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  • let's say, there are different accents all over the world and none of them are superior or inferior, but people (no matter what kinda accent they have) that call people they don't know twats are stupid idiots

  • Californian accent is basically ending sentences and words with a raised voice like you're asking a question. The word "like" is also used a lot as a filler. This guy does it, too.

  • i want to clear something up, most americans are to unintelligent to understand that their is actually no such thing as a British accent, Britain is made up of Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland and so there is no such thing as a British accent, England alone has 100's of accents

  • @AmpharosAdamHGSS That's ironic that you're accusing Americans of being unintelligent when you lack proper grammar and mechanics.

  • @AbbyRoseProductions i said most americans not all americans

  • @AmpharosAdamHGSS

    going by that logic there is no such thing as an "American" accent either. The average Brit probably would have trouble distinguishing an eastern accent from a western one (which isnt a Texan accent by the way. A Texan accent is a dixie accent). likewise americans have difficulty distinguishing the different accents within Britian. so people just generalize it.

  • @AmpharosAdamHGSS

    Get over yourself. Saying ">a< British accent" means there are more of them. I hate it that every time an American uses the word British, a stupid Brit will show up with a Geography lesson.

  • @missbethvanilla101 oh really? you're 14? because you sound 40 to me. And the only reason im ripping at you is because you said "you Americans" as soon as you said that i automatically labelled you as a racist idiot. You caught me at a bad time. And maybe i am wrong, but im not going to apologize for first impressions, seems 'you brittish people' do that all the time too. hope you have a wonderful day :3

  • Information does vary from person to person. It's a little disappointing when someone is judged by their ability to imitate an accent or knowledge of so-and-such. Sure, if someone else can kindly correct the mistake, it's fine: no need to say anything more (unkind) if the point is brought across.

  • @missbethvanilla101 i hate when people say "you americans" don't you realize that there good and bad people in whichever country? or are you THAT brainwashed by the media that you can't think otherwise? 'You brittish people, so stuck up and annoying'. And honestly, do you really think every person in america knows or even Cares about your different accents? We just generalize, im sure you do the same to our accents.

  • @missbethvanilla101 cool story bro

  • Preach it please, I hate when people imitate us because they ALWAYS over- exaggerate and realize huge amounts of people don't have the notorious "Spoiled Valley Girl" accent!!! It annoys us when we hear them. Such a giant misconception by the media.

  • There are people in California who talk like that, but that's mostly in the valley (as the name indicates). I'm from LA, so what I sound like and what I'm used to hearing isn't a "valley girl"accent. I pretty much sound like this guy.

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  • Omg every sentence you make sounds like a question! The Californian accent is so cute.

  • Im from Seattle, and on the west coast we have what is in liguistics referred to as a "general american" accent. It is pretty much the lack of a distinct regional dialect. The "like, uh, duh, whatever!" isnt much to do with actual accent, more flavor..Dont forget, the west coast is extremely liberal and laid back compared to the rest of the country...We arent old fashion, and we kind of have our own brand. This surely is the nature of "californian" flavoring to our talk.

  • I'm a middle-aged person living in Atlantic Canada, and I've noticed that a lot of young people around here are speaking in that perky "Valley Girl" way. It's very strange, because this part of the country is known for sounding kind of irish. As for your accent, zankokuvin, it sounds like "newsreader American" to my ears except that the tone isn't in the front of the mouth as it is when someone's projecting his voice as a broadcaster does. Western American accents don't seem strong to me.

  • Californians do sound like Valley Girls, you just aren't able to hear your own accent. And it's not just in California, that irritating, trashy South California accent is a hallmark of spoiled, upper middle class white girls all over the country.

  • Is it a California thing to smack your lips before starting to speak after a pause?

  • I agree with what you say, however, you pulled some stereotype of an English accent mate, Great Britain is not England, British people are not English, go anywhere in Scotland or Wales, we are British! and no being British does not mean you are English or ruled by English, in fact, you'll find Scotland holds more power over the United Kingdom today than England does. I can't understand how people fail to understand that British consists of 3 nationalities.

  • @ScottMcK9 I agree, im English and it annoyes me so i can only imagine how you guys feel. Its just poor education. I think perhaps because England is just better known, but thats no excuse.

  • @BlueMeanie89 I largely put that down to the media, there are a lot of great people in your country, it's your media which to me are bastards at times. But aye, I think the reason people world wide think this is because hundreds and hundreds of years ago, you'd have been known as the Brits, I don't think they're taught about the Unity of Scotland and England.

  • @ScottMcK9 Yeah, but to be fair in this day and age americans should be taught the difference, they did come from britain in the first place

  • @BlueMeanie89 a lot of their foundations certainly were, I agree. There are a lot of educated Americans, but some may have just missed out history. You seen the educational stats which proved it was way beyond other nations in Europe. I blame that on the scum that controls their country.

  • @ScottMcK9 Im English before im British!

  • I'm a born and bred SoCal girl and I feel I don't have an accent. My nieces are from Hawaii born and bred and have the same accent as me.The only distinct accents are the really obvious "redneck" or hard and stressed "NY accent".

    BTW I have a huge hunch some people don't even know what "Valley Girl" means. It originated in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles in the 1980's and Frank Zappa made a song of it where his daughter sang on it. It's a parody of how teen girls spoke back then.

  • How is it really different from the accents in other parts of the US? I'm from Florida and I sound exactly like you.

  • "they annoy the shit out of normal people like me"

    amen to that

  • Of course the even more educated can spell among

  • ha epic fail, "at the same time i just wanted to make sure that everybody in the world knew that we don't all sound like we're blonde"

    The educated amoung us know that not all blondes sound like that

    you also seem to think there are is a far higher ammount of blondes looking for hollywood than anyone else, stop stereotyping people

  • THERE SHOULD BE MORE OF THESE TYPES OF VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE. all i can find are brits and aussies trying to impersoniate Americans. they have no fucking clue what they are doing. HAHA. so good for you

  • @kodo1331 I think Scotland has had it far worse than America in this, because of the growing popularity of the Scottish accent, they seem to impersonate us as if we sound like Fat bastard lol

  • i think you sound " Normal American Language Voice Thing " :P

  • good job bro

  • Word brotha! We're all guilty of generalizing, over-simplifying, & stereotyping as we mimic various accents, it's nothing personal or representative of how we truly perceive a country or it's people. Sometimes I find it ridiculous how offended people get when you mimic their accent (particularly the Brits -.-) It's all playful, just for 'haha's and shouldn't be taken to such a level, where you allow yourself to take offense. I mean, no Jamaican is ever gonna bitch at you for saying 'mon' after

  • Theres so many different accents and california is split in to northern and southern accents. im from so-cal and it also depends on what part of town you grow up in. Im from the east basically the desert, mountain, valley people talk with bro accents. But its a southwestern accent 4 sure. arizona, so-cal, parts of navada accent kinda best way i can explain it.

  • Something I've noticed about us people with California accents is that we tend to end everything with a question? I'm also guilty of saying "um", but definitively not as exaggerated as most people might think we are!

  • Yea tgeres alot of stereotypical california accents. But some examples of people with "thick" cal accents are Steve jobs or Tom Delong of blink 182

  • Using words such as dude, like, hella, etc are not part of an accent.

    An accent is a manner of pronunciation of a language not the word choice. An accent consists of vowel shifts, rhythm, vowel stress, and other factors of pronunciation. For example cot and caught are pronounced the same in California. A business man in California and a surfer boy would pronounce cot and caught the same but you would never hear the business man pronounce like and hella.

  • I live in Oklahoma and a few years ago my family went on vacation to Hawaii. We switched flights in L.A. And there were to girls that were working in the airport walking down a corridor that led to a bathroom. They had the stereotypical California accent and it was hilarious! :D

  • SMACK YOUR FUCKING LIPS MORE HOLY JESUS FUCK

  • Hey California dude,

    Are you circumcised? :D

  • As a Californian I am annoyed that people think we all speak like obnoxious cheerleader/preppy/valley/what­ever accents. I do say "like" and "hella" but only in casual conversation. I think that a California "accent" is actually more about rhythm. I can't explain it becasue I live here lol. But there is a slight nuance.

  • There really isn't too much of an accent in Cali that is as noticeable as some of those in the Northeast such as Boston or NYC, and I could sense a hint of the cali accent in your voice but you are right, not everyone in the LA area is a surfer or a prep like everyone thinks, kind of annoying if you ask me

  • Dude, seriously. Californians have accents but it's more like a valley girl accent on a much much much more lower level. You can't tell if you're from here, but everyone else in the country agrees. But I can't tell cause I'm from here, homie!

  • THANK YOU. Very much. Really, the second I click on a video of what is supposed to be a shot at an American accent and hear "LIKE, TOTALLY!" I just close the damn tab. It's annoying as hell to hear anyone talk like that, American or otherwise. And very, VERY few people talk like that, so I have no idea why that's a stereotype of all Americans.

  • haha those stereotypical girls also annoy the shit out of me

  • if you're trying to do Northern CA, don't forget to throw some "hella's" in there :)

    also, if you say you're from "Cali," you're really not from there...

  • @snowballmouse

    i know who the hell came up with Cali anyway? Ive live the past almost 19 years calling in Cal-a-fornia not cali

  • you smack a lot

  • i'm australian and i get annoyed with the stereotype that all aussies talk like crocodile dundee lol so i understand your issue.

  • @1991MRjesse or like steve erwin :-) just kidding. i had a seminar about sociolinguistics. basically it said that there are 3 main dialects (and some regional ones): cultivated (a more prestigious dialect, often considered as snobby), broad (a strong australian accent that is often stigmatised) and general (the kinda dialect that is used by most of the australians)

  • @1991MRjesse i´m sure, you know that but that´s an info for everyone that´s not australian and those that don´t know that there´s a world outside of their country´s borders ;-D

  • mommy is vacuuming LOL

  • I was raised on the east coast mostly in New England.

    I think you have the stereotypical californian accent, long pauses and exaggerated last syllables. Which doesn't strike me as very different from valley girl accent. Of course you're not as high or have as much pitch changes, though i think it's a fairly standard variation among women.

  • Hi from France!!

    My hypothesis:

    As the basic English in the world is British, the Californian accent seems to be caricatured to you because of the difficulty of taking a foreigner accent.(A Brit speaking person would have to force his voice while speaking US) Moreover, this American accent is mostly heard in movies and TV in which an emphasized acting can make think all Americans would have these exagerated way of speaking, tone and attitudes.

    (Watching "Friends" in English just annoys me!)

  • Your sooo right, we don't talk like that and you don't talk like that eitherr :L

  • I know when I went to California the accent depended on if they were from southern or northern California. There were some Californians that did the "like" thing but it wasnt all intense like the valley girl accent.

    Your accent basicly sounds like the basic American accent.

  • I agree. I'm born and raised in California and found many English and Australians on You Tube that imitate American accents speak like "Valley Girls." Very stereotypical.

  • hahah I was looking up videos about Californian accents, and noticed how people stereotype Californian accents to "Valley Girl." I was about to comment you saying how you do a perfect Californian accent, not the stereotype, then you said you're from California and thats how you normally sound.

  • i agree here in england no one speaks like that its probaly as you said in calaforna no one is blondie stupid aswell lol

  • that´s a californian accent? that doesn´t sound the way i thought... like you´ve got a hot potato in your mouth and most likely americans kinda sound like that. so i even would say that this doesn´t even sound american. i´d say it sounds as if a non-native speaker that really knows how to speak english talks. but you know, i don´t really know. always thought americans (not the ones from the east cost, though) sound like john travolta :-D

  • @sophiadelphia

    Just stop, I live in Atlanta, Georgia (on the east coast) and I talk just like this guy. It is technically the accent used for educated Americans. It is the accent used on news broadcasts, movies and shows. The distinctions are as follows: Northern accent, Southern accent and a more generic accent (which is spoken everywhere and what us "normal Americans" speak).

  • so what´s the accent then that john travolta has? or like the guys from supernatural, if you know the show. i think they all talk like they´ve got a hot potato in their mouth. that´s the reason i always thought that all americans talk like that (if they´ve got no), i guess. there´s certainly a different.

    i really like the southern dialect, though :-)

  • @sophiadelphia

    What in the hell does "having a hot potato in your mouth" sound like? I really don't know what youre getting at with that statement...

    John Travolta just talks like a "tough guy" he doesn't have a nontraditional accent. There is also nothing wrong with the accents in supernatural unless your talking about the ghetto black dialect.

  • no i´m not talking about the ghetto african-american dialect. i guess you just don´t recognize it because you´re american yourself...

    the "hot potato" statement.... mmh... it´s like yout think that french have a cold because they´re language and their accent sounds really nasal. that´s why to non-americans americans sound like they´ve got a hot potato in their mouth.

    by the way, no offense, ok...

    sounds like your pissed off

  • Not everyone who is African American speaks with a "ghetto" dialect, nor is a "ghetto dialect" a (race specific) thing. There is African-American vernacular, and then there is slang.

  • @ukayoru yeah, i know. i just picked up insaneassyla´s words :-)

  • @sophiadelphia You're a twat.

  • i think you sound a little different than this guy. but it´s not the accent (i mean it´s not the rhythm or the stress or something like that)

  • Great Video.

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  • I wouldn't say this guy sounds californian i would say he sounds like anyone else of his generation(my generation also) who was raised by TV. My entire family is from Southern California and not one of us sounds like this. This is a Hollywood/Movie/TV induced accent

  • everyone in L.A SOUNDS LIKE PARIS HILTON LOL LOOOOOL

    THEY DO WHERE I LIVE L.A

    GOT IT ALREADY PARIS HILTON

  • I looooooooooove your accent. It's very understandable and I would see it again and again... ;)

  • pip pip cherio.

  • thank you!

  • It really depends on where you go in California. It's a huge state. Hell, even here in Wisconsin, the accent varies quite a bit as you go further north.

  • To me, a Briton, the most conspicuous part of American accents is the " noo " instead of " nyoo ", " toob " instead of " tyoob ", " toosday " instead of " tyoosday " " bedder " instead of " better ", and also " merry " said like " mary " etc.

    I'll come up with some noo examples lader.

  • Many accent also merge "caught" and "cot" and the vowel sound in "trap" and "bath". Many English accents that I have heard do not really differentiate between "pour" and "paw" (unless the following word starts with a vowel), but these sound completely different in the general American accent.

    The "new" thing is really annoying. It makes so much more sense when it is pronounced as "nyoo" but it just isn't over here.

  • Must annoy you, thanks for the video! Most Americans when they relate to anyone from the UK, they say "oh he's from ENGLAND" Grrrr Its Britain,UK. I'd like to clarify Wales, England Ireland and Scotland are all "parts" of the UK, only one section is England, you think maybe some say it cos we speak English? lol Im Welsh and in Wales we have soo many variations of our accent, some stronger than others, I sing & always told I lose any accent when I do. Odd huh. Merry Christmas. Emma.xXx

  • its very interesting that you say that, because i always say 'Britain', but i read some places that people in the UK dont like being referred to as British because it's too general!

  • thanks for this video, i have a friend who lives in fresno, ca that i have met on facebook and i was dying to know what he would sound like. im kaley im 22 from yorkshire in england which is up north a bit and your impression of english accent could not be more different than mine or a yorkshire accent. so i get what your talking about

  • Tilt the camera down next time. There's way too much head space.

  • preach it! I'm californian, and I've noticed that on average, we speak with much heavier voices, and our sentences can end in what sounds like a groan. Has anyone else made this observation?

  • I'm Midwest and I cannot hear much of a difference between the way you speak and the way I speak...

  • me neither and im from california.never knew we had an accent

  • @matthew562 LOL

  • @matthew562 Same.

  • I agree. I'm from Northern California and i hate those kind of people who talk like that.

  • I totally agree. I'm from Northern California and we rarely have 'valley girls' around. I'm also live in the Bay Area, so we are all very open and what not. But all together I find Cali to be layed back. And other's can say what they want about us, but people from California know the difference between their ass and a hole in the ground. And certain states can't say that much.

  • You're accent is awesome. I live in Germany but I really wanna be fluent in English and my accent sounds quit good :D

  • Californians uses proper English.

  • haha that's so cool =]

    being english, yeah i know that stereo-type haha but i think those people existed like 60 years ago. it's a lot different than that now!

  • yay :)

  • There's definitley a So Cal accent, mainly spoken by a younger generation. Most older folk speak Midwestern or Okie.

  • pure Californian my cousin speaks with this accents , sometimes I face serious problems understanding him :)

  • I love that accent :D Always wanted to sound like that XD

  • That was cool. I grew up in San Diego county, so I know there were a few valley girls, but we mostly speak like you do. And the whole "like" thing is something most girls develop as teenagers. I had it for a long time, and as I reached adulthood, I started to incorporate "like" less in my vocabulary (which was hard).

  • I know about 2 or 3 people who have that valley girl accent. it is really annoying lol i'm so tired of hearing "like" every other word.  it drives me insane if it's used too much.

  • haha! you're great ;)

  • good video. i, myself, am from California and i don't think i have an accent, but i can pull off the valley girl accent quite well. i'm actually using it for a play and everyone looks at me weird cuz here's a straight up mexican girl talking like some blonde cheerleader. it's pretty funny. :]

    great video. :]

  • do you have a really loud house?

  • you rock!! :)

  • i'm from ohio and i sound just like you, i don't think it's "california" i think it's a flat english without inflection or accent

  • yea i'm from jersey and i don't have an accent either. i don't say dawg or tawk or chawclate lol just standard american

  • your aresoem and so truee..

  • That's right.

    "How are you doing, governor?"

  • true stepping... great vid on accents! ;)

  • omg i looovee you! taha this is soo true, im from California and i do not have a valley girl accent!

  • It's people like you who make the world a more knowledgeable place. Thanks mate ;D

  • hey zankokuvin,

    that really good that you wanna clarify that, for my drama solo i need a californian accent you reackon you could please teach me?!! its for one of my final exams.. im using the movie the truman show.

  • THANKKKK YOU!!!!! OMGG! dude, watch my video! i basically saidd everything you dooo!

  • Whaa, I never noticed my accent haha, my cousins from michigan are here and have weird accents (canadian)

  • I don't agree. I am from southern cali, where you'll find a lot of those stereotypical accents among KIDS yes, they do exsist. But I agree with the video that they're rare.

    However I moved to northern cali recently where these accents are even more rare.

    north is very different from south imo.

  • this is the best video i've seen on youtube so far. i watch a lot of american films and am am becoming increasingly curious as to how to distinguish between regional accents in the states.

    i thought also that what you said about english people and stereotypes stands very true - i have travelled and lived in different countries in europe and south america and noticed that we all can't help but love a good stereotype!

    anyway, cheers for the video, very helpful.

  • I agree with this video 100%. I am from California and HATE this stereotype. I do say "dude" probably more than I should, but I know how to turn it off in professional and academic settings.

    And for all of you bagging on him because he tends raise his pitch at the sentence, realize that this is done very commonly in many cuntries such as France- it is not "valley".

  • a stereotype is one general idea that's given to an entire group of people. For example, all blondes are dumb is a stereotype.

  • I have the west siide accent, las vegas :) but anyways i like the minasota accent along with the new york accent....

  • oooo omg i just realized its a lip ring not a sore XD

  • As a brit i'd classify this as a normal american accent.

  • I wouldn't say you speak like the stereotype, but your accent (to me) sounds like a mild form of the "valley girl" accent. It's not overly exaggerated, but you can detect it. Such as picking up your words at the end as if it were a question. Over use of the word "um" and more importantly, "smacking of the lips."

  • yeah good call on the raising the tone at the ends of sentences. my best friend does that and i used to think she was asking questions when she was just making statements. but in the end, i picked it up from her and now i do it. oops. lol

  • @jmg544 Are you serious with this comment? Valley girl? Swear? lol Because you know, the rest of America doesn't use ums and smacks their lips.

  • Thank you for this. I am from Southern California. I am not some huge valley girl! Hahaha. I say dude, and like, A LOT!

  • haha, i agree with everything you said. "like looking for hollywood" this was funny

  • wich do you think is the nicest accsent in amerca

  • New York

  • id say midwest...around iowa, nebraska, illinois, and prettymuch everywhere now..its what you hear on most tv shows...i dont really notice a difference in the way most californians speak than the way i speak. i am from iowa, the main accents are southern drawl which be becomming rare... the canadian/northern us accent in minniesota/wisconsin, and the new york accent in northern new york and the upper east coast...pretty much everywhere else it is medwestern...

  • Like, yeah, people from California do use like a lot. First thing I noticed when I moved to NorCal from NJ xx years ago...

    But I see your point... it seems like when anyone outside North America attempts an American accent, it's usually valley girl/surfer Californian or general Southern, with the occasional New York thrown in. I'd love to hear a Brit, Aussie or Kiwi take a stab at Chicago/Midwest, Boston/New England or stereotypical Canadian hoser, eh.

  • amazing! Your accent is like that of many of my friends in California. Indeed, that's it. There seems to be something unique about CA accent ... can't quite pinpoint it. I think the stressed syllable is even, not stressed.

  • west accent = heavy errrr's ...i.e for sure=fer sher

    we also tend to make statements sound like they are questions with the cadence with which we speak

  • haha yeh i just noticed i say fer sure...thanks for bringing that up. im from iowa. with a general american/midwestern accent...some people think that iowans are creepy farmers, no cities, and southern accents...ive never heard an iowan use a southern accent in my whole life. and most of iowa is cities lol...or small towns in my case..

  • Beautiful way of speakin :)

  • I'm from New Jersey. I think that people from California, New Jersey, and Florida have the same accents from my experiences.

  • Oh wow!! People from NJ do NOT talk like ppl from California or Florida.

  • im from Iowa and i see that i talk the same as prettymuch everywhere. california, the west, the midwest...but lol no there are huge differences in the places u mentioned. CA-general midwestern...New Jersey-new your accent...vry noticeable in alot of cases...

    FL- slight southern accent,,east coast accent...

  • @TrinityBloodRox

    Learn English B4 commenting on it.

  • i know english well.

  • Is the "like" thing typical of California? I've just been there for a while and I heard it quite too often. Something else : Does the term "valley" girls have negative connotation? I'm non-native speaker and would like to take up an accent. Any suggestions?.

  • thanks for posting this. I get SO sick of foreigners(especially British,)  thinking we're all stupid valley girls. The British aren't all posh, and Americans aren't all valley girls. Don't get me wrong, I love British accents and the people there.

  • wahoo! california ftw !!!

    im from southern cali xP

    yea.. but i have some online british friends and i really like their accents its kewl :3

    but i didnt really know how to explain a californian's accent hahah

    xD

  • for some reason i like your voice.weird.

  • ha dude this is my cali accent take a look i am from australia what do you think. but one thing man look at paris hilton and all the rest you probably have not listined to how she speaks, thats how most of you talk there is nothing rong with it anyway, so insurcur about the way you talk.

  • ... who says the way you talk is strictly californian? i live in washington and you sound exactly the same as the people up here...

  • yeah im from seattle, u sound like a washintonian. but i think its all like west coast sounds the same. i agree, every time i hear a valley girl accent i want to punch that person in the face.

  • you r right the ediot just dosint like his vali girl accent, they so hate ther accent reply back to him i will show you my exact cali accent that they do, they dont want to admit to the why they talk, why dont they just talk they way there ment to what a buch of ediots ther is nothing rong with it its the accent of fame move awy if you are broke and hate the accent so much become something diffrent.

  • lol seriously no one can understand ur english. Iono if ur making all the gramar mistakes and typos on purpose, but seriously wut u typed here made absolutely no sense

  • hahaha THANK YOU...i've been realizin the same thing nd i come from NY....

    ~$tarr

  • I'm from Canada. And you do NOT have an accent. You may be from California, but you sounds exactly the same as people from all over Canada(except quebec) and most of the US(except the south).

  • exactly. it's not just a california thing...

  • 1) Everybody has an accent.

    2) Yeah, General Canadian English is very close to Western American English (CA/OR/WA etc) but the out/about would still be different (a-owt/a-baowt vs oat/aboat) and so would words like soar-ee/saw-ree. So it's not 100% analoguous.

  • LMAO thank you! haha youre hilarious the "valley girl" accent annoys the shit out of me esp when tourist come and talk about how we sound so different

  • I'm in love with you

  • I'm glad you posted this. Im from New York and when I was watching these, they're all valley girl accents. It seems like people think the valley girl accent is the only american accent. I don't know anyone who talks like that, and I hate the spoiled brats who do

  • I don't think the British australian people think we all sound like valleygirls.They have American tv & movies to know that, I just think that the valley girl accent is the easiest to emulate the same way that the posh accent is the easiest accent for us americans to emulate.Its not that I'm trying to stereotype all british people as hugh grant-esque and I know that there's a billion different british accents, it's just that my english accent sucks and posh accents are the easiest to emulate.

  • i agree 100%

  • Vince, are you from Norcal? Cause you have the CA accent closest to the South Central Midwest (KS, IA, parts of MO). You especially hear an accent that leans closer to the Midwest, in areas like Sacramento. All of California had a large amount of midwestern settlement from the late 1920's-50's though (in fact, that's one of the largest influences on CA English). It's just that parts of N.California, and

  • central CA held onto the Midwestern Sound a little more. You're right on the money though. It never bothered me, but many people DO think that we sound like that. :)

  • well i tell you what pisses me of, is when american people think us australians have realy dim witted accents and that we have like pet kangaroos and all that bull, we dont "all" sound dimwitted, so please cut the steriotype

  • like omg thats like totally ligit. like thanks man

  • THANK you!

    I'm from California and have never talked about going to the mall or any shit like that. Glad you made this.

  • thank god you posted this. some people are so stupid

  • You know why people tend to stereotype everything? Because it's much easier than realising that the accent may change just from a house to another in the same city.