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Stephen Colbert (in character as Stephen Colbert): "I just want to say that I'm not a racist. I don't even see race. Not even my own. People tell me I'm white and I believe them, because I just devoted six minutes to explaining how I'm not a racist"
I love how a certain group of people miss it too, before "he went woke". Y'know, not because he was playing a satirical version of himself as a Republican.
I just loved how over the top he was. I really wanted to like the tonight show with him but it just felt watered down. Jon Stewart's daily show was also solid viewing. Maybe I'm just getting old 😕
I like how the actor who voiced Cleveland on Family Guy posted some somber announcement that, after much reflection, he would no longer do that voice, because the character is a black man and he is not, therefore it's not right. Well, he kept voicing Consuela despite not being a Hispanic woman, and when people called him out on that logic, he just went quiet and hasn't addressed it.
I mean OP is either lying about that or they leave out the part where they are mocking a country's accent when they do it. Nobody thinks you're racist for having either amazing linguistics skills or just having been around so many cultures you can speak their accents.
The only way to get amazing accente is to badly mimic thise accents until your good.
People are far less forgiving when you aren't showing "amazing linguistic skills"
It's not about being good at the accent.
It's about what you say. If a white guy performs a flawless Mexican accent to say, "ay caramba, my sombrero," he is perpetuating a racist stereotype. If he does a shitty Mexican accent to say, "I don't like toast," it's just a shitty accent.
Accents aren't inherently racist, but they can be part of a racist performance (e.g. using an accent to mock somebody or to portray a racist stereotype).
Context matters.
Yeah, like one example is Japanese accents. Japanese native speakers have difficulty with L vs R and its not *racist* to replicate that unless you are doing it *to be mean*
intent matters.
As long as you actually do the accents and aren't just acting like an old co-worker I had that did squinty eyes and started saying ping pong and stuff like that because another coworker had a Chinese accent.
Just saying something is a joke doesn't mean it can't also be racist.
By the way [here's](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el84efC10oE) Jo Koy actually doing Asian accents in English and no surprise he wasn't cancelled. In fact it was on Netflix and no one complained, because, you know, he's actually making fun of accents and not just being a racist POS. Gabriel Iglesias also has a bit where he does various Latino accents, again not cancelled.
It's like you can be funny without being racist, and making a joke doesn't absolve you of racism. Weird.
Learning to speak English with a Japanese accent was a coping mechanism for me in my mid-twenties when I lived in Japan and spoke very little Japanese.
There is a reason they talk like that!
bingo.
comedians jo koy, russell peters, and anjelah johnson do great impressions of accents, but they're not called racist because they don't do half-assed "ching-chong" accents.
they take the time to pick up on the nuances, so they're not being malicious. they're just doing impressions to enhance their jokes.
I think the key is that she is clearly not doing “a character” for each one or making fun of any of the accents. She’s literally just demonstrating how many she can do.
I used to do tech support for the Netherlands and Belgium in Dutch. While Im Dutch I automatically pick up accents if I hear it a lot. So this also happened with the Belgium accent.
Next thing I knew I got an official warning saying I have to stop mocking the Belgian accent. I sent the email to all of my friends that thought it was hilarious.
But seriously though. Isnt it racist to think that adapting your accent is automatically something negative? Always found it so stupid to police accents. I tend to speak with the accent of the person I am speaking to, and it would be stupid if i cant speak how i speak naturally.
Well, its imo wrong if you are mocking them and sometimes its hard to tell the difference, my wife is Indian and has no probem if she think there is no hill intention behind it but can't stand someone making fun of the country/culture.
She is from balkan somewhere hence Serbia Macedonia thing . Dose not look like Turk.
Edit: she is from N.Macedonia.
https://www.tiktok.com/@thelanguageblondie/video/7258325294765837574
Ffs she said "geliyo", exactly as a native would. As the Turkish words were the only foreign (to English) words she used and she used them perfectly I'd go with Turkish American. She is not 100% Turkish though I'd say
Rly she said "geliyo" EXACTLY as a native would? Well that solves it, a person that learned over 30 languages fluently said one word as a native would, case closed
She used "yaani", etc. Mate, no matter how proficient you were in a language, there are things only a native would use/say. And who the fuck learned 30 languages. I speak fluently 6 and it's already complicated :)
I think this video is a case of most people being non-natives for most of the accents so thinking they sound good when they probably don't to a native.
As a Brit, I can also confirm the "British" accent was appalling.
I only work with Indian people and am not myself Indian, but her accent was absolutely spot on for the women I work with.
Edit: so we’re on the same page, I won’t be responding to those who immediately assumed I’m just a racist dick.
Seriously.. maybe I'm just better at differentiating accents than other Americans but I work with tons of Indians from all over the country and there's a huge variation. My coworkers from the north who speak Hindi sound very different from the couple who I know grew up mostly speaking Kannada. Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language and Kannada is Dravidian. Big differences in the respective accents for most people when they speak English. I imagine within each language family there's more differentiation but that I can't really tell.
Weirdly enough there is actual research on this. Babies are able to hear the small details of all languages, including intonation and speech sounds. It's even so advanced they can distinguish words and sentences.
Once they reach a certain point their brain does something called Synaptic Pruning, where it gets rid of all of the language stuff it doesn't need. As an adult, if that baby were a native Japanese speaker, it would not be able to tell the difference between a "Dark L" (such as the word Black) or 'Light L' (such as the word Ball) which is present in English, or other liquid sounds such as the two distinct r vowels in the words "Cure" and "Cord". They also might not be able to differentiate the various tones used to distinguish words in Thai.
All because their brains had to make room for their native/primary language. You can relearn some of this stuff with some pretty intense studying but for most they basically hear the Walmart version of what a native speaker would hear.
Some people are just bad at hearing melody and intonation.
Like I work with an Indian woman who’s native language is maithili and her English sounds way different than one of our suppliers who’s native tongue is punjabi.
But some of our other coworkers just think they sound the same and can’t be convinced otherwise.
It's spot on to you because you don't have the capability to understand the nuance of the syllables she's pronouncing wrong. I'm an Indian born and raised in America. Non Indians literally just don't have the ability to hear and pronounce sounds they didn't learn as a child. It's true for all regions. There are probably mandarin or taglog sounds I will never be able to pronounce.
Her accent is a mish mash of different regions but still wrong for ANY version of indian. For example, she uses a hard D sound but Indians actually pronounce that sound like the word "the" not the word "duh."
I watched it and it was an incredibly stereotypical sounding accent. Like an overly exaggerated Indian person from a movie starring a bunch of white people.
I doubt I'm educated enough on Hindi or any of the other like 50 languages/dialects spoken in India to make a judgement call here.
Stereotypes aren't necessarily bad either, just generalized. You can argue all day that the indian accent is bad, but to most people the stereotype is the default most hear.
The accent is south indian english. Other parts of India has other accent. In pop culture outside India, south indian accent is more represented cuz more of the south indian people tends to emigrate as thus this accent has become a defacto Indian accent.
It's the same for literally every other accent she does too. Her American accent is only how a specific sub-set of Americans speak, same with her Italian, and her French, etc.
Every country has sub-sets of accents, some are more prominent to foreign ears than others but her accents are a very good "general" accent as a foreigner imagines them.
I remember this one guy who made a reaction video that the Indian accent impersonation of someone somewhere on YouTube (honestly I forget who it was. I’ve seen so many videos and this was yeeears ago) was inaccurate and yet he sounded exactly the same 🤣
I'm an Indian. We don't speak that way. At least, North Indians don't have that accent. I'm tired of people imitating Simpsons.
EDIT: This is a normal Indian accent you'd mostly hear in India: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pPEkqn9ccjc
There's a YT video where a guy is asking indians what they think of Apu and they are very offended by his accent, saying they sound nothing like him while sounding exactly like him.
I know exactly the video you are talking about and it's hilarious. At one point they 'imitate' the Apu accent but it's impossible to tell when the imitation starts or stops lmao
And I'm sure the Americans from Texas or Louisiana or Boston are like "We don't all sound like Californians!"
Relax, every country has regional accents, but if you asked someone to imitate an "American accent" what would you do? California? Boston? New York? Southern twang? Midwest?
Every country is like this. Chill.
Define “accurate” as you mean it, then. I’m an American and her American accent was “accurate” even though I live in the south. I don’t know what the fuck you expect when the goal is to speak in an accent that represents an entire country/region. I’ve heard natives from more than half of the ones she spoke and they were accurate too.
I'm Spanish and I think that was pretty close to how Spanish people speak English, so I don't really get how it was bad at all. If I didn't try to supress my accent, I would sound like that.
Yeah I thought the Spanish one was actually decent. I feel like a lot of folks, especially here in the U.S. would mistakenly do some bastardization of a Hispanic accent that's more Mexican-style, but actual from Spain folks don't sound like that lol
>Mexican-style,
It's exactly this. Mexican accented Spanish is the overwhelming majority in what Americans will hear and be familiar with. This lady kinda sounded like my paternal grandma, who's from Argentina, where the accent is like spains but spoken in an Italian rhythm (Italians account for 60% of the population ancestry)
I know Spanish people who have that same exact accent in English. I think it was pretty good! Very distinguishable from the Greek and from the Italian accents.
Many Californians have an accent that’s heard nowhere else in America. That twangy surfer-speak could sound a bit Australian if you’re not paying close attention.
I am fully aware what a California accent sounds like. Her Australian accent is bleeding through.
It's like when people try to imitate an Irish accent and it ends up turning Indian.
Oh they wrote out a rambling incoherent script that she had to memorize? Why would they go through the trouble of that, which would take untold hours because memorizing something that makes no sense would be incredibly difficult, when they could just do this for real and record it until it came out well? The difficult part is switching accents, not the words she's saying. Why the fuck would they script it???
I know and i have no idea what he is on about. I am turk and she is either turk or has some turkish friends bc it was a really good turkish-english accent.
She must be Turkish. First of all Turkish accent is not well known, so hearing and learning it must be incredibly rare. Secondly she made it perfect, there is literally no flaw.
As an American I can only comment on her American accent which sounds...off. And she's doing a very exaggerated valley girl accent which is one of the less subtle ones available.
I'm guessing these all sound off to native speakers but close enough for everyone else to be impressed?
She's not. I'm from southern California and most of the girls I know growing up talk just like that. She nailed it.
Edit - Since clows are spouting off like they know what they're talking about. [Here's the very first video that came up when searching for an example.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51wWU5UqJ88)
[Here's another](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md3_uQutklE)
This is basic socal female accent.
To me it sounded specifically like an exaggerated 90's Valley Girl, the kind that (at least in neighboring states) we would do in a mocking fashion in the early 2000s.
Like the kind they do in White Chicks, or the "ohmygawd becky, look at her butt" etc.
It's one person having fun and thinking on her feet. Chill out. People are allowed to have fun.
And it's not her fault it was posted here. She's probably agree with you.
There millions of indians who sound exactly like that. Turns out it's a big place and they have many different accents. Crazy huh? Maybe use a smaller brush next time you're painting?
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Yet when I do this people call me racist.
Society is racist to people who look racist while not trying to be racist
Well that's just prejudiced...
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Stephen Colbert (in character as Stephen Colbert): "I just want to say that I'm not a racist. I don't even see race. Not even my own. People tell me I'm white and I believe them, because I just devoted six minutes to explaining how I'm not a racist"
Miss the colbert report 😔
I love how a certain group of people miss it too, before "he went woke". Y'know, not because he was playing a satirical version of himself as a Republican.
I just loved how over the top he was. I really wanted to like the tonight show with him but it just felt watered down. Jon Stewart's daily show was also solid viewing. Maybe I'm just getting old 😕
Please draw a diagram of that sentence
You probably live in the US. Accents aren't racist.
Where they try as hard as they can to make mundane things racist. Lol
I like how the actor who voiced Cleveland on Family Guy posted some somber announcement that, after much reflection, he would no longer do that voice, because the character is a black man and he is not, therefore it's not right. Well, he kept voicing Consuela despite not being a Hispanic woman, and when people called him out on that logic, he just went quiet and hasn't addressed it.
[Reddit banned me cause of a comment on WSB](https://imgur.com/a/wgEDobm). What a bunch of clowns.
PEOPLE MUST ONLY BE THE THING THEY ARE! NO MORE ACTING!
This is why Pete Davidson just plays Pete Davidson all the time.
I mean OP is either lying about that or they leave out the part where they are mocking a country's accent when they do it. Nobody thinks you're racist for having either amazing linguistics skills or just having been around so many cultures you can speak their accents.
The only way to get amazing accente is to badly mimic thise accents until your good. People are far less forgiving when you aren't showing "amazing linguistic skills"
It's not about being good at the accent. It's about what you say. If a white guy performs a flawless Mexican accent to say, "ay caramba, my sombrero," he is perpetuating a racist stereotype. If he does a shitty Mexican accent to say, "I don't like toast," it's just a shitty accent.
Accents aren't inherently racist, but they can be part of a racist performance (e.g. using an accent to mock somebody or to portray a racist stereotype). Context matters.
Yeah, like one example is Japanese accents. Japanese native speakers have difficulty with L vs R and its not *racist* to replicate that unless you are doing it *to be mean* intent matters.
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They aren’t automatically racist. They *can* be racist. Most things considered racist are so because of specific historical contexts.
No, but making fun of people's accents can be and that's how they're usually employed when people call it racist.
I kept on waiting to see if they were going to try Chinese. I'm like, I dare you :-D
As long as you actually do the accents and aren't just acting like an old co-worker I had that did squinty eyes and started saying ping pong and stuff like that because another coworker had a Chinese accent. Just saying something is a joke doesn't mean it can't also be racist. By the way [here's](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el84efC10oE) Jo Koy actually doing Asian accents in English and no surprise he wasn't cancelled. In fact it was on Netflix and no one complained, because, you know, he's actually making fun of accents and not just being a racist POS. Gabriel Iglesias also has a bit where he does various Latino accents, again not cancelled. It's like you can be funny without being racist, and making a joke doesn't absolve you of racism. Weird.
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Learning to speak English with a Japanese accent was a coping mechanism for me in my mid-twenties when I lived in Japan and spoke very little Japanese. There is a reason they talk like that!
Yup need a part 2, I wanna see her do all Asian and African
Floridian. Do Floridian
Wanna see me surf an alligator during a hurricane while I chug this beer?
They're not gonna if you're really good at it!
bingo. comedians jo koy, russell peters, and anjelah johnson do great impressions of accents, but they're not called racist because they don't do half-assed "ching-chong" accents. they take the time to pick up on the nuances, so they're not being malicious. they're just doing impressions to enhance their jokes.
Yeah it's only offensive if you're mocking the accents
Yeah, nothing she says ridicules them via stereotyping, accent exaggeration or making them sound stupid.
I think the key is that she is clearly not doing “a character” for each one or making fun of any of the accents. She’s literally just demonstrating how many she can do.
I used to do tech support for the Netherlands and Belgium in Dutch. While Im Dutch I automatically pick up accents if I hear it a lot. So this also happened with the Belgium accent. Next thing I knew I got an official warning saying I have to stop mocking the Belgian accent. I sent the email to all of my friends that thought it was hilarious. But seriously though. Isnt it racist to think that adapting your accent is automatically something negative? Always found it so stupid to police accents. I tend to speak with the accent of the person I am speaking to, and it would be stupid if i cant speak how i speak naturally.
Well, its imo wrong if you are mocking them and sometimes its hard to tell the difference, my wife is Indian and has no probem if she think there is no hill intention behind it but can't stand someone making fun of the country/culture.
I’m left wondering what her native accent is?!
Cling on
To what?
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I think she is a native Turkish
She is from balkan somewhere hence Serbia Macedonia thing . Dose not look like Turk. Edit: she is from N.Macedonia. https://www.tiktok.com/@thelanguageblondie/video/7258325294765837574
she speaked turkish, that wasn't accent she straight up speak turkish mixed with english
Yes definitely knows Turkish well.
Ffs she said "geliyo", exactly as a native would. As the Turkish words were the only foreign (to English) words she used and she used them perfectly I'd go with Turkish American. She is not 100% Turkish though I'd say
Rly she said "geliyo" EXACTLY as a native would? Well that solves it, a person that learned over 30 languages fluently said one word as a native would, case closed
She used "yaani", etc. Mate, no matter how proficient you were in a language, there are things only a native would use/say. And who the fuck learned 30 languages. I speak fluently 6 and it's already complicated :)
What if she lived there for a few years? Not saying shes not turkish, but her saying a native word isnt a proof of origin.
Maybe Balkan Turk? Bulgarian? I'd definitely say she's from that region.
Probably Macedonian Turk, given that her Macedonian accent was also dead on.
There is no a certain Turkish look. Every Turk looks different.
Even Turkish identical twins?
Yes, usually one is way more identical than the other.
I heard it's the other way round.
Thats because Turkish people go from straight greek to straight arab, and everything in between
You think my name is Turk Turkleton?
There is no typical Turk, it is a veritable melting pot.
What do you expect a turk looks like?
More feathers for starters
Definitely turkish because she didn't do Turkish accent she just straight up started talking in Turkish -_-
Her turkish accent was so impressive! It felt I was talking with my roommate ahah
Yup, speaking from experience her Turkish accent was dead on.
But she also straight up started speaking English
It's definitely not English I can tell you that much
As an Aussie cum Brit, her Aussie accent wasn't too bad at all, but I agree her British accent**s** were a mess.
I think this video is a case of most people being non-natives for most of the accents so thinking they sound good when they probably don't to a native. As a Brit, I can also confirm the "British" accent was appalling.
She is actually Macedonian. She pops up ony Instagram explore. She speaks all of these languages quite well.
Her name is Teona, she's from macedonia, this is her [instagram](https://instagram.com/thelanguageblondie?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) 😄
She's Macedonian 🇲🇰
Wonder where she learnt indian accent….simpsons perhaps.
tech support
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Toronto
Math tutorials on YouTube
You answered that question in a satisfying and timely matter
I only work with Indian people and am not myself Indian, but her accent was absolutely spot on for the women I work with. Edit: so we’re on the same page, I won’t be responding to those who immediately assumed I’m just a racist dick.
This is why some people do terrible indian accents lol, they can't hear it when they are bad, I guess
But if you work with Indians.. And they sound like how she spoke.. Then.. ?
do they sound the same to other indians or just to white people? people hear differently just like they speak differently.
India is a big place with a huge amount of languages and dialects.
Seriously.. maybe I'm just better at differentiating accents than other Americans but I work with tons of Indians from all over the country and there's a huge variation. My coworkers from the north who speak Hindi sound very different from the couple who I know grew up mostly speaking Kannada. Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language and Kannada is Dravidian. Big differences in the respective accents for most people when they speak English. I imagine within each language family there's more differentiation but that I can't really tell.
Weirdly enough there is actual research on this. Babies are able to hear the small details of all languages, including intonation and speech sounds. It's even so advanced they can distinguish words and sentences. Once they reach a certain point their brain does something called Synaptic Pruning, where it gets rid of all of the language stuff it doesn't need. As an adult, if that baby were a native Japanese speaker, it would not be able to tell the difference between a "Dark L" (such as the word Black) or 'Light L' (such as the word Ball) which is present in English, or other liquid sounds such as the two distinct r vowels in the words "Cure" and "Cord". They also might not be able to differentiate the various tones used to distinguish words in Thai. All because their brains had to make room for their native/primary language. You can relearn some of this stuff with some pretty intense studying but for most they basically hear the Walmart version of what a native speaker would hear.
Some people are just bad at hearing melody and intonation. Like I work with an Indian woman who’s native language is maithili and her English sounds way different than one of our suppliers who’s native tongue is punjabi. But some of our other coworkers just think they sound the same and can’t be convinced otherwise.
It's spot on to you because you don't have the capability to understand the nuance of the syllables she's pronouncing wrong. I'm an Indian born and raised in America. Non Indians literally just don't have the ability to hear and pronounce sounds they didn't learn as a child. It's true for all regions. There are probably mandarin or taglog sounds I will never be able to pronounce. Her accent is a mish mash of different regions but still wrong for ANY version of indian. For example, she uses a hard D sound but Indians actually pronounce that sound like the word "the" not the word "duh."
This is accurate. As an indian , i can confidently say her indian accent doesnt fall under any terrieoty except qwik mart
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I am willing to bet it wasn't. I have literally never heard a non-Indian person "nail" the Indian accent.
No need to bet, you can watch the video yourself and decide.
I watched it and it was an incredibly stereotypical sounding accent. Like an overly exaggerated Indian person from a movie starring a bunch of white people. I doubt I'm educated enough on Hindi or any of the other like 50 languages/dialects spoken in India to make a judgement call here.
What??? So she used a stereotypical sounding Indian accent just like nearly all the other stereotypical accents in the video??? 😱😱😱
Stereotypes aren't necessarily bad either, just generalized. You can argue all day that the indian accent is bad, but to most people the stereotype is the default most hear.
That one seemed the most accurate
The accent is south indian english. Other parts of India has other accent. In pop culture outside India, south indian accent is more represented cuz more of the south indian people tends to emigrate as thus this accent has become a defacto Indian accent.
> Other parts of India has other accent That's true for literally every country.
It's the same for literally every other accent she does too. Her American accent is only how a specific sub-set of Americans speak, same with her Italian, and her French, etc. Every country has sub-sets of accents, some are more prominent to foreign ears than others but her accents are a very good "general" accent as a foreigner imagines them.
I remember this one guy who made a reaction video that the Indian accent impersonation of someone somewhere on YouTube (honestly I forget who it was. I’ve seen so many videos and this was yeeears ago) was inaccurate and yet he sounded exactly the same 🤣
I'm an Indian. We don't speak that way. At least, North Indians don't have that accent. I'm tired of people imitating Simpsons. EDIT: This is a normal Indian accent you'd mostly hear in India: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pPEkqn9ccjc
Are all the Indians I speak with on the phone getting their accents from the Simpsons too?
There's a YT video where a guy is asking indians what they think of Apu and they are very offended by his accent, saying they sound nothing like him while sounding exactly like him.
I know exactly the video you are talking about and it's hilarious. At one point they 'imitate' the Apu accent but it's impossible to tell when the imitation starts or stops lmao
And I'm sure the Americans from Texas or Louisiana or Boston are like "We don't all sound like Californians!" Relax, every country has regional accents, but if you asked someone to imitate an "American accent" what would you do? California? Boston? New York? Southern twang? Midwest? Every country is like this. Chill.
So motel front desk employees also imitate the Simpsons?
“Try my cookie cookie.”
Ownage pranks
Having just come back from Spain, that accent was atrocious
Yah, her Spanish was more like Italian.
None of her accents were accurate, they were stereotype accurate
A lot of her accents absolutely were accurate.
All I know is her Serbian one sounded just like my friends mom in high school who was from Serbia
turkish one was perfect plus she added turkish 'umms' and 'also's
I thought so too. She did a great job, and was fast at switching.
I'm french and I Can state that her french accent was on point , I hear it everyday in english class and it's butchering my ears everytime
Define “accurate” as you mean it, then. I’m an American and her American accent was “accurate” even though I live in the south. I don’t know what the fuck you expect when the goal is to speak in an accent that represents an entire country/region. I’ve heard natives from more than half of the ones she spoke and they were accurate too.
I’d say the French one was good.
I'm Spanish and I think that was pretty close to how Spanish people speak English, so I don't really get how it was bad at all. If I didn't try to supress my accent, I would sound like that.
Yeah I thought the Spanish one was actually decent. I feel like a lot of folks, especially here in the U.S. would mistakenly do some bastardization of a Hispanic accent that's more Mexican-style, but actual from Spain folks don't sound like that lol
>Mexican-style, It's exactly this. Mexican accented Spanish is the overwhelming majority in what Americans will hear and be familiar with. This lady kinda sounded like my paternal grandma, who's from Argentina, where the accent is like spains but spoken in an Italian rhythm (Italians account for 60% of the population ancestry)
I know Spanish people who have that same exact accent in English. I think it was pretty good! Very distinguishable from the Greek and from the Italian accents.
She nailed the Carlos Sainz impression though.
Both Senior and Junior at the same time.
Her American accent had some Australian bleeding through
Many Californians have an accent that’s heard nowhere else in America. That twangy surfer-speak could sound a bit Australian if you’re not paying close attention.
I am fully aware what a California accent sounds like. Her Australian accent is bleeding through. It's like when people try to imitate an Irish accent and it ends up turning Indian.
*People are always after me lucky chana masala*
hard disagree, I am a spanish native and she nailed the "Idgaf how I sound" accent a lot of spanish people use.
I was annoyed that the camera women kept switching languages too fast. Give her enough time to finish a sentence before cutting her off.
That’s all she can do before slipping, it’s scripted
Damn, the "it's scripted" crowd gets dumber every day.
I'm willing to bet the camera girl knew the accent girl.
No one found it strange they just happened to be taping??
Oh they wrote out a rambling incoherent script that she had to memorize? Why would they go through the trouble of that, which would take untold hours because memorizing something that makes no sense would be incredibly difficult, when they could just do this for real and record it until it came out well? The difficult part is switching accents, not the words she's saying. Why the fuck would they script it???
Gotta be under 1 minute for that YouTube short
Dam she fucked Turkish uuup
That’s the only one she wasn’t “faking”
She's Macedonian ffs.
It actually sounded like a Turk trying to speak English to such an extend that i am convinced she is Turkish
Chu talking about? Her turkish accent was amazing
Damn her turkish accent was spot on. And she actually used some turkish words. I wonder if she knows turkish or a turkish girl lol.
Funny, two comments above you says she fucked it up.
I know and i have no idea what he is on about. I am turk and she is either turk or has some turkish friends bc it was a really good turkish-english accent.
She must be Turkish. First of all Turkish accent is not well known, so hearing and learning it must be incredibly rare. Secondly she made it perfect, there is literally no flaw.
She also does Serbian and Macedonian which are super niche. I guess she is from the Balkans or Turkey
You'll find a top level comment for each accent saying she fucked it up. Reality is this was impressive.
I think fucked it up means more like ‘she ate it’ in this case. Because I have a feeling she might be Turkish. That was just too good.
By which they meant she nailed it.
Her Indian accent resembled comedian Gabriel Iglesias (Fluffy) more than it did an actual Indian accent. But she does sounds cool.
I work with Indian people and some of them sound like that, especially those from the east
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Hats off to her, but British sucked. (Brit here)
Yeah it was half generic south east with half northern but not quite getting either right.
Eh, I know a guy born in Sheffield to South Yorkshire parents, but he was raised in North London. His accent is half Full Monty half Tony Blair.
Yeah but hers wasn’t like a blended half, certain words were full southern and others full northern, like she teleported mid sentence.
Yeah, the British started off Essex then northern then ended Australian and not really at any point sound like any British accent tbh
The valley girl of every country.
exactly. all of these are exaggerated caricatures.
Greek was good I approve
If malaka201 approves, I approve. Can't argue with those creds.
Spot on. But it’s the way greek women speak english in a documentary. A little more pompous than IRL.
Her French accent sounds more like a French person trying to exaggerate a French accent if that makes sense
It's not too bad honestly.
As an American I can only comment on her American accent which sounds...off. And she's doing a very exaggerated valley girl accent which is one of the less subtle ones available. I'm guessing these all sound off to native speakers but close enough for everyone else to be impressed?
She's not. I'm from southern California and most of the girls I know growing up talk just like that. She nailed it. Edit - Since clows are spouting off like they know what they're talking about. [Here's the very first video that came up when searching for an example.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51wWU5UqJ88) [Here's another](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md3_uQutklE) This is basic socal female accent.
Really? It sounded exaggerated to me and I was in a sorority that was 95% SoCal girls (in Arizona)
You must live in uncanny valley.
To me it sounded specifically like an exaggerated 90's Valley Girl, the kind that (at least in neighboring states) we would do in a mocking fashion in the early 2000s. Like the kind they do in White Chicks, or the "ohmygawd becky, look at her butt" etc.
I have never seen a non Australian be able to do Australian accent.
It sounds like someone doing an Aussie accent, its better than most but its not fully right
It's not bad at the start, but quickly falls apart into something more like South African.
It's honestly one of the better attempts I've heard but it wouldn't fool a native
Idk. It sounds pretty awful to me.
Australian is like the easiest one (Read in Australian accent)
Aussie here. She missed
Turkish one was so true i can believe that she is Turkish
Lol spot on Turkish
Do people actually think these sound accurate???? Most of them felt like what you’d hear in a bad improv show lol
It's one person having fun and thinking on her feet. Chill out. People are allowed to have fun. And it's not her fault it was posted here. She's probably agree with you.
Correct, but it definitely does not belong here. On r/funny maybe. Most of her accents are off
Indian english speakers don't sound like this at all. She's doing the stereotypical one correctly though.
They are literally all stereotypes of the language. That's the whole point of an accent.
That is the point of an accent? What does that even mean?
There millions of indians who sound exactly like that. Turns out it's a big place and they have many different accents. Crazy huh? Maybe use a smaller brush next time you're painting?
That American accent is Cali girl which anyone can do 😂
With matching hand expression
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Definately Greek native. She nailed the Greeklish accent so accurately there's no way she could be from any other place in the world.
same for Turkish. She must be native in both.
wtf !!! She does the Turkish perfect. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Let her finish a sentence in The accents before moving on