as someone who lives in Colombia with about 10% spanish knowledge, you can speak too fast and listen too slow at the same time. i can understand any and all english language because im from Northern Ky, i have heard every accent come through. but when it comes to Spanish, everyone talks fast and it takes me about 2-3 seconds to trabslate it to english meaning, and then another 2-3 seconds to formulate my response from english to spanish. lol
ON top of that, my hearing is terrible, especially in my right ear. i do a lot of lip reading in English, however i do not even look at spanish lips, i have to look at the ground and listen carefully or i dont understand anything. its so weird
I unerstan. Farther south you go the better the food gets. No thats not.... yea its true. I only visit the south i live in KC but i picked up what u put down. I also spend at lot of time in England my ears learned to deceifer accents. Cept a cajun i talked to in florida last week, couldnt understand a lick.
@@iikwoodii5565 i declare?why must it be stupid?because it’s not common?mostly older people use.instead of saying “I’m sure or I know” just like before ppl started saying got to sleep they said get some rest.i believe we sleep when we pass bc when resting our brain an soul are still awake we just resting our meat suits hence there are so many words put in play to hender our truth an many in an from the south hold keys to our knowledge no educate or inform (in-formation) words hold power like sick(ail) ig gingerale creators were hip to the bs an slipped through the cracks
I'll be completely honest, I didn't even know I spoke like this until my friend from New York just said "Dude I have no clue what the fuck you're saying half the time"
Same, I visited my family that lives in Kansas and I told a whole story to my cousin and she had to stop me while I was almost finished and she kept laughing and then she finally said “I didn’t understand a word you just said but your accent is so cute”
@@nv3363 A Southerner, a Mexican, Scottish and an Irish sat around laughing for hours how none of us understood the other! That was the best time ever!!
@@leviqueen1504 Sounds about fair. I'm from Oklahoma and i moved to NY when i got married (my wife is from here) the first two years were a problem. Kinda hard to order food when they can't understand you.
my favorite part of southern english is the hilariously descriptive expressions they have. was talking to a friend of my mom’s the other day, and he was talking about his daughter and said “man they musta thought she could play ball cause she was tall er somethin. poor thang couldn’t play dead in a western” and i just lost it
My father has these euphemisms and I LOVE them. “She was sweating like a whore in church.” “I was shaking like a dog sh***ing peach seeds.” “It’s raining like a cow pi**ing on a flat rock.” “It was hotter than a half screwed fox in a forest fire.” There are so many and each one is better than the last. 😂
For some reason i am going dead blank on all my southern expressions like that, but I love hearing that shit lmao, its mostly genx and baby boomers that talk like that though, they never taught us millenials the secret sauce as it were. At least not most of us haha
@@staciepringle9064 im not exaggerating when i say this is the funniest shit ive ever read and i 100% will be stealing all of these LOLLL your dad is a comedic genius
Im an old lady from NC and i understood everything you said perfectly. Didnt even phase me. Even my 32 year old son will yell 'mere' when wants me to come see somthing he brought to me. If YKYK. Love you Fredo.
@@ashleygrant8230 There's a pick-up line in my country that goes like this. "If diarrhea looked like you I'd die of dehydration." Another one is "God damn! So much meat on those thighs and i left my dentures back home." 😫
The entire side of my dad's family is from Southern Mississippi. I didn't have too bad a time understanding you but it definitely takes getting used to. I love that Southern drawl.
BORN & RAISED on the GULF COAST , & STILL HERE ! 😂....Is your Dad s family from DOWN on the COAST ?...We're from the Moss Point/ Pascagoula area ! ...Blessings to you, Friend !!❤
Born & raised on the SOUTHERNMOST TIP of the GULF COAST of SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI - & STILLLL HERE !! ❤...Anyone ever heard the Ray Stevens song about the 'Runaway Squirrel' in Pascagoula ??....Well, THAT'S US ! 🐿😲 MOSS POINT/PASCAGOULA area, right HERE ! ❤😂
It gets even better someone born in North, raised in the South, and now live back up North as im older. My mama says my accent only comes out when im pissed 😅❤
"Might could check the fridgidaire*" Edit: Also, if you're visiting friends/family at their house in the south, if they say, "Whatchyall bout to do?" That's southern for, "You don't have to go home, but you got to get the hell out of here."
I surprised myself when I somehow still understood what you said at the end I thought I was away from the south long enough where I wouldn’t remember anything😂😂😂.
Most southern thing I've ever heard is when my two friends were talking to each other and one said "I bet you eat cereal out of a spaghetti sauce stained cool whip container. And that hit deep
I understand American English but I can't say the same about people from the UK. I worked in US and one of my co-workers was an Irish guy. I felt bad for him because customers had more problems understanding him than me. I once saw a customer looking at him with a weird face (thinking he was trolling her), we went to his rescue saying: "you must forgive him, he's Irish". Imagine how depressing that must be. I have been in that kind of situations but English is my second language while he spent his life talking Irish and English 😢
@@LyrielonwindIrish here, and yeah it's insane. In primary school (age 8 ish), all my friends were convinced I had an English accent (both my parents are from northern england), but visiting relatives in the UK, they wouldn't have a fucking c l u e what I was saying, and my accent has only gotten heavier over time. Same goes for a friend from kentucky nowadays, hasn't got the slightest idea what I'm saying half the time, just coz I'm so used to talking almost exclusively to irish people and don't even remember I have an accent. Combine that with me being fairly soft-spoken and monotone, and her having hearing issues AND sometimes not wanting to ask 'what?' to be polite, and you can probably guess how rough it can get lmao
I am a southerner but probably the most southern thing I’ve ever heard is “I’ll get em alternator belts changed in two shakes of a squirrels tail” -TA truckstop
@Svetlana_voytek amen brother. There's 3 things you don't mess with down here. Football, the secret recipe for our kind of "sweet tea" and The right to bear our arms. 🙏 roll tide 🙌
As a Georgia native, this is clear as can be. I flew to Newark, New Jersey for a concert in Lower Manhattan. As soon as I got to my room, I ordered a pizza. Delivery guy arrives and I simply greet him with “s’goin on, man?”. He immediately lights up and goes “YOOOOO MY GUUUUY! Where the FUCK are YOU from?!?”. I about damn died.
Missourian to the west coast, had the same kinda deal happen pretty frequently. At least he sounded excited... like he found a rare pokemon or something, but happy nonetheless
@@stephanies9689 LOL A RARE POKÉMON! yeah it was a friendly exchange. Most people I encountered were fairly kind, which I hear is certainly not always the case up there lol. Sounds like you’ve experienced a few less fortunate conversations.
@@DangOlJesse I had to chew out the dumbest person I'd ever met for trying to win a Darwin award by crawling under the forklift I was driving when I paused to look for cars. If he wanted to self delete, the least he could do was leave me out of it, you know? Well anyway, he couldn't understand 3/4 of what I said because I was in such a boil that my stream of facts were like listening to a raging Irish woman, all he knew was that he was finding out.
I'm not even from the state and I know what he said, but then again I come from the only country that southern Americans can have a fluid conversation with and nobody loses track of what's been said. Straya mate.
That can mean 3 different things depending on how you say it. It can mean "Hello good sir. How are you today?" "Goodbye. Have a good day." "I'm about to fuck you up if you don't stop."
@@DanniSoRude that’s where my grandpa was born and raised. He enlisted into the Army from there in 1942. He lived there after the war until 1954 when he started selling Ford tractors which he sold until 1992.
The funny thing is I understood all of this and was waiting for you to say something unusual 😂😂 I am indeed southern Edit: apparently, from my comments, nothing he said is true southern, and Fredo is actually an imposter in the south
I didnt hear "I declare" But the rest of the sentence I heard just fine. I grew up around family. My uncle and aunt to the property on 1 side, my grandma and grandad(rest in peace) at the front, and a few other family members nearby. I grew up around that southern way of speaking, and I can hear it fairly well
I’ll never forget having to translate for a guy who said “I’m gladiaintmesswityall y’eardme” to a tourist in New Orleans. I laughed for a long time with him!
Dialects and relaxed English are pretty cool. I'm from the Caribbean and I understood what the second guy said. You just kind of roll the words together and catch the vibe lol.
I remember, at 10 years old, I was at space camp and I was the only “southerner” there. I went up to my group during lunch time and said “y’all eat’n yet?” (Said all together like one word) and everyone looked at me like I was crazy. Only after I repeated my questions as “have you all finished your food yet?” Was I greeted with a resounding “oooh” of understanding. It was super funny to me at the time. 😂
@@Besyl N if ease at nervous morn likely ease sweatin like a whore in church. Hell ya cain't blame eem, ifya figure since it's hotter n a 3 peckered billy goat n a whorehouse on dollar night as't is. Anyways, I ort ta git on t'the house 'for t'ol lady gits'er a case uh t'redass seein how I ain't made it der dinner since you was knee high to a grasshopper... Glad y'all got to see me...tell her mamannem I says hi. Oh hey holler 'fya wanna wet a line n namornin bout 5 n 'mon back come lunchtime r so.
I’ve got southern ears, but it’s rare that I have a southern mouth, only around others who speak similarly or when I get really passionate about a topic. High school was bad for oral presentations because I would have to remember to slow down at least when speaking to the class 😂
Facts. In Chicago, all our families are from down souf. Grandma says, “Baby, you wont sum tee?” and we say, “No ma’am, I don’t want any tea” but she really wants to know if you want something to eat 😂
My grandma was from Chicago too until she moved to Georgia and married my grandpa from Kentucky, they raised me and my siblings here. For me it was more like “Jeat?” Combing all the words “did you eat?” 😂 sadly I haven’t had the chance yet to meet someone who doesn’t understand me and I’m looking forward to traveling far just to get a kick out of peoples reactions to my “language”
It’s so refreshing to go back home and talk to my fam. I have to finish my sentences maybe 2% of the time. Half a sentence, real quick, no “-ing” in sight, just a “Y’know wha’m say’n?” “Yep.”
We'll let you into Florida, no problem, matter of fact, we're prob the closest to home you'll get in the US. We're technically southern, the most southern state (in the continental US) in fact, but the rest of the South won't claim us. I mean, I get it.. we're like the red headed stepchild of the country, just doing anything and everything for a little attention. I will say that up around the panhandle in Florida is still considered the "South" and I challenge any other southern state to come up with places in their own neck of the woods that are any more southern than they are up there. Lastly, we've got some of the best beaches, so it's a pretty even trade, imo. I can't believe I almost forgot Florida Man, they'll revoke my Florida residency for a slight like that. Hell, it's totally worth the entire trip across the world to see a Florida Man or Woman in full, living color. You just treat em same as you would an alligator by watching from a safe distance. Just remember, no direct eye contact, they're much quicker than they're given credit for, so run directly away, none of this zig zag bullshit.. you'll only piss em off more. Also, they're deceptively agile, so don't try climbing any fences or trees and the number one rule of Florida M&W watching is, always keep a beer handy. If nothing else, you can throw it at them as a distraction while you're making your escape. Honestly tho, that's actually worked more times than I'm comfortable admitting. Lol!
