How to Speak with Different American Accents 🇺🇸

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I am originally from Minnesota, and we would never say "put the soda in the bag". We would say "put the pop in the bag".

The southern drawl is varied. People from TN have a distinctive sound as does SC and LA. There is no pure “southern accent” very different from state to state. It’s wonderful.

Californian here. I was thinking, “isn’t this guys regular voice the Californian accent?” You made me realize things I’ve never payed attention to in my life, I was cracking up thinking “THAT IS HOW WE TALK, MY GOD!”

Strangely as French, many times I don't ear the difference, even way you say it! But I noticed that in the opposite way: We were explaining the different French accents to American friends but they didn"t catch it, even when we were giving examples! It's something very difficult for the foreigner to ear!

Here in California, we have several different accents. Not only the SF Valley accent, but the "surfer" accent and the Chicano accent.

You can DEFINITELY hear how the New York accent originated from the British accent. It's got so many similarities.

As an American, there are definitely more variations of dialects, but you hit the big ones! I'm impressed :)

San Diegan here- you nailed it. Regional accents are so intriguing. I moved to Boston for a few years when I was 18 and have been fascinated ever since. When I moved back to California, I would hear the nuances between East L.A. where I taught, Valley, surfer. All very different. I was once chatting with someone in Prague who had me pegged as a Californian right off the bat due to my accent.

The overuse of 'like' has spread to the speech of young people in many places, including parts of Canada. Also, 'no worries' has spread far from Australia. When I was a kid, no Canadian would have ever said 'no worries,' but now it's very common.

People from Alabama don’t have an accent, but you did a great job explaining why the rest of the country talks so funny. 😊

I agree with the comments that there are soooo many "American" accents. It's nice to see the nuances analyzed and explained. I would also love to hear some excerpts from native speakers included in the video.

I'm a black guy from the Chicago area, who's parents are from southern Georgia. I've noticed the way I speak has a mix of every accent it seems. When I was younger, I noticed how differently I sounded from kids from wealthier neighborhoods, so I worked to pronounce words more clearly. Now i'm older, and not so concerned about how I sound, but I definitely slip into speaking similiar to whoever i'm around. I don't conciously know i'm doing it.

Not only does the southern accent vary from state to state, it varies in each state. For example, the accent in East Tennessee is different from Middle Tennessee.

No native Minnesotan would EVER say, "put the soda in the bag." They would instead say, "Put the pop in the bag." Big difference.

I chuckled when you mentioned the Florida panhandle and Louisiana. I grew up in both states! When my son got into kindergarten, his teacher called me in for a conference to discuss his language skills. She was suggesting I put him in Speech Therapy because he wasn't speaking clearly at 5 years old (we had moved to the Pocono, PA area by then). I was infuriated! My son was incredibly verbal, highly communicative, and had a vast understanding of multi-syllabic words. So I stood my son in front of her and asked him some simple questions: 'What water falls from the sky" his answer ---> "Rain." (pronounced 'rane') "What sound does a telephone make?" -----> "Ring." (pronounced 'rayng [soft g]) "What color is grass? -----> "Green." (pronounced grayne) "What is bread made from?" -----> "Grain." ---Deep South takes most 'ee' sounds and pronounced them 'ay" as in 'hay'---- And when I showed him certain pictures? ----Ow-ell (Owl), tow-ell (towel), ow-er (hour), gray-ess (grass); you get the point. Simply and firmly stated, if she was to teach language arts, certainly she understood that children speak in different dialects. It was not her job to correct my son on the certain way he learned to speak growing up. We spoke proper English, no 'aint's' and "gunnas" (going to), we say "May I" and "Please" and "Thank You" and address all adults as Mr. or Miss/Mrs. She conceded. But we do say "Fixin' to"....

Native Massachusetts girl here, it’s pronounced “Packie” with a long A, rhymes with wacky.

When I, a native Minnesotan, spent the summer in Maine as a teen, the locals gave me so much grief about how I said the word ‘bag’! They laughed so hard at us! Haha. That was 25 years ago and I couldn’t hear the difference at all! 😂 thank you for finally explaining it!

I’m from Southern California. I do agree with the dialect being common amongst kids, but I feel like that was more common in the 90’s and early 2000’s. Also, you should cover the surfer accent which is another Calif classic 😂 there’s also spanglish, amongst others!

I grew up in California. It's important to note that the valley he is referring to is the San Fernando Valley, not the Central Valley. It's a suburb of Los Angeles. The word hella is more of a Nor-Cal thing and although it has migrated it's way down south it's not a part of the "typical" valley accent. Still loved hearing him do me though.