Fun Tour of American Accents | Amy Walker
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- Опубликовано: 8 окт 2011
- A Fun tour of American Accents. How To Do an American Accent - Bonus! You Did It! Well done. :-)
Bonus from a FUN, in-depth, private tutorial series with accent specialist and actress, Amy Walker. Just like one-on-one lessons, but Free! with fun tips and tricks you won't find anywhere else.
See why Amy's intuitive techniques have helped thousands of people all over the world to improve their American Accent.
All the best!
Learn More:
www.Amywalkeronline.com
www.21accents.com/tutorials/
Reviews of Amy's Teaching Sessions:
"Right after the first lesson, my director told me I had already improved. It was easy to work with Amy: she has the rare and beautiful quality of being a shining person, solar and with huge energy to give..." Daniele Favilli Actor
"I have gone through speech therapy my entire life. I have also been teased about a speech impediment my entire life. No one could convince me to open up and really work on my voice, until I met Amy. She creates a very inviting and encouraging environment. Working on a "downfall" is such a venerable time but with Amy, I was always eager to receive feedback from her. " Bo Roberts Model, Actor
"Amy is a sheer delight to work with! Her 'amiable' nature and intuitive teaching style make working with dialects both an entertaining and natural experience. I look forward to training with her again and again in the future!" Mara Junot Voice-Over Specialist
"I was talking to my husband today after practicing from our tapes, and he said that this is the best improvement in accent he had ever heard from me!"
Shikha Jain Actress 
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literally WATCH her whole face and posture change this is INSANE
your rhotic southern accent literally sounded Just Like my mom. freaked me out a lot
Lol
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Yeah shes freakin amazing
She is amazing
"Congratulations you've made it through all 5 parts of the America in acce-"
"Urm no I've never seen you before.. it just appeared in my suggested"
nia james, ikr
At first I thought I was on porn hub the way was she was talking.
nia james same
Same wtf
😂😂😂😂
How the hell does your face magically change to the sterotypical regional face? It's mesmerizing.
The manipulation of facial muscles helps when mimicking. Jim Carey is a prime example of this in an extreme.
You really HAVE to change your face because you have to change the shape of the mouth to make certain sounds, such as opening the mouth more for Northern accents and then barely moving it for Southern accents.
@@109367 Exactly, you have to have the vocal posture, the sort of lip-rounding, how open the mouth is, whether the sides are pulled back, and so forth.
well, she IS an actress, so... you know, training and acting and stuff like that
She makes our various Southern accents look very pretty and friendly, y'all.
she has a different personality with every accent .
A stereotype for every accent
Now you will meet.... Patricia!
Language and nationality is like OS for humans.
She's perky and her personality isn't bad either. Fugget About It .
@Knowledge Speaks Wisdom Listens! Selassie.
Why are so many people being rude in the comments? She's just having fun with the stereotypical accents. She's playing a character. She's not going to get through the nuances of every region in a 6 minute video.
i havent seen any rude comments
hi Are you filtering by top comments or by new comments?
Mmm I agree, it’s great ! I’m an Aussie and it’s just lovely. I love that she’s vulnerable and open, it better than rewarding pretentiousness
4:06 shes says generalizations
The video was sorta weard but I'm by the way not trying to be weard but every corner i see a mean comment
I appreciate that she did multiple Southern accents. So many of these videos don’t acknowledge the varied accents across the region.
Katherine S Me too and she did them well!
Accents can vary by different parts of a city
I’ve got a major southern accent and I thought she did pretty good. The forgot the main thing which is pretty much being lazy. Many southerners loose the last vowel such as in the word like. We just say a hard I and forget the e. Hope this helps!
Yeah. Texas and Georgia and North Carolina all sound very different.
I was thinking the same thing...my mother was from a small town in southern Georgia and her accent was day and night from the people in the town she lived in when she married my dad..I was always proud of the soft sort of murmuring accent of my mother and her people...so different from the loud, halting accent with sharper endings..my mother and her sisters had an almost musical sounding accent..I enjoy all the southern accents.I’ve always liked guessing which state or region...Georgia sounds similar to South Carolina, IMO... Tennessee and parts of North Carolina have a bit of a twang..I love the Mississippi accent ...it’s so easy on the ears...
She should be an actress who plays an under cover detective who takes on all kinds of personalities. Awesome.
I'd watch her in anything! She's so good and so pretty!😊
Oh my gosh yes! I would pay to watch that!
Anne Cla she's emily blunt so she kind of is
A female Fletch type of character
A female Fletch type of character
I love how she makes it very clear in the video that these are generalizations and yet half the comments are people bickering about what a certain accent is from
“Congratulations, you have made it through...”
Erm, no, no I haven’t. I cheated my way here tyvm.
Hashim Aziz yep, cheated...And why did this all of a sudden get recommended to me in 2018?
Hashim Aziz LMFAO THIS COMMENT
Saaaame susssssss😝
Yeah...
Hashim Aziz - classic , funny reply .
She really suits the southern accent
great granny she's prolly suhhhdin...lol
IEatFood 0 Do southerners still drop the R? I haven’t heard that from anyone under 50
IEatFood 0 I hear both non rhotic in black people but the rhotic as well in the gulf coast
Particularly the non-rhotic one!
@@jackphilamore288 Yes, many southerners have at least a bit of r-dropping, but for large amounts of consistent r-dropping in the south, it's mainly the elderly and some Louisianans. I'm a younger southerner who drops his rs, it still exists today!
I took a linguistics course in college and my professor said that the California accent is the one linguists really hate. She said that somehow, the Middle English dialect, which was presumed dead, made its way clean across the continent to the West Coast, that is, the way words are pronounced. Linguistics is fascinating! You learn how to listen to yourself and how your regional accent compares to others. I'm proud of my California accent. Accent elimination is so sad, everyone should be proud of theirs whatever it is.
Honestly couldn't agree more, too many people across the country are sounding the same, especially in the youth. It's so boring!!
Same, I like all American accents for what they are! We're a colorful bunch :)
Accents naturally disappear with mutual exposure, and this is just a result of becoming more connected. It's a conscious thing to retain your accent, like when I worked in Hawaii, I spoke with a standard Californian accent, but when I hung out with friends, I spoke with a more local Hawaiian accent. But I know what you mean about accent elimination. Some people or places prefer certain accents, esp in societies that are highly dependent on class, like the UK, Japan, and India, and it would be great if social status and class weren't connected to ways of speaking.
Wait, what? We don’t pronounce anything like Middle English on the West Coast... 🤔😂
@@wildmik-wk2iq how do you know what a Mid English accent sounded like? I'd sooner listen to someone trained in the field with an advanced degree than someone like you, who just spouts off without thinking
All dialects were very good, however, need to add “Yeah, sure, you betcha!” To your Midwest.
Yaaa shhurr ya bet'cha
Pamela Hefner Lol! There ya go!
Ope
Her normal voice is what it's like in Pennsylvania, at least South Central is gen am (I'm from New Oxford it's like literally right next to Gettysburg)
Also in case anyone was wondering we pronounce it Noo Ox ferd
In case that helps you understand the accent better
also the ya because of nordic influences
When she went "Bring it home" into southern all I heard was Matthew Mcconaughey alright alright alright
John Gunnerek XD
John Gunnerek You made my day man.
John Gunnerek really? I just got really uncomfortable for some reason.
You look like "Hook" off of that show "Once upon a time".
Oh my god, why did I read this comment before watching the video lol now all I hear is Matthew Mcconaughey
The southern accent is so relaxing, so charming, melts my heart
+Ethan Radd I hate it.
+jake rheingold it hates you too
***** Yeah. Maybe she hasn't heard what they talk about with there "oh so fabulous accents"
jake rheingold don't stereotype... to be clear I'm from Alabama and no one really talks like this. That accent was common around the 1970s, in places like New Orleans or South Carolina
+Hayden Stephens I aint never heard that in Carolina, lived all around Carolina and Louisiana
She’s criminally beautiful. Kinda eerie.
It's amazing how her personality changes to accentuate the accents. Very talented and observant. Her demeanour, her expressions and attitude shift dramatically. Very interesting to watch.
The deep south black grandma on the front porch eating gumbo while reading a bible is too accurate
That was a brilliant accent. White pinup/model, Bettie Page, had the same accent. (Wiki says she was born in Nashville.) She was at least 80 years old at the time of the recording I listened to, so age had played with her voice and she sounded exactly as you describe. Amy Walker has a terrific ear.
BB Trash fr lmao
Lol
Libby Cormier haha
I was just sayin the same thing! 😂 like, man that’s probably the first black style accent I’ve heard her do.
As an Irish person, this is absolutely insane.
As an American this is soooo fucking insane
Nellie Warren it’s funny my grandmother is from Ireland as are many peoples relatives where I live in the United States, and non of us really have any cool or unique accents
We have lots in England 🏴. I love the Southern American accent though, and Irish. Always on women.
BlaineIsHere Irish sounds better.
ayyyyeeee im irish too 🇮🇪🇮🇪
A non-native english speakers, I enjoy so much listening to the different american accents.
I didn't grow up listening to stereotypes of these accents, so I feel like I get to appreciate them more for their melody, entonación, articulation.
My favorite is from Louisiana, my least favorite is from Maine 😆
In college, my most serious girlfriend was from Maine, and she and her sister would put on the Maine accent when they were horsing around. I didn't believe it was real until I went to her hometown and got lahbstah rolls at the pieh. I was so shocked I almost fell off the dock!
Have you heard the Western Pennsylvanian accent? The strong version is nearly impossible!
This is the most consistently accurate rendition of American accents I've seen on RUclips. Well done.
I love how she connected the accents to the land. That was genius!
Absolutely. Quite an insight - the way people speak is a reflection of the topography, demography, and geography!
I Agree; our Texoma family have that f-l-a-t stretching out of word sounds. My attempt to imitate is NOT appreciated. It surely seems that the expansive flatness of the geographical area has an effect on speech patterns. I’m from PA coal country and that accent is rarely copied. (The sound is not too charming)
The east coast and gulf cost accents tend to be more distinct than the others, given that those are the oldest parts of the country. The upper midwest sounds almost Canadian in many ways, especially the 'o' and 'ou' sounds. In the southwest, you get more Spanish influence in the local accent. Etc.
@@erpollock Just like the traditional architecture and cultures of a given area.
The Californian one is so accurate! I hate it so much, I live in San Diego and my Chemistry teacher is like a 60 year old valley girl 😭
lmfao...the struggle is real in california...but we have the best language arts and art teachers...because we are all so liberal and weird...right
@@bran3eyedraven840 I guess xD
Not me, my folks and older familial folks were not boren and raised in Calif. (final word on your truly0
I live in San Diego too and I hate some people's accent
Oh, what neighborhood?
As a Californian (NorCal, live in the mountains) I was shaking my head at the valley girl accent until she pointed out how many constants we gloss over and how often we phrase statements like questions and yeah... I do that...
She is right on. My admin assistant is 31 years old from Antioch NorCal. Everything Ann did sounds EXACTLY like my assistant. Even her facial expressions and way she forms her lips.
I am proud to announce that after countless hours of practicing, I’ve perfected my Velociraptor from this informative video.
Not the point but I love your hair.
I agree with this
Same
When she switched to Californian she literally sounded like an extension of my brain 😂🤷🏻♀️
literally like omg literally
Zach Watola Like, omg, I literally died, I almost dropped my Starbucks.
"Like, literally, you know. Yeahhhh. Oh my God. Oh. My. God. OMG. Like O. M. G. And that's hecka rad, dude!"
Sounds EXACTLY like my 31 year old admin assistant from Antioch NorCal in 2020.
Omg I swear her Minnesota accent totally sounded exactly like my rural Minnesotan best friend's mom, I'm dying
same, my face lit up
That was really interesting!
I'm Italian and when I read book set in USA I have difficulty understanding some cultural references. I've often read about a "New York accent" and I've always wondered what the difference with standard American is, and if I actually learned standard American or some kind of accent.
Recently I stumbled upon a character who sometimes speaks in a "southern accent" because he's from Tennessee and I started searching for some examples on RUclips.
I think your video helped me a lot, so thank you!
America has many different regional accents that also have variations depending on each ethnic group.
Funny enough a good way to imagine the New York accent is
Take an Italian, have them learn English. Move them to America where they raise a kid. The kid’s native language is English but the accent is a mix of the American accent and how Italian speakers who learn English sound.
She somehow became 10x more beautiful when she switched to the southern accent 😍
velociraptor did it for me.
Didn’t she!? I almost fell over!
Yes ma'am I do believe I was a little bit taken by that sultry voice of that flirtatious Southern Belle. Boy howdy and smack me in the head.
I fell in love when she slipped into the southern belle accent. Then she did her second version and I immediately thought of Nancy Hicks Gribble.
That’s why I married my first wife she was from the south. I never got tired of hearing her talk
HER NEW YORK ACCENT IS SPOT ON!
Makena Nevells no it’s not
Are you from New York? Or have you ever heard people from there talk??
Makena Nevells I know! She’s very good.
more like Baltimore
Yeah, the NY accent isn't very accurate.
I'm Italian and i honestly find this very interesting and informative, plus she is beautiful and entertaining, i don't get these comments
I loved her NY accent💕
its obsolete now
Since I spent 13 years in the south and moved back to Canada and I have been told I don't sound Canadian anymore. It never occurred to me while living there it would change the way I speak. I was told recently by a young woman in the house that I don't sound like her teachers at school. Having your accent change is just one of those things you never think about while you are living in another country, you just adapt to what you hear around you.
I was born in Maryland. After I'd left for a number of years, I came back, and heard how Southern all my friends sounded. I had lost that comfortable Maryland drawl, and picked up a Canadian "ou" from living in Northern Vermont. I think I pick up a lot of regionalisms, but only if I actually like them. I was in England once and heard a Bostonian American who had not lost a bit of his Boston accent, but had overlaid it with a British accent. It sounded HORRIBLE.
@@steveneardley7541 I grew up on the North Shore in Massachusetts, one of the last places other than Boston itself that still has a fairly strong (though still weak) representaton of the regional accent (though it differs from town to town). Meanwhile my dad is from Maryland, and their accent is unfortunately very, very unknown everywhere else. He has a drawl of sorts but you can only really hear it if you’re listening for it. I think the Maryland accent is fun and should get some more press. But maybe it’s for the better that it doesn’t because nobody I know from outside my area can ever get the Boston accent right. I myself have a tough time imitating the accent but I can kind of do it to entertain my friends. Went hiking in New Hampshire with a friend once and some woman who I’m certain is from Maryland asked us something and he was bewildered by how she sounded. Another time, I was in Providence with some college friends mainly from Maine and New Jersey and we stopped to talk to a police officer and I was the only one who could understand his accent. I love accents and lingustics and they’re one of the coolest subjects to learn about
2:06 she just starts making vague southern noises
We call that the Boomhauer
@@LaceyMarie333 I've legit worked with 2 people with Boomhauer accents. I teased them often because I loved it.
@@LaceyMarie333 So that's where boomhauer from king of the hill got his name from
Why am I dying 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭💀
@@johnphilips6868 im from HTown TX aint no body talk like no dang ol boom hauer maybe over yonder up there in that ol Dallas /Arlington area. 😆
In Texas alone we have a large range of accents.
True atx
True
Especially Houston
Louisiana as well.
ALL losers are ling in texas:)
I love the non-rhotic southern accent! It's so beautiful! I also really like the new york/brooklyn accent and the cali/valley/west coast accent! They're really fun!
I was mesmerised by your rendition of the various American accents. You are a very expressive, talented, and interesting woman.
I can't help I was born in the Delta airlines flight attendant region of America
Kinda wish she did a NoVA accent and said "BAYsically (basically)" and "fur shurr (for sure)" a hundred times in one sentence
Or the Jurassic region lol
@@TheGoldenDunsparce shout out to NoVA. I'm from Virginia and when my little nephew visited me in NoVA, he said, " This is NOT Virginia. " After living in Tyson's Corner awhile I came across a National Geographic article that premised that Tyson's Corner was its own 'exotic' location that needed to be National
Geoghaphi- ked LMAO.
Where’s that
bestcomment today
Not many people have 'contagious' smiles these days. I don't even know you but your smile made me smile.
I'd hazard a guess that the difference in the percentage of people that have 'contagious' smiles today compared to in the past is not statistically significant.
Neither is your comment but you just had to say it anyway!
If not many people have it, it's not very contagious. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
"Congratulations, you've finally completed-"
"Wait a minute... who _are_ you?"
smokii.qvartz HA HA I GOT IT, took for fuckin ever but I got it!!!!
It's this kind of fun exploration of our differences that I love and wish ppl could focus on to bring our country together!
shes super attractive with the southern accent lmao
XD
She is pretty damn attractive regardless IMO!
search: seinfeld southern girl. thank me later
When she got toward louisiana I felt like I should have turned the volume down or pull out my credit card.
Not a big fan of people whom sound like bimbos
Moral of the story: being a Velociraptor is the first step to being American
cleva gurl
🤣🤣
To Ethan Micallef: Is this really what you mean?
www.google.com/search?q=Velociraptor+def&rlz=1C1NHXL_enUS721US721&oq=Velociraptor+def&aqs=chrome..69i57j46j0l5.3022j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Very enjoyable. Any person promoting the many accents and regional dialects in any country should be praised. Thank you, Amy. Greeting from a Dubliner in Germany.
Southern accents are the best, magical accent, so soothing to listen to, could hear it all day
Maybe it's just me, but that first southern accent was extremely sexy
It reminded me of Matthew McConaughey
yeah when she said its hot down here turned me on
I think southern accents were actually voted the sexiest at some point.
(So proud of that)
Hell yeah, that accent with that face was awesome.
TheSaminator I could watch her talk all day.
She’s beautiful.
Yes with a lovely smile
She has glorious hair
Glorious hair, glorious eyes, glorious skin. Good breeding stock
Uhh, yep
D Jay T good breeding stock? is she a cow? 🙄
She is excellent at demonstrating the different accents. I play her video in all of my ESL Classes. My students also love her videos.
Fantastic, Amy! You nailed it - both accents and facial expressions that make them.
I just can't get over how much you look like a real life Ariel hahaha
The detergent?
The California valley girl one was so good that I couldn’t hear it haha! It just sounded like my everyday to me!
Edit Name Like OMG, I almost chocked on my vegan marshmallow, I literally died.
Dole crash Tracking where do they sell vegan marshmallows lmao I want some
amy hassan Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s
Right?!
Even though I live in Texas, it definitely seemed pretty ‘everyday’ to me. Sounds like half the girls at my university. The other half being the velociraptor
Incredibly talented. Nailed every accent and transformed INTO each character. Also gorgeous beyond reason!
Ms Walker, thank you. Your smiles are golden.
My god, this woman is AMAZING!! Bravo! You've nailed them ALL. I also love the way she explains how landscape affects the accent, never thought of that. Thanks for this.
The landscape and climate doesn't necessarily effect dialect that strongly. Her explanations are only corollary. Although there is a subject of linguistics dedicated to how physical geography effects language, for example, there might me certain sounds, volumes, tones, etc. that are easier to make in a warm humid environment than in a cold dry one, for example.
Her Midwest accent sounds like Sarah Palin. Lol
Tight
That accent goes all they way from Alaska to upstate New York. Have no idea how that happened.
jim foley It's all the northern states. They're sort of influenced by Canada.
debbie dooley
Damn Canadians. Focus on that border Trump.
I found it weird that when I moved to NC I never noticed my voice change at all but my friends in MD noticed immediately when I visited them
Yes. I know plenty of people who moved here from other regions who never lose their accent, but my brain seems willing to completely jump ship for parts unknown at the earliest opportunity. I can't even talk with the cat without changing accents. Argh.
You're so talented Amy. It was so much fun watching this, thank you!
if everyone had one standard accent the world would be boring
jake jones nah
Unfortunately its becoming that way. Thanks to Millennials and Gen Z, everyone sounds like a Kardashian or Californian. They failed to adopt the local accents and now everyone sounds the same. Only the older generations still have it. And when they're gone, the accents will be gone forever.
@@libbylulu148 still don't understand what those weird people who worship the letter K,r famous for!Apart from being Klutz annoying.
Did anyone else think the midwest accent sounded like Jenna Marbles?
superholly yes she is from my hometown of rochester, NY! we have an extremely hard, flat accent for some reason in upstate western NY :)
+superholly yes!
Yess !!
+superholly It especially sounds like the accent she puts on in her Sarah Palin video, which is a mix of her own plus her imitation of Sarah Palin
I'm from Chicago originally and lived in Wisconsin for a while. Her accent is not entirely accurate. It sounded more like the eastern part of North Dakota/western part of Minnesota, like that Fargo type accent sort of. Wisconsin, though? No. Wisconsin's accent has a specific cadence to it, that's pretty tough to mimic correctly. You almost have to be from there in order to do that one. I lived there for over 20 years and still couldn't pick it up. Can't even count how many times people used to say "you're not from around here, are ya?" lol.
Man, I can't believe you nailed my velociraptor accent!
She never gets old
"Bring it up to"
Me: *whispers* "Minnesota"
Violently Minnesotan
No one in Minnesota actually talks like that lmao. I’m from Minnesota and I talk exactly like she does when she’s not using a different accent
@@misssinisterseventy1553 There are different variants even in Minnesota, but generally, that is the Minnesota accent. My wife's family has it, a bunch of people at my church have it, and almost everyone on the radio has it. I don't have a strong accent, but it shows up every now and then especially in particular words. You might live in an area where the accent has dissipated - it has largely disappeared in the big cities - but it gets stronger the deeper into the woods you go, and the deeper into farming country you go.
Eugene A. Schreder yes I agree with that for the most part. I live near Minneapolis, and no one there talks with that accent, but if you go to the outskirts or the rural parts of Minnesota, you will hear those accents, especially with older people. I’ve actually never heard a real accent like that, but they do exist
@@misssinisterseventy1553 Oh, they most certainly do. 😂 I don't know what you're talking about. You must live in a metro. I hear this all the time. My adoptive family has a very thick Minnesotan accent. Sounds just like her's.
The rhotic southern accent blew my mind. Sounds like one of my best friends. Sounds like home 💕
Princess Consuela Reminds me of Louisiana's accent
Tae Yeon perhaps. I'm not too familiar with Louisiana accents but she sounds exactly like people I'm surrounded by here in Texas.
I’m gonna go ahead and be that jackass, but it’s “Rhotic” like she said any rhotic accent has the rs rather than the soft “ah” in non rhotic accents
I automatically relaxed when she started her southern accent... It was like coming home.
My co-worker sounds like that. We're in Los Angeles and everyone teases her... the boys flock to her. Ugh. lol
You're a whole mood. Love it!!!
Amy you have got to be one of the most talented persons to make videos on RUclips! Huge thumbs up!
I had a teacher from Wisconsin and she sounded exactly like that. Well done. She also called sneakers "tennies" and it made me pissed.
I'm from Wisconsin and I've always called them Tennis shoes 😂
***** She was a substitute for 1/2 of the year while my science teacher was pregnant. I don't think I would have survived.
I'm from Wisconsin and I do not sound like that haha
I have lived in both the east coast and midwest and i have always said tennis shoes. But both my parents are midwestern.
+Taylor Stage Same I sound more country Luxembourg or Louisiana they have similar accents or at least all my family from Luxembourg I myself live in GB so I guess when my talk was developing I became Luxembourg I say pop and my parents and friends say soda my friends giggle at me
My Minnesotan friend sounds almost Irish when she gets mad and goes off on a tangent, it’s hilarious!
Local Artist Does she say "ooh Yah" when's she agrees with something?
My friend tells me I sound Irish when I get mad and I'm from Minnesota, she thinks it's hilarious and when I'm mad at her she's just laughing. Sometimes it's difficult to stay mad at her, my damned Minnesotan accent.
Ha that's funny a man on a flight guessed I was from Ireland when I'm from Minnesota
Can someone link a vid of a Minnesotian yelling angrily so I can see if this is true LOL
I do that too! lmao!
Gosh darnit, I so appreciate your talents, humor and humanity.
This is excellent, right on point! You’re so skilled at imitating accents, love it!
Everyone she said these are generalizations so chill out. I for one will admit to the fact that sometimes people sound like their stereotypes get over it.
Also, I nearly spit out my coffee when she started making the velociraptor sounds. What was that about?
My grandma says "worsh" instead of "wash." She's from the Midwest.
that 80's girl my whole family
that 80's girl My grandma says it that way too.
My grandma says that too and she grew up in California
My friends' grandma said it that way too, and she's from Oregon. So maybe it's a little more generational than regional.
My granny says warsh, and also piller ( pillow) which always stood out to me alot because a pillar is a vastly different thing! Lol !
wow! i am so so amazed by the way you do all accents so so fluently! - A phonetic student from CA:)
The subtle switch, as 'Newscaster', during "dont bery our pitch alot" is amazing.
Something that subtle can change how we interpret information...!
I haven't watched an Amy Walker video in years and this one comes up as a recommend. Had to watch again for old times sake.
Love the first two. Like going from The Sopranos to Fried Green Tomatoes!
sperrotta91 but no one sounds like this
@@agonicole On the contrary, my sister-in-law's family is all from New York and I can guarantee you they sound JUST like that. And the southern accent she did is pretty accurate for the rural Georgia and Alabama. Just because you haven't heard it before doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. America is freaking huge and where I live in Kentucky we have a broad range of accents from more midwestern sounding in the west, more nasally like those in Ohio in the north and the more southern drawl where I live, getting stronger the further into the mountains you go.
agonicole not true
As an Aussie... I love the American accents...especially the NY accent!
This woman is fabulous!
The quicker, rhotic Southern accent that she did was pretty much spot-on. However, anyone who spoke in that slow, weirdly sexual Scarlett O’Hara voice is long gone by now. Just once I want to see one of these coaches get it right!
velliekeltri Where I live in south carolina we definitely still have that slow Scarlett accent, so that may be why people still reference it. I also heard it a lot when I lived in Georgia!
Exactly! My roommate is from Georgia and she has the exact same slow accent. I'm from LA, you should hear our conversations. I talk fast and loud she talks slow and quiet. Lol
Sarena Romriell lol im from South Carolina too and I can vouch for that
well, fiddle-dee-dee!
There's an area just outside of Atlanta, Georgia where you can still find that accent. Also, Plains, Georgia, the home of Jimmy Caaawwwtah
She nailed the California accent mostly for women, less for men. That California accent transformed from a more neutral accent & 'dialect' when I was a teen in the '60's. It's really the 'Valley Girl' sound that took hold from the San Fernando Valley over decades after the '80's. My daughter talks like that because she's a native Californian born in the '70's. The earlier 'neutrality' was a result of people from all over the country flooding into California & somewhat mixing their American accents.
Can confirm. Born and raised in the SFV in the 80s. 😂
Brilliant. Your whole look/face changes with each accent.
When she suddenly went down south I fell myself fall in love a little! Nailed it!
Came for the accents, stayed for the sperm eyebrows.
Bahahaha
Never laughed harder from a RUclips comment!!
actually laughed out loud. thanks pal!
Good eye!
You should be an actress you’d be amazing
I assume she is.
She is :)
All these accents. What makes America so great. Y’all have a nice day. Bless your heart.
Amy has changed my perception of what it means to be living in a place surrounded by people who speak with what I perceive to be an accent. Now I feel that I should learn their pronunciation and speak as they do. But - who to choose as my accent role model? It's both liberating and challenging. Thanks, Amy!
This vid is abit relaxing
Yeah those velociraptor screeches just calm me right down
you should try ASMR
@@maxman1071 😂 😂
floridians have a very different accent from other southerners or more watered down
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joshloversts whenever I go Florida I don't really think they have a strong southern accent. A little but not too noticeable
joshloversts hahaha I've been to a couple more low-key, country areas and yea it is a bit stronger there. Things that's mad is in the U.K. You can drive 10 mins down the road and people could sound like they live 300 miles away. I do love a good southern yank accent. That and Boston.
Jack Chapman a Southern Yank is an oxymoron. Northern Florida is Southern: Tallahassee, Jacksonville, etc.
+Christian 78 Gainesville isn't very southern culturally speaking tho
I find this 9 years later and although late, better than never.
This is outstanding.
The newscaster was perfect
Amy you're the best teacher by far on this subject. Your videos are very useful. English is my second language and I am a teacher in USA. Your videos have helped me sharpen my accent. Girl, you're freakin talented!!!
im dead because when she did the Oregon accent that’s 100% how i talk
Also from Oregon, was 100% spot on
Hahah im from Vancouver and that one sounded most familiar to me
I'm from Portland, and yes, it was pretty good!
Why was Oregon introduction so short?
spooky graci You know what’s really sad, I didn’t even notice she was doing the accent because it’s so normal to me! I’m from Portland, OR
That minnesotan accent is so spot on!
R J no one talks like that in Minnesota or the Midwest in general
It’s a bit stronger than what we sound like. Perhaps the very rural northern areas of Minnesota
Northern Minnesota definitely has the accent. I’m from Northern Minnesota and almost everyone talks like that maybe not so exaggerated but you can tell.
such a joy watching you!!!
Amy, you’re a great voice teacher. You’ve helped me to understand so much about American accents. Garsh...ok, I’m one of your fans.
Maybe everyone saying they dont talk like that in the comments actually do talk like that but they're just not aware of it because they hear themselves and the other people around them with the accent all the time .
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Yeah. I live near Boston, but we have less of the accent, though we still have it.
Kassy Chateauneuf I agree, my paternal grandparents are from Boston, my maternal are from Virginia and the Carolinas and I am from Maryland. Honestly we are always shocked when we all point out eachothers accents, we just don't hear it.
she's gorgeous
These are all spot on
I enjoy so much how you enunciate your words using a “standard” American accent. I have a northwestern Minnesota accent that, in spite of trying over the years to shed it, reflects much of the Scandinavian influence in this area. I can always hear it a little bit when I hear myself on tape.
There are four fundamental aspects of accent shifting, which are articulation, phonation, resonance, prosody (Amy calls this melody), and if you familiarize yourself with these four aspects, you can hone into what exactly that bit is that's skewing the accent. This is the approach I use from my own experience being a nerd dabbling in linguistics and accent shifting, so I dunno if there's a video that explains it like that, but the voice is incredibly versatile and I know you can do it!
What a beautiful and warm person.
As a Californian native, your accent was spot on. The ends of your sentences (how they all sounded like questions) were a little more LA/Valley area specific, but otherwise it was perfect! The glottal stop was really well covered, too. Except, and maybe it's just me, I pronounce the t if it's at the end of a word.
Can confirm. Born & raised in Sherman Oaks. I travel for my work and get teased for my valley accent constantly.
People always ask me why I yell when I talk but apparently it's just part of my accent.
Maybe her California impression was accurate for SoCal, but as a NorCal native, I cringed so hard. Nobody here sounds like that.
Lia you probably think you pronounce "t" in final position but you don't. English has what are called unreleased final stops, we put our mouth in the position for the stop but don't release it. Say "too" then try to say "cat" with the SAME "t" at the end of "cat" that you had at the beginning of "too". It sounds strange and unnatural and it's hard to do. Most English speakers don't pronounce "t" in unstressed medial position either, in normal conversation "Santa Barbara" is pronounced "Sanna Barbara" (though people imagine they're saying that "t") and "bottle" is pronounced "boddle".
Jeremiah Jewell I cringed too. I live in central California and that was atrocious.
After all these year, Amy continues to crack me up...hilarious !!!
I always come back here because this video is still amazing