What Does Your Accent Say About You?
Can science explain the way you speak?
Why Do You Hate Your Own Voice? – https://youtu.be/8Nn66deBIt8
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Further Reading / References:
[1] http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/accent
[2] http://www.livescience.com/47690-why- people-keep- accents.html
[3] http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/why- does-a- southern-drawl-
sound-uneducated- to-some/
[4] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0095447001901342
[5] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8811940
[6] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23196144
[7] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16472309
https://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius_of_babies/transcrip
t?language=en
[9] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1736364
[10] http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(10)00681- 1
[11] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/desc.12427/abstract
[12] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945214001543

@Bald1_Bas1cs
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
I don't have an accent in english I speak perfect english even though I'm from a non-english country
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@etsap1236
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Just so everyone knows. Not all southern people are unintelligent.
Some of us are, but not all of us.đ
Iâve had people assume me and my family are unintelligent because we were from a small town down in the Deep South. When in reality most of us are just like regular people. I currently want to become a biologist, so the southern bias can become agitating when you hear it from the occasional transfer student. Though to be fair i occasionally poke fun at it to.đ
@Envviro
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Does anybody know what the background music for this video is called. Iâve tried to Shazam it with no luck.
@Contagious93812
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Accent is only important in English I guess, I've never heard a non-native speaker of German trying to improve their German accent
@xanox23
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
I have a British and a New York accent đ
@Cahootian
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
In Ireland we call the teacher the HEATER
@wreckerthegoat
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
idk if it's just me but i tend to switch my accents sometimes while i'm talking? like sometimes i have a london accent and sometimes i have a hull accent idek how it works. i cant seem to stick to one. sometimes i use the london accent on purpose when i'm on voice chat on a game cause my hull accent is sometimes not understandable to americans đ
@hearts4_angie
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Oh i can speak British english its pretty easy
@meilagreisberg6385
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
I used to have a thick Russian accent was I was a kid, but now I donât. If you are wondering why k have such an American sounding name, itâs because both of my parents are American, but I was born and lived in Russia until age 6. Then, I moved back to the U.S. (New York, specifically)
@HorribleQualityAkikoha
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Help I can't tell what my accent
@E919.
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
It says where you come from
@horrorstorys1366
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Trumps not rude
@charliewilkins8888
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
I have a Brittish Accent. My Mother is Brittish and my Father from Cape Cod Hyannis Port. And I was born in New England. And I don't have a New England Accent…. It was how I was raised. And most of my friends when I went to Phillips Exeter all were from Abroad and we lived in dorms there.
@blackcatt10
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
animals have accents? đ¤Ż
@warrra3
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
accent say about you from where your raised and how your raised and genetic and your first language
sry didnt watch vid yet but that my prediction
@EnglishBruv
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
I'll use my credit card
@lingling40hours7
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Me a multilingual teen and an Indian with ALL the accents mixed : CONFUSED Pikachu face
@rachelko6415
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
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@acollectionofcellsthatmake1403
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
I have strong buzzfeed quiz vibes
@michealhutchins15
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Trump's not rude
@Honestviews8
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Doesnât your accent change by the people around you
@mandysant7
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Iâm Brazilian and I would like to say Brazilian accent is much better than Portuguese accent. (Donât take it seriously, guys)
@raphlvlogs271
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
it all depends on what you are exposed to or used to.
@augustgirl2905
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
2:55 As a person who grew up in a bilingual household(Iâm French and American) I can speak fluently with different accents when I speak english. Such as British, American and French since the ones around me oftentimes speak with these kind of accents.đ
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@keithteach5649
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Funny thing when I was born the ppl around me mainly spoke my traditional language but when I reached 3 yrs old and went to school ppl either spoke English or Swahili, and cause most of my teachers were Scotts I started speaking English and my traditional language in a Scottish accent. But when speaking Swahili I spoke it with a normal Swahili accent. And so I decided learning French and Japanese I spoke them in a Swahili accent so I was excited when I went into a Japanese restaurant and tried some words with the owners and they thought I was born in Japan, so imagine their faces when I told them that I probably got the accent from watching Japanese movies and shows
@ÎίκοĎÎÎżĎΝγιĎΡĎ-Ď9Ď
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
I have the accent of my city. My parents are from Thessaloniki, Greece and we make fun of eachother for our accent. Thessaloniki is known for people saying "L" heavily and on repeat. It's funny tbh.
@somnvm37
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Actually, a person can learn to pronounce words from another language very well
There is a point, where you would think they they're either natives being in another country and having a little accent
OR
you'll notice something little, but i'd never think they're not native.
(people use pewdiepie's videos to learn english. I didn't know he's swedish for a long time)
Also, I guess when I learn to pronounce r properly in my native language, or when I learn most of english sounds at the age of 13, it didn't count.
You can't learn to pronounce new sounds?
There're people learning chenese and arabic, and they can speak it very well.
You can learn after 6 months
@somnvm37
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
well,
I'm always a little scared of sound dumb (not native speaker)
Concidering I'm trying to speak BrE (probably RP based, with some london pronounciation I heard)
@Bailanat0r
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Me, that one kiwi who has a N. American accent for no reason: why am I like this? No one understands what Iâm saying???
@lianaxoxjasmybestie7076
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
I have Vietnamese blood Utah accent and never been to the US
@neet_help.class11_12
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Everyone fighting : British VS American
Indian : We use both lol
@jorgealonso8742
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
I'm Mexican and was taught English since very little, however I did not get to practice with native speakers until I was about 11…?(when I started playing games online)
So I ended up with this weird accent that is definitely not a native speaker's accent but it's not a Mexican accent either. An Australian told me it sounded maybe like a soft french but that's about it. I have no clue where is it from.
@desihirohamada
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
I'm an Indian, and I have a mix of a British, American and Indian accent.
@dandefish
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
I have an Australian accent but itâs not like as strong as⌠lazarbeam for example. It sounds like a British person that lived in Australia for 14 years
@floraisonnn
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
I actually like my voice
Maybe it's because I talk to myself out loud all the time… yeah um
I'll go now XD
@mantran7339
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Vietnamese subtitles, please
@otlui
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
i say tomato and not
tomoto (you knowwhat i mean) and im british
@the.tommo_way
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
doncaster accent is sweating
@what-a-life8097
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
I moved from Boston to North Carolina & although I still have my northern accent, I can hear the southern drawl creeping in…. It upsets me đ¤Ł
@ChikiMombo
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
asap science, the way you claimed non-native speakers can never learn to speak another language with an native sounding accent past a certain age suggests to me that you donât really understand linguistics and that your sources stink lol
@amp1480
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
im a filipino who has mixed texan, aussie, British accent đ
@aimanghazali5789
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Billingual speakers are superior
@MotownShaker
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
There's literally no such thing as a "British accent". It's like saying someone has an "Asian accent"
@harrisonmcdonald4566
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
2:49 "Stronger white matter."
@ariyantolim2197
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
I am a native hokkian and bahasa Indonesia speaker, who learnt to speak Emglish and Chinese in office… and the key of my accent is the sound Uhhhmmm… simply because i lost vocabs amongst the intertwaied languages
@iiv.dannyboi
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Right so I'm half Pakistani and half Ugandan.
I have a sort of British and Indian accent.
So I'm confused
@user-tg5ys7rv6r
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Can you have multiple accents? Cause my first language is french and now i also talk english and dutch and im 13 (turning 14 soon)
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