Hi World Friends 🌏! Show us your ❤ with Subscribe, Like👍 & Comment, and Share! 🇬🇧 Lauren / lauren_ade / laurenade 🇩🇪 Alice / alicerosegrd 🇺🇸 Shannon / shannon.harperrr 🇫🇷 Dia / clem.dbn 🇪🇸 Claudia / westclau
@@hanifleylabi8628 agree , in fact , people from Germany are probably the easiest to guess , i mean , every time that someone from Germany shows up the others guess pretty fast
@@Noah_ol11 actually you can tell every native country by the accent of a person quite well, there is none who is easier or more difficult to guess. Because every language has its very own characteristics.
Its not that the girl from Germany had a thick accent, its just that a German accent is quite recognizable from how certain words are pronounced. So it is easy to identify even if its not showing up too often.
That and also in the UK, I'd say we're exposed to the German way of speaking English more than any non-English speaking country, or at least most familiar with it anyways.
The usual tell from a German is they devoice final consonants, so they'll, for example, pronounce "bad" and "bat" the same way (Bunt and Bund are pronounced the same in German)
@@Ivan-fm4eh Actually, they're not. I pronounce "bunt" with a heavily aspirated, strong t, and "Bund" with an audible d or at least a mild t. I think the aspiration is what gives words ending in t away.
@L for native germans the german accent is pretty cringe😂 but she was actually rlly good! Its usually noticable with words like „that“ or „good“ because germans like to pronounce the whole word while most natives dont really pronounce the the t at the end of „that“ etc
@@simbabuu2724 we do pronounce the T at the end but not loud. Idk how to explain it out. But sometimes we turn it into something similar to D if it comes between two vowels. I think we call it "stopped T".
As a native speaker, I could tell right away that the second woman was the native speaker. I think it's a lot harder to tell when someone isn't a native English speaker (and it's the same for most languages I assume?) when they've chosen a specific accent and worked hard to really nail it, because at that point you only really have grammar or syntax to go by, and native English speakers butcher our own grammar all the time so even that becomes a dodgy method lmao.
The weird part is that the second lady was not speaking with her native accent. She's actually from the States. I knew she was a native, but would not have guessed where she was from.
Yes, it's obviously extremely obvious and I'm not sure what wrong with the girl who is playing the role of a prize winner. However, I would have only eliminated the two on the end because the Asian is using poor grammar and a thick accent, so the possibility of deception exists. The two on each end have only slight accents, one has an accent only on certain words, so someone who is pretending is unlikely to be able to do that.
Beyond spelling errors, what you're talking about sounds like dialectal differences, so while there may be variations in tense (you was/he were in some British dialects, or the fact that Americans say I wish you would've told me rather than I wish you had told me) the variation is still regular. There are some features which are very unlikely to change such as connected speech or the voicing of consonants, and two of the most obvious to me are the usage of prepositions and articles. They're hardwired for native speakers, have very little variation (some dialectal variation), and difficult to get right if it's your second language.
As a native English speaker I realized who the native speaker was right away. Their foreign accents were still pretty noticeable and I’m guessing the person sitting up front was pretending to be uncertain just for the sake of the video?
I don't think so considering she couldn't see them it's harder immediately and she doesn't want to get it wrong and look like a fool. I thought it was number 3 as a native speaker and that's with seeing faces and laughing and things
That's so interesting because as an Aussie, I was convinced the American was pretending to be English! 🤷♀️ But obviously the accent is my native, so I'm very familiar with it. Some of her pronounciations and intonations were English sounding. For many words, Aussies usually say T's as a D /soft sound, like Americans do. I saw an accent expert say recently that people less familiar with the Australian accent tend to hear it as an English accent because that accent is more familiar to them. And that's why it comes out that way when they try to do it. It's really not an easy one to do well 🙈. Kate Winslet in "The Dressmaker" and Dev Patel in "Lion" were probably the best I've heard.
As an Aussie who has spent much of my adult life in the UK, she sounded Australian to me. I never would have guessed American. I think she did a terrific job.
That expert was right, I'm not a native speaker and I had a lot of trouble picking an Aussie accent from a British one, honestly sounded the same to me; especially since there's so many different British accents. Now, after years of perfecting my english, I can recognize it more (it kinds of sounds like a mix of American and British, or like an American trying to do a British accent) but it's still not perfect. For example that lady in the video; I knew right away that she was a native speaker and probably not British because the accent sounded off; but I couldn't figure out if she was Aussie or just came from some region of the UK with an accent I never heard lmao (I didn't know they were allowed to fake accents)
This was just fun. Enjoyed it from Canada where we ‘almost ‘ speak English. I also speak French and guessed the one was from France right away. Hope you do this again.
@@dannyesse3043 yes it was very, VERY obvious. As soon as they all introduced themselves with 10 seconds, it was very clear that the 2nd one was the native.
As an American, I could hear all the native accents right away. The only one which threw me for a loop was the American girl who used an Aussie accent. I mean I knew beforehand that she was an American, but I couldn't understand why she spoke with an Aussie accent. I think I heard in another video that the American lived in Oz for sometime. As a Spanish speaker, I have been told that my Spanish makes me sound like a Mexican, and that makes sense because I lived there for almost two years. As a native, New Yorker, people notice I am a New Yorker right from the start. My bluntness just flows naturally
Heyy it’s Dia~ thanks for having me over! I was really nervous as it was my first time but it was such a good experience!! Hope everyone will enjoy the video :)) 💗💗
Je sais pas d'où vient ton accent, mais il sonne pas du tout français, bien joué !🤗🤗 Tu parles super bien btw , j'espère qu'on te reverra sur d'autres vidéos ☺
As an American, I could tell right away that number 2 was the native speaker and the other 3 weren't (I've seen her in other videos too!). But yeah the accents of the others were quite noticeable.
This video is very cool! I thought that the girl from Germany was a native speaker. She has excellent speech. The girl from France has a very interesting accent. I don't know the reason but I thought she was from Asia. All girls are great! I'm not very good with accents but it was an interesting experience. I am not a native speaker but I hope that one day I will be able to speak English like them. In my opinion, accents complement the image of a person. I think the accent is a very interesting phenomenon. It is very voluminous. It seems to me that the science of accents will appear in the future.
I really enjoyed watching that video. I'm not an English native speaker but always try to improve it, and it was fun to watch her try to guess where these girls came from !
I imagine Shannon is how Tolkien imagined Galadriel to look like. And I now understand Gimli's pain when he has to leave Lothlorien, lamenting the fact that he has now seen that which is fairest in the world, and that nothing else will ever seem fair to him again by comparison. I finally get it. Poor Gimli, son of Gloin.
My friend’s son moved to Germany from the U.K. He’s been there for quite a few years now but recently he wore an English rugby team jersey into work. His workmates asked him why and he replied that he was British. They were amazed, they all thought he was German.
the girl from france it was so funny that she almost spoke with a british accent but said fall for season, which americans say, and the american said autumn which is what british people say xD
Diah (n°3) really threw me, and I'm British & French! I was thinking: Danish? Hungarian? Maybe a different planet altogether? It was those glottal stops - very English to have glo'al stops, of course, but there was something different about these ones… indeed, a bit like in Singlish, la' (Singapore English). Lauren has a fine ear!
@@BennyDACHO Well, you probably don't hear your own støds. But yes, the stops she was making sounded like they belonged at the end of a Thai syllable, not in the middle of an English word. Curious.
@@nicoc6387 I think Danish people can clearly hear the glottal stops we make, because they sometimes distinguish two words from each other (many people might not be conscious that that's the difference, of course). But like Ben C, I also didn't think her accent sounded Danish. I didn't notice that she was making glottal stops, but even if I had, there's a lot of other reasons that it doesn't sound like Danish to me. Danish also has a similar r to French, and that doesn't mean that a French and a Danish accent sounds the same, right?
@@Doedling Of course, it was only a very, very tentative guess because the phonetic mixture was so idiosyncratic. I think the 'other planet' option was closer.
First I was sure number 2 is British (I am not a native Eng speaker). BUT then she said 'dancing' in the US way and I was puzzled but nothing else gave her away, good job with the accent!!
Lauren clearly by her voice alone is young ( the rising 'questioning' end of sentences, gives this away) and I would say has spent some formative time in either Ireland or Scotland.
I'm just waiting for Shannon to learn from her mistakes and really fool someone by intentionally making common mistakes, halting, etc to make her fake accent even better. I loved that pulled the whole "Autumn" thing. I was also really impressed with Diah, she said "Fall" and kept up her accent really well! The German girl hardly has an accent, compared to most Germans I've heard. I think she could pull off an American accent with just a few tweaks.
She has a very identifiable accent in the way she says consonants. Our accent smooths the t, d, k, z in a way that's really difficult for Germans. The other thing is the cadence of how she speaks. Even though she is fluent and really easy to understand, she would be very easy to id as a European to Americans.
When I started to watch this video, I saw Claudia, I laughed. Lauren and Claudia did a lot of World Friends videos, of course Claudia can't trick Lauren, she knew her voice ^^
As an Australian, I thought Shannon's accent was British! But I thought she was a non-native speaker (but maybe had worked hard on her accent as an actor, singer or similar), because a) otherwise it would be too easy, and b) she said her soul food was "barbeque", and I wouldn't use "barbeque" as a category of food - but if she's American then that would explain it. I thought they all had really good accents. It was interesting how much stronger their accents were at the end when they relaxed, but their fluency increased when they stopped trying so hard to be perfect.
Having watched some of the videos on this channel, I recognised Shannon and the other 3(did not remember their names) so yeah, right away I knew who the native English speaker was.
Knowing them is a kind of cheating in that game. It turned out, that if she had watched them, she , too, had guessed the right person immediately. They should have replaced the Spanish friend then.
In Singapore schools, we learn English as a 1st lang and our mother tongue as 1st/2nd Lang. For those among us who can cope with learning 2 languages and do well are then given the option to learn a 3rd lang (usu. Japanese, French, German, etc). But growing up in a multi-ethnic /multi-racial society and learning these different languages/native dialects could possibly mean the English we speak won't sound native (ie. British and rightly not so) unless we are taught all the time by British expat teachers. So for most Singaporeans, we have learnt to code-switch, meaning speaking Singlish in informal setting (like among friends) and switch to a more proper Standard English when required (eg. at business meetings and prob when speaking with foreigners so as to make ourselves be understood)
The easiest way to spot a non native English speaker is the way people pronounce weak forms in language. English people do it without even realising, the "shwa" is the most common sound in native English
@@vanpallandt5799 it's how we shorten the pronunciation of A in words, such as "a", "and", "can" etc. It's more like a grunt "uh" rather than an a. You probably won't even realize you do it, but it's very noticeable once you listen for it
@@the98themperoroftheholybri33 Welsh ppl though sometimes do opposite rather like Latinos do..they say for example in exaggerated style mi aammooor..Taffs say she was devvvvvastated
I am not even a native speaker, I haven’t even been to an English speaking country before yet I could tell the second girl was the native with certainty 3 mins into the video.
I can't believe it took her that long to guess the native speaker, I guess she only did it for the show. Not a native speaker but figured out who it was 10 seconds in, or whenever the native speaker first spoke. But I too thought she was Australian, would have never guessed American, so that was really good.
I feel like the German Girl was a bit pissed that she got caught so quickly because she thought her english accent would be better😅 but as a native German speaker I also immediatly recognized she is from Germany. But her accent is still really good way better than mine haha
That was fun! The German actually was a surprise for me, I thought she was from Eastern Europe. I'm from Germany myself and didn't recognise her accent as German at all! And I also thought the American was from Australia 😄
Also from Germany - and I also struggled to locate her - a lot of "it can't be this or that" - not eastern Europe, that was my Idea about number 2, but at the End - her English melody sounds so familar to me that I had to ask myself if I shouldn't better go to the ear doctor *lol*
I really liked this video. It was very interesting to watch how the girl guessed the nationalities by the accent of others. I was amused by how her friend tried to hide that she knew her, and for this she changed her name and kept silent so that the presenter would not recognize her by her voice. I tried to guess together with the presenter, and my guesses were confirmed, I thought from the very beginning that the second girl had English as her native language. But I would never have guessed that the first is from Germany, and the third is from France. Their speech was very similar, but nevertheless, by the intonation, as the presenter said, it was possible to guess which of the girls is a native English speaker.
Did you get what real accent she has ? Is she from Spain ... cause, she didn't mention, like they know each other, but I heard she said something about Spanish, and maybe I got her wrong, and Spanish was what she tried to imitate .
It was between 1&2 but 1 seemed to overcompensate and speak more complicated than necessary Native speakers usually don't add on extra language features to sentences
Is it just me that watched the whole video thinking that she was trying to pick out the British person out of all 4 and then when the last person said she was American I got really confused 😂😂
I’m not a native speaker but I got it right when they spoke their first sentences. I mean they are all very good, a lot better then I am, but It’s just super hard to change the way your mouth forms words .
It's not actually that difficult. My secret sauce is to observe how native speakers of a given language smile, and then smile that way when I speak that language. It does wonders. Indeed, if you are already an advanced speaker, it can make your foreign accent disappear literally instantly.
With number 3 is quite obvious she was trying her best to sound like a fellow brit though I could hear right through it. I've been to Malaysia many times and they really do love the British accent there, most of them fake it like her haha
She said some of her teachers were Brits, if that's the accent she picked up from the people around her then she's not "Faking a British accent" that's just the accent. It's a fluid thing and people can hamp accents up if they want or feel comfortable with, even native speakers do it. Saying that they're therefore faking it seems quite disrespectful to me.
@@joethong726 straight english Some of these speakers are not using in the eight (8) Parts of Speech, mostly in the southeast Asia such as Malaysia, India, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei Darusalam. While Thailand, Lao, Burma, Vietnam and Cambodia. Still in the process... Lao, Cambodia and Myanmar they hired English teachers from the Philippines.
@@kaihocompany That by its very nature means her accent is unauthentic since she wasn't born and raised in the UK. Number two the accent she is doing is not a way a teacher would speak as we're taught to enunciate every letter when speaking in our schools. The accent she is doing can only be learnt if you grow up in England or you fake it based on videos you see on RU-vid.
@@JamesHuntingtonPHD So kids who grew up outside of England with an English father don't count according to your logic?! You can speak a language with a native sounding accent without having born there, so I don't see why you're claiming that that's not the case. If you've picked it up from other native speakers it is by default not a fake accent.
You did surprisingly well considering. Shannon did a convincing Aussie accent. Claudia was very funny. Her accent is pretty distinctive. Dia has a unique blend of accents, so she would have always been tough to pinpoint. Kudos!
All of the contestants are friendly in their own way. But I have to admit that you're my favourite, because you seem to be a sincere well brought-up, down-to-earth person. And I like your accent. Always happy when you appear in one of the videos.
The German girls English accent sounded almost American. Except for a few intonation parts here and there, I might have beloved she was American and just lived abroad for a long time.
She has an eastern European accent mixed with some American. When she started talking I was sure she's Russian. At least until now I thought as a native German speaker I can detect a fellow creature. I'd like to know her background.
You know... yeah. I've heard Americans who have lived abroad for a long time. And frankly, after hearing them, I have to consider it a miracle that my American accent is still as good as it is after over 30 years abroad...
To be honest, most people claiming that english is an easy language only say it because they've been learning it since a young age, so the grammar and vocabulary seems natural to them. It is definitely not one of the hardest, but I wouldn't say it is an easy language. Ofc, if you're from a country that speaks a Germanic language, it might be easy. Despite not having a complex conjugation system, no genders and no grammar cases, english is complicated in a lot of ways: pronouncing english words correctly is actually not easy (takes a lot of years of practise to get it right all the time), pronunciation rules of words are not consistent, lot of irregularities, one verb can have dozens of meanings and uses (ex.: to have, to take). Because we have been learning english since we were young and used english for a lot of things (music, movies, comics, internet, gaming, etc.), we tend to assume that it is easy to learn it.
The _grammar_ I don't think is _too_ bad, but English has a few uncommon phonemes that can be tricky for non-natives to distinguish from more common ones. There's also the _big_ problem that while we speak Modern English, we don't actually _write_ Modern English. We write _Middle English_ for the most part, which itself is largely (badly) Romanized Old English. The spelling irregularities largely come from the differences between Middle English and Modern English and how _some_ words have been updated to better match the pronunciation, but not all nor in all places. The most egregious differences are from the Great Vowel Shift, which got rid of most English long vowels and replaced them with diphthongs while also _rotating_ "a", "e" and "i" so that "a" sounds like /e/, "e" sounds like /i/ and "i" sounds like "a", but _only_ where they used to be long vowels (and are now usually diphthongs). This wouldn't be too big of a problem if it wasn't for words (mostly of Latin or Greek origin) changing their stress patterns with affixes, and by extension turning short vowels into their rotated diphthongs or vice versa.
I lived in Uk for 38 yrs. I speak English all my life. But some people can still hear my Singaporean accent. However, when I go back to Singapore people there thinks I sound more English.
I kept listening to the third girl, I still couldn't pick up any bit Singaporean/Malaysian. You're good. I thought you got the third completely wrong there.
She has some truncations that are typical of Chinese native speakers. They are very subtle - i didn't really pick them up until she mentioned she was half Malaysian.
Im Turkish and i can find Turkish people speaking English so easily no matter where i am in the world. Turks who dont work excessively on pronouncation are way easy to tell by accent. I also easily understood number 2 is native without lookin at the screen.
It was really interesting to watch since we discussed the topic of accents in an English lesson yesterday (actually, this comment is part of my homework /he-he/, but a video is still very entertaining). It was easy to guess that 4th girl (Claudia, aka Kaitlyn) was a Spanish speaker because of her strong accent. The funny detail was that she knew Lauren and tried her best to remain unrecognized. Diah (Hannah) got me confused because sometimes I heard a British accent... Like if she spent a few years of her life living in the UK. She was good at hiding her french pronunciation of "r" (or maybe I am just a victim of stereotypes lol). Shannon is so good at imitating the Aussie accent. It was so slight, so I didn't know she was imitating it or trying to hide it. And I couldn't guess Scarlett's accent since I had never heard a German accent before.
Oh, I love Claudia so much! She's just too funny. My day just got better because of her. Always nice to see Lauren, and Shannon is as beautiful as ever! I'm not familiar yet with the two other girls but they seem seem like fun people! All girls were charming and sweet. Great video!
