The Russian one was also way off, but yes, still impressive.
Yeah that was hollywood russian
Same with the Australian. Not even close to accurate.
Kate Winslet in The Dressmaker is literally the only remotely convincing Australian accent I've ever heard from a non-australian. Seems it's near impossible to get right.
Ehh, as an Australian I give it a B-. It is an incredibly hard accent to master, and the speed at which she’s able to switch from a vast array of accents is impressive. With more practice she’ll nail it.
Her Serbian was really good!
As an American that knows an Australian and a Kiwi it sounds closer to the latter.
As a kiwi I thought she was probably an Aussie
Spiderman pointing meme
The difference is the Kiwi sounds like they can read.
🤣😂👌🏼 Are you saying that the convicts to our West are illiterate still?
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Yeah, i thought it was a pretty good Aussie accent. Was a mild one, you get levels of Aussie whines, sometimes they get to chainsaw levels.
As an American that knows an Australian and a Kiwi it sounds closer to the latter.
I didn't think it sounded New Zealander, but I guess somewhere in-between Australia and there.
So like, mid Tasman?
🤣👌🏼
As an American that knows an Australian and a Kiwi it sounds closer to the latter.
take that back!
Australia has a pretty wide range of accents, you can't really compare all attempts at an Australian accent to the particular dialects you're used to hearing.
Hers is exaggerated but I've heard people talk almost identically to it before.
Australia has three accents: Cate Blanchett, Australian, and whatever the fuck is going on in Bundaberg
Which one is Margot?
Gold Coast, which comes as Australian.
Nah, that’s part of New Zealand isn’t it? Everyone thinks they are going to strike it rich on the Goldy.. most end up coming home after a year or 2 but those that stay, they alhave made it big.. The government pays them handsomely for doing F all after a few years and residency 😂
Heyyyy.... I'm from Bundy. We speak proper good here.
Hahahahahaha is that just like a random Tuesday there???
Queensland speakers (some should remain silent though)
Err Im Australian and I know many girls that sound just like that so yeah nah, its pretty bloody good actually.
Yep, if that's not his native accent it's brilliant.
He's American. Not an Aussie myself so can't decide which is actually spot on or not but it's pretty amusing to see the number of native speakers losing their minds in the mentions.
Yeah, I am Aussie. He nailed it. Amazing!
Also: very fucking funny. "heaps are my life" 😂
“Nawwwwrrrrr”
The Australian sounded pretty damn good to me.
They're all exaggerated/movie accents, because that's how she learned to do them. It's also what most voice acting is looking for.
She's Macedonian btw.
As someone who lives in a mostly Slavic community, it’s pretty bang on the money for a heavy Ukrainian accent, I know several Ukrainian grandmas who sound just like her
Nah, it's surprisingly close (am Russian)
If she had used more jotas it would have been a bit more obvious, but I wouldn't call it terrible (edit for our North American friends : Spaniards really don't have the same accent when speaking English as Mexicans or any of the many Spanish speaking countries in the Americas).
That was a lot of very good accents, and I've met most of them in my years of ERASMUS and Couchsurfing. I wish her friend had left her a bit more time for each !
A lot of her vowel slips do sound like the kind of slips Americans do when doing these accents though, though her Spanish was indeed surprisingly bad for an American, but could've been a slip up under pressure. If she isn't American, she's from somewhere that similarly makes their central vowels in the middle of the mouth with the tongue raised mid-height.
Not sure what it was, but something was off enough about her American accent that it shaded into the uncanny valley of accents.
Agreed. The American wasn't quite right for any area of the US that I am familiar with, at the very least.
though her Spanish was indeed surprisingly bad for an American
Genuine question: is it because Americans are used to Mexican Spanish accents? Rather than European Spanish accents?
I noted watching the credits on a Netflix show that they had credits for two sets of Spanish voice actors: Mexican and European
I think exactly this. She was doing a Spanish accent from Spain, not a Spanish accent from Mexico. They are very different and I think they thought she was doing a Mexican's Spanish accent. In which case, it would have indeed been very bad.
All that said, the only people who would say these accents are bad are the native speakers. Which I can understand, but imo she spoke the stereotypical accent for each and she did excelled at that. For example, the Australians may not have liked her accent but if an American, for example, heard that on the street 95% will believe she's Australian.
Her Turkish is too on point including gestures so she is probably Turkish or at least have some relatives. Looks the part as well.
Actually she is Macedonian, so I guess still close
Then she %100 has relatives.
I mean I don’t know her personally, but I’d say not necessarily. We have A LOT of Turks living here and we used to be under Ottoman rule for roughly 500 years, which ended a 100 years ago. A lot of things stuck around and our language is filled with Turkicisms to this day
Its not just borrowed words though. Its the way she speaks. What she did in the video is called "plaza english" in turkey which is a meme term used for white collar workers who use unneccesary english words in their regular talks to "appear" to know english. That's a highly localized pattern of talking
She's Macedonian / Aromanian.
Yeah, probably from the Balkans, Serbia/Macedônia inserted there were a little too random to be a coincidence
Definitely not Greek. They're not to fond of Macedonia.
The accents on the whole weren’t that good in my opinion, but her ability to switch between them was impressive
She actually speaks turkish so she might be a turk?
Her Turkish accent was definitely not on point. Turks don't really do the rolling R, they only to flaps or fricatives, and in Istanbul they do an approximant like in English.
Her Turkish accent was really good what are you talking about
Her American was a complete stereotype, not a true accent.
Millions of American girls sound like that on the west coast
Some do. Easily picked out as a stereotype though because that's the accent that gets exported by Hollywood, so many people abroad think of it as the "American" accent, despite it being a very specific area inside the USA.
I agree. Almost added that. Its like a Hollywood valley girl thing, never heard anyone talk like that though.
Even if she was American, that was a forced American accent like when I(American) try to sound like someone from California.
Note: Been to California many times. Noticed zero difference from my native state of Michigan.
Her Spanish was perfect. Have you ever spoken to a Spanish person? From Spain… when most people say “Spanish” they don’t mean Mexican.
I know what I said, I know what I meant.
Hard to appreciate how her Spanish could be “perfect” when shes doing an accent on a totally different language.
So maybe ease off the know-it-all-ness
I agree. It sounded like India.
It was an okay imitation but it was obviously an imitation.
Her Greek was absolutely the worst
My opinion is that you don't just casually pull out (North) Macedonian. Definitely from the Balkan region
Her Spanish almost sounded Ukrainian?
She did not do a single good one. Ok for making jokes and playing stereotypes, but... bad.
I thought it was pretty good (I'm from Latin America)
Her Indian accent was quite bad too, apart from perhaps stereotypical.
We have the largest English-speaking population in the world; plus, we speak so many languages (and therefore have so many accents); one might be surprised to know that even within India, there’s a myriad of different English accents.
I’m sure there’s no malice intended by OOP, but, I mean, we’re a big country.
Her Indian accent was off as well.
Pretty sure she's an ozzy who over does her ozzieness
Not enough C-words or F-words to be Australian.
Calt water crocodile? Fwallaby?
Fangaroo
that’s the reverse giveaway. she’s suppressing it
Nope, her Aussie started off well but ended up with complete gibberish.
You mean french?
Sounded like a mixture of Aussie, Kiwi and South African.
Yeah, that's called someone who doesn't do a good Australian accent.
Her Aussie accent is pretty ordinary
It was a little ‘valley girl’-esque
As an american, her british sounded spot-on, so I guess that checks out with what you said.
It wasn't a good Aussie accent
Definitely not American
Her American sounds Californian
It sounds like a movie Californian accent. Exaggerated
Which is exaggerated LA, specifically.
It's an exaggerated valley girl, snd nit very good, which is why im pretty sure she is not american.
And is she is... she is probably from the east coast.
Straight out of the valley
No it doesn’t. It sounds like what non-Americans think a California accent sounds like. It’s a very typical accent of someone who’s not American trying to do an American accent but it’s not accurate at all
It sounds like someone trying to make fun of an American accent to me
Whatere you doin ere?
It's amazing how the 'posture' of her face changes to illicit the accented speech.
Elicit not illicit lol
As a non-native-english speaker I've noticed that my pronunciation improves 100x when I'm doing a character/parody/stereotype. So I immediately noticed that she's probably also doing this by creating a "character" in her head and then embodying it.
Turkish descent, possibly Germany diaspora. A lot of non-filler Turkish words, ends the section with what sounds like "çok nice geliyo to mich." Also "Tuana" is of Turkish origin, can't make out her last name.
She's Macedonian / Aromanian.
That explains why her Serbian was so good!
Well, color me impressed - she's got that particular patois nailed.
She is Türk. I know her from her YouTube channel :) She lives in LA.
She herself declared herself as Macedonian, so I don't know who to believe.
She doesn't says I'm Macedonian, she says we are Macedonian immigrants. What that means? During Ottoman Empire times, Turks moved to Balkans and lived there for centuries. Some of these people forced to leave after Ottoman Empire lost these places and some of them run away during the war in 70s, 80s and came back Türkiye. Turks who came from Balkans are called ... immigrants like "Macedonian immigrant", "Bulgarian immigrant" to refer where they used to live; this doesn't mean "I'm Bulgarian", this means "I'm Turk who immigrated back from Bulgaria to the motherland".
Turkish her mother tongue.
I'm American and had to google Macedonia. I did a "wtf?" face when I heard it. I was like isn't that from like Sparta-times?
Feels kind of odd to ask but that's still a country, eh?
The last history/world geo class I took was before I saw The Matrix so I'm gonna go ahead and say it's not my fault.
It's North Macedonia since recently. A fairly new country in its current form (somewhat older than the matrix though), used to be part of Yugoslavia. There are mostly Slav people.
I could be mistaken here but I don’t think it’s the same country or peoples, just name.
The Turkish sounded heavily influenced by South African. The famous SA diaspora in Turkey.
Her British was rubbish
Very stereotyped Indian accent
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Yup, Russian, Spanish, Indian were all Hollywood accents. But so was US Californian. Her British was pretty subtle, so British / Irish is what I'm guessing her native is.
She's Macedonian / Aromanian, but her native language is Turkish.
I’m sure she would have done an Irish accent if she was Irish. Others here are saying she’s Eastern European.
“Its ok to joke about everyones culture EXCEPT mine, thats racist.”
I think what he meant was that it was way off and like what you hear in the stereotypical Indian accent that isn’t a real Indian accent. As in an Indian can tell that we don’t sounds like that. Sounds like that is true for a lot of her accents based on this comment thread though.
Lol was like a straight apu type accent…
They're all stereotyped accents I think
Maybe, but I have heard Indians who sound just about exactly like that. So maybe it's a stereotype for a reason.
We Indians have a huge diversity within our country itself. I am sure the stereotype comes from one of our regional brethren having similar accent, but for others from a different region it will feel like it's a caricature and not a representative of the whole.
Can confirm. An Indian.
I'm indian. Shit was spot on. Sounded like an aunty.
Bullshit. It's not remotely close to any accent I've heard. What part of the country do you think sounds like that?
I thought Indian was one of the better ones.
Irish
Robin Williams always said Irish was the hardest accent to keep up, it inevitably morphs into Scottish.
There are so many flavours of irish, the irish you hear in Hollywood movies is as irish as "received english" is english.
But one thing I've never heard in Ireland is as much rolling of the tongue as you'll commonly hear in Scotland. I'd say that's the big distinction, for me.
I find it easier to keep up an Irish accent than a Scottish one. (I’m not saying the accent is good, but it’s definitely more Irish than Scottish.)
nah, Scottish is easy you just have to keep the inflection confrontational; an Irish or rather Gaelic accent is way more sing/song and melodic. An Irish accent starts out on the lilting high notes and oscillates back and forth between that and a high baritone; Scottish starts out more guttural and finishes light.
As an Irish person, any description of Irish accents as lilting/sing-song/melodic always sound far more like descriptions of stage-Irish accents than any of our actual accents.
Most Americans' idea of an Irish accent makes us sound like the Lucky Charms leprechaun.
As a Scotsman, and pretty much every Scot would agree with me, no one outwith Scotland can do a decent Scottish accent.
Edit: the only exception being Johnny Lee Miller playing Sickboy in Trainspotting, that was exceptional.
Nobody not from the Balkans knows that many Balkan accents
She's actually Macedonian
Turkish was %100 correct.
You are 25% incorrect.
Turkish version is more like "plaza language" which is simply people speaking Turkish but throwing English words here and there. Nevertheless she really nails it at sounding like a Turkish.
To me, her Turkish really sounded South African. Not 100%, but more SA than Turkish. And yes, I do know Turkish speakers who speak to me in English. I was confused.
The fact the Russian one was "when I see people I tell them to stop bothering me" lmao
I think it's the short bluntness in the "oh" sound in St"op" and b"oth"ering , familiar cadences and phrases are really useful when doing accents,
I bet she would slip into "drop that, it isn't" or some such. I have words or cadences I lean towards when doing certain accents.
Her Russian was bad cinema Russian
She ain’t British I’ll tell you that much
Her French accent is so accurately bad it’s actually insulting.
i think she's dutch
Joke's on you, this is Gary Oldman.
She seems to be excited.
Itt: incels criticizing every accent while they couldn't one of them as well
The real trick here is to figure out her friend's accent
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Her turkish is so on point that I'm (and most of the other commenters) are sure that she is raised in turkey. Idk about actual nationality tho
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Gotta shit on people just to make yourself feel good eh? Shes pretty incredible but they are not perfect.
Some people are just so miserable lol. She’s just having fun and switching that quickly is so difficult but people just gotta find problems with something meant to be silly
Ok then
That's uh.. some username OP.
All the points for being able to switch between accents immediately. That more than makes up for (allegedly) not having nailed every one 100%. Fun video!
The American one was horrible. The rest seemed pretty good.
Joke's on you, she's actually Chinese
Indian wasn't that good. The rest were cool
Her native accent is jive.
Her spanish accent no bueno
She is Bulgarian
British!
"Quite frankly"
She's Macedonian
Ok
Damn, Italian accent started super well but of course she had to end it with the stereotypical "-a" attached to random words
She is Türk 🇹🇷
She got most of it right, not easy without a script
As someone who knows next to none of these even remotely close enough to comment, the Spanish sounded more like Finnish to me.
Something about her made me think German tbh
My guess is Australian. If she isn't, then her Australian is really good (coming from an Australian), whereas I didn't think her other accents, particularly American, British, Russian, were 100%
The Indian headshake should have been more exaggerated , smh.
She's a mimic
Sure.
I reckon she is Aussie
You can easily tell whats her native accent, she is okay at accents
This is what it’s like to have a conversation with a three year old if you remove the accents.
69 full seconds of talking and said nothing.
Her American wasn’t very good
She is very goog and funny how come to say she isn't?
Born and bred in Southern California. It's a good copy, but it's a copy.
Okay, I've watched this whole thing like six times...
I think she's American, doing a stereotypical Southern California accent. Final answer.
Well, she’s not American. That accent was the only bad one.
Brilliant!
So after reading the comments she was really bad at every accent but most say she did a good job. It’s the internet you can be mean
Stereotype accents
Her Spanish was bad, so shes not American or Spanish.
But still pretty damn good. A lot of accents.