How To Get An American Accent

[Darkangel1302301]

I do not sound like that, this is totally off

[HayleyMichellex3]

Most Americans are getting offended by watching this.

Why? Hes dead on.

[DangerLine28]

I've watched the ones for other accents, and now watching what I'm supposed to sound like makes me wonder if the rest of his accents are accurate...

[TheOrderoftheOwl]

Like any other country in the world, The US has many different accents. I am from Virginia, and have a southern accent, I must say the "General" US accent does us no justice at all.

[chaos212]

is this what we really sound like?

[boardandsavior]

the t-do-d rule is fairly accurate, but wouldn't apply to words with complex consonant sounds like banter, doctor, rafting, etc. at least not in "general american". pronouncing banter as banner is a major tell, the t sound may not be as sharp as in a british accent, but it's still clear.

[mrdoodlemaster]

I'm American but I have a mix between a New York, Dublin, Southern, and London accent.

lol(:

[happysushi3]

im american...why did this confuse me?

[AutodromoF1]

We don't say cot and caught exactly the same.

[SaberTOOTHdolphin623]

obviously the most common word Americans use is JAWN

[bulletinyurass]

watch How To Get An American Accent -> speech increased to 35!

[Punxrok786]

I Chinese big boi y i watch dis todaiiiiiii???

[Rozonkomo]

Personally I distinguish between Banter and Banner and t's in general because I was taught that not to do so was to slur your speech which makes you sound uneducated. However, coming from the midwest usually means having very little accent (or so I'm told) outside of major metropolitan areas which can retain accents from their different founding national groups (i.e. a Chicago accent.)

[bbeckett]

Most of this is right except most regions wouldn't swallow the 't' in banter--maybe on the East Coast they would.

[waiting4thelights]

@bbeckett I'm from the East Coast (New Jersey) I don't swallow the "t" sound in banter. Maybe a word with 2 "t"s will turn to a "d" sound (like little), but I don't think anyone in America says "banner" for banter.

[tristan9009]

very accurate....haha

[Dragaud09]

Computer is an excellent example of the T and D flap.

[TobiasMoes]

I am dutch why am i watching this...

[dragonbut55421]

You sound so akward doing this. XD

[HellaSweetStacks]

now I understand why American english is strange to brits.

[Mramori20]

i study english in my country in saudi arabia , and my teacher is an indian he has a bad accent , what a diffrence between him and this guy in the video 0_O

[wackothug88]

I don't speak english , why am i watching this

[ElderShunned]

Genral Amerikn iz kooll...Bostn LMAO...Dudes, learn how to pronounce the worrrdz! ts beddrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[EpicWebkinzz]

@ElderShunned General * American * is* cool * Boston* Words* It's* better*

[ElderShunned]

@EpicWebkinzz hehehe

[EpicWebkinzz]

@ElderShunned ???????????????

[ElderShunned]

@EpicWebkinzz Whaddyah want frmmee, motherfucker?!

[allybaby8199]

Im american and from a town near boston, massachusetts... my family has bostonian accents and no one from boston pronounces their "r's"

So

Park The Car In Harvard Yard

would be...

Pak The Cah In Hahvad Yad in a bostonian accent...

[LordBiscuit19]

I'm an American, i just wanted to say that this is pretty good. Though most people i know don't really pronounce their ts as close to their ds as you are.

[NiallHoran1D77]

Im American and i have this accent... I hate my accent...i want to be Irish :(

[28Irishhugs]

Hey! you're so cool! this video demonstration was awesome! Cute :)

[choDa122333]

WE KNOW THAT YOU'RE GARETH JAMESON! JEEZ...

[songbirdsxxz]

It looks like only Americans are watching this.... our accent is boring..

[julieannaClark]

I'm American, and I feel like I would be embarrassed enough to pretend I was English if I ever went to the UK.

[JumpingGale]

I have a general American accent. It makes it difficult to learn English accents honestly. :/

[ggracesophiaa]

ugh i hate having this accent. no people from other countries think it's cool either

[grad111okami]

I have this "general" american accent, it's so boring honestly.

[TheOtsiningoPark]

I guess I don't have a general American accent because cot & caught definitely don't sound the same, but I believe that people probably speak them the same somewhere else in the country.

[tekirx]

i want to get rid of my dutch accent -.-

[LuckyOrangeTabby08]

@tekirx Why? Dutch accents are neat

[yvonneennovy]

American accent = simplified British accent.

[LuckyOrangeTabby08]

@yvonneennovy Pretty much, yeah

[4everfatjoe]

Rednecks FTW

[FainsCool]

i'm american and cot and caught do not sound the same he is not very good...

[Michelleyboo18]

@FainsCool They sound the same for my particular accent, but then again I'm from California and have a "general" American accent.. are you from a different region?

[Boxhead2432]

thumbs up if ur american and just curios

[DamnationDaniel]

@Boxhead2432 You're* curious*

[TheSanctuaryofPeace]

@DamnationDaniel You are = You're

[DamnationDaniel]

@TheSanctuaryofPeace Oh I'm sorry, did I stutter? What's your point, good sir?

[TheSanctuaryofPeace]

@DamnationDaniel My apologies. Even I do not know what I was attempting to do.

[DamnationDaniel]

@TheSanctuaryofPeace Your apologies were heard and noted. I am glad we were able to avoid a mindless conflict. Like sirs some might even claim.

[TheSanctuaryofPeace]

@DamnationDaniel Like sirs.

[TheSanctuaryofPeace]

@Boxhead2432 Thumbs up if you are an American, watching this and can spell.

[MrBlackangel06]

people at my school likes my accent..they said its unique..im never changing it..im ME!! XD and y am i watching this?! hmm

[cnacma]

you know that a medal is made out of metal so why not say it the same way?

[goatlover5109zac]

Ha I am American and now i see how weird our accent is. To bad us Yankees cant make fun of you bluty Brits since you came up with our language. lol

[innocentbloodx7]

Wow being an american, not just an american an Oregonian, (Oregonians have our own accent yes xD) I see now how different the accents are. :)

[CatalystHeart]

I really never realised how odd we sound. To hear all of our sounds isolated like that. And I also never really realised how MANY dialects the English language has.... I sound so much more unintelligent being raised in southern midwest states.... It's so interesting. I love language.

[gurkenhamster]

forgive me, I'm just a German, but don't you Americans spell all sorts of stuff with "Z", as in "realized"? Why did't you?

[restless103]

I imagine that us North American English speakers must sounds rather strange to our other Anglophone counter parts. All of the dialectic specifics pointed out in this video I think we are all very aware of, but it is a bit strange even to me as an American to hear them isolated. I think the reason so many people can feign an American accent is that there aren't a lot of hard and fast rules in our dialect in terms of pronunciation. Yet we often mock Canadians for speaking in a way we find strange

[jtsk8er12]

I'm american why am I watching this

[dracolovesme1997]

@jtsk8er12 So am I it's just funny to watch British people talk in an American accent. lol

[meljohnson200]

@dracolovesme1997 HELL YEAHZ XD

[dracolovesme1997]

@meljohnson200 LOL :D

[meljohnson200]

@dracolovesme1997 XD

[tamarabel1989]

@jtsk8er12  lol

[OhMissBrutal]

@jtsk8er12 haha i asked myself the same thing

[misterkevinoh]

@jtsk8er12 I wanted to see if this guy was the real deal, so I watched my own accent. Yes. He passed.

[GoreKidful]

Why isn't there a how to speak in an Asian accent? xD

[daniellecadihan]

@GoreKidful

I once knew a Korean who said the American accent sounds like we're singing when we talk because we move our voice up and down. I guess start by trying to not "sing?"

[DivineOwnageEVE]

I didn't know i sounded soooo weird!! hahahaha

[likeminas]

this guy js good

[XY7sniper]

you and me Are like the same. i have been a natural 4 accents(Mexican then russian)(GO RUSSIA) but your other accents are overflowing into this one. PEOPLE in america would like you more if you don't sound like you have a speech impedededededement. i have just spotted your HOW 2 speek lke a new yorker vid. expect a comment. I DON'T SOUND LIKE THAT.

[jamez2015076]

thumbs up if you are american

[agent13178]

Ha it depends really where your from in america. Like for me, since i live in North Carolina we don't say cot for caught we say "cawt".

[SlimNorski23]

I hail from the great state of Minnesota, and here the t in banter is pronounced, because both syllables are stressed. so in Minnewegian one might say: All the banTer on the Innernet. the only acute t sounds in American English are at the beginning of stressed syllables.

[lifeIsbeautiful94]

American accent is weird LOL

[Rocketman2396]

Damn, american accents suck xD

[LittleGagePlanet]

Yeah us Americans make more of a d more then a t. (well at least me)

[Aurora4804]

HAHAHA Like 10% of Americans sound like that, but no one here in Colorado says court and caught the same. There's a defiant difference.

[WhatNowHaters1]

I just came here to see a British man speak American.

[kingmigget]

i'm from the Pacific northwest, and what the actual fuck?

[felipealvarez1982]

I'm Canadian, and you sound accurate. Good job.

[4deiter]

@felipealvarez1982 Canada Accent Is Pretty Much American Loll you Have A Well Awesome accent

[OhMySavy]

Wow, good one, man. Really accurate.

[quidnick]

In New England, R's are not pronounced at the ends at all, replaced by "ah" sound. You cannot prance about nibbling some chowder in Massachusetts, for, ex. "Ya can't go around' eatin' chowdah, in the yaaad. (extreme emphasis on a's.) One last thing, in my region u is virtually indistinguishable from 'w'.

[EmoLexi333]

We sound so weird XD

[Aarospace1138]

I can't imagine us altogether dropping that 't' in 'banter'.

[jklimenko1]

i never really knew we had accents....until now.

[AndyKordo]

@jklimenko1 There's a British accent, and there's an American one. Here you go. And there are other accents like: Australian, Southern American, Californian accent, New England accent, Scottish accent, Irish... Everyone has an accent!

[LeaseyPooh83]

@jklimenko1 I thought the same thing...This spanish girl told me she hate American accents, I was like we dont have accents, but I guess to other countries we do because we speak a different language :-)

[BennyB5555]

The presenter is not English/British - whateva. He is an American. I am English from 'England' and I can just tell. No different than Americans who can tell where each other is from. Also for you Americans who speak General American. That is the American equivalent to the Queens English.

It is sought after by International students in language programmes more so than learning British English. So be proud of your linguistic heritage.

[TheChumlee12]

@3rdDegreeKickAss I'm American and that's exactly how we sound... I'm actually southern so I have a southern accent but that exactly how americans talk

[3rdDegreeKickAss]

Your not very good. We dont sound like that at all. And we dont pronounce cot and caught the same either. Cot is cot and caught is cawt

[AndyKordo]

@3rdDegreeKickAss That's exactly how we sound. Cot is pronounced exactly like caught.

[LegoVideoCreator]

You're pretty close, but you emphasized parts of the words a little weirdly.

[rokstoned]

How come we Americans get stuck with the lame, stupid sounding accent?

[iluvkittehs101]

I have a natural american accent but I think in my head with a UK/Australian accent...weird

[FortressGaming]

American accent? What?

[SophMBPrinceton]

i dont pronounce butter like tha i pronounce it like butta im from wales though:L

[dingovory]

I remember when I just started working in America as a cashier, I told a woman the total was sevenTy dollars. And she went off on me saying it's sevendy, dy, DY! Now I would have choked that bitch but that was my second week on the job so I kept cool.

[Giraffe242]

If I speak in American accent, my accent turns up to the British again..lol..I'm so not used to American accent.. :P

[ashhhjx]

for being that I live in America and I'm watching this... All I can say is that I'm practically laughing at myself because all of this is pretty true from the North East end. (: it's amazing to see your own language broken up like this.

[poehlerbear91]

Sort of going from a "regular" American accent to a slightly Southern accent. I'm from PA, not too far from NYC and we sort of have a combination accent...except we really don't say Ts at all.

[r94vought]

thumbs if you're watching this and you live in america. WEIRD but so true

[liulia18008]

Im Irish and i always wanted to have American accent :) And some people say i sound american

[MyFriendsCallMeMegan]

This is actually so funny!

[lstm4evr]

So the gist is, we American's are lazy when we talk. xD

[Bellsell77]

does anyone think this guy looks like charlie mcdonell?

[hardboiled89]

fuck the police!

[OW3NS93]

There are literally so many different accents in America its not even funny. I live in one remote area of Pennsylvania and people around here can have 1 of 3 accents. The one mentioned here, the country accent or the Western PA "Pittsburgh accent." I'm not complaining though. It just goes to show how diverse America is

[OmegianDustail]

I never realized how strange our accents really are until now. It just seemed so natural, but now it sounds kinda weird. XD

[PikiruMuzu]

@OmegianDustail lol yeah i agree

[Keys1281]

@OmegianDustail It's so interesting! :P

[meljohnson200]

@OmegianDustail I know right?

[JordanGordonNaish]

@OmegianDustail we all see it like that XD

[myaccountisfly]

it was accurate to a point

[XenintheTerminator]

The d sound used with most T's is so accurate lol I do that all the time. 

[LadyJuJuNetherlands]

@luvnpeace12312 I don't like the new york accent at all

[randomDOTstudios]

@AarChv me too

[casualthug07]

Pretty accurate. Budder, meddal, we do have a pretty flat tone when it comes to our pronunciations

[AarChv]

I'd like to remind people that this video has only GENERAL American accent pointers. I have a northwestern or north-pacific (Oregon/Washington area) accent. A lot of my "T" sounds are hard ("banter" is different than "banner", but "butter" sounds like "budder"). Other than that, however, everything else he said was spot on.

[cliniquelover97]

yeah um there is a difference between banner and banter...lol...and question for non-americans or people who dont live in chicago--i have a chicago accent, do ppl find that annoying? like how we say our a's in a really exaggerated short-a sound? lol

[Pimpiusmaximus]

@cliniquelover97 Chicaaaaaaago. Met this one girl from orientation from the Windy City. Thought it was hilarious

[cliniquelover97]

@Pimpiusmaximus hahaha yeah i dont even notice it bc every1 around me talks like that :)

[sawanapoli96]

english:yes

american:OH YEEEE MAN!!!!!!!!

[icewomen881]

This is so creepy he sounds American:)

[3Leaael3]

@luvnpeace12312 I'd say the really bad california girl accent annoys me the the most...

[arkenaw10]

The "nt" sound is almost never pronounced like "nn" unless someone is speaking really, really fast.

[AndyKordo]

@arkenaw10 "Nt" is almost always pronounced like "nn"! "Internet" is pronounced like "Inner-net" , "interesting" is pronounced by many Americans as "inner-esting".

[TigersUnleashed]

American's are EVIL?!?!?!!??! Cause he said that our R's were dark....

[swdevil266]

I would like to point out, not all girls from california speak like that....in fact, most girls from california find those girls just as annoying as anyone else would. And yes, there is a difference between "banter" and "banner." I have never, nor heard anyone pronounce them the same way...ever.

[RayRayRavona]

Wow...I never realized how boring our speech is...

[SonNeko]

eh, I'll agree that this is pretty accurate,

[shawnw585]

Maybe I don't speak "general american", but I'd like to offer some feedback. I don't mean to be insulting, just helpful.

Most obvious to me, is that there really is a difference between "banter" and "banner". Just like there is a difference between "planter" and "planner".

I didn't even understand the example sentence you gave until you explained it afterwards. Generally, you're right on the point of t and d sounds, but you're oversimplifying it, and the example is straight-up wrong.

[Joga49]

Don't use an american accent to "fit in." if you have a foreign accent use it, all the ladies will love you before they even know your name.

[kirikira211]

@Joga49 As an American lady, I must agree!!

[FuriousWIZARD]

The only normal talking states are in michigan anywhere besides detroit

[MumbleValentine]

@FuriousWIZARD And Oklahoma, some of Kansas, maybe some of idaho, etc, etc. :)

[RasZzzDalbajj]

@luvnpeace12312 wt a jerk to ask that question

[NehemiahDC]

Sweet. I have an accent. 

[caliwowie]

@luvnpeace12312 You know, it depends. sometimes its not the sound that bothers me its the shit they talk about. I have a good explanation of all the accents for you but it wont fit here....

Another interesting 2 you should look into is: the "Minnesota accent" & the most uneducated sounding accent by far is the "cajun accent" from the south like the state of louisiana

[baddestbarbii]

Can you break down a Baltimore accent so I can fit in with my family???

[MrLoopyLoop1]

@luvnpeace12312 all of them piss me of X(

[alexandriajaye]

I'm not sure this guy has the best grasp on his general American accent, it sounds like he is gargling water.

[smallzie100]

@luvnpeace12312 LOL. Well I've lived in america for a long time. I just find my own language obnoxious XDD People where I live sound really german... Its almost funny but.. Still annoying~!

[haminloove]

Hahaha! This is great! I just had to laugh because its true, we make our selves sound horrible.

[ShadowDancer00]

It's so interesting to see the american accent broken down XD I bet it would be even funnier if it was southern (I'm southern and it's really hard to find someone that isn't from the south have an accurate accent)

[TeaISImportant]

@ShadowDancer00 SAME.

[bugstomper123]

@ShadowDancer00 I have to spend a week down south just to get close to a southern accent lol

[DreamzZ28]

@luvnpeace12312 california girl accent

[tubatony16]

guys good im all saying what he is and im like "holy crap" i didnt even know i spoke like that till now

[GrandAdmiralForrest]

Well apparently my pronunciation is more British than American...

[MrJIMBOISAWESOME]

@luvnpeace12312 i put them in order of annoyance their all very uneducated people rednecks= racist haters cali girl= dumb talking jersey= pisses me off thanks to jersey shore :) lol

[Gor3byss333]

Not all people from new jersey talk like the jersey shore people.

[MJHUGEFAN3]

@Gor3byss333 i know

[huntz22]

If you don't mind me asking...between 0:15 & 0:20 of this educational video, what was the question you originally didn't hear (i believe you say "whats up") and then replied "yep" too? who are talking too? what is the relevance of this clip of the video? and finally why are you wearing the headphones?

[AgentSoz]

@huntz22 It's just the title sequence.

[steffieXlin0]

or the boston accent, where we sound horrible and pronounce 'R's weird.

[MrJIMBOISAWESOME]

@luvnpeace12312 rednecks jersey and cali girl

[saf7001]

@Britishboyproblems Minnetsotan accents. Duh! :D

[saf7001]

@luvnpeace12312 you forgot Minnestoan accents

[ArtSmarts41293]

As interesting as it is to watch this, it seems like the general American accent is the least favorite among non-Americans.

To all NON-AMERICANS, is there any particular American accent you do tend to like more? Just out of curiosity...

[HeyItsMichaelaV]

@ArtSmarts41293 I really like southern american accent, to be more specific tennessee accent is my favourite, it's so calming.