How To Do A Southern Accent FAST
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Youre really good . Great video
How do you say H
A New York yankee accent sounds quite wavy while a southern accent sounds very roundish. That's the best way I can differentiate them
Too bad I don't have to practice comes mine come naturally because I'm from the south
BUT there are about 3 sub types..Topor beginning South.1).KY TN WV-HillBilly type...like I gotta warsh some clothes and you'ins going to church 1) Mid south- equals deep drawls with Pronunciation short cuts...ya'll gotta get ova heer...3) Lower southern states lake parts of Florida and Texas...Focus on long 'I's...like It's riite here or wait till toniite ...using a long I.
When you’re from the south but watch this video to have twice the accent so you can have godlike powers
I have an accent but it’s going a way so I’m trying to get it back
I was born in the Carolinas but my parents weren’t. I have a southern twang but not the accent. I really want to fit in at school and get. Thicker accent
HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT?!?!?! *looks around franticlly
I'm from Kentucky so I got a little accent enough to make me spell words wrong, and i realize that it's actually pretty thick.
@@emilybyers3290 Bless you!
As a resident Georgian. Born and raised southern. I’m literally crying laughing at how accurate this is. I didn’t even realize I did this.
His accent is a bit televised, but the gist is there
Didn’t know u lived in🇬🇪
dont know which georgia you grown up in, but if i hear this gentleman come up n give me that line at 4:45, i'll be cryin laughin at how fake it is 🙏 god bless this man's heart, he's tryin
It sounded accurate but that last line sounded forced
🤣🤣🤣me too
My son went to the military and is stationed in California. We are southern and every time I talk to him he sounds more and more what we call "proper". I say "boy, I ain't raised you like dat." He just gets so tickled and tore up about it.
hahaha i laughed in the part of I aint raise u like that 😅😅
@@johnroedbacting6620 frrr
😂
Practice tip from an actual southerner who phased out her accent for job purposes: practice this accent while smiling. The biggest focus for accents is adjusting how your mouth moves. In Southern regions the mouth goes wide instead of long like in northern regions and sits barely in head voice. Regional accents and dialects will shift in terms of mouth shape and phrasing but this exercise will help you create a natural south-east twang that is actually more common than the overemphasized one he’s presenting here. You have to get very rural before you start hearing cay-uhk. Also a lot of rural southerners talk rapid fire fast with very staccato speech patterns. If you are using an upper-class south-east accent you’ll add more drawl and curl the middle of your tongue a bit more.
Great tip!! Thank you so much!
I came here to leave the smiling mouth position comment as well. Im from Houston, not the same as a "southern accent" yet theres overlap and the pace is a bit slower. We also say L'IL not liddle. 😅
I'd say its "LI'L" not "liddle".
Thank you, this is very helpful. 👌
Oh my god this was so helpful thank you
Southerners can tell where other southern people are from mostly.
I met a guy and after 3 words I knew that he was a Bama boy. My uncle and aunt were from Georgia - there is a difference.
@@JamesMartinelli-jr9mh that's what I was thinking man.
@@JamesMartinelli-jr9mh bullshit
@@DStest643 I'm from South Florida, recently moved to Knoxville. Southerners can ABSOLUTELY distinguish southern accents and pinpoint them. If you can't it's probably because you aren't one of us. Bless your heart.
@@---pz2yh From Tennessee and was in Scotland a couple years ago, in a museum in a remote part of the country, and heard some other tourists talking; the sound of their voices just clicked--I knew they were from Tennessee right away. And sure enough, they were.
Some southerners speak slow, some southerners speak doublespeed.
Im double speed. I often have to repeat myself. 😂
True. One person will say “Hao arrry’all dewin? Y’alll wan’any beeuskits?”
Another will say “Hay’all doin wan’anybeuskits?”
I don't speak all that fast, but I'll throw words together and a ton of contractions. I'mma use an example already given: How're y'all doin? Y'annabiscuit? I'd've imagined y'ant to.
Southern mama's
Jacob Belcher 35
Same af 🙏🏻
Actors rarely get southern accents right unless they’re from the south. I’m from Memphis and our accent is different somewhat from other southern areas. Actors draw it out too much. However in the movie, The Blind Side, Sandra Bullock pretty much got it right. Actors generally do the south Alabama or Mississippi Delta accent when portraying southerners. That’s not how we speak in Memphis.
Yep, Reece Witherspoon, Matthew McConnaughey, Dixie Carter, etc.
Definitely agree with you! She did excellent in that movie! A lot of them try way too hard though. Im from Alabama.. I have noticed they do try to go for our type of accent more than the Carolina’s or Georgia. Though Andrew Lincoln who played Rick Grimes nailed a Georgian accent perfectly. I saw someone else commented this and it’s a perfect example. Usually real southerners can spot the fake southern accents when we hear them because they’re just too much… but his.. I didn’t know he was English until after watching the show for a couple of seasons and looking it up.
Definitely agree with you! She did excellent in that movie! A lot of them try way too hard though. Im from Alabama.. I have noticed they do try to go for our type of accent more than the Carolina’s or Georgia. But most of them don’t even come close to our accents either. Though Andrew Lincoln who played Rick Grimes nailed a Georgian accent perfectly. I saw someone else commented this and it’s a perfect example. Usually real southerners can spot the fake southern accents when we hear them because they’re just too much… but his.. I didn’t know he was English until after watching the show for a couple of seasons and looking it up.
I lived in Mississippi for years and I was raised by southerners. Your accent is not typical “southern”. You sound like you are a New Yorker trying to speak like Rhett Butler. You want to speak southern, move there with a tape recorder. Just sayin’. 😊
Rue McClanahan did very well
I m from India and always wondered the difference between Northern and Southern American accent, but he made it clear in a very beautiful n simple way , one of the best🙏
I’ve got a southern accent and I wanna learn a normal American accent but it’s very hard haha
Don't! Your accent is unique and you should never be ashamed of it, in fact, you should be proud of it!
Twitchy Paper thanks bro!
@@twitchypaper1391 I completely agree, I try my best to tell my daughter that. Young people across the South are rapidly losing their accents because of stupid peer pressure.
Twitchy Paper They are unique, but a lot of people in the US stereotype someone with it. They might think you’re a country bumpkin with no education, and just treat you like you’re an idiot. Removing that accent gets rid of that problem.
@@zoelames3150 That is an incredibly ignorant statement. Ask yourself this question, "When did that stereotype begin?" Did it begin when Europeans first settled the South? Or maybe the Southern native Americans had an accent also and the rest of the tribes made fun of them as well. I think you need to study your history a little more before making such an asinine statement. Also, where does the Southern Accent come from? Obviously the Southern accent comes from a few places and it has been around for some time just as someone from Ireland has an accent, someone from New Zealand has an accent, someone from Australia has an accent. Such a moronic thing to post.
One thing I would add is that the "i" sounds are also different. Some examples:
"my" is "ma"
"Michael" is "Makkle"
"try" is "tra"
"Guy" is "Ga"
"light" is "lat"
etc. etc
fasmal27 this is very important i’m suprised he didn’t mention it. Like this is a huge chunk of the accent
@@game-enjoyer13 yeah it's almost more important than what the video pointed out. I don't say have the way he said it. He was close, but it wasn't quite there.
fasmal27 ok but no one say makes tho
And "boy" is "BOAH"
fasmal27 and w doesn’t exist😂
For example,
Towel = tal
I clicked on this video to see Matthew McConaughey -
as a person from the south, this irked me deeply hahaha I was so so confused
@@chefboyarb I wanna do a sterotypical accent just for giggles
is it okay to do this
also I'm from texas so yeah I dont always talk like this
Its really an exaggeration of the wrong accent to accurately represent the Southern United States.
People from Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, the Carolinas, ect.,..many of us speak with quite the drawl but its significantly different than what he is doing in the video. Not that he's entirely in left field. Listen to Sam Elliott in Roadhouse and Tommy Lee Jones (Capt. Woodrow Call, Lonesome Dove) THAT is the best example of a Southern accent.
It's a movie accent.
I've lived in texas my whole life and never developed a southern accent, nor do I know how to do one
Edit: nvm I have one
😂
lol the edit
Bruh, the realization, lmaooo
lol I use to live in GA for my entire life, recently moved to WI the way they say Wisconsin is just creepy. I didn't get the accent either
THE EDIT LMAO me when i made friends online and realized i didn't do as good of a job of dropping my alabama accent as i thought i had
Though I'm not American, I've always loved the southern accent!
Anybody can love it - no residency requirement.
I like it too
Ellis l4d2 fans can relate ;)
@@hijodelaisla275 damn… thats a no no for my southern pride ma’am
@@larrybarrera8886 Where do you require people to live before they can love a southern accent?
me watching as someone from tennessee:
him: cUaYke
me: alright
Exactly what I said, he’s almost doing an exaggerated hillbilly accent 😂
@@rinxi_1656 ngl I'm from Tennessee and have traveled to Georgia, Texas, etc. and I've never heard a single person with that kinda accent
Still fun to talk like that though 😂
@@Hannah-ds2bl I agree, I talk like that when I travel sometimes. When I went to Vegas I talked in the most hick accent I could and the look on peoples faces were priceless.
I lived in GA my entire life, never once heard someone with this accent
Southern accents vary throughout the South. Someone from Appalachian will not sound the same as someone from the Delta. Hence Dolly Parton and Elvis Presley.
As a Georgia 🍑, born and raised, I can tell exactly where someone is from in the South. If you want to sound like someone from SOUTH Georgia/Alabama/Mississippi, this video may be for you. If you want an authentic accent from a specific region of Georgia or any of the southern states, you need to follow people FROM those regions/states. This is very general and almost nobody speaks this way anymore.
Well looks like the Georgia peaches are really pretty 😊
I came to see Matthew McConaughey when I saw the thumbnail, but there is no Matthew , you ruined my day
😂
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You got click baited
E HJO same omfg
I just tried reading this in a southern accent...
People from the South can definitely tell what state you’re from specifically
Born and raised in TN I can tell where people are from. I can even tell what part of TN they're from.
yep
ikr im from texas btw 😂
I grew South Carolina, and I can usually tell whether someone is from the low country (along the coast) or high country (further inland)
@@snakey934Snakeybakey I live in Southern Indiana and when i get out of highschool I'm moving to North Carolina
This guy is brilliant. I have an audition with a southern accent and this was just what I needed.
“Doing” is pronounced “Fixin to”... seriously tho, there are very distinct differences between a Texas accent, a Alabama accent , a Tennessee accent and a Mississippi accent. Haven’t even mentioned Louisiana, which is whole separate dialect.
''About to'' is also ''fixin to''
Only in the most remote of regions do people talk like this. I’ve lived in Alabama my whole life, and not a single person talks with this much accent. Tone it down a lot to become more accurate. Cool video though
That's because you grew up with it you don't recognize it, to a outsider it's obvious though. I have a strong southern accent (Appalachia) but I can recognize a Georgia accent versus a Alabama vs a Texas accent. Likewise everyone from my area sounds "normal" not southern to me.
People around here do sound pretty "normal" to me in the sense that they sound like most everyone else around this area (not normal in the sense of no accent) so I can detect when this RUclipsr doesn't
sound like the people I live around. Again, yes, there are some verrrryy country people that do talk like this, but it's rare and increasingly so.
He sounds like he’s trying too hard soo you can tell it’s a fake accent
That's the first step. You have to over-emphasise the new sounds until you feel you can do it.
When you know you can do it, that is when you "tone down".
Also, when you are new to the accent, the teacher has to make sure that you hear the difference.
For example, Japanese people could not tell the difference between "year" and "ear". To them, they sound the same. Or many Westerners could not hear a final glottal stop. So, these sound have to be emphasised for the learners to hear them.
I agree, this is a stereotypical aristocratic southern accent. I've only heard it from rich, old hicks who still call black people 'colored'.
Not bad, maybe a little too much of a “swing” on the a/e sounds. That’s good if you wanna play the part of an old school southern like Robert E Lee
John3:16 KJV tbh
I thought this too, and I'm not even from the south. I think it is exaggerated to get the point across.
@@hannahhayes4989 Austin 3:16
I find when trying accents tho it's good to "exaggerate" at first to train your mouth so that when you're not thinking about it it's natural.
Yea this is more old south kinda stuff
Being from Alabama, he’s right on some of those things. If I didn’t know him, I would know he was faking it if he was speaking like that around me. Northern and Southern Alabamians speak different. It’s also a cultural difference. The farther south you go it gets more hilarious, even for me! I’m as far south as you can get!
I’m in Alabama too
What kills me is someone supposed to be from Alabama or Mississippi and don't pronounce R's. Like, working class folks from here are hard on the r. I.e pronouncing chair as "chayuh" instead of "chur". Only plantation owners and Virginia's, and a few older, usually white collar females speak any form of that dialect.
for some reason once you get to north Florida the accent just goes away and is replaced by a standered amarican accent with a slight southern twang to it
I would know he is faking it as welll. This Gone with the Wind crap annoys me
@@SS64DD Oh yeah. I'm right on the northern Florida line, but you'd be surprised what 50 miles south people sound like from the line. It just changes. To be honest I don't give a shit. It's just funny hearing people talk from all states and I've even been made fun of when I was in Indiana.
“Specially the southern region
Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee”
Me a Mississippian...
me as a Kentuckian:
Dose Texas count
@@Fadedmoon538 no
@@reacher22.and.ryan23 well I mean we literally south and we do have southern accents
@@Fadedmoon538 I am from Tennessee and when I am outside the South, Vegas or Cali., I am ask if I am from Texas. Second guess is always Georgia. I dont think non southerners can hear how varied our accents really are.
I'm from Texas so it's a natural thing, more so when I'm angry or excited
TheWayOf Cailinn for me its when im sleepy/tired when it comes out ahahha (from texas also!)
feel like the TX accent is a little different though-- kind of harsher than the stereotypical Georgian drawl
I wish . I kit you not I’m from Tennessee and I sound like got damn bubba from forest gump at all times and I’m very loud with it . Lol I kit you not we talk like we can’t hear when we hear perfectly fine 😂😂😂.
hey, I need help with it for a play. "Billy's wife, ASA, was a Catholic, you know. She was born a Catholic and she died as one, although she wasn't much of anything in between. They say she made a confession to the priest before she died. That's one I'd like to have heard. I bet that priest blushed listening to that confession." are my lines. Can u please write it with how u would say it in a southern accent?
Unless you know IPA, the international phonetic alphabet", it's hard to describe how to pronounce lots of words together like that.
The most brilliant southern accent acting was Andrew Lincoln (European) doing Rick Grimes. It wasn't just a normal southern accent either, it was really subtle. Brilliant and realistic
ahh two years late here but it really blew me away when i learned that his real accent was english. i watched the show believing it was his natural accent all along.
Yeah we all say coral for Carl...😂
Definitely agree. He literally sounded like he was from Georgia. When you do it too thick, it’s just annoying. Like Reese Witherspoon (a real southerner acting southern 🙄) in “Sweet Home Alabama”. Lord her accent in that movie is almost blasphemous.
His accent was alright
I'm pretty much as far South as you can get before you get to Florida and my accent isn't nearly that thick, unless I exaggerate it. It's more common in older people, like my grandparents.
I was on an international cruise to the Caribbean. Once we were out days into the Atlantic, I started listening closer to all the accents. And then I heard it. A GEORGIA ACCENT. I'm from Georgia. Yet I still got so excited and was squealing when I met some fellow Georgians. For god's sake I still in Georgia and did then, too. But something about finding people from home while far away from home.
As a southerner, I genuinely appreciate characters doing a good southern accent in movies.
👍🏼👍🏼
I think the thing that people mess up most about our southern accents is that we actually don’t talk slowly at all. We slow down certain syllables, but then cut out letters like “doin” so it ends up being the same speed. Common misconception and if you can understand that then your accent is going to be a whole lot more accurate.
This is 100% accurate. And if I get excited and really start talking fast people have to stop me because I become unintelligible. I start dropping whole syllables without realizing it so that my words keep track with my brain lol
My siblings won't even be able to understand me then.
I notice that southerners tend to say “vehicle” as “vee-hickle”
Chris Weyer how else are you spose to say it?
What do you mean? They are the same word?
Mostly older people
Vee-cull
Vee-ickle
thanks dude im stuck being southern now i forgot how to english accent
Thank you so much for that. I am English and have just been offered the role of 'Big Daddy' in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. You short hints have already made my job so much easier. Thanks.
I’m black but I recently moved up north and people here think my southern accent is fake so I’ve been trying to talk without it but it’s difficult
Don't be ashamed of where you came from!
Be proud of who you are, not what others want to force you to be.
Keep it dude. You should keep the accent you've got. I don't got a southern accent at all but I'm keeping it that way. I've got a closer to midwest or californian thing going on or something like that. I'm not gonna try to change it ever. If it naturally changes well that's what I'm gonna get.
Wtf does your race have to do with anything?
There's actually multiple southern accents. You have the historical plantation accent which was non-rhotic and very genteel almost British sounding in some ways. There's the more modern non-rhotic southern accents of the greater New Orleans area, the Cajun accents and the Virginia tidewater dialect. Also, there's the fully rhotic accents of West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and other mountainous and hilly areas. That's the standard hillbilly type accent, etc. Plus, there's the semi-rhotic accents which dominate most of the American south these days, and several others!
Does Texas count cause I know it's pronounced you all but we say yall
Thank you very stereotypical .
Try the Delmarva [peninsula] southern accent. Lol it would be very difficult for someone not from there, or somewhere else in the south, to learn properly.
What is plantation accent hahahah
Vermon Kester Malit
Dropping if the R’s and such. It sounds like a mixture between british and southern. See Gone with the Wind as an example.
This actually helped out even though I'm in the deep bottom part of Kentucky, I don't have a southern accent but now I do thank ya very much buddy!
I'm from the Heart of Dixie and the heart of Alabama. The only southerner I've heard like you was sounding was my english teacher and she was from Texas. But I loved her Texas accent.
No one has in the south talks like this
That's what I was thinkin
ikr 😂
I do declare! Sounds more like frog horn leg horn
@@samhinkle2356 bro is it real that southerners sleeping with their own sisters 🙄
Seriously. I’ve got a mix between Georgia and Appalachia, and I’ve never heard this type of speaking. Our dialect is best explained as a lazy tongue and it’s very warm.
I absolutely love learning accents with you :-) I am southern and I have you say you are definitely hitting it spot on :-)
Thanks Amber for the kind words! I love accents too!! 😁
I love how much fun he is having ! He sounds like ma whole family
Most southerners can tell one another apart from region and specific dialect but the "hay-uh-ve" thing in the beginning was definitely more New Orleans which is a super specific southern accent that is easily distinguished
I've always found it interesting how easy it is to do a Southern us accent if you are from the North of England like I am there's a lot of similarities
One of the first changes for me after moving and living in NC is going from
oil
To
Ol'e.
And this applies to bowl, boil, foil.
Have a blessed day y'all.
as a southerner, his accent sounds drunk lmao
Agreed
I'm bored in quarantine so why not learn southern accent 😂
I like this guys voice. Something about it is kinda soothing.
Southern accent’s are gorgeous. Whether from Kentucky or West Texas.
We don’t to CAAAOKES we go “You GON’ finish THA CAEKE bOEY?”
P A I S L E Y haha 😂
ii_ItzLexie lampoon
Bro when he said that I stg I said that in my head 😂
All these actors thing it’s the 1800’s. Hardly anyone in the south talks like that. It’s just over exaggerated
JOEY you’re wrong lol
Lucius Best I was born and raised in Alabama and spent plenty of time in the south east. He does a horrible job
Born and raised in Hoover, he definately needs to study up
@@JDAL1334 Older people in the Mississippi Delta talk just like this.
well what if I came here
to sound like Arthur Morgan
(1899)
Thanks bro. This just brought the fond memory i had in TN. Love from Japan.
Greetings from SC, we can tell where other southerners are from a lot of the time!
I am italian and I love the southern american accent..
You got it pretty good but your over playing your drawl. That would be a more accurate old south (gone with the wind annoying accent). We shorten words.
we even shorten things a bit up here in Oregon and we also tend to say the ds instead of saying T or just drop the t as in thad but without really saying d. Also, saying becomes sayin. However maybe it's just me as I was stationed in the south for 4 years and still sort of have it some say.
I say a lot of Southern slang and pronounce most of this Southern-ish but without the drawl. yay..
I agree!
Thank you so much for this video, I got a part in a play and didn't exactly know how to do an accent. ❤❤❤
I had a really fun accent mix when I was a kid and got bullied for it and learned an American accent from there. I had a light southern and Australian accent mix due to being raised by ppl with American accents, close family friends being Australian, and stepdads cousin was southern. Trying to get that back because it was a very unique thing I think is cool.
I'm from England, and I really wanna have one-up on my Drama Class
Well, there's many to choose from. There's the almost extinct plantation type accent ( the stereotypical non-rhotic southern accent ), the accents of the greater New Orleans area (which are more realistic and current non-rhotic ), Cajun accents (often non-rhotic and fairly " black " sounding ), several Apalachian accents (your standard rhotic "hillbilly " talk ), Texan accents, etc.
Geek In utopia oh I need to google this plantation accent now. I’m English too and absolutely love southern accents! Wish I had one.
@@kellyoleary4156 If you listen to older people in the Mississippi Delta, this is how they sound. I think it's beautiful but it is dying out with the new generation.
As a southerner plz don't listen to the guy in this video. I'm from East Tennessee and this guy is teaching ppl a generic Hollywood southern accent. No one in Tennessee Georgia or Alabama speaks as this guy claimed. Every state has it's on accent and we can tell them apart. Unlike what this guy said we would be able to tell you was faking it if you took direction from him.
Kelly O'Leary you don’t want the cousin lover jokes that come with it
I haven't laughed so hard in a long time! I,ve got tears! Bless your heart! I didn't know how I talk was so complicated. That is so funny.
Slowmodem1 Checks our. Bless your heart. From the south for sure this one. Haha
@@thisguy7392 The people I hear that say it the most are middle aged women or grandmas lol
I grew up in southeastern Texas and I don’t have a noticeable accent but I can impersonate various regional southern accents, although I ain’t an expert on the specific patterns and where they originate from.
I’ve always have a country accent but when I got a book that said, “he said in his normal southern accent”, but I never realized I had a southern accent lol 😂
I agree with this ,but don’t draw it out so much. I’m from Alabama, and most of this is on point, but people don’t let it go that long. 🤣
Did you know you wrote this comment 2 times?
No, but thank you? 🤷🏻♀️
Is it true in Alabama one can legally marry their cousins.. Sorry m not American but I hv seen too many memes
Sangita Das Yes, but so can 20 other states, including California and New York
@@chloenoelle94 😬
I’m from kentucky and I’ve been to Georgia and Tennessee many times and this sounds nothing like how they talk😂
Yeah this is bad.
I came here for a stereotypical accent and I got exactly what I wanted. As a Texan can confirm I enjoyed the vid
Thanks for this video! I’m southern, and I never usually speak in that accent since I’m also half British! I speak in my British accent more than I talk in my southern one!
Bro this has already helped me and I’ve only watch 4 min of the video! I booked a role that requires a southern accent and this is going to help me so much! Thanks bro 🙌🏾💯🫡
this is like the coolest accent ever...
Damn skippy🤠
it’s fake as fuck if you want to learn how to really do one i suggest watching documentaries where people in the south converse in their natural dialect. Much better source (primary), you get a nice understanding of the different words they use. Videos like this are basically a copy of a copy of a copy and the quality degrades with each step until you get this, which is completely different from any southern accent I’ve ever heard and sounds totally hammy and fake.
as a native, yes
@@anha9360 Have any references, then?
What the hell is happening here? I’m from Texas, relatives in Tennessee, and I live in North Carolina. Unless you’re going for a part in gone with the wind, we don’t sound like this. If you want this accent down, focus on phrases and slang, not this.
4444444е We don’t.
@4444444е No, we don't. This is a planar class accent that died out over 100 years ago.
Here in Florida is the same way. Well... Florida is broken into sections. You have the south Florida Hispanic style. Central Florida is a bunch of damn Yankees who have zero southern accent. And then you have north Florida. Where Jacksonville, Gainesville, and Tallahassee mingle into a Georgia sounding accent. Im in the panhandle. So over here in PCB, Pensacola, Madison area... we mingle with the Alabama accent. As soon as he said “Hay-uv some cay-uck.” I was like, this dude has no clue what he’s talking about. You can EASILY spot someone who is faking the accent.
Kay Ray Spotting fake accents hurts my soul
Just No nothing worse than having a conversation with someone and start changing their accent to sound like you. Like... no, stop that. You’re from Ohio. Cut it out.
Seeing this video shows me that I don’t have much of a southern accent and I was born and raised in Alabama but some things I do sound southern when saying
This was better than I expected. FYI -- in North Carolina, other state, and some metro areas, speed is much faster. One of the hardest thing, for me as a southerner is to pronouce Rs in some instances. Instead of Charlotte. I say Cha-lotte. I drop the R. It sucks, particuarly on the phone.
I have been born and raised down here in the boondocks of Alabama 🤠
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Me not hearing my southern accent like “I sound like that” 👁👄👁
🤣🤣😂Same
@@princessjasmin4218 lol
Rightt
I am the same boat XD
Yup.
Oh I like this. I have an inquiry as a voice artist for this accent and I've never been trained to do it. I might not take it on, but, I found a neat channel to subscribe to in the process!
The t’s to d’s are a midwestern thing as well, but we also make it completely silent, while still being able to make the two syllables be separated
The southern drawl takes so much more effort to pronounce words, yet when I hear it its smooth as honey... how?!
If you grew up in a household with southern parents it’d probably be easy as hell for you too.
This channel has helped me so much, just a couple weeks ago I was doing Matilda the musical and without this channel I wouldn’t have been able to get a British accent now I’m doing Steel Magnolias and since I’m from Texas I already have a light accent but this video helped so much!!
The actors in the movie steel magnolias had the most realistic southern accents- wathc the movie and drow inspriation form those ladies. They are all distinct in the flow and character of the speach.
I give this man credit, I am southern and this does sound pretty accurate of how southern people sound. There are people who have more of a southern accent then others. We also like to take out 'g' in words like Huntin' , Goin', Fishin'. Its actually kinda funny to talk to someone who isn't southern lol. People find our accents funny and I do to lol
Now ion talk like that 🤣 I’m from Mississippi & literally nobody pronounce words that way 🤣
All my family got a southern accent and I don't so I wanna have one smfh
Do u look or sound like one of your uncle or mail man from long time ago?
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I intentionally choose to not speak that way but I can exaggerate it if I choose to.
My family has a southern accent but I don’t becauSe I don’t want one 😂
@@actionmonkey8938 why don't you want the best accent to have? It's a unique thing and while it has some drawbacks, it's something that lets you go a real small town and fit in. I grew up in a small town in NC and I stopped to get gas when I was coming back from vacation this summer. I was gonna just pass through, but I decided I'd fill up since there was a station on the main road. Seeing as how I already have the accent, I understood the cashier and she understood me just fine. What gave away the fact that I wasn't from there was that I had a time figuring out how to operate the pump.
There's actually many southern accents. We have the hillbilly type accents which can be so thick you need a chainsaw to cut them, the non-rhotic accents of the tidewater region of Virginia, the New Orleans accents most which are non-rhotic and like a cross between the traditional southern accents and NYC ones, the general southern accents which tend to be rhotic or semi-rhotic, etc.
Im from the mountains in Virginia, so I have an Appalachian-Southern mix
I will be the first to admit (GA Born and Raised) that I can't tell the freakin difference in southern accents. My boyfriend claims he can..but i've caught him slipping. He's told me before "Oh yeah that's a TN accent" and I'm like "Nope...this person is from NC".
My fav southern accent is how Britney Spears USED to sound (cause she sounds different now. Why? I dunno...but she does). And I used to think that is how someone from Louisiana talked. Then I discovered the Cajun accent and was like whoa...this isn't what I thought a Louisiana accent was..they sound weird. No offense..just what i thought at the time.
Thanks for these videos man. I'm tryna up my prank calling game.
I’m a Texan and always thought I never had an accent at all until I went to Philadelphia on business and EVERYONE I encountered asked immediately upon hearing me open my mouth, “Oh you’re from Texas?!” 😂
I'm from South Carolina and I don't really have an accent until I start talking fast
Same here
Same here but also when I’m mad or upset
me too
Me too or get mad lol or I think we just dont hear it.
Kaliesha Vargas yea we probs jus don’t notice it.
I've always said that a Southern Drawl is slow and melodic, curly even, putting stress on certain syllables in words with more than one. The most important thing I can think of to add to this is that sometimes, particularly if a word doesn't put too much stress on the "T" or "L" in the middle of it, you can skip it.
Compare and Contrast:
"I've [awe]ways [say]-ed that uh Southern Drawl is slow and melodic, curl[eyh] even, pudin stress on cer-[en] syllables in words with more than one. The most impor[ant] thing I ca[uh]n think of to add to this is that sometimes, parTicularly if a word don't put too much stress on the "L" or "T" in the middle of it, you ca[uh]n skip it.
I may not be southern, but both my grandparents are on my dads side, and i even do some of these. Southern accent really sticks haha
Thank you this rlly helped as I’m auditioning for a character with this accent tonight I’ve wrote it all done thank u
I was stationed in the south for a few years and I picked it up easily and it's strange how very quickly we start speaking like those around us. However, only up in the hill regions to people speak that strong of an accent. So, done exaggerate it so much. I play around with new people I meet and it's fun with the ladies. I still use the d's instead of the Ts......like little becoming liddle. Even up here in Oregon we tend to have a slight southern accent.
I got a roll that has a southern accent and my siblings say that mine really sucks and I'm preforming on the 2nd next month so this really helped! thank you!
Glad to help!!
There is no “Southern” accent. They’re regional. I’m from the foothills of SW Virginia, was raised in half-suburban-half-country North Carolina, and speak differently than someone from a holler in West Virginia or a pecan farmer in Georgia
lol. I'm from Kentucky and this feller really had me tickled. I'd say he's pretty spot on.
Swede here, fluent in English due to school and Hollywood movies. But I find Southern accents and Australian accents by far the hardest to replicate, which sucks because they are by far my favorite accents :D They are pretty much the opposite of Swedish, which creates such a struggle. I can with ease replicate several British accents convincingly, but American and Aussie are so tough :E
Oh, I so wish I could! Love me some Southern accents :D
Any American accent is much easier than the British to foreign people like myself
You can do it! As a southerner, all respect to you because swedish is tough and doesn't make sense to me. What I mean by that is y'all don't pronounce things the way they're spelled. Just like how the French ignore the last 4 letters of some words and then pronounce them on others.
Anyway, I don't recommend this video as a modern representation of the majority of the southern accent. I'd listen to actual Southerners to get the accent right. Accents from North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Georgia, and Alabama can give you the best idea of how to pronounce things if you wanna replicate it really well.
The funny thing is, im a Southerner trying to learn Swedish and I cant peg yalls accent for nothing
Nice video! As someone from the south living in NYC, the one thing people still call me out on is changing the "e" sounds in words to "i" sounds. For example, saying words like pen, ten, Ben, etc. With a southern accent, those words could sound like pin, tin, and bin. I never had much of an accent to begin with. I speak "proper" haha but I used to work in the fashion district, and my coworkers would always get confused whenever I asked for a pen. They always thought I was asking for a safety pin :D
I wonder how you ask for a pin. would you say pin or pen?
I'm from the south but my accent is not at all southern so this has assisted me in becoming one with Carolina
When I was 18 I was in a bar one night. Somebody I was talking to in the bar had a southern accent. After 3 hours, I started taling with a accent😊.
Another sound change relevant to doing some southern accents the non-rhotic R, which is where the r sound isn't pronounced much if there's no vowel sounds after. For example, you'd say ' car ' as '' cah' ' clearly ' as ' cleyuhly \ cleahly ' ' their\ they're ' as ' theuh\ theyuh ' or ' deuh \dayuh ' ' more ' as ' moouh ' or ' moe ' ' Carter ' as ' cahtuh ' etc. In other words, the r sound is practically non-existant unless a vowel sound directly follows, or it's in a word like ' nurse ' ' work, ' and ' girl '. The accents of the tidewater region of Virginia, as well as most of Louisiana tend to be non-rhotic.
Non-rhotic southern accents ah chahmin!
As an actress having to use this for a western musical “troubles a brewin’”
I needed this for my up coming musical
Im from Alabama but this is kinda close but we’re getting to the part where we barely use the accent but we still use it sometimes
I'm from West Texas and I never thought I had an accent till I moved to SoCal and people asked me where I'm from cause I clearly didn't sound like I was from SoCal haha
As someone that isn't a native English speaker, I'm fascinated to the southern accents. I've mastered the generalized accent, and cannot be distinguished from a native speaker, still I find that the southern accent is to hard to pull off. Any suggestions or tips on how to sound more "southern"?
Владимир Савић I don’t know what is with the whole super drawn out thing, now a-days (at least in Atlanta/Georgia) it’s decently fast. Also it’s almost all about word choice, use a bunch of idioms. And the word y’all is always good. The accent itself is more British or Irish depending on the area than any other American accent and it has many of the same word structures the biggest difference is the colloquiums.
Honestly study actual speakers of the language. If you want a good example, Mathew McConaughey has one of the most beautiful Texas accents I’ve ever heard. He has a lot of speeches and interviews and he speaks with an authentic accent. Instantly recognizable as a Texan.
Otherwise my suggestion is to look up famous country singers. All their accents are authentic and there is many interviews. Just remember Southern accents are regional so it’d be better to choose a specific state and learn those artists and actors versus picking a bunch of different Southerners.
Pick a famous Country singer and learn their accent through their songs and speeches. They have very, very pronounced accents. Emphasize that accent, then relax it. When learning an accent it’s important to realize people don’t emphasize their speech patterns when talking naturally.
My last suggestion is to know what your vocal range is and choose a mentor who has a similar range. Figure out if your voice naturally leans more towards a drawl or a twang and choose someone similar.
I don't think it's a good idea to try and change your accent. I don't got a southern accent and won't try to fake it. I'll keep what I got.
Listen to country music..... lol.
My comment gives a good start 😊
Thank you! You did such a great job explaining the American Southern Accent! :) Do you ever do private lessons!
Is it just me but as soon as I hear someone in a movie or IRL with a southern or British accent I can't stop trying to be with that accent for the rest of the day.
“Hello preacher you got time for a sinner”
'Scuse me preacher, you got time sinner?
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