Transatlantic/ Mid-Atlantic Accent Tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- The rolling R part is wrong btw
Quick basics of the transatlantic accent. I only started learning a couple of days ago, so it's definitely not perfect yet, but I really wanted to share the general concepts :) (so the rolling r is apparently RP English and not Transatlantic)
I found this video very helpful too:
• Audiobook Narrator Mat...
And this is the j-Glide one, that I meantioned:
• The Mid-Atlantic Accen...
If you have questions message me on Instagram @vlikevanilla or post a comment!
thank you so much for this video!
here are the timestamps if u want to practice: (be relaxed!)
consonants:
0:47 - drop the R (if the british accent doesn't pronounce the R's, don't)
1:14 - roll the R if u wanna spice things up!
1:34 - over enunciate your T's and L's (talk like a stage actor)
2:02 - the shh noise
vowels:
2:22 - the j glide
2:51 - have a really clean "u" sound
3:24 - a reminder to not go over the top
3:58 - go watch a movie and try to repeat what they said over and over until you get the hang of it
4:54 - more infos abt the j glide
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I think all of gen z should adopt this accent
I WAS JUST GONNA SAY THAT, I swear we oughta do that, it’s so beautiful
And I’m sure as hell going to!!
IM DOING IT!
Doing this right now. This needs to be a thing
YES
When she said that English wasn't her native language I felt really dumb, because English is my native language and she sounds way more eloquent than I do.
nothing wrong with feeling dumb, we're all trying to learn and get better haha
@@vlikevanilla Indubitably, my dolling. (Said in Transatlantic accent)
Ahahahaha i know right?
It’s the accent!!!!!
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I've wanted to find something like this because transatlantic is so elegant in my opinion so thank you for this.
my pleasure! it was the same for me so I just wanted to put what I found out out there 😊
God bless
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Right? It sounds so ridiculously extravagant in a fun way.
your welcome glad u enjoy it
can we all start talking like the please
Ik i am
YES PLEASE
I’m down
I am
Count me in!!!
I knew a guy in college who actually had this accent. So, just know that, somewhere out there, there is a millennial with this accent.
This makes me happy
How do you reckon he picked up this accent? Im intrigued
@@BluesGetOrigin not sure, he was from New Jersey. Also a fan of old fashioned things, so maybe from old movies? I don’t remember if I asked.
Hahahahaha good to know thank you! I’m a millennial too
“Ordinary sausage” has the strong accent He doesn’t look too old.
"English isn't my native language"
girl english IS my native language and I'm pretty sure you're better at it than me
Hahaha being pedantic af is both a blessing and a curse
@@vlikevanilla Yeah, I know what it's like to be that guy at the party. "No, earth is technically an oblate spheroid!"
you're so soft-spoken i want a tutorial on that
get annoyed when you raise your voice because then you get too aware of hearing yourself talk 😅 end of tutorial^^
@@vlikevanilla said very, very well. I couldn't have said that better if I tried. 😫😂
Now I need a video of how to get over the fear of speaking in transatlantic accent in public!
Yeah and soon enough it’ll be not ironic
@@shitlollipops90 every time every goddamn time
@@bostongoats1784 on godddd every damn time
I always used to say bruh ironically now It’s just apart of my vocabulary 😑
Just drop it at random and see what happens. 😂
Thank God i live in Indonesia so my family, friends, and people don't even care about that.
Sylvia Plath has a beautiful transatlantic accent. She's actually the reason I want to learn this accent. She's very eloquent and I recommend listening to her poetry.
She killed herself. Don't emulate her.
@@lindamariacarrillo1697 bruh
@Eftime Maria this is a good idea. Lady Lazarus is one of my favorite poems by her and I memorized the audio clip of her reciting the poem so sometimes I mimic her accent when I think of the poem.
???? what
@@lindamariacarrillo1697 “She struggled w/ mental health issues. Don’t see her as anything but a bad influence b/c she had hardships.”
The transatlantic accent sounds like a mix of New England, Smooth Southern, and British.
wow
British isnt an accent tho
@@fpa417 source?
That’s on purpose. It was made to be consumable for American and British movie watchers.
@@shawnv123 Britain is made up of 4 different countries.
You are a literal lifesaver. I'm a dungeon master who needs to tuck away a few accents for gameplay, and this is exactly what I needed
oh that's awesome!
What does a dungeon master do?
solitairedoll They are probably referring to a Dungeon and Dragons Dungeon Master. Dungeon Masters (or DM’s for short) are in charge of campaigns and will usually speak for NPC’s and narrate. They decide the boundary of rules and plan out maps as well. Hope this helped you
I’m learning this for my character right now!
@@katelynnjoyner7131 Im writing a book and in the story, the character enters a realm and they all talk transatlantic
Tips/summary of the Transatlantic accent:
•relaxed oral posture. Nasally vocal pronounciation
•’drop’ the r at the end of words (like a British accent)
•roll the ‘r’ in some words
•over enunciate the ‘t’s’ “
•‘sh’ should be quieted down
•over enunciate most words with ‘u’ like ‘ooo’
•don’t be over the top with the vowels
A lot of the actors from the 40's to about the early 80's spoke like that. On TV and movies. I never knew if they were American or British. Kind of in-between accents. The "r" sound is almost like a half British and American sounding hard "r" in words. Simply mah-r-velous for example. Or, "Never feah-r. The hard "r" is very subtle. If you want to learn this unique way of talking, watch old original Star Trek series or old American TV series. You will find a lot of the actors talk like that. Especially the female actors. This accent is quite often called the: Mid Atlantic accent. A good video. Thank you. Cheers!!
Some people today have this accent. If you watch The Handmaid's Tale, the character Aunt Lydia has a mid-Atlantic accent but she actually pronounces her Rs. It's her actress Ann Dowd's native accent.
This accent is almost exactly like classic late 19th / early 20th century Posh UK accent, with only minor differences. It is completely false to say it's some half-way mixture between American and British speech, and the names "mid-atlantic" and "transatlantic" are modern fake terms not used at the time. It was called "Standard American" or "Eastern Standard", as opposed to "General American / Western Standard", which is the modern American prestige accent. Though you seem to describe something rather different with that R-thing (more conservative GenAm?), as this is clearly a non-rhotic accent.
@@joonaa2751 There is a hard and resonant"r" in American speech. Listen to an American say "American" and any other English speaker saying the word -- even the word, "word".
@@davidjadunath1262 I was talking about the "Transatlantic" / Eastern Standard accent. It is NON-RHOTIC. Meaning any r-sound preceding a consonant is silent.
sounds kinda like a posh australian accent, im australian and we do most of these things anyway
I would start talking like this, but everyone around me would be like “stop talking like that”
Ikr
Good! I wouldn’t stand listening to it if you paid me!
@@jeffreygao3956 uhh then why are you here
@@xcllyv wow
Get some better friends my dude, transatlantic is amazing
I'VE WANTED THIS ACCENT FOREVER BUT IT'S SO HARD FOR ME ))):
You can do it! Practice makes progress 💪
The accent being difficult for me is the reason why I haven't grown bored of it yet lol
*Sees duck outside window* Me, an intellectual: G O O S E
I snorted at this comment lol
time to start sounding smarter cause i'm an absolute fool
about the German accent sounding French: that shouldn't happen because they are worlds apart 😄 now that makes me want to talk about the German accent ... Talking about something I actually know stuff about sound like fun^^
Greetings, I'm a 59 year old man and have been doing the accent for voice over work for a while, but your videos have helped me brush it up a bit. Thank you!
Ain't that great
I really like how up front you are about not being a professional about this. It makes the video that much more credible. I appreciate your honesty and I think you did a really great job with the accent. It seems like you put a lot of time into researching this and finding methods that personally suit you. This video was very helpful. Thank you for recognizing the lack of content in this subject and taking it upon yourself to change that. This video hasn't even been up for very long and it looks like it has helped so many people. Also, your vibe is superb.
I was surprised by all of the positive feedback and so happy that people actually found this video helpful 😊 I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Bruhh they actually teach the Atlantic accent at Mexican schools, weird but true
I thought they taught English in an English accent. Received pronunciation, not Mid-Atlantic?
They don't at all.
They do.
Fun fact when I went down south, (mexico, and peru) to visit family, the kids were watching peppa pig, and eventually I ended up showing them the English version. And my family thought it was the ugliest thing they've heard. And actually preferred my american english accent 😂
@@Saffron-sugar English in most places in the Americas is taught with an American accent. Actually, in most places outside of Europe, the American accent is taught, because the US makes more media and is bigger on an economic scale.
it almost feels like purring through every word and it scratches my brain purrfectly
The Mid-Atlantic accent also may have sounded clearer on the audio equipment of the day, which was really only responsive from 300-3000 Hz. Once audio fidelity improved up to LP record / FM radio standard (20-20,000 Hz. -ish) through the 1950s, that driver for maintaining the Mid-Atlantic accent in broadcast media was no longer as important.
You make it sound so effortless!!! 😩😭
it gets easier the more you do it 😊💪
This is video is giving me early RUclips aesthetic, and I have to live! Nothing fancy here, but that accent!
awh thank you so much 🥰 there won't be anything fancy in my next Videos either haha just practice
Wouldn't have known English wasn't your first language, and not only do you speak multiple languages but you're mastering different accents, wonderful! You're awesome. :)
Im struggling because i can do a British accent quite well so every time I try to do it it keeps going back to my British accent
I'll address the differences in the next video then, and explain how to stay in the accent :)
I totally forgot, by the time I made the video 🤦 that's ADD for you. try to focus on keeping the sounds in the front of your face, don't open your mouth to much and pull the corners of your mouth to the side to make it wide instead of just open. I usually use the "goose" and "eeh" (bad, had) sounds to pull myself back into the accent.
V Lubow thank you so much I appreciate it 😊
@@briannastopford1629 my pleasure 😊 I give some examples in the latest video but it's also just a lot of rambling 😅
"English isn't my native language"
Literally speaks two different versions of English that are better than mine.
Tip: Posh people say marvellous as two syllables. The middle schwa is not pronounced in careful speech.
I've just been trying to practice this while reading the comments out loud
bruh thats rly smart
This was what I exactly did a minute ago before I read your comment 😂
Pfft- same
You're a legend for this! Every so often I check to see if there's any new videos on the Transatlantic accent because, as you said, there aren't many resources online and I love this accent so much. From my understanding, this accent is pretty much a mix between a general American accent and RP. It sounds almost entirely British to me though.
I lived in the UK for several years and would put on a Trans-Atlantic accent to make people laugh. I played it as the Yank who wanted to be just like the Brits but couldn't get to their accent, so he met them halfway.
Your presentation is 'ameezing.' I've practiced the 'transatlantic' accent all my life. And often us it in day to day discourse in a humorous spin.
"I'm not a vocal coach." ....Um, yeah. You are. (using mid-atlantic accent) Quite good, in fact.
Haha thank you! What I meant was that I'm not a professional (as in, it's not my job) 😊
I fell in love with transatlantic accent after watching a lot of Cary Grant movies. You did an excellent job. Thank you
This is really great and informative, also your transatlantic accent is really good!
Thank you so much! I'm glad it was useful 😊
@@vlikevanilla You're very welcome! 😊
I found this really helpful for playing dungeons and dragons, thank you for the help!
you're the second person to comment that! I'm so happy this helps 😊😊😊
I love the fact that you are so authentic and dont have a bunch of editing to make your video better! I LOVE you and your videos raw and the way they are great job girly❤️❤️❤️
I love your video! Just stumbled across it and you make some really good points about the accent. I also enjoy your delivery in the sense of your down-to-earth honesty and almost awkwardness to the presentation, it's refreshing to see someone real in a world of overproduced and heavily edited RUclips videos. But unlike many amateur videos you actually sound like you know what you're talking about and have no issues delivering clear and cohesive ideas. I think with just a hair more confidence you can probably take your content to the next level, just keep up the good work!
I want to learn this so one day when I have kids I can pass it along to them and they’ll be the weird little kid with a transatlantic accent 😈 (jk, my dads from Jamaica, and I sound like California aside from one or two random words here and there, but it’s worth a try)
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Page Sinclair is the exact reason I wanted to try to learn how to do this accent! Thanks for this tutorial 💕
I am really impressed by your ability to hear and pinpoint the key features of this accent!
I've always wondered how to do a transatlantic accent. This was so helpful!
I've always wondered how plumbuses are made 😄
@@vlikevanilla First they take the dinglebop, and they smooth it out, with a bunch of Schleem. The Schleem is then repurposed for later batches. They take the dinglebop and push it through the Grumbo, where the Fleeb is rubbed against it. It is important that the Fleeb is rubbed, because the fleeb has all of the fleeb juice. Then a Schlommy shows up and he rubs it and spits on it. They cut the fleeb. They are several hizzards in the way. The blamphs rub against the chumbles. And the plubus and grumbo are shaved away. That leaves you with a regular old Plumbus.
I’m doing voice-over work for a 1940’s style radio show today, and this was wonderfully helpful. Thank you!
This was so helpful!! also side note I loovvee your hair!
thank you so much! 🙏 I mixed a bunch of different directions pots^^
Awesome, thank you so much! Definitely helped me understand/replicate the accent better than other videos I’ve seen.
Thank you so much for the positive feedback!
You explained this very well! & I watch a lot of linguistics & accent videos.
Hope to see more from you 💖
thank you so much! I'll definitely do some more of Paige Sinclair's lines :)
My father has a Mid Atlantic accent naturally. His grandparents were wealthy and he lived with them in Summer and at boarding school the rest of the time, so it's his natural way of speaking. He has normal R's, but rolls them if emphatic. His ee's are short I's also. So "Duty" sound like, "Dyutih."
Omg you are probably the most beautiful person I’ve seen. Also thank you for this, it helped so much!
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This was super interesting and helpful. Very well-done, thank you. Also omg dude you are devastatingly beautiful wthhhh
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Your voice is extremely nice to listen to. You drew me in immediately with the way you annunciated your words.
you are literally so gorgeous + this accent is truly nice !!
this was really great!!! you're really pretty btw :)
thank you so much, I'm glad it was helpful 😊 daaaw 🙈
Who came from the “well alright” girl on tiktok
😂😂😂😂 me
Link?
Who ?
BRUH YEAH
What's tiktok
One of the best tutorials and explanations on the subject. Well done!
Great first video! ?You have such a calming/soothing voice and it's cute how you make yourself laugh at times ;-).
This week I decided I want to sound like Katherine Hepburn after watching "The Philadelphia Story" and - boom! - I found your channel. Thank you for making these incredibly useful lessons, I love them.
p.s. You said that you are not a native English speaker. That's outstanding! I hope you can talk about tips for learning a language, in the future :)
This was very instructive and I love your transatlantic accent!
haha thanks a bunch 🙏
For someone who isn't qualified, this was so informative and thorough. Brilliant tutorial.
This was honestly really informative and impressive, and I hope you continue to teach and refine!
When you read the excerpt from the book, I legitimately thought you were playing a separate audio recording. Your accent is really good, seriously.
She kinda looks like Chel from The Road to El Dorado
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I think you do this better than a lot of professionals who have posted elsewhere on RUclips. You understand that it's supposed to sound vintage and that's something a lot of them seem to miss... nice work. You should teach it. You seem to get it more.
This was so fun to watch and practice with, you’re so gorgeous btw!!!
I’ve watched way too many old movies, and here I am.
You are excellent at this! I love the accent, I think it’s very sofistimicated dahling
Haha terrrriffic! I'm glad you enjoyed it 😊
I came across a clip from Seinfeld on Instagram and noticed that it was sped up a bit for some reason. I thought to myself, sped up George Constanza sounds more like a character with an old-timey accent from those black and white movies. I couldn’t think of the name, so I googled what information I knew and your video came up. You’re so observant about this stuff it’s amazing.
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after 5 minutes into watching then 5:07 happened hahaha. I was stunned. Didn't believe you weren't a native speaker because you sound so good!
alternative title: How to sound like Stewie Griffin
That’s the best title😂 even tho Stewie is british
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thank you for this! im auditioning for a 1920s play and this helps so much
Recently, I have been fascinated with this accent. Looked up, you are the only one doing this, nice!
This is more helpful than any tutorials i have watched of this accent! Thank you!
The word you were looking for at the end was "inflection", in case it was bothering you. Thanks for this video!
thank you so much! I usually know the word but of course when I need it, it doesn't pop up in my head, or in the wrong language 🤦♀️
@@vlikevanilla I hear you! You're doing amazing I am working on becoming bilingual myself!! And youre very welcome, English is my first language and this still happens to me where I cant think of the word, there are so many !
Informative, non biased information regarding the Transatlantic/Mid-Atlantic accent..with practical examples. Thank you
Thank you for watching!
I'm glad someone has a tutorial for this
also you're so pretty
thank u sm for this,,, it's not over complicated and it gets right to the point with all the stuff u actually need to know,, so yk,, thanks
Wow, you did surprisingly very well.
Haha that sounds surprisingly condescending but thanks :D
@@vlikevanilla No no, pardon my articulation. I just wasnt expecting someone to get it spot on, since no one on youtube really does tutorials at it. I just came from watching dr. Martin luther king and bruce lee interviews back in the day where I can hear it in the interviewers or dr. Kings speech, I definitely learned some useful techniques.
My apologies if it came out that way 😅
@@atari_hmb Hahaha no worries! Thank you for explaining :)
This was very insightful 👏. You did a good review of this accent. I have Edith Skinner's book (Speak with Distintion) but I have a little of the multicultural accent influences from the East End due to Grime music and Drill.
I’ve spoken this accent all my life and never knew there was a name for it!
Also, this was such a great presentation!
Please make more of these videos! Going deeper. Its so hard to find learning resources for this accent which I have wanted to cultivate my entire life!!!!!
i hear some russian vibes in the way you make some sounds (i can't even explain how i feel it), this accent sounds awesome
Omg I straight up thought all these years that these actors were just british! But after watching Hollywood on netflix they talk about the transatlantic accent. Thank you so much for this! Imma talk like this all the time 😂
Awesome video! Subscribed even though i have no clue what you usually post!
Two years later, but still thank you fpor having made this! I'm just now getting into voice-actiging finally pursuing my dream of it. Figured rounding to 40 I'd better get going! And I was offered to audition for a nanny android with ha ''mid-atlantic'' accent and found yours! I see now what I'm going for, as I recall many of these old fashioned movies where the wommen spoke in such a way, but I love how you explained it! I'll go into the audition now with a bit more confidence! I hope you're well and take care, darlin'! - The Southern Nanny of Atlanta.
Andrew Ryan's accent in BioShock is very close to the accent I enjoy. He does pronounce his R's so he sounds like a genuine American, but he still sounds akin to the British version of posh.
I'm gen z and I'm adopting this accent, partially to get over my speech impediment, partially because I want to.
I’m here randomly from Reddit. Someone said this accent is why all the old documentary narrators sound the same. So I looked it up and found they were right, and your video! I don’t know if I intend to learn the accent or not but I just wanted to commend you on your video and demeanor. I expect this is incredibly useful for anyone that wants to learn, and you’ve made that possible...just for fun! That takes creative courage. Anyway, thank you!
Thank you so much for your lovely comment ❤️
Amazing - I've been wanting to talk like this for a long time, and now I want to practice. You are so beautiful btw!!!! Thanks for this helpful video!
Her: "Get out there with the L's"
Me: "Oh yeah, im doing the L"
*Does the L*
Currently tryin to learn this accent so I can bring it back
This helps A LOT!!! Thank you for making this video, I need to make a tiktok with this accent for a voiceover
Great video! I’m from New York and grew up in both NY & AZ. Grew up around many cultures and I feel like this sounds like the ultimate cultured person lol
Sounds cooler than the tame accent of Americans today
tame? You sound like angry ducks!
They sound like drag Queens
I am American I can confirm that I sound like an angry duck drag queen
Omg this is the perfect video, I wanna walk around speak with this accent but I know people will look at me weird 😭
youve hit on a lot of the important parts of this accent, great vid!
Accent coach or not, your video is EXCELLENT. I would add that, in my observation, I've heard mid/trans-Atlantic speakers pronounce the "R" the American way, but only after an extended "Ahhh" sound. My assumption is that it's a more "Ivy League" or "Prep school" version?? Excellent examples of this would be Kelsey Grammer's "Frasier," as well as the entire panel of an old game show called "What's My Line." Though the people on What's My Line tended to pronounce their "R's" at the end with more of a rounded "errrr" sound. I've been told that aspects of my own accent tend to lean toward the mid/trans-Atlantic accent. It's totally subconscious, and I'm not ashamed of it. I know nothing of phonetics or linguistics, but I still find accents to be fascinating. Thank you so much for this wonderful video.
Wow! Did you teach this to yourself? That’s amazing. You’re very talented. I hope you work in language.
I did! And no I'm a graphic designer and illustrator 😄
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Thanks. I came here from another one that just explained it without examples. Anyone can read about it. Didn't need it. Nobody does. Thank you for actually showing us and not just talking about it.
You really did a great job explaining this iconic accent!