Tom Holland sounds like he’s faking it when he does his normal accent

@avao3914

4 жыл бұрын

thelilcrunchy omg i’ve always thought this

@barkboingfloom

4 жыл бұрын

But then Benedict's American accent as Doctor Strange, opposite Tom Holland, sounds forced. Or maybe I am so used to Benedict's natural voice, thanks to Sherlock.

@user-gp5iy3dq3i

4 жыл бұрын

Not really

@kuniosaiki

4 жыл бұрын

Not at all

@AarmOZ84

4 жыл бұрын

We had Tom Holland at a local convention and he sounds like he was the product of boarding school so he was probably trained to either speak with a received or high received accent.

I'm British, but sometimes when I'm using voice chat in games people think I'm just an American doing a bad British accent. Apparently even I can't do a good British accent.

@DomWeasel

6 жыл бұрын

Often enough, it's because people don't know how normal English people sound and only have very well-spoken English actors to go by like Benedict Cumberbatch, Emma Watson, Keira Knightley, Judi Dench, Stephen Fry and Michael Caine. I like seeing comments about John Boyega (Finn from Stars Wars) normal speaking voice because people really struggle to comprehend he speaks with a normal Urban English accent, one you can find in most cities.

@ZipplyZane

5 жыл бұрын

Do you talk in your videos? I kinda wanted to hear your accent, but I clicked on a video and it seemed you don't talk.

@kirsty9084

5 жыл бұрын

British accent is southern to Americans.

@jasonomnia9295

5 жыл бұрын

You'd be surprise how bad people are at telling accent, sometimes event the accent from their own country. Like aussies accusing Jim Jefferies aussie accent is faked so he can pleased americans because he's living in the U.S. When in fact his accent stayed the same even before he lived here. I've seen his stand up specials in the UK while living in the UK, and even then his accent is the same as it is now. Another one I can name right of the bat are the Canadians saying "we Canadians don't say "eh", I know this because I'm from Canada" meanwhile I watched Highway Thru Hell filmed in British Colombia, Canada, and all those people LOVE saying eh at the end of their sentences, and also oot (btw the oot sounding is not as hard as Americans exaggerated it, it is a lot softer, but we can still hear it). So maybe you don't hear it often in your neighborhood, but people in BC sure as hell do.

@doctorvanya

5 жыл бұрын

I had a similar experience a few years ago. I was chatting to an American girl outside a nightclub in Ottawa and despite using my normal speaking voice was asked to stop speaking in 'that fake British accent'. I'd been in Canada a few months at that point so maybe that had something to do with it.

I think British actors put a lot of effort to perfect their American accent cause they won’t be employed in Hollywood if they don’t have the right accent. American actors don’t have that added pressure Also, most Americans aren’t as exposed to British accents as the brits are to Americans. They most exposure they get (especially while growing up) is like peppa pig or something

@Sub4CarClips

3 жыл бұрын

Tbh you’re right about peppa pig

@Emcobb2

3 жыл бұрын

I think it’s because most American English is very relaxed, we have lazy mouths. I think Brits of all types use more physical structure to speak so it’s easier to relax into speech rather than have to engage more more movement to do so

@prash175

3 жыл бұрын

British actors or directors aspire to have a great American dream and not necessarily vice versa.

@lotusinn3

3 жыл бұрын

@@prash175 Very well put.

@ArtisticAutisticandAiling

3 жыл бұрын

I love watching Monty Python, Gordon Ramsay and films from the U.K. I was born in the States but I have English descent, yet kind of taught myself a custom accent because I have had people tell me I sounded like I'm from Britain and that was when I was speaking in my original accent. :) Luckily I didn't learn my accent from Mary Poppins ;D

His English accent was superb, but as someone from Wales that was slightly painful.

@AlmightyGammonsayssuckyourmum

4 жыл бұрын

no who tf says the t in 'that'll'

@TesniSouthwell

4 жыл бұрын

AlmightyGammon Me

@ihatefrankiero

4 жыл бұрын

Why

@TesniSouthwell

4 жыл бұрын

whoop S H it wasn’t very good. Most of his accents are great though

@deepstariaenigmatica2601

4 жыл бұрын

@@AlmightyGammonsayssuckyourmum anyone that knows english

This whole time I thought Christian Bale was American.

@randiwise119

4 жыл бұрын

Roxanne Gutierrez Lol!! Really? That’s funny! I believe he’s originally from Wales.

@davidwise1302

4 жыл бұрын

In the USA we recently finished a Batman prequel, "Gotham", which featured a Welsh actress, Erin Richards. Beautiful neutral American accent in her performances. Then in an interview, her natural speech came out. What a shock!

@RootyTootTootin

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao I had mostly seen him playing Americans, and the few times I’d seen him play Brits I thought he was imitating a British accent, it wasn’t until the first time I saw him in an interview or award ceremony or something that I realized he was British

@1swerdna

4 жыл бұрын

I just learned he wasn’t American. I don’t know anything anymore.

@cottonrabbit1685

4 жыл бұрын

Wait he isn't?

I worked with a Scottish guy for months in Alaska before I learned he wasn’t American. Another one of our coworkers asked him how and why he had such an American accent. He said “Taco Bell.” We were like “whut?” And he was like “yeah I really like Taco Bell but they could never understand me at the drive through until I started talking like an American.”

@LividImp

4 жыл бұрын

I honestly don't know how Scotts understand other Scotts.

@Adv18

4 жыл бұрын

Livid Imp because Scots who are around Scots would be speaking in Scots-English so would be able to understand each other. If you don’t speak Scots-English then of course you will have no bloody idea what they are saying as you don’t speak the language.

@LividImp

4 жыл бұрын

@@Adv18 Are you familiar with the concept of a "joke"?

@mohammedfahad3564

4 жыл бұрын

Scottish ppl r the best british ppl outa Britain

@Adv18

4 жыл бұрын

Livid Imp yes, a joke is something that is usually constructed to be funny. Your “joke” came across as a statement rather than a joke.

I feel like when I hear a British actor doing a poor American accent, it’s usually that they’re putting TOO much emphasis on the R’s.

@chrisbirch4150

4 жыл бұрын

too much emphasis on the Rs or they overcompensate for that problem by narrowing the lips too much. Big example of latter is Martin Freeman. Makes a little funnel with his mouth on every R

@ishalakbar4294

4 жыл бұрын

emma watson for sure

@plutoplanet

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you can tell they're really thinking about it. As one would, obviously.

@HessianHunter

3 жыл бұрын

I had a professor from Vietnam who did the most comically overdone rhotic "r"s possible

@EnigmaticLucas

3 жыл бұрын

It might be because British people don’t know how to pronounce R-colored vowels, and use full-on Rs in places where they should use R-colored vowels. Or maybe it’s because the American R is either bunched or retroflex, whereas the British R is alveolar.

When Rick was screaming "Carl". It sounded like he was saying "Coral". Which was a key thing for me the actor wasn't American

@indigoziona

3 жыл бұрын

Omg I wondered what all the Walking Dead "Coral!" memes were about, thanks!

@jones2277

3 жыл бұрын

Bingo. It's always exaggeratedly southern or western.

@randomdude4669

2 жыл бұрын

Even the normal American accent kinda sounds like coral

@pmason6076

2 жыл бұрын

He was... he REALLY wanted to find some coral in that scene!

@calebclendenin7073

Жыл бұрын

@@jones2277 I‘m from Georgia and I‘d say the way I say it sounds more like car-ull like the ull in dull

Americans when doing English accents: *pronounces every consonant*

@oh_kay2954

4 жыл бұрын

birdspiracy no no, Americans when doing English accents: skips every “t”. Signed, an American.

@steorbord

4 жыл бұрын

@@oh_kay2954 Fair do's, that's definitely true when Americans attempt a "non-posh" English accent. Not that I'm trying to be insulting or anything, I'm English and I'm hopeless at doing an American accent!

@digdogg_

4 жыл бұрын

OH_KAY ••• but when we do say ‘t’, we make sure to make it really sharp

@maggpiprime954

4 жыл бұрын

@Dante Alighieri Haha! You've totally got me testing those words out to see which way I pronounce them! Conclusion: Both... ways? I think? Prolly depends on whether I'm tired. I think I lean more towards the _t's._ Come to Toronto. No-one will notice or care!

@maggpiprime954

4 жыл бұрын

@Dante Alighieri I remember when the Loonie came out, and later when the $2 coin was about to be introduced, there was a contest for naming it. I was all for "dubloon" or "dubloonie" (double loon, double loonie). That'd be so cool! Active pirate treasure! "Ahrrr, matey! Have ye got a dubloon I kin borrow? I've a hankerin' fer a double-double!" (coffee at Tim Horton's, double cream, double sugar) What'd we get? "Toonie." Wtf. Oh well. Anyway, I hope you get a chance to visit other parts of Ontario once we can all safely mingle again! I've lived here all my life and I still feel I haven't explored as much as I could.

I'm Scottish, so Siri never had any idea what I was on about until I developed my Californian accent.

@deathreaper2352

5 жыл бұрын

Lol.

@steakndcheese

5 жыл бұрын

You made me cringe

@everythingfunandcrafty2596

5 жыл бұрын

I’m Californian. Didn’t know I had a specific accent 😝

@steakndcheese

5 жыл бұрын

@@everythingfunandcrafty2596 stfu

@Oxley016

5 жыл бұрын

Everything fun and Crafty so you are confirming there is only a single American accent?

I find that English people tend to hit their Ts very hard and Americans deaden their T pronunciation. So in phrases like "a lot" or "at all", you'd find a lot of Americans may pronounce the T like a D or even not at all, and the words tend to bleed together.

@Unfamous_Buddha

11 ай бұрын

Yes, I think Brits use more calories when the speak. Maybe that's why they're thinner. When I (an American) say, "butter," to me, it seems or sounds more relaxed and fluid, the syllables melt together. But when a Brit like Russell Brand might say it, to me it sounds more choppy, interrupted, like two separate words "butt er" - like the second syllable sounds more forced.

@thelegendboy1234

8 ай бұрын

@@user-kr2gq9gv9i you dont say picture phonetically tho? you say "pic-chure" like the rest of the english speaking world. wednesday is "wensday" for american english and you guys have no problem with that but then when it comes to saying tuesday differently than how its spelt, you decide to be different for some reason. American english also says "inneresting" or "innernet" or "twenny" so idk why you think its a british thing to not say the "t"

@Brauljo

4 ай бұрын

The "t" in "at all" is a voiced alveolar tap [ɾ], which is an rhotic in multiple languages, such as the "r" in the castilian "caro".

Peter Dinklage, Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr, and Gwenyth Paltrow. Great British Accents. Simon Pegg, Rebecca Hall, Clive Owen, James McAvoy, and Alice Eve, British Actors who nailed American Accents

@drys3136

Жыл бұрын

Ehhh Peter Dinklage's accent wasn't that great (speaking as an English person). His vowel sounds were all over the place. He doesn't sound like an American doing an accent but he doesn't sound properly English either. I'd add Renee Zellweger to the good list though, her English accents are always flawless.

@nekrataali

11 ай бұрын

Accents in Game of Thrones never bothered me because it's all made up. Westeros and Bravos aren't real place. It's not like Tolkien who made a world to put his fictional languages into. And even then, it's not like there's native speakers for Sindarin.

I didn't even notice he switched his accent midway through. Iconic.

@bobcatman0121

4 жыл бұрын

How you notice then? 🤔🤣

@WildWaver

4 жыл бұрын

@@bobcatman0121 Comments, bro. But good try

@bobcatman0121

4 жыл бұрын

@@WildWaver I know that's why I put the laughing face

@WildWaver

4 жыл бұрын

@@bobcatman0121 "It's just a joke, bro!"

@redeye3087

4 жыл бұрын

Tyler Fulco and I can tell your a rude shitpiece 9 year old tryna get into a fight. Go play with your action figures Tyler. Mom’s gonna get upset

He’s faking an American accent the whole time

@gregwessendorf

5 жыл бұрын

He's actually Canadian

@PiercedPixie

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, plot twist. lmfao

@MaggiePayne916

5 жыл бұрын

He sounds Irish

@Schneeeulenwetter

5 жыл бұрын

MaggiePayne916 he doesn’t sound Irish. maybe the “there” a bit, but not so much

@kevyhot

5 жыл бұрын

Impressive

ugh it annoys me when people constantly do British accents with RP most of us don't speak like that

@arig8905

3 жыл бұрын

I speak RP....

@BungieEmma

3 жыл бұрын

@@arig8905 I meant like overly exaggerated like the queen. Not like BBC English. If that makes sense. This comment was a while ago.

@blnkrse3073

3 жыл бұрын

And not all of us eat hamburgers everyday and weight 500 pounds. Welcome to a stereotype

He switched between American and British accents so easily I didn't even realise

This dude just went from unarguably American to unarguably British in 0.2 seconds flat. Incredible, I'd love to be that talented at accents.

@reggiebarrow5410

5 жыл бұрын

same I wonder how long he's studied accents

@ThePenguin369

5 жыл бұрын

British isn't 1 accent so pick one lol

@tomemery7890

5 жыл бұрын

The British accent was really good, one of the best I've ever heard... but whether he intended to or not he skipped through about two or three social classes. But we do that sometimes anyway. For example, in a conflict situation when you want to sound tough it doesn't help if you sound like Benedict Cumberbatch. Unfortunately, in real life posh British blokes don't have wands, superpowers or a private army of minions.

@igreatbritishweather

5 жыл бұрын

He actually got the 'o' sound right but still a tad inconsistent

@rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr0

5 жыл бұрын

Where in the video? All his accents sounded exaggerated

I think it's partly because of the amount of American media we consume as British people. We are constantly surrounded by american movies and tv shows all our lives so its easier to imitate the accent.

@dannyboy5086

5 жыл бұрын

normie twice removed Because I've always wondered what the American accent sounds like to Brits, I like hearing Brits trying to do an American accent. They usually slightly overemphasize certain aspects of our speech, which gives me interesting insight to the way we sound. But you're right. Our exposure to British accents is largely limited to news reporters, Harry Potter, and Top Gear lol.

@SankofaNYC

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly... That just isnt the same in the US... We often just hear Americans speak and that's it

@Delboy0

5 жыл бұрын

Not true because many British actors are good at European, African and Australian accents too and there isn't much of their media in Britain. It is just British has so many accents and many of them difficult to do that doing foreign accents is very easy. Charles Dance is from Yorkshire David Craig is from Liverpool but I never heard either actor speak with their true northern accent because you don't get many movies with Northern English men as the hero. That is why so many British black actors are good at American accents because Black actors don't get work in the British movie industry so learn how to speak American to get work.

@magicman3163

5 жыл бұрын

Delboy0 what British actors can sound European and Australian and South African its almost like it’s all the same thing.

@LilithDaHobbit

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe that’s why I’m pretty good at a British accent. I watch British television and films religiously

I love how the “good british accents” aren’t how a single brit would ever sound

@seeyouchump

3 жыл бұрын

Don't know what you're talking about. The Michael C. Hall was pretty convincing!

@bigmoniesponge

3 жыл бұрын

@@seeyouchump I wouldn’t be able to notice he wasn’t english.

@blubfishuwaaa

3 жыл бұрын

not all brits speak "bri ish", personally i speak with a very cultivated english accent, Michael c. halls one was really fking convincing ngl

@joe94c

3 жыл бұрын

Brad Pitt in snatch with the best pickey accent

@gfoot9916

3 жыл бұрын

@Wid Eye nah. It was good. stop hating.

As someone from Wales, that accent was disappointing smh

@gunslingingbird74

3 жыл бұрын

Cut him some slack. It's hard for people to imitate the accent of a vacuum cleaner sucking up a pile of nails.

@calebharris7568

3 жыл бұрын

Gunslinging Bird oh shit...

@auroragonzalez7353

3 жыл бұрын

Gunslinging Bird oh no 😂😭

@henrychislett1832

3 жыл бұрын

Have you heard a welsh accent???

@twoa.m3925

3 жыл бұрын

Why is that? Genuinely asking, bc I'm tryna learn how to speak in various accents

Well, Sir Savage the 21st nailed both american and british accents

@comradestalin4826

5 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@TacoCrisma

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

@iainarlt7668

5 жыл бұрын

It's a knoife

@rebeccachurch89

5 жыл бұрын

Omg

@akuota8575

5 жыл бұрын

Alvin hah lol

Tbf I struggle to do a welsh accent and I’m welsh

@hansolo4017

5 жыл бұрын

North or south accent, I can't get my head around the North accent

@jhj2386

5 жыл бұрын

Han Solo I’m north and I can’t do a south

@Whiteythereaper

5 жыл бұрын

Merthyr/Swansea area accent is more harsh while the northern one is more breathy and soft

@lydiaedwards09

5 жыл бұрын

oh same. i mean i feel like I'm a fake welsh person because I'm from cardiff but id love to have or be able to do a proper welsh accent

@colinmacdonald5732

5 жыл бұрын

I'm not Welsh but can do a better Welsh accent than the Welsh people I know.

I'm a british born Indonesian currently live in bali. Back when I was in england, I live in Surrey, but since i came from working class family, peoples around me speaks cockney. After I move to Bali, I met lots of foreign tourist from all over the world, but it doesn't matter how cockney I was, people never thought that I am british until I told them, most of them only said "you have a good english", means that among local people (my look is totally southeast asian) my english is the best, sometimes when I meet russian, ukrainian or other tourist from countries that most of the people cannot speak english, they having a hard time to understand me when I spoke.

I forgive them, because emma watson's american accent is awful.

@boredstranger7522

3 жыл бұрын

I love Emma Watson, but it's like she's not even trying

Find it really odd when people talk about British accents when they specifically mean English accents.

@sirrivet9557

4 жыл бұрын

Roaming Adhocrat specifically London accents

@barkboingfloom

4 жыл бұрын

Its all just one island, really. I live in a state larger than the whole of Britain. In the distance they drive from London to Cardiff, I have to drive just to go to the airport.

@RoamingAdhocrat

4 жыл бұрын

@@barkboingfloom the US is mostly all on one island too. there's a heck of a lot of people, subcultures, and extremely different regional accents between Cardiff and London

@Aledharris

4 жыл бұрын

Battle Of Trenton For such a small place, the UK has a load of very distinct accents though. I live in China now and the way they talk about accents here covers vast swathes of land. My province in China is much bigger than the UK yet someone in my city meeting someone from the other end of the province wouldn’t know they’re from a different place. Whereas in England, if you met someone from Newcastle, one from Manchester, one from Birmingham, one from Liverpool, you’d know each of them instantly from them just saying “Hello, how are you?”

@Neokretai

4 жыл бұрын

@@barkboingfloom Yeah but we have 4 distinct cultures, 67 million people and a few thousand years of history. There really isn't anything like it in the US

Tom Hardy and James McAvoy are accent chameleons

@sheadoherty7434

5 жыл бұрын

Na, Tom Hardy's accent is forced most the time

@xxIluvyouguysxx

5 жыл бұрын

And they’re both handsome 😍

@12345BEP

5 жыл бұрын

Yes! They do amazing!!

@thudthud5423

5 жыл бұрын

James McAvoy does an excellent British accent as Professor Charles Xavier. (Yeah, okay. I know.) He did an awesome job in "Split".

@lydiaedwards09

5 жыл бұрын

@@thudthud5423 James McAvoy is an amazing actor he needs more recognition

Then you hear "Corallll!" and suddenly exposed

For the R thing, perhaps a good tip would be to listen to REO Speedwagon's "Keep On Loving You"-The lead singer really hones in on his R's!

Fun fact, that dude is like 6’7” lol... I got to work with him on an HBO pilot. Nice guy.

@bluesailormercury

5 жыл бұрын

Hot, smart, and tall, wow

@humanbass

5 жыл бұрын

I knew he was tall by how large his hands are, but not by that much.

@Revealthereal_

4 жыл бұрын

Want a cookie?

@happynugget790

4 жыл бұрын

Edmund Kemper was 6'9 and he killed people

@brookenjonas

4 жыл бұрын

He says on his own channel that he’s taller than Conan O’Brien😂

"There are countless examples of Americans doing bad British accents" >smash cut to Canadian Keanu Reeves

@sharpie1201

4 жыл бұрын

I KNOW

@gennydz

4 жыл бұрын

America is a continent, dear. A Canadian is an American. People from the US are US Americans.

@damnson7046

4 жыл бұрын

@@gennydz t. jorge ramirez try telling canadians they're american

@maxwellulous820

4 жыл бұрын

@@gennydz Canadians are not considered American. You sound like someone from Europe, its different here

@CarlosGarcia-ze6rt

4 жыл бұрын

@D49 fan07 that's not how It works man... America it's a continent (the 2nd largest continent). People tend to divide it in north america, central america and south america but they're not different continents. It's like saying eastern/western europe.

They mentioned Mark Rylance ... great actor. Check out "Wolf Hall" (doing medieval English accents there), I'm hoping there's a part two of that series some time. The show also Claire Foy (Queen Elizabeth II first couple seasons of The Crown), Damian Lewis, other great cast members.

omg what the actual.. 3:27 THAT WAS AMAZING!! the dude literally just switched from American to full-blown English just like that! that was so impressive omg

Tom Holland can do his American accent AMAZINGLY

@josharntt

5 жыл бұрын

The first thing I saw him in was that one Mony dick movie with Hemsworth, I don't recall what accent he had there, but his most memorable thing is Spiderman, so I think it anyways sounds funny when he starts speaking normally in an English accent, and even funnier when he slips between the two.

@therelkrikhamet7690

5 жыл бұрын

Produce 101 :D YESSS, when I first watched Spiderman Homecoming, I didn’t even know who Tom Holland was(😢), so I didn’t even know he was British. He was THAT good.

@perspii2808

5 жыл бұрын

Produce 101 :D I didn’t know that Tom Holland was English, cool

@LJFajemolin

5 жыл бұрын

i understood that reference

@annnee6818

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah and he's so young too. But if you have it you just have it...

My default British accent: “ELLO GOVNA”

@theviewer6889

5 жыл бұрын

If I want to speak with a much stronger accent (I'm a Scot) I just say every harsh swear I can think of, mainly bastard, fucker and wanker.

@tweetiepie551

5 жыл бұрын

@@theviewer6889 so basically you just use our standard scots daily vocabulary. Your accent must be strong all the time lol.

@theviewer6889

5 жыл бұрын

@@tweetiepie551 I'm actually normally a very civil person. I mean, non-Scots can still hear an accent but it's way less pronounced.

@hollyg7346

5 жыл бұрын

I'm insulted

@javierbenez7438

5 жыл бұрын

OI, BRUV, 'AT'S A LOAD A BOLLOCKS, INIT?

I love this accent coach! he's so awesome!

He’s very good, I wouldn’t know that he was American when he was doing the British accent. (I’m a Brit btw)

The way he bled into that English accent was beautiful

@georgemaster9271

5 жыл бұрын

And they forgave Mr.Van Dyke for that,too!

@georgemaster9271

5 жыл бұрын

@ALPHADick Van Dyke did a bad cockney accent,but the british forgave him for such.

@ladytee4269

3 жыл бұрын

@@georgemaster9271 😂🤣

Great Video! *helpful and interesting*

So a little while back we did a musical at my school and it involved doing British accents. We had a... idk what they’re called but she was a professional coach on accents and such. She went over it vaguely with the ensemble but for the leads she practiced a lot with us in doing different ones based on region. But the first time she wanted to hear us do our versions of how we see English accents, one of the leads did his and she was asking us if he was lying and was actually from Britain and not American because his Essex accent was astounding. He’s American, he had just practiced the accent a lot for the role. By the end I learned to do a pretty convincing accent that I was able to fool some people even one of my friend’s dad who was from Britain. Though the boy always had it perfect, it was awesome.

Americans haven’t had to worry about sounding British since 1776 lol

@pumulot

5 жыл бұрын

Chris 389 epic gamer moment

@marycanary86

5 жыл бұрын

explains that disgraceful performance dick van dyke gave in "Mary poppins"

@quagsnake

5 жыл бұрын

You still speak English though 😉🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

@itzppr

5 жыл бұрын

@@quagsnake i was going to make a sarcastic joke but britain is more superior than america in so many ways. lower cost of medicine because of free healthcare, lower incarceration rates, stricter weapon laws, and better food...the only thing america really has going for it rn is media :(

@zachtaylor9597

5 жыл бұрын

Chris 389 interesting accent fact, but the modern “standard English accent” (which is technically called Received Pronunciation) didn’t exist in 1776, and the American/Canadian way of speech is closer to the old way of speaking than modern English accents are. So if someone is giving American accents a hard time, just tell them we’re sticking to tradition

This may be something too idk but in the UK, we are bombarded with American culture through music and tv shows and games and books etc from a very young age. I learned how to spell certain words the American way or say certain words that I'd heard in american tv shows and I'd have no idea how to pronounce it in my scottish accent. It may be nothing Americans may be have shows from the uk too but here quite a number of our shows are american from an early age

@clementj

5 жыл бұрын

We use the Queen's English in Malaysia (a former British colony), but because of American TV, movies and music influence, people tend to mix them up now. You'd see 'Lift' written on some place and then 'Elevator' on another... LOL

@Clammychow

5 жыл бұрын

Calvin M are you kidding me peppa pig is british

@JSandwich13

5 жыл бұрын

Clam Chowder Delectable no its English. I never said peppa wasnt an english show? Whats your point

@Clammychow

5 жыл бұрын

Calvin M lol sorry I didn’t know and I don’t have a point I just wanted to say it’s just the same thing for americans. We get bombarded with english and british media from a young age- like peppa pig.

@JSandwich13

5 жыл бұрын

Clam Chowder Delectable ahh i see yeah its the same for u guys then? Awesome

Bloody hell when he changed accents was like magic

I'm British but my partner is American and I visit the states a lot, and a bit part of it is definitely exposure. We hear American accents ALL the time in the UK, through mainstream media and the internet, but British media is still popular in the US, it's not quite mainstream and they don't have as much exposure to it as we do them. Especially when you visit a non-touristy area, you're usually the only true Brit most Americans ever meet, and it's no surprise that they have trouble envisioning a proper British accent if they simply don't hear one often

The dialect coach talks in a vaugely American-ish accent for most of the video, but he could just be doing that for the video for all we know

@Reapous

4 жыл бұрын

Hes American.

@heizo4296

4 жыл бұрын

Isn't he Canadian?

@saoirsedeltufo7436

4 жыл бұрын

His English accent slipped a couple of times (or went weirdly posh out of nowhere) and the Welsh was obviously an imitation - clearly not from this side of the pond

@emmabrandel4823

4 жыл бұрын

he’s american and he’s based in new york. his accent didn’t “slip” into posh for no reason he was showing the different pronunciations in english accents vs. american accents.

@pauldavies9360

4 жыл бұрын

I think he's from the new York area

Erik: *Does the Welsh accent* Me a Welsh woman: “Why does he sound like a kind of French Mrs Doubtfire?”

@GeographyPal

4 жыл бұрын

Princess of HMV omg 😂

@princessofhmv3647

4 жыл бұрын

Fropitz Skeeter I agree

@ScarlettKitsune

4 жыл бұрын

YES! 🤣 Even thought it sounded janky as a Scot.

@chrisbirch4150

4 жыл бұрын

i could tell he was trying to do Welsh, but it was funny how confident he was with it. I am English and even i could tell it wasn't quite right

@carlie8897

4 жыл бұрын

Wow that was a bit crap wasnt it :/

James Cromwell is the king of doing British accents. I was genuinely stunned to find out he was American.

@Flame1611

3 жыл бұрын

I thought you meant the British civil war leader and I was confused, only know as I'm typing I remember it's Oliver Cromwell...

@jamesrobinson4039

3 жыл бұрын

@@Flame1611 He’s getting on a bit, but I don’t think he’s quite that old. Maybe a distant relative?

@GamerNate30

2 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing about Idris Elba when he does an American accent

I went to various cities ( I’m from NYC ) and multiple natives said I had a great accent. I practice a lot depending on the towns in various counties. It’s possible once you realize tongue positioning and pronunciation

I'm Scottish and on game chat this guy asked me if I'm from England and I was like.... *_dude, uncool_*

@steakndcheese

5 жыл бұрын

Story of my life

@CamilleonProductions

5 жыл бұрын

How to make a Scotsman angry 😂

@gavmcdonald7684

5 жыл бұрын

or Irishman, or Welshman, heck some Cornish dislike it too.

@neve8881

5 жыл бұрын

same as my Glaswegian accent is very weak.

@oofoofer7884

5 жыл бұрын

Everyone that sounds different to Americans are “from England”

Peter Dinklage, aka Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones had me totally convinced that he was a fellow Brit. He comes from New Jersey!

@hillarywoo4977

5 жыл бұрын

@Danny M Honestly, I was so weirded out when I watched one of his interviews. I was convinced he was taking the piss and doing an American accent for a laugh, but no, apparently he's actually American.

@mokkaveli

5 жыл бұрын

Peter Dinklage's accent is really good. Sometimes he sounds more English than Sansa with her weird ass voice

@Ella.A.Eh.

5 жыл бұрын

He's not British?!?!?!?!?!

@jerrycjchang

5 жыл бұрын

Most Brits find his accent in GoT not quite right, but it’s a fantasy show so whatever

@doovbaloevera1430

5 жыл бұрын

Dinklage's accent can be really inconsistent, the performance is saved by how he emotes and a well written character.

What? No Johnny Depp mention? The dude does an impeccable English accent.

@pmason6076

2 жыл бұрын

That's not 'English' that's 'Pirate'

@Derek_The_Magnificent_Bastard

2 жыл бұрын

@@pmason6076 LOL Wasn't even talking about those films. Demon Barber or Mortdecai and many others.

@pmason6076

2 жыл бұрын

@@Derek_The_Magnificent_Bastard LOL... I missed those.. sounds like I didn't miss much then.

@yw6413

2 жыл бұрын

Thankkkk you I was looking for this comment

@3rdStoreyChemist

Жыл бұрын

@@pmason6076 ‘Pirate’ is an English accent, it’s an over the top version of the Bristol accent these days, because it’s where Treasure Island is set. So actors would attempt that specific accent. Find videos on people speaking with a Bristol accent and you’ll hear ‘pirate’.

American actors can’t do british accents *Rami Malek has left the chat*

‘British accent’ doesn’t exist. As a foreigner who has lived in the UK I can’t stress enough that there’s is a large variety in accents in the UK. Someone from Liverpool can have trouble understanding someone from Cornwall, while someone from London can have trouble understanding someone from Sunderland. Categorizing an accent as ‘British accent’ is just wrong.

@Dadendrangg

4 жыл бұрын

Rowan Melton and I applaud you

@ojjo1892

4 жыл бұрын

Wouldn’t you say a Cornwall accent and a Liverpool accent are two (very) different British accents? It would be weird if we didn’t have an umbrella term for all the different accents found in Britain

@ojjo1892

4 жыл бұрын

Or is the situation in Britain notably different to other places? Where are you from? Is there less of a range of accents?

@jakelangley624

4 жыл бұрын

OMG THANK YOU

@lemonposting

4 жыл бұрын

‘American accent’ doesn’t exist. As a foreigner who has lived in the US I can’t stress enough that there’s is a large variety in accents in the US. Someone from Texas can have trouble understanding someone from Boston, while someone from Alabama can have trouble understanding someone from New York. Categorizing an accent as ‘American accent’ is just wrong.

Any American who actually watches British TV knows that many British actors struggle with American accents.

@navyninjagaming2551

4 жыл бұрын

English people trying to do an american accent 99% of the time leads to a Georgian who thinks they're South African

@LeeLee-pk4ss

4 жыл бұрын

True when they get it wrong they really really get it wrong.

@fancyoil216

4 жыл бұрын

I love doctor who but usually when they want an American accent it’s very painful. Every now and then there’s a good one, but it’s rare.

@Burn143

3 жыл бұрын

As an American that watches a lot of British Tv, I can agree with this lol.

@CoryMck

3 жыл бұрын

@@fancyoil216 the accents in the Rosa Parks episode was u n c o m f o r t a b l e

Fun fact: Louis Hynes, the actor who played Klaus Baudelaire in Netflix's adaption of "A Series of Unfortunate Events", is actually British

Charlton Heston managed a good British accent as General Gordon in 'Khartoum'. Maggie Gyllenhall and her husband Peter Saarsgard both achieved convincing educated British accents in 'The Honourable Woman' and 'An Education' respectively. I have never heard an American actor attempt the accent of Hull though ('the only place in the World where Perls are people who come from Perland [=Poles / Poland]') but the poor actors would probably give up herp if they had to learn to speak like that.

That dialect coach is so good

@brookenjonas

6 жыл бұрын

Nice meme isn’t he though! ❤️

@MaureenMurphy_

6 жыл бұрын

Nice meme He's pretty too

@Niphredyl

6 жыл бұрын

His welsh is quite off

@MarvinCZ

5 жыл бұрын

+Niphredyl His speciality isn't doing the accents, it's describing them and helping others do them.

@laurenray8995

5 жыл бұрын

yo we've got the same political compass my man

Poor Dyck. I’m English and was never bothered about his accent in Mary Poppins. He’s got such great energy in the film and is really likeable.

@lilymarie1582

3 жыл бұрын

i know! Im no expert on accents but think of how many English actors there were and no one ever told him he was doing it wrong

@smokyjoe321

3 жыл бұрын

@@lilymarie1582 that again comes down to our sense of humour

@lilymarie1582

3 жыл бұрын

​@@smokyjoe321 Sure but people always act like it was so offensive. And I'm not saying it wasn't but again nobody ever told him while they were making it.

@scaleythedino49

3 жыл бұрын

Agree

I'm learning english, and this was really helpful!

Ebris Elba did a good job w/ his accent in "The Wire" but it was not the Black-Baltimorean accent I grew up hearing in Baltimore.

When he switched to a british accent, that was smooth.

@4Gwan

5 жыл бұрын

Hassan Khanlopuy

Another thing I've noticed is that when Americans talk about a "British" accent, they are almost always referring to the posh queens English accent. But they never refer to a Scottish accent as a "British" accent. They treat it as it's own thing.

@nickelcobalt98

6 жыл бұрын

ThatAussieGirl i mean not really, we think it’s dumb that americans don’t realise it’s the same thing. Sure some people want to be independent blah blah but we all still think the americans are just embarrassing themselves

@nickelcobalt98

6 жыл бұрын

ThatAussieGirl true lmaoo

@Gleestuff3000

6 жыл бұрын

Right? Half of these British accents I rarely actually hear in Britain and I live in England. Probably because they're always queens English.

@turtle4llama

5 жыл бұрын

CozmicK G a close friend of mine is Scots and if you ever even sub-categorized her accent as British she'd probably cut you with a knife.

@violetsnotviolence

5 жыл бұрын

Because it's so different. At least to Americans they sound completely different. Not every American uses the term British when they mean English, they say English.

Actor Eamonn Walker as Chief Wallace Boden on NBC's tv series,"Chicago Fire",is British.Thought he actually is from State of Illinois but him and few of cast were being interviewed for season premier few years back,he spoke in his native London voice.

I think this is one of the reasons Game of Thrones did so well. If it were done in America with British Accents it would sound like Downton Abbey. They're rich English-type people, right? The Northern accents really made it stand out in a way it wouldn't otherwise. I really hope this leads to more diverse voices in American entertainment. As Fiona Hill explained in Congress, British accents have a whole socio-political aspect. The one you use says something about the character.

I remember Emma Watson's Americn accent is Perk of Being a Wallflower was a little wonky at times.

@ohlookmarki

6 жыл бұрын

howchildish Emma Watson has one of the worst American accents. Not just in wallflower. She was so awkward in The Circle.

@Udontkno7

6 жыл бұрын

Same with Benedict in 12 Years A Slave

@loverofhomedepot

6 жыл бұрын

Cumberbatch in 12 Years A Slave had me confused during his small screen time. I couldn't tell if he was talking normally or attempting an American southern accent.

@Udontkno7

6 жыл бұрын

Laura Exactly. And like Eric said, since Cumberbatch was doing an American accent, it was much lower than how he usually speaks. And it felt as if it was caught in his throat. Same with Dr Strange, it's good, but sometimes it's a muddy accent, and can't really be defined.

@Acm19999

6 жыл бұрын

Emma Watson is just a terrible actress

Whenever I hear Hugh Laurie speaking with his normal accent it seems fake

@kathylennerds750

4 жыл бұрын

Up until like two/three years ago I legitimately thought he was American.

@bethanyb1175

4 жыл бұрын

It’s strange because as a Brit I associate him primarily with Blackadder as opposed to House 😉😛 so his normal English accent seems more natural to me

@MartinIrwin

4 жыл бұрын

Bethany B yeah no kidding. Blows my mind when people think he’s American, but I’ve not seen House.

@1VikingBrute3

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a American on a downer like xanax...😅🤣😅😂

@lsuchik93

4 жыл бұрын

I believe in the height of House he actually started to lose his British accent!! I remember hearing that back in the day on some interview!

Fun fact: there are actually like 50 accents in Britain so just talk like any one then and ur fine

The Costner/Elwes thing at the beginning is incongruant to the question being presented. Michael C Hall got criticism for his accent in Safe in the US, but I thought he was ridiculously good at it.

I can do a fantastic British accent! And I'm British! wow! thanks for all the likes, that's a record!

@rmk7943

6 жыл бұрын

this channel has been terminated. Good for you 👍

@angelic7532

6 жыл бұрын

this channel has been terminated. You're doing better than me at least lmao, i've never been to America and lived in England my whole life but for some reason i sound american

@stevemojang8736

6 жыл бұрын

·angel · sameeeeeee

@restinpeacejasehdwayneonfr4616

6 жыл бұрын

this channel has been terminated. Nobody cares about your puny joke

@angelic7532

6 жыл бұрын

Alpha Fortnite Videos apparently you do since you replied to it

You didn't touch on northern england accents

@rbeck3200tb40

5 жыл бұрын

Like Karl Pilkington airite

@blurquoise5301

5 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, those are a whole different game entirely. There's so many of them and they differentiate quite a lot. And the really broad varieties have a lot of archaisms that are still used - like using modern pronunciations of "thou, thee, thy" in casual speech

@ellomynameisjohnny

5 жыл бұрын

You mean south scotland

@SolarTwinLunarKing

5 жыл бұрын

YangSing1 I was waiting for that one too

@rebeccahicks4949

5 жыл бұрын

(American here), Northern English accents sound more "normal" to me than the Southern ones.

Good choice of music at the end there 😂 very appropriate

1:53 - Knowing that Michael C. Hall starred in David Bowie's musical _Lazarus,_ I can't help hearing Bowie's influence on Hall's English accent.

The kid who plays Jonathan from stranger things can do a great American accent

@Tracymmo

4 жыл бұрын

I had no idea he isn't American until I read this.

@benjames7932

4 жыл бұрын

Nostalgia nerd same with the girl

@ruby-it2ou

4 жыл бұрын

He’s briTISH?

@barb7124

4 жыл бұрын

Charlie Heaton struggled with it though. They had to overdub him saying Nancy a lot.

@anita-ji4xb

4 жыл бұрын

what i was thinking and about to comment, also millie

Sean Astin playing Sam in the LOTR has to be the best American doing a British accent. It was regional and just sounded natural. I'm yet to see an American capable of doing a believable Yorkshire, Scouse or Geordie accent. If one exists I'd be very impressed.

@francoisrd

4 жыл бұрын

Sean Astin is awesome

@bs4e

4 жыл бұрын

@@francoisrd he is awesome

@studiokhimera2182

4 жыл бұрын

I knew Elijah Wood was American - but I had NO IDEA until recently rewatching LOTR series that Sean Astin was American too..??? ALSO HE WAS IN THE GOONIES? Anyways, yeah he did quite well.. such a likeable dude.

@swamdono

4 жыл бұрын

I'm yet to see those, too (I'm from Yorkshire). But I was pleasantly surprised to hear Sam Niells Irish accent in Peaky Blinders. It's quite strong in places, but overall pretty close.

@justanotheruser2611

4 жыл бұрын

Well there’s probably an American out there, out in the wild..

I love this guy.! I can hear him speaking for hours.

Yes, Alan Tudyk IS brilliant at English accents. His 'English peasant' accent in 'A Knight's Tale' was also ON POINT - I didn't even realise he was American when he played that role.

Not just British accents but they are EXTREMELY terrible at Australian accents! 😂🤦🏼‍♀️😬

@dirtymike3329

5 жыл бұрын

I’m a disappointment. Period. The problem is they can sound similar to us. I can hear the difference clearly but when I go to speak Australian it comes out funny.

@tanyabhaskar2888

5 жыл бұрын

There's only a handful that can do Aussie accents... It's a little sad because so many times people just miss entirely and end up doing American or English depending on where they're from

@tanyabhaskar2888

5 жыл бұрын

@@dirtymike3329 mm definitely in some regions! Lol good luck just drown yourself in Aussie actor interviews or something

@taehyunkim5709

5 жыл бұрын

I tried to do an Australian accent and all my friends tell me it sounds Kiwi lol

@sanyukimuli9404

4 жыл бұрын

I’m gonna say it.... SHRI-

I was at a party last week with a guy from Glasgow and I was like "my friend does an amazing Scottish accent" so the guy asked him to show us but he refused because he was too wasted. So I was like "okay I'll try then" and started talking. The Scottish guy turned to me and said "wait you're from Scotland! I just completely missed your accent before!" and I'm never going to let anyone forget that ever.

I also think the Brits have spent most of their lives hearing and listening to other accents, whether it's English, RP accent (which is strongly promoted, too) in their everyday life, or American accents in movies, international business and such. Even without practising actively, it does help you get at least a passive knowledge of it. Hence most Brits being perfectly able to switch to RP whenever they want or need, regardless of their original accent. Plus, it helps you being generally more "flexible" in terms of learning new languages/dialects than people who've grown up in a very limited/homogenous linguistic pool.

You forgot to mention, in old film it was done on purpose. For Disney's 'Alice in Wonderland' for example they wanted Alice to sound English because that's where the story took place, but not so English that it was off-putting to American audiences.

@ruisenor8993

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! The invention of the TransAtlantic accent.

Imagine how happy his wife must be. Since he masters all accents, role playing must be real fun.

@bradleyorozco1081

5 жыл бұрын

"Oy mate lemme fok u in thee ass, yeh"

@daisydennis1943

5 жыл бұрын

TheAquaticCat unless he’s gay

@quanbrooklynkid7776

5 жыл бұрын

@@daisydennis1943 damn

@AFanOfCinema

5 жыл бұрын

bradley orozco *arse

@jgilly3362

4 жыл бұрын

@@bradleyorozco1081 errrrr no

me: speaks french every second word: *has a seizure*

@k-studio8112

4 жыл бұрын

But I love French accent though😂😂 it's sounds very sexy just like Italian accent

@zackebrorsson9374

3 жыл бұрын

Happiness

@adityamathur6938

3 жыл бұрын

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@masterwindu1234

3 жыл бұрын

frog

I am from Boston. I grew up speaking a British style Bostonian accent, not to be confused with the Southie accent many are familiar with. I've had British co-workers who thought I was from the UK. The problem with Americans trying to speak with a British dialect (or a Bostonian one for that matter) is they overdo the soft vowels, and underestimate the well articulated consonants. The narrator for example talks about the "R". Most Americans say "ahh" when trying to mimic a British or Bostonian accent, but it is more like "aahar". The R is there but it's subtle and preceded with a very soft "a".

One of the best I have ever heard was Gillian Anderson's performance in The Fall (BBC). She really nailed that British accent, I had no clue she's actually American.

@Bonglecat

3 жыл бұрын

She was born in America but grew up largely in London.

I was today years old when I found out Rick from The Walking Dead is British in real life

@brunobarbosa1900

5 жыл бұрын

Harry D It’s a joke meaning that she only realised Rick was British after watching this video (today)! Got it? 😉

@bearythebear69

5 жыл бұрын

Dean Wilcox I noticed when he would break his accent and you can here his English accent. Especially when he said Carl

@Jawf94

5 жыл бұрын

Even though is American accent is notoriously bad.

@N2Deep00

5 жыл бұрын

I shit myself when I found out 21 Savage was British and I don't even listen to him.

@amburgernchips

5 жыл бұрын

Maggie from TWD is British too!

I'm always intrigued by accents. Once i worked on a ship for 6 months, which has Eastern Europeans, I didn't realize I (somewhat) picked up their accents. When I return to my native country, my friends pointed that I speak funny, like having a weird foreign accent. It took me maybe a month or 2, before getting back that Singaporean "accent" again. Haha.

@jrgboy

5 жыл бұрын

I lived with my Aunt in South Wales for 8 months when I was small & came back to London with an accent, it soon went.

@freyakinsey1652

5 жыл бұрын

+jrgboy I find my accent changes really quickly. My native one is a South Walian accent, but I tend to unconsciously adopt the inflections of whoever I'm talking to. I have a Polish friend who's accent bleeds into mine fairly often. Same if I spend longer than a day or two in France or with French family

@freyakinsey1652

5 жыл бұрын

+Freya Kinsey *whose

@Speakeeezzy

5 жыл бұрын

This happens to me too. I pick up the inflections of other ppl's speech. It's a version of code switching. One of my friends returned to the states after living in Sydney for years and she sounded SO WEIRD to us. Without the Australian accent, everything she said just sounded like a question instead!

@tristanmoller9498

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, lived in America for a year, came back to Germany with an accent for a month or so without even realizing it. Didn’t take that long with me either. Then people started calling it out and I was like yeah wtf lmao. English is my mother tongue but I still just adopt the accent or dialect of whoever I’m talking to

Having grown up in a household with an Irish grandmother, and other Irish relatives, I naturally tended to adopt an Irish (Donegal) accent. We also spoke a wee bit of Irish language then. When I spent more time in Ireland, it was quite a bit in Dublin and I adopted a more Dublin accent. When the Beatles came on the scene, I nailed their Liverpudlian accent. I began acting at around 10 and was known to be gifted with accents. I hate doing accents from New Jersey, where I did most of my growing up. I hate Philadelphia accents. I won't do them. I have taught some actors accents. It can be frustrating.

I love the scene in "snatch" where jason statham visits brad pit and the pikers. "ey ya like daaags?" even if its a fake accent, still hilarious.

I find it easier to do a british accent while yelling. Guess I watch too much Gordon Ramsay.

@dragoniser01

5 жыл бұрын

Gordon Ramsay is Scottish, not really the same accent that you are thinking of

@TheMsLollidella

5 жыл бұрын

I didnt even know Ramsey wasn't American....whoa...

@RyanAustinDean

5 жыл бұрын

THE BEEF WELLINGTON IS RAAAAHHHWWWHHH!!!

@RobBeatdownBrown

5 жыл бұрын

Not a bad idea for a comedy skit. The actor that can only speak with a British accent if he’s yelling 🤔

@MrVidification

5 жыл бұрын

Glitch I always wondered where ramsay got his attitude from kzread.info/dash/bejne/jIyIs5qyhLq8h7Q.html

I, a British man, am sat saying 'goat' now, to see whether I actually say 'goat' like that

@jonathanphillips5794

5 жыл бұрын

depends which part of Britain you're from. I'm from south-west Wales (and bi-lingual Welsh/Eng speaker) so the vowel sound in my accent in "goat" is elongated and with a dip then rising intonation "goh-oat" - i dont know how to type the actual phonemic script on this pc

@dk7736

4 жыл бұрын

ME

@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770

4 жыл бұрын

Sam Talbot-Cross you’re the GOAT man!

@Tob1Kadach1

4 жыл бұрын

I'm from Kent and we have a dropped T in our accent for example I'm pu in the ke oh on instead of I'm putting the kettle on. Also words like Butter is pronounced like Bu uh, Hospital is pronounced Hospi all & of course the most popular one to tell if someone is from Kent Water is pronounced Woh uh

Don Cheadle's attempt at a Cockney accent in the Ocean movies is legendary in the business. 🙂

This music is AMAZING!😍Someone please let me know what the song is (the one with the nice piano music).

But it kinda depends, there is no set “American accent” People that live in different parts of the country have different accents.

@rmk7943

6 жыл бұрын

PARTHAMAX that's exactly the same in England. Accents include: Geordie, mackam, scouse, southern, northern, Mancunian. I feel like americans categorise us as posh or cockney which is irritating. Actors should look into our culture deeper.

@ch9na

6 жыл бұрын

Literally the case for every country. Some not easily identified to you because you're foreign to them.

@superiorduck2105

6 жыл бұрын

PARTHAMAX That could be said for any country though.

@danimations1440

6 жыл бұрын

PARTHAMAX same here in England

@captainbryce1

6 жыл бұрын

RMK 79 I don’t think anyone is disputing that. I think you’re missing the point. The assumption here is that there is such thing as “The American Accent” which of course there is not.

3:30 british mode activated

Have you ever heard Jordan James Gavaris as Felix in Orphan Black? Granted he’s Canadian, but still. It’s such a good accent!!!!

I remember watching a clip of comedian Russell Kane, and I think what he said is quite appilcable: that to do a good English accent you have to move your face as little as possible. Watch any English person talk and you'll notice that they move their faces considerably less than other nationalities (the posher you are, the less you move). I feel this is why some struggle to do an English accent, since their faces move too much.

Robert Pattinson’s English accent came out in Breaking Dawn 1 at the end of the movie when he said “absolute law”.

@brookenjonas

4 жыл бұрын

Mel omg those parts of Twilight make it even more hilarious

@commentcopbadge6665

3 жыл бұрын

Other than that he's got a good grasp on his "America talk" LOL!

@Oturan20

Жыл бұрын

Him being a vampire makes that a lot more excusable.

The guy from Mary Poppins would not have been the same person if he had an actual accent

Great video! I think British actors are generally better at imitating American accents because they have more exposure and more practice. However, it should be noted that British actors often struggle to do other British accents as well. A famous example is Charlie Hunnam (a geordie) who failed to speak with a convincing cockney accent in the film Green Street. Olivia Colman, who speaks with Received Pronunciation, also struggled to produce a convincing cockney accent in the the new Wonka film (although obviously realism is less important in that film). Do Americans also struggle to imitate other American accents?

Pitch is an aspect too. For instance, from personal experience, in the Scottish Borders and the Orkney Islands the male voice is high-pitched (and often speaks very fast) and if you're not prepared for it you could mistake it for a female voice if you're on the phone, say. Also, actual change in sounds e.g. place names; in Northumberland "gh" is a soft sound, much closer to the "je" of the French "je suis", so Whittingham is WhittingJERM (stress on first syllable), though oddly North'd's Ponteland has the second syllable stressed and slightly long. So if you have an American (or even British!) actor doing a Northumbrian or a Geordie accent and they don't pronounce Newcastle correctly, it'll stand out a mile. Btw, Northumbrian and Geordie accents are very different...once you know them.

Hugh Laurie's American accent was so good that he got the role of Dr. House (the director insisted on not casting british actors because they "couldn't do american accents")

@delorbb2298

5 жыл бұрын

His American accent was passable, but there were certain words that took me out of the scene they were so bad.

@MissButterfly37

5 жыл бұрын

i literally was looking for anyone in the comments to mention Hugh Laurie. i didn't even know he had an accent!!

@maammoos5377

5 жыл бұрын

delor b Well I think you're alone with that

@delorbb2298

5 жыл бұрын

??? There are billions of people on this planet. No way am I the only person who thinks Hugh Laurie's accent wasn't perfect. He had plenty of clunkers over the seasons.

@rebeccahicks4949

5 жыл бұрын

Hugh Laurie's American accent might have been better than that of most British actors, but it was far from perfect. He made his voice really scratchy to try to mask his British tinniness.