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Why American Actors Suck At British Accents 

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Lots of British actors have really nailed their American accents, but Americans can't seem to imitate their peers across the pond. We spoke with Erik Singer, a dialect coach based in New York, to find out why British actors appear to be so much more skillful when it comes to accents and dialect on the big screen.
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@sh6700
@sh6700 4 года назад
Tom Holland sounds like he’s faking it when he does his normal accent
@avao3914
@avao3914 4 года назад
thelilcrunchy omg i’ve always thought this
@barkboingfloom
@barkboingfloom 4 года назад
But then Benedict's American accent as Doctor Strange, opposite Tom Holland, sounds forced. Or maybe I am so used to Benedict's natural voice, thanks to Sherlock.
@user-gp5iy3dq3i
@user-gp5iy3dq3i 4 года назад
Not really
@kuniosaiki
@kuniosaiki 4 года назад
Not at all
@AarmOZ84
@AarmOZ84 4 года назад
We had Tom Holland at a local convention and he sounds like he was the product of boarding school so he was probably trained to either speak with a received or high received accent.
@it_was_my_cat
@it_was_my_cat 6 лет назад
I'm British, but sometimes when I'm using voice chat in games people think I'm just an American doing a bad British accent. Apparently even I can't do a good British accent.
@DomWeasel
@DomWeasel 6 лет назад
Often enough, it's because people don't know how normal English people sound and only have very well-spoken English actors to go by like Benedict Cumberbatch, Emma Watson, Keira Knightley, Judi Dench, Stephen Fry and Michael Caine. I like seeing comments about John Boyega (Finn from Stars Wars) normal speaking voice because people really struggle to comprehend he speaks with a normal Urban English accent, one you can find in most cities.
@ZipplyZane
@ZipplyZane 6 лет назад
Do you talk in your videos? I kinda wanted to hear your accent, but I clicked on a video and it seemed you don't talk.
@kirsty9084
@kirsty9084 6 лет назад
British accent is southern to Americans.
@jasonomnia9295
@jasonomnia9295 6 лет назад
You'd be surprise how bad people are at telling accent, sometimes event the accent from their own country. Like aussies accusing Jim Jefferies aussie accent is faked so he can pleased americans because he's living in the U.S. When in fact his accent stayed the same even before he lived here. I've seen his stand up specials in the UK while living in the UK, and even then his accent is the same as it is now. Another one I can name right of the bat are the Canadians saying "we Canadians don't say "eh", I know this because I'm from Canada" meanwhile I watched Highway Thru Hell filmed in British Colombia, Canada, and all those people LOVE saying eh at the end of their sentences, and also oot (btw the oot sounding is not as hard as Americans exaggerated it, it is a lot softer, but we can still hear it). So maybe you don't hear it often in your neighborhood, but people in BC sure as hell do.
@doctorvanya
@doctorvanya 6 лет назад
I had a similar experience a few years ago. I was chatting to an American girl outside a nightclub in Ottawa and despite using my normal speaking voice was asked to stop speaking in 'that fake British accent'. I'd been in Canada a few months at that point so maybe that had something to do with it.
@fesique
@fesique 3 года назад
I think British actors put a lot of effort to perfect their American accent cause they won’t be employed in Hollywood if they don’t have the right accent. American actors don’t have that added pressure Also, most Americans aren’t as exposed to British accents as the brits are to Americans. They most exposure they get (especially while growing up) is like peppa pig or something
@Sub4CarClips
@Sub4CarClips 3 года назад
Tbh you’re right about peppa pig
@Emcobb2
@Emcobb2 3 года назад
I think it’s because most American English is very relaxed, we have lazy mouths. I think Brits of all types use more physical structure to speak so it’s easier to relax into speech rather than have to engage more more movement to do so
@prash175
@prash175 3 года назад
British actors or directors aspire to have a great American dream and not necessarily vice versa.
@lotusinn3
@lotusinn3 3 года назад
@@prash175 Very well put.
@ArtisticAutisticandAiling
@ArtisticAutisticandAiling 3 года назад
I love watching Monty Python, Gordon Ramsay and films from the U.K. I was born in the States but I have English descent, yet kind of taught myself a custom accent because I have had people tell me I sounded like I'm from Britain and that was when I was speaking in my original accent. :) Luckily I didn't learn my accent from Mary Poppins ;D
@haleyhutchinson9353
@haleyhutchinson9353 3 года назад
When Rick was screaming "Carl". It sounded like he was saying "Coral". Which was a key thing for me the actor wasn't American
@indigoziona
@indigoziona 3 года назад
Omg I wondered what all the Walking Dead "Coral!" memes were about, thanks!
@jones2277
@jones2277 3 года назад
Bingo. It's always exaggeratedly southern or western.
@randomdude4669
@randomdude4669 2 года назад
Even the normal American accent kinda sounds like coral
@pmason6076
@pmason6076 2 года назад
He was... he REALLY wanted to find some coral in that scene!
@calebclendenin7073
@calebclendenin7073 Год назад
@@jones2277 I‘m from Georgia and I‘d say the way I say it sounds more like car-ull like the ull in dull
@RoxanneGutierrez010
@RoxanneGutierrez010 4 года назад
This whole time I thought Christian Bale was American.
@randiwise119
@randiwise119 4 года назад
Roxanne Gutierrez Lol!! Really? That’s funny! I believe he’s originally from Wales.
@davidwise1302
@davidwise1302 4 года назад
In the USA we recently finished a Batman prequel, "Gotham", which featured a Welsh actress, Erin Richards. Beautiful neutral American accent in her performances. Then in an interview, her natural speech came out. What a shock!
@RootyTootTootin
@RootyTootTootin 4 года назад
Lmao I had mostly seen him playing Americans, and the few times I’d seen him play Brits I thought he was imitating a British accent, it wasn’t until the first time I saw him in an interview or award ceremony or something that I realized he was British
@1swerdna
@1swerdna 4 года назад
I just learned he wasn’t American. I don’t know anything anymore.
@cottonrabbit1685
@cottonrabbit1685 4 года назад
Wait he isn't?
@pastasam4069
@pastasam4069 5 лет назад
This dude just went from unarguably American to unarguably British in 0.2 seconds flat. Incredible, I'd love to be that talented at accents.
@reggiebarrow5410
@reggiebarrow5410 5 лет назад
same I wonder how long he's studied accents
@ThePenguin369
@ThePenguin369 5 лет назад
British isn't 1 accent so pick one lol
@tomemery7890
@tomemery7890 5 лет назад
The British accent was really good, one of the best I've ever heard... but whether he intended to or not he skipped through about two or three social classes. But we do that sometimes anyway. For example, in a conflict situation when you want to sound tough it doesn't help if you sound like Benedict Cumberbatch. Unfortunately, in real life posh British blokes don't have wands, superpowers or a private army of minions.
@igreatbritishweather
@igreatbritishweather 5 лет назад
He actually got the 'o' sound right but still a tad inconsistent
@rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr0
@rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr0 5 лет назад
Where in the video? All his accents sounded exaggerated
@TesniSouthwell
@TesniSouthwell 4 года назад
His English accent was superb, but as someone from Wales that was slightly painful.
@AlmightyGammonsayssuckyourmum
@AlmightyGammonsayssuckyourmum 4 года назад
no who tf says the t in 'that'll'
@TesniSouthwell
@TesniSouthwell 4 года назад
AlmightyGammon Me
@ihatefrankiero
@ihatefrankiero 4 года назад
Why
@TesniSouthwell
@TesniSouthwell 4 года назад
whoop S H it wasn’t very good. Most of his accents are great though
@deepstariaenigmatica2601
@deepstariaenigmatica2601 4 года назад
@@AlmightyGammonsayssuckyourmum anyone that knows english
@JonSudano
@JonSudano 2 года назад
I find that English people tend to hit their Ts very hard and Americans deaden their T pronunciation. So in phrases like "a lot" or "at all", you'd find a lot of Americans may pronounce the T like a D or even not at all, and the words tend to bleed together.
@Unfamous_Buddha
@Unfamous_Buddha Год назад
Yes, I think Brits use more calories when the speak. Maybe that's why they're thinner. When I (an American) say, "butter," to me, it seems or sounds more relaxed and fluid, the syllables melt together. But when a Brit like Russell Brand might say it, to me it sounds more choppy, interrupted, like two separate words "butt er" - like the second syllable sounds more forced.
@thelegendboy1234
@thelegendboy1234 8 месяцев назад
@@user-kr2gq9gv9i you dont say picture phonetically tho? you say "pic-chure" like the rest of the english speaking world. wednesday is "wensday" for american english and you guys have no problem with that but then when it comes to saying tuesday differently than how its spelt, you decide to be different for some reason. American english also says "inneresting" or "innernet" or "twenny" so idk why you think its a british thing to not say the "t"
@Brauljo
@Brauljo 4 месяца назад
The "t" in "at all" is a voiced alveolar tap [ɾ], which is an rhotic in multiple languages, such as the "r" in the castilian "caro".
@eliharman
@eliharman 4 года назад
I worked with a Scottish guy for months in Alaska before I learned he wasn’t American. Another one of our coworkers asked him how and why he had such an American accent. He said “Taco Bell.” We were like “whut?” And he was like “yeah I really like Taco Bell but they could never understand me at the drive through until I started talking like an American.”
@LividImp
@LividImp 4 года назад
I honestly don't know how Scotts understand other Scotts.
@Adv18
@Adv18 4 года назад
Livid Imp because Scots who are around Scots would be speaking in Scots-English so would be able to understand each other. If you don’t speak Scots-English then of course you will have no bloody idea what they are saying as you don’t speak the language.
@LividImp
@LividImp 4 года назад
@@Adv18 Are you familiar with the concept of a "joke"?
@mohammedfahad3564
@mohammedfahad3564 4 года назад
Scottish ppl r the best british ppl outa Britain
@Adv18
@Adv18 4 года назад
Livid Imp yes, a joke is something that is usually constructed to be funny. Your “joke” came across as a statement rather than a joke.
@Alpine_Joe
@Alpine_Joe 5 лет назад
I'm Scottish, so Siri never had any idea what I was on about until I developed my Californian accent.
@deathreaper2352
@deathreaper2352 5 лет назад
Lol.
@steakndcheese
@steakndcheese 5 лет назад
You made me cringe
@everythingfunandcrafty2596
@everythingfunandcrafty2596 5 лет назад
I’m Californian. Didn’t know I had a specific accent 😝
@steakndcheese
@steakndcheese 5 лет назад
@@everythingfunandcrafty2596 stfu
@Oxley016
@Oxley016 5 лет назад
Everything fun and Crafty so you are confirming there is only a single American accent?
@Narnianchick
@Narnianchick 4 года назад
I feel like when I hear a British actor doing a poor American accent, it’s usually that they’re putting TOO much emphasis on the R’s.
@chrisbirch4150
@chrisbirch4150 4 года назад
too much emphasis on the Rs or they overcompensate for that problem by narrowing the lips too much. Big example of latter is Martin Freeman. Makes a little funnel with his mouth on every R
@ishalakbar4294
@ishalakbar4294 4 года назад
emma watson for sure
@plutoplanet
@plutoplanet 3 года назад
Yeah, you can tell they're really thinking about it. As one would, obviously.
@HessianHunter
@HessianHunter 3 года назад
I had a professor from Vietnam who did the most comically overdone rhotic "r"s possible
@EnigmaticLucas
@EnigmaticLucas 3 года назад
It might be because British people don’t know how to pronounce R-colored vowels, and use full-on Rs in places where they should use R-colored vowels. Or maybe it’s because the American R is either bunched or retroflex, whereas the British R is alveolar.
@stevewright2972
@stevewright2972 Год назад
Peter Dinklage, Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr, and Gwenyth Paltrow. Great British Accents. Simon Pegg, Rebecca Hall, Clive Owen, James McAvoy, and Alice Eve, British Actors who nailed American Accents
@drys3136
@drys3136 Год назад
Ehhh Peter Dinklage's accent wasn't that great (speaking as an English person). His vowel sounds were all over the place. He doesn't sound like an American doing an accent but he doesn't sound properly English either. I'd add Renee Zellweger to the good list though, her English accents are always flawless.
@nekrataali
@nekrataali 11 месяцев назад
Accents in Game of Thrones never bothered me because it's all made up. Westeros and Bravos aren't real place. It's not like Tolkien who made a world to put his fictional languages into. And even then, it's not like there's native speakers for Sindarin.
@WildWaver
@WildWaver 5 лет назад
I didn't even notice he switched his accent midway through. Iconic.
@bobcatman0121
@bobcatman0121 4 года назад
How you notice then? 🤔🤣
@WildWaver
@WildWaver 4 года назад
@@bobcatman0121 Comments, bro. But good try
@bobcatman0121
@bobcatman0121 4 года назад
@@WildWaver I know that's why I put the laughing face
@WildWaver
@WildWaver 4 года назад
@@bobcatman0121 "It's just a joke, bro!"
@redeye3087
@redeye3087 4 года назад
Tyler Fulco and I can tell your a rude shitpiece 9 year old tryna get into a fight. Go play with your action figures Tyler. Mom’s gonna get upset
@steorbord
@steorbord 4 года назад
Americans when doing English accents: *pronounces every consonant*
@oh_kay2954
@oh_kay2954 4 года назад
birdspiracy no no, Americans when doing English accents: skips every “t”. Signed, an American.
@steorbord
@steorbord 4 года назад
@@oh_kay2954 Fair do's, that's definitely true when Americans attempt a "non-posh" English accent. Not that I'm trying to be insulting or anything, I'm English and I'm hopeless at doing an American accent!
@digdogg_
@digdogg_ 4 года назад
OH_KAY ••• but when we do say ‘t’, we make sure to make it really sharp
@maggpiprime954
@maggpiprime954 4 года назад
@Dante Alighieri Haha! You've totally got me testing those words out to see which way I pronounce them! Conclusion: Both... ways? I think? Prolly depends on whether I'm tired. I think I lean more towards the _t's._ Come to Toronto. No-one will notice or care!
@maggpiprime954
@maggpiprime954 4 года назад
@Dante Alighieri I remember when the Loonie came out, and later when the $2 coin was about to be introduced, there was a contest for naming it. I was all for "dubloon" or "dubloonie" (double loon, double loonie). That'd be so cool! Active pirate treasure! "Ahrrr, matey! Have ye got a dubloon I kin borrow? I've a hankerin' fer a double-double!" (coffee at Tim Horton's, double cream, double sugar) What'd we get? "Toonie." Wtf. Oh well. Anyway, I hope you get a chance to visit other parts of Ontario once we can all safely mingle again! I've lived here all my life and I still feel I haven't explored as much as I could.
@bomorambi2430
@bomorambi2430 3 года назад
He switched between American and British accents so easily I didn't even realise
@BungieEmma
@BungieEmma 3 года назад
ugh it annoys me when people constantly do British accents with RP most of us don't speak like that
@arig8905
@arig8905 3 года назад
I speak RP....
@BungieEmma
@BungieEmma 3 года назад
@@arig8905 I meant like overly exaggerated like the queen. Not like BBC English. If that makes sense. This comment was a while ago.
@blnkrse3073
@blnkrse3073 3 года назад
And not all of us eat hamburgers everyday and weight 500 pounds. Welcome to a stereotype
@gaybo2125
@gaybo2125 5 лет назад
He’s faking an American accent the whole time
@gregwessendorf
@gregwessendorf 5 лет назад
He's actually Canadian
@PiercedPixie
@PiercedPixie 5 лет назад
Yeah, plot twist. lmfao
@MaggiePayne916
@MaggiePayne916 5 лет назад
He sounds Irish
@Schneeeulenwetter
@Schneeeulenwetter 5 лет назад
MaggiePayne916 he doesn’t sound Irish. maybe the “there” a bit, but not so much
@kevyhot
@kevyhot 5 лет назад
Impressive
@normietwiceremoved
@normietwiceremoved 6 лет назад
I think it's partly because of the amount of American media we consume as British people. We are constantly surrounded by american movies and tv shows all our lives so its easier to imitate the accent.
@dannyboy5086
@dannyboy5086 5 лет назад
normie twice removed Because I've always wondered what the American accent sounds like to Brits, I like hearing Brits trying to do an American accent. They usually slightly overemphasize certain aspects of our speech, which gives me interesting insight to the way we sound. But you're right. Our exposure to British accents is largely limited to news reporters, Harry Potter, and Top Gear lol.
@SankofaNYC
@SankofaNYC 5 лет назад
Exactly... That just isnt the same in the US... We often just hear Americans speak and that's it
@Delboy0
@Delboy0 5 лет назад
Not true because many British actors are good at European, African and Australian accents too and there isn't much of their media in Britain. It is just British has so many accents and many of them difficult to do that doing foreign accents is very easy. Charles Dance is from Yorkshire David Craig is from Liverpool but I never heard either actor speak with their true northern accent because you don't get many movies with Northern English men as the hero. That is why so many British black actors are good at American accents because Black actors don't get work in the British movie industry so learn how to speak American to get work.
@magicman3163
@magicman3163 5 лет назад
Delboy0 what British actors can sound European and Australian and South African its almost like it’s all the same thing.
@LilithDaHobbit
@LilithDaHobbit 5 лет назад
Maybe that’s why I’m pretty good at a British accent. I watch British television and films religiously
@yeetimusexe
@yeetimusexe 4 года назад
I love how the “good british accents” aren’t how a single brit would ever sound
@seeyouchump
@seeyouchump 3 года назад
Don't know what you're talking about. The Michael C. Hall was pretty convincing!
@bigmoniesponge
@bigmoniesponge 3 года назад
@@seeyouchump I wouldn’t be able to notice he wasn’t english.
@blubfishuwaaa
@blubfishuwaaa 3 года назад
not all brits speak "bri ish", personally i speak with a very cultivated english accent, Michael c. halls one was really fking convincing ngl
@joe94c
@joe94c 3 года назад
Brad Pitt in snatch with the best pickey accent
@gfoot9916
@gfoot9916 3 года назад
@Wid Eye nah. It was good. stop hating.
@herreach6955
@herreach6955 3 года назад
I'm a british born Indonesian currently live in bali. Back when I was in england, I live in Surrey, but since i came from working class family, peoples around me speaks cockney. After I move to Bali, I met lots of foreign tourist from all over the world, but it doesn't matter how cockney I was, people never thought that I am british until I told them, most of them only said "you have a good english", means that among local people (my look is totally southeast asian) my english is the best, sometimes when I meet russian, ukrainian or other tourist from countries that most of the people cannot speak english, they having a hard time to understand me when I spoke.
@jhj2386
@jhj2386 5 лет назад
Tbf I struggle to do a welsh accent and I’m welsh
@hansolo4017
@hansolo4017 5 лет назад
North or south accent, I can't get my head around the North accent
@jhj2386
@jhj2386 5 лет назад
Han Solo I’m north and I can’t do a south
@Whiteythereaper
@Whiteythereaper 5 лет назад
Merthyr/Swansea area accent is more harsh while the northern one is more breathy and soft
@lydiaedwards09
@lydiaedwards09 5 лет назад
oh same. i mean i feel like I'm a fake welsh person because I'm from cardiff but id love to have or be able to do a proper welsh accent
@colinmacdonald5732
@colinmacdonald5732 5 лет назад
I'm not Welsh but can do a better Welsh accent than the Welsh people I know.
@alvinogawa5974
@alvinogawa5974 5 лет назад
Well, Sir Savage the 21st nailed both american and british accents
@comradestalin4826
@comradestalin4826 5 лет назад
Lmao
@TacoCrisma
@TacoCrisma 5 лет назад
😂😂😂😂😂
@iainarlt7668
@iainarlt7668 5 лет назад
It's a knoife
@rebeccachurch89
@rebeccachurch89 5 лет назад
Omg
@akuota8575
@akuota8575 5 лет назад
Alvin hah lol
@NinjaArmyGaming
@NinjaArmyGaming 4 года назад
As someone from Wales, that accent was disappointing smh
@gunslingingbird74
@gunslingingbird74 3 года назад
Cut him some slack. It's hard for people to imitate the accent of a vacuum cleaner sucking up a pile of nails.
@calebharris7568
@calebharris7568 3 года назад
Gunslinging Bird oh shit...
@auroragonzalez7353
@auroragonzalez7353 3 года назад
Gunslinging Bird oh no 😂😭
@henrychislett1832
@henrychislett1832 3 года назад
Have you heard a welsh accent???
@twoa.m3925
@twoa.m3925 3 года назад
Why is that? Genuinely asking, bc I'm tryna learn how to speak in various accents
@CalifornianCuttlefish
@CalifornianCuttlefish 2 года назад
I love this accent coach! he's so awesome!
@kathrynhettinger1321
@kathrynhettinger1321 5 лет назад
Tom Hardy and James McAvoy are accent chameleons
@sheadoherty7434
@sheadoherty7434 5 лет назад
Na, Tom Hardy's accent is forced most the time
@xxIluvyouguysxx
@xxIluvyouguysxx 5 лет назад
And they’re both handsome 😍
@12345BEP
@12345BEP 5 лет назад
Yes! They do amazing!!
@thudthud5423
@thudthud5423 5 лет назад
James McAvoy does an excellent British accent as Professor Charles Xavier. (Yeah, okay. I know.) He did an awesome job in "Split".
@lydiaedwards09
@lydiaedwards09 5 лет назад
@@thudthud5423 James McAvoy is an amazing actor he needs more recognition
@Avetas
@Avetas 5 лет назад
Fun fact, that dude is like 6’7” lol... I got to work with him on an HBO pilot. Nice guy.
@bluesailormercury
@bluesailormercury 5 лет назад
Hot, smart, and tall, wow
@humanbass
@humanbass 5 лет назад
I knew he was tall by how large his hands are, but not by that much.
@Revealthereal_
@Revealthereal_ 5 лет назад
Want a cookie?
@happynugget790
@happynugget790 4 года назад
Edmund Kemper was 6'9 and he killed people
@brookenjonas
@brookenjonas 4 года назад
He says on his own channel that he’s taller than Conan O’Brien😂
@nancyomalley9959
@nancyomalley9959 3 года назад
For the R thing, perhaps a good tip would be to listen to REO Speedwagon's "Keep On Loving You"-The lead singer really hones in on his R's!
@mango3257
@mango3257 3 года назад
He’s very good, I wouldn’t know that he was American when he was doing the British accent. (I’m a Brit btw)
@cale-mq6dp
@cale-mq6dp 5 лет назад
Tom Holland can do his American accent AMAZINGLY
@josharntt
@josharntt 5 лет назад
The first thing I saw him in was that one Mony dick movie with Hemsworth, I don't recall what accent he had there, but his most memorable thing is Spiderman, so I think it anyways sounds funny when he starts speaking normally in an English accent, and even funnier when he slips between the two.
@therelkrikhamet7690
@therelkrikhamet7690 5 лет назад
Produce 101 :D YESSS, when I first watched Spiderman Homecoming, I didn’t even know who Tom Holland was(😢), so I didn’t even know he was British. He was THAT good.
@perspii2808
@perspii2808 5 лет назад
Produce 101 :D I didn’t know that Tom Holland was English, cool
@LJFajemolin
@LJFajemolin 5 лет назад
i understood that reference
@annnee6818
@annnee6818 5 лет назад
Yeah and he's so young too. But if you have it you just have it...
@ethanjimenez2142
@ethanjimenez2142 5 лет назад
The way he bled into that English accent was beautiful
@georgemaster9271
@georgemaster9271 5 лет назад
And they forgave Mr.Van Dyke for that,too!
@georgemaster9271
@georgemaster9271 5 лет назад
@ALPHADick Van Dyke did a bad cockney accent,but the british forgave him for such.
@ladytee4269
@ladytee4269 3 года назад
@@georgemaster9271 😂🤣
@Moccason
@Moccason 4 года назад
omg what the actual.. 3:27 THAT WAS AMAZING!! the dude literally just switched from American to full-blown English just like that! that was so impressive omg
@ChibiCosmos
@ChibiCosmos 4 года назад
Then you hear "Corallll!" and suddenly exposed
@damnson7046
@damnson7046 4 года назад
"There are countless examples of Americans doing bad British accents" >smash cut to Canadian Keanu Reeves
@sharpie1201
@sharpie1201 4 года назад
I KNOW
@gennydz
@gennydz 4 года назад
America is a continent, dear. A Canadian is an American. People from the US are US Americans.
@damnson7046
@damnson7046 4 года назад
@@gennydz t. jorge ramirez try telling canadians they're american
@maxwellulous820
@maxwellulous820 4 года назад
@@gennydz Canadians are not considered American. You sound like someone from Europe, its different here
@CarlosGarcia-ze6rt
@CarlosGarcia-ze6rt 4 года назад
@D49 fan07 that's not how It works man... America it's a continent (the 2nd largest continent). People tend to divide it in north america, central america and south america but they're not different continents. It's like saying eastern/western europe.
@RoamingAdhocrat
@RoamingAdhocrat 4 года назад
Find it really odd when people talk about British accents when they specifically mean English accents.
@sirrivet9557
@sirrivet9557 4 года назад
Roaming Adhocrat specifically London accents
@barkboingfloom
@barkboingfloom 4 года назад
Its all just one island, really. I live in a state larger than the whole of Britain. In the distance they drive from London to Cardiff, I have to drive just to go to the airport.
@RoamingAdhocrat
@RoamingAdhocrat 4 года назад
@@barkboingfloom the US is mostly all on one island too. there's a heck of a lot of people, subcultures, and extremely different regional accents between Cardiff and London
@Aledharris
@Aledharris 4 года назад
Battle Of Trenton For such a small place, the UK has a load of very distinct accents though. I live in China now and the way they talk about accents here covers vast swathes of land. My province in China is much bigger than the UK yet someone in my city meeting someone from the other end of the province wouldn’t know they’re from a different place. Whereas in England, if you met someone from Newcastle, one from Manchester, one from Birmingham, one from Liverpool, you’d know each of them instantly from them just saying “Hello, how are you?”
@Neokretai
@Neokretai 4 года назад
@@barkboingfloom Yeah but we have 4 distinct cultures, 67 million people and a few thousand years of history. There really isn't anything like it in the US
@terra_the_nightingale135
@terra_the_nightingale135 4 года назад
So a little while back we did a musical at my school and it involved doing British accents. We had a... idk what they’re called but she was a professional coach on accents and such. She went over it vaguely with the ensemble but for the leads she practiced a lot with us in doing different ones based on region. But the first time she wanted to hear us do our versions of how we see English accents, one of the leads did his and she was asking us if he was lying and was actually from Britain and not American because his Essex accent was astounding. He’s American, he had just practiced the accent a lot for the role. By the end I learned to do a pretty convincing accent that I was able to fool some people even one of my friend’s dad who was from Britain. Though the boy always had it perfect, it was awesome.
@jamesrobinson4039
@jamesrobinson4039 3 года назад
James Cromwell is the king of doing British accents. I was genuinely stunned to find out he was American.
@Flame1611
@Flame1611 3 года назад
I thought you meant the British civil war leader and I was confused, only know as I'm typing I remember it's Oliver Cromwell...
@jamesrobinson4039
@jamesrobinson4039 3 года назад
@@Flame1611 He’s getting on a bit, but I don’t think he’s quite that old. Maybe a distant relative?
@GamerNate30
@GamerNate30 2 года назад
I thought the same thing about Idris Elba when he does an American accent
@JSandwich13
@JSandwich13 6 лет назад
This may be something too idk but in the UK, we are bombarded with American culture through music and tv shows and games and books etc from a very young age. I learned how to spell certain words the American way or say certain words that I'd heard in american tv shows and I'd have no idea how to pronounce it in my scottish accent. It may be nothing Americans may be have shows from the uk too but here quite a number of our shows are american from an early age
@clementj
@clementj 6 лет назад
We use the Queen's English in Malaysia (a former British colony), but because of American TV, movies and music influence, people tend to mix them up now. You'd see 'Lift' written on some place and then 'Elevator' on another... LOL
@Clammychow
@Clammychow 6 лет назад
Calvin M are you kidding me peppa pig is british
@JSandwich13
@JSandwich13 6 лет назад
Clam Chowder Delectable no its English. I never said peppa wasnt an english show? Whats your point
@Clammychow
@Clammychow 6 лет назад
Calvin M lol sorry I didn’t know and I don’t have a point I just wanted to say it’s just the same thing for americans. We get bombarded with english and british media from a young age- like peppa pig.
@JSandwich13
@JSandwich13 6 лет назад
Clam Chowder Delectable ahh i see yeah its the same for u guys then? Awesome
@hmmm9658
@hmmm9658 6 лет назад
That dialect coach is so good
@brookenjonas
@brookenjonas 6 лет назад
Nice meme isn’t he though! ❤️
@MaureenMurphy_
@MaureenMurphy_ 6 лет назад
Nice meme He's pretty too
@Niphredyl
@Niphredyl 6 лет назад
His welsh is quite off
@MarvinCZ
@MarvinCZ 6 лет назад
+Niphredyl His speciality isn't doing the accents, it's describing them and helping others do them.
@laurenray8995
@laurenray8995 6 лет назад
yo we've got the same political compass my man
@alexbenavidez4500
@alexbenavidez4500 4 года назад
I'm British but my partner is American and I visit the states a lot, and a bit part of it is definitely exposure. We hear American accents ALL the time in the UK, through mainstream media and the internet, but British media is still popular in the US, it's not quite mainstream and they don't have as much exposure to it as we do them. Especially when you visit a non-touristy area, you're usually the only true Brit most Americans ever meet, and it's no surprise that they have trouble envisioning a proper British accent if they simply don't hear one often
@nathanwatson1915
@nathanwatson1915 3 года назад
They mentioned Mark Rylance ... great actor. Check out "Wolf Hall" (doing medieval English accents there), I'm hoping there's a part two of that series some time. The show also Claire Foy (Queen Elizabeth II first couple seasons of The Crown), Damian Lewis, other great cast members.
@JayBelew
@JayBelew 5 лет назад
My default British accent: “ELLO GOVNA”
@theviewer6889
@theviewer6889 5 лет назад
If I want to speak with a much stronger accent (I'm a Scot) I just say every harsh swear I can think of, mainly bastard, fucker and wanker.
@tweetiepie551
@tweetiepie551 5 лет назад
@@theviewer6889 so basically you just use our standard scots daily vocabulary. Your accent must be strong all the time lol.
@theviewer6889
@theviewer6889 5 лет назад
@@tweetiepie551 I'm actually normally a very civil person. I mean, non-Scots can still hear an accent but it's way less pronounced.
@hollyg7346
@hollyg7346 5 лет назад
I'm insulted
@javierbenez7438
@javierbenez7438 5 лет назад
OI, BRUV, 'AT'S A LOAD A BOLLOCKS, INIT?
@Euanbuddie
@Euanbuddie 3 года назад
Bloody hell when he changed accents was like magic
@CalifornianCuttlefish
@CalifornianCuttlefish 2 года назад
Great Video! *helpful and interesting*
@rattyeely
@rattyeely 5 лет назад
The dialect coach talks in a vaugely American-ish accent for most of the video, but he could just be doing that for the video for all we know
@Reapous
@Reapous 5 лет назад
Hes American.
@heizo4296
@heizo4296 4 года назад
Isn't he Canadian?
@saoirsedeltufo7436
@saoirsedeltufo7436 4 года назад
His English accent slipped a couple of times (or went weirdly posh out of nowhere) and the Welsh was obviously an imitation - clearly not from this side of the pond
@emmabrandel4823
@emmabrandel4823 4 года назад
he’s american and he’s based in new york. his accent didn’t “slip” into posh for no reason he was showing the different pronunciations in english accents vs. american accents.
@pauldavies9360
@pauldavies9360 4 года назад
I think he's from the new York area
@baylessnow
@baylessnow 5 лет назад
Peter Dinklage, aka Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones had me totally convinced that he was a fellow Brit. He comes from New Jersey!
@hillarywoo4977
@hillarywoo4977 5 лет назад
@Danny M Honestly, I was so weirded out when I watched one of his interviews. I was convinced he was taking the piss and doing an American accent for a laugh, but no, apparently he's actually American.
@mokkaveli
@mokkaveli 5 лет назад
Peter Dinklage's accent is really good. Sometimes he sounds more English than Sansa with her weird ass voice
@Ella.A.Eh.
@Ella.A.Eh. 5 лет назад
He's not British?!?!?!?!?!
@jerrycjchang
@jerrycjchang 5 лет назад
Most Brits find his accent in GoT not quite right, but it’s a fantasy show so whatever
@doovbaloevera1430
@doovbaloevera1430 5 лет назад
Dinklage's accent can be really inconsistent, the performance is saved by how he emotes and a well written character.
@krausfamily4491
@krausfamily4491 3 года назад
Fun fact: Louis Hynes, the actor who played Klaus Baudelaire in Netflix's adaption of "A Series of Unfortunate Events", is actually British
@Whyamiherel0l
@Whyamiherel0l 4 года назад
I went to various cities ( I’m from NYC ) and multiple natives said I had a great accent. I practice a lot depending on the towns in various counties. It’s possible once you realize tongue positioning and pronunciation
@FallenAngel9979
@FallenAngel9979 4 года назад
Poor Dyck. I’m English and was never bothered about his accent in Mary Poppins. He’s got such great energy in the film and is really likeable.
@lilymarie1582
@lilymarie1582 3 года назад
i know! Im no expert on accents but think of how many English actors there were and no one ever told him he was doing it wrong
@smokyjoe321
@smokyjoe321 3 года назад
@@lilymarie1582 that again comes down to our sense of humour
@lilymarie1582
@lilymarie1582 3 года назад
​@@smokyjoe321 Sure but people always act like it was so offensive. And I'm not saying it wasn't but again nobody ever told him while they were making it.
@scaleythedino49
@scaleythedino49 3 года назад
Agree
@roejogan8683
@roejogan8683 5 лет назад
I'm Scottish and on game chat this guy asked me if I'm from England and I was like.... *_dude, uncool_*
@steakndcheese
@steakndcheese 5 лет назад
Story of my life
@CamilleonProductions
@CamilleonProductions 5 лет назад
How to make a Scotsman angry 😂
@gavmcdonald7684
@gavmcdonald7684 5 лет назад
or Irishman, or Welshman, heck some Cornish dislike it too.
@neve8881
@neve8881 5 лет назад
same as my Glaswegian accent is very weak.
@oofoofer7884
@oofoofer7884 5 лет назад
Everyone that sounds different to Americans are “from England”
@mattiekim
@mattiekim Год назад
Ebris Elba did a good job w/ his accent in "The Wire" but it was not the Black-Baltimorean accent I grew up hearing in Baltimore.
@grey8503
@grey8503 4 года назад
American actors can’t do british accents *Rami Malek has left the chat*
@howchildish
@howchildish 6 лет назад
I remember Emma Watson's Americn accent is Perk of Being a Wallflower was a little wonky at times.
@ohlookmarki
@ohlookmarki 6 лет назад
howchildish Emma Watson has one of the worst American accents. Not just in wallflower. She was so awkward in The Circle.
@Udontkno7
@Udontkno7 6 лет назад
Same with Benedict in 12 Years A Slave
@loverofhomedepot
@loverofhomedepot 6 лет назад
Cumberbatch in 12 Years A Slave had me confused during his small screen time. I couldn't tell if he was talking normally or attempting an American southern accent.
@Udontkno7
@Udontkno7 6 лет назад
Laura Exactly. And like Eric said, since Cumberbatch was doing an American accent, it was much lower than how he usually speaks. And it felt as if it was caught in his throat. Same with Dr Strange, it's good, but sometimes it's a muddy accent, and can't really be defined.
@Acm19999
@Acm19999 6 лет назад
Emma Watson is just a terrible actress
@it_was_my_cat
@it_was_my_cat 6 лет назад
Another thing I've noticed is that when Americans talk about a "British" accent, they are almost always referring to the posh queens English accent. But they never refer to a Scottish accent as a "British" accent. They treat it as it's own thing.
@nickelcobalt98
@nickelcobalt98 6 лет назад
ThatAussieGirl i mean not really, we think it’s dumb that americans don’t realise it’s the same thing. Sure some people want to be independent blah blah but we all still think the americans are just embarrassing themselves
@nickelcobalt98
@nickelcobalt98 6 лет назад
ThatAussieGirl true lmaoo
@Gleestuff3000
@Gleestuff3000 6 лет назад
Right? Half of these British accents I rarely actually hear in Britain and I live in England. Probably because they're always queens English.
@turtle4llama
@turtle4llama 6 лет назад
CozmicK G a close friend of mine is Scots and if you ever even sub-categorized her accent as British she'd probably cut you with a knife.
@violetsnotviolence
@violetsnotviolence 6 лет назад
Because it's so different. At least to Americans they sound completely different. Not every American uses the term British when they mean English, they say English.
@Derek_The_Magnificent_Bastard
@Derek_The_Magnificent_Bastard 3 года назад
What? No Johnny Depp mention? The dude does an impeccable English accent.
@pmason6076
@pmason6076 2 года назад
That's not 'English' that's 'Pirate'
@Derek_The_Magnificent_Bastard
@Derek_The_Magnificent_Bastard 2 года назад
@@pmason6076 LOL Wasn't even talking about those films. Demon Barber or Mortdecai and many others.
@pmason6076
@pmason6076 2 года назад
@@Derek_The_Magnificent_Bastard LOL... I missed those.. sounds like I didn't miss much then.
@yw6413
@yw6413 2 года назад
Thankkkk you I was looking for this comment
@3rdStoreyChemist
@3rdStoreyChemist Год назад
@@pmason6076 ‘Pirate’ is an English accent, it’s an over the top version of the Bristol accent these days, because it’s where Treasure Island is set. So actors would attempt that specific accent. Find videos on people speaking with a Bristol accent and you’ll hear ‘pirate’.
@manuelgalvis.2072
@manuelgalvis.2072 3 года назад
I'm learning english, and this was really helpful!
@princessofhmv3647
@princessofhmv3647 4 года назад
Erik: *Does the Welsh accent* Me a Welsh woman: “Why does he sound like a kind of French Mrs Doubtfire?”
@GeographyPal
@GeographyPal 4 года назад
Princess of HMV omg 😂
@princessofhmv3647
@princessofhmv3647 4 года назад
Fropitz Skeeter I agree
@ScarlettKitsune
@ScarlettKitsune 4 года назад
YES! 🤣 Even thought it sounded janky as a Scot.
@chrisbirch4150
@chrisbirch4150 4 года назад
i could tell he was trying to do Welsh, but it was funny how confident he was with it. I am English and even i could tell it wasn't quite right
@carlie8897
@carlie8897 4 года назад
Wow that was a bit crap wasnt it :/
@birdvideos9085
@birdvideos9085 6 лет назад
When he switched to a british accent, that was smooth.
@4Gwan
@4Gwan 5 лет назад
Hassan Khanlopuy
@jpsned
@jpsned 8 месяцев назад
Don Cheadle's attempt at a Cockney accent in the Ocean movies is legendary in the business. 🙂
@legalvampire8136
@legalvampire8136 4 года назад
Charlton Heston managed a good British accent as General Gordon in 'Khartoum'. Maggie Gyllenhall and her husband Peter Saarsgard both achieved convincing educated British accents in 'The Honourable Woman' and 'An Education' respectively. I have never heard an American actor attempt the accent of Hull though ('the only place in the World where Perls are people who come from Perland [=Poles / Poland]') but the poor actors would probably give up herp if they had to learn to speak like that.
@YangSing1
@YangSing1 5 лет назад
You didn't touch on northern england accents
@rbeck3200tb40
@rbeck3200tb40 5 лет назад
Like Karl Pilkington airite
@blurquoise5301
@blurquoise5301 5 лет назад
Oh yeah, those are a whole different game entirely. There's so many of them and they differentiate quite a lot. And the really broad varieties have a lot of archaisms that are still used - like using modern pronunciations of "thou, thee, thy" in casual speech
@ellomynameisjohnny
@ellomynameisjohnny 5 лет назад
You mean south scotland
@SolarTwinLunarKing
@SolarTwinLunarKing 5 лет назад
YangSing1 I was waiting for that one too
@rebeccahicks4949
@rebeccahicks4949 5 лет назад
(American here), Northern English accents sound more "normal" to me than the Southern ones.
@Dadendrangg
@Dadendrangg 4 года назад
‘British accent’ doesn’t exist. As a foreigner who has lived in the UK I can’t stress enough that there’s is a large variety in accents in the UK. Someone from Liverpool can have trouble understanding someone from Cornwall, while someone from London can have trouble understanding someone from Sunderland. Categorizing an accent as ‘British accent’ is just wrong.
@Dadendrangg
@Dadendrangg 4 года назад
Rowan Melton and I applaud you
@ojjo1892
@ojjo1892 4 года назад
Wouldn’t you say a Cornwall accent and a Liverpool accent are two (very) different British accents? It would be weird if we didn’t have an umbrella term for all the different accents found in Britain
@ojjo1892
@ojjo1892 4 года назад
Or is the situation in Britain notably different to other places? Where are you from? Is there less of a range of accents?
@jakelangley624
@jakelangley624 4 года назад
OMG THANK YOU
@lemonposting
@lemonposting 4 года назад
‘American accent’ doesn’t exist. As a foreigner who has lived in the US I can’t stress enough that there’s is a large variety in accents in the US. Someone from Texas can have trouble understanding someone from Boston, while someone from Alabama can have trouble understanding someone from New York. Categorizing an accent as ‘American accent’ is just wrong.
@bellacontess5388
@bellacontess5388 4 года назад
One of the best I have ever heard was Gillian Anderson's performance in The Fall (BBC). She really nailed that British accent, I had no clue she's actually American.
@Bonglecat
@Bonglecat 3 года назад
She was born in America but grew up largely in London.
@LeanEnglishPronunciation
@LeanEnglishPronunciation 4 месяца назад
Great video! I think British actors are generally better at imitating American accents because they have more exposure and more practice. However, it should be noted that British actors often struggle to do other British accents as well. A famous example is Charlie Hunnam (a geordie) who failed to speak with a convincing cockney accent in the film Green Street. Olivia Colman, who speaks with Received Pronunciation, also struggled to produce a convincing cockney accent in the the new Wonka film (although obviously realism is less important in that film). Do Americans also struggle to imitate other American accents?
@K5_Chris
@K5_Chris 5 лет назад
Americans haven’t had to worry about sounding British since 1776 lol
@pumulot
@pumulot 5 лет назад
Chris 389 epic gamer moment
@marycanary86
@marycanary86 5 лет назад
explains that disgraceful performance dick van dyke gave in "Mary poppins"
@quagsnake
@quagsnake 5 лет назад
You still speak English though 😉🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@itzppr
@itzppr 5 лет назад
@@quagsnake i was going to make a sarcastic joke but britain is more superior than america in so many ways. lower cost of medicine because of free healthcare, lower incarceration rates, stricter weapon laws, and better food...the only thing america really has going for it rn is media :(
@zachtaylor9597
@zachtaylor9597 5 лет назад
Chris 389 interesting accent fact, but the modern “standard English accent” (which is technically called Received Pronunciation) didn’t exist in 1776, and the American/Canadian way of speech is closer to the old way of speaking than modern English accents are. So if someone is giving American accents a hard time, just tell them we’re sticking to tradition
@CoryMck
@CoryMck 4 года назад
Any American who actually watches British TV knows that many British actors struggle with American accents.
@navyninjagaming2551
@navyninjagaming2551 4 года назад
English people trying to do an american accent 99% of the time leads to a Georgian who thinks they're South African
@LeeLee-pk4ss
@LeeLee-pk4ss 4 года назад
True when they get it wrong they really really get it wrong.
@fancyoil216
@fancyoil216 4 года назад
I love doctor who but usually when they want an American accent it’s very painful. Every now and then there’s a good one, but it’s rare.
@Burn143
@Burn143 3 года назад
As an American that watches a lot of British Tv, I can agree with this lol.
@CoryMck
@CoryMck 3 года назад
@@fancyoil216 the accents in the Rosa Parks episode was u n c o m f o r t a b l e
@Maerahn
@Maerahn 3 года назад
Yes, Alan Tudyk IS brilliant at English accents. His 'English peasant' accent in 'A Knight's Tale' was also ON POINT - I didn't even realise he was American when he played that role.
@OmniphonProductions
@OmniphonProductions 2 года назад
1:53 - Knowing that Michael C. Hall starred in David Bowie's musical _Lazarus,_ I can't help hearing Bowie's influence on Hall's English accent.
@Ashesinferno28
@Ashesinferno28 4 года назад
The kid who plays Jonathan from stranger things can do a great American accent
@Tracymmo
@Tracymmo 4 года назад
I had no idea he isn't American until I read this.
@benjames7932
@benjames7932 4 года назад
Nostalgia nerd same with the girl
@ruby-it2ou
@ruby-it2ou 4 года назад
He’s briTISH?
@barb7124
@barb7124 4 года назад
Charlie Heaton struggled with it though. They had to overdub him saying Nancy a lot.
@anita-ji4xb
@anita-ji4xb 4 года назад
what i was thinking and about to comment, also millie
@creature_skin
@creature_skin 4 года назад
I was at a party last week with a guy from Glasgow and I was like "my friend does an amazing Scottish accent" so the guy asked him to show us but he refused because he was too wasted. So I was like "okay I'll try then" and started talking. The Scottish guy turned to me and said "wait you're from Scotland! I just completely missed your accent before!" and I'm never going to let anyone forget that ever.
@amandam.durham4804
@amandam.durham4804 4 года назад
I love this guy.! I can hear him speaking for hours.
@kimberlainodriscoll4781
@kimberlainodriscoll4781 2 года назад
I am from Boston. I grew up speaking a British style Bostonian accent, not to be confused with the Southie accent many are familiar with. I've had British co-workers who thought I was from the UK. The problem with Americans trying to speak with a British dialect (or a Bostonian one for that matter) is they overdo the soft vowels, and underestimate the well articulated consonants. The narrator for example talks about the "R". Most Americans say "ahh" when trying to mimic a British or Bostonian accent, but it is more like "aahar". The R is there but it's subtle and preceded with a very soft "a".
@Ryan-dk7mm
@Ryan-dk7mm 5 лет назад
Sean Astin playing Sam in the LOTR has to be the best American doing a British accent. It was regional and just sounded natural. I'm yet to see an American capable of doing a believable Yorkshire, Scouse or Geordie accent. If one exists I'd be very impressed.
@francoisrd
@francoisrd 4 года назад
Sean Astin is awesome
@bs4e
@bs4e 4 года назад
@@francoisrd he is awesome
@studiokhimera2182
@studiokhimera2182 4 года назад
I knew Elijah Wood was American - but I had NO IDEA until recently rewatching LOTR series that Sean Astin was American too..??? ALSO HE WAS IN THE GOONIES? Anyways, yeah he did quite well.. such a likeable dude.
@swamdono
@swamdono 4 года назад
I'm yet to see those, too (I'm from Yorkshire). But I was pleasantly surprised to hear Sam Niells Irish accent in Peaky Blinders. It's quite strong in places, but overall pretty close.
@justanotheruser2611
@justanotheruser2611 4 года назад
Well there’s probably an American out there, out in the wild..
@rhyanshelby6572
@rhyanshelby6572 5 лет назад
Whenever I hear Hugh Laurie speaking with his normal accent it seems fake
@kathylennerds750
@kathylennerds750 5 лет назад
Up until like two/three years ago I legitimately thought he was American.
@bethanyb1175
@bethanyb1175 4 года назад
It’s strange because as a Brit I associate him primarily with Blackadder as opposed to House 😉😛 so his normal English accent seems more natural to me
@MartinIrwin
@MartinIrwin 4 года назад
Bethany B yeah no kidding. Blows my mind when people think he’s American, but I’ve not seen House.
@1VikingBrute3
@1VikingBrute3 4 года назад
Sounds like a American on a downer like xanax...😅🤣😅😂
@lsuchik93
@lsuchik93 4 года назад
I believe in the height of House he actually started to lose his British accent!! I remember hearing that back in the day on some interview!
@dalebraithwaite6890
@dalebraithwaite6890 4 года назад
He struggled with Welsh, also Welsh accents vary drastically over just a few miles. the Barry accent, Newport accent, Cardiff accent, Caerphilly accent and merthyr accent all sound soo different.
@dalebraithwaite6890
@dalebraithwaite6890 4 года назад
@Aron Humphreys hwntw?
@dalebraithwaite6890
@dalebraithwaite6890 4 года назад
@Aron Humphreys yeah we do ai, I'm from the valleys myself
@miminelekittydelamuerte
@miminelekittydelamuerte 3 года назад
I also think the Brits have spent most of their lives hearing and listening to other accents, whether it's English, RP accent (which is strongly promoted, too) in their everyday life, or American accents in movies, international business and such. Even without practising actively, it does help you get at least a passive knowledge of it. Hence most Brits being perfectly able to switch to RP whenever they want or need, regardless of their original accent. Plus, it helps you being generally more "flexible" in terms of learning new languages/dialects than people who've grown up in a very limited/homogenous linguistic pool.
@TheSunMoon
@TheSunMoon 6 лет назад
I'm always intrigued by accents. Once i worked on a ship for 6 months, which has Eastern Europeans, I didn't realize I (somewhat) picked up their accents. When I return to my native country, my friends pointed that I speak funny, like having a weird foreign accent. It took me maybe a month or 2, before getting back that Singaporean "accent" again. Haha.
@jrgboy
@jrgboy 5 лет назад
I lived with my Aunt in South Wales for 8 months when I was small & came back to London with an accent, it soon went.
@freyakinsey1652
@freyakinsey1652 5 лет назад
+jrgboy I find my accent changes really quickly. My native one is a South Walian accent, but I tend to unconsciously adopt the inflections of whoever I'm talking to. I have a Polish friend who's accent bleeds into mine fairly often. Same if I spend longer than a day or two in France or with French family
@freyakinsey1652
@freyakinsey1652 5 лет назад
+Freya Kinsey *whose
@Speakeeezzy
@Speakeeezzy 5 лет назад
This happens to me too. I pick up the inflections of other ppl's speech. It's a version of code switching. One of my friends returned to the states after living in Sydney for years and she sounded SO WEIRD to us. Without the Australian accent, everything she said just sounded like a question instead!
@tristanmoller9498
@tristanmoller9498 5 лет назад
Yeah, lived in America for a year, came back to Germany with an accent for a month or so without even realizing it. Didn’t take that long with me either. Then people started calling it out and I was like yeah wtf lmao. English is my mother tongue but I still just adopt the accent or dialect of whoever I’m talking to
@ilou9129
@ilou9129 6 лет назад
I can do a fantastic British accent! And I'm British! wow! thanks for all the likes, that's a record!
@rmk7943
@rmk7943 6 лет назад
this channel has been terminated. Good for you 👍
@angelic7532
@angelic7532 6 лет назад
this channel has been terminated. You're doing better than me at least lmao, i've never been to America and lived in England my whole life but for some reason i sound american
@stevemojang8736
@stevemojang8736 6 лет назад
·angel · sameeeeeee
@restinpeacejasehdwayneonfr4616
this channel has been terminated. Nobody cares about your puny joke
@angelic7532
@angelic7532 6 лет назад
Alpha Fortnite Videos apparently you do since you replied to it
@04nbod
@04nbod 2 года назад
I think this is one of the reasons Game of Thrones did so well. If it were done in America with British Accents it would sound like Downton Abbey. They're rich English-type people, right? The Northern accents really made it stand out in a way it wouldn't otherwise. I really hope this leads to more diverse voices in American entertainment. As Fiona Hill explained in Congress, British accents have a whole socio-political aspect. The one you use says something about the character.
@plkrtn
@plkrtn 4 года назад
The Costner/Elwes thing at the beginning is incongruant to the question being presented. Michael C Hall got criticism for his accent in Safe in the US, but I thought he was ridiculously good at it.
@hhorst84
@hhorst84 4 года назад
me: speaks french every second word: *has a seizure*
@k-studio8112
@k-studio8112 4 года назад
But I love French accent though😂😂 it's sounds very sexy just like Italian accent
@zackebrorsson9374
@zackebrorsson9374 3 года назад
Happiness
@adityamathur6938
@adityamathur6938 3 года назад
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@masterwindu1234
@masterwindu1234 3 года назад
frog
@LeilaStirling
@LeilaStirling 5 лет назад
Not just British accents but they are EXTREMELY terrible at Australian accents! 😂🤦🏼‍♀️😬
@dirtymike3329
@dirtymike3329 5 лет назад
I’m a disappointment. Period. The problem is they can sound similar to us. I can hear the difference clearly but when I go to speak Australian it comes out funny.
@tanyabhaskar2888
@tanyabhaskar2888 5 лет назад
There's only a handful that can do Aussie accents... It's a little sad because so many times people just miss entirely and end up doing American or English depending on where they're from
@tanyabhaskar2888
@tanyabhaskar2888 5 лет назад
@@dirtymike3329 mm definitely in some regions! Lol good luck just drown yourself in Aussie actor interviews or something
@taehyunkim5709
@taehyunkim5709 5 лет назад
I tried to do an Australian accent and all my friends tell me it sounds Kiwi lol
@sanyukimuli9404
@sanyukimuli9404 5 лет назад
I’m gonna say it.... SHRI-
@deletefkgjdfkpqzz
@deletefkgjdfkpqzz 3 года назад
You forgot to mention, in old film it was done on purpose. For Disney's 'Alice in Wonderland' for example they wanted Alice to sound English because that's where the story took place, but not so English that it was off-putting to American audiences.
@ruisenor8993
@ruisenor8993 2 года назад
Yes! The invention of the TransAtlantic accent.
@prva9347
@prva9347 3 года назад
Pitch is an aspect too. For instance, from personal experience, in the Scottish Borders and the Orkney Islands the male voice is high-pitched (and often speaks very fast) and if you're not prepared for it you could mistake it for a female voice if you're on the phone, say. Also, actual change in sounds e.g. place names; in Northumberland "gh" is a soft sound, much closer to the "je" of the French "je suis", so Whittingham is WhittingJERM (stress on first syllable), though oddly North'd's Ponteland has the second syllable stressed and slightly long. So if you have an American (or even British!) actor doing a Northumbrian or a Geordie accent and they don't pronounce Newcastle correctly, it'll stand out a mile. Btw, Northumbrian and Geordie accents are very different...once you know them.
@samtalbot-cross2621
@samtalbot-cross2621 5 лет назад
I, a British man, am sat saying 'goat' now, to see whether I actually say 'goat' like that
@jonathanphillips5794
@jonathanphillips5794 5 лет назад
depends which part of Britain you're from. I'm from south-west Wales (and bi-lingual Welsh/Eng speaker) so the vowel sound in my accent in "goat" is elongated and with a dip then rising intonation "goh-oat" - i dont know how to type the actual phonemic script on this pc
@dk7736
@dk7736 4 года назад
ME
@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770
@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 4 года назад
Sam Talbot-Cross you’re the GOAT man!
@Tob1Kadach1
@Tob1Kadach1 4 года назад
I'm from Kent and we have a dropped T in our accent for example I'm pu in the ke oh on instead of I'm putting the kettle on. Also words like Butter is pronounced like Bu uh, Hospital is pronounced Hospi all & of course the most popular one to tell if someone is from Kent Water is pronounced Woh uh
@TheAquaticCat
@TheAquaticCat 5 лет назад
Imagine how happy his wife must be. Since he masters all accents, role playing must be real fun.
@bradleyorozco1081
@bradleyorozco1081 5 лет назад
"Oy mate lemme fok u in thee ass, yeh"
@daisydennis1943
@daisydennis1943 5 лет назад
TheAquaticCat unless he’s gay
@quanbrooklynkid7776
@quanbrooklynkid7776 5 лет назад
@@daisydennis1943 damn
@AFanOfCinema
@AFanOfCinema 5 лет назад
bradley orozco *arse
@jgilly3362
@jgilly3362 4 года назад
@@bradleyorozco1081 errrrr no
@rafiqueahamed3282
@rafiqueahamed3282 3 года назад
Fun fact: there are actually like 50 accents in Britain so just talk like any one then and ur fine
@pinkfloydguy7781
@pinkfloydguy7781 3 года назад
I was listening to the entirety of books 3 and 4 of Harry Potter on cassette when I was in 8th grade and started slipping into an English accent like I had to put effort in to speak in a normal American one
@deanwilcox9390
@deanwilcox9390 5 лет назад
I was today years old when I found out Rick from The Walking Dead is British in real life
@brunobarbosa1900
@brunobarbosa1900 5 лет назад
Harry D It’s a joke meaning that she only realised Rick was British after watching this video (today)! Got it? 😉
@bearythebear69
@bearythebear69 5 лет назад
Dean Wilcox I noticed when he would break his accent and you can here his English accent. Especially when he said Carl
@Jawf94
@Jawf94 5 лет назад
Even though is American accent is notoriously bad.
@N2Deep00
@N2Deep00 5 лет назад
I shit myself when I found out 21 Savage was British and I don't even listen to him.
@amburgernchips
@amburgernchips 5 лет назад
Maggie from TWD is British too!
@DonMrLenny
@DonMrLenny 4 года назад
3:30 british mode activated
@matthewholmes7572
@matthewholmes7572 2 года назад
Meanwhile Daniel Radcliffe's American accent sounds like it's his real voice...
@rebeccamartinson8913
@rebeccamartinson8913 4 года назад
I remember watching a clip of comedian Russell Kane, and I think what he said is quite appilcable: that to do a good English accent you have to move your face as little as possible. Watch any English person talk and you'll notice that they move their faces considerably less than other nationalities (the posher you are, the less you move). I feel this is why some struggle to do an English accent, since their faces move too much.
@wrenrogers369
@wrenrogers369 6 лет назад
I find it easier to do a british accent while yelling. Guess I watch too much Gordon Ramsay.
@dragoniser01
@dragoniser01 5 лет назад
Gordon Ramsay is Scottish, not really the same accent that you are thinking of
@TheMsLollidella
@TheMsLollidella 5 лет назад
I didnt even know Ramsey wasn't American....whoa...
@RyanAustinDean
@RyanAustinDean 5 лет назад
THE BEEF WELLINGTON IS RAAAAHHHWWWHHH!!!
@RobBeatdownBrown
@RobBeatdownBrown 5 лет назад
Not a bad idea for a comedy skit. The actor that can only speak with a British accent if he’s yelling 🤔
@MrVidification
@MrVidification 5 лет назад
Glitch I always wondered where ramsay got his attitude from ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZXTQ8yTWVWQ.html
@Mel-jy4kc
@Mel-jy4kc 4 года назад
Robert Pattinson’s English accent came out in Breaking Dawn 1 at the end of the movie when he said “absolute law”.
@brookenjonas
@brookenjonas 4 года назад
Mel omg those parts of Twilight make it even more hilarious
@commentcopbadge6665
@commentcopbadge6665 4 года назад
Other than that he's got a good grasp on his "America talk" LOL!
@Oturan20
@Oturan20 Год назад
Him being a vampire makes that a lot more excusable.
@carollewis3912
@carollewis3912 Месяц назад
One person that I was surprised by his speaking accent was Barry Morse, who played Lt. Philip Gerrard on The Fugitive. He was born in England and moved to Canada after he was an adult. He said he hoped he did a convincing American accent on the show. He did.
@SWLinPHX
@SWLinPHX 3 года назад
Matthew Rhys's actual thick Welsh accent is hard to swallow when you hear him speak with an American accent so well in most of his roles!
@PARTHAMAX
@PARTHAMAX 6 лет назад
But it kinda depends, there is no set “American accent” People that live in different parts of the country have different accents.
@rmk7943
@rmk7943 6 лет назад
PARTHAMAX that's exactly the same in England. Accents include: Geordie, mackam, scouse, southern, northern, Mancunian. I feel like americans categorise us as posh or cockney which is irritating. Actors should look into our culture deeper.
@ch9na
@ch9na 6 лет назад
Literally the case for every country. Some not easily identified to you because you're foreign to them.
@superiorduck2105
@superiorduck2105 6 лет назад
PARTHAMAX That could be said for any country though.
@danimations1440
@danimations1440 6 лет назад
PARTHAMAX same here in England
@captainbryce1
@captainbryce1 6 лет назад
RMK 79 I don’t think anyone is disputing that. I think you’re missing the point. The assumption here is that there is such thing as “The American Accent” which of course there is not.
@jacobb.9181
@jacobb.9181 5 лет назад
The guy from Mary Poppins would not have been the same person if he had an actual accent
@wj9518
@wj9518 4 года назад
Id like to see that coach guy do every accent
@TimothyOBrien1958
@TimothyOBrien1958 3 года назад
Having grown up in a household with an Irish grandmother, and other Irish relatives, I naturally tended to adopt an Irish (Donegal) accent. We also spoke a wee bit of Irish language then. When I spent more time in Ireland, it was quite a bit in Dublin and I adopted a more Dublin accent. When the Beatles came on the scene, I nailed their Liverpudlian accent. I began acting at around 10 and was known to be gifted with accents. I hate doing accents from New Jersey, where I did most of my growing up. I hate Philadelphia accents. I won't do them. I have taught some actors accents. It can be frustrating.
@JurassicLion2049
@JurassicLion2049 5 лет назад
Alan Tudyk is my fav fake Brit. I legit thought he was English in A Knights Tale.
@kimberleysmith818
@kimberleysmith818 5 лет назад
Yes I was shocked when I found out Alan Tudyk was American!
@jamiepenman1070
@jamiepenman1070 5 лет назад
@@kimberleysmith818 I didn't know until I saw this comments section 😂
@dk7736
@dk7736 4 года назад
HE WASNT?
@NeroLeblanc
@NeroLeblanc 4 года назад
Great movie.
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