Why American Actors Suck At British Accents

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  • Опубликовано: 3 янв 2025

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  • @it_was_my_cat
    @it_was_my_cat 6 лет назад +22184

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

    • @DomWeasel
      @DomWeasel 6 лет назад +1566

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

    • @ZipplyZane
      @ZipplyZane 6 лет назад +137

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

    • @kirsty9084
      @kirsty9084 6 лет назад +149

      British accent is southern to Americans.

    • @jasonomnia9295
      @jasonomnia9295 6 лет назад +231

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

    • @doctorvanya
      @doctorvanya 6 лет назад +152

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

  • @eliharman
    @eliharman 5 лет назад +5536

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

    • @LividImp
      @LividImp 5 лет назад +410

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

    • @Adv18
      @Adv18 5 лет назад +159

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

    • @LividImp
      @LividImp 5 лет назад +198

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

    • @mohammedfahad3564
      @mohammedfahad3564 4 года назад +57

      Scottish ppl r the best british ppl outa Britain

    • @Adv18
      @Adv18 4 года назад +43

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

  • @Alpine_Joe
    @Alpine_Joe 5 лет назад +6212

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

    • @deathreaper2352
      @deathreaper2352 5 лет назад +21

      Lol.

    • @steakndcheese
      @steakndcheese 5 лет назад +27

      You made me cringe

    • @everythingfunandcrafty2596
      @everythingfunandcrafty2596 5 лет назад +112

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

    • @steakndcheese
      @steakndcheese 5 лет назад +84

      @@everythingfunandcrafty2596 stfu

    • @Oxley016
      @Oxley016 5 лет назад +9

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

  • @fesique
    @fesique 4 года назад +953

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

    • @Cinnamontoastcrunch1029
      @Cinnamontoastcrunch1029 4 года назад +51

      Tbh you’re right about peppa pig

    • @Emcobb2
      @Emcobb2 3 года назад +54

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

    • @prash175
      @prash175 3 года назад +29

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

    • @lotusinn3
      @lotusinn3 3 года назад +3

      @@prash175 Very well put.

    • @ArtisticAutisticandAiling
      @ArtisticAutisticandAiling 3 года назад +8

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

  • @WildWaver
    @WildWaver 5 лет назад +2851

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

    • @bobcatman0121
      @bobcatman0121 5 лет назад +23

      How you notice then? 🤔🤣

    • @WildWaver
      @WildWaver 5 лет назад +56

      @@bobcatman0121 Comments, bro. But good try

    • @bobcatman0121
      @bobcatman0121 5 лет назад +8

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

    • @WildWaver
      @WildWaver 5 лет назад +12

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

    • @redeye3087
      @redeye3087 5 лет назад +6

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

  • @jhj2386
    @jhj2386 5 лет назад +2834

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

    • @hansolo4017
      @hansolo4017 5 лет назад +13

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

    • @jhj2386
      @jhj2386 5 лет назад +17

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

    • @Whiteythereaper
      @Whiteythereaper 5 лет назад +8

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

    • @lydiaedwards09
      @lydiaedwards09 5 лет назад +9

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

    • @colinmacdonald5732
      @colinmacdonald5732 5 лет назад +2

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

  • @normietwiceremoved
    @normietwiceremoved 6 лет назад +6698

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

    • @dannyboy5086
      @dannyboy5086 6 лет назад +407

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

    • @SankofaNYC
      @SankofaNYC 6 лет назад +88

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

    • @Delboy0
      @Delboy0 6 лет назад +49

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

    • @magicman3163
      @magicman3163 6 лет назад +18

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

    • @LilithDaHobbit
      @LilithDaHobbit 6 лет назад +18

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

  • @haleyhutchinson9353
    @haleyhutchinson9353 4 года назад +275

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

    • @indigoziona
      @indigoziona 3 года назад +23

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

    • @jones2277
      @jones2277 3 года назад +16

      Bingo. It's always exaggeratedly southern or western.

    • @randomdude4669
      @randomdude4669 3 года назад +10

      Even the normal American accent kinda sounds like coral

    • @calebclendenin7073
      @calebclendenin7073 2 года назад +3

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

    • @devinthierault
      @devinthierault 11 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@calebclendenin7073Yes the southern accents still have a lot of holdovers

  • @pastasam4069
    @pastasam4069 6 лет назад +3700

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

    • @reggiebarrow5410
      @reggiebarrow5410 6 лет назад +79

      same I wonder how long he's studied accents

    • @ThePenguin369
      @ThePenguin369 6 лет назад +79

      British isn't 1 accent so pick one lol

    • @tomemery7890
      @tomemery7890 6 лет назад +87

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

    • @igreatbritishweather
      @igreatbritishweather 6 лет назад +16

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

    • @rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr0
      @rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr0 6 лет назад +7

      Where in the video? All his accents sounded exaggerated

  • @RoxanneGutierrez010
    @RoxanneGutierrez010 5 лет назад +4675

    This whole time I thought Christian Bale was American.

    • @randiwise119
      @randiwise119 5 лет назад +51

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

    • @davidwise1302
      @davidwise1302 4 года назад +64

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

    • @RootyTootTootin
      @RootyTootTootin 4 года назад +48

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

    • @1swerdna
      @1swerdna 4 года назад +60

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

    • @clea294
      @clea294 4 года назад +15

      I was quite surprised as well, but Christian Bale is, indeed, British

  • @alvinogawa5974
    @alvinogawa5974 5 лет назад +3303

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

  • @JonSudano
    @JonSudano 3 года назад +148

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

    • @Unfamous_Buddha
      @Unfamous_Buddha Год назад +3

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

    • @thelegendboy1234
      @thelegendboy1234 Год назад +5

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

    • @brauljo
      @brauljo Год назад +1

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

    • @greggschroeder
      @greggschroeder 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@Unfamous_Buddha I use accents for weight loss, too.

    • @Unfamous_Buddha
      @Unfamous_Buddha 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@greggschroeder-
      Use a German accent when you train animals. A French one when you order food, use a Spanish one if you believe in a deity and want to pray.

  • @sh6700
    @sh6700 4 года назад +9280

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

    • @avao3914
      @avao3914 4 года назад +100

      thelilcrunchy omg i’ve always thought this

    • @barkboingfloom
      @barkboingfloom 4 года назад +292

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

    • @A1LXE9
      @A1LXE9 4 года назад +37

      Not really

    • @kuniosaiki
      @kuniosaiki 4 года назад +30

      Not at all

    • @AarmOZ84
      @AarmOZ84 4 года назад +106

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

  • @kathrynhettinger1321
    @kathrynhettinger1321 5 лет назад +2291

    Tom Hardy and James McAvoy are accent chameleons

    • @sheadoherty7434
      @sheadoherty7434 5 лет назад +40

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

    • @xxIluvyouguysxx
      @xxIluvyouguysxx 5 лет назад +26

      And they’re both handsome 😍

    • @12345BEP
      @12345BEP 5 лет назад +2

      Yes! They do amazing!!

    • @thudthud5423
      @thudthud5423 5 лет назад +45

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

    • @lydiaedwards09
      @lydiaedwards09 5 лет назад +45

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

  • @3ddietroy
    @3ddietroy 5 лет назад +1546

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

    • @bluesailormercury
      @bluesailormercury 5 лет назад +186

      Hot, smart, and tall, wow

    • @humanbass
      @humanbass 5 лет назад +83

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

    • @Revealthereal_
      @Revealthereal_ 5 лет назад +5

      Want a cookie?

    • @happynugget790
      @happynugget790 5 лет назад +9

      Edmund Kemper was 6'9 and he killed people

    • @brookenjonas
      @brookenjonas 5 лет назад +2

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

  • @stevewright2972
    @stevewright2972 2 года назад +49

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

    • @dtoudassous
      @dtoudassous 2 года назад +15

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

    • @nekrataali
      @nekrataali Год назад

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

    • @MbisonBalrog
      @MbisonBalrog 7 месяцев назад

      Wait Depp? I thought he notorious for bad accents

    • @lenoraclemm1892
      @lenoraclemm1892 6 месяцев назад

      @@dtoudassousOP is making a joke that these weirdos are American but have adopted a strange English accent when speaking in their normal voices

    • @lenoraclemm1892
      @lenoraclemm1892 6 месяцев назад

      @@MbisonBalrogthe joke is they're all weirdo Americans who adopted English accents for no discernable reason other than they got rich

  • @gaybo2125
    @gaybo2125 6 лет назад +4438

    He’s faking an American accent the whole time

    • @gregwessendorf
      @gregwessendorf 6 лет назад +423

      He's actually Canadian

    • @PiercedPixie
      @PiercedPixie 6 лет назад +279

      Yeah, plot twist. lmfao

    • @Maggles823
      @Maggles823 6 лет назад +15

      He sounds Irish

    • @Schneeeulenwetter
      @Schneeeulenwetter 5 лет назад +31

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

    • @kevyhot
      @kevyhot 5 лет назад +6

      Impressive

  • @ethanjimenez2142
    @ethanjimenez2142 6 лет назад +572

    The way he bled into that English accent was beautiful

    • @georgemaster9271
      @georgemaster9271 5 лет назад

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

    • @georgemaster9271
      @georgemaster9271 5 лет назад +2

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

    • @Lady_Tee15
      @Lady_Tee15 4 года назад

      @@georgemaster9271 😂🤣

  • @steorbord
    @steorbord 4 года назад +4585

    Americans when doing English accents: *pronounces every consonant*

    • @oh_kay2954
      @oh_kay2954 4 года назад +227

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

    • @steorbord
      @steorbord 4 года назад +111

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

    • @digdogg_
      @digdogg_ 4 года назад +25

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

    • @maggpiprime954
      @maggpiprime954 4 года назад +13

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

    • @maggpiprime954
      @maggpiprime954 4 года назад +3

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

  • @BungieEmma
    @BungieEmma 4 года назад +76

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

    • @arig8905
      @arig8905 3 года назад +2

      I speak RP....

    • @BungieEmma
      @BungieEmma 3 года назад +4

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

    • @blnkrse3073
      @blnkrse3073 3 года назад +8

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

    • @SeasideDetective2
      @SeasideDetective2 7 месяцев назад

      As an American, it annoys me that many people - including many Americans themselves - think that all poor whites have Southern accents. My grandmother was a poor white from Indiana, and she never sounded like anything other than a Hoosier. But if she'd been a movie character, they'd probably have given her a Tennessee accent.

    • @freakyadamm
      @freakyadamm 5 месяцев назад

      and look at the way that nobody asked​@@blnkrse3073

  • @damnson7046
    @damnson7046 4 года назад +3172

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

    • @sharpie1201
      @sharpie1201 4 года назад +35

      I KNOW

    • @gennydz
      @gennydz 4 года назад +142

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

    • @damnson7046
      @damnson7046 4 года назад +370

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

    • @MTE12.2
      @MTE12.2 4 года назад +232

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

    • @CarlosGarcia-ze6rt
      @CarlosGarcia-ze6rt 4 года назад +37

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

  • @JSandwich13
    @JSandwich13 6 лет назад +3063

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

    • @clementj
      @clementj 6 лет назад +135

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

    • @Clammychow
      @Clammychow 6 лет назад +16

      Calvin M are you kidding me peppa pig is british

    • @JSandwich13
      @JSandwich13 6 лет назад +6

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

    • @Clammychow
      @Clammychow 6 лет назад +5

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

    • @JSandwich13
      @JSandwich13 6 лет назад

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

  • @tomashize
    @tomashize 4 года назад +886

    Brits grow up with a lot of film and TV from the USA. Most of the films we see are American.

    • @mariacanales6343
      @mariacanales6343 4 года назад +38

      Bingo

    • @Burn143
      @Burn143 4 года назад +8

      Oh Really? I didn’t know that.

    • @miletarien2142
      @miletarien2142 4 года назад +30

      @@Burn143 I can't tell whether you're being sarcastic. Many Americans don't know this.

    • @Burn143
      @Burn143 4 года назад +9

      Mileta Rien I’m not being sarcastic. I genuinely didn’t know...

    • @jonathanprime1507
      @jonathanprime1507 4 года назад

      @@miletarien2142 we know hes a stupid exception

  • @bomorambi2430
    @bomorambi2430 4 года назад +48

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

  • @caleculating
    @caleculating 6 лет назад +3320

    Tom Holland can do his American accent AMAZINGLY

    • @josharntt
      @josharntt 6 лет назад +60

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

    • @therelkrikhamet7690
      @therelkrikhamet7690 6 лет назад +65

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

    • @perspii2808
      @perspii2808 6 лет назад +13

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

    • @LJFajemolin
      @LJFajemolin 6 лет назад +7

      i understood that reference

    • @annnee6818
      @annnee6818 6 лет назад +2

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

  • @rattyeely
    @rattyeely 5 лет назад +831

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

    • @Reapous
      @Reapous 5 лет назад +4

      Hes American.

    • @heizo4296
      @heizo4296 5 лет назад +16

      Isn't he Canadian?

    • @saoirsedeltufo7436
      @saoirsedeltufo7436 5 лет назад +30

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

    • @emmabrandel4823
      @emmabrandel4823 5 лет назад +86

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

    • @pauldavies9360
      @pauldavies9360 4 года назад +1

      I think he's from the new York area

  • @hmmm9658
    @hmmm9658 6 лет назад +1800

    That dialect coach is so good

    • @brookenjonas
      @brookenjonas 6 лет назад +11

      Nice meme isn’t he though! ❤️

    • @MaureenMurphy_
      @MaureenMurphy_ 6 лет назад +43

      Nice meme He's pretty too

    • @Niphredyl
      @Niphredyl 6 лет назад +51

      His welsh is quite off

    • @MarvinCZ
      @MarvinCZ 6 лет назад +69

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

    • @laurenray8995
      @laurenray8995 6 лет назад +4

      yo we've got the same political compass my man

  • @herreach6955
    @herreach6955 3 года назад +25

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

  • @FallenAngel9979
    @FallenAngel9979 4 года назад +281

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

    • @lilymarie1582
      @lilymarie1582 3 года назад +14

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

    • @smokyjoe321
      @smokyjoe321 3 года назад

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

    • @lilymarie1582
      @lilymarie1582 3 года назад +6

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

    • @scaleythedino49
      @scaleythedino49 3 года назад

      Agree

    • @MrBulky992
      @MrBulky992 3 месяца назад

      Well, it was a comedy film so a few extra laughs make it even better. In a musical, your disbelief is already suspended because of all that totally unrealistic singing and dancing! If it had been a serious film, it would have been tragic!

  • @lemmetellyousmthman
    @lemmetellyousmthman 5 лет назад +803

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

    • @steakndcheese
      @steakndcheese 5 лет назад +6

      Story of my life

    • @CamilleonProductions
      @CamilleonProductions 5 лет назад +31

      How to make a Scotsman angry 😂

    • @gavmcdonald7684
      @gavmcdonald7684 5 лет назад +23

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

    • @neve8881
      @neve8881 5 лет назад +3

      same as my Glaswegian accent is very weak.

    • @oofoofer7884
      @oofoofer7884 5 лет назад +25

      Everyone that sounds different to Americans are “from England”

  • @RoamingAdhocrat
    @RoamingAdhocrat 4 года назад +3084

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

    • @sirrivet9557
      @sirrivet9557 4 года назад +231

      Roaming Adhocrat specifically London accents

    • @barkboingfloom
      @barkboingfloom 4 года назад +62

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

    • @RoamingAdhocrat
      @RoamingAdhocrat 4 года назад +186

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

    • @Aledharris
      @Aledharris 4 года назад +154

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

    • @Neokretai
      @Neokretai 4 года назад +95

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

  • @NinjaArmyGaming
    @NinjaArmyGaming 4 года назад +59

    As someone from Wales, that accent was disappointing smh

    • @gunslingingbird74
      @gunslingingbird74 4 года назад +39

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

    • @calebharris7568
      @calebharris7568 4 года назад +3

      Gunslinging Bird oh shit...

    • @ag02002
      @ag02002 4 года назад +3

      Gunslinging Bird oh no 😂😭

    • @henrychislett1832
      @henrychislett1832 4 года назад +1

      Have you heard a welsh accent???

    • @twoa.m3925
      @twoa.m3925 4 года назад +1

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

  • @princessofhmv3647
    @princessofhmv3647 4 года назад +1049

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

    • @GeographyPal
      @GeographyPal 4 года назад +9

      Princess of HMV omg 😂

    • @princessofhmv3647
      @princessofhmv3647 4 года назад +3

      Fropitz Skeeter I agree

    • @ScarlettKitsune
      @ScarlettKitsune 4 года назад +11

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

    • @chrisbirch4150
      @chrisbirch4150 4 года назад +48

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

    • @carlie8897
      @carlie8897 4 года назад +8

      Wow that was a bit crap wasnt it :/

  • @it_was_my_cat
    @it_was_my_cat 6 лет назад +480

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

    • @nickelcobalt98
      @nickelcobalt98 6 лет назад +21

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

    • @nickelcobalt98
      @nickelcobalt98 6 лет назад +1

      ThatAussieGirl true lmaoo

    • @Gleestuff3000
      @Gleestuff3000 6 лет назад +22

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

    • @turtle4llama
      @turtle4llama 6 лет назад +27

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

    • @violetsnotviolence
      @violetsnotviolence 6 лет назад +17

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

  • @TesniSouthwell
    @TesniSouthwell 4 года назад +1293

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

  • @yeetimusexe
    @yeetimusexe 4 года назад +152

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

    • @seeyouchump
      @seeyouchump 4 года назад +24

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

    • @bigmoniesponge
      @bigmoniesponge 3 года назад +7

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

    • @blubfishuwaaa
      @blubfishuwaaa 3 года назад +25

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

    • @joe94c
      @joe94c 3 года назад +12

      Brad Pitt in snatch with the best pickey accent

    • @gfoot9916
      @gfoot9916 3 года назад +1

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

  • @baylessnow
    @baylessnow 5 лет назад +744

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

    • @hillarywoo4977
      @hillarywoo4977 5 лет назад +93

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

    • @mokkaveli
      @mokkaveli 5 лет назад +75

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

    • @Ella.A.Eh.
      @Ella.A.Eh. 5 лет назад +20

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

    • @jerrycjchang
      @jerrycjchang 5 лет назад +31

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

    • @doovbaloevera1430
      @doovbaloevera1430 5 лет назад +59

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

  • @creature_skin
    @creature_skin 5 лет назад +81

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

  • @JayBelew
    @JayBelew 5 лет назад +3349

    My default British accent: “ELLO GOVNA”

    • @theviewer6889
      @theviewer6889 5 лет назад +88

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

    • @tweetiepie551
      @tweetiepie551 5 лет назад +46

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

    • @theviewer6889
      @theviewer6889 5 лет назад +7

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

    • @hollyg7346
      @hollyg7346 5 лет назад +6

      I'm insulted

    • @javierbenez7438
      @javierbenez7438 5 лет назад +73

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

  • @alexbenavidez4500
    @alexbenavidez4500 4 года назад +4

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

  • @howchildish
    @howchildish 6 лет назад +605

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

    • @ohlookmarki
      @ohlookmarki 6 лет назад +146

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

    • @Udontkno7
      @Udontkno7 6 лет назад +20

      Same with Benedict in 12 Years A Slave

    • @loverofhomedepot
      @loverofhomedepot 6 лет назад +48

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

    • @Udontkno7
      @Udontkno7 6 лет назад +32

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

    • @Acm19999
      @Acm19999 6 лет назад +32

      Emma Watson is just a terrible actress

  • @YangSing1
    @YangSing1 6 лет назад +1257

    You didn't touch on northern england accents

    • @rbeck3200tb40
      @rbeck3200tb40 6 лет назад +37

      Like Karl Pilkington airite

    • @blurquoise5301
      @blurquoise5301 6 лет назад +75

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

    • @ellomynameisjohnny
      @ellomynameisjohnny 6 лет назад +8

      You mean south scotland

    • @SolarTwinLunarKing
      @SolarTwinLunarKing 6 лет назад +2

      YangSing1 I was waiting for that one too

    • @rebeccahicks4949
      @rebeccahicks4949 6 лет назад +16

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

  • @birdvideos9085
    @birdvideos9085 6 лет назад +248

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

    • @4Gwan
      @4Gwan 6 лет назад +2

      Hassan Khanlopuy

  • @jamesrobinson4039
    @jamesrobinson4039 3 года назад +8

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

    • @Flame1611
      @Flame1611 3 года назад +2

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

    • @jamesrobinson4039
      @jamesrobinson4039 3 года назад +1

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

    • @GamerNate30
      @GamerNate30 3 года назад

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

  • @Ashesinferno28
    @Ashesinferno28 5 лет назад +384

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

    • @Tracymmo
      @Tracymmo 5 лет назад +79

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

    • @benjames7932
      @benjames7932 5 лет назад +10

      Nostalgia nerd same with the girl

    • @ruby-it2ou
      @ruby-it2ou 4 года назад +11

      He’s briTISH?

    • @barb7124
      @barb7124 4 года назад +22

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

    • @aniiliang
      @aniiliang 4 года назад +2

      what i was thinking and about to comment, also millie

  • @ilou9129
    @ilou9129 6 лет назад +1162

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

    • @rmk7943
      @rmk7943 6 лет назад +6

      this channel has been terminated. Good for you 👍

    • @angelic7532
      @angelic7532 6 лет назад +15

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

    • @stevemojang8736
      @stevemojang8736 6 лет назад +1

      ·angel · sameeeeeee

    • @restinpeacejasehdwayneonfr4616
      @restinpeacejasehdwayneonfr4616 6 лет назад

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

    • @angelic7532
      @angelic7532 6 лет назад +10

      Alpha Fortnite Videos apparently you do since you replied to it

  • @Dadendrangg
    @Dadendrangg 4 года назад +1725

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

    • @Dadendrangg
      @Dadendrangg 4 года назад +20

      Rowan Melton and I applaud you

    • @ojjo1892
      @ojjo1892 4 года назад +94

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

    • @ojjo1892
      @ojjo1892 4 года назад +8

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

    • @jakelangley624
      @jakelangley624 4 года назад +7

      OMG THANK YOU

    • @lemonposting
      @lemonposting 4 года назад +265

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

  • @mango3257
    @mango3257 4 года назад +11

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

  • @Ryan-dk7mm
    @Ryan-dk7mm 5 лет назад +423

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

    • @francoisrd
      @francoisrd 5 лет назад +19

      Sean Astin is awesome

    • @bs4e
      @bs4e 5 лет назад +5

      @@francoisrd he is awesome

    • @studiokhimera2182
      @studiokhimera2182 5 лет назад +25

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

    • @swamdono
      @swamdono 5 лет назад +5

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

    • @justanotheruser2611
      @justanotheruser2611 5 лет назад

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

  • @Narnianchick
    @Narnianchick 4 года назад +658

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

    • @chrisbirch4150
      @chrisbirch4150 4 года назад +49

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

    • @ishalakbar4294
      @ishalakbar4294 4 года назад +24

      emma watson for sure

    • @plutoplanet
      @plutoplanet 4 года назад +9

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

    • @HessianHunter
      @HessianHunter 3 года назад +2

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

    • @EnigmaticLucas
      @EnigmaticLucas 3 года назад +3

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

  • @rhyanshelby6572
    @rhyanshelby6572 5 лет назад +699

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

    • @kathylennerds750
      @kathylennerds750 5 лет назад +32

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

    • @bethanyb1175
      @bethanyb1175 5 лет назад +57

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

    • @MartinIrwin
      @MartinIrwin 5 лет назад +4

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

    • @1VikingBrute3
      @1VikingBrute3 4 года назад

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

    • @lsuchik93
      @lsuchik93 4 года назад +2

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

  • @ChibiCosmos
    @ChibiCosmos 4 года назад +27

    Then you hear "Corallll!" and suddenly exposed

  • @hhorst84
    @hhorst84 4 года назад +368

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

    • @k-studio8112
      @k-studio8112 4 года назад +9

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

    • @zackebrorsson9374
      @zackebrorsson9374 4 года назад

      Happiness

    • @adityamathur6938
      @adityamathur6938 3 года назад +2

      OuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOuiOui

    • @masterwindu1234
      @masterwindu1234 3 года назад

      frog

  • @samtalbot-cross2621
    @samtalbot-cross2621 5 лет назад +169

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

    • @jonathanphillips5794
      @jonathanphillips5794 5 лет назад +11

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

    • @dk7736
      @dk7736 5 лет назад

      ME

    • @elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770
      @elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 5 лет назад

      Sam Talbot-Cross you’re the GOAT man!

    • @Tob1Kadach1
      @Tob1Kadach1 5 лет назад

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

  • @DonMrLenny
    @DonMrLenny 5 лет назад +211

    3:30 british mode activated

  • @LeanEnglishPronunciation
    @LeanEnglishPronunciation 11 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @TheSunMoon
    @TheSunMoon 6 лет назад +843

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

    • @jrgboy
      @jrgboy 6 лет назад +3

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

    • @freyakinsey1652
      @freyakinsey1652 6 лет назад +21

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

    • @freyakinsey1652
      @freyakinsey1652 6 лет назад

      +Freya Kinsey *whose

    • @Speakeeezzy
      @Speakeeezzy 6 лет назад +4

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

    • @tristanmoller9498
      @tristanmoller9498 6 лет назад +2

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

  • @K5_Chris
    @K5_Chris 5 лет назад +3382

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

    • @pumulot
      @pumulot 5 лет назад +69

      Chris 389 epic gamer moment

    • @marycanary86
      @marycanary86 5 лет назад +46

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

    • @quagsnake
      @quagsnake 5 лет назад +80

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

    • @itzppr
      @itzppr 5 лет назад +74

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

    • @zachtaylor9597
      @zachtaylor9597 5 лет назад +58

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

  • @CoryMck
    @CoryMck 4 года назад +1266

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

    • @navyninjagaming2551
      @navyninjagaming2551 4 года назад +160

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

    • @LeeLee-pk4ss
      @LeeLee-pk4ss 4 года назад +60

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

    • @fancyoil216
      @fancyoil216 4 года назад +57

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

    • @Burn143
      @Burn143 4 года назад +40

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

    • @CoryMck
      @CoryMck 4 года назад +15

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

  • @deletefkgjdfkpqzz
    @deletefkgjdfkpqzz 4 года назад +6

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

    • @ruisenor8993
      @ruisenor8993 2 года назад +1

      Yes! The invention of the TransAtlantic accent.

  • @jacobb.9181
    @jacobb.9181 5 лет назад +108

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

  • @wrenrogers369
    @wrenrogers369 6 лет назад +239

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

    • @dragoniser01
      @dragoniser01 6 лет назад +5

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

    • @TheMsLollidella
      @TheMsLollidella 6 лет назад

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

    • @RyanAustinDean
      @RyanAustinDean 6 лет назад +3

      THE BEEF WELLINGTON IS RAAAAHHHWWWHHH!!!

    • @RobBeatdownBrown
      @RobBeatdownBrown 6 лет назад +4

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

    • @KnightmareUSA
      @KnightmareUSA 6 лет назад +1

      Glitch I always wondered where ramsay got his attitude from ruclips.net/video/ZXTQ8yTWVWQ/видео.html

  • @PARTHAMAX
    @PARTHAMAX 6 лет назад +1186

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

    • @rmk7943
      @rmk7943 6 лет назад +348

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

    • @ch9na
      @ch9na 6 лет назад +277

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

    • @superiorduck2105
      @superiorduck2105 6 лет назад +96

      PARTHAMAX That could be said for any country though.

    • @danimations1440
      @danimations1440 6 лет назад +25

      PARTHAMAX same here in England

    • @captainbryce1
      @captainbryce1 6 лет назад +37

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

  • @Euanbuddie
    @Euanbuddie 4 года назад +14

    Bloody hell when he changed accents was like magic

  • @TheAquaticCat
    @TheAquaticCat 5 лет назад +820

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

  • @deanwilcox9390
    @deanwilcox9390 6 лет назад +921

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

    • @brunobarbosa1900
      @brunobarbosa1900 6 лет назад +12

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

    • @bearythebear69
      @bearythebear69 5 лет назад +13

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

    • @Jawf94
      @Jawf94 5 лет назад +4

      Even though is American accent is notoriously bad.

    • @N2Deep00
      @N2Deep00 5 лет назад +2

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

    • @amburgernchips
      @amburgernchips 5 лет назад +5

      Maggie from TWD is British too!

  • @maammoos5377
    @maammoos5377 6 лет назад +50

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

    • @delorbb2298
      @delorbb2298 6 лет назад +7

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

    • @calikalypso5
      @calikalypso5 6 лет назад +1

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

    • @maammoos5377
      @maammoos5377 6 лет назад +2

      delor b Well I think you're alone with that

    • @delorbb2298
      @delorbb2298 6 лет назад +3

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

    • @rebeccahicks4949
      @rebeccahicks4949 6 лет назад

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

  • @04nbod
    @04nbod 3 года назад +4

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

  • @LeilaStirling
    @LeilaStirling 5 лет назад +2299

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

    • @dirtymike3329
      @dirtymike3329 5 лет назад +63

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

    • @onlyoncetbj
      @onlyoncetbj 5 лет назад +44

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

    • @onlyoncetbj
      @onlyoncetbj 5 лет назад +3

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

    • @taehyunkim5709
      @taehyunkim5709 5 лет назад +29

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

    • @sanyukimuli9404
      @sanyukimuli9404 5 лет назад +4

      I’m gonna say it.... SHRI-

  • @miseltoe1
    @miseltoe1 6 лет назад +454

    To an Australian they all sound weird

  • @pathways678
    @pathways678 5 лет назад +171

    Why does his Welsh accent sound like mrs. Doubtfire

    • @maryannlockwood7806
      @maryannlockwood7806 4 года назад +5

      pathways678 I have always found the welsh accent to remind me of a combination of English and Scottish accent. Although I’m sure I’d be offending any Welshman that heard me say that. If you ever have a chance listen to the way Terry Jones of Monty python talked when he’s was not doing a silly speaking voice.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

    • @derwynowen8609
      @derwynowen8609 4 года назад

      @@maryannlockwood7806 guessing you offended the scottish too

    • @kessmarl
      @kessmarl 4 года назад +1

      Maryann Lockwood .. Terry Jones never had a Welsh accent. Tom Jones still does.

    • @julianakarasawa315
      @julianakarasawa315 4 года назад +2

      His Welsh accent suffers from the exact problem he is describing. Sounds like he wasn't really well exposed to what a Welsh person actually sounds like

    • @julianakarasawa315
      @julianakarasawa315 4 года назад +1

      @@maryannlockwood7806 Nah. You'd be better with watching Torchwood. It is set in Cardiff and half of the cast is Welsh

  • @CalifornianCuttlefish
    @CalifornianCuttlefish 3 года назад +2

    I'm an American, but I'm also part irish, this means I'm actually pretty good at doing a British accent, it's also the fact that: 1. I've been to London, and 2. I watch A LOT of British shows and listen to British people, also my dad is an actor, so I probably get some genes from him, BTW this isn't me bragging, I'm just trying to say that I can do a good British accent even though I'm an American

  • @Mel-jy4kc
    @Mel-jy4kc 5 лет назад +185

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

    • @brookenjonas
      @brookenjonas 5 лет назад +18

      Mel omg those parts of Twilight make it even more hilarious

    • @commentcopbadge6665
      @commentcopbadge6665 4 года назад +7

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

    • @Oturan20
      @Oturan20 2 года назад +1

      Him being a vampire makes that a lot more excusable.

  • @JessieBanana
    @JessieBanana 6 лет назад +708

    Or you’re like me and you’re a god damn accent sponge. I can’t travel or be around people from a different regional area without changing the way I speak. It comes in handy for learning a language, but more often than not it’s embarrassing. I don’t want people to think I’m copying them or am trying to be pretentious. It’s not a conscious thing and I have to catch myself doing it.

    • @whitenoise3447
      @whitenoise3447 6 лет назад +31

      JessieBanana sameeeee Dx I travelled a lot growing up as well so even my natural accent is mixed

    • @coveruplies
      @coveruplies 6 лет назад

      Same 😪

    • @khadijahbindavid9518
      @khadijahbindavid9518 6 лет назад +16

      I know. I moved around a bit, with speech difficulties, and grew up in a diverse area linguistically. So my accent is weird.

    • @sanjurayan4938
      @sanjurayan4938 6 лет назад +5

      w h i t e n o i s e yo that’s me! My normal accent is so confused

    • @limitlessbianca
      @limitlessbianca 6 лет назад +9

      same, I spent two weeks at a summer school in my hometown and started speaking my language in another accent (there were many students from another region lol). I don't have a 'real' accent when speaking in my language, because I'm from the capital :/

  • @JurassicLion2049
    @JurassicLion2049 5 лет назад +179

    Alan Tudyk is my fav fake Brit. I legit thought he was English in A Knights Tale.

    • @kimberleysmith818
      @kimberleysmith818 5 лет назад +8

      Yes I was shocked when I found out Alan Tudyk was American!

    • @jamiepenman1070
      @jamiepenman1070 5 лет назад +5

      @@kimberleysmith818 I didn't know until I saw this comments section 😂

    • @dk7736
      @dk7736 5 лет назад +3

      HE WASNT?

    • @NeroLeblanc
      @NeroLeblanc 5 лет назад +1

      Great movie.

  • @kimberlainodriscoll4781
    @kimberlainodriscoll4781 3 года назад +1

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

  • @ккє-о6ц
    @ккє-о6ц 5 лет назад +178

    "CORAAAALLL" is my favourite 😂

  • @JimFortune
    @JimFortune 6 лет назад +308

    Hey! Hugh Laurie does an EXCELLENT British accent!

    • @JimFortune
      @JimFortune 6 лет назад +42

      M Crisp
      Duh.

    • @alessiacara4101
      @alessiacara4101 6 лет назад +23

      his american accent’s so good i want to cry- House was just-

    • @JimFortune
      @JimFortune 6 лет назад +43

      Joey Baseball
      After many episodes of Jeeves and Wooster, Black Adder, Fry and Laurie, and this and that here and there, I'm aware that he's British. I was making a joke.

    • @TheTonecii
      @TheTonecii 6 лет назад +1

      alessia cara House was one of my favorite shows.

    • @cqnzr-clipsgameplay5706
      @cqnzr-clipsgameplay5706 6 лет назад +22

      I think your joke went over a lot of people's heads.

  • @parkfox04
    @parkfox04 5 лет назад +88

    I love that the accent coach actually said ‘English’ accent instead of ‘British’ accent!! A Scottish, Welsh or Irish accent couldn’t be more different to an English accent. The ‘British’ accent doesn’t exist 😂

    • @MsSphinx91
      @MsSphinx91 5 лет назад +9

      You could say that about any country though. No country has one accent. Even standard accents will change over time.

    • @elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770
      @elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 5 лет назад

      Well...

    • @NeroLeblanc
      @NeroLeblanc 5 лет назад +6

      I mean it's the same case as "American Accent." It's just a generalization of that area.

    • @cloudkitt
      @cloudkitt 5 лет назад

      But "a" British accent does.

    • @isabellkeyte
      @isabellkeyte 5 лет назад

      Dev Santos True. But, the differences in American accents aren’t quite as large. That, and saying ‘the British accent’ groups together places that are completely different countries. Wales is not England or Scotland or vice versa.

  • @dalebraithwaite6890
    @dalebraithwaite6890 4 года назад +4

    He struggled with Welsh, also Welsh accents vary drastically over just a few miles. the Barry accent, Newport accent, Cardiff accent, Caerphilly accent and merthyr accent all sound soo different.

  • @chickenkebabandchips251
    @chickenkebabandchips251 5 лет назад +128

    There are many british accents though, most aren’t posh or have no Received Pronunciation

    • @petermasefield8403
      @petermasefield8403 5 лет назад

      Yeah, I applaud Anne Hathaway for giving it a go, even though it was a bit of a misfire.

    • @kasession
      @kasession 4 года назад +5

      There are many American accents as well.

    • @sigmaoctantis1892
      @sigmaoctantis1892 4 года назад

      @@kasession I've noticed many American actors with a different American accent in interviews to the one that use in movies. I think there's a kind of Hollywood standard accent.

    • @hannahgibson8837
      @hannahgibson8837 4 года назад

      Yes

    • @erikayang5545
      @erikayang5545 4 года назад +3

      @@sigmaoctantis1892 the Hollywood standard accent (what most people call an American accent) is just a Southern California accent, regardless of where in America the actors are from. Probably has something to do with the immersion in LA

  • @madi_beee
    @madi_beee 6 лет назад +247

    Hey it's Eric Singer! From Wired! 😃

    • @idakiilerich6541
      @idakiilerich6541 6 лет назад +6

      I love Erik!

    • @brookenjonas
      @brookenjonas 6 лет назад +1

      Ida Killerrich Yes! Me too!

    • @anders671
      @anders671 6 лет назад +2

      Lexavax that was... UNHOLY

    • @bethanytalbot2445
      @bethanytalbot2445 6 лет назад +4

      Rose Tico Enthusiast ... who cares?

    • @lizbbb7326
      @lizbbb7326 6 лет назад +1

      Rose Tico Enthusiast lol why did you admit you care about this guys sweat

  • @zappawench6048
    @zappawench6048 5 лет назад +123

    I find men become very "growly" in their voice when doing an American accent. A good case is Hugh Laurie doing House, especially at the beginning.

    • @salazar2287
      @salazar2287 4 года назад +3

      Yes! It's called vocal fry. It's kinda weird innit

    • @themermaidstale5008
      @themermaidstale5008 4 года назад +8

      House was a growl, grumpy guy to begin with.

    • @sophiarojas1659
      @sophiarojas1659 4 года назад +1

      chuck bass from gossip girl too

    • @salazar2287
      @salazar2287 3 года назад

      @Cabbage Robot who?

    • @theobuniel9643
      @theobuniel9643 3 года назад +1

      Benedict Cumberbatch does it too, e.g. when he's Doctor Strange. In fact when I first saw the Doctor Strange trailer I was like, "wait, BenCumb sounds a lot like Hugh Laurie here...."

  • @AlyssaBotelho
    @AlyssaBotelho 3 года назад +13

    “Make sure all the ‘r’s are there when doing an American accent”
    *laughs in Massachusetts*

  • @That1CoolChick
    @That1CoolChick 6 лет назад +415

    Basically, you have a lot of British actors being fully immersed in the English language when they come to Hollywood. No one leaves the US to go to Britain to be a film/TV star. This is similar to how British people *miraculousy* drop their accent while singing. Whether we like to believe it or not, there is a trend that the U.S. has set with this. This is also evident in the fact that one can be a superstar in the U.K. and a nobody in the U.S., however, once having made it in the U.S. one is deemed to have finally *made* *it*. I personally love British culture, but there are certain things that people tend to forget in discussions like these.

    • @imAwareOfYourAddress
      @imAwareOfYourAddress 6 лет назад +41

      That1CoolChick Doesn't everyone drop their accent when singing?

    • @That1CoolChick
      @That1CoolChick 6 лет назад +24

      HàTt thËCAT not always and this is definitely more prevalent in the UK

    • @That1CoolChick
      @That1CoolChick 6 лет назад +21

      HàTt thËCAT I would also add that I believe this is genre specific. Something closer to grassroots sounds like folk/acoustic is a lot more natural to the native tongue rather than modern pop which is heavily influenced by US sound.

    • @mrmushin1
      @mrmushin1 6 лет назад +30

      Also we know American culture more since we are exposed to it in a near daily basis

    • @monsterduo4038
      @monsterduo4038 6 лет назад +5

      Ditto! Your username should be That1Cool&SmartChick

  • @wolffgang101
    @wolffgang101 6 лет назад +56

    Well the American culture in movies are all around the world. There's more American movies in England than English movies in America. I can do a general, what I think most Americans think of what an English accent sound like, English accent and also a German accent because I speak German too.

  • @takeshi_zero3271
    @takeshi_zero3271 5 лет назад +318

    However, Bridget Jones nailed the accent!

    • @crstph
      @crstph 5 лет назад +36

      Didnt her castmates literally not know she was american for a while bc she spoke in the accent and didnt tell them she was from texas

    • @kitwhitfield7169
      @kitwhitfield7169 4 года назад +47

      It’s an odd one, that; none of the sounds she says are wrong, but, at least to this Brit, her performance of it sounds just a tiny bit off. She’s just a little too high RP for the dialogue and character she’s supposed to be delivering, and a little too careful with it. It’s a good accent, but it doesn’t feel entirely natural.

    • @ileanasantamaria2364
      @ileanasantamaria2364 4 года назад +4

      @@kitwhitfield7169 That may be why she wasn't cited as an example in this clip.

    • @evesapple
      @evesapple 4 года назад +1

      Exactly my thoughts with it too. It's an Americans idea of what a British accent sounds like , in that they only really have one idea of it. That could be because British actors they know usually , as part of their drama school training, have elocution lessons and so have that studied, RP sound which the majority of us don't have. They rarely use accents from different counties- her mum and dad don't have such a posh accent, so it doesn't make sense for Bridget to have it

    • @mayan373
      @mayan373 4 года назад

      Your lyingggg

  • @krausfamily4491
    @krausfamily4491 3 года назад +3

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

  • @wolffgang101
    @wolffgang101 6 лет назад +39

    If I'm not wrong, but there are more American movies in England than English movies in America. So I would assume more English people have more exposure to American accents. But like he said that a lot of English actors live in America and also have exposure.

    • @hollyg7346
      @hollyg7346 5 лет назад +1

      We see American films and TV shows all the time which probably has an effect

    • @thudthud5423
      @thudthud5423 5 лет назад

      @@hollyg7346 Curiously, are there British TV shows or movies set in the US? I can't think of any, except for maybe Chris Nolan's Batman trilogy. Yeah, I know the Batman movies are American made movies, but look at all the British (and UK) actors in the main roles: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Tom Wilkinson, Tom Hardy, Colin McFarlane, Linus Roache, John Nolan, Christine Adams, Jack Gleeson (Irish), Liam Neeson (Irish), Cilian Murphy (Irish), Heath Ledger (Australian). Some of them play their roles with British accents, but a lot of them are American characters. (And, yes, I Googled the cast!)

    • @hollyg7346
      @hollyg7346 5 лет назад

      @@thudthud5423 if it is a British TV show with British actors it will be set in the UK

  • @JurassicLion2049
    @JurassicLion2049 5 лет назад +88

    Meryl Streep my god shes damn terrific at the British accent. Similarly, Angelina Jolie is underappreciated for it.

    • @mohammedfahad3564
      @mohammedfahad3564 4 года назад +1

      Jurassic Lion they’re only good at the London posh and cockney accent that’s it
      Which is like 1% of the population

  • @joehardy9610
    @joehardy9610 5 лет назад +57

    Renee Zelwiger's accent was so good I thought she was a Brit.

    • @afriend9428
      @afriend9428 4 года назад +2

      *She IS Bridget Jones!!*

  • @herb4974
    @herb4974 4 года назад +142

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

    • @boredstranger7522
      @boredstranger7522 4 года назад +22

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

  • @tqnohe
    @tqnohe 5 лет назад +52

    Peter Dinklage?
    And while we are at game of thrones ... even to my untrained ear, I found it amusing that the Stark clan, all within a single household had so many varied accents.

    • @redplanet667
      @redplanet667 5 лет назад

      Within one family their accents ranged from yorkshire to various parts of lancashire and Manc-ish, i thought to myself Winterfell isnt that big of a place is it surely there couldnt be so many different accents in that small settlement lol

  • @MeganSin
    @MeganSin 6 лет назад +329

    My personal favorite American actor doing an English accent and nailing it is James marsters as spike on buffy and his accent was based off of Anthony head's natural accent because he in real life is more cockney while when he played Giles he spoke more posh.

    • @betanderson6043
      @betanderson6043 6 лет назад +5

      Yup!! Such a great acting job

    • @MeganSin
      @MeganSin 6 лет назад +21

      His accent is seamless. When I was younger I had no idea was an American.

    • @MrFreeman042
      @MrFreeman042 6 лет назад +16

      I remember back when I first found out he was American. I'm London born and raised and I didnt spot it. James Mastered it!

    • @obiwancon4409
      @obiwancon4409 6 лет назад +14

      James Marsters accent was good but Alexis Densiof who played Wesley was simple perfect.

    • @jdmoncada8205
      @jdmoncada8205 6 лет назад +12

      Marsters was so good, I felt uncomfortable listening to him speak in his native accent! (And I'm a fellow American, so it's not like I'm not used to it.)

  • @rydenson9134
    @rydenson9134 5 лет назад +17

    love this guy, ive been waiting on hearing him show off his dialect skills on british sounding accents

  • @revandenburg
    @revandenburg 3 года назад +2

    American here, My daughter is seeing a speech therapist because it's difficult for her to enunciate the American 'R' sound. Some words she says sound English if the 'r' is within the word like the word girl it almost sounds like gull with the slightest drawn out 'r' within that word. Other times if the R is at the beginning it becomes a 'W' sound like Wing instead of Ring. I hope she is able to overcome this obstacle before she gets too much older. She's heading for Middle school in the next year. Kids can be cruel.

  • @ryanterwilliger4755
    @ryanterwilliger4755 4 года назад +40

    His version of a British person doing a stereotypical American accent was eerily spot-on 😂

  • @graceh-gx4qg
    @graceh-gx4qg 5 лет назад +120

    Except for rami malek in BoRhap. His accent was absolutely flawless.

    • @ThinWhiteAxe
      @ThinWhiteAxe 5 лет назад +25

      He wasn't paid to do an English accent, though, he was paid to be Freddie Mercury. I feel like the point is kinda moot. Also, he had the speech patterns of a real person to model his after.

    • @mikanesmith3693
      @mikanesmith3693 5 лет назад +10

      Joe Mazzello's wasn't horrible either it was a little diffrent though because John Deacon has a very distinct voice

    • @jibblejabble4599
      @jibblejabble4599 5 лет назад

      it was shite

  • @ze_rubenator
    @ze_rubenator 6 лет назад +83

    The best example of Americans doing a British accent is the boys from Spinal Tap. I had no idea they were American actors and not in fact English musicians for years after I first saw the movie.

    • @scottythedawg
      @scottythedawg 6 лет назад +3

      I thought they were Australian

    • @Trev359
      @Trev359 6 лет назад

      There is no British Accent.

    • @ze_rubenator
      @ze_rubenator 6 лет назад +9

      Yes you are correct, of course. Britain doesn't actually exist and there is no such thing as a Brit or a British accent.
      /sarcasm

    • @Trev359
      @Trev359 6 лет назад +3

      You are showing your ignorance.Of course Britain exists but there is NO British accent. It's not difficult. Our accents are English, Scottish and Welsh. Three DIFFERENT countries. Try to learn that. It's not hard.

    • @ze_rubenator
      @ze_rubenator 6 лет назад +16

      What you are trying to say is that there are many British accents. Saying "English accent" is marginally more accurate than saying "British accent," but it's funny you should claim one exists and the other don't. You can put them all in a lovely venn diagram, and make even smaller more accurate groups like west country, geordie or recieved pronounciation. Saying there is no such thing as a British accent is frankly ridiculous.

  • @ghazghkullthraka9714
    @ghazghkullthraka9714 3 года назад +8

    Erik: demonstrates welsh accent
    Me: oh, so it sounds like someone’s Irish mother