As Brits We Were Blown Away by These American Accents
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Accents that are hard to understand... This coming from James! 🤣
Yep!! 😂
I'm gettin' use to him, but when I first heard him, I was like "Are you kidding me"!?!?
Do you know where he's from? I'm guessing, Manchester, maybe?
Yes. Sometimes I need subtitles.
Those are my people!!!! My grandmothers family are from the Banks. In a college Sociology class one time, we were studying dialects and the professor played a clip of a bunch of old men sitting around a fish house on the docks in Harper’s Island NC. About 30 seconds into the clip, I started laughing uncontrollably, which lead to the professor into stopping the clip and chastising me for being insensitive to the culture of those people. I then explained to him that I wasn’t laughing at the accent, I was instead laughing at the joke the old man who was speaking in the video had just made. He didn’t believe me, so I translated the joke for him which drew a huge laugh from the rest of the class. After class, he pulled me aside and told me he initially hadn’t believed me, because he had studied linguistics for years and only understood about a quarter of what the old man in the video had said. I took out my cell phone and called my one of my many cousins who still live in that area and translated for him yet again. 😂😂
Oh, man, that's a great story!!
I'm from Appalachia (Western NC), and I always tell about how accents can be different, even within states. For instance, we use to go to Eastern TN---ova tuh way, we called it (over the way), and we understood them, and they, us. When we went to Eastern NC, not a clue!!! They didn't understand us, nor us, them!!! LOL
The one he dubbed "Southern California" is more what I would call stereotypical "Valley Girl"
I grew up and spent nearly my entire life on Staten Island, and I can tell you the only time I ever hear a Staten Islander sound like that is on internet videos.
I did too, but the lady talking about mascara and TV watching seems the most authentic of the SI person in the smattering they had. Now that I moved away from SI I have to hide my accent to blend in with the locals. Occasionally it pops through when I get animated, but you learn to forget.
I never realized but my old community in Baltimore, Maryland has very slangy dialect. My wife does it really well. A lot of UK actors do good American. Like I say, every state is another country with it own character, in language, food, traditions, it’s always fascinating. Thanks guys!
I currently live in Baltimore; lemme guess.... Brooklyn, Hampden, or Dundulk?
@ Hampden Hon!
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Been downy ocean, lately?
Been downy ocean, lately?
@ Last weekend, birthday stay, Fenwick Island, DE.
I am 58 years old and was born in Northeast Georgia. My mother was on a mission and relentlessly corrected me and my younger sister and brother's speech from a young age. We were forbidden from using the word "ain't" and all double negatives. So, as a result, northern people refuse to believe I am a native of the Deep South. On a side note, my late wife (who was as a native Georgian) received compliments from a British man she talked to on the phone on a business phone call. He loved her accent.
“Southern accent”?! My 2X is from Georgia and he could tell which county in GA you were from just by hearing a sentence or two. It changes every few miles.
To me the French Cajun is the hardest to understand...🤷♀️❤️
Hahaha especially if you go out drinking with Cajuns. It's hard enough when sober but after a few drinks forget it.
I couldn't understand 3/4 of what my aunt by marriage saud. She was from way back in the bayou and mostly spoke Cajun French.
I think so, too---well, in the top two, hardest !!
I'm from Appalachia---in the hollers (Western NC)---but, when I get around people, from the mountains, I can't hardly understand them, at all !!! The lil' ol' man, on here, from Appalachia, was a perfect representation!!!
Growing up in the Acadiana region of Louisiana, I don’t find the Cajun accent very difficult, but those Outer Banks and some of the Appalachian accents were hard for me.
I worked a massive job in Las Vegas with workers from all over the USA and there was one guy from Alabama who sounded to me just like Boomhauer from King Of The Hill and I needed his friend to translate what he was saying to me in order to understand. 😂
WOW!!!
The guy leaning in the car was from Boston, the give away was the Red Sox hat.
I moved from northern Indiana to Long Beach, California -- just as few miles south of LA -- and it seemed as if everyone had the same accent as me. No one ever spoke with that "Valley" sound.
the valley was more Encino, Van Nuys, Sherman Oaks areas. Orange county had their own thing.
San Diego here. I have never heard anyone speak in his "Southern California" accent. That's more of an LA thing.
Its definitely very stereotypical of what the general population assumes people in SoCal speak like. Despite the fact its not nearly as common as its become believed to be.
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I've lived here over 50 years and mostly ever heard anyone speaking somewhat like that on movies or TV, not real life.
Same here... I was thinking more "Valley Girl", "Skater Boi", or "Movie Surfer Dude" (think Spicoli from "Fast Times at Ridgemont High")
And Pauly Shore.
My wife and I honeymooned in Delmarva, where that last accent is from. She is from Florida, and I am from the Midwest. We asked a local for directions to a nearby park, and we literally couldn't understand 2/3rds of what he said.
The intrusive "R". British people will argue that they do not add "R" to words but almost all people in England do it. They honestly cannot hear it but Its there. Usually its when a vowel ends a word and starts the next word. You will hear America(r) is .... Some Americans do it but you can hear it all over BBC TV and if you work with British people.
Yeah, and when words end in "r", they make them end, in "a", like "fatha", for "father".
I love your content since I discovered you guys. I’m from Nor-Cal , it’s very diverse but basically the regional American accent that’s probably the easiest to understand?
The guy with the yellow hat that you didn’t understand was saying “my dogs are barking” meaning his feet hurt.
When I first started watching James' videos (before Milly came onboard), I had a very difficult time understanding him. Now, I understand him perfectly. Love both your accents, and I notice a strong difference in you two. I never really thought about the different British accents before watching your videos. I love accents. My partner has a very strong southern accent, but I don't even notice it anymore :( I have the 'typical American accent of the midwest, with a little Chicago tossed in at times).
Watching episodes of “Naked Attraction” I am amazed how Brits can pinpoint exactly what part of Britain each contestant is from. To we Americans it is fascinating that there are such differences in accent between areas that by American standards are not even significantly far apart.
I'm from the foothills of the Appalachian mountains. I have a thick Southern accent. We like to switch around syllables. My mom's name was Doris, but around here it's shortened to "Darse" 😂
Yeah, I'm from the Appalachian hollers, we also like to change vowels, around; like "fur", for "for", and "git", for "get"---plus, we shorten, everything: "Air" = "era", and there's no "g", on the end of anythin'!!! LOL
My mother's relatives are from Georgia (USA). I remember as a child asking my uncle why he had such a heavy accent. (I could hardly understand him). He looked at me surprised and told me that I was the one with an accent and not him. It definitely made me think. It still does.
In SoCal we don't say supper for dinner. I was born in Southern California I learned my speech patterns here. I've traveled all over the United States and people have always told me wow, you're from California. You pronounce your word so properly.
My cousin in Missouri thinks I have a very SoCal accent. I think she has a very Southern accent. lol
Sounded more like a guy faking a surfer accent. "Supper" is a dead giveaway.
Born and raised a Midwesterner, and yes we definitely are the easiest to understand. When I lived in South Carolina for 8 yrs. and went home for a family reunion my family said...your talking like a Southerner...lol. Well what was humorous to me is I could hear the Chicago accent that SNL use to make fun in skits about Chicago Bear fans 😂.
The Minnesota accent they have sounds pretty cartoony, kind of like the Fargo movie and TV series. We have a mix of native American, French, English, German, Scandanavian, Irish and a smattering of other northern European tongues.
Yeah I'm from Wisconsin and nobody talks like that. Way to caricaturized.
I agree with you Gary. Those of us who live in the Twin Cities don’t sound like that. The further north from the cities you go, the accents sound more like the video but not as exaggerated as on the video. Actors trying to sound Minnesotan is what I heard.
Yeah, I've been to Minnesota---Winona---and the people all had Swedish accents.
Yah ya know eh
A friend of the family was a retired university linguist. He explained how the dialects evolved based on demographics and movement. A book called "The American nations" would go a long ways to help people understand this.
I have that Texan accent mixed with a slight hint of Cajun. I grew up in Southeast Texas, bout' 5 mins from the border of Louisiana.
I'm from Faulkner County, Arkansas, so I have a Southern dialect. I can understand most of those dialects, but not the Brooklyn one in its entirety, certain phrases of the Southern dialects, certain words in the northeast states, certain words from Minnesota, certain words from the Upper Michigan Peninsula, parts of the African-American vernacular, some dialects of Smoky Mountain Twang, or a HUGE chunk of the Haitian Creole used by Cajuns. I love the sound of the Outer Banks and Chesapeake Bay dialects, and I can understand most of the words.
New York City alone probably has a dozen accents.
In a single block, maybe. I'd say it's closer to a thousand.
I grew up in south east Texas, and even though Southern accents aren't hard to understand, it's still the hardest for me because I usually zone out before they get to the point.
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TOO funny!!!
I'm from Appalachia, but I live up here in Baltimore, now. I've become too citified, now, cuz there's been times that I've gone down-home, and have listened to my kin, and they talk soooo slowwwly, that I've thought "Good Lawd, if her chil' runs-out, in the street, she'll get run-over, before her mother can say 'look out; there's a car, comin''"!!! LOL
“This is an easy one. I’m thinking Ohio.” ….and it’s Boston. As a Bostonian, that one hurt, James haha.
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Guy was wearing a Red Sox hat, too.
I'm from Michigan. Went to Toronto, Canada and had a waitress ask if we were from St. Louis, Missouri.
Southwest/central Virginia is my home. The accent that was called Chesapeake Bay, Virginia is from the islands off the coast of Virginia. The dialects there are quite different from mainland Virginia. Some counties in our state are different, as well. As for understanding the two of you, I have no problem knowing what Millie says, but I do have difficulty understanding James. Part of that is because James speaks very fast and his words run together, whereas Millie speaks slower and enunciates clearly.
hi guys! there is one American accent that gets overlookdd.
If you call American military bases as 'regional', it is the accent that is generated from the mix-ups of zervice folks from every state, and their foreign spouses, with all tjose kids going to schools on the bases.
In the '60's, on Otis AFB, Mass., we were German, French, Italian, Korean, Japanese, British. Now throw Ye Olde Bostonian-New Hampshire-sea-faring/whaling Cape Cod accents, and there ya go ...."down to Boston"!!
I'm from Appalachia (Western NC), and I always tell about how accents can be different, even within states. For instance, we use to go to Eastern TN---ova tuh way, we called it (over the way), and we understood them, and they, us. When we went to Eastern NC, not a clue!!! They didn't understand us, nor us, them!!! LOL
I knew someone from Jacksonville Florida and I always had to ask him to repeat himself because I couldn’t understand him. I felt so bad and he seemed frustrated.
As someone who is from Kansas, I fall in the general American accent. So I thought. I visited my cousin several years back in Chicago. I was outside smoking a cigarette and a lady came to their home and I just hi and she asked if my cousin and his wife were home. I replied and he asked me if I was from Kansas too. I told her yes. She said she thought so. She said I had the same accent as my cousin.
I visited New Orleans in the late summer of 1989. I could understand most people. But I ran into a Cajun gentleman and all I could do was smile and nod my head. No idea at all what he was saying. My stepdad 's grandmother lived all her life in the far south of South Carolina. We visited her once before she passed. The only words she spoke that made sense was: roas beaof. Roast Beef. That lady was speaking Geechee. Good luck understanding that. I remember having much difficulty understanding Compo from Last Of The Summer Wine.
I'm born & raised in So Cal and I don't sound like that & neither do anyone I grew up with.😊
anyone else think it's funny that James couldn't understand faster talkers? lol
Yep!!! He still hangs me up, sometimes!!! 😂
My family is from the Appalachias and yes this is how it is spoken
I’ve used the term whopperjawed to mean crooked since I was a kid, but I’ve never even been to the Outer Banks! I was surprised James guessed Ohio for one of the southern accents. Most of us sound like we could read the news on TV.
Ditto. I'm 72 and was born and raised in W. Los Angeles. Not everyone talks like that and not everyone is 30 and under.
The Girl with the headphones was Minnesota doncha know
I'm telling you right now, he had a gentleman with a clover on his hat that was Appalachian and lumped it into the southern accent
These are extreme examples. In the USA, if you have a super thick accent, you're going to get teased A LOT and considered ignorant until you work on yourself.
I speak with a slight Texas accent but I can rock the All American too. You are hard to understand sometimes James. Not too bad except when you are excited & have something to say you can't wait to get out of your mouth. Then it is like 'Say what??' We got over the the Free=Three long ago. Some of it is quite fun to listen to. Millie doesn't speak 'posh' English. Just 'propa' English for the UK.
My dad's side are cajun. I was born, raised, and live in south Ga.
My husband and I retired from Colorado to the Appalachians and for the first few months, I couldn’t understand what people were saying. I still come across some of the elder folks, where I still can’t understand after living here for nearly three years. I frequently get asked where I’m from.
Yeah, I was just saying that I'm from Appalachia---the hollers (Western NC)---but, some of them mountain people.... Oh, boy!!!! 😂
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Did you fair well in Hurricane Helene? We are only about an hour from Boone, close to Damascus, Virginia which also experienced devastation.
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I'm okay!! I live up here, in Baltimore, now. All my kin, down-home, survived, as well !!! Thankyou, so much, for asking!!!
That "skater" dude talk started in the later 70s with skaters and surfers. It was also mimicked in the "valley".(North Central Los Angeles above Mulholland area----Encino, Van Nuys...) they had Valley girl which became "like totally gnarly, gag me with a spoon, ..too the max!. I grew up in northern Appalachian (central PA) and was raised as a hillybilly farm folk. There may or may not have been a "corn-a-hol" still on our farm, thousands of chickens, and hundreds of pigs, thousands of acres of crops and an acre of Skunk cannabis hidden in the fields. I grew up gardening, hunting, fishing, and raising most of our own food, and hadn't seen a grocery store until I was a teen. I have trouble with the Cajun area of Louisiana and their blend of French, Spanish, Carribean, and English.
As a lifelong Texan, I guess I'm in the 30% who could not tell you what part of Texas someone is from based solely on their accent.
The guy in the Red Sox hat with the "Boston accent" didn't even have a Boston accent 😆
Awful Guy!
Either you have a Boston accent or you don’t. People who try to fake a Boston accent always get it wrong. I’m OFD. I approve of his accent. Maybe suburban Boston?
Yeah it wasn't even close. I'm born and raised in Dorchester and Southie. I have that accent. A friend's GF once said I have it "bad" like it was a disease lol.
I'm from Southern California and I don't have a surfer voice. I've lived around the country in 5 states and never encountered a strong accent. So there's more places without heavy accents than he says.
the hardest in the U.S. to understand is Cajun accent. They even have that accent in the movie WATER BOY.
This video is such a small percentage of the accents across america. The channel "Wired" on RUclips did a video series about 4 years ago titled "An Accent Expert Gives a Tour of US Accents" where he does go a bit more in depth, but still only brushes the mere surface of what. "Speaking American dialects" can be broken down into.
There is a lot in common with Saskatchewan and Alberta with Minnesota the Dakotas and upper peninsula accents.
I remember growing up in Texas and I didn't have much exposure to other accents so naturally our Texan accents didn't sound strange but then some Church members visited from Tennessee with their super thick southern accents and it sounded hilarious😂 I think the Texan accent is slowly getting less thick southern because many of our parents sound more southern than we do.
I am one of the last people on earth that can still speak a rare Appalachian dialect called "Coal camp."
I’m from Southern California and have a “standard American accent”.
Honey Bo Bo was from Toddlers & Tiaras about people who dress their kids up for kiddie beauty pagents. Then her mother had a train wreck reality show.
I'm born and raised in So Cal and like weezerfan084 said about Staten Island, I think the same about L.A. lol! No one talks like that in Southern California. I'm first generation Californian and my whole family is from close to Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh clips sounded like my extended family haha! And the final accents sounded like a bunch of drunk Brits. Maybe James and Millie need to grab a few pints and watch it again? 🤣🤣🤣
You guys please do the Newfoundland accent. It's basically an Irish accent from the 1700s and it would be interesting for you guys to hear it. Especially when you get two of the locals from there talking together.
As an American, I find the West Virginian accent the hardest to understand. Also called an Appalachian accent.
Sherlock Holmes could tell what neighborhood a person was from by their accent. America is losing it's accents and that is a tragedy. Accents are a major part of our diversity.
I’m from Maine, and get a few looks while on vacation away…. I’m not half as bad as some of my fellow Mainers who live a little further up the coast. The more isolated areas have the strongest accents.
Without even waiting until the end, my guess is that it's going to be the High Tide accent in North Carolina.
Some of the accent from Minnesota is also North Dakota. Watch the movie Fargo. I also use to live in Minneapolis, MN and went to school their. Their are more accents in that area also.
I am from Missouri and not everyone talks that way hear. Some people do only and it is hard for people to understand if you didn't grow up hearing it to understand it. Their is a lot of slang words in it. If you don't know a lot of american/African-American slang you are not going to know what they are talking about. Haha Also it depends on what area of the state you are in. The more south is more southern sounding. But I am a rare bird and people ask me where I am from all the time. They can't figure it out. They think I am from out of the country and other places and want to know where I grew up. I traveled even as a kid so I will say random things from all the different places I have been or have listen to other people speaking and pick it up and randomly use them. Even my own family sometimes has to ask me what I am talking about. I have friends from around the world and have picked up all kinds of words and different dialects. I don't even really think about though, until someone says something to me. I just say I have traveled.
Watch movie "Fargo" for Minnesota accent
Pick out most of everything that people say, but I still say that we need a freaking app when you’re trying to listen to people from Liverpool, England!😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah, Cockney accent? Yeah!!!
My friend warned me, when I was goin', over there.... She said she asked someone how to get somewhere, and all she understood was "left", and "right"!!! LOL
Yeah, Coqney accent? Yeah!!!
My friend warned me, when I was goin', over there.... She said she asked someone how to get somewhere, and all she understood was "left", and "right"!!! LOL
The folks from Gullah in GA are difficult to understand more because of the Uncle Remus style vocabulary more so than accent.
But will say some difficulty with accents in the US are found in places with dual linguistic speakers. They speak English in their native languages' accents and, like Spanglish speakers, throw in foreign words to cover for words in the English language that either don't translate or they don't know. This occurs in Walt Disney's World where I am (Northern Puerto Rico aka Osceola County), Miami, Queens, Bronx, and anywhere with newer immigrants. It's fun, not usually an annoyance, as it goes both ways.
I love Your Accent James. ... All of You Actually.
I have been watching Movies with British Actors and Actress Since, i was about 4 or 5 years old.
So, When Everyone, eles i know. Can't understand what they are saying, I am the one, they come too.
Sorry, but I was born & raised in CT but the first time I went to stay with a family in the backwater bayous of St Tammany Parish in New Orleans I couldn’t understand half of what they were saying!!! It resulted in several funny incidents. LOL
I’m from the Midwest and am fairly good with accents but I could not understand several of them in this video. I never have any problems with either of yours.
Pittsburgh... sounds perfectly normal from here... in Pittsburgh!
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I agree, no clue what yinz were talking about, what accent?
The Cajun accent was the only one I had to strain to understand. As for telling the regions, no, I couldn't do that very well. I wasn't clueless, but Southern and Appalachian I grew up with, so I was ahead of the game there. --Dan
Watch Swamp People. I love listening to Troy Landry.
first am I first ? gig em Aggies hello from Texas.
Dogs barking means his feet hurt
I lived in the upper peninsula for a while right in the middle of "yooper" accent. I would say it is more of a western upper peninsula accent than the whole UP. Most of the locals with the stronger accents claim Finnish ancestry (I wouldn't have thought of Irish), but all of the mentioned heritages are represented. They did mention pasties in the segment which is a nod to the regions Cornish heritage. Also, the lady was wearing a Michigan Tech hat in this video (my alma mater) so that was exciting. You should check out the Houghton winters.
The Virginia tidewater area has an accent that takes getting used to. And I used to live in North Dakota and there is a very Canadian accent and idiomatic expressions.
as somebody who's a Beatles fan and it was born in the 1980s ever notice the the members of the Beatles their accent has changed from from a Liverpool accent to more of a general British accent
The accent stated as Southern California has been called Valspeak, as in San Fernando Valley. It is or was the way teen age girls from around there spoke, but not everyone. This accent was made famous by Moon Unit Zappa's speaking on her dad, Frank Zappa's song Valley Girl. Like oh my gaaawd.
The hardest American accent for me as an American to understand I don't know the name for it. I call it the Boomhauer accent. Boomhauer is a character on the TV cartoon King of the HIll.
go down to south eastern Georgia between Brunswick ... Waycross and the Okefenokee Swamp......you definitely have to pay careful attention to understand what your being told...😊
I was hatched in u.s. , raised in g.b. Trust me you don’t want to know my lingo, I may say something entirely cheeky.
Spent most of my life in southern iowa....if i travel an hour south of me the people say i have a northern accent....if i travel 2 hrs north i am told i have a southern accent....where i dont think i have an accent.😊
I think really Southern Louisiana has the hardest as an American cool to hear what you think. I'm from Pennsylvania they say we don't finish our sentences, but I think we do. 😅 we just know
Northern Californian, born and raised in Washington DC and suburbs, here. I think my "accent" is "standard American".
If it makes you feel better, I have to work hard to understand some of these too. But having spent loads of time on the Chesapeake, including the Eastern Shore (used to go duck hunting there with my dad), and having gone to school in North Carolina and vacationed on the Outer Banks, the supposedly most difficult one didn't give me as much trouble as some of the others.
9:11 all from New York. LOL😂
Jim Todd @ about 23:55 was a famous moonshiner….
I'm 67 years of age, and I was born and raised and still live in Southern California, and we do not talk that way except in the movies. It's like totally gnarly dude...... Only in the movies.
Up here in the Northwest there has been an on-again/off-again influx of Californians since the '80s (maybe earlier, but I was a kid and wasn't aware), and many of them did apeak like that, which kinda caught on and a lot of native PNW kids started speaking like that too.
It was mostly associated with beach bums, surfer dudes, and valley kids, and up here in the North, stoner/party kids in general.
And you still hear it today (like from the guy in the video), though it's more toned down from what it was in the '80s.
So no, while it doesn't apply to most of Southern Cali or even most of the LA area, it's not just in the movies. It's very much a real thing.
Native San Diegan here and I agree. The odd surfer in the 80s might speak like that, but I don't know anyone that does now.
“Valley Girl” talk is still present in Southern California.
Some of your neighbors fry their words more than Southerners fry vegetables
I live in California, and I hear it from time to time. It's annoying, but I do her it. My friend from New York came for a visit, and he thought I sounded like a Kardashian, and I really don't think I do, but sometimes other people can hear if they don't live in California.
If you want a basic Texan accent, here's the trick. Put your finger on the end of your jaw. Now speak while holding your jaw completely still. You will find the shape of the words you speak change and you will naturally have more nasal air flow. That is your basic Texas drawl. There are regional variations but that dives you the basic speech.
In Europe you hear a new language every 200 miles or so. A different dialect of English is easier to figure out than a totally new language.
Skater dude is like surfer dude.
Hey MIllie and James.. for the Boston accent, just think Stand Up Comedian BILL BURR.. LOL! You both should react to the same video showing the different Southern Accents! :) They also recently did a NEW video on accents just in the State of Texas!
I taught at a dental school in Indiana. I could tell an accent from Mississippi over Alabama but the hardest? Britain (not sure what area it was rough ) and Japanese
RIP Jim Tom 😢
I’m from Southern California. We use words such as like. It’s not a twangy accent.
There isn't one "Southern accent". Georgia is different from Kentucky and they are both distinct from South Carolina. Those are only the ones I know for sure. There are many more.
I can tell Georgia, Alabama/Mississippi/northwest FL, Texas/Oklahoma, Carolinas, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky/central TN. But I sure cannot get down to the county level. I predict 100 years from now there will be very few accidents and they’ll be slight.
22:47 WOOOO lets go Florida 🤣🤣 I understand all of that
I would not include the Midwest as part of the general American accent, they have a very distinct accent of their own.
I would include Washington and Oregon along with northern California as part of the general American accent. I've heard more than one person who moved to western Washington state say that "You guys sound like the people on the news."
I've never heard people actually speak like that SoCal accent except in the movies. Where I'm from (PNW) there is a bit of a dialect and our own colloquialisms that is slightly different from CA that I was a little disappointed to not see.
I'm not sure why Washington and Oregon was not included as part of what was called "the general American accent', but the Midwest which has it's own distinct accent was.
I've literally have herd people who moved to Seattle from the south say " you guys sound like the people on the news".
England is exactly the same if Alf Wight, aka James Herriot is to be believed. I used to laugh myself sick with his descriptions of the different accents just in the area of England that he lived in.