Iowa Accent

[calmen88]

Iowa has no accent, only some regional slang.

[bob2012isfake]

or drunk or both

[bob2012isfake]

totally acting

[sblwarrior75]

That's not Midwestern, it sounds southern. I'm from Iowa and we don't sound like hicks.

[xxLivvy212xx]

LOLOL this is so not iowan

[nittany1019]

Doesn't sound anything like people I grew up with in Iowa.

[AG9577]

Haha I'm from Iowa and I know that we don't sound like that...but this still makes me laugh.

[crazyjoe2006]

FUCKING STUPID ASS VIDEO!!!!!

[troutslayer52101]

I always thought people from Iowa had no discernible accent whatsoever?

[ohso41]

@troutslayer52101

They what is considered a "Standard American" or "Neutral Midwestern" accent. I've been to Iowa on numerous occasions over the last 20 years (all over the state) or so and never heard anyone sound like this and I'm originally from NY no less

[kenziegurl2898]

im from iowa, and no we dont sound like that,

so fuck off.

[justincmorrison]

tool

[vpttoms]

uhh. no one in Iowa talks like that. I'm from Iowa I would know

[qernst8]

LMAO! If you went to Iowa and spoke like that, we natives would probably assume you were an inbred Southerner. We have very standard American accents in Iowa. This was a good laugh though.

[sassyragazza]

haha only a couple of people talk like that in Iowa... and

even so, it's not usually that extreme.

[jamesspencerjackson]

he sounds like he's from west virginia lmao

[jacob12102]

Iowan's do not talk like this at all....Go back to Kentucky

[soxmonki]

Most Iowans don't have an accent ... been told we speak flat English - whatever that means.

[glokkpod84]

@soxmonki It's the "neutral" accent that they teach news casters to use. I have been told we do pitch things people don't do in other parts of the country. The example a friend from California pointed out was the way a lot of Iowans quickly raise then lower their pitch at the end of a question.

[jdsalm]

He's terrible at faking a southern accent. Some words are right others seem to be a whole new accent altogether.

[TheTinyElf]

I've never noticed it, but I have noticed that we do kinda put an accent on our "s" and "p"

[nygg099]

i live in pea ridge.

its in northwest arkansas, like right by missouri.

[startofsomethinggood]

If this guy is Iowan, he is definitely faking it. Iowans don't sound like that (I should know, I am one).

[TheTinyElf]

Well, actually, we do. You're probably just so used to it that you don't notice. But yeah, we do. Haha

[ILVRACN]

uh no.

[ArmingEvil]

Wrong. We are accent neutral. I even listened to one of your videos, and you're delusional if you think you, or any other Iowan, sounds like this guy.

[JahobesDaGreatest]

@ArmingEvil

EXACTLY Iowa is accent neutral... and not because im from iowa... but people who are not from iowa tell me that all the time.

Im in Canada now and people think im Canadian because i dont have an american "accent"(aka southern drawl).

[jjjester123321]

no, not even close.

[smokinjoecottonball]

This is so bogus I can hardly stand it.! Not iOWAN!

[smokinjoecottonball]

I am born and raised in Iowa and lived there 40 years and THIS GUY is no more Iowan than a southern country boy! He is NOT Iowan!!!

[burrowingduck]

@smokinjoecottonball I go to school in iowa. He sounds nothing like an iowan. Sounds exactly like my friend from Virginia.

[corkyxbaby]

yeah, that's a southern accent. that's not how the vast majority of people speak here.

[26Deacon]

dam is iowa must be that country.

[tmturner712]

That is not an Iowa Accent. This guy may have spent time in prison here in Iowa. But, that is not how we speak in Iowa. That is a southern accent at best? And even that southern accent sounds made up. Prehaps this is the accent of someone with an IQ below 50? or the mating call? The girl shooting the cam seems inpressed? Is this how retards mate?

[kovi17]

Amen

[kcheck22]

i live in PA. not in a major city. everyone talks like this

[mast0r3r]

Arkansas accent.

[nygg099]

i'm from arkansas.

some people sound like that, but most of us really don't.

lol.

that's more of a missouri accent?

[Redneckdipper95]

where in arkansas, im by batesvill (NE arkansas)

[lovinit33]

I live in oklahoma/ arkansas...you sound like us!

[Redneckdipper95]

i love in cave city arkansas

[hfr747]

dude......yer tryin too hard

[demon12214]

I live in iowa. And we don't talk like this..

[humoftheradiator]

I live in Iowa, too. And yeaaaah. We do not talk like that. ROFL.

[americanstylefreak]

Old people probably speak like that, cuz they used to speak German back in the days, and they couldn't pronounce everything perfectly, and some people just got this accents by their parents..

parents to the kids.. and so on in that circle.. till people with accents were classified as uneducated..

so people came to use less accents.. but old people just can't hide their accent, cuz they are used to it in the way they were always speaking it.

[theroachksu]

'Woman! Get yerr ass in here!''

hahaha good work

[CrusaderEmber]

Thats a pretty fake southern accent.

[pinktwilighter]

lol im from iowa..some old ppl have the accsent

[Tivowatch23]

This guy is just messing around. Iowa people talk the right way

[andreaxx6]

Really, Iowan's don't have accents.

Everyone portrays us with them, but, we don't.

Hardly any Midwestern people do, unless you're from the northern parts of Minnesota and maybe North Dakota.

Have you ever noticed that news anchors don't have an accent?

It's because they're from the Midwest.

Midwestern people are the easiest to understand.

[soundsfromnothing]

No, the central midwestern states (parts of IL, NE, KS, MO etc.) all have a bit of a twang. You're right though, that the newscasters used the "midwest standard" accent. It was considered the most neutral. Nowadays, the California accent is considered the most neutral. Actually, the Cali accent is highly influenced by the central mid-western ones. Of course, the E. coast accents, S.Western accents a little southern, and a little hispanic also fed it.

[americanstylefreak]

Cuz many people from the midwest moved on to California, back in time.

- Gold rush.

In the midwest live a lot of people who came from Germany orginally, and they were considered as spies for the Nazi-Germany, and they changed their names, example Müller -> Miller, Schneider -> Taylor list goes on, and they tried to hide that they are german.. In some states they were not even allowed to speak German..

that's why the Hot Dog is not called "Frankfurter" any more, like it was before WW2.

[soundsfromnothing]

True, but people from all over moved to CA during the gold rush. The majority came from Southern areas (which is why areas of the southwest, like AZ and NV have a twang..now considered south western accents). Part of the "rust belt" accent (stretching from NY through Chicago, Detroit, etc) was also influenced by German accents.

[americanstylefreak]

interesting...

Ya, I guess that also pretty much the region where Germans moved to..

Illinois, and states like that.

[soundsfromnothing]

Yep. That's true too. A lot o the rust belt accents came from transplanted NYers, but the German's added vastly too it too. They also, of course, influenced parts of the Pennsylvania accents.

[americanstylefreak]

Yea, I guess the Amish people still speak Pennsylvania Deitsch, or Dutch..

Back in the days..

before WW2, there were even New Papers written in German..

In New York there was a part of the city called "little germany", you could live in that part without speaking one word of enlgish..

Could you describe what exactly they inlfuenced? What kind of pronouncing words.. you know..

[soundsfromnothing]

The accent more or less (around the Pennsylvania Dutch areas) also, part of the Pittsburg accent. That influence extended into parts of Virginia and New Jersey as well. Also apparently, the slang word "Hain't," which is a corruption of the English word "Ain't" (it's still debated whether Ain't is actually a proper word or slang). It's usual used at the end of a question: "We're going there tommorrow, Hain't?" It's like saying, "We're going there tommorrow, ain't we?"

[soundsfromnothing]

There are many other words too, but that's the 1 that comes readily to mind.

[americanstylefreak]

Well, I am German..

But I kinda don't see a conncection between any German word and "Hain't"..

cuz in the region of Germany, where "Deitsch" is spoken the say "gäl"ont the ends of a senctence like you'd use eh.. Du wirscht morge ins Kino gehe, gäl?! / You're going to cinama tomorrow, eh?!

Hain't.. I'm thinking which word could sound similiar..

From Area are you actually from?

by the in Iowa live a lot of people who came from Northern germany, orginally, and they spoke "low german"

[soundsfromnothing]

Well, Ain't is actually an English word. The Germans picked it up, and pronounced it "Hain't." Similar to the way the Jamaicans say "bokkle" instead of "bottle," "Fi" instead of "for," "nuh" instead of not, etc. I see what you're saying though. I've heard of the word "gal" enforcing a comment. The same way that most American's would say, "right?", or Spanish speakers say "verdad?" (truth). They also say "no." I think that Germans started saying "Hain't" though, cause the Americans around them

[soundsfromnothing]

were saying "Ain't we?". We've picked up German expressions to. Ones like "Weiseheimer" (for smart aleck..though not used as much), Nix, which I believe comes from the German "Nicht" or "nit." One thing that interests me, is the English slang word "Yeah." It sounds a lot like the German word "Ja." Even though those two words are related through history, when the German's started coming here more in the 1800's, Americans may have heard "Ja," for the first time, then corrupted it into "yeah."

[americanstylefreak]

yea, we really pronounce "ja" the way you say "yea", nobody actually says "yes" anmymore.. "Nix" is German slang for " Nichts" = Nothing. Maybe for the "yea" might be more explations, the danishs and swedishs also say " ja"..

to say ja is way more comfortable than yes, isn't it..

But may I ask from which state you're from?

[soundsfromnothing]

I'm from CA

[americanstylefreak]

that means California, or Canada now?

probably california i guess.

southernwest ca?

[soundsfromnothing]

I grew up in the Los Angeles area. Now I live up in N. California. I just found 1 of your earlier questions too; It is easier to say "yeah," than yes. It flows off the tongue easier. Also, we say "fer" alot, instead of "for" in the middle of a sentence. Almost everyone does that. It's just easier I guess. We also use many contractions. we say "Can't" for example, instead of "can not." If you say "I can not do this," It sounds very formal. People usually do this, if they are just angry, or trying

[soundsfromnothing]

(continued) to emphasize a point.

[americanstylefreak]

Fer sounds familiar to für..

I mean e sounds more familiar to ü than o does.. Well but the contractions are actually used every where - can't, couldn't, souldn't, wouldn't, weren't, mustn't.......

I come from Northern Germany, by the way, a lot of people from northern Germany settled in Iowa, actually the most northern Germans.. in northern German we speak "low German", or you might know the word "plautdietsh", not many people are able to speak it anymore, though..

[soundsfromnothing]

That's interesting. I knew there were certain contractions in the Spanish language, but I wasn't aware of them in the German language. I've never actually heard the word "plautdiesh" before. Regarding the Low German, that's an interesting point. I'm guessing it would be considered more of a dialect..or am I mistaken? I know that dialects will often disappear as societies undergo rapid or sudden change. Certain words, phrases etc. disappear out of a culture, only to be replaced by those of the

[soundsfromnothing]

new culture coming in. Also new populations affect it.

[americanstylefreak]

(letters where out) from prussia, selisia ( polish after ww2) and East Germany excaped to Western Germany ( also northwest). aslo Northwest Gemany.

excuse me, i made a mistake it's "plautdietsch". South Dakota still has the most German (maybe also low german) speaking citizens in the USA..

remind: every fourth American has german forefathers..

[soundsfromnothing]

I hear ya. I think it's wrong, when someone/group is told to quit speaking their native tongue. It takes away from both culture & history. I suppose some will say, "well...that's progress," but there's room for both languages. That's part of what makes life interesting.

[americanstylefreak]

Yea, but that is the way it was..

Some people still can speak low german, though..

I can understand many things, and I can also speak a little bit, although my family from both sites is not native northern german.

[americanstylefreak]

No, Low German a language itself actually..

very,very familiar to dutch, which is spoken in the netherlands.

in the 70s parents stoped to teach their kids low german, because they'd get a F if they'd speak in school, and people that were talking in accent were considered as uneducated.. that's why many people gave it up, sadly.. nowadays it's proven that if you're able to switch between an accent and the normal language, it shows that your brain works good..

plus, after WW2 a lot of people

[soundsfromnothing]

(continued) as far as the central midwestern accents, they are basically a mix of accents from other parts of the midwest, southern, E. Coast and some German.

[joelblueyes]

You DO have an EX-SINT!!!

[MISSbobLOBLAW]

wow.. as a fellow iowan.. i know this accent is authentic. i have the same one. manly and everything. ...

[tattooedjamie]

i'm from iowa and no one i know has an accent. that shit is fake! what's with the "mick"donalds???

[lorena83lulu]

sexy!

[mikedeviant]

Wigger accent.

[AcousticBabexo]

All of my family is from iowa and i have a huge ass family and only 1 of my cousins talk like that.

[ali987blue]

I'm from Iowa. I don't sound like that.

[ozzie679]

fake accent

[raptorwrath]

of course it's fake, I was drunk.

[troutslayer52101]

@raptorwrath ROFLMAO U FKKN AZZ'OLE! GOOD 1 !!!!!! (northeast iowa---we kind'a tawk like Norveejunz) don'tchya nooe,,,,,or haven'chya herrrd?

[CPH90]

I live in Iowa and was born here, some people say I kind of have an accent but I don't think so..and it depends on who all you talk to but I don't really think that there's all that much of an accent here..

[SkylerGriffin2468]

Everyone has an accent. The people in Great Britain, for example, might not think they have an accent, but if they came to the U.S. or went to France, the people they talked to their would probably be able to tell that they were from Great Britain.

[NothingIsCorrect]

shut up you prick you have an accent aswell cunt

[moviedancekid]

yea i got to iowa every summer but i live in new jersey, and the iowans definately do have some sort of accent. my grandma's accent sounds really southern but most people just put a little twang on some of the words..lol i can't really describe it..but theres something there

[bce5150]

Iowans do have an accent, but it's not redneck. Its just got long O's... "Ya knooow?"

[KiaraK11]

in your about this video how you get drunk and talk in an accent..i do that all the time. i am from fargo (right next to minnesota) i dont fake it but my accent comes out and i dont live there now and when i meet ppl all they do is give me shit about my accent

[DaniLovesGreasersx]

Iowans don't talk like that.. Well, most of us don't. :) ..Iowans aren't hicks either. I don't think we aree. But of course I'm twelve and may not have any idea what I'm talking about.

[Donniesgirl16]

Im 15 and no we are not hicks! Everybody thinks we're tractor riding hicks...well it isnt true...watch my vids and you'll hear me and my bro talk...no accents. Missouri has accents,I know that for sure lol XD

[darklove21]

You have an accent! An accent! An accent...I'm sorry...

It's morning here...I'm sorry.

[raptorwrath]

haha, swear to god I'm no hick

[darklove21]

Ahh, I believe your not a hick. Sorry about that...'accent' shit. I was really tired