BRITISH vs. AMERICAN Accent | Easy English 147
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Producers of this episode: Mitchell Hargreaves, Isabell Hargreaves-Schmid
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As an American, thanks for teaching me English.
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Hearing English from the islands, Jamaica for example, tends to make any day a little bit brighter.
Very good point! The Caribbean English is so much more rhythmic than Brit English
American American American! Hands down! And most any American accent will do, but the southern drawlers do earn top ranking
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I was raised in Wisconsin and have lived in Chicago for 35 years. I have the most ridiculous American accent you’ve ever heard. I go to London often. You’ll know it”s me when you hear it. Lol
I really like the British accent, it usually sounds much more polite to me than the American accent. But the American accent is more common, at work they usually try to pronounce like Americans.
It's funny, because in Germany we often start learning English in school with British English.
What is the same for both, I don't understand anything when they speak very fast with a special regional accent, like Bavarians in Germany 😄
Anyway, good video 😊👏🏼👏🏼
It’s funny how you hear the US influence on most Germans nowadays, even if they learn British English in my (Mitch) opinion
The accent of most Americans is Midwestern. So why do Britons, when asked to speak with an American accent, usually first try a regional American accent like Southern, New Yorker, or Californian valley girl?
I noticed that too! I think maybe from movies? Also so many had visited the USA I was surprised - but it seemed to only be the same thing East or West Coast.
Not sure tbh... movies maybe? I was basically raised on King of the Hill and Scorsese movies. Which US accent do you prefer?
I think that it's because of TV shows and films and a tendency for us to exaggerate accents
Someone please tell the world that the California Valley Girl accent went out in the 1980's and nobody talks like that!
Lol. When I taught 1st and 2nd graders to read, I went for training in Florida and one of the trainers didn't use t sounds instead she used d sounds. So instead of, important she said impordant. Everyone knows the Boston accent as they leave out the r sound. The favorite example is, p-ah-k the c-ah, for park the car.
They were very good.
Okay I’m gonna rank these, because some of them are great!
Mitch, you've got that admirable quality that you make all your speakers look wise. Quite amazing.
Ahhh thanks Szczery 🙌
@@EasyEnglishVideos I wonder how you'll react when you discover that Szczery is a word with meaning and not a proper name... :D
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Congrats on this lesson it is simply fun and stimulating
Thank you! 🙌
Can we have 15 minute videos please? We need more of easy English!
Maybe when the weather gets warmer lol
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Brooklyn, NY accent FTW!
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Accents are so cool! My mother was once on a train in UK and a little old (British) lady sat next to her & knew what region everyone was from just by accent! I don't know regions of Britain (south, west, etc) but that was interesting.
I like to watch American and UK shows & movies too! So much to learn in a fun way.
Britain is amazing for accents, the fact that a 35 minute train ride separates Manchester to Liverpool, whose accents are completely different.
@@EasyEnglishVideos Yes! This is what my mother was shocked about. She couldn't hear a change, but the little lady knew 😉
I think British accent sounds so posh & refined. But, if I've had drinks, I can do a fare southern draw ("Why bless your lil old heart!") or maybe I only sound like Dolly Parton in my head 😂
Hahahaha I love the slang and words… sounds so stereotypical 😆
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Great video ☺️
Thanks Mohamed! 🙌 What's your favourite accent?
@@EasyEnglishVideos Of course the British accent
Hahahaha.... correct answer! 😆
Great video, fellow Mitchell :)
Great comment, fellow Mitchell 🙌
I've always wondered if Brits think American accents sound exotic in the way that Americans think Brit accents sound exotic. Speaking as someone who grew up in the states largely but raised by foreign-born family - and we spoke Estonian, German and English in our households so I effectively have what Americans view as a foreign accent despite all my time living there (I now live in Sweden, I always found (some) British accents (not all) to sound more "educated" than American accents, and that may have to do with the way words are articulated versus how many Americans sound a bit more harsh in their pronunciations of R's and how T's become D's and so forth (e.g. "water" becomes "Wadder") - BUT I would find someone with the typical London accent a lot harder to take seriously as someone who is tough and who you'd trust to be iron-tough against the elements on an expedition somewhere or if you needed them to have your back in a fight - IF I'm in a situation where I need 5 guys to fight on my behalf, then I'd much rather have "Tommy" and "Joey" and "Tony" tough guys from Brooklyn in New York show up at my side than "Nigel" and "Roland" from London or Brighton. That's not intended to be a slight against Brits, it's just...there's a certain rough-and-ready attitude New Yorkers have that I don't really see in most Brits. Not that there AREN'T tough Brits - but if we're playing the odds here...who would you bet on, if you're being *honest*? Tony and Vinny from Queens or Nigel and Roland from London? Exactly. You'd want those Mafia-sounding guys beating the hell out of whoever was attacking you, wouldn't you?
SO it depends on what you're looking for. Brits certainly sound more refined - for the most part - some English accents sound positively...let's say...the equivalent of the American redneck accent - and I never found the Manchester accent to sound as high-end as the London accent (yes, we ARE aware there are other accents besides the posh London accent...at least, some of us are) - but the Manchester accent sounds like a more *fun* guy. By the way, I grew up with a lot of "British-isms" that Americans think make me sound foreign - like calling someone a "twit" or saying "dodgy" - normal to me, but my family are Estonians who were educated in British Engliish in Germany so it shouldn't be shocking that I'm not the standard example - especially since I grew up in a trilingual - not just bilingual - household with next to no American culture - everything for us was German or Estonian.
To me, even as someone with plenty of experience hearing many U.S. accents, the American accent sounds decidedly less buttoned-down and a bit more plain, but it sounds like someone who will definitely get the job done if it comes down to it (ask the Nazis). British accents range from sounding strikingly unintelligent to sounding *very* intelligent, depending on which one we're talking about and who is talking, though I'd say 99% of the time when a British accent is heard in a Hollywood movie - which is the only exposure MOST Americans have to the accents from the UK - it's either "posh" or it's cockney with very little outside of that. Irish accents and Scottish accents sound, to the U.S. English-speaker's ear, a bit closer to the American accent and perhaps therefore a bit more familiar and cozy (and that's because a HUGE number of Irish immigrated to the U.S. and the midwestern U.S. accent IS largely influenced by the Irish accent).
I like your explanation of how you’d choose a fighting team. I kind of agree, but in your scenario, I’d say that when English people swear, which is a vital part of your scenario 😆 I think we sound harsher. But maybe Roland is just a decent guy 🤷🏻♂️
Did you already do a video on accents from the UK? That would be fun. What is the accent where they say Fink instead of think?
I was actually thinking of doing one in the form of a quiz and getting Brits to guess it
@@EasyEnglishVideos sounds super fun!
I wonder what do British people think of Indian accent? Can you (Mitch) try speaking an Indian accent specifically South Indian accent? 😊 For some reason I don’t know why but I like French or Italian accent when they speak English. Scottish accent makes my head spin when trying to understand them especially when they are excited or drunk. 😀
I'm happy the ny accent was included. But not a lot of us say "cawwfeee" lol. I'd say my accent comes out when I get mad.
I prefer the British accent by far - it sounds much more sophisticated imo. I also love the Scottish and Irish accent - they have so much character.
Is there a specific accent inside the UK you like to hear? I (Mitch) love a Newcastle (Geordie) accent
@@EasyEnglishVideos I like the Cockney accent! 😄 Do your accents tell you what social class a person is from? I know! Social classes no longer exist!
@@EasyEnglishVideos I can't tell which is which tbh. 😅
@@EasyEnglishVideos Geordie for sure. Bunch of people around the world just learned about Newcastle United in the last couple years
Just listen to the Liverpool accent lol.
Great video.
I prefer british. Short sharp sounds ;)
Thanks for watching! 🙌
HI Mitch. I definitely prefer the British accent because it sounds more understandable. My English friends lived in Sheffield for about 30 Years and now they have lived near Norwich for 6 Years and their accent is clear! As usual....Congrats for your video!
Thanks for watching Marc… love Sheffield and a good Yorkshire accent. Interesting that you think Brit English is more understandable… have you ever come across the Scouse or Geordie accent?
@@EasyEnglishVideos Hi Mitch. Thanks for you reply! No I haven't...I heard something Geordie accent. Is it so drawn out like Leeds and Yorkshire acccent ? Moerover I know some Yorkshire words as ; Butty, lass, keggs, laiking, spice/spoggs....I will do the utmost to improve my English!
For me, it is easier British accent because the British influence is higher when you are learning English at the school here in Europe and I'm more familiarized, but nowadays, American accent is more present in our nowadays due the movies and films. Great job Mitch and isi!!!
Thanks for your support Francisco 🙌
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If you want to get complicated, you could throw in the American Cajun accent
New Orleans' accent (according to American friend) is very unusual! He said actor Daniel Craig did one in movie Knives Out? I like 007 British accent best!
@@esmith712 I've never seen Knives Out, but all of Louisiana was a French colony, that's why the people there developed different accents than the British / Irish areas. Some actually still speak in a dialect of French there. Honestly some even speak a different dialect of English.
@@eurotrashmonkey8257 Wow! That's amazing! It would be very cool to hear.
I've lived in the States now for 20 years and I still prefer the British accent that I learnt in school in Germany. I continue to watch mainly British shows and enjoy the numerous accents there. I guess my favorite British accent would be "Oxbridge" :-).
And what accent do you think you have nowadays? Is it a mish-mash?
What British shows do you still look to watch, out of interest?
@@EasyEnglishVideos Well, here in the States I do have a midwestern twang - I picked up that accent when in college for a year in Iowa. When I go to Britain, I tone down the American accent and people have a hard time placing me :-). I am currently watching Casualty 1900s, London Hospital. I loved Line of Duty. I keep rewatching Upstairs/Downstairs and All Creatures Great and Small. I like Morse/Lewis/Endeavour, Midsomer Murders, Vera etc.
Ahhh, so many commenters down here are saying "the British accent". Which one?! There are so many!
Good point... which is your favourite?
New York is the best. Of course!
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British English is the best
Great video 👏 I prefer the British accent and it sounds classic to me, American accent is also nice mostly the southern, if I were to learn an American accent it would probably be the Texan 🤠🤠🤠
As for actors I love the accents of Jude Law (British) and Tommy Lee Jones (American). Also the way Jeff Bridges speaks really attracts my attention but I think it's rather idiosyncratic.
I would love to be able to do an impression of the Big Lebowski 😎
I prefer a British accent, it's more nice and enjoyable for me)) after watching the series "Call the midwife" i fell in love with cockney accent. And then was series "Peaky blinders", and brummie accent became another one❤️😁
I prefer the british pronunciation .
You won't offend an American by trying to imitate one of our accents. No British movies are not subtitles for USA audiences.
Wait! Were your first sentences in this video in an American accent??? The ones before you coughing.
Well... it was supposed to be something like a southern accent.
I prefer The British accent, because since I was a child I had a teacher who spoken with that British English, and she managed to understand it better.
I hardly understand the American.
What happens in My country CHILE, is very similar, where many Venezuelans, and Colombians have arrived and it is difficult to understand them, despite The fact that we all speak Spanish.
Oh interesting.
And what is your favourite British dialect... if you have one?
You guys say this word movie a lot! Movie is American!
I prefer the British one, and I love the way Claire Foy speaks in the show theCrown, she has a beautiful queenly accent! From France 🇫🇷
Nice! I’m still yet to watch The Crown, but I’ve heard she’s a good Lizzie
I’m a PROUD Hillbilly from the SOUTHERN USA!!!
Yes JD! Where in south US are you from? Do you have a fave British accent?
Now that's funny
@@EasyEnglishVideos I’m from the Beautiful Ozark Mountains of Arkansas.
I’m not sure that I can pick a favorite British accent I’ve met a good many British people who had such varied accents, and they were all great in their own unique ways.
I prefer the British accent. The British accent sounds very warm
Why the flying F should Brits try to sound like Americans? Let‘s be fair and square here, proper pronounciation of English is English, that‘s why it is called English, and not Americanish. 😜
I'm British-American and, living in the UK for 25 years now, I'd say that most Brits imitate Americans to sound like hillbillies. The sound of hillbilly is just awful. [So is their music.] Interestingly, the accent developed in the USA from Scottish and Irish settlers in the Appalachian region and is notably uneducated. There are parts of the American south with accents so thick I have trouble understanding them.
After living here in the UK for so long American friends tell me that I sound British. I don't. I still sound like a Philadelphian. The people here in the UK would laugh at that analysis.
😂😂😂😂 they watch a lot of movies with Texas and Boston accents!
The other day I watched a certain British politician not very well liked and men did he sound posh! 😮😮😮 🫣🫣🫣 we know he is not!
The route pronunciation in the USA is all over the place! They use both in the same state! Confusing to a foreigner!