I want a cup of coffee or I want a co-op coffee
Hello and welcome back to go natural English the place where we get you fluent and confident in
English today, we have an awesome lesson from our go natural English team teacher Hale about
accents in
America did you know that in North America? We actually have a lot of
Different regional accents I could say I want a cup of coffee or I want a co-op coffee
I don't know if I did that right, but apparently that's how New Yorkers sound
Listen to Hale because he's done some great research and is going to present the most
popular the most well known
North American accents that you
Need to know about if you are going to be speaking English out there in the real world
So if you're ready, then let's go
Hi guys, it's me Hale and did you know that there are over?
160 recognized dialects of the English language. Yes
160 that's a lot
That's so many that you can't be expected to understand and speak all
160 dialects and even native English speakers like me we can't always
understand every dialect in every accent in the English language
for instance
I find the Scottish accent to be somewhat difficult to understand and
Other people might find my accent difficult to understand
now if you're going to travel to the United States
there is a standard American accent and
it's something like what I'm speaking now, and if you've heard Gabby and her videos, that's a standard American accent, but
Did you know that there are also many regional accents and dialects in the United States in this video?
We are going to visit four of the most common
Accent in American English that you might encounter if you're traveling around the United States
it is the southern accent the New England accent the New York City accent and
the Midwestern accent so as we look at these four different accents remember
These are general regional accents even within each region or area of the United States
There might even be smaller accents for instance the New York City accent
You can even get smaller. You can break that down into a Brooklyn accent a Queens accent a Bronx accent
You can go very very local with these. So this video we're just doing a generalized regional accent
Overview so let's get started
So the southern accent is my personal favorite because I am from the South I was born in Virginia
And so the southern area of the United States is the states from Virginia, North Carolina
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi
Tennessee
Even northern Florida is considered the south
and again
So the regional accent of this is really you can recognize it by these drawn-out vowels
So let's look at some examples from popular culture. Here are some clips to look at
Mon droit swatter, please
Double-o continue straight the water back. You've got two backs. You sure you don't want to just make a whole bottle in a straw
Honey, there's the lieutenant-governor. Let's go. Say hi
So, what do you do with your time
You work? All right
But right now, I'm working on a domestic maintenance column for the Jackson Journal
You mean housekeeper
Jesus I can't think of anything worse than reading the cleaning column except for maybe right one
Well I can
Working with a bunch of greasy stinky man in the middle of the ocean
It sounds to me like a plot to find a husband become an expert and keep it happy
Well, are you a genius? You figured out my house game and now it all you girls from Ole Miss major
Professional husband, huh? Who is
Hungry. Mmm. I'm sorry. Hope we can stop on your head as an infant or were you just born stupid
As a matter of fact, I think it's time you all came to a decision
We've been here almost three days
And apparently you people have nothing better to do than to sit around here hogging up the taxpayers money
eating baskets of fried cheese and staying at the fair price Motel which I
Understand some of you think is one of the nicest places you've been in a while
Well, let me tell you something it is not the nicest place I have been in a while before you're further information
I am having dinner with a former President and First Lady of the United States tonight because
We are all going to be out of here. And the reason we're all going to be out of here
Is that this case is very simple
Oh Hank well
Hank's got a lot of problems. Hey, baby. How about a couple of beers?
Sorry sug got to go. I got another migraine treatment with John Redcorn
Nancy you've been going to that healer for 12 years and you still get headaches every night healing process takes time, honey
Next up let's look at the New England accent. So this accent is used around that the states
Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire
Maine the areas that make up the the area of the United States called New England
Which is one of the first Sutton settlements from England now the most famous
Of the New England accents is the Boston accent and you see that a lot in films and on TV
So let's look at some clips where we're going to have the Boston accent and a more general New England accent
Sickly underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth especially inherited wealthy
You got that from Vicky's work in Essex County page 98, right? Yeah, I read that too
Oh, you're gonna play Joyce the whole thing for us. Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter?
But you just set your thing. You're coming to a bye
you read some obscure passage and then pretend you pawn it off as your own as
Your own idea just to impress some girls embarrass, my friend
Are you a knock sorry are you a knock knock? I don't know what that is a Mac. I know am I speaking?
Japanese yeah, listen to him. I'm gonna sound it out for you. Ah
You or I you not a knock?
Like Johnny Depp in 21 Jump Street. Oh, I see I see. Okay a narc. I'm not yes. Yes. Yes
What do you what was I saying? I was missing the are when you were
Now let's look at the New York City accent
One thing to remember is that the New York City accent it can even be more
Distinctive than the entire city you can get down to accents from the different neighborhoods
You can have a Brooklyn accent a Queens accent a Staten Island accent
So here we're just looking at a general. Look at a New York accent
It's impossible it'll never happen. So why whole crazy think about someone
Use me
What she hit me in the face what I want you to meet a face
fionna bottom
Nobody wants you to meet a face guy
Okay, take it by chef forget about it. I ain't doing it
Come on, we have fights all the time when you're worried. Now, you're gonna end Mina Fayad in your face dad. No
Are you Frank for what?
Don't judge drop dead stop giggling Saints. We're trying to watch them over
And if I have to tell you again, we're gonna take it outside and I'm gonna show you what it's like you understand me
Set your mouth or I'll shut up for you. And if you think I'm kidding just try me try me because I would
And
finally, will it take a look at the
Midwestern accent
so the Midwest of the United States is kind of in the middle of the country to the north up near Canada, so
Wisconsin and Minnesota are the two big states that are known for this specific accent
And so let's take a look at some movies that have a really pronounced
Midwestern accent
Do you think that most people would say the teenage beauty pageants are a good idea? Oh, yeah. Sure
I know what some of your big city no
Bra wear and hairy-legged women livers might say they might say that a pageant is old-fashioned and demeaning to the girls
What stick it's women dressing like men, uh-huh, whew bitch iris
No, I think you boys are gonna find something a little bit different here in Montrose for one thing
We're all god-fearing folk every last one of us
Mr. Lundegaard, sorry to bother you again. Can I come in? Yeah. No. I'm kinda I'm kind of busy here. I understand
I'll keep it real short then I'm on my way out of town
But I was wondering do you mind if I sit down Jerry could have a load here? No. Yeah, it's this vehicle
I asked you about yesterday. I was just wondering uh, like I told you we haven't had any vehicles go missing, okay?
So there you have four typical accents of the United States
the southern accent the New England accent the New York City accent and the Midwestern accent
So if you're ever traveling in the United States and you go through those areas you're now going to be more prepared
but if you want to learn like the standard
American English accent something like I'm speaking or like Gabby speaks
then sign up for classes with go natural English because the go natural English courses all teach the
standard American accent
So it's been great sharing some accents from my country with you
And I can't wait to see you again next time. Thanks so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed this lesson
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