It depends on which state and region within the state you're coming from. This is more coastal/South Georgia. Good try though :) There are at least 20 different dialects, I'm sure.
It doesn't sound like an upper class southern accent, if there is such a thing left anymore. It is somewhat of a middle Georgia type accent but the guy whispers so much it's hard to tell.
Eh, not bad. I would classify this as a sort of cross between an N. Alabama/Tennessee sound, though not quite as smooth as a good Southern accent. However, you evidently have every Hollywood speech coach beaten, so there's that.
I don't like the 3 videos you did on upper, middle, and lower class southern accents. I'm not hating on you or anything like that, but it just makes people believe that the richer you are in the south the more normal you are. Some of the poorest people here in the south speak the clearest. Just Saying.
This is nothing like people from around here talk. I am from Invernesse, Alabama. I am a very very rich doctors son, and I talk in a very deep, high class southern voice with only a little bit of a southern "accent". I would make a video, but its 5:03
@danthemanfresno2006 Don't worry Dan, there's no such place as Invernesse, Alabama. I grew up in the state. Oh yes, and nobody who considers themselves to be classy would EVER come on the internet bragging about how they are "very very rich". That's the epitome of "no class whatsoever". Your accent isn't half-bad; I know how hard it is to imitate accents.
@Sk8boy297 First, just because you are a "very very rich doctors son", does not mean that you are upper class. Second, you cannot be upper class so do not pretend to do so as you do not have the education (though you could have squandered it) and thus the grammar to do so nor, and most importantly, do you have the modesty to refrain from boasting about your family's wealth for no reason. And, what pray tell, is this "very very rich" that your refer to?
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When I saw "Upper-Class Southern Accent", I thought you were going to do the Virginia Tidewater, non-rhotic dialect. This was still really good, though!
Just out of curiosity - how do Americans respond to foreigners/non-Americans, living outside of the United States, who, on occasions when they have to speak English speak it with a slight Southern accent? There seems to be a trace of a Virginian accent in what I say, Swedish that I am. Is that taking a stand somehow, a stand that the speaker himself doesn't understand?
I'm from Alabama...so I say this from experience. The "Upper Class" or "Old School" Southern accent is what you call non-rhotic in many ways. If something is "rather hard" it's often pronounced "rathuh hahd". The lower and middle class accents definitely include the hard "r"'s, but the old school traditional Southern speakers don't. A good person to listen to is Alabama's Lt. Governor, Jim Folsom, Jr. He, to me, is kind of the epitome of the old school, upper class southern accent.
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@kjean1965 Removed your comment because you realized how ignorant you are, good work. Of course many Southerners were rich, I think you fell asleep too many times in History Classes? Anyway, get off the cartoons. Also the AmEnglish is not influenced by Dutch.
@JohanVonDoorf You are extremely ignorant of history and culture of both the US and Britain. You know absolutely nothing. You live in a fantasy world governed by your own misconceptions, maybe one day you'll open a book? Everything you just said to me was incorrect, but you failed to research.
@JohanVonDoorf Acutally, American English IS influenced by Dutch. Not the accent, but certain words like coleslaw and Broadway comes from Dutch. Broadway is called like that because the Dutch had named that street Brede weg. Boodle comes from Dutch boedel, all American names with "van" are of Dutch origin, Roosevelt probably had Dutch ancestry as well.
But in the end both English and Dutch are Germanic languages, as is Scandanavian, and all those languages share many similarities.
@kjean1965 Anyway, you had already revealed your ignorance in your first comment about the south; it pains me to see how ignorant you are about American history, yet you go online and spout out trash as if you know anything. I'm not trying to offend you, I'm merely attempting to show you that your generalizations are incorrect, and that you should not comment about something unless you know about it.
@kjean1965 Yes, I've heard of all those. By shakesperan English, I mean one of the accents used in those days, look it up if you are unsure of what I mean. I wouldn't know how to specify as the subject of 15th century accents doesn't interest me in the least(perhaps it does you?) The term has been used.
@kjean1965 Ignoramus. Many southerners were rich, hence the aristocratic accents found there. The North East was always more of a poor, filthy area, with lots of crowds, and pathetic working conditions.
@kjean1965 No it really doesn't. If you listen to the old-style southern accents, they are similar to Shakesperean English ones. Also, probably the worst accent is General America(which I speak with)
@JohanVonDoorf Right... Shakespearean English... You are aware of the fact that that is usually called Early Modern English, and that no one alive today speaks that language? It is not an accent, it is an earlier version of English, many words of which are now obsolete. So what accent do you mean? Received pronunciation?
@JohanVonDoorf I guess what you meant. I'm sure there were accents before I was born. Now I know all about the various stages of English in England, and a little about the different accents in Early Modern English. But I've never heard something called a Shakespearean accent. I don't focus my studies on America, so it might be that it is something that is used in the American linguistics, that I'm unaware of.
@JohanVonDoorf I think you mean 16th/17th century as that is Shakespeare's century :P, the 15th is a little early, and is actually quite a different language as that is still Middle English. I don't think your teacher is incorrect, but he used a term that is clear to him what it means, but isn't necessarily universally used. In those times Northerners and Southerners could have a difficult time understanding each other, there was no standardised English yet. He probably meant the Court accent.
@psyche8 Yes that was a typo, I was referring to the 1600s actually. Anyway I have no clue what a broodle is, and broad way is a direct translation of a dutch word, due to the fact that that area once belonged to the Netherlands.
Kjean, that's not true; there are definitely patrician families in old Charleston and Tidewater Virginia. Think the Carters, Lees and Byrds of Ole Virginny and the Ravenels, Pringles, Middletons and Pinckneys of Charleston...
What you're imitating here reminds me of an old flame from Tennessee. He cam from a lower middle class family but went to Officer Training in the Army and will no doubt aspire to Golf, Tennis, Bridge and Chinos ;)
im from lower alabama which is Mobile county is were i live and that accent sounds kinda like a texan accent i mean its not like everyone from the south has the same accent. lolz
lol, not bad.. but people in Alabama do have a stronger accent most of the time. Mine's not as strong because my mom is french canadian.. but my dad's southern accent is rediculous I can hardly understand him lol.
Pretty good. You could pass as a southerner quite well with this. I was kinda expecting the Colonel Sanders, Foghorn Leghorn, southern gentlemen accent. Dunno why. :P
To an outsider, really, there'd be only the slightest difference from standard midwestern when the person is speaking away from an all-Southern environment.
Short U's sound different for many, too. Buit again, it's much smaller than what you're doing.
This is more middle than your last one. As far as upper--there isn't enough rounding or enough lengthening, either one, both of which would be quite noticeable in an older Southerner. A younger one would say "git" for "get" and "gym" and "gem" and "pin" and "pen" would sound the same, and they would say "doo" instead of "djoo" for due, but the only time you'd get much rounding or lengthening would be in certain circumstances.
Ah, also a lot of it is a little more lower.middle class than the really upper upper. Need more draaaaaaawl to get that really haughty feel, you know? You may feel like a caricature, but believe me-- a lot of those people sound like them.
But there are a lot of different southern accents, some of them are fairly "normal", actually. It really depends. I've been in various parts of Texas, and each area has different accents. Most seem to be "normal", or not too far from "normal", but, on occasion, I've heard 'poor' southern accents that would make you cringe.
For a good, real, not annoying southern accent go watch Pineapple Express. haha sounds weird, but he guy (Danny R. McBride) who plays "Red" is a real southerner..I believe he's from Georgia. I'm from Alabama and the way he speaks is what most people I know sound like. Of course, there are different variations depending on where you grew up, but yeah. I love his.
Actually most middle class southerns don't have that much of an accent. We do say " ya'll " and " fixin' to". But when I went to DC no one new I was from TX, until my friend said ya'll. Your accent sounds like the one they use on Gone with the Wind.
It depends on which state and region within the state you're coming from. This is more coastal/South Georgia. Good try though :) There are at least 20 different dialects, I'm sure.
SaraTorbett 3 weeks ago
I come from South Carolina. It doesn't really sound like a southern accent, but it was a nice try!
TheDynamon 1 month ago
you just made your voice a little softer than the middle class
newcarscent7 3 months ago
This is not an Upper Class Southern Accent. Loveless from The Wild Wild West has an upper class accent.
DByrd24 3 months ago
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thisismyname007 3 months ago
It doesn't sound like an upper class southern accent, if there is such a thing left anymore. It is somewhat of a middle Georgia type accent but the guy whispers so much it's hard to tell.
Maconsun 3 months ago
Southern Georgian, and people here talk like that all the time! XD
ChipmunkNationFan200 4 months ago
Sounds like Herbert the Pervert from Family Guy without the small whistles.
StuUngar 5 months ago 2
A good non-rhotic Southern accent was used in the movie 'A Family That Preys' by Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard.
omfgCantGetaUsername 6 months ago
This is real nice. I'm from Western N.C. and I've heard similar accents:)
lancetop 6 months ago
Eh, not bad. I would classify this as a sort of cross between an N. Alabama/Tennessee sound, though not quite as smooth as a good Southern accent. However, you evidently have every Hollywood speech coach beaten, so there's that.
chifour66 6 months ago
Mr garrison
MichaelDanny93 6 months ago
I don't like the 3 videos you did on upper, middle, and lower class southern accents. I'm not hating on you or anything like that, but it just makes people believe that the richer you are in the south the more normal you are. Some of the poorest people here in the south speak the clearest. Just Saying.
MsEmj93 6 months ago
This is nothing like people from around here talk. I am from Invernesse, Alabama. I am a very very rich doctors son, and I talk in a very deep, high class southern voice with only a little bit of a southern "accent". I would make a video, but its 5:03
Sk8boy297 7 months ago
@Sk8boy297 Who said I was trying to sound like people around there?You don't have the only southern accent.
danthemanfresno2006 7 months ago 6
@danthemanfresno2006 Don't worry Dan, there's no such place as Invernesse, Alabama. I grew up in the state. Oh yes, and nobody who considers themselves to be classy would EVER come on the internet bragging about how they are "very very rich". That's the epitome of "no class whatsoever". Your accent isn't half-bad; I know how hard it is to imitate accents.
eashton42 1 month ago
@Sk8boy297 i dont think it sounds very upper class though...
pluckanalogy 6 months ago
@Sk8boy297 First, just because you are a "very very rich doctors son", does not mean that you are upper class. Second, you cannot be upper class so do not pretend to do so as you do not have the education (though you could have squandered it) and thus the grammar to do so nor, and most importantly, do you have the modesty to refrain from boasting about your family's wealth for no reason. And, what pray tell, is this "very very rich" that your refer to?
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norsac55 7 months ago
HEY iTS REBA FUCKING MCINTIRE!
phdotsco 7 months ago
The epitome of High-class Southern accents: First Lady Rosalyn Carter.
fordtruxdad 7 months ago
I have lived in the south all my life, and i can assure you its got alot of scary fucking people, but the landscape is pretty.
Pimpmastahanhduece 7 months ago
I like this guy
Ram5091 8 months ago
sounds like cleveland from family guy..
theonlywayisellie 9 months ago 27
@theonlywayisellie Lol, I laughed so hard now, because I was like "Man, I know this voice from somewhere", damn you just .made my night. Thank you.
mercdamadmax 15 hours ago
An upper-class southern accent: Dr. Phil McGraw.
randommagnum 9 months ago 11
@randommagnum Good example.
omfgCantGetaUsername 6 months ago
And they say the South's gonna rise again? I don't think so.
7t8h4z 10 months ago
Woohoo, the south :)
Piercedpixie56 10 months ago
doesnt sound like me or anyone from texas!
XxTexasLadyxX 10 months ago
you sound like tobi the talkative guy from family guy
1195Sid 11 months ago 2
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golferknip11 1 year ago
This sounds just like the other one except that you're whispering now
Princesscolex 1 year ago 2
i must be upper class southern...cause i sound a lot like this...
epicguy103 1 year ago
you have to stress your vowls if you want to sound like someone from the deep south.
differentgirl94 1 year ago
@differentgirl94 not really.
alicegal777 10 months ago
you should do the south african accent
MsBananadude 1 year ago
hey that's kinda how i speak but a little stronger and less naisle
countryrockpunkgirl 1 year ago
When I saw "Upper-Class Southern Accent", I thought you were going to do the Virginia Tidewater, non-rhotic dialect. This was still really good, though!
unterland 1 year ago
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jaysonwsmith 1 year ago
Just out of curiosity - how do Americans respond to foreigners/non-Americans, living outside of the United States, who, on occasions when they have to speak English speak it with a slight Southern accent? There seems to be a trace of a Virginian accent in what I say, Swedish that I am. Is that taking a stand somehow, a stand that the speaker himself doesn't understand?
ynklo 1 year ago
@ynklo No, suh. It just means that you have a Swedish accent mixed with a Southern inflection. Just don't let people think you're putting them on.
scottadler 1 year ago
sounds like a lot of people in east texas.
senorchipotle 1 year ago
I'm from Houston, TX. I think this is what I sound like, but it's weird trying to recognize your own accent when it's all you're used to.
amaterasuXrising 1 year ago
I'm from Alabama...so I say this from experience. The "Upper Class" or "Old School" Southern accent is what you call non-rhotic in many ways. If something is "rather hard" it's often pronounced "rathuh hahd". The lower and middle class accents definitely include the hard "r"'s, but the old school traditional Southern speakers don't. A good person to listen to is Alabama's Lt. Governor, Jim Folsom, Jr. He, to me, is kind of the epitome of the old school, upper class southern accent.
stevoelgrande 1 year ago
@stevoelgrande You are exactly right about the non-rhotic aspect. Good job. I hate to see that that particular type of accent is disappearing.
TheEmilio16 1 year ago
id say try "southun" instead of "suthern", droppin the harsh 'r' sound
i live in the FL panhandle but my family is from NYC. most deep south people talk slow, and exaggerate syllables and really screw up vowel sounds.
example: "sounds" would be "souuwwnds"
corporateCoffee 1 year ago
Hmm I can't really tell the difference between this one and the middle class accent...
TheSacredArrow 1 year ago
I want to have sex with a Southern Victorian babe with huge tits
anythingnew 1 year ago
i cant tell the difference between the 2nd. you're just softer sounding
beyondmyken 1 year ago
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usernamegta4 1 year ago
yes, this is the accent I was looking for. You sound like Michael Jackson, especially when you said "too bad" lol
Djlullaby22 1 year ago
@kjean1965 Removed your comment because you realized how ignorant you are, good work. Of course many Southerners were rich, I think you fell asleep too many times in History Classes? Anyway, get off the cartoons. Also the AmEnglish is not influenced by Dutch.
JohanVonDoorf 1 year ago
@JohanVonDoorf You are extremely ignorant of history and culture of both the US and Britain. You know absolutely nothing. You live in a fantasy world governed by your own misconceptions, maybe one day you'll open a book? Everything you just said to me was incorrect, but you failed to research.
JohanVonDoorf 1 year ago
@JohanVonDoorf Acutally, American English IS influenced by Dutch. Not the accent, but certain words like coleslaw and Broadway comes from Dutch. Broadway is called like that because the Dutch had named that street Brede weg. Boodle comes from Dutch boedel, all American names with "van" are of Dutch origin, Roosevelt probably had Dutch ancestry as well.
But in the end both English and Dutch are Germanic languages, as is Scandanavian, and all those languages share many similarities.
psyche8 1 year ago
@kjean1965 Anyway, you had already revealed your ignorance in your first comment about the south; it pains me to see how ignorant you are about American history, yet you go online and spout out trash as if you know anything. I'm not trying to offend you, I'm merely attempting to show you that your generalizations are incorrect, and that you should not comment about something unless you know about it.
JohanVonDoorf 1 year ago
@kjean1965 Yes, I've heard of all those. By shakesperan English, I mean one of the accents used in those days, look it up if you are unsure of what I mean. I wouldn't know how to specify as the subject of 15th century accents doesn't interest me in the least(perhaps it does you?) The term has been used.
JohanVonDoorf 1 year ago
Upper class southern would be more like, a Carolina accent.
SecularTechnology 1 year ago
@kjean1965 Ignoramus. Many southerners were rich, hence the aristocratic accents found there. The North East was always more of a poor, filthy area, with lots of crowds, and pathetic working conditions.
JohanVonDoorf 1 year ago
@JohanVonDoorf ...lol@aristocratic accents, don't make me laugh. At the end of the day it's English spoken with a twist, bastardised.
Glaswegian sounds more aristocratic, the accent's home grown!
kjean1965 1 year ago
@kjean1965 No it really doesn't. If you listen to the old-style southern accents, they are similar to Shakesperean English ones. Also, probably the worst accent is General America(which I speak with)
JohanVonDoorf 1 year ago
@JohanVonDoorf Right... Shakespearean English... You are aware of the fact that that is usually called Early Modern English, and that no one alive today speaks that language? It is not an accent, it is an earlier version of English, many words of which are now obsolete. So what accent do you mean? Received pronunciation?
psyche8 1 year ago
@psyche8 Are you confused about what I meant, or simply unaware that accents actually existed before you were born?
JohanVonDoorf 1 year ago
@JohanVonDoorf I guess what you meant. I'm sure there were accents before I was born. Now I know all about the various stages of English in England, and a little about the different accents in Early Modern English. But I've never heard something called a Shakespearean accent. I don't focus my studies on America, so it might be that it is something that is used in the American linguistics, that I'm unaware of.
psyche8 1 year ago
@psyche8 Didn't mean to confuse you, this is what my English teacher calls it. Perhaps he is incorrect.
JohanVonDoorf 1 year ago
@JohanVonDoorf Anyway, the whole point of that was that the Southern accent was, naturally, influenced by 15th century English.
JohanVonDoorf 1 year ago
@JohanVonDoorf I think you mean 16th/17th century as that is Shakespeare's century :P, the 15th is a little early, and is actually quite a different language as that is still Middle English. I don't think your teacher is incorrect, but he used a term that is clear to him what it means, but isn't necessarily universally used. In those times Northerners and Southerners could have a difficult time understanding each other, there was no standardised English yet. He probably meant the Court accent.
psyche8 1 year ago
@psyche8 Yes that was a typo, I was referring to the 1600s actually. Anyway I have no clue what a broodle is, and broad way is a direct translation of a dutch word, due to the fact that that area once belonged to the Netherlands.
JohanVonDoorf 1 year ago
.....the only difference between this video and the other accent is just loudness.......
Ec11223 1 year ago
Kjean, that's not true; there are definitely patrician families in old Charleston and Tidewater Virginia. Think the Carters, Lees and Byrds of Ole Virginny and the Ravenels, Pringles, Middletons and Pinckneys of Charleston...
LauraSommer 1 year ago
What you're imitating here reminds me of an old flame from Tennessee. He cam from a lower middle class family but went to Officer Training in the Army and will no doubt aspire to Golf, Tennis, Bridge and Chinos ;)
LauraSommer 1 year ago
@Fluffyinsanity Yeah, he doesn't sound Southern at all to me. He actually sounds like a New Yorker in my opinion.
yurismir1 1 year ago
reminds me of bill clinton lol
'i did not have sexual relations with that woman'
mychemicalrelapse 1 year ago
this made me laugh.
haha, Rednecks.
CarlieAdelle 1 year ago
gotta love the rednecks
NEKROCLAUS 1 year ago
@Annrawwhhh and he does haha!
welshperson123 1 year ago
@Annrawwhhh lol yea thats what i was thinking
netuber12 1 year ago
Yup I used to live in Alabama and most people have a subtle accent like this.
rejectedchik89 1 year ago
im from lower alabama which is Mobile county is were i live and that accent sounds kinda like a texan accent i mean its not like everyone from the south has the same accent. lolz
bamasteve94 1 year ago
lol, not bad.. but people in Alabama do have a stronger accent most of the time. Mine's not as strong because my mom is french canadian.. but my dad's southern accent is rediculous I can hardly understand him lol.
singingfool14 1 year ago
it all really depends one where your at, one thing for sure southern people say yall , not necessarily with a heavy country accent but still
poprockmeli 1 year ago
well..im from texas sooo we kinda sound like that..i think but we r not "hill billys"
best4bkp 1 year ago
@best4bkp hill billy refers to the foothills of the Appalachian mountains which is the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
His "Upperclass Southern" accent would better be called blue collar southern. Most working class country people speak with that type of accent.
tigresslover 1 year ago
I have a country accent, but it's more pronounced than that.
TreeMurder 1 year ago
this is more of a virginia piedmont accent - people in north carolina and virginia have an almost english sound to certain words -
RichmondVAbuzz 1 year ago
I'm from Seattle. We have no accent here. Thank goodness!
frisco21 1 year ago
@frisco21 everyone has an accent
OhReallyNoWai 1 year ago
@frisco21 yea but you brought starbucks to the world
RichmondVAbuzz 1 year ago
@frisco21 then you have a seattle or northern accent everyone has one
mjg4eva 1 year ago
haha. That's my Accent!
MrDavim12 1 year ago
not true in texas
akatsukidude544 1 year ago
Pretty good. You could pass as a southerner quite well with this. I was kinda expecting the Colonel Sanders, Foghorn Leghorn, southern gentlemen accent. Dunno why. :P
Bandaids4ever 1 year ago
hey just wacthed some of your videos your really good!
nutrii 2 years ago 18
To an outsider, really, there'd be only the slightest difference from standard midwestern when the person is speaking away from an all-Southern environment.
Short U's sound different for many, too. Buit again, it's much smaller than what you're doing.
liangjz 2 years ago
This is more middle than your last one. As far as upper--there isn't enough rounding or enough lengthening, either one, both of which would be quite noticeable in an older Southerner. A younger one would say "git" for "get" and "gym" and "gem" and "pin" and "pen" would sound the same, and they would say "doo" instead of "djoo" for due, but the only time you'd get much rounding or lengthening would be in certain circumstances.
liangjz 2 years ago
Ah, also a lot of it is a little more lower.middle class than the really upper upper. Need more draaaaaaawl to get that really haughty feel, you know? You may feel like a caricature, but believe me-- a lot of those people sound like them.
mustilicorr 2 years ago
@mustilicorr Most upper-class White Southerners are of British descent ain't they ??
Iranali786 1 year ago
I would guess you're close to Louisianan here.
But there are a lot of different southern accents, some of them are fairly "normal", actually. It really depends. I've been in various parts of Texas, and each area has different accents. Most seem to be "normal", or not too far from "normal", but, on occasion, I've heard 'poor' southern accents that would make you cringe.
Xanofar 2 years ago
For a good, real, not annoying southern accent go watch Pineapple Express. haha sounds weird, but he guy (Danny R. McBride) who plays "Red" is a real southerner..I believe he's from Georgia. I'm from Alabama and the way he speaks is what most people I know sound like. Of course, there are different variations depending on where you grew up, but yeah. I love his.
SeeSarahGo 2 years ago
pretty good, but it's usually much slower, like every word is carefully picked and spoken full of meaning
scholz9876 2 years ago
Actually most middle class southerns don't have that much of an accent. We do say " ya'll " and " fixin' to". But when I went to DC no one new I was from TX, until my friend said ya'll. Your accent sounds like the one they use on Gone with the Wind.
CQ5791 2 years ago
pretty good, man! Esp after hearing your "russian" accent
BostonRocker51 2 years ago