@@vstroboy. everybody knows what he means but that doesn't mean that he should continue saying the wrong thing. If I call you vstrobody you would understand that I am talking to you but that doesn't mean that I should still keep calling you vstrobody
Depends on your age when you accent becomes more permanent. Had a friend who left Romania when she was 8, her sister was 12. She has NO accent, her sister, thick. It is very interesting.
whether with or without an accent Greece loves you guys We are very proud of what you hv achieved You are role models for hundreds of lil kids who also want to make it 🇬🇷🇬🇷❤❤
When i talk to my grandparents (latino), we speak in accents even when we speak english. When i go back home in the south, i speak with the southern slang. Us people who have international roots and speak multiple languages speak like this
I moved to the US from Greece when I was 14. I was the same, didn't know any English. I was made fun of so much for having a "weird accent," that it pushed me to try and figure out how to speak so that people would accept me.
@@varius21 ronaldo never grew up in brazil, he went to england at age 18 He never faked his accents to get accepted by anyone, it’s inferiority complex to always try to fit and be fake
Because of his age!! When youth from the Caribbean move to the states and enrol in the school system their accents change versus and adult moving to the states
It’s funny when he said the Houston thing because I’m from Houston and Alex dead sounds like someone from here lmaoo, he has a little southern drawl and drags out the ending of his words similar to how we do it here. It’s interesting how accents and dialects work.
He is like me! We were raised bilingual but have zero Greek accent! Nothing like Giannis and Thanasis! FYI, my brother, Stavros Schizas, has a podcast. Why not bring him on? Funny fact, I too have 4 brothers but only 2 played basketball, and he is the only one that went pro!
I mean some people lose their accent and some don’t. I came here from Italy at 12 years old as as well but at that age you are damn near a teenager so my accent never went away.
my inlaws are the same way. The younger brother sounds like any other new yorker and is 15 years younger than my wife. WHere as my wife was mostly raised in Lagos, so her accent is thick.
It’s a very tricky thing to be honest. I grew up in Pakistan but went to a good school. People think I’m posh because I sound posh with very defined sounds and pronunciation. My sister, on the other hand, has a very local accent. Basically, a Pashto accent on whichever language she speaks. I have a very neutral accent in every language, which makes people think I’m some kinda posh donny and I’m like no I’m from here 😭
when learning languages some people can’t get native accents down and others can. that’s why giannis has a thick accent but his OLDER brother doesn’t really have one
1:08- Greece Accent came out ..hold up that's a greece Accent wow crazy....how Giannis iust nigerian with a Greek accent but theres ppl like that in the UK like Dasmon Iris and so much others....brother is right when you mimic people your accent goes away certain words can come otu
He has the 'American' accent down.....he used the word 'like' so often just like young Americans. It is amazing how well he speaks though not having born here when we have certain types of people who are born here and can't even speak a full sentence let alone write one out.
@@thodorism6707 LOL, hey, just be glad you don't have to hear it every time you go out in public 'LIKE' hundreds of times, haha. Hopefully the people you hear saying it are at least somewhat young since they are raised to speak that way here. Unfortunately I do hear some older people (over 40) saying it often as well but not as much as the younger crowd (those under 25 ish).
He has an accent. Everybody has an accent. He has a very easily recognisable American accent and string hints of the accent that black Americans have. But he definitely has a strong American accent
Yea but they talkin bout the fact he spent like 13 years in Greece and didn’t even know English and he hasnt even been him for 10 years really and his accent is completely gone
@@damana1000 Perhaps but are all 3 of them better than him at Chess? While we’re at it, they all might be better at spelling, math, baseball, tight end, Golf, driving, etc.
He came here at 18 so by that age you can’t really change your accent. It sticks with you. Unless he really take classes even with that it’s difficult.
It has to do with puberty. If you move to another country after puberty you will keep your accent. Trust me my 83 mother has been living in Australia for 60 years and still has a thick accent. Instead of saying “sit” down she says “shit down”
The only humans without accents are those who cannot speak. An accent (noun) is a distinct emphasis given to a syllable or word in speech by stress or pitch.
According to the academic studies kids who move before the age of 12 or so will not have an accent in the new language they speak. But if you move past the age of 13 odds are you will have a more noticeable accent.
Not sure how they spoke no English before moving to the states. English is actually the national language of Nigeria and their parents come different tribes that speak different languages (Yoruba and Igbo). So the only form of communication with their kids would have been English as I doubt their parents picked up enough Greek as adults to speak it at home to their kids as a first language
They have mentioned nefore that their parents wanted them to speak mostly greek to make sure they adopt perfectly to the culture. They also spoke some Igbo and Yoruba at home, but since both parents wanted their language to be the one used, they gave up and just used greek.
I got news for you EVERYBODY speak with an accent!!!!. Maybe you mean is cool to blend in into a foreign country and pass as a native speaker because you have assimilated THEIR accent.
I love that Giannis kept his cool accent, it has always made him sound classy. I can’t imagine him sounding like an arrogant black American during interviews. We enjoy Giannis and Thenasis Greek accent than Alex American accent
The parents native languages were different (Yoruba and Igbo) and they also wanted the kids to assimilate. They ended up speaking greek at home. They have mentioned it in interviews before.
@@alx_gr1 Nigerians from the different groups are way more likely to use English, English is the lingua franca here in Nigeria. Would be interesting to know more about their story though
@Vaidelotelis you're wrong. I'm from Nigeria and and the official language is English. The education system is mostly in English and universities teach in English. We have our own languages and Of course, there are people who do not speak english but to say people don't grow up speaking English is wrong His parents are from two separate tribes, Igbo and Yoruba(two very different languages) so the language used between them would have most likely been English
@@seuntimilehin3381 see, that's your problem. You only hang out with educated people. The majority of Nigeria is not like that. I've been to Nigeria. It's extremely difficult to find even an educated person who speaks what we would consider to be grammatically correct English that a native English speaker would readily understand. Step into the countryside and people generally don't speak more than a few words or sentences of English. There is a big difference between Australia, for instance, where the official language is English and Nigeria where the official language is also English.
@Vaidelotelis I was just trying to correct your earlier point of saying "people don't grow up speaking English in Nigeria" because that isn't true If you read my comment you would see I said we have our own languages and not everyone speaks English. The area I grew up in spoke Yoruba, English, pidgin and often other languages on a minor scale so I grew up knowing English, yoruba and pidgin naturally. Obviously people that grow up in the countryside or rural areas would be different from people who grew up in the city and had access to education or a better standard of living You also have to understand that there are parts of Nigeria that speak more English than other parts and thats how it is. For example you would hear more English/pidgin on the street in cities in the south than you would hear in the north because in the north the dominant language is hausa, even spoken by people on a native level who are not ethically hausa but are from northern nigeria. I'm from western Nigeria but I lived a bit in the south and also schooled there for some time. In Rivers state where I lived, which is also very ethnically diverse, the main language you would hear in the city is English or you would hear pidgin. A lot of my classmates could only speak English and pidgin and didn't know how to speak their "native languages" fluently. A lot of them even had english surnames despite not being English or having any relations to England. That's just how it was, so I'm giving you different examples On your point about English that is grammatically correct, I would have to disagree with you. Every country that has English as an official language has it's own unique way of speaking English. I grew up in Nigeria so the way I speak English is a product of the environment I grew up in. When we speak english, we include words like "abi" "sha", "shey" "ba" "sef" among others because that's how we speak and there's nothing wrong with that. Even some people I knew that attended the most expensive schools owned by British people still speak English the way I do with a Nigerian accent We do not need approval of native english speakers from England or Australia. When i was in school i had a friend whose family was originally from England and he speaks English how a typical Nigerian would speak it with words and expressions we nigerians use in speaking english normally that do not exist in England, now why is that? Because he grew up in an environment that spoke that way. He's also fluent in pidgin and can speak yoruba to some degree. I have also been to England and I heard a lot of people using "me" instead of "my" or saying "you was" instead of "you were",. I also notived some people pronouncing "th" as "f" or not pronouncing the letter "t" in words. All of these shouldn't be correct if you want to talk about grammatics but a lot of people speak that way. The same way some people from France may say French from Quebec in Canada sounds weird (yes I've been told that), it's just the way Canadian French speakers speak and that's fine. Also in Canada English and French are the official languages but if you go up north where a lot of the indigenous people live, a lot of them are unable to speak english or French because they speak their own languages exclusively Also finally on your point about "native speakers being able to readily understand". When I went to England they understood me most of the time when I spoke normally but I found I very hard to understand a lot of what they were saying believe it or not, after a few weeks there my ears had adjusted and It was easier. Jamaicans and other countries in the Carribbean would be considered native english speakers but haven't you heard the way they speak english? Or even black americans, they would be considered native english speakers, a lot of them being able to only speak English, but they way they speak especially when they add all their words like "finna" etc, if it isn't what you are used to it'll be difficult to understand as well?
They all knew pretty good English before they moved to America,all of them,their parents spoke English,because they are from the different Nigerian linguistic groups.
The change of accents when you talk to different people is very real. I do it too, especially if I'm talking to British people.
For sure, they call it code switching
@@BBalllegend1000that’s something different
It’s called code switching
I am from Milwaukee, we love you guys!!! Please stay here forever!!!
I love this family so much! Είστε οι ΠΙΟ υπέροχοι ❤️
Alex basically grew up in Milwaukee so of course he sound like he from here , kinda how 21 savage sound like he from Atlanta
His little brother has a slight Greek accent if you listen closely.
Noticed it too but it's so slight it's basically irrelevant
but 4 real it could just be the way he talks. i wouldn’t necessarily say you can determine it’s greek per se 🤷🏼♂️
When he says H in the word Hear.
Alex up close is a darker Giannis. Looks exactly just like him.
Everybody has an accent! Thanasis has Greek accent, Alex has an American accent
Exactly
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@@vstroboy. everybody knows what he means but that doesn't mean that he should continue saying the wrong thing. If I call you vstrobody you would understand that I am talking to you but that doesn't mean that I should still keep calling you vstrobody
@@kostasskoulidas6549saying you have no accent is universally understood and the correct way to say someone sounds like a native speaker
american = default spawn accent of any language
I LOVE YOU BROTHERS!!
Depends on your age when you accent becomes more permanent. Had a friend who left Romania when she was 8, her sister was 12. She has NO accent, her sister, thick. It is very interesting.
Yeah, the younger you are its easier
I will say it once more. Respect to Charles and Veronica for the fantastic four.
Θανάσακλα σου πάνε τα πράσινα και το ξέρεις.
We can hear plenty of accent Thanasis 😅
Tbf it’s almost unnoticeable
I know
Not rly
U must listening extremely hard for one. Lol. Sounds 95% like he's from America.
Yeah, he sounds mostly American.
And most Americans have a slight accent anyways due to their region in the country and/or parents' background.
Alex already looks NBA ready.
whether with or without an accent Greece loves you guys
We are very proud of what you hv achieved
You are role models for hundreds of lil kids who also want to make it
🇬🇷🇬🇷❤❤
You got to switch it up bro😂😂 it makes the conversation a bit easier and relatable
First, love the ANTETOKOUNMPO brothers!
Thanasis accent is thick when he doesn’t try to hide it
This guys are so nice and beautiful. Very great Family. ❤
When i talk to my grandparents (latino), we speak in accents even when we speak english. When i go back home in the south, i speak with the southern slang. Us people who have international roots and speak multiple languages speak like this
True!
Great vid 😂
God bless you guys!
Man, the song at the end... It killed me!
People with the level of accent Thanasis has always Believe that they have no accent lol
Alex came over younger, that's why. People under 13 supposedly don't develop an accent.
I moved to the US from Greece when I was 14. I was the same, didn't know any English. I was made fun of so much for having a "weird accent," that it pushed me to try and figure out how to speak so that people would accept me.
Never twist your accent to satisfy anyone, ask them to speak greek too, and you see their accent… be who you are
@@fujablack easy to say but the reality is that the world is cold. Him, learning to tweak his accent, helped him "get by" in a way, so why not?
@@varius21 inferiority mentality, messi is the greatest football player and never tweaked accent
@@fujablackno, bro. Messi didn’t grow up in a non Spanish speaking country! He just speaks Spanish.
@@varius21 ronaldo never grew up in brazil, he went to england at age 18
He never faked his accents to get accepted by anyone, it’s inferiority complex to always try to fit and be fake
Don't kid yourself, we still hear the accent... very slight but still there
Not that it matters; just embrace it & your roots
He has an accent..it's an American one lol it's wild Giannis voice goes from Greek to African to American depending what he doin
😂😂 aye that’s comedy cuz we be switchin the black American accents on n off too . I’m tryna add the Greek one to my bag
What is a "black American accent?" I live in Jersey and us out here don't sound anything like people from St. Louis, California or Alabama, man. SMH
Because of his age!! When youth from the Caribbean move to the states and enrol in the school system their accents change versus and adult moving to the states
Like deandre ayton
Thanalysis is a goat pod name 😂
It’s funny when he said the Houston thing because I’m from Houston and Alex dead sounds like someone from here lmaoo, he has a little southern drawl and drags out the ending of his words similar to how we do it here. It’s interesting how accents and dialects work.
To Greeks Thanasis accent is the correct one 😂
He is like me! We were raised bilingual but have zero Greek accent! Nothing like Giannis and Thanasis! FYI, my brother, Stavros Schizas, has a podcast. Why not bring him on? Funny fact, I too have 4 brothers but only 2 played basketball, and he is the only one that went pro!
I mean some people lose their accent and some don’t. I came here from Italy at 12 years old as as well but at that age you are damn near a teenager so my accent never went away.
my inlaws are the same way. The younger brother sounds like any other new yorker and is 15 years younger than my wife. WHere as my wife was mostly raised in Lagos, so her accent is thick.
It’s a very tricky thing to be honest. I grew up in Pakistan but went to a good school. People think I’m posh because I sound posh with very defined sounds and pronunciation. My sister, on the other hand, has a very local accent. Basically, a Pashto accent on whichever language she speaks. I have a very neutral accent in every language, which makes people think I’m some kinda posh donny and I’m like no I’m from here 😭
Α ρε Θανασαρα και Αλεξ
He does sound like a Chicago accent if anything.
Trust he got an accent he can use it when he want. Code switch
Alex and kostas went to school in Milwaukee but only kostas has the heavy accent. Now we know which bros we’re hanging out with which 😂
Alex does have an accent. Very clear
ADETOKUNBO!!!!
👊🏾🇳🇬👊🏾🇳🇬!!
He almost grew up in Milwaukee
Thanasis the most stereotypical greek accent . Everything pronounced linear
when learning languages some people can’t get native accents down and others can. that’s why giannis has a thick accent but his OLDER brother doesn’t really have one
1:08- Greece Accent came out ..hold up that's a greece Accent wow crazy....how Giannis iust nigerian with a Greek accent but theres ppl like that in the UK like Dasmon Iris and so much others....brother is right when you mimic people your accent goes away certain words can come otu
You don’t have to listen hard to hear Thanasis’ accent
He has the 'American' accent down.....he used the word 'like' so often just like young Americans. It is amazing how well he speaks though not having born here when we have certain types of people who are born here and can't even speak a full sentence let alone write one out.
Every time I hear Americans speaking here in Greece, the word like is used every 4 seconds. Brits though never use it so its funny
@@thodorism6707 LOL, hey, just be glad you don't have to hear it every time you go out in public 'LIKE' hundreds of times, haha. Hopefully the people you hear saying it are at least somewhat young since they are raised to speak that way here. Unfortunately I do hear some older people (over 40) saying it often as well but not as much as the younger crowd (those under 25 ish).
Έλληναρες σας αγαπάμε !,,
Even the tittle has an accent
Everyone has an accent.
He means having a greek accent
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How many brothers deep is the antetokounpo family?😂
5
He has an accent. Everybody has an accent. He has a very easily recognisable American accent and string hints of the accent that black Americans have. But he definitely has a strong American accent
Yea but they talkin bout the fact he spent like 13 years in Greece and didn’t even know English and he hasnt even been him for 10 years really and his accent is completely gone
Bro Beaucoup the accent!
You know Thanasis wrote this title
Btw my mother is Greek. 🇬🇷
Giannis: the 4th best brother when it comes to speaking the English language but is better at quite literally everything else! 😂
Best at everything else? How do you know? Thanasis might be the best chess player among them.
@@damana1000 Perhaps but are all 3 of them better than him at Chess? While we’re at it, they all might be better at spelling, math, baseball, tight end, Golf, driving, etc.
@@damana1000 i would bet a lot of money that he isnt
There is also a 5th brother with a Nigerian accent (Francis).
Thanasis has the most greek accent in the family....!
Everybody speak with an accent. The accent from your own country or the country you live in.
Interesting how Giannis has been in the US the longest yet he has the strongest Greek accent
He came here at 18 so by that age you can’t really change your accent. It sticks with you. Unless he really take classes even with that it’s difficult.
The title is wrong. It should read: Why does Alex Antentokounmpo have no accent!?!
Everyone’s a critic.
@@Username12665 Dude i'm just trying to save them some embarassment
@@jaimereynolds3914 Bro english is a stupid language already, noone will get embarassed
nobody cares
Everyone has an accent
It has to do with puberty. If you move to another country after puberty you will keep your accent. Trust me my 83 mother has been living in Australia for 60 years and still has a thick accent. Instead of saying “sit” down she says “shit down”
Also named Athanasios, gonna have to use Thanalysis now 😂
The only humans without accents are those who cannot speak. An accent (noun) is a distinct emphasis given to a syllable or word in speech by stress or pitch.
Everybody has an accent!
He from Milwaukee
According to the academic studies kids who move before the age of 12 or so will not have an accent in the new language they speak. But if you move past the age of 13 odds are you will have a more noticeable accent.
It has been a year, and nobody has bothered to fix the title.
It’s not that serious 😂
Whatever he is saying, he has an accent. Everyone has an accent.
Sounds like he has an American Accent to me.
Not sure how they spoke no English before moving to the states. English is actually the national language of Nigeria and their parents come different tribes that speak different languages (Yoruba and Igbo). So the only form of communication with their kids would have been English as I doubt their parents picked up enough Greek as adults to speak it at home to their kids as a first language
They have mentioned nefore that their parents wanted them to speak mostly greek to make sure they adopt perfectly to the culture. They also spoke some Igbo and Yoruba at home, but since both parents wanted their language to be the one used, they gave up and just used greek.
It's that Dominican education
He has the greek accent
Alex sounds like he’s from the USA frfr haha
Wonder why tha asks doesn’t have such a heavy accent like Giannis and kostas
the best anktetemeopo's are the one's with an accent. that would explain why giannnas has the worst accent but best skills at basketball
He has a slight accent
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Why do you guys not include Frances in anything. He's your brother too.
Well he’s been here longer then he was in Greece so it makes sense.
He moved at 12, he is 23 so...not exactly.
Not Houston Texas accent hon...lol but he does have an American accent.
Having NOT accent is so cool
I got news for you EVERYBODY speak with an accent!!!!. Maybe you mean is cool to blend in into a foreign country and pass as a native speaker because you have assimilated THEIR accent.
What’s with accent anyway? Be glad two human beings are having a conversation!!
He definitely has an accent. He can mimic all he wants but he definitely still sounds like his first language is Greek
it’s “ironic” lol
Direct translation from greek 😂
you can tell he is not american but you cant tell that he is greek
What do you call accent? Because everyone has one, no matter where they are from. Literally everyone.
I mean come on the kid moved to America at the age of 12.
He still have an accent you Americans😂
What do you mean he has no accent?
Anyone could tell that American accent.
he has an american accent
Well he has an American accent.
“Have not accent”???
I love that Giannis kept his cool accent, it has always made him sound classy. I can’t imagine him sounding like an arrogant black American during interviews. We enjoy Giannis and Thenasis Greek accent than Alex American accent
Ισχυει οτι οι μεγαλυτεροι εχετε καργα ελληνικη προφορα στα αγγλικα 😂😂😂
What does “no accent” even mean
Surprised you both didn't speak English, given that your parents are Nigerians. Would love to know the back story.
The parents native languages were different (Yoruba and Igbo) and they also wanted the kids to assimilate. They ended up speaking greek at home. They have mentioned it in interviews before.
@@alx_gr1 Nigerians from the different groups are way more likely to use English, English is the lingua franca here in Nigeria. Would be interesting to know more about their story though
χει μπραδερ λετ μι τελ γιου σαμθινγκ
maybe he adopted
i mean he ain't not look like giannas at all
Same time you have turkish and arabic people in Germany beeing born in Germany and still not talking properly.
If your parents are nigerian, how didn't you know english from birth?
Because people don't grow up speaking English in Nigeria. It's not a language that most people in Nigeria speak at home or in their local community
@Vaidelotelis you're wrong. I'm from Nigeria and and the official language is English. The education system is mostly in English and universities teach in English. We have our own languages and Of course, there are people who do not speak english but to say people don't grow up speaking English is wrong
His parents are from two separate tribes, Igbo and Yoruba(two very different languages) so the language used between them would have most likely been English
@@seuntimilehin3381 see, that's your problem. You only hang out with educated people. The majority of Nigeria is not like that. I've been to Nigeria. It's extremely difficult to find even an educated person who speaks what we would consider to be grammatically correct English that a native English speaker would readily understand. Step into the countryside and people generally don't speak more than a few words or sentences of English. There is a big difference between Australia, for instance, where the official language is English and Nigeria where the official language is also English.
@Vaidelotelis I was just trying to correct your earlier point of saying "people don't grow up speaking English in Nigeria" because that isn't true
If you read my comment you would see I said we have our own languages and not everyone speaks English. The area I grew up in spoke Yoruba, English, pidgin and often other languages on a minor scale so I grew up knowing English, yoruba and pidgin naturally. Obviously people that grow up in the countryside or rural areas would be different from people who grew up in the city and had access to education or a better standard of living
You also have to understand that there are parts of Nigeria that speak more English than other parts and thats how it is. For example you would hear more English/pidgin on the street in cities in the south than you would hear in the north because in the north the dominant language is hausa, even spoken by people on a native level who are not ethically hausa but are from northern nigeria. I'm from western Nigeria but I lived a bit in the south and also schooled there for some time. In Rivers state where I lived, which is also very ethnically diverse, the main language you would hear in the city is English or you would hear pidgin. A lot of my classmates could only speak English and pidgin and didn't know how to speak their "native languages" fluently. A lot of them even had english surnames despite not being English or having any relations to England. That's just how it was, so I'm giving you different examples
On your point about English that is grammatically correct, I would have to disagree with you. Every country that has English as an official language has it's own unique way of speaking English. I grew up in Nigeria so the way I speak English is a product of the environment I grew up in. When we speak english, we include words like "abi" "sha", "shey" "ba" "sef" among others because that's how we speak and there's nothing wrong with that. Even some people I knew that attended the most expensive schools owned by British people still speak English the way I do with a Nigerian accent
We do not need approval of native english speakers from England or Australia. When i was in school i had a friend whose family was originally from England and he speaks English how a typical Nigerian would speak it with words and expressions we nigerians use in speaking english normally that do not exist in England, now why is that? Because he grew up in an environment that spoke that way. He's also fluent in pidgin and can speak yoruba to some degree.
I have also been to England and I heard a lot of people using "me" instead of "my" or saying "you was" instead of "you were",. I also notived some people pronouncing "th" as "f" or not pronouncing the letter "t" in words. All of these shouldn't be correct if you want to talk about grammatics but a lot of people speak that way.
The same way some people from France may say French from Quebec in Canada sounds weird (yes I've been told that), it's just the way Canadian French speakers speak and that's fine. Also in Canada English and French are the official languages but if you go up north where a lot of the indigenous people live, a lot of them are unable to speak english or French because they speak their own languages exclusively
Also finally on your point about "native speakers being able to readily understand". When I went to England they understood me most of the time when I spoke normally but I found I very hard to understand a lot of what they were saying believe it or not, after a few weeks there my ears had adjusted and It was easier.
Jamaicans and other countries in the Carribbean would be considered native english speakers but haven't you heard the way they speak english? Or even black americans, they would be considered native english speakers, a lot of them being able to only speak English, but they way they speak especially when they add all their words like "finna" etc, if it isn't what you are used to it'll be difficult to understand as well?
They all knew pretty good English before they moved to America,all of them,their parents spoke English,because they are from the different Nigerian linguistic groups.
Ελληνικά είναι τόσο ωραιότερα απ τα Αγγλικά, παιδιά, γτ δεν μιλατε Ελληνικά; Λίγοι θα καταλάβουνε, μα εγώ θα σας αντεκολουθώ ;)