I am non-native English speaker, but i am very curious about doing american accent as I have been trying to speaking English in American accent for many years but I am still not satisfied with my accent. Actually I know how to pronounce the words in American way but every time I record my voice doing american accent, it doesn't sound exactly american I mean it's not as smooth as native American. If any of you guys american here give me some tips,it will be very appreciated. I am Thai though.
Hi, I'm Brazilian and I think this sound t-n is really difficult not only for us but for all Latin people cause we tend to speak in our own languages - Portuguese, Italian, Spanish (not French... lol) the vowels very clearly! Thanks for the video!
Sometimes we don't even start the "t." This is especially true of the northern part of the midwest (think Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin). Since we (I say "we" because I'm from Michigan) tend to speak faster than our mouths can keep up, oftentimes we'll replace that "t" with a glottal stop before our tongue gets the chance to touch the alveolar ridge.
Fortunately, it gets there in enough time to make the "n" sound, so we don't have to invent something to replace it.
im aussie and i really wanna do an american accent :) im part american so sometimes when i speak a tiny bit of american comes out :) hope i can get better
Lol, i am getting British english lessons at my school, in Denmark. But somehow, we All speak kinda American? .. And why am I seeing this? We Pronounce these words as, like it came natrually to us. writ'n, etc etc , we pronaunce em' just A's the Nice American lady there... Well, it's enough, bye :)
Wait... are there ANY non-Americans watching this video? I feel like it's just a bunch of Americans, who are curious about what our accent sounds like to others... :)
haha I’m an Arab and I want to do it long time ago but I just give up , it is very hard beacuse we arabs always pronounce the (T) letter in a complete way.
@talya0ideozu Yes i am non-American, but i am very curious about doing american accent as I have been trying to speaking English in American accent for many years but I am still not satisfied with my accent. Actually I know how to pronounce the words in American way but every time I record my voice doing american accent, it doesn't sound exactly american I mean it's not as smooth as native American. If you if have any tip,it will be very appreciated. I am Thai though.
hi, im a 16 year old indian guy and i have made some videos of my own in which i am trying to reproduce the american accent so can any body tell me how close im to my goal of acheving that accent.if u r willing to give me some tips then plz reply me and i will send u a link of my clips
@yhther I know it can be a little scary dude, but the best way for you to get some tips is to just make your clips public so the world can see. Sure, you'll get some idiots making rude or racist comments, but you'll also get some people who genuinely wish to assist you with their comments. And include the message you just typed here in the the video description.
I was talking to a man with a strong accent from England. I said "I love your accent!" He said "What accent? You Americans are the ones with the accent!" ...Haha.
@krazyxnina I was talking to an Irish exchange student and I told her I loved her accent. She said, "Thank you, but to me, YOU have an accent!" That's when I began to realize that there is no such thing as a neutral accent. To people from other regions, we all have accents.
@NotoriousLoser I find the American accent so cool. I'm french and I'm learning english at college and of course i'm trying to reproduce the american accent, but it is sooo hard ^^.
Ewww, I'm an American and I'll never understand why someone would WANT any American accent. I would love to learn another language other than english....the english languange is boring.
lol this is hilarious. dead on, by the way. i just never realized my own accent. only when i listen to it dissected do i realize how 'strong' the american accent is
If you have a lazy tongue then you don't pronounce the T, but I always pronounce hard consonents, cotton is CAH-Ten, letter is LEH-Terr, and only in words like 'habitually' would it sound natural to switch the T to a CH or the T in 'relation' to SH and only skip the T when an S follows directly after. I care not much for the low class english accent which jumps lovely sounding letters in a minimalistic effort to be understood.
Wow, now I feal really weird speaking english, since I have an american accent. Its like having some truth about yourself being revealed to yourself that you never knew before. Its so odd...
When I am trying to say Mountain it sounds correct. BUT! When I try saying it in a sentence "I am going to the mountain" it sounds pretty weird. Anyone help ?
@KIDLEADR I would say I'm instead of I am. I'm going up the mountain. If you are saying this sentence slowly (especially using I am instead of I'm) then mountain WITHOUT the T might sound strange. But even though it may sound strange, it actually is the way we pronounce it, hah. We just speak fast and the T just disappears :S I'm Canadian, not American though.
i am british but much better to speak american i sound like i am from there i love america im moving there when im older soo happy woohoo thx for help xxxx
My brother and I used to irritate my family by asking them to say Clinton, and then let them know that they pronounced it this way. I think most Americans who have this don't realise they talk like this. So you'll definitely fit in if you use it, but don't try to explain to the Americans that they do this. You might get into some arguments.
@TheMakeupFreako Do you think your English accent is worse than Indonesian-English, Malaysian-English accent, Singaporean-English accent, Filipino-English accent, or Indian-English accent? Here, we think American accent is much better.. Lol hahahaha
Hello , I'm from Saudi Arabia , and I really want to understand english very well , I'm intermediate in English , I can understand some words when I watch movie ! I got a question . In America , is there any different between accent , I mean all American's speak as this accent ?
@iMesho10 There is a huge range of different accents in America. The type of accent she is teaching in the video is the most common., it's a pretty neutral accent. If you come to America and visit different parts then you will definitely hear wide range accents. For example, I live in Massachusetts which is the northeast. Our accent is drastically different from the southern states like Texas or Georgia. Even Texas and Georgia have different accents.
well... i never really realized that.... i learned something today. Haha surprising how long you can speak something and just not recognize something haha.
In other words, you pause at the "t", and then skip the vowel. This is true because in some words that end in "t" you pause when you come to it, rather than pronounce it : cat, bat, let, not...
This is amazing. As an American, these things are automatic. I never thought about it. Now, I realize how hard it must be for foreigners and English-speakers from other countries to speak like Americans.
Thank you very much for the good videos. The pronunciation is perfect and practicing a lot, is possible to learn. What happen is that the american accent is more difficult than the british accent.
i can easily do an american accent cos i've been watching american shows and movies my whole life. hell, even my thoughts are in an american accent. i can't hold for long though. i unknowingly slip back to normal after a few sentences.
Actually, when you say "mountain," even the "t" is silent. I have a friend from England named "Martin." He hates the way Americans say "Mar-un." I call it a "ghost sound." We Americans think we're saying the "t" but when you carefully listen to your yourself and others, you'll notice it's disappeared.
I think a major reason American accents evolved this way is because pronouncing all of the syllables sounds affected and contrived. We Americans pride ourselves on our mythological folksiness.
@gregorybrian Dear greg., Nope, paragraph 2, it is wrong to say that ...sound afected and contrived. Is wrong. The sound of word comes from history, passed orally. There is nothing a posteriori about saying any word. . What are the Mythological-folksinesses that you refer to in American English. Maybe Aunt Jemima or Yahoo or Hyundai are Americanised as you'd think but only foreigners can tell YOU that. . Read more books. . Are you monolingual? Yes I bet. . Cheers. from, del-boy.
lol its crazy how people have to TRY to talk like me xD this is all i know! i never even realized this was hard for people to do. i've said "cotton" like "cottn" my whole life and never even thought about it
@CoIorful It's how it sounds to an Italian native speaker. Italian language requires you pronounce each letter of a word clearly and stressing consonants but not the vowels. So you can guess how much difficult is to NOT pronounce each letter or to understand a person who doesn't pronounce every single letter but "eat" it as if he/she speaks with an apple in his/her own mouth for an Italian. (I'm Italian native speaker, of course).
@lindsaykeen13 I wont' do it because it's how it sounds to an Italian native speaker like me. However I understand American English but it took me more time to understand the American accent than the British one.
I'm brazilian, and I learned the British English with my teacher. I had some difficult to understand American accent for a long time... but today that's Ok! However, I still use the British accent when I communicate... It isn't easy to switch from an accent to another. ;)
my father asked me to master american accent instead of british accent cuz he doesn't like brits accent (he says too ugly and lol for me to use) ! xDD Lolz I'm malay-chinese though...and current learning it.
@xXDeideiAkasukiXx Although I like the way British accent sounds I like us American ones better because I can barely understand a thing they say! It's so hard to understand they're slang and the way they talk, but I guess it's the same the other way around. Good luck learning!
im australian and i sound exactly like an american, because i watched american tv my whole life growing up, the only thing we do different is spell mom like mum
@aMICAHz australians spell colour americans spell color and that formula is for most words that end with an "our" such as honour or flavour whereas americans would spell honor and flavor, australians spell organisation americans spell organization and that formula is for most words with "iz" in it, well, except for the word size lol.
its so funny to learn this........i never knew it as a non native english speaker, just its so different from what i ve learnt about the glottal stop in Bristish english... amusing..
I am non-native English speaker, but i am very curious about doing american accent as I have been trying to speaking English in American accent for many years but I am still not satisfied with my accent. Actually I know how to pronounce the words in American way but every time I record my voice doing american accent, it doesn't sound exactly american I mean it's not as smooth as native American. If any of you guys american here give me some tips,it will be very appreciated. I am Thai though.
paultvshow 1 week ago
wow that is so cool lol
lavinlaven 2 weeks ago
I'm not even american and people around me don't make this t-n sound. Oddly, I've grown into it naturally.
Rhomil 2 weeks ago
Hi, I'm Brazilian and I think this sound t-n is really difficult not only for us but for all Latin people cause we tend to speak in our own languages - Portuguese, Italian, Spanish (not French... lol) the vowels very clearly! Thanks for the video!
saffis 2 weeks ago
@saffis Do you realize when brazilians speak they sound like shhssshs shhshh to foreigners? They speak like blowing with the c's and ch's.
butanuku 1 week ago
Sometimes we don't even start the "t." This is especially true of the northern part of the midwest (think Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin). Since we (I say "we" because I'm from Michigan) tend to speak faster than our mouths can keep up, oftentimes we'll replace that "t" with a glottal stop before our tongue gets the chance to touch the alveolar ridge.
Fortunately, it gets there in enough time to make the "n" sound, so we don't have to invent something to replace it.
Irishisasirishdoes 2 weeks ago
who knew our accent was so hard!!??? ha lmao
Poutylipz98 3 weeks ago
I'm English and i have mastered this, woah i sound like a proper American!
CityRScum 3 weeks ago
Wierd I'm American and I watch this XD
wzNinja 3 weeks ago 6
im aussie and i really wanna do an american accent :) im part american so sometimes when i speak a tiny bit of american comes out :) hope i can get better
flashdanceluver 3 weeks ago
this is really fuck/n hard. but thx for the lesson, it was very helpful.
MWSAX 3 weeks ago
Lol, i am getting British english lessons at my school, in Denmark. But somehow, we All speak kinda American? .. And why am I seeing this? We Pronounce these words as, like it came natrually to us. writ'n, etc etc , we pronaunce em' just A's the Nice American lady there... Well, it's enough, bye :)
MrWonnabee 3 weeks ago
It really is odd to see someone dissect a language I was born into speaking. Makes you realize how abstract and odd language really is..
avedic 4 weeks ago
i never realized i talked like that
snooperbob 4 weeks ago
God, I'm so self conscious now.
Syncdev 1 month ago
"the A-I don't really count" LOLOLOL I love us.
Tetractys777 1 month ago
thanks for teaching,,,,,,,
kalandarism 1 month ago
Wait... are there ANY non-Americans watching this video? I feel like it's just a bunch of Americans, who are curious about what our accent sounds like to others... :)
talya0ideozu 1 month ago 63
@talya0ideozu I'm Russian and i'm curious too cuz i want to sound American it's fun :)
IIIZEPHYROSIII 1 month ago
@talya0ideozu well I'm British. It's interesting - I always thought words like these would be pronounced like 'coddun', not 'cot/n'.
MissInformati0n 1 month ago
@talya0ideozu
haha I’m an Arab and I want to do it long time ago but I just give up , it is very hard beacuse we arabs always pronounce the (T) letter in a complete way.
Abujazzar 3 weeks ago
@talya0ideozu Hey, I'm non-american and I decided to research accents for several reasons:
1: I just realised that my accent is a really weird mix between Australian (where I live) and American (I dunno how I got this).
2: I could voice-act
3: Would be AWESOME to learn a new accent anyway.
Rhomil 2 weeks ago
@talya0ideozu Yes i am non-American, but i am very curious about doing american accent as I have been trying to speaking English in American accent for many years but I am still not satisfied with my accent. Actually I know how to pronounce the words in American way but every time I record my voice doing american accent, it doesn't sound exactly american I mean it's not as smooth as native American. If you if have any tip,it will be very appreciated. I am Thai though.
paultvshow 1 week ago
hi, im a 16 year old indian guy and i have made some videos of my own in which i am trying to reproduce the american accent so can any body tell me how close im to my goal of acheving that accent.if u r willing to give me some tips then plz reply me and i will send u a link of my clips
yhther 1 month ago
@yhther I know it can be a little scary dude, but the best way for you to get some tips is to just make your clips public so the world can see. Sure, you'll get some idiots making rude or racist comments, but you'll also get some people who genuinely wish to assist you with their comments. And include the message you just typed here in the the video description.
AFitSouthernGent 1 month ago
Do a tongan or samoan accent haha. straaaaaightup
SmokeyBeatzOnline 1 month ago
amazing, I'm so glad I found this :)
ILeanIRock 1 month ago
you're a very good teacher!
asemtheawesome 1 month ago 4
My mind has been blown away by this revelation, never realized I had an "American accent"
TWutangT 1 month ago 2
I was talking to a man with a strong accent from England. I said "I love your accent!" He said "What accent? You Americans are the ones with the accent!" ...Haha.
krazyxnina 1 month ago 14
@krazyxnina I was talking to an Irish exchange student and I told her I loved her accent. She said, "Thank you, but to me, YOU have an accent!" That's when I began to realize that there is no such thing as a neutral accent. To people from other regions, we all have accents.
FM897 1 month ago
I'm American and I think that other accents are cool while ours is boring, is it the other way around with non-americans?
NotoriousLoser 1 month ago 7
@NotoriousLoser I find the American accent so cool. I'm french and I'm learning english at college and of course i'm trying to reproduce the american accent, but it is sooo hard ^^.
xtib666 1 month ago 2
@NotoriousLoser no, it's not :)
asemtheawesome 1 month ago
Wow... This was enlightening.
studstwitch 1 month ago
The "n" at the end is really hard to pronounce I tend to say cuhteun or something like that everytime ....
Imala54 1 month ago
Thanks this really helps, being English and trying to do an american accent in drama is hard!
chocobrowniez 1 month ago
So it's not cotton it's " Ca-n"
virtualnerd100 1 month ago
Im from the us, we pronounce bottom like "Baht-um". I love British accents by the way I can do a great one :)
iNatevlogs 1 month ago
Im american and i didnt even realize i did that
imadethismyselff 1 month ago
Hey guys I have a question, if you say bottom, do you pronounce it like boddm and reduce the O like she said
GEzeTv 1 month ago
.... i didnt notice that! mountain.... i can no prononce all of the letters O_O lol
walnutgrove221 2 months ago
Ewww, I'm an American and I'll never understand why someone would WANT any American accent. I would love to learn another language other than english....the english languange is boring.
areYouSerious41 2 months ago
@areYouSerious41 haha that's because you're American. If you learn a foreign language, you'll need to choose an accent to imitate, right? :D
TheTrieutran 1 month ago
thank u so much
AhmedTouma 2 months ago
I don't see what's so hard about it. Just be lazy and you've got it.
4ingP 2 months ago
boo tan
button LOL
danhvo1 2 months ago
lol this is hilarious. dead on, by the way. i just never realized my own accent. only when i listen to it dissected do i realize how 'strong' the american accent is
laurelnjoroge 2 months ago
americans do not like difficulties )
Posthuman83 2 months ago 9
wow it took me this long to realize my own accent
collegekid805 2 months ago 8
Ughh it's to hard to pronounce extra letters, so we just slur most stuff together.
DolphinMike250 2 months ago
american accent is the easiest
DeanneLucify 3 months ago
@DeanneLucify not at all.
xoxojollyy 2 months ago
this makes me realize we don't pronounce our words right. why is the O silent lol
jsamari 3 months ago 63
@jsamari
That's interesting. What words do you mean exactly? I'm not from US so I wonder :)
XTwittyX 1 month ago
Thank you so much
almutairikuw 3 months ago
U're amazing thank u so much
I wish i can be better in just few months -.-
Raghdoo1 3 months ago
Lisa says sometimes, we use our tongue to make the T T T T sound, and I have to whole heartedly agree with her.
locateyourhuevos 3 months ago
@KIDLEADR sentns just cross out the vowel after the first T
loiloiloi6 3 months ago
If you have a lazy tongue then you don't pronounce the T, but I always pronounce hard consonents, cotton is CAH-Ten, letter is LEH-Terr, and only in words like 'habitually' would it sound natural to switch the T to a CH or the T in 'relation' to SH and only skip the T when an S follows directly after. I care not much for the low class english accent which jumps lovely sounding letters in a minimalistic effort to be understood.
HelloWerldLawl 3 months ago
Oh!!!!
Thanks Ma'am!
This Really Helps!
LPSbeautiful 3 months ago
Could you please make more video of the combination of T and N ? There are words like sentences, important etc.
x3iDREAM 3 months ago in playlist Videos from AccurateEnglish
I'm malaysian, never been to america and people think im american bcuz i have an american accent. Too much american movies I guess :p
IcedCupcakes 3 months ago
Thanks:))
Rmfeva 3 months ago
Wow, now I feal really weird speaking english, since I have an american accent. Its like having some truth about yourself being revealed to yourself that you never knew before. Its so odd...
AutomatonGames 3 months ago 2
i really dont understand why im watching this, i already have an american accent..
12iloveyousomuch96 3 months ago
Goodness, I didn't realize that I don't pronounce the TT's, hm. Good video. Good luck to anyone trying to perfect our accent.
brianalyn13 3 months ago
wow man this a lil bit tricky , and I've tried it and it was gooooooood
mydayisnight 3 months ago
For me isn't because I'm from ROmanian :) but I is easy...because I know something english
RobertBoss3 3 months ago
My mind was blown when i saw this because i realize i do it.
sivret20 3 months ago
THis is easy shit :p Ok my stephdad was an american and I've been speaking english since I could walk bt damn this aint advanced xD
snpierkiller 3 months ago
I'm American and I never really thought about it this way. It's actually quite odd. I'm also from Texas so we do this even more.
BellaCanFly 3 months ago
I'm from Denmark, and I Think that it's easy!
monijulle 4 months ago
I get it! :o))
funny1986 4 months ago
It's fun to hear someone break down the American accent from a different vantage point.
spacep0d 4 months ago
I'm American and I didn't realize that something so natural could be so difficult for other people to learn!
LydiasStyle101 4 months ago
cool
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cool
:D
rubencsunny 4 months ago
Its funny how people analyze my accent XD
stephc0818 4 months ago
American = sexy
British = intelligent
WotTehPhok 4 months ago 5
When I am trying to say Mountain it sounds correct. BUT! When I try saying it in a sentence "I am going to the mountain" it sounds pretty weird. Anyone help ?
KIDLEADR 4 months ago
@KIDLEADR I would say I'm instead of I am. I'm going up the mountain. If you are saying this sentence slowly (especially using I am instead of I'm) then mountain WITHOUT the T might sound strange. But even though it may sound strange, it actually is the way we pronounce it, hah. We just speak fast and the T just disappears :S I'm Canadian, not American though.
Nooblets4Sale 4 months ago
@KIDLEADR put your emphasis on the word 'going' then there'll be no emphasis on the word 'mountain' so, that final t mayn't be heard.
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Think of the song: 'She'll be coming round the mountain when she comes'.
Cheers.
from,
del-boy.
PsalmHymnSamHim 4 months ago
it sounds like we just give up half way through the word.
kkwuzhere67 4 months ago 37
@kkwuzhere67 exactly what i'm felling
Odyzhao 1 month ago
I never realized I said cotton like that until I watched this... she's right.
AlexGirlYeah 4 months ago 4
It's funny being a American, and watching this.
epatman07 4 months ago
hawaii has it's own accent
rnarijuana 4 months ago
i am british but much better to speak american i sound like i am from there i love america im moving there when im older soo happy woohoo thx for help xxxx
MyAdorablePets 4 months ago
This tutorial really helps me a lot.. ^^ thank you very much
nicielleRN 4 months ago
My brother and I used to irritate my family by asking them to say Clinton, and then let them know that they pronounced it this way. I think most Americans who have this don't realise they talk like this. So you'll definitely fit in if you use it, but don't try to explain to the Americans that they do this. You might get into some arguments.
Greenwickpress 4 months ago
I just realized I have an accent.....
leafsrcool 5 months ago 11
mine problem is that, when i learn english, american accent works better for me
(i'm 16 from Croatia), but my english teacher gets mad about it
i can't help it
it's maybe because i watch alot of american tv shows
i can't imagine myself speaking real english accent, it sounds arrogant and kinda makes me sound like an asshole :P
marfg12345 5 months ago
@marfg12345 I feel like I wrote this comment :D
ShaniaHalliwell 4 months ago
@marfg12345
why would she get mad at u for doing an american accent? that's english too....
Carbarrawr 4 months ago
this was helpful :/ I have a english accent but I need to sound like an american for my drama monologue :P
apple30933 5 months ago
haha why would you want to sound american? Americans think other accents are better!
TheMakeupFreako 5 months ago 4
@TheMakeupFreako Do you think your English accent is worse than Indonesian-English, Malaysian-English accent, Singaporean-English accent, Filipino-English accent, or Indian-English accent? Here, we think American accent is much better.. Lol hahahaha
Aaronmogi 5 months ago
I need help, do americans pronounce it 'bu-don' or 'bu-nnnn' for the word button
caseythat 5 months ago
@caseythat its 'bu-nnnn'
rlhtsvm 5 months ago
@caseythat we say it like buh-in
polywaggerson 5 months ago
@caseythat I say it Buh-tin
Cadetbe2 4 months ago
I find my self questioning my own accent...
WhoaThereMaMa12 5 months ago 12
Thumbs up if your American and your watching this~
realworldfantw 5 months ago 304
@realworldfantw *you're
JustOneEarth 3 months ago
I am maltese and i wish i`ll learn american but i cant its to difficult cuz for us is really hard
Kimberlyxxxx1 5 months ago
Great lesson on how to do my own accent.
Kawp123 5 months ago
Looking at this makes me realize how I talk. It makes me feel like I lost my vowels.*is a clueless American* hehe...
meowthecow1995 5 months ago 4
Hello , I'm from Saudi Arabia , and I really want to understand english very well , I'm intermediate in English , I can understand some words when I watch movie ! I got a question . In America , is there any different between accent , I mean all American's speak as this accent ?
iMesho10 5 months ago
@iMesho10 in america people have different accents based on what part of america you are from, south, north etc.
gizellexoxo 5 months ago
@iMesho10 no
TheStardust02 5 months ago
@iMesho10 ha, im from amurica and no there are many different accents. Examples are southern, Upper Michigan, and Jersey.
EhTucker 5 months ago
@iMesho10 There is a huge range of different accents in America. The type of accent she is teaching in the video is the most common., it's a pretty neutral accent. If you come to America and visit different parts then you will definitely hear wide range accents. For example, I live in Massachusetts which is the northeast. Our accent is drastically different from the southern states like Texas or Georgia. Even Texas and Georgia have different accents.
TheRealJokama 5 months ago
@iMesho10 north, south, and western americans have slightly different accents.
Assassin9531 3 months ago
dang i never realized this. Our language IS hard! sorry...
madderproductions 6 months ago 3
well... i never really realized that.... i learned something today. Haha surprising how long you can speak something and just not recognize something haha.
jadedanime 6 months ago
wait... i already have an American accent... why am i watching this?...
CamperBiffles 6 months ago 168
@CamperBiffles LOL me too.
Acceptable76 6 months ago
@CamperBiffles I am asking myself the same question!
foreverinthekitchen8 3 months ago
@foreverinthekitchen8 Don't you mean 'questn'?
Pelagius19 3 months ago
Bill Cleet-ton.
katlovespirates 6 months ago
So.... we are lazy with words. :)
Intronetz 6 months ago 7
@Intronetz lmao ikr were lazy
MakailaJ101 6 months ago
i am egyption i love to speak in this way i and i think it more easty than british
XAYAX100 6 months ago
if you wanna learn "american" just use slang and throw in in a few cuss words...
Fershizzal 6 months ago 10
@Fershizzal lol american accent is just efficient and im american
MakailaJ101 6 months ago
Im from England and I'm struggling to get the accent right xD
Aylingater77 6 months ago
@Aylingater77 did you get it right american accents are cool but see british accents are awesome!! here
MakailaJ101 6 months ago
glad i was born american, this looks so effing tough.
nickjonasislegend 6 months ago 15
@nickjonasislegend
Me too!!
wtiahrt 6 months ago
I pronounce things the way the dictionary tells me to. I don't have the accent i should.
The1truesushiboy 6 months ago
we breath through our noses to pronounce cotton, and we say it like cottn. umm.... cool?! :P
blahahahaha123 6 months ago
oh jeez, american english sounds stupid.. and im american.. cottn oooh sooo hard :P
blahahahaha123 6 months ago
it was 499 likes , i made them 500 lol
amallo123 6 months ago
@kandstrom I noticed this too. And here I am think a Scottish accent is really difficult.
Danlotleinad 6 months ago
i didnt know the board was so close
funnyNickname 6 months ago
american english rocksss!!loll!!!
MsFanrock 6 months ago
HOLY SHIT I DO THAT I SAY IT LIKE COTT'N NOT COTTON!! IS SHE SINGLE?!?!
WotTehPhok 6 months ago
In other words, you pause at the "t", and then skip the vowel. This is true because in some words that end in "t" you pause when you come to it, rather than pronounce it : cat, bat, let, not...
SycamoreHill14 6 months ago
I don't know why I prefer American accent to other accents:))
pklinh97 7 months ago 7
This is amazing. As an American, these things are automatic. I never thought about it. Now, I realize how hard it must be for foreigners and English-speakers from other countries to speak like Americans.
kandstrom 7 months ago
Thank you very much for the good videos. The pronunciation is perfect and practicing a lot, is possible to learn. What happen is that the american accent is more difficult than the british accent.
Cristalcl2007 7 months ago
Is it weird that I'm american and watching this...
BatmansFavoriteGirl 7 months ago 7
i can easily do an american accent cos i've been watching american shows and movies my whole life. hell, even my thoughts are in an american accent. i can't hold for long though. i unknowingly slip back to normal after a few sentences.
farucdagoona 7 months ago
@farucdagoona cool
vfire27 7 months ago
Haha New Mexican accents say all of those differently.
It's weird sometimes we don't say the end.
caw-ehh for cotton.
Or we drag out the last syllable with the N
caw-eehhn
KaijaRoseSvensson 7 months ago
god our accent it so lazy -.-"
xxxxtokishonexxxx 7 months ago 6
@xxxxtokishonexxxx Our accent isn't lazy, it's just incredibly efficient.
supercoolsephirothis 6 months ago 7
Dude... I never even realized I talk like this...
Kijekatana 7 months ago 10
hahaha awesome!! I didn't even realize i did that!!!
irawesomer 7 months ago
I wish people would stop trying to sound like us. Be yourself . Shit.
Badadadadadabumba94 7 months ago
israeli accent is the best!
MISHELL1212 7 months ago
I just realized that I do this all the time since I'm Asian-American. XD
meowthecow1995 7 months ago
Actually, when you say "mountain," even the "t" is silent. I have a friend from England named "Martin." He hates the way Americans say "Mar-un." I call it a "ghost sound." We Americans think we're saying the "t" but when you carefully listen to your yourself and others, you'll notice it's disappeared.
I think a major reason American accents evolved this way is because pronouncing all of the syllables sounds affected and contrived. We Americans pride ourselves on our mythological folksiness.
gregorybrian 7 months ago
KorbielowSki 5 months ago
American English is the best :D
kekscore24 7 months ago 4
English is a wonderfully mad train wreck of languages, but it's an absolute nightmare to learn!
blobbobbobbolb 7 months ago 4
Oh my god Americans (Like me) speak weird when its actually broken down. (I still can't believe that's how I actually sound)
sweetjynx97 7 months ago
I just learned how to do my own accent :P (:
TheHeyyItsJayde 7 months ago 213
@TheHeyyItsJayde ahahahahahhah(:
izoozooo12 7 months ago
lol its crazy how people have to TRY to talk like me xD this is all i know! i never even realized this was hard for people to do. i've said "cotton" like "cottn" my whole life and never even thought about it
iAREanthonyyy 7 months ago
Put an apple in your mouth and speak: that's how the American accent sounds.
dreamandwakeup 8 months ago
@dreamandwakeup Hm. Not really.
CoIorful 8 months ago
@CoIorful It's how it sounds to an Italian native speaker. Italian language requires you pronounce each letter of a word clearly and stressing consonants but not the vowels. So you can guess how much difficult is to NOT pronounce each letter or to understand a person who doesn't pronounce every single letter but "eat" it as if he/she speaks with an apple in his/her own mouth for an Italian. (I'm Italian native speaker, of course).
dreamandwakeup 5 months ago
@dreamandwakeup excuse you.
lindsaykeen13 8 months ago
@lindsaykeen13 I wont' do it because it's how it sounds to an Italian native speaker like me. However I understand American English but it took me more time to understand the American accent than the British one.
dreamandwakeup 5 months ago
now Im self concious....
EmilyDreamed 8 months ago 9
I've always wondered how an American accent sounds, and never realized we pronounce words this way, until this.
kahooker10 8 months ago 4
@kahooker10 lol right?? its interesting
iAREanthonyyy 7 months ago
I'm brazilian, and I learned the British English with my teacher. I had some difficult to understand American accent for a long time... but today that's Ok! However, I still use the British accent when I communicate... It isn't easy to switch from an accent to another. ;)
jhonatanjacinto 8 months ago
my father asked me to master american accent instead of british accent cuz he doesn't like brits accent (he says too ugly and lol for me to use) ! xDD Lolz I'm malay-chinese though...and current learning it.
xXDeideiAkasukiXx 8 months ago
@xXDeideiAkasukiXx Although I like the way British accent sounds I like us American ones better because I can barely understand a thing they say! It's so hard to understand they're slang and the way they talk, but I guess it's the same the other way around. Good luck learning!
at102596 8 months ago
This must be an instructional video for customer service workers in India.
schleim5 8 months ago
ha ha wow. We really don't release our T's. Never really thought about it lol This is awesome to watch.
ChrisFromCali 8 months ago 5
the reason why we americans watch our own accent videos is because we're proud of our accent and also to see how awesome it is.
slickxlow 8 months ago
im australian and i sound exactly like an american, because i watched american tv my whole life growing up, the only thing we do different is spell mom like mum
aMICAHz 8 months ago
@aMICAHz australians spell colour americans spell color and that formula is for most words that end with an "our" such as honour or flavour whereas americans would spell honor and flavor, australians spell organisation americans spell organization and that formula is for most words with "iz" in it, well, except for the word size lol.
iMakeEmRage 8 months ago
Yes! I love american accent:)
Seano19100 8 months ago
wow i never thought about how i spoke before this :D
Minyadagniriel 8 months ago
its so funny to learn this........i never knew it as a non native english speaker, just its so different from what i ve learnt about the glottal stop in Bristish english... amusing..
sinhoiling 8 months ago