British vs American Accents | Improve Your Accent
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00:00 - Intro
00:28 - The LOT Vowel
01:28 - The BATH Vowel
02:26 - The T
03:21 - The Yod
04:36 - The R
05:14 - New York features
06:36 - Conclusion
Disclaimers
1. There is no such thing as "a British accent" and "an American accent". There are a variety of accents in both the UK and the USA. But we can make some generalisations between accents in the two countries and that's what I've tried to do in this video. These generalisations of course do not apply to all accents in the respective countries.
2. People living in a particular place will not always sound the same. Not everyone from a certain area will have the same accent feature (or the feature to the same degree) as those in the video. As well as geography, accents vary according to factors such as socioeconomic background, age and ethnicity (among others).
3. There are other general differences between accents in the UK and USA that I haven't talked about in the video.
4. Some topics have been simplified for a general audience.
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Very good
I am watching from Pakistan and ilke you
And my accent is: *Ameritish*
Is that Zayn Malik I see in your profile picture:)))
@@justanaverageboy3983 yes
@@justanaverageboy3983 Yes it's him 🌚💛
Nourhanne maliQe Great choice mate
Nourhanne maliQe Interestingly, I have the same first and middle name as Niall Horan
English: Water
American: Wader
Bruce Lee: Wataaaaaa
English Woter
English is more like "wotah"
Accurate
I'm British and i say "war eh"?
Nd indian bhooo....😂
America: We have an american accent
UK: We have a british accent
Me: I have a stupid accent
;; p e a c h me thooo haha
There’s no such a thing as British accent it’s called English Accent cause it’s from England
Me too LMAO 😂(I'm thai.)
@@mathikak.1692 I'm from Vietnam 🇻🇳 and I know how to say "Hi" in your language. It's "สวัสดี", right?
@@user-ov6qd7wu3n yes! I'm glad you know it.😊🇹🇭
American : Donald Trump
British: Theresa May
Viewers: Non native English speakers
UNDERRATED
Viewers: Phonetic language speaker.
I am here bc of my phonetic class lol
Exatamente
Hotel : Trivago
i realize that i'm using both of the accents..
Me too 😂
You're most probably from a country where English is widely spoken but is not a first language. Because they tend to adopt whatever parts of the accent suits them, so it will be a mix.
I'm just assuming, I might be completely wrong.
@@amj.composer yes, you're totally right about that. even in my city, every courses have different accents so you must choose what accents that you wanna learn
Same
Same here!! 😂👐
American: Poder
British: Potter
Draco: *POTTAH*
You made my day!😂💕
@@shakespeareishere7091 💚
Voldemort: haarri potahh
who is draco?
@@vishVishnupriya Draco Malfoy. Character from "Harry Potter"
English: Water
American: Wader
Russian: Vodka
Russian: вода [ vada]
Trink ma vadkah lol
мне не смешно
*Russian anthem starts playing*
SUKA BLIAT
Someone: Ameritish 😎
Me: Britican ✌️
Briterican
Brit-can
Who else here mix both accent in their English like me ? 😂😂
I'm here too😂😂😂😂😁😁😁
meeeee
Rafay Sheikh me tbh
MEHH 😂😂
Me..
I died at the Donald trump slowmo scenes 😂
Trump looks and sounds funny when put in slow motion.
So are u still dead??
Like Nancy. Why the British still sound fast in slow mo? You all must talk super fast lol Or it just sounds that way to me. Sometimes they say other languages will sound faster to you when they are really not. But you all speak English too just you say lots of words different I guess
Americans: *Take the language a bit casually*
British: *Take it in a very cultured way*
Australians: We take it in both way so no problem!
Advantage takers 😊
Indians: two shots of tequila will get the work done.
Let me re-phrase that.
To speak English, imagine you have a broom stuck in your behind.
To speak American, imagine you're stoned or a valley girl.
...so well, thumbs up for Aussies 😎😎😎🤣
"Americans" are all people who live in the American continent, not just in the United States
Poor guy, just imagine how much nonsense he had to listen to in order to catch all these words.
That was funny , I think most of them have not got it ,,,,
This comment is so underrated!
😂😂
xD
funny like a pussy
British: not
American: nat
Oh hi Mark
Actually more like
Britain: Naught
American: Knot
Nut
indian : nehi :v
not nat nut
Speaking: American
Reading: British
@Planet07 he means when he read loudly so he read it as british accent
Sam 🤝
your the best person ever
I wanna chatting & speaking English with someone love the helping other if any one interested message me please or mentioned me 🧐
@Planet07 I think the ou is from the french.
The problem for most non-native speakers is that they probably learned British english pronounciation at school but forgot it later because they mostly had contact with American english speakers. The result is a strange mixture that exposes you immediately, even if you actually speak English quite well.
*It is English language-language of England not an American language-language of America which doesn't exist*
English is pronounced how English people prononce not how Americans do
"Americans" are all people who live in the American continent, not just in the United States
In English, the words “America” and “American” refer mostly to the US.
so true
Another factor is that USA is one of the biggest exporters of pop culture to countries with English as an official and/or a commonly used language, but consisting of non-native speakers, like South Asia and parts of Africa. So even though we learn the British variation of English in school, the "native" accent we most commonly come across in film or audio is the American one. Philippines might be an exception to this as they have a history of American occupation, so the variation of English they learn is probably the American one.
The editing is brilliant
And thank you for the explanation, it's one of the best videos about English language I've ever seen
American: hard-work
British: ha:d-wo:k
Me: ha:d-work
You made a little mistake.
British: *ha:d wɜ:k*
*ha:d wo:k* would be hard WALK
@@interminablediamond thanks
_.e._Glad I could help ;)
@@interminablediamond
Hey mate are you here?
@@salyafikz2644 Yeah?
British : traditional
American : simplified
Canadian : why not both?
Australian : hehanebsla
:D
fuck you
@@giovannialberti6605 ok boomer 🙂
@@jannatulismejahanchaity9032 thanks
@Just a man shut up
This video is incredible! I'm lucky to find it. Thank you for your time, I image how much work it took to putt all the different accents from real videos together.
I'm Brazilian and I've been learning English a some time, and I think it's amazing how there are differences between accents
The difference is in 'o', 'a', 't', 'yod', 'r' and 'h'. Just a brief summary.
Thank you so much for these videos. The slow motion sounds allow to really hear what is being said. French speaking person here, living in the US for 30+ years.
Others ; America
Others ; British
Me ; Ameritish
Are we same? Yes we're unique
what a fuck ! shut up
go to a psycanalist
Or Briterican 😂
Same!
Oh, yeah!
What a great video!! I am going to share with my students who study British English. Also, for me to practice pronunciation😄 thank you so much!!
I'm not an English speaker but I prefer English pronunciation, sounds fancy
can I ask you about your native language?
Both are english
Did you mean British?
@@jennicted you knew what they meant
@@jennicted One is the American pronunciation, one is the English pronunciation.
As in an American would pronounce English words in an American accent.
And as in an Englishman would pronounce English words in an English accent.
Excellent video! The comparison is presented wonderfully! Would like to have similar video(s) on British and American vocabulary, spelling and syntax as well!
This is the best video on this topic on CZcams. Great work :)
:A little bottle of water:
UK: a little bottle of water
USA: a little battle of wadder
Auss: ALLIDEBADEOFWADDAH😂
You forgot in america we don't say battle we say baddle of wadder
@@Steve-zc9ht yes broo
@@pamangobert3043 lol 😂
،،😁😁😁😁😁😁😁،🇦🇺
@@Steve-zc9ht I live in the heartland of America and never heard ANYONE say baddle. It's bottle-boddle.
Very interesting video Luke ! And I'm sure there are many more interesting differences between the 2 accents to explore ! ;)
Very interesting for a non english native speaker.
I'm a non native speaker, but I've learned English by exposing my self to American content, so I pronounce words much more similar to the American accent. It is very interesting for me to identify my accent in a second language :)
It ain't that hard, you just gotta learn to speak your native language with an English accent then you gonna be able to apply it to actual English sentences! 😉
You are the best English teacher I have ever found in my life! Fantastico!
British: water
Americans: wadder
British: Harry Pottah
Americans: Harry Podder
😅
Also:
British: HA-REE
American: HAIR-EE
French: Hari Potèr
Italians: Errri Pòtterrr
@@elsiesrifle pas du tout ahah
Spanish people: Jarri Poter
HAHAAHHAA
Well, my accent is...
Italian, because I am Italian.
Makes sense
My accent is javaenglish
my accent is american but i’m polish
@@juliabrylinska5850 weird name
Anch io ahahah
Thank you for such a great video. I love it how you make those slow cuts to hear the difference clearly. So cool!
A lot of work has been put on this video. It's very well crafted. We need more such videos on CZcams.
YOU ARE JUST A GENIUS! Wonderful idea of editing a video like that
Wow, such a cool video! Thanks a lot! Going to show it to my students today
Excellent video, with such hard work of editing and cutting every single clip. Very useful! Congrats
In Indonesia we learn US english
So when my Australian friends came to Indonesia they ask to me why you (Indonesian poeple) learn US english?
They said because US english is not formal as a international languange
Thank you so much for this funny AND interesting video. There's a lot ot of work behind it. Congratulations!
Thanks :)
Trump looks and sounds funny when put in slow motion
Trump always looks and sounds funny :P
he looks and sounds funny either way lol
put in - hmmm Putin???
Wei4Green yes u get it 😂😂😂
He sounds like he is drunk and tired=)
You are one of the best English teacher i have ever heard!
The video was incredibly beautiful...cheers to the person behind the idea ! ✌️😍
I'm not a native English speaker, but got a good pronunciation, and I've learned a lot watching u bro thanks
From a native speaker to a non-native speaker, don't say 'bro'. It's just dumb.
Tyrell Anderson o O i Even say that in Spanish, don't know why u say that
Sebastian Ardila Yeah, and they say in German. It's just dumb. This word has a religious, fraternal or literal meaning. I highly doubt you try to fraternize with everyone you talk to.
Tyrell Anderson that's a perfect explanation, thank you.
Sebastian Ardila you are true. even I am not a native english speaker. I was searching for this kind of video. I finally found a masterpiece.
4:29
*d* *o* *o* *d* *i* *e*
Nice to see the effort you put for this. It was quite an awesome video.
Your comparison is awesome. Keep it up...
3:07
"Ahh-tho-rih-teah."
"Tordy."
High school: British English
Academic English course: American English
University: Australian
What's next??
African English bruddah stay in pozishon
@Planet07 How's Canadian? I'm interested
@@fancy3774 there are too many accents!
@@NanHoumSian ..I am Canadian and it sound similar to American except some words like "out" and "about" in Canadian sound like "oat" and "aboat" But not everybody tho.
china
professionally mounted video lesson! Well Done!
Just watched you and i was in stitches. Very well done
Great video!
It always makes me glad and comfortable to use British accent. I love it
when my son lived in japan, he found that most Japanese wanted to learn British English. He had many American friends who like him taught English but found it hard to get work.
Yeah u r an lndian right so hold your pant so tight🤣😂
mujhe pata hai tmhare indiam wala acent hi hga bhai ...
But when it is not your first language, you need to pronounce it really accurate to make people understand. On the other hand, if you use American accent, even if you mix in some of your own accent, people still understand. I am from Asia, and when my teacher tries to use British accent but not quite accurately pronounced, I can't understand them.
@@youeclipseall Yeah that's true. But think when you have a good accent which is truly amazing to find in Asia, It is definitely worth to learn the British accent rather than relying on American. It always makes me full of spirit.
Hello Professor
This lesson is really interesting and amazing, i do appreciate your job.
Thank you so much for your help and advice.
All the best.
Loved it! You showed the difference pretty well. Got to learn soo much.
Who else is mixing the accents
Plis 👍
I am...I find kinda difficult to pronounce the RL sound, so to me British accent is more comfortable...but I enjoy more some other words and sounds in American one, so sometimes I get a mix between the two😂
I cant both 😂
Yess me as well
4:31
British : *dJiuTy*
American : _dewdee_
Jewry
@@andrejbielousov4931 jury
Alright, jury but with 6 brackets.
I like to improve my pronunciation from the channel. Thank you so much, dear teacher 🙏
Thanks a lot :)))
This video has been really useful.
I'm Indonesian and I am still trying to distinguish the differences between both. Other than the commonly mentioned differences, the H sound is the one I haven't been realizing all these times.
British accent is sooooo beautiful ❤
What an impressive video! By the way, can you do 'Why Chinese speakers sound Chinese' with Jackie Chan or someone else? Most Chinese, no matter Mandarin speakers, Cantonese speakers, Wu speakers, have such characteristics like:
1. Can't pronounce 'sh, ch' or else like in China, Shanghai, and so on,
2. Exaggerate the ending consonants (non-Cantonese),
3. Replace v with w,
4. Replace h with x like in Scottish,
5. Pronounce tr, or dr, as sound like chw,
6. Capable of pronouncing, but exaggerate the 'schwa' sound,
7. Replace the voiced consonants with Tenuis consonants.
A video, or some similar stuff, would be helpful among Chinese native speakers!
Thanks for your suggestion - I've just made this video - take a look here: czcams.com/video/rlKMIdYsjDo/video.html
This video is a gem and I LOVE it
Wow, your lessons are excellent!
For ESL learners, if they want to learn American accent, there are a few very detailed and awesome channels on youtube, such as Rachel's English, Clear English ,etc. However, if they want to learn British accent,
there is not even one available channel on youtube. What a shame for all learners.
Hope that you will make more videos about British accent.
i prefer british english.. it sounds elegant
it sounds arrogant
@clement Asampana No, don't lie. Original language was several centuries ago. In America and in England was one version of the language and it became to evolve. And now we have 2 evolved versions of one language and we can judge that an American version is so much better. English from England ISN'T original one, so don't say that stupid nonsense.
You just make me sure for an additional time that Englishmen are arrogant and stupid.
@clement Asampana No, Englishmen speak like uneducated Americans, it's a fact.
You talk completely stupid and arrogant nonsense. English from England isn't an original version, humble yourself.
What are your arguments? Territory? At all? Only the territory is your argument? So, it means you aren't right.
People are laughing at you(I've shown your comment to other people).
So, stop write nonsense to me.
@clement Asampana 1 - The USA made English international, not England. People watch americans movies, play americans games, use americans services and etc. Not England's.
2 - I've already proved modern England's English isn't original.
3 - Americans more frankly and more friendly than Englishmen, I know several Americans and one of them is my friend(not English "friend", because your "friend" means nothing).
4 - I really think you write to me only because you want to prove me my words.
@clement Asampana I thought I made mistakes and you could notice that English isn't my native language, but you thought I'm American, ok.
I don't hate Englishmen. I just took two versions of the language what I learn, compared them and made a conclusion that American version a lot better than British.
You're ignorant, not me. I've already told you how English became an international language. You don't want to believe it, because you're too arrogant but this is true. For example Russia had Poland and Finland, but they don't speak Russian, so, a language spread not throug colonialism.
You have to understand, English ≠ England. It isn't your language now, you're just one of those who use it in their own way. Don't think that all what was reached by English belongs to England, no.
And my nickname is "Asbest(asbestos, a metal)" not "as" and not "best", I divided this word because youtube wanted me to fill name and surname fields.
Your head is thick, silly arrogant boy.
I love both of them because they are very interesting and amazing
I'm a first year student in english and thank u for your videos,they help me a lot
YOU ARE AMAZING!!! Thank you for these amazing videos!!!
Excellent! Thank you! Could you bring a Coronation Street episode please? I miss many things, when they speak!
Good idea for a CZcams video! Thanks
i think american is easier and clearly but british is more interesting accent
I couldn't be more agree with you.
you are used to hearing american stuffs.that's why
@@maniquielsilva7030 yes, but despite that, I heard from British people, that if u don't wanna get a hard way, it's recommendable practice American accent and themselves said that it's pretty clear.
Karna telinga km sudh terbiasa dengn aksen amerika, dn jarng dengar aksen inggris.
I find British easier
Love it!! Thanks for the examples
I like the way u've made me understand the accent game❤️thank you
Now I know my accent is
My accent 😂😂😂😂
Hahahahahah same here as Pakistani they do mix both accent 😂
😂😂😂😂😂
🧐😁🙄😑
Very good😂😂
Meeee😂😂😂
I think the best way to learn an accent is to live for a certain amount of time in the place where it is used. I've never been in the United States or Great Britain and only travelled across other european countries and spoke English with other non native speakers so I learned the pronounce from many different youtubers both from USA and GB. So the result is a funny mix of Italian accent (I'm from Italy) and texan/british pronunciation 😂 (texan because the first youtuber I've ever binge watched for months without captions was Grav3yardgirl, and british because I try to imitate the beautiful and perfect speech of John MacLean.)
Thanks for this video ☺️
Very interesting! I hope i will learn more about English pronunciation 🙏🙏
Wish all people good day!
I'm brazilian, my english teatcher said that I'm always merging american and british accents in my phrases. That's because I've learned english listening Elvis Presley and The Beatles since my childhood.
Haha lol😂😂 me too
@@bilalzafar2871 Are you arabian ?
English: Water, wader, wa:er
Russian: Vodka, Wodka
Indonesian: Air
😂
Indonesian: woterr
Amazing video thank you 💖
Fantastic! I really enjoyed watching this video.
Nice video. It's helpful!! Thank you dear. Love from Bangladesh
As a non-native speaker, I constantly (and unconsciously) switch between the American and the British accent.
exactly. Same here.
Speaking: American
Reading: British
YUP THATS ME :D
What does that mean : YUP?
@@snisidjejdmskpwsm yup is yes
@@Naomi-bs9bh thanks a lot💗
The best video about American and British accent.It´s a masterpiece. Thank you so much!
Hello Dalila , how're you doing today..?
Happy to see this video 👌👌appreciate it
I Read like *British*
Sometime pronounced *American*
Laugh like *Australian*
And Cry like *Japanese* 😂
subtitles popping up when ya crying?
*It is English language-language of England not an American language-language of America which doesn't exist*
English is pronounced how English people prononce not how Americans do
Lol
"Americans" are all people who live in the American continent, not just in the United States
English: Water
American: Wadah
Revisionist version:
English: Woter (for me it’s pronounced war-teh)
American, Wada or Wader
more like wader for america but yeah
More like
US: Woder
UK: Wohtah
in america octopus=aactopus
Scottish (which is also a British accent) : wah-ur
Niamh Adams Pure wah-ur, whenever you want it free of charge.
Very creative way to present this issue! Brilhant!
this is the most helpful video honestly. could you make one between the british and australian one? I get confused sometimes
Such a good idea to compare the speeches of the politicians! :D
They are both loosers and without class though!
By the way, those two anthems were frightening.
Wow sir you are really amazing teacher !!❤️❤️
Hello Professor
Thank you so much for your help and advice,i do appreciate your job.I wish you peace and happness under the sky of prosperity. Take care and have a good time.
All the best.
Your Student from Algeria.
i would prefer british accent, it just sounds so sexy
You've clearly never been to Birmingham before.
@Alperen Bayou or Cardiff on a Friday
Only Americans say this!
@@alperenbayou689 why ?
u ever met a road man before? least sexy thing there is
Por dios que acento! Love your videos!
This is so useful, do more videos like this 😄👍
Beautifully explained.
I'm a native New Yorker and I always pronouce the letters R and H in words. Also, another major difference in accents is the pronunciation of the letter L. In American English, it's pronounced as a hard L, while in British English, it is pronounced the same way as it is in LAtin languages like Spanish and Italian.
English: waTer
American: waDer
Korean: H20
we don’t say wader we say water.
@@jylghjz4192 exactly
I think the difference in "duty" depends on the previous sound to use the coalescence. When you say "first duty" is the t which causes the dz sound because of the union of those two sound in rapid speech. Anyway, I love the explanations!! Great video.