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AsapSCIENCE | January 21, 2026



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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

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  2. @ElizabethDupree-fm8qn

    January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm

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    January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm

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  4. @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.šŸ˜…
    Iā€™ve 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.šŸ˜‚

  9. @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 šŸ’€

  11. @meilagreisberg6385

    January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm

    I used to have a thick Russian accent was I was a kid, but now I donā€™t. If you are wondering why k have such an American sounding name, itā€™s 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)

  15. @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.

  17. @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

  26. @augustgirl2905

    January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm

    2:55 As a person who grew up in a bilingual household(Iā€™m 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.šŸ˜„

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    January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm

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  28. @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

  30. @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

  31. @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)

  35. @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.

  37. @dandefish

    January 21, 2026 at 12:10 pm

    I have an Australian accent but itā€™s not like as strong asā€¦ lazarbeam for example. It sounds like a British person that lived in Australia for 14 years

  43. @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 donā€™t really understand linguistics and that your sources stink lol

  48. @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

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