Somehow, Laura immediately laughing upon hearing her own accented voice is PERFECTLY in character for Jester first hearing herself speak with a spell changing her voice.
The accent drop to represent speaking a native language was genius by Liam. Tracking down how it started Liam would tell matt "Im having this conversation in zemnian" Matt would then drop his accent as well This went on to Liam with out telling mat dropping the accent and mat knowing automatically whats happening to then again drop his Liam has started something great I hope they keep in for the future
Is it really? If you watch the show, whenever there's a creature who speaks a language such as Abyssal or Draconic, Matt always starts out with whatever it will be fliunetly, but then within a few phrases migrates to natural English. That's all Liam does, and I do believe this wasn't the first time he did it either. This kind of thing is done in theater and movies all the time. It was done in The Hunt for Red October with the Russian submarine crew, where they started out speaking Russian to denote they were Russians, and then within a few phrases migrated to English for the viewing audience.
@@SPACEHARICE I'm quite aware of what you're referring to. The thing is, this wasn't the first nor is it anything that hasn't been done before in either this campaign, nor in acting in any medium.
@@eartheclipse8 Yup. Every since he sat down with Astrid and finally talked. We got that EPIC moment where Liam fucked with Matt by 'speaking in Zemnian', so the actors could talk without putting on accents. Matt was caught off guard since he probably practised how that conversation was going to go down beforehand, but WITH an accent. So to now not do it, oh MAN it was good. And IN character, to hear Jester speak Zemnian to him, thus allowing Laura to drop the accent, must have made Caleb feel like he was speaking to Astrid once again, which he hadn't done in years. It's SO. GOOD.
It's a good american accent, the only difference is how hard they're trying. Getting the sounds of an accent right is only step one, making it sound natural is the real hard part.
it's mostly good but the over-emphasized Rs give it away. it's a thing commonwealth english speakers do cuz you guys normally drop your Rs a lot so you overcompensate.
Its how he shows Matt and the others that he's speaking in Zemnian and not common for roleplay purposes. He's the only one that speaks Zemnian so the rest of the group shouldn't know what he's saying to someone like Astrid. The...second? Time he did that the group was surprised that he could change his accent until Matt pointed out that he was speaking in Zemnian.
@@Cultureghost I've always thought of celestial as Italian. My aasimar light cleric has a very light Italian accent that I call the "sleepy pope voice".
I like Matt Colville's approach, where the planar languages are almost eerily un-languagey. Like Celestial sounds like someone playing a water harp and bells ringing, and Infernal sounds like the War of the Worlds sound.
I love how the flavour of Liam speaking without a german accent is Caleb speaking in Zemnian. That Flavour is amazing. My Drow speaks with an Undercommon Accent that we flavour to be a very uptight british, so now when i speak in undercommon i'm just gonna sound with my southern accent. XD
Funny thing! When I first heard Liam O'Brien talk in campaign one, I STRAIGHT UP thought he was British because he normally stayed in Vax's voice, and when he spoke with his actual American accent, it sounded so blended, it seemed _fake._ Like a British person doing an American accent!! Then it made more sense when I learned he was born and raised in New Jersey and trained to lose his native accent for theatre. very similar to my weird non-accent because I moved around and just sounds vague blend of east-coast/Canadian/mid-western/slight-southern.
I also have an odd accent. Not from moving so much as my mother was raised in the north east by a bostonite and a west Virginian and my dad was raised in California by an Idahoan and a Utahn so I pronounce a lot of stuff to the point my accent is just a blend of all those. Only a handful of my siblings speak like i do and it's all the introverts who didn't have friends to assimilate the Utah accent. So I have an accent but it cannot be pinned down.
“East coast/ mid western/ Canadian /slightly southern” Ah yes, the truest North American accent.... random bullshit thrown at a wall till something sticks
It’s so strange to hear Liam using his regular accent but still talking and acting like Caleb, in his curt and direct manner. Very cool though, he’s a fantastic actor.
The face Liam makes, the genuine “I’m speaking fluent zemnian (idk if that’s how it’s spelled)” to jester is amazing, she’s like “GASP, REALLY?” And he’s like “yeah-“
As an American but speaking just for myself, it doesn’t sound wrong so much as weird. It’s not like “we wouldn’t say that word that way”, it just doesn’t sound like how a real person talks. More like a above-mediocre AI.
reminds me of the inglorious basterds scene where fasbender is an irl german acting as a british man struggling to lose his accent while speaking german.
I always love the "person from a place who does another accent pretending to do an accent from their actual place" thing. Sort of like Hugh Laurie on House doing a bad British accent :D
She talks to Fjord in Zemnian, and Fjord looks like he's trying to get into a fighting stance, but really it just looks like he's about to count the Message words. Probably because he's so weak.
@@maroonedinblue Many to all the vowels seem strangely forced--I think I like the word "deliberate". Taliesin very nearly pronounces the e and a in "mean".
I cracked the code on how to sound like a British person speaking with an American accent. You just have to talk like you’re trying to hold in a giggle (I don’t know a better way of explaining this)
I love that it's Sam who says "like a British actor trying to do an American accent" and Taliesin is the one who jumps on it, like guys we all heard you both in A Realm Reborn being 'British'
Wait, Caleb said Jester's "Zemnian" Zemnian accent (as in the accent she has when speaking the language Zemnian) was "cute". Does that mean she's imposing her own accent onto German? My main point in this is that I just really hope that Jester speaking Zemnian is the equivalent of a California surfer bro speaking Spanish ("nah, no may goostah el diabloh!" type shit)
To be fair, the other English accents come up so infrequently most actors don't bother keeping them fresh. Especially when you're talking about actors of the caliber of these folks, they wouldn't need more than a day to have as passable accent worked back up for a job.
@@abydosianchulac2 The other problem is that their English accents are very noticably fake to an English person. I watched through campaign 1 and it was like nails on a chalkboard sometimes with the over-enunciation of certain words like "Caah-n't" and "WAR-ter". Just seems a little hypocritical to be making fun of English actors doing the same thing with American actors. 🤷♂️
@@LoganBluth it's only hypocritical if they're being super serious about it. The first campaign had several years of being around their kitchen table and calling themselves the S.H.I.T.S., they probably made fun of each other then too, and some of it settled into "canon" bc it made them laugh.
@@ferrous719 No. It's still hypocritical. If you take the piss out of your friends while all are present that's fine, everyone does it. But if you take the piss out of the professional abilities of strangers who you've never met, while also having the same shortcomings in those professional abilities yourself, that's hypocrisy. Also, you can't just hypothesize that "they probably made fun of each other then too" when we never actually saw that. These guys are professional voice actors. If anyone shouldn't be mocking the voice work of other actors it's them, since they know how difficult it is to do.
@@LoganBluth If it's all in good faith, who gives a shit? If you told them "Your English accents need work", they'd probably laugh it off and say "You're telling me." Meanwhile you're out here freaking out over the fact they made an offhand joke about how English actors tend to try a bit too hard to keep their words "even" when doing American accents (I noticed this all the time in The Boys.) No one's watching C1 and buying the idea that these people are English, it's kind of implicit that it's an easy "I'm in character now" voice to default to.
Liam just adopts the oral temperment of Harrison Ford and the stressed and covered facial condition of, in any his roles. 1:19 for fifteen seconds I mean.
To me it sounds like they are using that "News Broadcaster" accent....you know the one that is absolutely neutral that is only used by people on TV....
I think, to my ears, it just sounds a bit over-articulated and overly deep. That might be because I've heard them speak naturally so I'm biased that way. Otherwise, you're right, it just sounds like a regular American accent 😂😂
StealthyTNT How Dare you say my Trouble’s tea is awful. You better leave my mincers or I swear upon the Queen I will put you in a loo, honking nothing but blood!
My favorite part of this is the fact that Laura can't handle speaking in her normal voice. "Thank you" and starts laughing. It's just her voice! VO actors are silly.
I think what makes this even better is that, for those that havent read the sending spell, you don't even have to speak the same language to understand a sending message! All that spell achieved was this scene and it's still the best tongues spell cast in the whole campaign
This weirdly reminded me of The Walking Dead and how the actress who plays Maggie is actually British. I'm from the south and her ability to do a southern farmgirl accent was so convincing, I honestly thought she was American irl doing a country gal drawl. And she can talk so fast while doing it, which is something we southerners with that kind of accent tend to do when we're jabberin' on. It was surprising!
If british\ British derived accents never did a southern accent again it'd be too soon for me. I literally just went and found some footage of her talking and.... I can't. I just can't.
Looking back now after finishing C1 and being 30 into C2, I think this was actually this first CR video I ever saw. I knew of Laura from her VA work but didn't actually know what any of their normal voices sounded like, so 1:44 made me actually think Laura was a foreign person doing an American accent. Wild to rewatch this after having watched them all for so long.
@@HenhousetheRed So after Caleb has cast the spell, the dialogue goes something like this Caleb: Verstehst du was ich gerade sage? (Do you understand what I'm saying right now?) Jester: Was zur Scheiße? Was ist mit deinem Akkzent passiert? (What the shit? What happened to your accent?) C: Ich habe keinen Akkzent. Das ist fehlerfreies Zemnisch. (I don't have an accent. This is flawless Zemnian.) J: Heißt das, dass ich Zemnisch spreche? (Does that mean I'm speaking Zemnian?) (Later)J: Ich spreche grade Zemnisch. Kannst du mich verstehen, Fjord? (I'm speaking Zemian right now. Can you understand me, Fjord?) And after that they slip back into normal dialogue with the group as far as I can tell. Tell me if I missed a line, please.
We used to do the opposite of this; we all knew some Southern dialect from our world & when we ended up in Sigil would use it to communicate "surreptitiously" & signal it by dropping into an exagerated twang. Fun times.
As a native English speaker with a rather "standard" American accent...I can't really tell either. I mean, they are speaking with a little more emphasis on the words than normal and so it sounds a little forced and stilted but I'm not sure I would really notice it as strange in a normal setting. Maybe if they gave a long monologue like that I would think something was a little off but that's probably it. I'd quickly dismiss it as just being how they talk. There are enough variations in American accents here for it to be plausible and sometimes even my "unaccented" american accent slides around.
As a german/austrian im going to miss the german influence of Campaign 2, and that one of the cast played a german ( zemnian ) character.. now as someone actually living in Austria, C3 needs their own Schwarzenegger.
I love this scene but the 5e spell nerd in me has to mention the fact that technically Jester isnt speaking Zemnian as the Tongues spell lets every creature the speaks a language understand what you are saying in any language you speak, it does not let you speak other languages its like a Babel fish that works both ways.
To all the brits saying their "British Actors Trying to do an American accent" accents just sound like regular American accents: they do. Those are passable American accents. Whats funny is the tendency of non-American actors to suck all emotion and flavorful pacing out of their lines when doing American accents. The stilted monotone is usually a telltale sign that the actor is not actually American.
Ich spreche jetzt gerade zemnisch (not too sure what Zemnian would be in German but thats my best guess), kannst du mich verstehen, Fjord? At least thats how I'd translate it
30% of this comment section are English people being offended at Travis' offhand joke and trying to imply that the cast's C1 English accents (and Fjord) are bad. There, saved you guys a trip.
@@ElliWoelfin If you’ve watched a ton of American media where every joke about where you’re from is an outdated, mean-spirited stereotype (this video notwithstanding), you’d be hostile too.
"Sounds like a british person trying to do an american accent." Ahem... I'm watching thru campaign 1 for the first time, I'm caught up with campaign 2. I know they're good actors, but DAMN do they sound so much like american people trying to do several british accents at one. Like how they say caaar-stle. It hurts my soul. Grog has the most consistent accent, methinks. This campaign, totally different... * looking at taliesin. then looking at fjord. then looking at nott. * totally different.
wait, did they ever act like their accent work is flawless? O_o they constantly give each other shit for it. the comment about British people doing an american accent is not a dig, just a funny observation
This is funny to me for another reason, in the new Pokemon series Ash had a slowking’s crown on his head and started speaking “engish” so like caleb not having an accent I think all Pokemon speak English but humans in the Pokemon world can’t understand it lol
When you're not native and you dont understand the intricacies of what's actually so funny. To me this sounds pretty much like how an american could sound?
It's not huge difference just a slight emphasis on rs and a little pause... mostly it's just a subtle difference that would probably smooth out if the speaker would commit to speaking American accent more often. It's the difference between occasionally using the accent and often using it.
I don’t know what your native language is, but imagine a guest actor in a movie who does not speak your language natively or very often but IS fluent in it. Now imagine that the character they are playing is supposed to be a native speaker, but their pronunciation is slightly off from what a native speaker sounds like. That’s kinda what they’re talking about.
lmfao i want caleb and jester to be a thing so bad. it would be just so funny to watch how awkward it would be. true awkward though, not like keyleth and vax awkward, but true teenage era awkward.
feel like it has to be explained a little. the reason Caleb speakiny zemnian sounds like him in "regular" is because of the spell. everyoneelse would hear perfect Zemnian (german) and she would hear in her native tongue (since the actors are American they use American accent).
Actually that's how he and Matt flavored it it's happened before it's not because of the spell he's speaking that way because of the spell to prove to Jester it worked.
Somehow, Laura immediately laughing upon hearing her own accented voice is PERFECTLY in character for Jester first hearing herself speak with a spell changing her voice.
I love Laura, and wish to speak to her on Facebook Messenger. I have something I’ve gotta get off my chest.
Follow the howl You’d better not be trolling.
@@cameronmcewen9666 nah he’s right that’s pretty creepy
@@Singysinger7722 That’s what a troll would say.
@@cameronmcewen9666 Not really. It is a super creepy thing to say.
Underrated moment:
“It’s sort of a Baltimore thing”
“Is that... is that in the Empire?”
“Uh, yeah”
"You've never heard of the fearsome Baltimore Orioles?"
@@AmericanArchon Do you mean the Baltimore Kenkus?
It's in Mary's Land.
Yeah, that tracks. *laughs in horrible pollution of an important body of water, corrupt officials, and social problems*
@@MrUmakemelaff Do you mean the Baltimore Ken-KYUS???
It's wild how Liam's actual accent is the one that sounds fake
Literally THOUGHT he was german
@@jamesamala7371 There are times in C1 that I forgot he's not English.
@@vishaansingh1019 yeah he just stays in character so much! He’s just about the ideal player. All of them are.
WAIT WHAT?! When he was talking without the accent that was his real voice? HOW THE FUCK DID I NOT KNOW THIS ALL ALONG?!
@@bigbundle3223 just got into it tbh...
The accent drop to represent speaking a native language was genius by Liam.
Tracking down how it started
Liam would tell matt "Im having this conversation in zemnian"
Matt would then drop his accent as well
This went on to Liam with out telling mat dropping the accent and mat knowing automatically whats happening to then again drop his
Liam has started something great
I hope they keep in for the future
I really REALLY hope they use this in the animated series to represent zemnian
Is it really? If you watch the show, whenever there's a creature who speaks a language such as Abyssal or Draconic, Matt always starts out with whatever it will be fliunetly, but then within a few phrases migrates to natural English. That's all Liam does, and I do believe this wasn't the first time he did it either.
This kind of thing is done in theater and movies all the time. It was done in The Hunt for Red October with the Russian submarine crew, where they started out speaking Russian to denote they were Russians, and then within a few phrases migrated to English for the viewing audience.
@@EchoMirage72
I talking about liam changing the language hes speaking by dropping the accent with out needing to say hes changed the language
@@SPACEHARICE I'm quite aware of what you're referring to. The thing is, this wasn't the first nor is it anything that hasn't been done before in either this campaign, nor in acting in any medium.
“The accent... it’s cute.” OH MY HEART
"It's complicated" AAAHHHHH
@@dude59974 that "it's complicated" hits different now... it's like caleb's code
@@eartheclipse8 Yup. Every since he sat down with Astrid and finally talked. We got that EPIC moment where Liam fucked with Matt by 'speaking in Zemnian', so the actors could talk without putting on accents. Matt was caught off guard since he probably practised how that conversation was going to go down beforehand, but WITH an accent. So to now not do it, oh MAN it was good.
And IN character, to hear Jester speak Zemnian to him, thus allowing Laura to drop the accent, must have made Caleb feel like he was speaking to Astrid once again, which he hadn't done in years.
It's SO. GOOD.
I feel a little bad bursting this bubble but I'm like 90% sure he said 'good'.
@@aryst0krat Caleb said her accent was cute, then said it was complicated.
I love how amusing it is to absolutely everyone when Jester speaks in a typical american accent, its great
It sounds like a put on accent lol like it’s not her actual accent, she’s just trying to fake an American one lol
Me, a Brit: *Laughs nervously as their impressions sound exactly like me doing what I thought was a good American accent.*
It's a good american accent, the only difference is how hard they're trying. Getting the sounds of an accent right is only step one, making it sound natural is the real hard part.
Me, an Englishman: Eldritch BHLARRRRST
Say Hamburger
it's mostly good but the over-emphasized Rs give it away. it's a thing commonwealth english speakers do cuz you guys normally drop your Rs a lot so you overcompensate.
@@oldfrend Ironically, they never ask Northern English or West Country English speakers, who _have_ the R
I love how Calebs Zemnian voice is just Liams normal voice
Its how he shows Matt and the others that he's speaking in Zemnian and not common for roleplay purposes. He's the only one that speaks Zemnian so the rest of the group shouldn't know what he's saying to someone like Astrid.
The...second? Time he did that the group was surprised that he could change his accent until Matt pointed out that he was speaking in Zemnian.
I honestly didn't know that was his normal voice... I've heard him talk with the accent so long, I honestly thought that's how he sounds normally.
@@kaeleastlord With Fjord doing what fjord did you can’t be too sure now.
@@Krensharpaw As somebody (American) who found CR during campaign 2, I really couldn't tell and I felt the same way.
Hello, I'm an American man. I would like a cheeseburger, please.
Bruce Cassner And a coke, to wash it down
Hello, I’m American Man. I spend all day in rock-n-roll mines so that I may buy one cheeseburger for wife and two children
Wait a minute you said “please.” That’s way too polite for an American! GET THE FAKER!
@@defaultthedude depends on the state. Some of those midwest states are practically canadian.
“I really like it when you put on the honey and the maple syrups... on to all of the... breads”
imagine yasha speaking to her in celestial and ashley just decides to pull out the sickest like- french accent
celestial is supposed to sound swedish though
@@Cultureghost I've always thought of celestial as Italian. My aasimar light cleric has a very light Italian accent that I call the "sleepy pope voice".
I like Matt Colville's approach, where the planar languages are almost eerily un-languagey. Like Celestial sounds like someone playing a water harp and bells ringing, and Infernal sounds like the War of the Worlds sound.
Celestial just sounds like gale obviously. It's most beloved and used phrase "gag me with a spoon" 🤣
Id dig that
I love how the flavour of Liam speaking without a german accent is Caleb speaking in Zemnian. That Flavour is amazing. My Drow speaks with an Undercommon Accent that we flavour to be a very uptight british, so now when i speak in undercommon i'm just gonna sound with my southern accent. XD
I'm pretty sure drows and undercommon is a thick Australian accent. "...I come from the land down under~"
@@mtljin I like that lol, but I can't see my Chronurgy Wizard with a Australian Accent
Funny. My drow talks with a Eastern European accent so he sounds like Rolf from Ed edd n eddy
We used to have differnt accents for each of the common languages, but the DM insisted on Welsh for elvish which is such a hard accent.
Reven619 Life has many doors, Edd boy.
"Cast tongues on Jester." Damn Caleb, ask her out officially first.
Omg this is amazing XD
Ayyyyyy
Damn
*wiggles eyebrows*
Buy her dinner at least
Funny thing! When I first heard Liam O'Brien talk in campaign one, I STRAIGHT UP thought he was British because he normally stayed in Vax's voice, and when he spoke with his actual American accent, it sounded so blended, it seemed _fake._ Like a British person doing an American accent!!
Then it made more sense when I learned he was born and raised in New Jersey and trained to lose his native accent for theatre. very similar to my weird non-accent because I moved around and just sounds vague blend of east-coast/Canadian/mid-western/slight-southern.
same here lol
Ever heard the Mentalist speak in his normal heavy Australian accent? xD
It's amazing.
I also have an odd accent. Not from moving so much as my mother was raised in the north east by a bostonite and a west Virginian and my dad was raised in California by an Idahoan and a Utahn so I pronounce a lot of stuff to the point my accent is just a blend of all those. Only a handful of my siblings speak like i do and it's all the introverts who didn't have friends to assimilate the Utah accent.
So I have an accent but it cannot be pinned down.
“East coast/ mid western/ Canadian /slightly southern”
Ah yes, the truest North American accent.... random bullshit thrown at a wall till something sticks
Same, raised by Californians and lived in the rural south has cancelled out much of my accent
Tal's "I don't know what you mean," in the flattest possible affect is the perfect addition
His voice sounds like he hails from the distant land of Baal T'mor
Giggles have been powerfull these last few weeks. They laughed at their normal voices. Amazing.
They haven’t had good giggles in like 3 months they have had them cooped up and now they are coming out lol
As a British amateur actor who tries to do American accents, I have never been so offended by something I completely agree with
Don't feel too bad, they spent the entire first campaign screwing up the British accent so it's all even
It’s so strange to hear Liam using his regular accent but still talking and acting like Caleb, in his curt and direct manner. Very cool though, he’s a fantastic actor.
I love how at 0:08, you can see Travis considering the physics and implications of an upside-down waterfall meeting a giant (dragon) turtle
The face Liam makes, the genuine “I’m speaking fluent zemnian (idk if that’s how it’s spelled)” to jester is amazing, she’s like “GASP, REALLY?” And he’s like “yeah-“
I like how Liam doesn't just say he casts spells, he goes through the whole ritual and literally casts the spells
Not gonna lie as a brit when they did the 'fake American accent' to me it sounded how they normally speak 😂
yeah I literally can't tell the difference lol
As an American but speaking just for myself, it doesn’t sound wrong so much as weird. It’s not like “we wouldn’t say that word that way”, it just doesn’t sound like how a real person talks. More like a above-mediocre AI.
XD Yeah, to my american ears at least, it sounds almost inhuman. Not quite robotic but just... off, somehow
There's an over pronunciation, almost like they're chewing the vowels.
Agreed
Laura laughing at her own accent when saying "thank you" is so adorable, I've rewatched it multiple times already XD
darn this is like some good voice actor multilayered meta stuff
reminds me of the inglorious basterds scene where fasbender is an irl german acting as a british man struggling to lose his accent while speaking german.
yes hello i’m an american man i work 16 hours a day in the hamburger mine to buy rock and roll disc
🤣🤣🤣
I always love the "person from a place who does another accent pretending to do an accent from their actual place" thing. Sort of like Hugh Laurie on House doing a bad British accent :D
1:58 Caleb is crushing so hard.
An American faking a German accent faking an American accent! Where else but CRITICAL ROLE?!
She talks to Fjord in Zemnian, and Fjord looks like he's trying to get into a fighting stance, but really it just looks like he's about to count the Message words. Probably because he's so weak.
Can I just say, as a Brit:
Sam’s “I’m an American fighter pilot” didn’t sound any different from his normal voice lmao
There's a very mild difference. Slightly different shape for vowel sounds.
@@Raichulula Yeah, there's an inflection the -er/-ur/-or sound that I don't think a lot of Americans do.
To an american person it sounds strangely forced haha
@@maroonedinblue Many to all the vowels seem strangely forced--I think I like the word "deliberate". Taliesin very nearly pronounces the e and a in "mean".
that's wild to me it sounds so bizarre
I cracked the code on how to sound like a British person speaking with an American accent. You just have to talk like you’re trying to hold in a giggle (I don’t know a better way of explaining this)
1:11 for my personal use, feel free to use it too!
Gods it’s so unsettling 😅
I love that it's Sam who says "like a British actor trying to do an American accent" and Taliesin is the one who jumps on it, like guys we all heard you both in A Realm Reborn being 'British'
Seeing voice actors be just voice actors is never not fun.
As someone from Philadelphia who says “Wooder” Sam nailed the “accent” perfectly 😂
Wait, Caleb said Jester's "Zemnian" Zemnian accent (as in the accent she has when speaking the language Zemnian) was "cute". Does that mean she's imposing her own accent onto German?
My main point in this is that I just really hope that Jester speaking Zemnian is the equivalent of a California surfer bro speaking Spanish ("nah, no may goostah el diabloh!" type shit)
Now I have a knot in my brain, thanks 😂
Find this a hilarious take considering every cast member's use of English accents consist of only Posh/RP, West Country Farmers, and Cockney 😂
To be fair, the other English accents come up so infrequently most actors don't bother keeping them fresh. Especially when you're talking about actors of the caliber of these folks, they wouldn't need more than a day to have as passable accent worked back up for a job.
@@abydosianchulac2 The other problem is that their English accents are very noticably fake to an English person. I watched through campaign 1 and it was like nails on a chalkboard sometimes with the over-enunciation of certain words like "Caah-n't" and "WAR-ter". Just seems a little hypocritical to be making fun of English actors doing the same thing with American actors. 🤷♂️
@@LoganBluth it's only hypocritical if they're being super serious about it. The first campaign had several years of being around their kitchen table and calling themselves the S.H.I.T.S., they probably made fun of each other then too, and some of it settled into "canon" bc it made them laugh.
@@ferrous719 No. It's still hypocritical. If you take the piss out of your friends while all are present that's fine, everyone does it. But if you take the piss out of the professional abilities of strangers who you've never met, while also having the same shortcomings in those professional abilities yourself, that's hypocrisy.
Also, you can't just hypothesize that "they probably made fun of each other then too" when we never actually saw that. These guys are professional voice actors. If anyone shouldn't be mocking the voice work of other actors it's them, since they know how difficult it is to do.
@@LoganBluth If it's all in good faith, who gives a shit? If you told them "Your English accents need work", they'd probably laugh it off and say "You're telling me." Meanwhile you're out here freaking out over the fact they made an offhand joke about how English actors tend to try a bit too hard to keep their words "even" when doing American accents (I noticed this all the time in The Boys.) No one's watching C1 and buying the idea that these people are English, it's kind of implicit that it's an easy "I'm in character now" voice to default to.
Liam doing that accent thing shows his brilliance in acting. That was magical inandofitself
Liam just adopts the oral temperment of Harrison Ford and the stressed and covered facial condition of, in any his roles.
1:19 for fifteen seconds I mean.
“I’ll use my credit card. Do you have any non-dairy creamer?”
May be one of the most exquisite roleplaying moment. Improv at its best.
I was in love with the hilarity of this scene till I saw Caleb fall a little more in love with Jester and my heart started hurting.
To me it sounds like they are using that "News Broadcaster" accent....you know the one that is absolutely neutral that is only used by people on TV....
As an Aussie, to me their “fake American” accent just sounds like their normal voice but slowed down 😅
Two words, man: Bob Hoskins. It wasn't until I saw an interview with him years after I saw Rodger Rabbit that I realized he was British.
I’m British, so them doing an impression of a British person doing an American accent just sounds...American to me lol
I think, to my ears, it just sounds a bit over-articulated and overly deep. That might be because I've heard them speak naturally so I'm biased that way. Otherwise, you're right, it just sounds like a regular American accent 😂😂
Now I'm curious what a Brit imitating an American doing a British accent sounds like.
@@Malhaloc watch House. The main character is played by a British actor and in one episode he imitates a very bad English accent.
As an American it sounds really weird, like every single syllable is being enunciated. Just a totally unnatural way of speaking.
Yea but you have you heard Americans trying to speak english accent? Now thats a treat.
I Doo sAy good sir, this Tea is POsitively smAshing!
Double points if it's anything but a London/RP accent
@@defaultthedude Bloody hell, this tea has got me chuffed to bits! Unlike the tea I had yesterday which was absolute pants
StealthyTNT How Dare you say my Trouble’s tea is awful. You better leave my mincers or I swear upon the Queen I will put you in a loo, honking nothing but blood!
Oi lads, God save the queen!
Taliesin and Sam sound like they're specifically doing Benedict Cumberbatch's American accent
My favorite part of this is the fact that Laura can't handle speaking in her normal voice. "Thank you" and starts laughing. It's just her voice! VO actors are silly.
"I don't know what you mean" 😂
I think what makes this even better is that, for those that havent read the sending spell, you don't even have to speak the same language to understand a sending message!
All that spell achieved was this scene and it's still the best tongues spell cast in the whole campaign
Exactly how i would do an american accent. Monotone, relaxed, putting stresses on nouns. Adding some extra R's on waterrrr and hamburgerrrr.
This weirdly reminded me of The Walking Dead and how the actress who plays Maggie is actually British. I'm from the south and her ability to do a southern farmgirl accent was so convincing, I honestly thought she was American irl doing a country gal drawl. And she can talk so fast while doing it, which is something we southerners with that kind of accent tend to do when we're jabberin' on. It was surprising!
If british\ British derived accents never did a southern accent again it'd be too soon for me.
I literally just went and found some footage of her talking and.... I can't. I just can't.
And yet her i guess normal? british accent on supernatural always sounded weird to me (love her though)
Looking back now after finishing C1 and being 30 into C2, I think this was actually this first CR video I ever saw. I knew of Laura from her VA work but didn't actually know what any of their normal voices sounded like, so 1:44 made me actually think Laura was a foreign person doing an American accent. Wild to rewatch this after having watched them all for so long.
Would love if someone who speaks fluent German would translate what this sounds like in German.
So, you want a word for word translation of what they’re saying or something along those lines? I could give you one if you want.
@@toschiworlds7212 Yes please!!
@@HenhousetheRed So after Caleb has cast the spell, the dialogue goes something like this
Caleb: Verstehst du was ich gerade sage? (Do you understand what I'm saying right now?)
Jester: Was zur Scheiße? Was ist mit deinem Akkzent passiert? (What the shit? What happened to your accent?)
C: Ich habe keinen Akkzent. Das ist fehlerfreies Zemnisch. (I don't have an accent. This is flawless Zemnian.)
J: Heißt das, dass ich Zemnisch spreche? (Does that mean I'm speaking Zemnian?)
(Later)J: Ich spreche grade Zemnisch. Kannst du mich verstehen, Fjord? (I'm speaking Zemian right now. Can you understand me, Fjord?)
And after that they slip back into normal dialogue with the group as far as I can tell. Tell me if I missed a line, please.
You would need someone with a real German accent to speak Caleb's part and someone with a real American accent to speak Jester's part, yes?
@@toschiworlds7212I would have translated "what the shit?" with "was zum Fick?", but other than that, you beat me to it xD
Props to Liam for setting that joke up. Pretty ding-dang clever right there.
I really REALLY hope they use this way to represent zemnian in the animated series
American voice actors doing british voice actors doing an american accent. 😂
Liam is genius for dropping the accent
This is one of my favorite parts of critical role
How did Laura keep it together with "tongues on Jester."
We used to do the opposite of this; we all knew some Southern dialect from our world & when we ended up in Sigil would use it to communicate "surreptitiously" & signal it by dropping into an exagerated twang. Fun times.
I like how I, as a non-native English speaker, cannot hear the difference between the "fake" American accent and their actual accents.
As a native English speaker with a rather "standard" American accent...I can't really tell either. I mean, they are speaking with a little more emphasis on the words than normal and so it sounds a little forced and stilted but I'm not sure I would really notice it as strange in a normal setting. Maybe if they gave a long monologue like that I would think something was a little off but that's probably it. I'd quickly dismiss it as just being how they talk. There are enough variations in American accents here for it to be plausible and sometimes even my "unaccented" american accent slides around.
As a german/austrian im going to miss the german influence of Campaign 2, and that one of the cast played a german ( zemnian ) character.. now as someone actually living in Austria, C3 needs their own Schwarzenegger.
I love this scene but the 5e spell nerd in me has to mention the fact that technically Jester isnt speaking Zemnian as the Tongues spell lets every creature the speaks a language understand what you are saying in any language you speak, it does not let you speak other languages its like a Babel fish that works both ways.
She inhabits the same linguistic value as Emily Axford... 2:05... 1:44 ... 1:51
this is hilarious. thanks for making this video!
To all the brits saying their "British Actors Trying to do an American accent" accents just sound like regular American accents: they do. Those are passable American accents. Whats funny is the tendency of non-American actors to suck all emotion and flavorful pacing out of their lines when doing American accents. The stilted monotone is usually a telltale sign that the actor is not actually American.
Gosh darn it I am too tired I just read Jester as "Jeeter" and asked "who the fudge is Jeeter???!" When I'm already all caught up
Siri, set an alarm for 6:55 tonight.
Can anyone you speaks zemnian translate what jester was saving to Ford?
Ich spreche jetzt gerade zemnisch (not too sure what Zemnian would be in German but thats my best guess), kannst du mich verstehen, Fjord? At least thats how I'd translate it
Me, from Baltimore: Yeah, that sounds bout right.
Liam does a terrific Benedict Cumberbatch impression here
Nobody going to mention their attempts at an accent in C1...
30% of this comment section are English people being offended at Travis' offhand joke and trying to imply that the cast's C1 English accents (and Fjord) are bad. There, saved you guys a trip.
Can't say I'm surprised, the English get so pissy for everything.
@@ElliWoelfin If you’ve watched a ton of American media where every joke about where you’re from is an outdated, mean-spirited stereotype (this video notwithstanding), you’d be hostile too.
Legitimately does sound like a British to American accent
Woah woah woah Sam, pretty sure Americans trying to do a British accent is a lot more common than the inverse
she gets through the mike so much clearer with that accent XD
Lol they say her accent is like a English person doing a American accent yet all of them are there doing terrible English accents.
"Sounds like a british person trying to do an american accent."
Ahem... I'm watching thru campaign 1 for the first time, I'm caught up with campaign 2. I know they're good actors, but DAMN do they sound so much like american people trying to do several british accents at one.
Like how they say caaar-stle. It hurts my soul.
Grog has the most consistent accent, methinks.
This campaign, totally different... * looking at taliesin. then looking at fjord. then looking at nott. *
totally different.
wait, did they ever act like their accent work is flawless? O_o they constantly give each other shit for it.
the comment about British people doing an american accent is not a dig, just a funny observation
This is funny to me for another reason, in the new Pokemon series Ash had a slowking’s crown on his head and started speaking “engish” so like caleb not having an accent I think all Pokemon speak English but humans in the Pokemon world can’t understand it lol
this was best campaign by far 3 and 1 are fantastic but 2 was perfect to me
When you're not native and you dont understand the intricacies of what's actually so funny. To me this sounds pretty much like how an american could sound?
It's not huge difference just a slight emphasis on rs and a little pause... mostly it's just a subtle difference that would probably smooth out if the speaker would commit to speaking American accent more often. It's the difference between occasionally using the accent and often using it.
I don’t know what your native language is, but imagine a guest actor in a movie who does not speak your language natively or very often but IS fluent in it. Now imagine that the character they are playing is supposed to be a native speaker, but their pronunciation is slightly off from what a native speaker sounds like. That’s kinda what they’re talking about.
"I'll use my credit card" vibes
I am an American human, please provide me with typical human nourishment.
i love how every now and then a BIT of Yasuo creeps out of Caleb
lmfao i want caleb and jester to be a thing so bad. it would be just so funny to watch how awkward it would be. true awkward though, not like keyleth and vax awkward, but true teenage era awkward.
It would be like the level of romance found in the journals of preteen girls or in badly written porn books.
@@chromegaman but tusk love is a half-orc and tiefling romance, not a human and tiefling romance. ;)
Yet another Caleb X Jester moment to go into the ship.
“I’m an American fighter pilot that is eating a cheeseburger.”
THIS SCENE IS SOOOO COOL!
Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun Eigentum der BRD.
Not this time, friend.
I am british and I sound exactly like this doing an american accent but worse.
Yes my comandant 👌💣💫
Widojest was strong this episode
Though British actors GENERALLY do better American accents than American actors doing British accents.
god I miss Travis, Laura, and Sam. Not complaining about the new season mind you, I just miss them.
i laughed so fucking hard at this moment.
That's a cute widojest moment.
TunerFall121 I love this so much!
feel like it has to be explained a little. the reason Caleb speakiny zemnian sounds like him in "regular" is because of the spell. everyoneelse would hear perfect Zemnian (german) and she would hear in her native tongue (since the actors are American they use American accent).
Actually that's how he and Matt flavored it it's happened before it's not because of the spell he's speaking that way because of the spell to prove to Jester it worked.