When we went to Australia to visit my dad's family, they threw us a little garden party. During the party my dad asked his aunt where the restroom was. She didn't understand him so he said "where's the potty?" She said "Oh, everyone's in the garden, dear." Lol.

@orient1234

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

I moved to Canada from London at 21 years old, I didn’t lose my accent until I started working as a receptionist and got tired of people asking me to repeat myself or getting me to say stuff! I’m sad my accent is gone now 😭

As an American her British accent with some Australian words messed me up so bad

Haha! I am American, my mom picks up on other people's accents when she is talking to them and starts speaking with that accent and she doesn't notice it until we point it out after. Its SUPER embarrassing.

@sandrachase68

4 жыл бұрын

I do that to. I am from Hawai`i and we have people from all over the world living there. I mimic what I hear.

I enrolled in college very late in the year and I ended up with an English class that was for students speaking English as a second language so it was very basic. I had a friend in that class from the UK and spending time with him, I was picking up his accent. My math class I met a guy from Spain and I worked with a lady from South Korea. Spending so much time with all of these people, gave me an accent that was a combination of all of them. One time, I went to get my hair cut and she asked me where I was from because I had an accent she'd never heard before. I had to explain that a lot of my friends were from out of the country and what she was hearing was a little of each of their accents & even when I went home in between quarters, my friends and family said I sound different. So, accents are very easy to pick up ,and if you're like me, most of the time, you don't even realize that you're doing it.

Hahahahahaha. Joel's santa legs don't stop wiggling! Oh I laughed so hard. That face that was made when he realized his headband was slipping! Priceless. Love this video.

So much fun! You guys are great! And I like your premise. I agree. Thanks for this. Love and cheers! 👍💗😘🎄🇬🇧

@ThoseTwoBrits1

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! It was great fun getting to film with one of our besties!

“The only people who talk RP are the Queen and Joel”😂

This video is a treat! So much fun!

I just found your channel recently and have been binge watching when I get the chance. I've enjoyed all of them so far but this one is fascinating! I had no idea there was an actual personality trait to cover something like this. I'm American and have lived in three very different regions of the country and tend to pick up accents quite easily and subconsciously (20 years later, I still slip into a southern accent when talking to others from that area and I only lived there for 3 years.) I also visit London and the UK several times each year, but seem to pick up much less of those accents. What I do notice though is that I have picked up a lot of the slightly different words and phrases which I will slip into quite naturally when I'm there (bin instead of trashcan, cheers as thank you or you're welcome, etc) and also a lot of the more subtle differences in grammar and sentence structure. That could be an idea for one of your future videos? I haven't seen too many people cover those differences between American and British English. I could go on and on, but will shut up now. Anyway, great channel and video... and, yes, I've subscribed!

I love when Joel explains the linguistics! So interesting!

Ahhhhhhhh I just discovered this and love it! I moved from India to nyc and I’m obsessed with deeply analyzing accents!

i lost my yorkshire accent in the late 70's as it. was frowned upon to have a regional accent in the service industry. but it's coming back lol

@dahliad4063

6 жыл бұрын

john cameron Its the same in the US. I'm from Philadelphia, and we have an accent thats..... different and very regional. Almost all of us learn to use the "generic american" accent when we leave the city, or work with the public. But it comes right back when i come across someone from home. Sadly, the city has been growing and population has changed so much, our accent is disappearing. I love my accent, no matter how far i find myself from home, if i hear even a hint of it... i respond in kind and see the other persons eyes light up... and for a while we get to speak the way we do naturally. A thousand miles from home and it still just snaps right back. Love it.

@kathy2trips

4 жыл бұрын

Television has a lot to do with accent dilution.

Joel & Lia, as someone who is in England 10+ times a year, and spent a lot of my childhood there, this American LOVES your channel! You two are hilarious and always spot on. I so look forward to watching you both. Thanks for making us laugh! Much ❤️ from Dallas, Texas!

Lia - your makeup looks so pretty in this episode! I'm a new fan. Thanks for the fun.

Well, that's a perfect question. Thanks for the video guys! :)

Thanks guys so useful!!

Great video!!!! I'm trying to get a british accent and your videos are being so helpfull as always! By the way Lía you look great!

FIRST!! DREAM COLLAB

@ThoseTwoBrits1

6 жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

I love this video it was so much fun to watch. Love your great friendships.

@ThoseTwoBrits1

6 жыл бұрын

Aw thanks so much Nicole!

Hi, Joel and Lia. And hi to Christie. First of all, I love Collabmas! =D I think "covert prestige" describes me because I listen to so many British videos on KZread and I talk to so many British people on line that I sometimes find myself using British words and expressions, and I'm sure that I use some of those terms without realizing it - but I can't do a British accent. Maybe that's weird. I don't know.

@kyleenglishman2638

6 жыл бұрын

I've picked up a number of British words and phrases from friends and coworkers. I use them because they're fun, or I like the way they sound, or I feel like they fit better than their American counterparts, or whatever reason. But I speak them with my native NJ accent lol.

So Adorable! I love watching you guys even more when you have a guest to speak about a certain subject. I'm Brazilian and I grew up listening to different English accents and today I speak with a misture of them. But by the moment I'm focusing on British due to external influences. haha :) Thank you for this video! I feel much comfortable now. ♥

Your videos are so bloody fun. Have been smiling during the entire video?

First time watching you guys from New Zealand.....lol....I miss my brit friends sooooo much. Great sense of humour. Laugh at everything. Keep up the great work!!!

I forgot that Lia went to boarding school! Would love to hear more about that experience.

I am an American and I speak Spanish! Now I roll my D's in English and a lot of people think I'm Scottish or non-American hahaha

@remhenshaw4313

6 жыл бұрын

Ariana Pearson did you learn castilian spanish or a different dialect

@rmuske

6 жыл бұрын

Omg same I thought I was the only one! I also moved to New York a few years ago and somehow picked up the pronunciation “caw-fee”.

@rmuske

6 жыл бұрын

lanceth0t1 it’s kind of like a real quick “th” sound.

@eej1983able

6 жыл бұрын

Ariana Pearson i said "muy a lot" to my Brazilian choir director last night lol he was like "wait what?" Lol i stumble over languages now because I am learning French, but I took Spanish for 6 years so I've been combining the 2 oh boy

@allymattle5694

6 жыл бұрын

Ariana Pearson I spent 2 weeks in Mexico 8 years ago and every now and then a tiny Spanish accent comes out.

I am from Arizona and when I went to college in Waukesha, Wisconsin I noticed I started to speak like people in Wisconsin. Example: bag started sounding like bay-g. The Wisconsin(and surrounding states) accent is probably my favorite out of all the accents of the US. Great video!

I did 8 years in the US military around people with all sort of accents everyday and my accent turned into a crazy hybrid.

I would love to hear you do deep southern, back woods country American accent.

I love these videos! I never change my accent which is a heavy Brooklyn NY accent but I sometimes have a Queens NY accent unconsciously. Brooklyn is right beside Queens and we have very similar slang, same with the Bronx . Itd be awesome to see you guys do a video with the New York accent.

So interesting. Thanks for sharing! I am familiar with American regional accents but not as much with British ones. I noticed when I lived in Mexico for two years that my accent changed somewhat because of only speaking English to non native speakers. I also speak Spanish with a very regional accent since I learned it all there from people in Mazatlan and they do some very particular things when saying people's names. They put a "the" in front of your name which I think is pretty cool.

randomly came to this video on a joel and lia binge! I must say that I agree a lot on that fact that accents are highly subject to change. Growing up in Hong Kong I am blessed to have learned good English (I'm fluent and relatively good at the language, some people even go as far as saying i sound native????) but having English as my second language means that my accent is all over the place. In the recent one or two years I started watching British youtubers like Dan and Phil and English with Lucy (I found you guys through the collab with Lucy!) and the British accent started growing on me? At first I had to try really hard to get the a's and r's right but eventually it became subconscious. My friends started to pick up on it and mock me (friendlily) for my British accent it's actually hilarious! So conclusion is I know sounds 85% British and I love it to be honest:)

Wahh you guys are so cute! I'm sort of obsessed rn ❤❤

@ThoseTwoBrits1

6 жыл бұрын

Aw Maggie! Love ya

You guys are so funny! Very useful the video!

My wife is from Manila, Philippines. She went home for a month and came back home (Oregon) with her accent strengthened. I was laughing so hard the first day she came home. Because I had trouble understanding her. And she even forgot some of her English (American).

Great video, guys!! Funny thing what happens to me as well. I'm Spanish, and no matter where I travel around my country I keep loosing my accent! Apparently it's because of my regular "Castilian" accent, not strong enough. But the weirdest thing is that it happens to me in English, too!! How's that even possible? I guess I'm always willing to fit in! 😂 By the way, I love your channel! Utterly useful, funny and entertaining! 😁

Christie definitely ends her "No" and "Go" with an "R"....totally Australian.

The twang... sounds like a disease. "She's got the twang."

I work at Disneyland and it's great because I chat with people from all over the world every day. I've got better at identifying where people are from, South Australia v further north, New Zealand's south island v the north island, different parts of England, different parts of Ireland, and so forth. The most interesting thing is people who have spent half their life one place and one in the other. The oddest was the guy whose accent drifted back and forth between Australian and American in the middle of his sentences! I asked, he had grown up in Las Vegas then moved to Australia. Why he was so mixed up was because he was back in the US visiting family which had destabilised his speech. I myself have lived in West Virginia and California and the two accents could hardly be more different. It's easy for me to shift back and forth. Anyhow for Australian v New Zealand I listed for words like "cool" which are quite different. For Canadians v Americans listen for words like "out" and "sorry".

I grew up with a south Eastern New Mexico accent(its similar to the Texas accent) and I didn't realize it was an accent until I moved away and lost the accent.

I’m from George USA. Growing up I had what is called The South Fulton County accent. We add extra syllables to certain words. Since I have started working in Peachtree City I have lost the accent totally and barely even have a southern accent now. Most people that live in PTC are from the North or Midwest. I tend to pick up other people’s accents easily anyway.

I pick up accents SO easy, so I feel for this

I'm from Surrey too!! Yay x

@VerbaleMondo

5 жыл бұрын

I'm so Surrey. Don't kill me pls.

I pick up accents if I listen to them long enough. Since watching Joel & Lia so much now, I can do more of a proper London accent. Haha. I say “yeah” a lot but did that before. I have to be careful when someone has a strong accent, because I’ll start to talk like the person. I dont wanna sound as if Im making fun of them. But I just have this natural language pick up thing. Haha

I’m an American and I love other country’s accents!

I grew up in the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts and had a wicked bad Boston accent until I moved to Tucson, Arizona for my first job out of college. Then it got flattened out by all the midwesterners and Oklahomans and general westerners I worked with. Now, I think I still have a bit of Boston but not nearly as much as when I was young.

@kk70x7

6 жыл бұрын

joec0914 You'll blow your cover if you ever go "park your car in the yard". 😉

@jtoland2333

5 жыл бұрын

Ive lived in Upstate New York, New Jersey, Arizona, Michigan and now in Seattle. I now have a funky hybrid of accents!

@edwardmiessner6502

5 жыл бұрын

I've lived in Baltimore Maryland, a suburb of Boston Massachusetts, an exurb of Detroit Michigan, suburban Miami and Tampa Florida, and New Orleans Louisiana; yet I've been told I sound like I came from Iowa! Go figure.

Such a cool video!!!!

My muscles hurt from all the laughing. Such a funny video :D

My mother is from Minnesota, and when I and my sisters were kids, we used to tease her about her Minnesota accent (which sounds like a watered-down version of a Scandinavian accent) so much that I started picking up the accent myself.

What I have discovered is a New York accent is hard to lose.Ive known people that are from NYC that have move to other states and years and years later you can still hear the accent.Incredible!!

I am American and when I was in elementary school I used to spend my summer vacations (they were 3 in a half mouths) in Scotland and when I would come back to America my American accent would shift a little to Scottish but it never stuck but I would still say words different I still do but that has to do with growing up in a Scottish household

12:15 "yeah, so good" I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING JOEL

Great Stuff!!

Y’all are so adorable! Say thx for explaining abt people who pick up accents. Im definitely what did you say overt something?

loveeee this video !! but i've got to ask where did you get those festive handbands? they are really cute!!

I was born and raised in the US; moved to the UK in '98, and became a UK citizen in '04; and have never lost my American accent. In the US, a grew up in New England and it took me years as an adult to say "I parked my car in Harvard Yard." instead of "I pahked my cah in Hahvard Yahd."

I pick up accents everywhere. I'm totally suggestible that way. But when I was living in the Midwest of the USA, I did a weird accent: I imitated the accent of this television commentator, Huell Howser. People there knew I wasn't from there (even though it's a very "down home" accent) but they just loved it. I was an English Professor and I didn't dare do it at my university. I only did it in the town. But once, while I was buying something, the Dean heard me doing it. I didn't know she was right behind me.

I have a friend from canterburry who moved to the states and she lost her accent but it took several years and its still there very slightly when she's with family but mostly its gone.

met an outgoing guy from scotland. he lived in london (as an adult) for 10yrs, and speaks with an english accent. he is in event planning, so he talks to alot of southern british

I live in north east USA and my grandmother lives in the south, and every time she comes to visit with us or we are down with her I tend to change into more of a southern accent im definitely overt

I lived in the US for 6+ years and my Trinidadian accent got watered down from people not understanding what I was saying... So everytime I come to the states to visit my Americanised-Trinidadian accent is gone. It's now unconscious... I have a tendancy to pick up accents too...

I live in the east Midlands but I speak in RP because my family are from devan and have RP accents to.

My best friend has been married to a British girl since 2005 and he lives in the UK and never lost his American accent but he has adopted terminology. When visiting home he uses terms like chips, jumper, prawns and upsie downsie (fries, sweater, shrimp and escalator).

Hearing about loss of accent reminds me of the time people from BBC came by my job for a documentary, and somehow my pronunciation of the letter "T" changed without realizing. I am a native New Yorker.

@yusufgta4341

6 жыл бұрын

My heavy Brooklyn NY accent hasn't changed since I moved to the states in 2001 when I was 7. New York accent is very distinctive to the common general American English and other American accents. New York accent is very historically non rhotic with lack of R sounds or R dropping.

I was born in Texas but lost my accent because my family moved so much! I have the standard American accent now but after living abroad I find myself mirroring to make things simple.

Most Americans pronounce water as wader Edit: also a mix between an American accent and a British accent is an Australian accent

I love the colour set up in the room. It’s not simply an incandescent light bulb does light you all as looking so warm n more like browny clolour, which i like. I know that normally British houses have this kind of warmy lighting to make us more relaxed when being home. Thus I wonder, I am Korean, how I can adjust my room only having an incandescent light bulb in ma room creating business mood even at home. Could anybody give me a tip-off?

@dahliad4063

6 жыл бұрын

You can buy different kinds of bulbs and you can choose the tone you prefer (warm, soft yellow, daylight, soft white etc).. maybe from a home improvement type shop, or lighting shop. OR use a lamp with a warm toned lampshade. It will soften the light and warm the tone.

I moved from India to Iowa (US Midwest) in 2018 to do a PhD in chemistry. Am in my final year now. I think the influence of accent depends on your peers and colleagues. The lab I joined had mostly American students (some from the east coast, and some from the west and the south). So I ended up spending my free time mostly with them drinking beer and learning American football and basketball. It was just the situation which is why I had more American and some Latino friends than Indians. Now after more than four years, they say my accent is almost mostly Americanized (if not perfectly American) when I talk to them! But it also depends on my mood I guess. When I am happy and cheerful, I do it almost perfectly. When I am sad or frustrated (which is very common if you are doing a PhD), I slip back and forth from the accent. 😂 Which is pretty common for most non Americans here, that had an accent change with time lol. So I guess it all depends on the situation and how much exposure you got to people from other cultures. Here I will give you all a chronology of the changes I noticed: 1. The first things (the easiest) to pick up was the different vowel sounds. 2. The second is definitely the consonants (let’s say for example how Americans pronounce the ‘tr’ in truck or try, and the ‘sch’ and ‘d’ in schedule, compared to us Indians). 3. The third ones (pretty difficult one for Indians I guess) were the American L and R. The American R is very different. It is not as strong as the Latin R, nor it is as moderate as the Indian R. That one takes time to learn how to place your tongue in the mouth. As I said, I still slip back whenever I am agitated or speaking fast and the R becomes weird and falls somewhere between an Indian R and an American R. 😂 4. The final one was the intonation. Indian accents (my Bengali and Hindi) have a very different intonation compared to the American low frequency intonation and downtalks. This was the hardest to achieve, at least for me. Also intonation is the most important thing that makes you sound like you are a native. Even if you pronounce some vowels differently but have your intonations perfect, people will not pick up very easily that you are a non native. But if you do all vowles and everything correct but fail to do the intonation, everyone will catch that you are faking it and you are sounding weird!

It’s very weird when an accent I couldn’t even willfully imitate yesterday comes out of my mouth accidentally today-in subtle bits, I mean. Happened to me in England, and I was afraid people would think I was trying to imitate, but I still sounded very American to the locals, who didn’t notice what was creeping into my speech. Family from the Carolina Lowcountry and Georgia. Raised in NYC, Miami and LA areas. Spent some time as an adult in Minnesota. I notice but of each in my mostly Midland “generic American” speech. No matter where I am, I sound like I’m from someplace else.

I am from Iowa, but when I joined the military I spent a lot of time in the south and picked up a bit of a drawl that I only recently have purged from my speech.

You cut yourself and you asked for plaster. That's funny in America we use plaster when were dry-walling. I like it when you have other quests brings out the best of your personalities.

@willsofer3679

5 жыл бұрын

Plaster is also used in the United States in the same way as the Brits use it, though it's now a *very* dated usage. Usually it referred more to a specific kind of small bandage, which was medicated... The only surviving usage I know of is "corn plaster", which is a medicated bandage for foot 'corns'. Brits also use "bandage" as a verb, though. The term "plaster" itself was a UK-specific marketing term, because people used ridiculously old (and pseudo-scientific) at home treatments in the UK until the NHS changed attitudes; doctors were expensive, and they'd typically only see them in an emergency. A "plaster" was one of these, dating to the middle ages. A "plaster" was a combination of a liquid ointment made from various herbs, and a linen wrap to hold it on and keep the clothes dry. These were based on the "humour" theory of disease, before people learned what germs are. They were especially used for "chest colds". Brits (outside the cities especially) still used these even into the early 20th century, and so the term "plaster" was generally well-known. Hence when companies were trying to sell manufactured bandages to people during the Victorian and Edwardian eras (at the new High Street pharmacies), they just called them "plasters" over there, because it was already a recognized term.

I have found born southern(USA) that people enjoy my accent but I tend to be careful in how I enunciate words because people are of the erroneous belief that this speech pattern indicates that someone may not be very intelligent.

@MeadeSkeltonMusic

4 жыл бұрын

That's a myth

Kinda reminds me from the actress that plays Maggie on the Walking Dead. Was born in the USA but moved to England as a child and sounds kind of British.

@Borodinx

6 жыл бұрын

*Jeremy Williams* *Lauren Cohan* . She grew up in New Jersey, and moved to Surrey, England, at 13. She's now 35.

I know I’m seeing this late, but Lia, your nose makes you look so young. Not that there was anything wrong with how it was, I actually liked it, but now it’s made you look so much younger. Fresh faced.

@6:28, Christie says year like an American because she's connecting "year" to "as" and the connecting r sound emerges between the pronounced schwa and a. That was really interesting.

Super fun

I'm from Georgia and when I lived in England I developed a Northern accent cause my best friend was from Boston . A medic while I was in hospital tried to guess where we were from thought I was from New York . Had to show him my driver's license to prove it !

Too cute ❤

@ThoseTwoBrits1

6 жыл бұрын

Aw stop it 🤗❤️

Just 2 weeks in Ireland and I started to pick up an Irish accent.

The New Zealand accent is very influenced by its early Scottish settlers.

@ScottJB

4 жыл бұрын

Fush and chups

@DavidFraser007

Жыл бұрын

What? My Auntie moved from Scotland to New Zealand she visited us a few years later and she was talking really weird.

@themoderntemplar1567

Жыл бұрын

What part of EARLY Scottish settlers did ye no get?

@DavidFraser007

Жыл бұрын

@@themoderntemplar1567 It's the influence part that I don't get.

@themoderntemplar1567

Жыл бұрын

If the majority of European settlers are from a certain demographic, in this instance Scots, then they are going to influence how people speak in this case it's English then the non speakers will learn English with more of a Scots flavour in cadence and tonality.

im from oceania, but currently living in the philippines, but have a mixture of straya and british Rp, plus a bit from my native accent when speaking english.. its a mess. but generally all non-Rhotic based accent mix. I try to tone it down whenever i'm around my countrymen, because they will deem it as 'wannabe, or show off. but to me it's more of mood and artistic thing to do, i don't mean to switch between accents it just happens.

True story. Moved from California to Wisconsin and after 20 years I sound just like a native Wisconsinite!! Brilliant. Lol

A lot of ppl in Pennsylvania pronounce water like wudder, wash like warsh or creek like crick...I don't but I hear it a lot!

a friend of mine from Scotland came to the US and met with me in America, and my voice changed, without me consciously meaning to.

I live in Illinois, USA, right? Well, back in '97/'98, I worked for an engineering company in Kentucky, which is just across the Ohio River from Illinois. And the Kentucky accent is so different than an Illinois accent that there were several words that they'd say different. I only worked for them for 6 months, but one of the words I picked up from my colleagues was "oll" (aka "oil"). It's normally pronounced "oy-l", right? While I worked with them, I talked like them (just to fit in with them). But once I left that job, I reverted back to my normal accent.

Kiwis saying their I's as U's explains what I what I was hearing in Deadpool 2. When the kid says his name is Firefist, I heard "Fire fust" and didn't understand what he meant until Deadpool repeated it.

I am from Hawai`i and we have lots of different languages and accents, a real melting pot. I learned how to speak by mimicking the person I was talking to. I do this subconsciously and pick up accents real easy.

I'd like to know what y'all think about the southern American accents

I'm American from Utah but because I've always had a speech impediment (when I was in grade school I couldn't pronounce r's they came out as a w) so I had to do speech therapy all through grade school and middle school and now if I'm not mindful of it or I'm talking fast or saying a word with an r in the middle I can still miss pronounce it so people have always thought I had a different accent other than an American Utahn, I've gotten people thinking I'm Italian or Russian it's weird so I can relate to this video. Sorry for the long comment

Omg lol I love you guys!!!!

Hmm, Woodah (water), that actually sounds like Baltimore, MD.

@galaxyanimal

6 жыл бұрын

Yet in the south it's wawdur.

@sumguy2581

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I'm from Harrisburg and its the same.

@MeadeSkeltonMusic

4 жыл бұрын

@@galaxyanimal Baltimore is a weird mix of North and southern dialect

Within the English language I am 100% covert, but obviously that can’t be the case with other languages... if only

Where is it in England that speakers drop and initial "H" as in "'ere ya go mate". Also, some places they drop "t" in a "ter" ending. Dorset? Like "We are paranormal investiga'ers".

@ThinWhiteAxe

5 жыл бұрын

London/Southern England.

When I was in college I knew a girl from France who learned English in England and I think lived there for a while. When I first knew her she sounded English to me but after a couple of years in America she lost most of her British accent and started sounding French.

If you haven't already, will you guys do an upload on the Mockney accent?

@harrietbredehoft6578

5 жыл бұрын

My aunt who was European, moved to Canada as a teenager. There she met and married my uncle and moved to Alabama. Her accent was adorable---Canadian pronunciations of some words but with a German-sounding Southern accent!!!

It seems to me that, everyone I have known who has gone into the military, comes out with a Southern accent. I'm talking about friends from N.Y. I have also noticed that, since I moved upstate 40 years ago, I no longer have much of a NYC accent... Until I encounter someone from the city, then the N.Y. just comes pouring out of me. Weird!!

When I lived in Houston I felt like I had to try to hold on to my accent because in Texas the english is really lazy kind of like instead of saying "here" just saying "hya"

I have lived in four states and each has a different accent. I consider myself a Morpher, I start talking the accent of most people I talk too.

Growing up in the Southeastern United States, it is really interesting that if you listen to an older person with a strong Southern accent, you would be amazed how much of it has a very English derivative.

I've taken so many languages. I think my accent has changed., Because of my language experience. I'm from the south and people think I'm from north (USA)