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He is the best, he was a genius, I am very flattered that there is always someone watching. I'm Eric, the singer. Eric still spends his days being a dialect coach for film and television and now I'm back with

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s and especially how much it can contribute to the overall narrative of the story Pacific Northwest Accent Tonya Harding Margot Robbie Yo, Tanya, come on, how am I the poor sport in all of this? Margot Robbie is really a fantastic

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You like her like I do, she captures something really great about Tonya Harding's real voice here, so beautifully that she knew she was going to do it. There's not much that's really distinctive about Pacific Northwest

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. One thing we found is a trapped fusion where the vowel. sounds and co t and c augh sound the same can I talk to you for a second? I'll talk to you for a second they are different in my accent and in many other American

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caught and called I don't care but we can hear those vowel sounds in cotton cradle words that sound the same here damn sorry I'm not answering talking responding here, boy, you don't like the dress billowing, ha ha ha, another thing I find really impressive vocally in this performance.

It's the way the voice changes as the character grows, you do dumb things when you're young, your vocal cords get stiffer as you get older, one of the things that does is lower the fundamental pitch and Drum, everything. It was like that, here is Tonya at 16 years old. I earn a lot before I have a I have a fur coat here she is 22 years old her skating career is over and I have no savings and here she is at 45 I never apologize for growing up poor being a redneck which is what I am Chilean accent Giancarlo Esposito better call Saul hello and welcome to the Los Pollos family brothers my name is Gustavo but you can call me Gus the character is originally from Chile but he moved to Mexico when he was young and I guess that's where he learned English.

Sorry for being so transparent because his English actually has more of a Mexican accent here than a Chilean accent. Listen correctly to the word cliente that we serve to our clients with a Chilean accent. He would be more likely to have you as a very open customer. Wow, while he goes with a much more typically Mexican version in English, which is complete customer service, customer service, customer service, and I think that's totally appropriate and a very fine touch for the character, well, maybe in the future you consider working for me, okay, please me, take your Put it with your hand right in front of your lips and say the word take, it will not be necessary to take, you felt a small breath of air, no, that's because we inhale that sound, many other languages ​​don't, and Spanish doesn't.

Usually when there's a Spanish speaker who speaks English, they say, here, he's doing that here we take, we take the pride of the pig and everything we do in other parts of the clip has a little bit of aspiration and of course the character ends. master that feature of American English, please, I'm happy to do it, which again I think is great because it's like he's working on it here, it's just not quite in place, there's always someone looking with a fresh accent at Jennifer Lawrence Reds Barrow, everything I've ever done. I wanted to be a dancer since I was little.

There is something that doesn't quite fit me. The logic of the accent is missing. It was never my intention. I want to focus on the oral posture because I think it is Jennifer Lawrence's oral posture. We can see, we can hear that through this I had never used a foreign accent before, so it was a first for me. He told me what happened in the park after I established trust. The back of his tongue is very loose and soft and why. Are we going to become friends and the front of his tongue is a little bunched up and doing the job he told me about what's happening in the park?

I think if she had reversed that equation so that the back of the tongue was bunched up and stiff and kind of like an anchor bill and the front of the tongue spread out a little bit like that and she took over some of the movement. I think she would have had a foundation, a logic that would have tied the sounds together and made them more Ganic and fluid. I have done everything they asked me to do. Alison Brie Glow Fake Russian Accent. So the cool thing about this is that it's a comedy accent that knows within the framework of the story that it's a comedy accent.

It is based on this, of course. I choose to go for the American title, of course I will win it, but I think Alison Brie just raises the bar even one more level. I love the way she has that palatalized vocal sound in capitalism, kind of like how John Malkovich had everything keyed in rounders that we talked about in episode one. I quote Missouri Ozarks accent Sam Rockwell three billboards outside having Missouri as a judge to not give him bail due to our previous marijuana violations in the judge said Sam Rockwell worked from a single real-life model.

For this police chief with an accent, I think in a southern Missouri town it's a cool experience, but I couldn't believe it was happening. I think he really shows that it is such a specific and detailed piece of work. I'm sure we'll just go to a specific vowel. sounds one of them is what we can call the goat owl and the other is the disgusting mouth will hear the first in the word not listen no and that disgusting mouth at the station station has both sounds are difficult, they slide from one sound to the another no and they are very wide diphthongs than in my accent, for example, so instead of O in know we get a starting point that is lower in the mouth oh no, something similar happens with the ow sound in the internal station. in a relatively limited way we get our house to pass I love it when patterns like that appear without a Texas accent Jeff Bridges hell or high water they're trying to raise certainly not, that's my desk I'm just going to take a few bags to get there pop quiz what they have Texas accents and South Asian accents in common Oh, give up, I understand the answer is retroreflection or the tip of the tongue curling back, require?

I think there's a greater concentration, you can hear that very tip-of-the-tongue retroflex Edie sounds here on how did you do it? how did you do it? is making contact, yes, yes, it's a note to linguists, it's not actually a post-alveolar retroflex consonant, but the tip of the tongue is curving back in that direction, yes, we are becoming more the inflection is purely West Texas, oh that was a good one, you'll understand this still Vietnamese accent. Hong Chau is downsizing him for me. I pay them well, no problem. I'm going, so some people thought this accent was an offensive stereotype for You're So Guilty.

The actress is actually of Vietnamese origin. This was a very personal role for me. My parents are Vietnamese refugees. She based this on real people she knew. Relatives and people should grow up surrounded by nice people. The Vietnamese have some of my favorites. consonant sounds in all languages, thank you, they're called voiced implosives and they're these, but look, look, sounds where the larynx actually moves down on the consonants and you can hear that here in a big box if you have an accent pronounced Vietnamese. The way you form those consonant sounds will come to your English, that's right.

American accent Daniel Kaluga, come out, they were asking me about the African American experience. Maybe you could choose this one. It's so good that there is nothing you don't like. accent I think it's a great performance I agree, yes, let's focus on an individual word, let's listen to the way he pronounces the word well here, well, well, and compare this to the same vowel sound in this episode of Black Mirror in the Kahlua area. Native accent. is good, so the vowel sound itself is a little bit different, the arch of the tongue is in a different place in the mouth, it's further back, the lips are a different shape, but another thing that's really interesting is the way it leans towards the intestine, like it's American. accents generally tend to be a little more vowel-centric, vowel length is somewhat flexible as it, unlike the staccato type, which slightly slows down Kalu's bird-centric rhythm, uses native accent and most of British English accents in general, it's perfect, thanks to the Texas accent, Michael.

I fell on mortal ground, so tell me more about the Father, what exactly did we lose? That sounds like Michael Caine to me. I don't need that kind of trouble, right? I don't hear any evidence of an attempted accent, which is an interesting choice, there's an interesting overlap between the Cockney accent and the Texas accent, which is in that mouth valve for both accents, it starts from a higher place and says wow, you can hear that in the word now, now you know why Michael Caine himself. vowel but it works for Texas now you know, but an accidentally overlapping vowel sound has no accent me Kentucky accent Andrew Lincoln the walking dead we made a lot of noise do you want to finish this quickly this is a fantastic accent know me and so much is true , you mean me so I'm going to be picky, there's a pretty universal Southern accent feature called pin pen fusion where we have the words pin and pan or other similar words that sound the same are almost the same bread and pan and It doesn't actually have that in a single word here, which is the word 10, which should sound more like 10, give me 10 seconds, 10 seconds, but it's a really great job, overall, I appreciate Penelope Cruz's Italian accent, the murder of Gianni Versace, as you know. my daughter, well, a lot of it is that, as a non-native speaker, doing a different accent in a second language, that's difficult, oh, she sure has really lowered her register, it's much lower in this performance than in her natural voice.

I'm paying Donatella and everyone. You know that where she speaks, you know, and it's a very unique, very particular way of speaking, every room or every indiscretion is very, very difficult for me every time we are for my family, for my children, just the killer, yeah , but they will simply become addicted. she has actually changed her accent and inflection from a Spanish pattern to an Italian one listen to this here it was a creation he was a collector he was a genius da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da like As opposed to this , it was almost like she was his psychologist too since his psychology is da da da da I worry about Jenny how shows were the future once Jenny was my little brother, even though you know we're always together.

Hello Australia, it's been noticed that we haven't given you much love, we haven't done any Australian accents before, so here are some Australian accents, Dev Patel Lyon, yeah, any idea what it's like to know that my real brother and my mother spend every day? of their lives looking for me, it has some very broad versions of the price vowel that you can hear and where it's like lie, how it is and lives to a large extent and at the same time it doesn't have a very pronounced Australian version of the diphthong a in the face . you can hear that in name and pain pain pain and it's actually very narrow the diphthong doesn't move very far and I'm not sure you can find that narrow name and that broad price in the same Australian accent makes me see but the accent has right in many details, it is completely integrated and his own, he is acting and, ultimately, that is the most important thing.

I bet you never imagined it would be this Australian accent, Kate McKinnon, a rough night, you don't have a calzone, she's just something. really clever and on point with those diphthongs of Oh goat and no joints and calzone calzone are really interesting in Australian English they have a totally different movement do you have chard and there's a little pharyngeal squeeze a throat squeeze she's actually I understand that's something very subtle. Is this a practical joke? Not everything is so good. I'm good. I'm really good. There is an R that shouldn't be at the end of the word.

Where and where are we? Where we are? we might be there if you go over the words directly, but she pauses afterwards so there shouldn't be an R there and where where we are is also very careful. I feel like she is aware of it all the time, she really isn't. an accent of your own, you're kidding, right? Antipodean accent Elisabeth Moss on top of the lake Detective Sergeant this one her character grew up in New Zealand she moved to Australia and maybe their accents are supposed to be a bit hybrid anyway this sounds really American in name and case, does it?

How can you know the name of the case instead of a much broader case of nine names? Which would be a lot of movement in the diphthong, something like that. Australian accents and even more so New Zealand accents are famous for what linguists call terminal high pitch, more commonly known as question intonation, which is the voice that rises at the end of what could simply be a statement, something like I like cake, how do you know the name of the case and how do you know the girl? The curious thing here is not only that Elisabeth Moss is using standard American falling inflections in these, but that these aretwo questions where you could really expect to have that intonation.

Australian accent. Zac Efron. Mike and Dave need wedding dates. Names. Rick just got back from Melbourne so we talked about it. the goose front phenomenon before is where the vowel in words like goose until is made with the arts of the tongue a little further forward in the mouth ooh, Zac Efron is not doing that here and the word make is way back, well, Yes, I do. she's supposed to have a bad accent they find out right away I know your brother dated my niece look Mike I don't know your niece so does it matter that she didn't get that goose face and the word?

I like it, it's probably better that she didn't have an Australian accent.Kate Winslet, the dressmaker. I can make you the most striking girl in the room. This is perfect. Why are you so interested in what I do? Let's suddenly focus on something that is incredible. It is a small detail of the oral posture. Check out. at the corners of his lips here, especially in the word dance, I hear football players dancing it's Saturday night, I see another type of downhill dance, dance, dance of a football player, there is a muscle here called depressor anguli oris, which is responsible for pulling those corners down, she is activating.

That's not something she normally does and it's perfect for the accent. California accent. Nicole Kidman. Big lies. This is a wonderful father. I mean, he's the best. The best. I can't think of a better one, so I'm going to choose. There's something here now if we hear the word better, better, better, this is her Australian accent creeping through Gilly, her tongue is a little arched, a little high, the best, the best instead of the best, which is what which would fit best with the rest of the objective accent is the best, listen to the word god here, he treats me like a goddess, she emphasizes it evenly, she is called desk goddess, which is an Australian English pronunciation unlike of the American goddess, but it's also the vowel in the first syllable where she has with a little lip curl we get gul gul Dez got it, which again is her Australian accent as opposed to the unrounded American version, ah goddess, like that that this is an amazing performance, you are sure of this, so why am I so picky just to point out?

That this is really difficult and takes time if it is not completely natural, it can fail when the actor has to concentrate on other things. I don't know where this comes from. I don't really have a Boston accent. Benedict Cumberbatch Black Mass. You should come to dinner sometime Marian, the kids would love to see you. We talked a little bit about Johnny Depp, Whitey Bulger's performances in episode three. Johnny Depp Whitey Bulger, so it's not just a Boston accent, it's an idiotic life and he forgot where we came from. In his oral posture here there is a retraction of the corner of his lip and a protuberance in his jaw, both of which can be seen in the real Billy Bulger.

My mother was born in Charlestown. My father in the far north. Joe is also high, so we have a kind of compression. space there is almost the shape of a plate inside your mouth, you know what John, it's good to see you doing so well, you can see him listening and breathing through that same shape in the space and the configuration, so when he speaks again Say hello to the guys in the plaza for me, he's there, everything's ready to go, he's staying there, Boston accent, Lucas covers Manchester by the sea, what a lovely neighborhood in Boston, if you selected from Iceland, oh, this is wonderful work, thank you. love tight lips and then against the teeth I could do that anyway we talked about softening the prices in Kentucky accents in Texas accents here's something that's not talked about much in Boston accents, which is softening the mouth, so instead of a diphthong, it starts at that place and really stays there.

Hear that here in the city and now there are many clogged toilets and drains all over the city. I have to maintain our boat now. What's also cool is that these are open vowels near the front of his mouth, you can actually see that shape on his tongue. now now where there are darts and canes American accent Matthew Reese Americans don't roll their eyes at me can you show me a little respect there are a bunch of little words that come up all the time and what of and of but many British Actors what will they do is to use the American version of the British vowel sound in those words and say waz and wow, are you kidding me most of the time?

I think when we hear a British actor's accent, that's almost perfect. but something sticks out is one of these words Matthew Reese says all right listen to what and he was in this clip what is spanking you my life was the joke so never hear him slip up with these words what what is what what are you what Are you doing Philips ? The American accent is a rhotic accent, which means that all the R's are there even in unstressed syllables and after a vowel you know that every once in a while Matthew Reese's native accent comes in and actually leaves one of those sounds like in the name Kimberley. here it's a tiny little thing but I think it makes a difference I'm done with that now I've had a Texas accent for a long time Brendan Fraser trusts that you think being rich would be very easy I think we can say that we are In Texas, this character is from and I think it's from East Texas, Austin and Corpus Christi makes you so sure that it's because of what we call the price vowel, the vowel and words like life, law and time like right in my accent, that vowel sound It is a diphthong. moves, travels a lifetime in much of the South and in West and Central Texas, that guy mellows out completely, so that it's no longer a diphthong, but just a long, loud laugh, right, Tom East Texas has this at a price, Valis, but not at others. it's all right and it does it well, thank you very much, so it's still a diphthong in the blood of life and that's all right, but it's soft in a quiet turn, which is exactly right and that cool cockney English accent Dick Van Dyke Mary Poppins , this might be the most famous.

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accent, I know the loyal Academy very well. I guess I don't know what I have to add. Let me tell you, I think Dick Van Dyke's jaw was born to have a Cockney accent. It's still a toss-up bet at your age. short, very prominent and bulbous, maybe there was an opportunity there if he had gone with his jaw to get closer to the real Cockney accent of the streets of London now, while that Wakandan accent sounds. Letitia's rights, black panther, these corsets are really uncomfortable, could we all? just wrap it up and go.

Conda is not a real place of course, the accent the t-shirt has here is really easy, plus it is a South African language and accent. John Connie originated the role of Chaka's father, two challahs in Captain. America, the Winter Soldier. I am grateful to the Avengers for supporting this initiative and he easily speaks OSS, so it became the language of Wakanda and comes Helena Musa. In any case, Leticia Wright is doing an incredible job. Something just works. Doesn't mean it can't be improved Queens Accent Tom Holland Homecoming from Spider-Man yes and with pickles and you can shake it very flat thank you this is really good thank you top to bottom I'm actually an actor.

British and I are playing spider-man. He is doing something that is specific to many younger Americans. What is the vowel sound in the IMG endings of words? -Americans has more of an a sound like in the word kit and he's making more of an e sound like and the word fleece, so joking, joking, I'm joking and that's something you hear from a lot of younger Americans, so it's totally appropriate. For the character, this is a great joke about the southern Irish accent. Gilligan and the preacher, don't yell at me, haven't cornered the market by being angry or Asia.

Southern Irish accents, when they get really expressive, tend to have a very high drop, that's the tone. contour listen to it here on no way no way it's really free and expressive why what is this what are the options that are supposed to mean I also want to thank ruth negga on this who is doing an amazing job she's actually from Ethiopia but raised in Limerick Ireland Cassady I know what you want. One of the interesting things is that the trap vowel, which is the vowel and words like ask, is a little bit higher up, so the arch of the tongue is arched up a little bit. so ah ah and you can listen to that, listen and stop wondering, stop wondering, that this is a really cool American southern accent.

I know, southern Irish accent. Gerard Butler PS: I love you Jesus, that's so much more, this is a joke. Gerard Butler apologized to the nation of Ireland for getting his accent very wrong, well good luck with that, southern Irish accents, the strut vowel, the vowel sound in words like calm down, come on mother, if you do click on that sound, all silly, mother, son, you will get crucial information about the whole posture for the accent and if you don't understand it, you will probably have difficulties and he does. Now we finish with the Belfast accent. Daniel Day-Lewis in the name of the Father, like you always follow me when I do something. wrong, why can't you follow me when I do something right?

I think this is one of the best movie accents of all time. Let's just talk about a diphthong which is the diphthong of the mouth. You can hear it in the word house, the only metal he was in. our ice so in American English the tongue starts at the front uh and goes up at the back ooh ow house Belfast English is almost exactly the opposite pattern: it starts at the back of the mouth and goes up to form a sort of from bow in the middle to house is also a great sound notice how good, I was happy, I was delighted, so there is a diphthong in American English that is similar to this, let's say the word ice, now put an H in front of that I did, It's not exactly the same as ice, but it's not a world away, it'll take you to the neighborhood I don't understand your language Scottish accent Christopher Lambert Highlander I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan, on the shores of Loch Shiel, did you drive little?

I'm not sure there's a tact: you can hear the word immortal now I'm immortal the funny thing is you wouldn't necessarily need to do that with a Scottish accent I speak funny - where are you from lots of different places? conclusion the final thought I want To leave you again, this is a tough speech, it is really complex, it is about the most complex thing that we do physically as human beings and it is something that makes us who we are, so if I am being very nitpicky in occasions or even splitting hairs, it's because I think this is something incredibly important and because I think we can always be better