How To Lose Your Native Accent

[Ko0okieeZ]

I wanna get Arabic accent

[undocumentedspot]

Why your website is not in use?

[undocumentedspot]

best video

[battousai9795]

Wow thank you! XD I am from Mexico, but of course I speak spanish, so this is helpful! XD

[anglophile24]

@battousai9795 I was from Mexico too, but I grew up speaking German. So I agree, this does help, I have a Boston accent....

[Ellybethe]

Dear Lord...These videos are so awesome. I'm supposed to be writing an essay but I want to have a cool accent ;_;

[ZohaCoala]

And I have a weird Polish accent.. Especially weird, because it's southern Polish (Silesian)

[mrbing993]

Well I lost my Arabic accent a long time ago.

[LittleGagePlanet]

When you gave the French accent example, did you say erect?

[Nel0502]

@LittleGagePlanet No, he actually said " arrête " ( which means "stop it" )

[alfredojair]

"Donde están los lávabos por favor" jajajaja How should i do an Hindu accent?

[TeamAuzzie]

What about an Aussie streiotypical accent

[alexhardcoremx]

i can speak spanish, portugues, english and dutch! xDDD but i think that i lose my spanish accent :<<

[retainaa]

tell me about the accent i'm french!

[emeliakanson91]

I can't roll my R's. Spanish class and French class both proved this fact. But I got the r/l sound in Japanese, so it's cool. :D

[AmberGrey0012]

@emeliakanson91 GAH! I'm the exact opposite... T.T

[emeliakanson91]

@AmberGrey0012 It's pretty easy--you just lightly touch the top of your mouth with the tip of your tongue while the sounds come from your throat. Remove the tip of your tongue quickly to end it to get that 'd' sound that's also in there. Try it with "ru"~

[BobbyHyattVideos]

I need to learn to lose my Geordie accent because I want to be an english teacher

[handarule]

I feel like this is aimed at Americans. If only I could lose this accent.

[boleamj]

Borned in Spain, speaking English since the age of 6 and from that age, I´ve been emulating standard British accent. I´ve got it quite good but I´m afraid I have to go to England to keep it up!

Amo Inglaterra!

[souleater443]

This guy would make a good drummer.

[awesome1shereen]

he has the same t shirt every day

[SabrinaRatShit]

Sometimes this guy sounds really high:/

[P090p0k3]

why would i ever lose my accent? :((

i'm an icelandic and am so proud to be one of few who have this accent!!

[ossisTONE]

@P090p0k3 haha well why did you ever come to this video? no one said you want to lose your accent, but many here want

[P090p0k3]

@ossisTONE i was so interessted!! :D

[everdarkable]

what if i lose all accents?

[ilovemusiclarinet]

46864 people aren't very patriotic :P

[JAWZxz]

@ilovemusiclarinet Maybe people were just curious about what the video was.

[ilovemusiclarinet]

@JAWZxz yes, I know, me too :) but the joke was very obvious

[emeliakanson91]

@ilovemusiclarinet Damn straight! :D

[R4P7ORx651]

If I grew up in France, I would have killed myself.

[ticklemepurple86]

lol...I thought he said "shit" at first

[ellencradd10]

his eyes are crazyyy

[j0rdyb0y62]

for someone who wants to lose ther accent?? well dont its the most characteristic thing in you and you should keep that for local pride.

[RedSandStudios]

@j0rdyb0y62 Some people may want to lose it if learning a new language to sound like a native speaker, or if they are an actor.

[j0rdyb0y62]

@RedSandStudios i said, "for people who lose ther accent".

[CAPUSA]

@j0rdyb0y62 not if you're from the midwest like me. I hate it, don'tcha know.

[j0rdyb0y62]

@CAPUSA agree with you on that one lol

[pablomurga]

I don't find his example about the spanish language to be accurate. We too stress syllables when we speak, the only difference with english is that we have a " ´ " to stress what the "loud" part of the word is in most of them, while in english you do this without any stress mark.

[MrFlimmyjimmy]

I'm Filipino and I have a great American accent and grammar, come on guys! don't be a racist bastard cuz we filipino's are bad ass at speaking English, we are ONE of the best asian english speakers but not ALL speak english since......you guessed it, IT'S A FREAKIN' THIRD WORLD COUNTRY!!! T_T

[Gobbygiblet]

Try a Nigerian accent

[sparton5061]

irish

[iTullexx]

lol try to do the Danish accent :P

[teluktomini]

how about Indonesian Accent

[HammieLand]

do a italain accent! PLEASE

[jleonidasvalencia]

great videos =)

[myuutsuuCMCE]

I love your videos! XD

I was sad now I'm laughing. XD

But thanks.

[xHarmonious]

And why would I want to do that?

[mhamadac]

Shared this video with my parents!

[yand1malmsteen]

try saying, where were we wearing weird rags?

:badumtss:

[SangtotheDy]

no wonder spanish people sound like they're speaking so fast...

[Emma13kage]

do the Danish one and u will laugh ur ass of :D

[SuperDeuser]

im inglish i live in the usa

[zzebrapie]

@SuperDeuser obviously, or you would have spelt english, english.

[MrHunter90210]

i have a thick irish accent can u helpme please

[WestentaschenHolmes]

@MrHunter90210

Yes! I'd love that! If I had the choice then BBC and Irish "accent" were my favorite "accents"

But people, be careful: when talkng about Irish, Britsh, American "accent", you actually mean "dialect". Accents occur, when different languages (like German and English) are involved. BBC English is either a variation or a dialect, not an accent. I do linguisitics, I'm pretty sure of what I just said.

[georgie491]

@MrHunter90210 Keep it!! Irish accents are sexy!

[lfcdanny92]

where

[maciela1234]

I'm Brazilian and I'm whereing a black t-shirt , wear is it now? lol

[MsLoolaloo]

@maciela1234 its not spelt whereing its "wear" and wear is it now is "where"

[LadyJuJuNetherlands]

You spoke the Spanish good;-)

[9rockky]

same dress,steve jobs style!

[ramlosaorginal]

NOOO! I want my accent back! :(

[mlxp]

you want beans or corn on the cob? BEANS OR THE CORN ON THE COB? CORN ON THE COB, CORN ON THE COB

[corner53000]

spanish accent? not really, you didn't just stress the syllabs, you stressed me a little

[Th3D4nny]

DUM D-D-D-D DUM DUM DUM =)

[kerron68]

your eyes confuse me

[swampygoose]

Press 8 for a wonderful interactive song.



[TheDannyw429]

Don't got time? You gotta take a dump? Because I know YouTube don't got no 3 minute limit.

[zsmonostori]

DAM-DADA-DAMDA-DDAM, lol

[VickyHP]

dum dee dee dum :)

[Ponciostr]

your Spanish is terrible my friend!

[tineeeable]

His Rrr is somewhat hilarious, when he is trying to do a French one...

Where I come from we usually say the r, but it`s faint. It doesn`t sound like the standard English r, but not the rrrrr like french or Italian, it sounds a little bit like English people that are trying to do the rrr it but cant, but we use the r way more often than in standard english=) it`s stronger pronounced before vowels.

How dull, I ended up explaining how we speak! I bet you consider this as interesting^^

[ertegin]

That Rrr, is in the Arabic language too. :D

[VickyHP]

@ertegin and in Portuguese! ^^

[MouthOfTheUnknown]

rapping 'where are the toilets please'

[camiewashere]

am i the only one that thought he said shit

[alibean101]

DAMN. You have 2.306 videos? Wow..

[andrea95byrne]

hes shhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttt

[FAB12UCB]

Does anyone else think he sounds like David Cameron?

[lax0rd1e]

step one, hit your face with a brick

[MichElisdude]

no creo que exista un lugar hispanohablante donde "toilet" y "lavabo" signifiquen lo mismo...

[zacthebold]

Why would anyone what to lose their accent completely? It makes one a much more colorful character, as long as they can be easily understood.

[TheCapitalLetter]

Spanish isn't like that, its like French and Italian... we use tonic accents to increase length in different syllables. English speakers cant understand that because they have simpler grammar and can use one word to mean many things, according to the context in which it is used. For example, "its" and "it´s" differ in significance, like in Spanish "tú" and "tu", "sé" and "se" "ésta", "esta" and "está" and they are all pronounced differently.

[Jesusabalar]

Actually the important trail when pronouncing Spanish is the strength of the sylable not its length. And, yes, we Spanish people don't realize, but we sound like a machine gun to English speaking people. Specialy some Spanish accents. Take Mexican Spanish. It sounds machine gunned even in my ears and I am a native Spanish speaker from the north of Spain.

[Jesusabalar]

Anyway it's also true that some Spanish accents are more "musical" and it seems to me that the tonic sylable is longer than the rest. That's the case in Argentinian Spanish It sounds somehow like Italian. Don't you think so?

[judithbenmo]

well, my grandmother is french and she always says to me: "alé, alé, ma fille, we agge goingg stggaith away to the doctogg" she lived and she stills living in london since 1970 lol

[timtamothy21]

Please do the Dutch accent!!!

[WestentaschenHolmes]

@timtamothy21

I'm German, and even I have to say that the Dutch accent is too similar to the German one to make a difference. There *ARE* some sounds however, that can be found in one, but not in the other language. But Germans understand a lot of Dutch and it works even better the other way around.

[SurgeRuiz]

I cant seem to lose my Antarctican accent for some reason. Can someone help

[myassin2009]

@SurgeRuiz Are you trying to change it to english its very easy.

[myassin2009]

@SurgeRuiz but you have to be willing to put in at least a year. 

[myassin2009]

@SurgeRuiz everyday. for atleast 2 hours

[hotwheels1997]

Well i live in Bulgaria and i have russian accent.Whatever i try my stupid accent never go away.Really want to learn na australian accent but first i need to remove my russian one.In Bulgaria we speak bulgarian wich is kinda simular to russian and practicing english is kinda hard because in school i learn french,not english.. ;x If u guys have some ideas how to remove russian accent ,pls tell me :)

[xEverythingAwesomex]

@hotwheels1997 do the opposite of what he says to do in the how to speak with the russian accent video.

[RyanteGamer]

Whenever I need to ask where the toilets are... I will sing them like him!

[MisterPapageno]

When I was a teenager, I used to have an Italian marked accent and actually English was a sort of mediation language, that is to say I used to keep thinking in Italian and translating in English.

In order to lose your native accent (that is a sort of memory of the dependence between your native language and your english), I think you really have to forget about your native language and assume English as another language, that is to say that you think in English and of course you speak imitating

[MisterPapageno]

Once you get the rythm and you see how it works, it's very simple indeed because you think in English and you've got in your mind everyday experiences (and dialogues of course) that become part of yourself until you find sponteneous to think in English! You've got to keep practising of course, or at least keeping up listening to the English TV if you go back to your native country!

[Mymartianromance97]

My friend lost her southern accent and got a new jersey accent she was originally from tenessee but moved to new jersey in 6 grade

[rustyscope]

jamaica accent now!!

[SerialKillerSLC]

(@)(@)

[MrPabloMartinI]

I bet Madonna has watched this video!

[MrPabloMartinI]

No Spanish person would say lábavos :P

[numberlai]

This video is way too short!

[YourNeonLove]

lol i thought he meant actualy native. like aboriginal

[HxCSounds]

why would you wanna lose your accent? i think gareth is having an identity crisis

[camrynmessmore]

Who does he think he is?

[MechaStudios]

@camrynmessmore Uh.... A voice actor?

[kelvin12king]

Did Anyone realise that he always where the SAME shirt?

[bobbajobbification]

@kelvin12king Because the videos were probably all made in one day.

[silent0watcher]

@kelvin12king

They are only short clips - he probably shot them all in one day.

[4browsing]

@kelvin12king Most 2-5 minute how-to videos are recorded in one setting and then split up.

[halo123spartan]

@kelvin12king all of his vids were uploaded on the same day sooo...

[SavageLegacy28]

@kelvin12king Probably because all the language videos he has done were filmed in succession with one another.

[sedyo100]

@kelvin12king it's all done in one day.

[ChristianKEspanilla]

@kelvin12king OMG he does

[MouthOfTheUnknown]

@kelvin12king he recorded all these in the same session, most likely

[ESELkoek]

@kelvin12king I think its all filmed in one day

[Beninjam91]

@kelvin12king *wears?

and its probably cause he shot them all at the same time? :S

[mewarmor990]

@kelvin12king He probably recorded them all in one day. Or he's just dirty.

[HippieLuzzu]

@kelvin12king wear*

[FREAK7251]

@kelvin12king he always "where"???????

[rayzrblayd24]

@kelvin12king where? where?

[SuperWeaknoob]

@kelvin12king he took arrows to his other shirts

[Electragirl5]

@kelvin12king he wears the same shirt because he did all these videos in the same day

[l1is1the1coolest]

@kelvin12king Did anyone notice that he probably did it all on the same day?

[hypn0tizingeyes]

LOL the next time I want to ask someone where the toilets are I will to it singing and clapping xD

[milesevansm]

@hypn0tizingeyes dude that is hilarious...lol guess im not the only person who noticed that too...freakin hilarious

[Mayameeify]

@hypn0tizingeyes *lol* \\o \o/ o// \o/ 

[Plakosternas]

my native accent is Greek

But it doesn't affect my american accent

i live in USA btw

[RandomCupcake321]

I'm from London and I dont ask 'where are the toilets please?' like that. :/

[itsSammich]

@RandomCupcake321 My English teacher told me never to say toilet and instead use bathroom.

[jhmm15a]

does any else think he looks like the annoying orange? :/

[ForKSapien]

@jhmm15a lol for 10 min

[recentdan123]

@jhmm15a I can't take him seriously now after seeing this comment.

[Skirider537]

I suppose it was a nice video, but his eyes flickering around really distracted me

[breakfastsex]

my native accent is a typical singaporean accent. its ugly.

[hanfan26]

It sounded like he was singing "where are the toilets please" xD

[qio1234]

очень банально и непрофессионально

мужик говорит так, как будто в первый раз узнал, что такое "интонационный рисунок", "фонема" и прочее

да, и кейт уокер изображает акценты гораздо талантливей

[z3329885]

fuck that, i think french accents a fucking SEXY...^^

[Butterfly19832011]

is he an accents british Teacher???

[rkzb]

how hypocritical, he's trying to teach others to lose their native accent yet he speaks with the most stereotypical British accent

[CleverDjembe]

@rkzb

Yes, yes.

[minecraftgeko]

i have a english axent and i want a irish one thanks or the vids i used

[afareni]

Yeah, we speaking English emphasize on the keywords of the sentence because it's easier to understand, Spanish is so hard to understand as a second language, even if you have a good vocabulary, because you can't tell where one word ends and the next begins xD

[CleverDjembe]

@afareni

True, true.

But thumbs down for violent bullfights.

[TheUnicornBuddha]

@afareni And yet so many of us speak it now in America...

[cwc7233]

i don't even know if Chinese has diphthongs after learning English。。。

[nkg251]

LMAO!! @ 0:17 ...there's absolutely noone over there. LMAO!!

[MsToastTheGrand]

He really reminds me of Charlie McDonnell (CharlieIsSoCoolLike) at the start when he's introducing it. :-) Is it just me??

[LemonVX]

At least mah dad is from new Zealand

[LemonVX]

Fuck the dutch accent when speaking English, I will never let's play with dat

[iamsocoollike11]

where are the toilets please!

where are the toilets please!

where are the toilets please!

hahhahaha!!!

[dangermouse5000]

you sir, are a bellend.

[BARBiESECKS]

The Swedish accent is so annoying. I hate it. Unfortnetly I'm swedish..

[click657]

Does anybody know why is the British accent so annoying?, every time I listen to it I get a headache. 

[goodchappy]

@click657 No I do not find the "British accent" so annoying. There are many British accents so you need to specify which one. I speak with a southern English accent and I do find accents from the midlands and north England quite annoying but not as much as I do American or Canadian accents.

Also you should have said "Does anybody know why the British accest is so annoying?"

Can you explain why it is "So annoying" ? Annoying compared to what?

[johntobz]

'Another sound is ''ew'' in ''shit'' '

[DeidaraAkatsuki13]

its like hes singing where are the toilets please

its awesome

[LouiseTheHappyCloud]

press 8 and see what made my day :')

[Suwandi]

Thanks for uploading!