Is This English? Japanese Reacts To Accents in United States
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- Japanese reacts to accents in United States. Japanese react to American culture.
This time I'm watching Conde Nast Traveler 50 states accents video to see if I can catch American accents and understand them. Can a Japanese tell accents in United States? ...wish me luck!
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Tennessee, Mississippi, Florida, Texas, Alabama, Kentucky, North and South Carolina, and other of southern accent use a y'all. spoken like a cowboy that's different with west, central U.S north and East Coast real different
I'm from Iowa
Television has been neutralizing the regional accents over the years. They are less pronounce now compared to the previous generations before radio and television inventions.
True. Sometimes we miss good old days.
It would also have been helpful to seperate the acents if they said the same sentences. But there are differences in what things are called, like soft drinks (like, pop, drink, coke,even if it isn't a Coke and cola), and bags (bag, sack and poke). And acents can vary by region (coastal vs mountain) not state.
It’s quite sad
Southern US Accents can be both
simultaneously the most classy and the most unclassy accent imaginable. Depending on if you are talking to a Southern Belle or a Country Hick. Trust me being a resident of Texas I should know this. In my opinion the best US regional accents are the Southern family of accents and the Minnesotan accent. My Grandma has that one.
Southern gentlemen is the ultimate form. Also USS Yorktown Is best girl.
The southern bumpkin, fat man in a suit with a moustache sounds charming and classy to me. I don’t know how else to describe it
Alex Jones did a funny impression of it on Joe Rogan podcast
This comment is so accurate. I live in Atlanta, but I was raised in Savannah, and whenever I heard people’s accents in Savannah, it was so country sometimes that I thought I didn’t have a southern accent at all because my family sounds so much different from people in Savannah.
Live in Minneapolis and would agree I love the way people talk. Only thing that frustrates me is how people pronounce "roof" like "ruff"
theres that smooth sweet louisiana and then theres yee yee hyuck hyuck kentucky
Edit: but tbf they can be the other way around too, really just depends on the person.
I'm from Texas and yeah you have a generally good idea of southern accents.
Haha. I'm glad 😌
Texan accents are very different than a southern accent. Go to South Carolina and you will see.
@@ojjuiceman the term "southern accent" is a blanket term for any one accent of the peoples in what is considered "The South", a collection of states South of the Mason Dixon line. It would be goofy of anyone to assume that there is only one accent in said area. But wether one is referring to a Carolinian accent, a NOLA area accent or a Texan accent as a southern accent (especially one whose first language is not English) then that deserves recognition. I can't pick out a Kansai accent from a Tokyo accent (I don't speak any Japanese, by the way) so to see her be able to differentiate even a little is pretty awesome. 😁
@@ojjuiceman that previous comment that I left should also illustrate that your statement of "Texan accents are very different than a southern accent" is, in fact, not true. Since Texas is part of the south.
@@lifjyruss What part of Texas? I'm in Dallas
01:12 Names of carbonated drinks (Ozzies tend to call them "fizzy drinks") are a definite marker for different regions' accents. "Soda pop" is common in the Pacific Northwest, while "soda" alone is common on both coasts, East and West. Across the South, "coke" is the common name for any brand of carbonated soda, while "pop" by itself is heard in the Midwestern states. There are still enclaves of the terms "tonic" and "soda water" or "sody water," but these are regarded as archaic and declining. "Cola" is uncommon to hear within the US.
02:03 Elongated (not "it long gave me") vowels are a part of accents across the South, from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean and from Kentucky to the Gulf of Mexico.
02:06 The Mississippian is exaggerating, but not very much. I might write it phonetically as "hah y'all doin' da-day?" The Georgian is eliding vowels like crazy. What he actually said was "Y'all wanna (want to) go ta (to) Waffle House? (a chain of restaurants that serves waffles and other breakfast food) C'mon over, we'll go ta Waffle House."
02:40 The Tennessean sounds as though she's exaggerating, but she isn't. I know people who talk with that much of a twang.
03:23 The Vermonter reminds me of other accents you find farther west, such as Wisconsin or Minnesota.
03:57 The Chicago accent is difficult to describe, but it exists. In a conversation with a Chicagoan once, she advanced the hypothesis that it was because nuns from southern Louisiana (around New Orleans) went north to teach in Chicago religious schools, and instilled their own accents into the kids.
04:01 Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska all fall into what's known as "generic Midwestern" accents. Generic Midwestern is prized among television news readers, because it's rather colourless and inoffensive.
04:20 What she's describing is a thing known as "uptalk," where the speaker ends phrases and sentences with a rising inflection. It's most often heard among younger women of all regions, and is thought to arise from insecurity and desire not to offend male sensibilities. I find uptalk to be intensely annoying, because it often does indicate insecurity and an unwillingness to take and hold one's own position in a conversation.
05:04 She is turning on the Bostonian accent with the intensity turned up to eleven. To translate: "You got to park the car in Harvard Yard and give the guard a quarter for some chowder." Swoopy diphthongs ALL over the place, R is universally replaced by -a or -uh, vowels are flattened as though a steamroller ran over them.
05:25 Maine and New Hampshire share the New England Yankee flattening of vowels. The man from New Hampshire is not wrong to identify Francophone influence coming across from Quebec.
05:32 The North Dakota woman is talking about vowel sounds inherited from Swedish and Norse settlers. The same thing tends to make their regional accent somewhat sing-songy.
05:45 The man from Wisconsin is describing a tendency to move vowels higher and farther forward in the mouth which gives them a tighter sound, so short E becomes more like I, and short A moves up to the E position, hence the "iggs in a beg." (New Zealanders do this too.)
06:36 Baltimore, Maryland has a VERY distinct and noticeable accent with tight vowels and lots of diphthongs. I can't even begin to imitate it, though my brother-in-law, who grew up there, does it to perfection. Locally, they call it the "Highlandtown" accent.
07:11 Florida is teeming with Cuban refugees from the Castro regime, and their children and grandchildren.
07:32 "Yinz" is a tight regionalism. It's a contraction of "you'uns" which is a contraction of "you ones."
Here in California we have a few accents, like the surfer dude accent and valley girl accent, but they're regional rather that state-wide, so most of us don't sound like that (It is a pretty big state, after all). States from the New England region (the north eastern corner of the country) are often pretty thick. Honestly, even as a born-and-raised English speaker, I have trouble understanding them too. The Eastern side of the country is older and I think the accents are generally more extreme as a result. And, personally, I think Japanese women are cute as hell when they speak English with a Japanese accent.
Yes the east coast and south have much deeper roots a lot of us are proud of the triballism that comes from our accents
Same, but it is true that I noticed I say “like” a lot
Can confirm the california thing,
Lived in L. A. My while life.
Also, Japanese accent english is pretty cute.
Living in Ma, that Boston accent isnt really heard
If you ever want to learn more about American accents, I would recommend the 3 part "Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents" series from the channel Wired.
I really like the accent Japanese women have when they speak English. It's very nice.
The best accent was yours Asagi! Thanks for being patient and understanding of our diverse, interesting regional cultures. When I travel, people ask me if I'm from "The South" and I have to say no, I'm from Texas.
Massachusett’s accents don’t pronounce their “r” and until you figure it out, you can’t understand what they’re saying. I was once on a flight to Boston and the lady sitting next to me talked to me about 20 minutes before I figured out her accent. I just nodded my head and acted like I understood every word she said. That’s the polite thing to do being from Texas and all. It wasn’t until she told me they were going from “bah to bah to bah” that I realized she meant “bar to bar to bar!” Then the whole conversation made sense. 😂
There is a similar thing in German accents. Instead of "hart" it's "haat" there. The R has nearly vanished in some words. Might be right accent for Japanese lol
There is also a regional difference in many words with "ch" like Kirche (church), where ch is not a throat sound like wind, but a K. If those overlap, Kirche changes to Kii(r)ke ;)
Lmao I’m from Massachusetts and it’s really not that bad unless the person is from the city or they talk really fast. I’ve actually had a lot of people say they love my accent but mine is not that profound because I didn’t grow up in the city.
@@steemlenn8797 "Kirke" is how we write "church" in Norwegian. The first /K/ is a "sh" sound nowadays (it used to be like the german "ch" sound) whilst the second one is a hard /K/. Back in the day, we had a lot more of the "ch" sound (like in Germany) in certain words, but the "sh" sound has more or less eradicated it (within the last 30 or so years), so now I have to listen to old timers who complain about us youngsters butchering the language 😂
Boston Massachusettes is one example of what is more widely known as a New England accent. And yes, it is sometimes difficult for other Americans to understand. My Grandfather grew up in Boston and when he moved to the Southern United States, everyone from the local Hardees (a chain fast food restaurant) loved hearing him talk because no one in town spoke like him.
Interesting!
I should've remembered there was going to a reference to "Yinz" when they talked about Pennsylvania. Ughh. Not everybody in Pittsburgh says Yinz people. Lol
Fun video Asagi
Interesting!
When I was a kid I always visited a family friends farm in Higgins every summer, and everyone I met there had thick Dutch accents and I always thought they asked questions weird. So I always assumed people talked like that all across PA but I guess not.
The girl from Maine describing her accent was perfect. "It's kind of like Boston, but cooler, and a bit more drunk."
Having lived in Maine, I can say it probably is because people are more drunk
I think it's interesting to know the different accents. Because I feel like we can kind of know the cultural backgrounds through the accents. Thanks for this video!
7:15 “Many Mexicans there I guess”
Cubans actually, that’s the highest percentage of Latinos there. I’m from Texas but have family in Florida, and they’re accents are kind of like that.
I'm from Texas too and I had a Mexican friend who visited Florida and when he came back he said it was weird speaking Spanish with all the Puerto Ricans and Cubans. I think he had barely been out of San Antonio his whole life, and we was like "where are all the Mexicans?"
You have the coolest accent when you speak English.
I love it.
Asagi , I love you and your videos ❤
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Awesome video!!!
This show made me laugh so hard it hurt. You are so right. You have an accent speaking English, and to me, it sounds musical because the words are drawn out a little and end softly.
I’m from Arizona but New Mexico is beautiful! That “au” sound you were wondering about is definitely a southern “twang” sound which may be a bit different with however far East or west you are
I live in Kentucky. Here in western Kentucky, the typical accent is like a mix between a southern and midwestern accent like that of Arkansas. When I go to Eastern Kentucky, the accent is sometimes so thick I can't understand what the person is saying. They have slang that is pretty much exclusive to the Appalachian region. I always liked the New York and New Jersey accent though. Probably from all of the mafia flicks I've watched lol.
"I never thought I had an accent" is one of the most american things anyone can say
Don’t feel bad about saying Californians sound like they’re on marijuana, Asagi, because most of us are, hahaha. And yes, many here speak happy-sounding because many are! California tends to do that to your voice, lol.
And as for Southern accents... don’t feel bad about not understanding them, most of us Americans can’t understand them either! I had a job once where the company owner was from Arkansas and my manager had to tell me that it was okay to ask him to slow down and speak “less Arkansas” around us Californians! 😆 That being said, I could still understand him and I actually liked his accent. We don’t hear Southern accents often out in California, so I thought it was cool.
It is nice to keep Your accent in active speech. It is charming and it is reflecting Your soul.
4 seconds in and i know this is going to be a good video
The New Mexico sound that sounds like everything is a question is called "Uptalk" where the end of the sentence is turned up rather than down. The inland valley area of LA basin does this too.
1:27 Soda pop is an old fashion word. Depending where you're from in the US you'll either say, "Soda", "Pop", or just call everything regardless of the brand "Coke".
I've never heard any American-born-and-raised person call any carbonated soft drink 'Coke', we/they always just say the name of the specific beverage - otherwise you might want an Orange Fanta but end up with Coca Cola.
@H so how do you order Sprite or...anything other than Coca Cola?
@@kalmtraveler If he's from Texas like me it would go:
"Hey, you wanna Coke?"
"Sure"
"What kind?"
Yeah it's dumb, but that's where I grew up, so that's just what comes out.
@@SageHarpuia816 ahh crazy! I've never heard that. If you want a cherry coke do you just answer 'cherry'? or do you have to say 'cherry coke' ?
@@kalmtraveler I guess you could say either, I actually don't really drink Coke so I'm not sure lol
I like Dr. Pepper much more anyways as a dark soda, which is also really popular down here because was created in Waco TX I think.
the Massachusetts one is a classic old school accent and the jersey she is wearing is their mlb team.
lol i say "y'all" alot. i know it's just "you all" put together but if i say it that way it just feels weird.
Here in North Carolina, it’s a slow accent. But depending on where you go - the state has over 50 types of accents!
As an American living in Japan, I speak for most of us when I say that this is very entertaining and highly accurate.
Think of each state like a mini-country. Each state has it’s own distinct culture, foods, way of life, and accents. It’s very interesting to experience it. 🇺🇸🇯🇵
Even within states there are various accents. Just look at New York. Someone from Long Island has a distinctly different accent than someone from Manhattan. Then someone from Buffalo or Albany will have an even more different accent than either of those two previously mentioned ones. And then you have New Jersey, the typical "Jersey" accent people associate our state with (from that bloody awful show Jersey Shore) is actually a New York (mostly Long Island / Staten Island) accent and not from New Jersey at all. But North and Central Jersey have a much higher influence from New York where as South Jersey has a much higher influence from Philly so the accents are different (as are the words for various things). The one person from Pennsylvania pointed out that people in the Philly region talk very differently that people out near Pittsburgh which is also very true.
As for Arizona, I only lived there for two years (rush back to Jersey as soon as I could) and I can only comment on the Phoenix Valley area but there were so many people from just about every state that lived there, as well as people of Mexican decent and Native decent that there really wasn't any one accent I could say existed there. Just working at one place you may have 10 co-workers and they could be from 10 different states and all speak with different accents. Maybe other parts of Arizona are different but from the limited experience I had there I never found any distinct "Arizona accent".
Love your accent
"guys becomin yens in pa" god nein😂
Also gutentag from West Virginia 😁
@Asagi, perhaps do a video of Japanese regional accents - we are reminded that there's such a thing as a Kansai dialect, and other regions as well.
Floridian's accent is.... Like. The word Like is our accent hahah
The always sounding like a question is a "vocal fry". Aka the "valley girl" accent. You'll hear it a lot in the movie "Clueless". It can be kinda grating for some people to hear.
If you wanna practice listening to the Boston accent (because it seemed the hardest to you) you can watch the movie Good Will Hunting, the people in that film speak (for the most part) with a Boston accent. And plus its just a really good movie too.
Ok Asagi-chan, your accent is the best one! I moved from New York to Florida 8 years ago and I'm losing my NY accent. The Northern Florida accent is more like a Georgia accent... I make fun of it, but I sometimes talk that way now. LOL!
Amazing accents
Caught this while binging your videos after I found your channel. Just one thought about American accents; There is Southern and Other.
They didn't have enough Michigan representation in this video
This is a very casual accent video, not bad just not super specific. However Wired got an accent expert to do a three part series that is great, “Accent Tour of the US. I would happily watch you react to all three of them.
So, I was born in Detroit, Michigan, then moved to Alabama when I was 13 years old. Even though I been in Alabama for over 20 years I still kind of have a northern accent... I have a mixture. When I'm in the south people usually tell me that must have been born outside out of Alabama because I sound proper. But, when I go north people can tell immediately that I have a southern accent. (hopefully soon, I'll be able to type all this in Japanese as well because I'm learning Japanese 😁)
The thing about the Michigan accent tho is that we merge words, talk kinda fast and drop syllables off certain words
I just realized that there are accents in each district of America, even as a native English speaker.
I would love to go, live, work and study in America, to adapt a bee life there.
Please come to America one day!
Hope you'll achieve your dream!
Southern states from louisana to Alabama surely have an accent.. Must visit to understand it
Residents from Washington state NEVER pronounced it Warsh-ington. First time I heard WARSH or Warsh-inton was when I left the state. I assumed this pronunciation was a southern drawl sort of thing.
You are so pretty lol!!! Love your accent. Much love from Kentucky. 私は日本語話せます。
👋
🤣 luvvit!
this is off topic but i really like the name asagi, i think its just really pretty sounding.
In New York we speak very quickly, whether it is in the city or outside of it. That part was accurate lmao
I got an accent blend of both south Carolina and a south Boston. So know nobody understands me the first time 😂.
The woman from Massachusetts said, "Park the car at Harvard yard..." It's a Bostonian accent, the "ar" sounds like "ah". If you watch youtube videos with President Kennedy speaking, you'll notice it. This was a great video you made!
The northeast accent is the funniest. I think i do a good impression seeing as how early in my trucking career, that's where i spent the first 8 months😂
"People in California talk like they're having Marijuana'
Californian: (puff puff) What do you mean 'Like' Ms Hello Kitty???
In Oregon, a soda pop is the same thing as _any_ carbonated soft drink. (non alcoholic) In addition, carbonated and non carbonated root beer is considered as a soft drink; however, non carbonated lemonade is _not_ considered as a soft drink but carbonated lemonade is.
Why would you explain it that way? I got confused trying to decipher your DIFFACULT EXAGERATED explanation. I'm an Oregonian too. You and I know that if you're from Multnomah county and or the 503 area code. We say pop or soda, that's it. More of us say pop by nature. See how I did that? Nice and simple.
The best was your southern accent LOL
As someone from Arizona, we have such a neutral accent. We aren't really southern and we aren't quite california. Maybe we talk a little fast or have a slight mexican accent if you had mexican parents. But the only comment in the whole video being "We don't really have an accent" for it was true I guess. We say "Soda" for reference.
I am from Michigan. Here there are actually 2 different accents that you might hear. The one in the video was from the big cities. I have a rural accent which is a bit slower paced and less nasal.
There is way more than two accents in Michigan people on the west side sound like people from Wisconsin and Minnesota and the people on the east side depending on how north and south you are sound like they are from Canada and let's not forget the yoopers they are something else entirely i'm from Detroit myself and I have never heard someone have a nasually high sounding hi like the woman from this video
Maryland has an accent. My BF was born in North Carolina, but his dad is from Maryland (and his mom is from Michigan). Not many North Carolinians say the word across like "across-t" with like a T sound at the end.
I'm from massachusetts/boston and even I cant understand southern accents sometimes
Lol. I moved from Michigan to Texas when I was 12 and I couldn't understand a lot of what people said.
I'm from Ohio and I traveled through Massachusetts once, there's a definite language barrier there caused by the difference in accent. For one thing they talk too fast and combined with the different pronunciations makes it really difficult for anyone who's not from Massachusetts to understand them.
I was at a bus station in Massachusettes and I asked the clerk at the ticket booth when my bus would arrive, the clerk said, "It'll be by in an hour." What I heard was, "ibby by an ore." I had to ask the clerk to repeat herself several times before I finally understood what she said.
One of my roommates in college worked at a call center that conducts surveys, he had to call random people and ask them, "what would like to change about your local government?" My roommate told me one of the people he called to ask that question was from I think Georgia said, "we need a new shaf." He didn't understand what she was meaning so he asked her to repeat herself, she said the same thing, "we need a new shaf." My roommate still not understanding the person he was speaking with on the phone said, "could you please spell that for me?" The woman he was speaking with said, "S H E R I F. Shaf!" My roommate knew he couldn't laugh, but he also wasn't allowed to hang up on the people he'd call, but her different pronunciation and incorrect spelling for the word, "sheriff," was more than he could manage, so he hung up on her to keep from laughing at her over the phone. My roommate didn't get into trouble for hanging up on her because the manager was listening to the call and realized that hanging up on her would be less insulting than laughing at her.
Soda is a generic term for soft drink.
Or carbonated drinks. Coke, sprite, dr pepper. So many.
Yinz wanna dahn-tahn and watch the Stillers?
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has its own accent, though it’s starting to die out
Quarantine… Why I’m still not ready to travel yet. Don’t want to get swabbed on the nose… また東京で友達に会いたい😭さようなら、秋葉原のセガビル。I’ll wait til everything’s fine out there.
Growing up in the UK as a kid, once I’ve visited the US at the age of 9, everything felt completely different from the UK. During commercials in the UK, they say “We will be back after the break” but in the US they say “We’ll be right back after these messages”. I was like “What messages? All I see are commercials.” Yet, for some reason, I’ve developed an American accent, instead of a British accent. Then again, I can imitate some accents.
My family heritage came from Ireland Germany and England my ancestors moved to Georgia and Mississippi to Wisconsin then Iowa
Btw I am from Kentucky like I said I could barely make out what she said from Massachusetts. Lol. Very strange but they do have the most unusual accent in Massachusetts. A LOT OF people from Kentucky have a strong southern accent.
If you ever come to Osaka I would be interested if you can tell where I am from. When I went back to the US the last time they said my English was weird. Seems 11 years of Japanese has really changed my English. Even other English speaking people have said they couldn’t tell.
I am from Maryland but pretty much every American (or all the ones I know) knows about that phrase that the woman from Boston, Massachusetts was saying: "Park the car in the Harvard Yard". The "r" is changed to an "h" sound so it's like this "Pahk the cah in the Havahd Yahd". That, of course, is a reference to Harvard University which is just near Boston in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Vary cool
I live in Washington state and have never heard anyone pronounce the state that way. I’m originally from NYC but for the most part I have lost my NY accent except when I get pissed at something. Then it really comes out. A lot of NYers don’t understand what people in Massachusetts are saying either.
0:00 yeah. that's fair
Maryland definitely has an accent. Baltimore has its own dialect, the eastern side of the bay is more southern and the western side is more DC
Not everyone has the Texas accent, but as a Texan, I feel like you slowly grow into it just naturally, my Grandparents or parents have it, but not me.
As a virginian I don't notice a big accent difference, but a bit south you get southern accents. Generally you'll here Y'all. I use it all the time in my vocabulary, also Florida has more Cuban immigrants than Mexican iirc, Miami having a neighborhood called Little Havana.
western state person here - I can't understand some words from those northeast states even today.
Im from California (more Specifically Los Angeles) and the accent thing was super accurate imo.
Makes it funnier that marijuana is legal here as well, and we definitely sounds stereotypically like surfers.
And the thing about it sounding laid back is pretty true (or at-least for me, im super chill).
Also, Bostonian accent are my favorite.
I'm from South Texas and the only thing that gets pointed out by other people to me is that I say "Y'all." I don't have a drawl like the stereotypical Southerner nor do my parents (they are from here also). My accent is mostly neutral in terms of American accents.
I like the way you speak it is interesting. I enjoy these videos a lot because of your different perspective. Thank you for sharing :]
I have a southern Missouri accent that people from other states think I'm from Texas or Alabama which is funny 😂
@Asagi's Life (No BS Japan) I'm from Southeastern Virginia so, I too say "Ya'll" or You All. The closest Japanese equivalent would be 「皆んな」.
LoL I was raised in NC and moved to the VA. Litterally the same accent, but we're more country in NC. So I talk a lot faster, and my words run together sometimes 😅
I'm about two years late to comment, but I'm going to anyway😂.
Texas has a variety of accents. North and West Texas have a very "Southern drawl" , while Houston has a touch of Louisiana and coastal accents. Austin and San Antonio is less "Southern" but has a certain huskiness and directness to their speech. Border towns have a lilt to their accent, kind of like "English with a Mexican sound", if that makes any sense😂. El Paso also has this lilt, but with a New Mexico mix of accents. Central Texas has a very German sound to it's accent and dialect, as this was a large German colony during the late 1800's. And since Texas is pretty much 50/50 white and Hispanic, mixed with other international immigrant languages (German, Polish, Alsatian, Spanish) from the 1800's scattered throughout Texas, different parts of Texas sound quite different from each other.
Even Japan has heard of the Gem State's potatoes. XD
Most states have largely neutral accents, as in no accent to speak of. I'm from the American Southeast and for the most the southern "drawl" is holding on strong in almost all southern states but Millennials and Gen Z it's starting to fade more and more. I had an accent as a child but I worked really hard as a teenager to largely eliminate it, but I am told it slips out from time to time. I even catch it myself on occasion and basically just start my sentence over and enunciate extra hard. Even in the Southeast though you will notice a different kind of "Southern" accent based on those of us that live in more urban areas versus the much more rural accents
Don't feel bad. A lot of Americans don't understand Boston/Massachusetts accents either!
I like the southern drawl Texas style. Sometimes I sound like that when I drink, but I live in British Columbia Canada now.
That's cool 😎
Asagi: people in California talk like thwy are having Marijuana.
Me: because most of them are...
Florida was a Spanish colony and also they’ve got a lot of Caribbeans
Ah I see.
As someone who grew up in and lives in Kentucky, I can say that a lot of people here sound like the lady from Tennessee in the video, but most aren't that extreme.
"America is very big"
*Laughs in Canada*
The USA is many counties in one,there is a great book written by a french traveler,its very humorous . LoL its called the 7 countries of a america.
Asagi you should check out British accents, it seems like a lot of people don't know we have a LOT of different accents.
Dude Illinois does have an accent lol. Gotta ask the folks from just outside of Chicago though because a lot of people in Chicago haven't lived there their whole lives. As a native chicagoan for almost 30 years now i can say with a fact. That even our sports team's slogan (The Chicago Bears) embraces our accent with the slogan "Da Bears". We replace the "th" sound in words like "this" "that" "there" "them" with a "D" sound so it goes like "Dis" "Dat" "Dere" "Dem". That's about as Chicagoan as it gets. You'll hear it a lot in younger kids who haven't had speech therapy yet (yes a lot of Chicagoans go through speech therapy to fix their accent)
I love a good ol southern accent ☺️
It's unique ha! Are there accents in Sweden?
@@AsagisLifeNoBSJapan Yeah i think we have like 6-7 different main accents, and then each accent have like hundreds of variations of the dialects haha
I've been to Japan a few times. I have friends in Tokyo and in Tottori. I hear a bit of an accent in Tottori. It's a bit drawn out. A bit lazy sounding when they speak. But then Japan also has more distinct dialects that totally throw me off. Osaka dialect for instance, and Kansai dialects. And not to mention Okinawa which is a completely different language altogether. But to a foreigner, it all just sounds Japanese😂😂😂
There's a big difference between the accents from southern Michigan versus Yoopers.
I thought that dot on her nose was a smudge on my monitor and I tried to wipe it off
You also got native American accents