I think a really interesting video idea for someone as talented as yourself might be to take video clips from your followers and break down their accents, figure out what influences they have in their voice. missed this live but good to see peoples thoughts on your previous vid.
I love audiobooks but the narration is everything. I will “return” a library audiobook within a few minutes if…the narration is going to be a problem. Agree you should do. Mesmerized by your videos, am an American not an actor, love sharing these with my friend who is a nonnative English speaker. I notice people often refer to that Minnesota/Wisconsin accent as midwestern. Grew up in Iowa and Missouri, didn’t have that quality but can’t remember what it sounds like :) I know I still struggle not to put an r in wash, but mine now is probably California accent otherwise. Thanks, love your channel.
Such an affectionate soul, even if you were a fraction as physically attractive and your accent were among the ones I detest the most, you'd still be a keeper. 🥰
The best thing about Amy (and really there are millions of things) is that she loves to analyse highly subjective matters with the most intricate technical detail. She smart!
Good analysis of the results from the survey on the last video. The accents are always fascinating and you are so good at them. That's interesting how you incorporate the different voice inflections for your characters. I bet you are going to be awesome in the new musical!
Jeremy Irons is absolutely beautiful as far as voice is concerned. It was the name that came to mind when you read out the question. My daughters used to watch The Lion King and many other Disney movies in English when they were growing up.
If you Google the phrase "how accents affect our attractiveness" you will find a few interesting articles on this subject. I have a fun idea for a video, but I think you would do the video better than I would. Have an eclectic group of people speak various accents, while a panel of people rates them on attractiveness. However, the catch is that the people speaking will be hidden, so the panel will only be able to rate their accents based on their voices! When I was studying psychology and mathematics in college, one of my part-time jobs was a telemarketing position. I remember how amazing it was that I could not judge what a person looked like based on that person's voice. It was really interesting.
Really interesting - thanks Amy. At times in this video you seemed like the actor Gillian Anderson - who seems to switch from standard American to RP based on which country she is in at that moment.
Hello Professor Your courses are excelent and very interesting, i really appreciate your job. I wish you peace and happness under the sky of prosperity. All the best. Take care and have a good time.
hands down favorite accent is the yorkshire (I know there are tons but hull for instance) accent. Nothing more attractive to me than the endearment love.
I noticed people doing the question ?especially when spelling their name while on the phone. My father yelled at me when I started mimicking my NC friends. Said it sounded, unintelligent. I was partial to NC boys accents.
Hey, Ames, I'm sorry I kept asking you to do accents during the livestream. I didn't realize you didn't like that. I won't do it anymore. Love and vibes to you.❤💞💓
As a British person your American accent sounds like an ‘intelligent well educated american’ to me. Of course that’s a very generalised comment but you can tell what is considered a more ‘posh’ American accent and a slightly more ‘common’ American accent. I have a southern uk accent which is basically the British accent you did, however there are a mix of different levels of ‘poshness’ within the south here, is it the same for American accents?
Sarah yes it is, though we have a stereotype for each accent. Both positive and negative. For example where I am from we see Louisiana and Utah and Minnesota accents as less intelligent, but they are fun and friendly.
Sarah poshness is generally associated with class. Americans don’t really have very different accents based on class. Sometimes certain accents may seem more or less educated. It really depends. It’s definitely not as present (or really even cared about) in the culture as it is with the UK.
If I were to send you a clip of my late husband reading Wordsworth poetry, do you think you could give me an indication of where his accent comes from? I know where he was raised and where he spend his younger years, which might help you. He lived in Southend on sea and London most of those years.
I grew up in Nebraska and lived in Georgia for a while. People thought I was rude at first because the way my words clipped compared to theirs lol, and I talked so much faster than them so they always assumed I was in a hurry lol.
Voices: I like listening to Jeremy Brett, Alan Rickman, Jeremy Irons, Shohreh Aghdashloo (The Expanse - the best voice on Earth), Richard Dormer (GoT), Michael Sheen (Good Omens), Whoopie Goldberg Kyra Sedgwick on The Closer - did she sound correct? I can't tell.
Hi Amy! Its been a while since I check in on you and your channel! I love love love what you do because I have always been interested in these things! I watched the Story of English when I was a teenager and got the BBC book that came out way back with the documentary series. Have you seen that? Just curious! THere was a segment if I recal correctly after so many years about an experiment where they had children with a variety of English accents reading the same script and then they were basically judged on intelligence via their accent. The RP or posh accent always was pegged as the most intelligent even though the content was identical to the little kids with a regional accent. Ahhh that made an impression on me. So unfair! And yet there is an aesthetic at work in all things! Combined with cultural programming we are basically taught to think one thing is 'better" no? I am from Florida with one English (Cheshire) and one American (Tennessee) parent. I studied French intensively in secondary school after a childhood spent in Fla. and Puerto Rico. My husband is of Jamaican origin but sounds American and we met in university in Scotland where he studied Arabic! Its pretty fun swimming in all this linguistic variety. Scottish is our favourite to try and emulate!!! Ha ha! And by the way your Southern is just PRECIOUS!!!!! Uhhhh I love it!!! I live in Washington DC for the last 12 yrs also hearing that southern is just luscious. The Midwest one is hysterical. It always takes me a sec when I meet someone from the midwest. Ha ha! Dirty south!! Atlanta! Georgia?? How about Black Englishes - there are lots no? I am surrounded by Aussies right now so LOVING learning so many fabulous expressions! Like "rock up" and "your're a legend" etc. OK thanks for being a kindred spirit! Come see us In Washington DC anytime! Aimee xo www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/24/vocal-fry-strong-female-voice
so i just started getting into acting, and i was going to start practicing accents. so i was wondering being able to do any voice you could ever need/want how do you keep from losing your voice? or is there just a natural feeling you cant lose?
I lived in the uk from 0-10 and moved to Florida 10-17 as have half my family there but I choose to move back to the uk to Cornwall where I’m from and 10 years later I lost the American accent I picked up now most people o meet and talk to think I’m Australian lol which I can only put down to the fact that both places I lived both in the south have a much more laid back outlook on life I would love to know the real reason if you would take my comment into consideration to expand apon why this is
Amy, come on. You know that you are 100% drop-dead, no matter which accent or voice you have. You are just stunning. Clap for your parents for passing on those genes.
I'm very curious to know why so many Americans speak with a thin croaky vocal fry voice? I've attempted to do this and always end up with sore and weakened vocal cords in seconds, even when done very lightly without forcing it.
EgoShredder Even as an American I am not sure why many of us do that. As a musician attending college for theater, I have even learned there and in choir that is does damage to the vocal chords. I have yet to learn why we speak like this.
Thanks for the good responses because I was not out to offend, just genuinely interested. I'm 46 and have only started to notice this in recent years, and it now seems to be affecting younger generations in England (UK).
Strange thing saying “litch-rully” and “Milah-tree” like Brit is easy for me but saying those words with my native Midwest accent I slur like a drunk. Lol weird.
There's definitely a connection between accent and how a person is. A posh English accent comes off as repressed, distant, inhibited and a bit cold which also reflects most British people. The British seem repressed, emotionally detached and inhibited.
the wonderful Brummie soccer player Karen Carney has recently been mega criticised on social media in the UK as a TV pundit...comments about her voice.... very annoying. she s great.
@@Fontsman I have never heard of those. The problem is that I’ve tried to stop it, but everyone I know talks like that so I unconsciously speak to them in valleyspeak.
Love your videos, but why oh why are you using the word "vibes" all the time?! :) Only half-joking.. accents and specific subcultural vocabularies produce this wonderful interplay, eh? :) And I guess "vibes" belongs to the one I have some issues with? :)
I think a really interesting video idea for someone as talented as yourself might be to take video clips from your followers and break down their accents, figure out what influences they have in their voice.
missed this live but good to see peoples thoughts on your previous vid.
I love it when you laugh (very contagious), I'm sure it can light up a room.
Amy really projects a pleasant personality, and is easy on the eyes.
Have you ever considered book narration? I listen to audiobooks in the car and I would love to hear you narrate something.
if she did, I would listen to way more audiobooks! XD
I love audiobooks but the narration is everything. I will “return” a library audiobook within a few minutes if…the narration is going to be a problem. Agree you should do. Mesmerized by your videos, am an American not an actor, love sharing these with my friend who is a nonnative English speaker. I notice people often refer to that Minnesota/Wisconsin accent as midwestern. Grew up in Iowa and Missouri, didn’t have that quality but can’t remember what it sounds like :) I know I still struggle not to put an r in wash, but mine now is probably California accent otherwise. Thanks, love your channel.
Such an affectionate soul, even if you were a fraction as physically attractive and your accent were among the ones I detest the most, you'd still be a keeper. 🥰
The best thing about Amy (and really there are millions of things) is that she loves to analyse highly subjective matters with the most intricate technical detail. She smart!
Oh, my golly! "En-um" @ 8:38 is spot. on. Worked w a lady from Iowa who said it all the time & I think "en-um" is about the cutest filler sound ever.
I love how a psychology class wanted to take on a more sociolinguistic study. I wish there was more of that!
I agree, much love to that kind of thing
Good analysis of the results from the survey on the last video. The accents are always fascinating and you are so good at them. That's interesting how you incorporate the different voice inflections for your characters. I bet you are going to be awesome in the new musical!
Haven't seen you in years. More beautiful and personable than ever. Wow.
Stumbled across this and instantly remembered your name/face/voice from watching ‘21 accents’ 13 years ago.
Jeremy Irons is absolutely beautiful as far as voice is concerned. It was the name that came to mind when you read out the question. My daughters used to watch The Lion King and many other Disney movies in English when they were growing up.
I never knew before I saw your videos how fascinating accents are! Lots of love from Ange in Australia. Xx
If you Google the phrase "how accents affect our attractiveness" you will find a few interesting articles on this subject. I have a fun idea for a video, but I think you would do the video better than I would. Have an eclectic group of people speak various accents, while a panel of people rates them on attractiveness. However, the catch is that the people speaking will be hidden, so the panel will only be able to rate their accents based on their voices! When I was studying psychology and mathematics in college, one of my part-time jobs was a telemarketing position. I remember how amazing it was that I could not judge what a person looked like based on that person's voice. It was really interesting.
Jeremy Brett's voice (Sherlock Holmes). I love. He was taught by Lawrence Olivier.
This is so interesting. I would love to see you explore UK accents; we have a whole host of regional accents!
I can't stand British accents except in science fiction movies where aliens have that accent, or in movies.
If I didn't have an Irish accent I'd still be a virgin.
Thanks for the videos you do!
I just love you Amy, you make my day 😍😍 . Your personality is so lovely 😊 . Always be you 😘
Amy I ❤ your laugh, its so dang adorable. You ARE Amy-zing!!! 💙💕💚💛💜
Wow its so true maybe you’re tips will go to change my life
You deserve more views!
Please work for Audible.
Really interesting - thanks Amy. At times in this video you seemed like the actor Gillian Anderson - who seems to switch from standard American to RP based on which country she is in at that moment.
Hello Professor
Your courses are excelent and very interesting, i really appreciate your job.
I wish you peace and happness under the sky of prosperity. All the best. Take care and have a good time.
hands down favorite accent is the yorkshire (I know there are tons but hull for instance) accent. Nothing more attractive to me than the endearment love.
My favourite accents are Boston, Southern and Manchester.
Amy,what is your all-time favorite accent to work with or portray when you are acting?
I noticed people doing the question ?especially when spelling their name while on the phone. My father yelled at me when I started mimicking my NC friends. Said it sounded, unintelligent. I was partial to NC boys accents.
Hey, Ames, I'm sorry I kept asking you to do accents during the livestream. I didn't realize you didn't like that. I won't do it anymore. Love and vibes to you.❤💞💓
The British accent here sounds like Fiona Bruce (A tv news journalist here in the UK) Fabulous info
You're my hero
i love british RP i think it’s so attractive. i’m american with a neutral midwest standard accent.
G’day Amy. Love your aussie accent - spoddon. Have you done Swedish at all?
You're amazing😁
I'm curious about what other English accents you can do. Midlands? Birmingham? Northern? Grimsby? Yorkshire? If so, love to hear them as a new sub!
As a British person your American accent sounds like an ‘intelligent well educated american’ to me. Of course that’s a very generalised comment but you can tell what is considered a more ‘posh’ American accent and a slightly more ‘common’ American accent.
I have a southern uk accent which is basically the British accent you did, however there are a mix of different levels of ‘poshness’ within the south here, is it the same for American accents?
I would say it is the same way in the south here :)
Sarah yes it is, though we have a stereotype for each accent. Both positive and negative. For example where I am from we see Louisiana and Utah and Minnesota accents as less intelligent, but they are fun and friendly.
Sarah poshness is generally associated with class. Americans don’t really have very different accents based on class. Sometimes certain accents may seem more or less educated. It really depends. It’s definitely not as present (or really even cared about) in the culture as it is with the UK.
If I were to send you a clip of my late husband reading Wordsworth poetry, do you think you could give me an indication of where his accent comes from? I know where he was raised and where he spend his younger years, which might help you. He lived in Southend on sea and London most of those years.
Have you demonstrated the "Hill Billy", Appalachian, regional southern accent or "R" turn downs, ex.. yeller, bananer...
Australian is the most premo accent. As an Aussie I'm totally not biased.... but it is
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I grew up in Nebraska and lived in Georgia for a while. People thought I was rude at first because the way my words clipped compared to theirs lol, and I talked so much faster than them so they always assumed I was in a hurry lol.
Voices: I like listening to Jeremy Brett, Alan Rickman, Jeremy Irons, Shohreh Aghdashloo (The Expanse - the best voice on Earth), Richard Dormer (GoT), Michael Sheen (Good Omens), Whoopie Goldberg Kyra Sedgwick on The Closer - did she sound correct? I can't tell.
Hi Amy! Its been a while since I check in on you and your channel! I love love love what you do because I have always been interested in these things! I watched the Story of English when I was a teenager and got the BBC book that came out way back with the documentary series. Have you seen that? Just curious! THere was a segment if I recal correctly after so many years about an experiment where they had children with a variety of English accents reading the same script and then they were basically judged on intelligence via their accent. The RP or posh accent always was pegged as the most intelligent even though the content was identical to the little kids with a regional accent. Ahhh that made an impression on me. So unfair! And yet there is an aesthetic at work in all things! Combined with cultural programming we are basically taught to think one thing is 'better" no?
I am from Florida with one English (Cheshire) and one American (Tennessee) parent. I studied French intensively in secondary school after a childhood spent in Fla. and Puerto Rico. My husband is of Jamaican origin but sounds American and we met in university in Scotland where he studied Arabic! Its pretty fun swimming in all this linguistic variety. Scottish is our favourite to try and emulate!!! Ha ha!
And by the way your Southern is just PRECIOUS!!!!! Uhhhh I love it!!! I live in Washington DC for the last 12 yrs also hearing that southern is just luscious. The Midwest one is hysterical. It always takes me a sec when I meet someone from the midwest. Ha ha!
Dirty south!! Atlanta! Georgia?? How about Black Englishes - there are lots no?
I am surrounded by Aussies right now so LOVING learning so many fabulous expressions! Like "rock up" and "your're a legend" etc.
OK thanks for being a kindred spirit! Come see us In Washington DC anytime! Aimee xo
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/24/vocal-fry-strong-female-voice
Can you do a New Orleans accent?
so i just started getting into acting, and i was going to start practicing accents. so i was wondering being able to do any voice you could ever need/want how do you keep from losing your voice? or is there just a natural feeling you cant lose?
Your relationship with British accents is the same as mine 😂
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I lived in the uk from 0-10 and moved to Florida 10-17 as have half my family there but I choose to move back to the uk to Cornwall where I’m from and 10 years later I lost the American accent I picked up now most people o meet and talk to think I’m Australian lol which I can only put down to the fact that both places I lived both in the south have a much more laid back outlook on life I would love to know the real reason if you would take my comment into consideration to expand apon why this is
I sense something wrong has happened but unsure if that is true or no and I do not know how to express and if I should express or no
My aunt from nc turns all words into multisyllable words. like well is Weeeeaaaayyyylll lol
Amy, come on.
You know that you are 100% drop-dead, no matter which accent or voice you have.
You are just stunning.
Clap for your parents for passing on those genes.
I'm very curious to know why so many Americans speak with a thin croaky vocal fry voice? I've attempted to do this and always end up with sore and weakened vocal cords in seconds, even when done very lightly without forcing it.
EgoShredder Even as an American I am not sure why many of us do that. As a musician attending college for theater, I have even learned there and in choir that is does damage to the vocal chords. I have yet to learn why we speak like this.
Yeah even Phonology teachers told us to lower our regular tone. English makes tone vary so much unlike French.
Thanks for the good responses because I was not out to offend, just genuinely interested. I'm 46 and have only started to notice this in recent years, and it now seems to be affecting younger generations in England (UK).
Thin croaky fry? Can you give an example?
I want to learn the preppy southern accent from Charleston
Strange thing saying “litch-rully” and “Milah-tree” like Brit is easy for me but saying those words with my native Midwest accent I slur like a drunk. Lol weird.
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There's definitely a connection between accent and how a person is. A posh English accent comes off as repressed, distant, inhibited and a bit cold which also reflects most British people. The British seem repressed, emotionally detached and inhibited.
Check out Fatih Goldy, a Canadian lady running for mayor of Toronto - She has an accent you positively must listen to.
Minnesota accent sounds like Canadian accent to me as a Brit
4:10 opposite of up-speak argument, no? Which was said, “correctly?” Pun dryly intended.
audio is way to low on this video. How has no one else commented on this yet?
How does a Bostonian accent factor into this conversation? (asking for a friend lol)
I love me a Bostonian accent.
Great topic. If you have a thick accent you are screwed.
the wonderful Brummie soccer player Karen Carney has recently been mega criticised on social media in the UK as a TV pundit...comments about her voice.... very annoying. she s great.
I would like to talk to you when you come in live.
Eu sou brasileiro e gostiria de falar ao vivo pra ver si saio vivo
Hawaiian pidgen is fascinating.
To be honest you've got the kind of accent I wish I had. But my French accent still dominates 😭
English accents are not attractive to me. Southern U.S. ones are and German ones are.
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What about the Californian tendency to use the word 'like' as a bridge to every sentence. This has become prevelant worldwide and is highly annoying!
Like, yeah! You’re like, totally right!
@@elainebenez1069 Great minds that think a like.
@@Fontsman In all honesty, I unironically speak like a valley girl and it annoys me. But I can’t stop it.
@@elainebenez1069 I've heard about various deprogramming courses over in the States.
@@Fontsman I have never heard of those. The problem is that I’ve tried to stop it, but everyone I know talks like that so I unconsciously speak to them in valleyspeak.
Love your videos, but why oh why are you using the word "vibes" all the time?! :) Only half-joking.. accents and specific subcultural vocabularies produce this wonderful interplay, eh? :) And I guess "vibes" belongs to the one I have some issues with? :)