with native speakers and there is no reason for average Americans to do that since we can all understand British English. Conversely, the reason British actors USUALLY have an easier time with the American accent is because they've been exposed to the American accent more than Americans have to British, given the prevalence of Hollywood and American culture in the world overall. So British actors may have more options in language coaches and may also have practiced speaking American English earlier in their careers.
I'm Polish, I've never understood Americans struggling to pronounce words the British way and the other way - British people who Had trouble immitating Americans. Now I know how it is when so many Ukrainians came to Poland and I started to be interested in their language. We share a huge package of the same vocabulary. The thing is that Poles have regular stressing on a pre-last syllable, while Ukrainian stressing is changing, and some words sound SO SO SO UNNATURAL to me, single words ok but a whole sentence is just painful for me to say, now I get this British-American relation And btw standard American accent is way more natural for me, but this is why if I want to sound native it's easier to fake British :)
I am from Myanmar, luckly all of the public schools from Myanmar use British English. However, their accent is mixed with their mother tongue. AND THAT's CUTEEEEEEE>
British people are better at doing American accents because they grew up on American TV/film. Americans weren't as exposed to British media, so we have a harder time with accents.
