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hey y'all welcome to easy English today

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I want to ask the question

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Cambridge do an American accent let's go

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do an American accent probably a very

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bad one that most Americans would hope

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cheeseburger grab a cheeseburger yeah

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like coffee

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ma'am

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okay that sounded pretty legit I'd like

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a cup of coffee I kind of guess I'd talk

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like that a bit and maybe a little bit

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different here I am you're hardly

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walking down Broadway Batman

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that was an English guy

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yeah geez something like that yeah no

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not really no but if you're from New

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York you talk more like that

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I'm gonna take my horse to the downtown

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road yeah if you weren't in a hurry for

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uh you know some meaning in the sentence

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we've sort of started about now I'm not

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going to try and do an impression of an

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American I I don't have any insult them

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where would you say that is based around

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I would say that's Texan I think it's

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mainly New York and New Jersey with the

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queue kind of the quality do you know

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what kind of American accent he might

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have been doing there or do you think

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it's like a I think that was a generic

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Batman accent it's not really the one I

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would hear the most is the southern

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accent which is obviously one of the

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thickest ones but I don't think I could

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do it so what is your accent

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if you have one well I mean people

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misconstrue us as being companies I

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think sometimes I don't really know I

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mean I'm from the home I I'm from

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Hampshire originally Hampshire Surrey

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border if you ask an American British

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I'm interested to know I'm sure they

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would do they think we're Posh yeah

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that's what I mean probably because I'm

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from the Midlands there's a bit more of

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a kind of Birmingham talks a bit more

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like that inside it's more like a bit

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lies yeah when I'm visiting family

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you're in the west country well then you

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see you're gonna hear a little bit of

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that sort of summer start

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gloucestershire West Land stuff and and

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the right and that's why it goes back

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into town and drops into bristle oh then

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oh it's all right my lovely and you can

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understand anything you know Southern

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England I would that's what I would say

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was my my accent you take me to

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somewhere like Chelsea and I sound like

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I will say Brighton and I will drop and

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I will say you drop the team if you had

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to describe rights and how would you

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describe it oh

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um

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lazy accent I guess

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I cut my teeth in East London in Tower

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amnes I was a teacher a kids who would

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speak really fast and have a lot lots of

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things and all the vowel sounds were

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really sort of widened and really

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stretched out do you have a favorite uh

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not not really no I'd say I'd say the

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New York accent is probably well New

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York would probably be okay the most

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familiar to me and is that your favorite

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American accent

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yeah I always I would say so yeah it's

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better than the old Hillbillies down in

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the southern part Southern States and

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stuff like that have you been to America

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Florida and New York and California so

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my dad worked for an American company

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so both my mum and dad did at one point

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so they would say Caribbean instead of

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Caribbean have you been to America

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before yeah I've been to America a few

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times actually luckily for me which is

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great been to New York and uh California

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and traveled around but I love movies so

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you know mainly from there I guess have

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you been to America I have been yeah

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many many years ago where did you go uh

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L.A I've always felt a bit of a

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thing with New York really we've been

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there on holiday and then how does it

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differ from a British sex is uh

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completely different you notice that

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people

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often pronounce words yeah like schedule

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is now scheduled

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and that's an americanism and it's just

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become normally used in English yeah New

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York's got more of a twang to it and

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it's definitely more StreetWise sounding

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but then so is London so maybe that's

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city rather than anything else City

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versus country like we say thorough they

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say thorough right you say rude they say

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route yeah and they they say military

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and we say military in England we say

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Lieutenant they say lieutenants yeah and

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how do you why did you hear that so

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often

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uh I don't know is it um

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well I guess Gone With the Wind years

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back and things like that and Dixie I

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also loved music so kind of like you

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know Jazz and all the the science stuff

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is really good I guess you've got like

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certain American actors that you might

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pick up from like like Al Pacino he's

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got quite a strong American accent but

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I'm not sure exactly where from when

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British movies go over to America they

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get sometimes day off to day two

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sometimes subtitle it particularly if

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you got like a Geordie accent or

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something like that other than those two

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accents I think the rest is very very

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difficult for me to pick up and where I

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know if you're an American I suspect you

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can sort of pinpoint roughly where

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people come from do you think there's

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something in the pace of life that

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changes your accent definitely yeah

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because if you're in a fast moving fast

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happening place you tend to speak fast

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too and walk fast usually if you're in

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New York or Chicago they speak really

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fast and it's almost staccato

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so there's a different speed to it as

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well as sound to it depending on where

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you are the sauce is more drawing yeah

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wow yeah yeah I think the vowel sounds

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seems to be more drawn out yeah yeah I

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seem to make more of the vowels and

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perhaps we do in them or

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straight off the bat English Matthew

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McConaughey with that all right the

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southern all right all right that very

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light lazy stretched out of the you know

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stringing out of the word I guess some

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parts of the when I say the cheeseburger

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you kind of

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accent like a different part of the how

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you pronounce your vowels I think yeah

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it's quite sort of rough around the

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edges I guess that would be a rough New

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York accent yeah just like a rough

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London accent I guess thanks for

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