The girl from Germany spoke english pretty well as a native speaker , sounds really fluent

@hanifleylabi8628

Жыл бұрын

She had quite an obvious accent though

@Noah_ol11

Жыл бұрын

@@hanifleylabi8628 agree , in fact , people from Germany are probably the easiest to guess , i mean , every time that someone from Germany shows up the others guess pretty fast

@dubmait

Жыл бұрын

Ye she has great english, but several words give her away.

@jaydensile

Жыл бұрын

Germanic languages flow together

@juu2356

Жыл бұрын

@@Noah_ol11 actually you can tell every native country by the accent of a person quite well, there is none who is easier or more difficult to guess. Because every language has its very own characteristics.

I don't see how any native speaker of English could get this WRONG.

@corsinivideos

Жыл бұрын

I think English language, so she got it right with the American.

@Progan666

Жыл бұрын

I'm not native, I've picked up on the "hidden" native right away. 🤦 not even close

@nulia0715

Жыл бұрын

I got it right the first time they were talking and im not even an English speaker

@youngc0930

Жыл бұрын

it is quite easy

@sheireland3737

Жыл бұрын

It was blatantly obvious who was native. The others placement of speech was all wrong. It’s the first thing people should learn.

I'm an English teacher in France and I would never have guessed that the French girl was from France. Her accent is so different to my students.

@hanaajanhangeer9516

Жыл бұрын

I am Mauritian so French speaker. She did a damn good english

@Kekepaniash

Жыл бұрын

Yes she does have a Singaporean accent. Malaysian and Singaporean sound the same

@spook2171

Жыл бұрын

she does sound French for example the way she said pizza

@marijosesanchez2436

Жыл бұрын

I am agree with u

@ragnarkisten

Жыл бұрын

wai do ju zai diz?

Its not that the girl from Germany had a thick accent, its just that a German accent is quite recognizable from how certain words are pronounced. So it is easy to identify even if its not showing up too often.

@Chuiboo

Жыл бұрын

Agree. Even the slightest hint of a German accent is quite easy to pick up because of very specific sounds (esp. vowels) they make.

@k.umquat8604

Жыл бұрын

I guessed she was Norwegian lol

@dansouthlondon9873

11 ай бұрын

That and also in the UK, I'd say we're exposed to the German way of speaking English more than any non-English speaking country, or at least most familiar with it anyways.

@Ivan-fm4eh

11 ай бұрын

The usual tell from a German is they devoice final consonants, so they'll, for example, pronounce "bad" and "bat" the same way (Bunt and Bund are pronounced the same in German)

@joanneaugust1489

10 ай бұрын

@@Ivan-fm4eh Actually, they're not. I pronounce "bunt" with a heavily aspirated, strong t, and "Bund" with an audible d or at least a mild t. I think the aspiration is what gives words ending in t away.

As a native speaker, I could tell right away that the second woman was the native speaker. I think it's a lot harder to tell when someone isn't a native English speaker (and it's the same for most languages I assume?) when they've chosen a specific accent and worked hard to really nail it, because at that point you only really have grammar or syntax to go by, and native English speakers butcher our own grammar all the time so even that becomes a dodgy method lmao.

@caraboska

Жыл бұрын

The weird part is that the second lady was not speaking with her native accent. She's actually from the States. I knew she was a native, but would not have guessed where she was from.

@yuenlucia5454

Жыл бұрын

I am not a native English speaker, but even I could tell right away that the second woman was the native one too.

@Rayvn7

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it's obviously extremely obvious and I'm not sure what wrong with the girl who is playing the role of a prize winner. However, I would have only eliminated the two on the end because the Asian is using poor grammar and a thick accent, so the possibility of deception exists. The two on each end have only slight accents, one has an accent only on certain words, so someone who is pretending is unlikely to be able to do that.

@ivonaivona668

Жыл бұрын

I'm not a native speaker and I could tell as soon as I heard the second girl speaking

@cmmndrblu

2 ай бұрын

Beyond spelling errors, what you're talking about sounds like dialectal differences, so while there may be variations in tense (you was/he were in some British dialects, or the fact that Americans say I wish you would've told me rather than I wish you had told me) the variation is still regular. There are some features which are very unlikely to change such as connected speech or the voicing of consonants, and two of the most obvious to me are the usage of prepositions and articles. They're hardwired for native speakers, have very little variation (some dialectal variation), and difficult to get right if it's your second language.

The German girl her accent is really good but she still has that German intonation of the German style of rhythm.

@frenchfan3368

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I agree. With the exception of an accent on a few words, her English is almost that of a native English speaker of the U. S. Quite impressive!

@simbabuu2724

Жыл бұрын

@L for native germans the german accent is pretty cringe😂 but she was actually rlly good! Its usually noticable with words like „that“ or „good“ because germans like to pronounce the whole word while most natives dont really pronounce the the t at the end of „that“ etc

@buccaschie

Жыл бұрын

@L as an American myself, I like the German accent. It's cute.

@buccaschie

Жыл бұрын

@@simbabuu2724 we do pronounce the T at the end but not loud. Idk how to explain it out. But sometimes we turn it into something similar to D if it comes between two vowels. I think we call it "stopped T".

@Daisika

Жыл бұрын

@L As an American, it depends on the accent for me. Some German accents can be very pretty and others can be a bit...jarring I guess? lol

Even I as a non-native speaker guessed that it’s number two after the first sentences they each spoke

@milamila7145

Жыл бұрын

really... I thought they have like awesome British accent and she should guess who's the intruder :D

@BernicePlayz

11 ай бұрын

same

As a native English speaker I realized who the native speaker was right away. Their foreign accents were still pretty noticeable and I’m guessing the person sitting up front was pretending to be uncertain just for the sake of the video?

@Usamamohamud

Жыл бұрын

Thats what i thought too, their english was really good but as a native speaker its just too easy to hear the tiny mispronounced letters

@Britishgeohistorian

Жыл бұрын

I don't think so considering she couldn't see them it's harder immediately and she doesn't want to get it wrong and look like a fool. I thought it was number 3 as a native speaker and that's with seeing faces and laughing and things

@irisc0510

Жыл бұрын

Wait, during a second I thought your comment was mine 😂 Hi fellow Iris :)

@Usamamohamud

Жыл бұрын

@@irisc0510 damn what are the odss😂

@dannymain542

Жыл бұрын

ikr it was so obvious who the native speaker was

The 2nd girl used the word "nope". That's an instant give away.

That's so interesting because as an Aussie, I was convinced the American was pretending to be English! 🤷‍♀️ But obviously the accent is my native, so I'm very familiar with it. Some of her pronounciations and intonations were English sounding. For many words, Aussies usually say T's as a D /soft sound, like Americans do. I saw an accent expert say recently that people less familiar with the Australian accent tend to hear it as an English accent because that accent is more familiar to them. And that's why it comes out that way when they try to do it. It's really not an easy one to do well 🙈. Kate Winslet in "The Dressmaker" and Dev Patel in "Lion" were probably the best I've heard.

@rachelgregory888

Жыл бұрын

She was pretending to be English!

@Teagirl009

Жыл бұрын

@@rachelgregory888 that's what I thought. But everyone in the comments said she was pretending to be Aussie 🤷‍♀️.

@beorlingo

Жыл бұрын

I'm not a native speaker. I often have a hard time telling a South African from an Aussie.

@TheGadgetPanda

Жыл бұрын

As an Aussie who has spent much of my adult life in the UK, she sounded Australian to me. I never would have guessed American. I think she did a terrific job.

@flamethrow868

Жыл бұрын

That expert was right, I'm not a native speaker and I had a lot of trouble picking an Aussie accent from a British one, honestly sounded the same to me; especially since there's so many different British accents. Now, after years of perfecting my english, I can recognize it more (it kinds of sounds like a mix of American and British, or like an American trying to do a British accent) but it's still not perfect. For example that lady in the video; I knew right away that she was a native speaker and probably not British because the accent sounded off; but I couldn't figure out if she was Aussie or just came from some region of the UK with an accent I never heard lmao (I didn't know they were allowed to fake accents)

I never knew I needed to hear Shannon speak in a British accent but I think I just fell in love with her all over again

This was just fun. Enjoyed it from Canada where we ‘almost ‘ speak English. I also speak French and guessed the one was from France right away. Hope you do this again.

As an American, I could hear all the native accents right away. The only one which threw me for a loop was the American girl who used an Aussie accent. I mean I knew beforehand that she was an American, but I couldn't understand why she spoke with an Aussie accent. I think I heard in another video that the American lived in Oz for sometime. As a Spanish speaker, I have been told that my Spanish makes me sound like a Mexican, and that makes sense because I lived there for almost two years. As a native, New Yorker, people notice I am a New Yorker right from the start. My bluntness just flows naturally

@will-o-the-wisp

Жыл бұрын

Thx. but who cares

@czas4

Жыл бұрын

@@will-o-the-wisp I do for one

@jaydensile

Жыл бұрын

@@will-o-the-wisp quite rude innit

@austrakaiser4793

Жыл бұрын

@@will-o-the-wisp bloody savage mate XD

@sxnxqa2335

Жыл бұрын

lmao theres no aussie accent in this video? tf you on about

As an American, I could tell right away that number 2 was the native speaker and the other 3 weren't (I've seen her in other videos too!). But yeah the accents of the others were quite noticeable.

@martijn6613

Жыл бұрын

For me as a non-native speaker it was also obvious right away, though I would have never guessed France for the third woman

@jan_kisan

Жыл бұрын

but did you guess she was American?

I'm Italian and it was obvious right away who was the native speaker

@malcolmz3626

Жыл бұрын

Right, i think the british girl was pretending to not know

@panselinapendragon1731

Жыл бұрын

@@malcolmz3626 yeah i think she’s just trying to make sure the video isn’t just 30 seconds long

@dannyesse3043

Жыл бұрын

Not that obvious

@wizard_of_odds2491

Жыл бұрын

@@dannyesse3043 yes it was very, VERY obvious. As soon as they all introduced themselves with 10 seconds, it was very clear that the 2nd one was the native.

My new favorite show on KZread! These are so awesome. I love hearing all the accents.

Heyy it’s Dia~ thanks for having me over! I was really nervous as it was my first time but it was such a good experience!! Hope everyone will enjoy the video :)) 💗💗

@O2life

Жыл бұрын

Very fun video! You did well enough to confuse Lauren, which was excellent!

Жыл бұрын

Je suis français et honnêtement j’ai eu trop de mal à entendre un accent français chez toi, j’étais mega surpris quand tu l’as révélé haha

@Serom

Жыл бұрын

Tu as l’accent français le moins français que j’ai jamais entendu haha

@abonnessansvideos-qn9yb

Жыл бұрын

Je sais pas d'où vient ton accent, mais il sonne pas du tout français, bien joué !🤗🤗 Tu parles super bien btw , j'espère qu'on te reverra sur d'autres vidéos ☺

@Mirahman8

Жыл бұрын

Hi. I was excited to know you’re half Malaysian! 😊

I really enjoyed watching that video. I'm not an English native speaker but always try to improve it, and it was fun to watch her try to guess where these girls came from !

So interesting. I want to watch more videos like this, guessing nationalities by their accents.

I imagine Shannon is how Tolkien imagined Galadriel to look like. And I now understand Gimli's pain when he has to leave Lothlorien, lamenting the fact that he has now seen that which is fairest in the world, and that nothing else will ever seem fair to him again by comparison. I finally get it. Poor Gimli, son of Gloin.

My friend’s son moved to Germany from the U.K. He’s been there for quite a few years now but recently he wore an English rugby team jersey into work. His workmates asked him why and he replied that he was British. They were amazed, they all thought he was German.

I cant watch these videos without thinking how much I would love to be there.

Lauren clearly by her voice alone is young ( the rising 'questioning' end of sentences, gives this away) and I would say has spent some formative time in either Ireland or Scotland.

the girl from france it was so funny that she almost spoke with a british accent but said fall for season, which americans say, and the american said autumn which is what british people say xD

This video is very cool! I thought that the girl from Germany was a native speaker. She has excellent speech. The girl from France has a very interesting accent. I don't know the reason but I thought she was from Asia. All girls are great! I'm not very good with accents but it was an interesting experience. I am not a native speaker but I hope that one day I will be able to speak English like them. In my opinion, accents complement the image of a person. I think the accent is a very interesting phenomenon. It is very voluminous. It seems to me that the science of accents will appear in the future.

@caraboska

Жыл бұрын

Well, she said she's half Malaysian. I could see from her appearance that she had some kind of Asian ancestry, but couldn't tell where from.

Loved that!

First I was sure number 2 is British (I am not a native Eng speaker). BUT then she said 'dancing' in the US way and I was puzzled but nothing else gave her away, good job with the accent!!

@thelightshineth8848

Жыл бұрын

Yeah she surprised me at the end when she came out with regular American accent... I thought she was British or "something else" for sure

Diah (n°3) really threw me, and I'm British & French! I was thinking: Danish? Hungarian? Maybe a different planet altogether? It was those glottal stops - very English to have glo'al stops, of course, but there was something different about these ones… indeed, a bit like in Singlish, la' (Singapore English). Lauren has a fine ear!

@nicoc6387

Жыл бұрын

@@BennyDACHO Well, you probably don't hear your own støds. But yes, the stops she was making sounded like they belonged at the end of a Thai syllable, not in the middle of an English word. Curious.

@6zwbob

Жыл бұрын

@@BennyDACHO my first though was Danish too but on the second question I though french/canadian-Indian(India Indian not native)

@Doedling

Жыл бұрын

@@nicoc6387 I think Danish people can clearly hear the glottal stops we make, because they sometimes distinguish two words from each other (many people might not be conscious that that's the difference, of course). But like Ben C, I also didn't think her accent sounded Danish. I didn't notice that she was making glottal stops, but even if I had, there's a lot of other reasons that it doesn't sound like Danish to me. Danish also has a similar r to French, and that doesn't mean that a French and a Danish accent sounds the same, right?

@nicoc6387

Жыл бұрын

@@Doedling Of course, it was only a very, very tentative guess because the phonetic mixture was so idiosyncratic. I think the 'other planet' option was closer.

The french girl sounded scotisch, gaelic, gentle and smooth, I am not native....Great English shes got! Nice show, great job!

When I started to watch this video, I saw Claudia, I laughed. Lauren and Claudia did a lot of World Friends videos, of course Claudia can't trick Lauren, she knew her voice ^^

Love Lauren, she's so funny and cute 🙃

I'm just waiting for Shannon to learn from her mistakes and really fool someone by intentionally making common mistakes, halting, etc to make her fake accent even better. I loved that pulled the whole "Autumn" thing. I was also really impressed with Diah, she said "Fall" and kept up her accent really well! The German girl hardly has an accent, compared to most Germans I've heard. I think she could pull off an American accent with just a few tweaks.

@TheEickert

Жыл бұрын

She has a very identifiable accent in the way she says consonants. Our accent smooths the t, d, k, z in a way that's really difficult for Germans. The other thing is the cadence of how she speaks. Even though she is fluent and really easy to understand, she would be very easy to id as a European to Americans.

@TheArmchairrocker

10 ай бұрын

Nope. Not at all.

No.3 said "British" in a very British way when she said she picked up words from her teachers.

lovely ladies.. cheers from Poland

Love the subtitle on this one - 7:06 - Number three, i'm sauce.

She got all correct. Specially the half Malaysian. I guess she have tons of exposure to many people from all around the world.

I am not even a native speaker, I haven’t even been to an English speaking country before yet I could tell the second girl was the native with certainty 3 mins into the video.

I guessed number two from her first word "hello". You can't hide that accent.

Having watched some of the videos on this channel, I recognised Shannon and the other 3(did not remember their names) so yeah, right away I knew who the native English speaker was.

@kristianbjrnjensen5388

Жыл бұрын

Knowing them is a kind of cheating in that game. It turned out, that if she had watched them, she , too, had guessed the right person immediately. They should have replaced the Spanish friend then.

In Singapore schools, we learn English as a 1st lang and our mother tongue as 1st/2nd Lang. For those among us who can cope with learning 2 languages and do well are then given the option to learn a 3rd lang (usu. Japanese, French, German, etc). But growing up in a multi-ethnic /multi-racial society and learning these different languages/native dialects could possibly mean the English we speak won't sound native (ie. British and rightly not so) unless we are taught all the time by British expat teachers. So for most Singaporeans, we have learnt to code-switch, meaning speaking Singlish in informal setting (like among friends) and switch to a more proper Standard English when required (eg. at business meetings and prob when speaking with foreigners so as to make ourselves be understood)

I feel like the German Girl was a bit pissed that she got caught so quickly because she thought her english accent would be better😅 but as a native German speaker I also immediatly recognized she is from Germany. But her accent is still really good way better than mine haha

@thawk5987

Жыл бұрын

Yes, her accent is quite good, but occasionally her 'th' became a 'd' in words like 'the'. Tough one to shed/ learn.

This video was so funny to watch because I went to high school with Shannon aka "Amanda" in the video, Winston-Salem represent!

Shannon is so pretty and gorgeous 😍

I’m not a native speaker but I got it right when they spoke their first sentences. I mean they are all very good, a lot better then I am, but It’s just super hard to change the way your mouth forms words .

@caraboska

Жыл бұрын

It's not actually that difficult. My secret sauce is to observe how native speakers of a given language smile, and then smile that way when I speak that language. It does wonders. Indeed, if you are already an advanced speaker, it can make your foreign accent disappear literally instantly.

I love that the spanish girl is the only one wearing slippers while the others are in socks. That's a very spanish trait xD

@Kekepaniash

Жыл бұрын

I think it’s because everyone has socks on besides her

that was good fun. im a Brit living in Portugal.

I looked closely at #2 quite a bit. I couldn’t hear her very well, but I could certainly see her… even after she walked away!

I really liked this video. It was very interesting to watch how the girl guessed the nationalities by the accent of others. I was amused by how her friend tried to hide that she knew her, and for this she changed her name and kept silent so that the presenter would not recognize her by her voice. I tried to guess together with the presenter, and my guesses were confirmed, I thought from the very beginning that the second girl had English as her native language. But I would never have guessed that the first is from Germany, and the third is from France. Their speech was very similar, but nevertheless, by the intonation, as the presenter said, it was possible to guess which of the girls is a native English speaker.

I can't believe it took her that long to guess the native speaker, I guess she only did it for the show. Not a native speaker but figured out who it was 10 seconds in, or whenever the native speaker first spoke. But I too thought she was Australian, would have never guessed American, so that was really good.

Супер! Спасибо) Ставила на девушку номер 2. Кстати, она нереально красивая🤗 да и все здесь очень симпатичные

how are they all so gorgeous?!

The easiest way to spot a non native English speaker is the way people pronounce weak forms in language. English people do it without even realising, the "shwa" is the most common sound in native English

@vanpallandt5799

Жыл бұрын

I am a Taff but dont recognise what you mean by shwa

@the98themperoroftheholybri33

Жыл бұрын

@@vanpallandt5799 it's how we shorten the pronunciation of A in words, such as "a", "and", "can" etc. It's more like a grunt "uh" rather than an a. You probably won't even realize you do it, but it's very noticeable once you listen for it

@vanpallandt5799

Жыл бұрын

@@the98themperoroftheholybri33 Welsh ppl though sometimes do opposite rather like Latinos do..they say for example in exaggerated style mi aammooor..Taffs say she was devvvvvastated

Beautiful challenge. It would be great if you make a second part.

I would love someone to "grade my english / be in a video" that's a big wish of mine since finding this channel I love speaking english

Shanon is so pretty ❤

goddamn give amanda an oscar i thought she was british

As an Australian, I thought Shannon's accent was British! But I thought she was a non-native speaker (but maybe had worked hard on her accent as an actor, singer or similar), because a) otherwise it would be too easy, and b) she said her soul food was "barbeque", and I wouldn't use "barbeque" as a category of food - but if she's American then that would explain it. I thought they all had really good accents. It was interesting how much stronger their accents were at the end when they relaxed, but their fluency increased when they stopped trying so hard to be perfect.

I guessed #2 correctly. I would not have guessed where each person was from though. All of their accents sounded mixed.

Just a minor correction for the title, it would be “Briton” not “British”. Otherwise, excellent work. This is an awesome video. Keep it up

@linkash4167

Жыл бұрын

I would say 'a Brit'

@Tayloraurrekoetxea

Жыл бұрын

@@linkash4167 yeah which is short for “Briton”

With number 3 is quite obvious she was trying her best to sound like a fellow brit though I could hear right through it. I've been to Malaysia many times and they really do love the British accent there, most of them fake it like her haha

@kaihocompany

Жыл бұрын

She said some of her teachers were Brits, if that's the accent she picked up from the people around her then she's not "Faking a British accent" that's just the accent. It's a fluid thing and people can hamp accents up if they want or feel comfortable with, even native speakers do it. Saying that they're therefore faking it seems quite disrespectful to me.

@joethong726

Жыл бұрын

Malaysia has it's own Malaysian Standard English (not to be confused with the pidgin Manglish).

@josemiloatis3714

Жыл бұрын

@@joethong726 straight english Some of these speakers are not using in the eight (8) Parts of Speech, mostly in the southeast Asia such as Malaysia, India, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei Darusalam. While Thailand, Lao, Burma, Vietnam and Cambodia. Still in the process... Lao, Cambodia and Myanmar they hired English teachers from the Philippines.

@JamesHuntingtonPHD

Жыл бұрын

@@kaihocompany That by its very nature means her accent is unauthentic since she wasn't born and raised in the UK. Number two the accent she is doing is not a way a teacher would speak as we're taught to enunciate every letter when speaking in our schools. The accent she is doing can only be learnt if you grow up in England or you fake it based on videos you see on KZread.

@kaihocompany

Жыл бұрын

@@JamesHuntingtonPHD So kids who grew up outside of England with an English father don't count according to your logic?! You can speak a language with a native sounding accent without having born there, so I don't see why you're claiming that that's not the case. If you've picked it up from other native speakers it is by default not a fake accent.

I knew no 1 was german when I heard the "odder" instead of "other"

I would love to do this, there is no way she would have guessed where i am from just because of my accent!!!

I already know the answer as soon as I saw all the girls. They all appeared in another video together. So that gave it away!

Recently, in a couple of English classes, we studied the topic of accents and discussed it with the whole group, and as homework we were asked to watch this video. I guessed all the accents from the video, except for the 3rd girl, because I never heard a French accent. 1 and 4 girls have a very distinct native accent. 2 the girl speaks without an accent, you can immediately recognize this. I liked the friendly, cozy atmosphere in the video, and it even turned out at the end that some of them already knew each other

@caraboska

Жыл бұрын

Actually, no. She was speaking with what for her was a non-native accent. She's actually American, but was speaking with what sounded to me like a New Zealand accent. The Aussies who have been commenting here say that they can tell she's not from Australia.

@painterguylincs

Жыл бұрын

Number 3 said she was from France, but her accent is not remotely French.

It was between 1&2 but 1 seemed to overcompensate and speak more complicated than necessary Native speakers usually don't add on extra language features to sentences

initial impressions: Scarlett sounds European/German, Amanda sounds native, Hannah makes some grammatical errors and sounds slightly Asian, Kaitlin sounds European/Spanish. Let's see how I did. Yup. For any non-native speakers watching, yes it is obvious IN THE FIRST ROUND they could have stopped after the introductions .Also I think the British Accent is one of the hardest to imitate without giving yourself away, but at the same time, most of us really don't care if you have an accent, if you have a good level and we don't have to slow down to speak to you, then you've reached your goal. We know that the whole world speaks English and makes a huge effort to speak English, and that's reflected in the diversity of accents that people might have even if they've been speaking English since they were a kid.

Awesome!

That was fun! The German actually was a surprise for me, I thought she was from Eastern Europe. I'm from Germany myself and didn't recognise her accent as German at all! And I also thought the American was from Australia 😄

@tomstern9498

Жыл бұрын

Also from Germany - and I also struggled to locate her - a lot of "it can't be this or that" - not eastern Europe, that was my Idea about number 2, but at the End - her English melody sounds so familar to me that I had to ask myself if I shouldn't better go to the ear doctor *lol*

I got it right instantly. It's so easy to spot the native speaker. And I learned english at school.

Lauren you are a star

I lived in Uk for 38 yrs. I speak English all my life. But some people can still hear my Singaporean accent. However, when I go back to Singapore people there thinks I sound more English.

Claudia was having a really hard time trying not to burst out laughing 😂

@user-jr6gx1qd8k

10 ай бұрын

Did you get what real accent she has ? Is she from Spain ... cause, she didn't mention, like they know each other, but I heard she said something about Spanish, and maybe I got her wrong, and Spanish was what she tried to imitate .

@janslavik5284

10 ай бұрын

@@user-jr6gx1qd8k Yes Claudia is Spanish. She's in multiple videos on this channel, although it has been a long time since she was here last time.

It was really interesting to watch since we discussed the topic of accents in an English lesson yesterday (actually, this comment is part of my homework /he-he/, but a video is still very entertaining). It was easy to guess that 4th girl (Claudia, aka Kaitlyn) was a Spanish speaker because of her strong accent. The funny detail was that she knew Lauren and tried her best to remain unrecognized. Diah (Hannah) got me confused because sometimes I heard a British accent... Like if she spent a few years of her life living in the UK. She was good at hiding her french pronunciation of "r" (or maybe I am just a victim of stereotypes lol). Shannon is so good at imitating the Aussie accent. It was so slight, so I didn't know she was imitating it or trying to hide it. And I couldn't guess Scarlett's accent since I had never heard a German accent before.

@Emma-lb1vf

Жыл бұрын

I was 100 percent certain that the fourth speaker was Slavic so I was really surprised at the reveal that she was Spanish

The test has gone totally broke and messed up for me pretty much from the very start,as i just recognized Shannon from other videos so her identity was no mystery at all,also for some reasons i assumed there had to be TWO native speakers so i was tryin' hard to reveal the second one lol Picked number 3 because she sounded British to me,turned out to be french though lol That was fun anyways,thanks for the video!

Funny thing about Lauren - missed at the beginning that she is from the UK - so I thought there is something "american" in her accent 'cause she speaks more in the back of her throat - but finally at the "can't border" I got it. Some ideas where she exactly comes from. Last but not least a question I'm very interesting in: Is it possible to here in some american accents the origin of the ancestors. Sometimes ago I've listened to someone from North Carolina and I thought that there is possibly something that reminds me a bit of a sottish origin.

To be honest, most people claiming that english is an easy language only say it because they've been learning it since a young age, so the grammar and vocabulary seems natural to them. It is definitely not one of the hardest, but I wouldn't say it is an easy language. Ofc, if you're from a country that speaks a Germanic language, it might be easy. Despite not having a complex conjugation system, no genders and no grammar cases, english is complicated in a lot of ways: pronouncing english words correctly is actually not easy (takes a lot of years of practise to get it right all the time), pronunciation rules of words are not consistent, lot of irregularities, one verb can have dozens of meanings and uses (ex.: to have, to take). Because we have been learning english since we were young and used english for a lot of things (music, movies, comics, internet, gaming, etc.), we tend to assume that it is easy to learn it.

@angeldude101

Жыл бұрын

The _grammar_ I don't think is _too_ bad, but English has a few uncommon phonemes that can be tricky for non-natives to distinguish from more common ones. There's also the _big_ problem that while we speak Modern English, we don't actually _write_ Modern English. We write _Middle English_ for the most part, which itself is largely (badly) Romanized Old English. The spelling irregularities largely come from the differences between Middle English and Modern English and how _some_ words have been updated to better match the pronunciation, but not all nor in all places. The most egregious differences are from the Great Vowel Shift, which got rid of most English long vowels and replaced them with diphthongs while also _rotating_ "a", "e" and "i" so that "a" sounds like /e/, "e" sounds like /i/ and "i" sounds like "a", but _only_ where they used to be long vowels (and are now usually diphthongs). This wouldn't be too big of a problem if it wasn't for words (mostly of Latin or Greek origin) changing their stress patterns with affixes, and by extension turning short vowels into their rotated diphthongs or vice versa.

The German girls English accent sounded almost American. Except for a few intonation parts here and there, I might have beloved she was American and just lived abroad for a long time.

@hamuandxerxl4255

Жыл бұрын

She has an eastern European accent mixed with some American. When she started talking I was sure she's Russian. At least until now I thought as a native German speaker I can detect a fellow creature. I'd like to know her background.

@00bean00

Жыл бұрын

​@@hamuandxerxl4255 es war vom eastern Wort wie Wolf in Schafsanzug

@linkash4167

Жыл бұрын

It sounded Northern Irish to me at times

@caraboska

Жыл бұрын

You know... yeah. I've heard Americans who have lived abroad for a long time. And frankly, after hearing them, I have to consider it a miracle that my American accent is still as good as it is after over 30 years abroad...

I kept listening to the third girl, I still couldn't pick up any bit Singaporean/Malaysian. You're good. I thought you got the third completely wrong there.

@newbris

Жыл бұрын

As an Australian I thought Malaysian so was very surprised with the French reveal.

@caraboska

Жыл бұрын

She has some truncations that are typical of Chinese native speakers. They are very subtle - i didn't really pick them up until she mentioned she was half Malaysian.

Lauren, Claudia, two root stars of this channel!

Lauren's facial expressions while Shannon or Amanda was introducing herself 😄

Would love to see foreigners guess United States accents apart, theres too many to count.

🇮🇩 kaca : glass and mirror : cermin, toothpaste : pasta gigi and odol is toothpaste brand (from germany in 1940's) maybe 😅

#2 is naturally beautiful

Is it just me that watched the whole video thinking that she was trying to pick out the British person out of all 4 and then when the last person said she was American I got really confused 😂😂

Lauren, I love the videos that you and Christina are in them!

Number 2 is so much more attractive with the Aussie accent. I thought she was an Aussie trying to do an English accent.

@caraboska

Жыл бұрын

I thought she was Kiwi myself :)

Очень милые girls независимо от произношения!

A few non-native speakers add prepositions that are grammatically collect, but not colloquial. "I hope that you will enjoy" vs "I hope you will enjoy". Of course, a strong non-native accent also is a pretty good indicator.

@Palimbacchius

Жыл бұрын

Where's the preposition in "I hope that you will enjoy"?

@7HPDH

Жыл бұрын

It’s a conjunction

@Palimbacchius

Жыл бұрын

@@7HPDH Indeed it is. Not a preposition.

@caraboska

Жыл бұрын

Adding in the conjunction "that" just sounds more formal. It's not enough in and of itself to make someone sound non-native.

@Palimbacchius

Жыл бұрын

@@caraboska Exactly.

Im Turkish and i can find Turkish people speaking English so easily no matter where i am in the world. Turks who dont work excessively on pronouncation are way easy to tell by accent. I also easily understood number 2 is native without lookin at the screen.

I always hope in these videos that there is a Dutch speaking person (someone from the Netherlands or a Flemish person from Belgium). Because Dutch-speaking people are very fluent in English and are one of the best English-speaking "peoples", except for the native English speakers.

@caraboska

Жыл бұрын

Yes, the Dutch and Flemish can sometimes pull off a perfect American accent. Rather not a British accent though.

@painterguylincs

Жыл бұрын

It's true that many Dutch people speak excellent English, but the accent is instantly recognizable to English people. As a native Londoner I can accurately identify dozens of accents no matter how well someone speaks the language because I am used to hearing people from all over the world speak English on a daily basis, and trust me... NO ONE can fake an English accent (except maybe Meryl Streep). The Scandinavians are also superb English-speakers, but while their accents are just as "not-English" as the Dutch, most Brits can't tell the difference between a Dane and a Swede. (I can).

@caraboska

Жыл бұрын

@@painterguylincs It is quite true that Germans and Dutch people can't do a British accent. I've heard Poles who can do a good British RP, though. What Germans and Dutch people can sometimes do flawlessly is an American accent. I've met a couple whom I wouldn't have copped onto even after spending an entire evening with them. But a Pole won't be able to do an American accent unless they moved to the States when they were probably no older than 14. I've heard Poles even younger than that who had trouble with an American accent.

I liked the video!! The girls communicated very well with each other. It was fun to watch how the girl tries to guess who is from which country (most of all I was amazed that she could find Asian roots in the girl because of her accent!!) I liked the creative choice of questions with which the girl tried to find out what kind of accent every girl has. I couldn't hear the British accent, I thought it was the first girl (but she has very good pronunciation and vocabulary!) And I liked the idea that you can hear the accent with the help of pauses and intonations

When I first heard Diah speak I immediately picked up an Asian accent too. I didn't look at her face until after hearing the accent, but hearing it, I then looked up at her face to see semi-asian features. The accent comes out mostly in the final consonants she dropped (and the pattern of them). She didn't really change consonant sounds (like th/d) that I'd expect from a French accent (that also drops some final consonants, but in a different pattern). I'm guessing Malaysian is co-native with French for her.

@caraboska

Жыл бұрын

Yes, exactly. Those truncations are typical of ones I've heard in Chinese native speakers, although in her case they are very discreet because she's a quite advanced speaker of English.

@TurtleJulia

Жыл бұрын

She also dropped a bunch of articles, which I see a lot in people whose first languages don't have them.

Before the reveal: Number 4 is faking and is a native English speaker. Number 3 is maybe from Asian country where English is commonly spoken. Number 1 is European, I think Nordic rather than German, though. Number 2 I wasn't sure if she was just a very well trained second language speaker or an Australian. After the reveal: Ah, I didn't realize that the 4th person was trying not to talk because they knew each other, not because she couldn't fake a foreign accent. That really threw off my guessing. AND the American trying to do an Australian accent is what threw me off for her because I could tell some things were off but she really sounded good.

Three and four were giveaways by the way the pronounced France, with an "ah" sound, Fr-ah-nce.

This video would be much better if you found people whose accents were almost like those of native speakers of English

The French girl who majored in English a and tried to sound English used an American word for autumn (fall) curiously.

@LieuNoir

Жыл бұрын

yes I noticed it as well and thought, ups you're not British 😉

@ddizon666

Жыл бұрын

Did u know u speak more French than English

I think it's gonna be interesting to do it otherwise also, like having some really advanced learners hiding among the natives, and seeing them struggle with some really cultural questions.

The teacher is sooo pretty

the second girl is so sweet and pretty

i freaking knew number 3 was speaking South-East Asian English haha i thought she maybe from Thailand Malaysia, Singapore or Indonesia