Can American Tell who is a Foreigner just by their English? Find REAL American!

honestly, I'm front the US and I don't know most of the states

American college student here dying from studying to much 🙃😰

@@lavenderelski8337 are you 11

@@NeatoBurrito05 No, I'm actually 16. I just don't have he best memory, nor care, to remember most the states.

"What's west of Texas?" - and the answer is: New Mexico. I'm from there and I am forever having to explain to my fellow 'Mericans that this is a US state and NOT the country of Mexico.😉

This is cause my name was exposed at the beginning and if I spoke in a full American accent she would've known it was me, I panicked and didn't know what to do 😅

@@illairl I mentioned that it was stupid to introduce yourselves at the beginning of the video rather than the end. I'm wondering how is it that there is no one among you that could've pay attention to this simple matter. Such a killjoy

Yeah, it's really easy to trick someone into thinking you're not American if the game is to pick out who is the American. Plus, as was noted, lots of Americans have leftover accents if they were naturalized citizens.

@@aruara832 And that was stupid to mention. Some movies give away the criminal in the first five minutes and make sure the remind the spectator from time to time. They do that so you can appreciate what the villain is doing and because it's subversive as the villain becomes the hero.
It's far from being stupid, it's just that you don't like it.

@@illairl well you ruined the whole game.
Your job was to be normal, to speak normal. I want my 9:59 back.

Spanish or Portuguese accents from Latin America can be really cute :) don’t be insecure when talking to native speakers we love hearing accents and we don’t expect anything perfect Bc we know you didn’t grow up speaking it.

A LOT of Americans love accents btw :) They give an exotic feeling, that many people like, so don't be insecure ^_^

Many Americans especially those that live in big cities are very used to people with different accents. I think an accent shows the effort someone has put into learning another language that is not your native language .
Im learning Korean right now. I definitely understand feeling insecure to speaking a non-native language. Especially when asked to speak Korean by my teacher.
I thinks it’s crazy that we are not taught another language at a younger age. Like English is taught at a young age on other countries.

I agree with everyone here; I'm American and we are really used to dealing with people with accents on a regular basis. I would say for a lot of people it's everyday or almost everyday, and for everyone else at least every once in a while. There are a few rude people who would make fun of someone for their accent but the majority of people have no problem at all, and many of us really like accents, including me. :))
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My boyfriend is Puerto Rican and I love his accent

I just said the same thing on how you pronounce Nevada! Hurt my ears every time Hailey said it.

The Nevada pronunciation killed me too. And the best way to out yourself as not being from NorCal is to call it "NoCal" similarly no Californian says "Cali" at least not up north.

@@Phairyn. huh really? A lot of my californian friends say that just like how they shorten every other word, the ones in highschool atleast

@@Phairyn. I'm from Silicon Valley, and I'll say "Cali" when talking to people not from California.

British chick’s accent was very good but it was way too valley girl. It sounded like someone trying to imitate a stereotype.
“What’s your favorite landmark?” My family ranch
Cmon. It’s hilarious the American girl is even trying to pretend that’s a possible answer a native speaker would give.

exactly!

Same with my love. Ergghhhh. So privately

Hailey seems conceited

FOR REAL😂

lol

That information is necessary for American viewers. They don't know what language people speak in England.

Have you visited England recently? It is not english anymore.

@@roberth4395 What language has replaced English in England? I've been to London and the English people don't speak any language other than their own which is English.

@@adamhradil7923 ?

Lmso this comment thread made my day

Not even LA?

@@dwaynepeters4520 to be fair she probably new some citys but didn’t know if they are from SoCal or NoCal

@@swiftie3288 she probably didn’t even know what SoCal means XD

i felt like that was a big red flag because most californians would at least give a region. like she said socal, so a californian would probably say la, orange county, riverside, san diego, etc. to give an idea of where in socal

@@mscoot629 I think that was it. Most Germans would probably be able to name at least LA as a city in the South of California, but I have never ever heard the abreviations SoCal and NoCal, she probably didn't know those.

yup, from Hailey's accent, I am guessing she is from a large city east of the Mississippi

i’m so sorry ! I ended up saying the typical stereotype sentence but I don’t know if I forgot to say it or it got cut at the editing part but since I moved to Korea I made many American friends (specially from LA idk why) so I got to know so many things! Sorry again and take it as a compliment! Many American things are famous so we ended up getting influence from them🙏🏻🙏🏻 sorry 🥺🙏🏻 have a nice day! ☺️

@@_irenesanz Don’t be sorry!! We all thought it was funny lol

She’s not wrong tho! Lol

@@_irenesanz Irene, me has caído mazo bien! Jajajaja

It is tho. Politics, school shootings racism etc

I was thinking if she said Texas, that would have fooled even me lol

That's what I was thinking too, I would've picked Florida and Miami because there's a lot of Brazilians there but I would definitely trip up on that choice since I know near nothing about the state other than Florida man and crocodiles 😂

Nope. Yes, Florida has a lot of people from Cuban descent and have an accent, but it's still American. The Latin accent is not as strong. There is a certain confidence in the speaking when it's your native language, even if you have a slight accent due to your heritage.

@@aewtx I get what you’re saying but many people can’t really tell those subtleties. I as a Hispanic person familiar with different Spanish accents can tell Irene is a foreigner but many people would easily be fooled.

@@jsphat81 Fair point.

And regional accents

Mississippi 😂
Southern accent

Jimmy Fallon has a really strong American accent for example lol

@@vitorsousa9067 thats so interesting i never would have thought of it that way because he doesnt sound more american to me than any other american celebrity. like his is just standard american english

When I found out that my college RA was from Korea, I asked him where he learned English, and was shocked when he said he learned English in Korea. I swear, he had less of an accent than I did.
OTOH, one of the most unsettling experiences I had was when I ate in a restaurant with a Chinese woman who spoke with a heavy Texas drawl.
I have met and worked with many non-native English speakers. One was Soevi. She was Indonesian, and often apologized for her English. I was constantly telling her that I could understand her much better than Mr. Mullick, a native English speaker of Indian (not Native American) descent.

#4 for the win. She did it perfectly!

Wut?

Her accent wasn’t obvious
What?

I think they're talking about number 3 who was faking a British accent

DO YOU WANT SOME TEA?🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

???....???? Reaaaally? I guess i picked it up better.

I live in Germany and I agree!!!

I wonder why they didn't choose foreigners with American accents? Wouldn't it be harder to guess? I'm Russian and have never been in America I picked up the accent from tv shows and often get mistaken for an American 🤷🏼‍♀️

There are 50 US states with about 330 million people on a size 28 times bigger than Germany. There is not "the" American accent. Indeed in some states you can find native speakers who sound like Germans fluent in English. So that's nothing you can really rely on.
Sure, she doesn't sound like a native speaker from California or from most Hollywood movies you might know.

@@vankroenen2145 I mean sure. This is just my perspective as a non-native. To me she did sound convincing probably because I am used to hear all sorts of European English Accents including German. Especially older people have really harsh English accents so to me she sounds more like a native than probably 98% of the non-native speakers I talk to every day. I‘ve lived in London for a while and get mistaken for a British native, mostly by non-natives but also Brits as well. So I guess it depends really on your own experience with the language.

Completely agree!

thing is that if someone asks you to do things what you dont even notice, its difficult, kinda like how its easy to act innocent but not when you are innocent in real,

hmm, that “possibly” gave the britishness away. also the millennial lisp was a little too forced

I notice that I have a fairly strong accent but there's not much I can do about it except wait like 2 seconds before saying a word thinking how I'll say it

Number 4 was too valley girl to be from Nevada in my mind. I dont think the girl listening paid attention to that

Well, perhaps I belong to the minority then. I do have an accent (a relatively mild one, compared to some of my compatriots, but still), and I don't want to hide the fact that I'm not a native speaker. Had some good laughs and giggles in the past, when the people tried to guess my native country based on my accent.

She's right though. And I would never describe McDonald's fries as being crispy 🤣

@@OMGSHEENA Yea, we always describe McDonalds as something negative lmao

Also, McD's french fries are not good anymore. They're soggy and gross. Best fast food fries are Burger King. Unless you count Mr Beast, but they don't exist everywhere.

Having McDonalds as your favorite burger joint is weird. McDonalds is like Walmart, everyone says they don't shop there but somehow the place is always packed.

@@Nezuko_was_here I’m American and I love McDonald’s French fries. Probably my favorite French fries next to in n out fries

yep，but we all know it means right

Yes everyone has an accent but if they got the same accent as you, you dont consider them having an accent if tthat make sense

@@AkamapD that just mean they have the same accent as you. EVERYONE have a accent, we need to stop saying otherwise

@@AkamapD that‘s funny，i think you have to find a standard like the general American accent or British accent，what types of accent are you looking for，in general，people are more lean into the American one，cause those movies and music.

@@AkamapD Exactly

That's what I thought the whole time. I thought that it was just because I'm from Germany and I know that accent but it definitely didn't sound like a native speaker..

It's very slight and I wouldn't be able to tell it's German rather than just European, I think it's more obvious it's German if you're German. I'm Russian and I can tell when somebody is Russian even if they have a near perfect accent, which sounds Scandinavian to native speakers apparently lol or like that person moved to America as a a kid

Me as a German hear that as well, but I also hear Peter Herrmann's (Younger) German accent bright and clear, especially in interviews. I think it's the misconception of German accents in North American Media (harsh r, weird th)

Honestly, as a US Midwesterner, I've found that well-versed Germans can be pretty good at putting on an American accent. She does a pretty good job here, it can be easy to miss the German accent if its not too thick. It can almost sound cosmopolitan, which can totally be American.

Idk man, she would've tricked me

And a South African

Depending on the province, that could be impossible

Canada is in America too as is Mexico and much more (:

@@jamesparson it would be. Quebec has a lot of anglophones too

@@Cassxowary there are diferent world maps, here in latin america we use the whole america one, but they use the north and south america one, it's just a diferent education, and that's fine

"Americans" are all people who live in the American continent, not just in the United States!!

Shut up Ron Weasley

yeonjun,,,,

yeonjun in ur pfp

Aluminium, I reckon

I'm from the United States, so my english is about a 7.

when was the "R"?

​@@williambuttlicker5654 2:26 and 2:44
Both times when she says "New York," she doesn't pronounce the "R" like most Americans would. She says "New Yohk" instead

@@williambuttlicker5654 avengeRs

"Americans" are all people who live in the American continent, not just in the United States!!

@@revolucion-socialista sounds like such a south american thing to say

America is a Continent!! Ignorant

@@shewolf7570 Entiendo cómo te sientes. El problema es que en la lengua inglesa no existe adjetivo gentilicio que describa a alguien con la nacionalidad de los Estados Unidos. En el español latinoamericano se puede usar estadounidense pero no existe un equivalente en el idioma inglés.

@@shewolf7570 u mean 2 continents right, must be that spanish colonization getting to yah

Dude there’s a lot of Mexican in USA and a lot of them has her accent and btw Mexico and Latin America is literally on the same continent and Mexico is literally south of the country

@@hallooos7585 she doesn't sound mexican at all tho lmao, or even first gen. Ik a lot of first gen spanish speaking kids that have a slight accent just from their parents or community but she straight up sounds like english is a language she learned later in life. Her accent was the most obvious to me, although obviously her English is still fluent

It sounds like someone trying for a "valley girl" accent. It didn't really sound that legit...but if I had known everyone was faking (as was the case), I'd have needed a lot more time to tell (as in, is she doing every sentence with a rising inflection? just to make me think? she's from the valley? but maybe she's from somewhere else? because a lot of Americans? think they can fake that accent too?) If the Spanish girl hadn't tried to get rid of her accent entirely, and said she was from L.A. or San Diego or other parts of CA, AZ, TX, or even FL, NY, or Chicago, I MIGHT have guessed her. We have a LOT of native Spanish speakers in this country...

Yeah it was a really good accent, but as soon as she said" ya know....like" in that super overdrawn valley girl way I was like HAILEY SIS ITS A TRAP HOW CAN'T YOU TELL XD

West Coast guy here. Everyone saying her accent was exaggerated has apparently never been to the West Coast. She did it perfectly. That is *exactly* how west-coasters sound. I was honestly blown away at how well she did it. (Then again, *movies*.)

They all did great but # 4 was perfect. If they hadn't given it away at the start I'd have picked # 4 too.

Her reactions were so funny 🤣🤣🤣

Interesting how perspectives can differ. I thought she was annoying with all that giggling.

"Americans" are all people who live in the American continent, not just in the United States!!

@@revolucion-socialista in the English language there is no distinction between the nationality and someone from the Americas as there is in Spanish (americano/estadounidense). American would refer both to the nationality and someone from this half of the world, obviously given the nature of the video it’s about the nationality. It’s also taught in the states that America (continent) is two continents, North and South so people would say “The Americas” rather than America. Cultural differences

@@revolucion-socialista Not correct. The term "American" has referred to North Americans of European descent since the 1600s (when the term shifted from describing native peoples to colonials). This term was imposed by other countries around the world, not by Americans themselves. In languages around the world, the term for a person from the US is some derivation of American.
Further, the demonym American makes sense when you look at the names of the countries in the Americas. In the United States of America, the only place-name is America, resulting in the American term. Mexico, for example, is the United Mexican States, with the place name referencing Mexico, hence Mexican. The Republic of Ecuador results in Ecuadorian. The Federative Republic of Brazil gets Brazilian. Again, the United States of America results in American.

She has a Spain Spanish accent. It’s quite clear she’s not Mexican or Chicana, at least if you know the accents.

Spanish sounds nothing like mexican 😂

Maybe you could have made that mistake if you're american. Her European Spanish is nothing like any central or South American accents

@@celeste9611 The thing is Hailey is American so she might not have been familiar with different accents in Spanish and would just accept it.

@@ivetterodriguez1994 yes however the people commenting are aware because of the information in the video.

America welcomes you.

@@stacyadkins5374 Thanks

THANK YOU! Glad someone said it! It's subtle but man is it obvious. "In the West" sounds correct but I would even go so far as to say most Americans would shorten it even more to "the west"

@@littletechn8175 You're right, I'd say the west maybe use on only if I said coast like on the west coast.

Funny thing is that in spanish we literally use "in" for everything. She was probably trying to sound more of a native english speaker by saying "on the west" but she messed it up 😂😂

Ngl in the south we say on the west/east, but we also say "in the south/north"
I don't get it either lmao, but it's just how it is

I would say "on the west", because its short for "on the west side" it didn't sound weird to me and I've lived on the east coast of the US my whole life

I thought it was New Mexico, but I wasn't sure :')

In europe we study Europe geography which is difficult enough 🤣😘

sad

Me who has lived in Texas my whole life but simply doesn’t know what states there are in America and forgot that New Mexico existed

Bro me too I also live in Texas

Lagarto means lizard hahahaha

@@zafiro7982 non Spanish speakers know that lol

"Americans" are all people who live in the American continent, not just in the United States!!

@@revolucion-socialista Not true

LOL SO TRUE!!

Yeah, lol I would never believe that someone who said their favorite burger was McDonalds was American, because even if not was they’d be ashamed and say something else. 🤣

It’s also the only place open after 10 where I live so I go there when I haven’t had dinner until late 🤧

Exactly, I'm pretty sure she made up all her answers so that she would sound like a Brit who was pretending to be American, like saying burgers are her favorite food, and saying the "red bridge" was her favorite landmark.

I known some places of U.S but i am from argentina. Here McDonald its so different, no just quality of the burger also stetic of store and product it so much better and good looking. We have tons of diferent burguer joint, but McDonald still has be a good option specially if have childs, because all marketing and stratagy of the brand is pointed to the “family”.

The Doughboys would like to have a word with you.

Most spanish speakers are like that , we even laugh at stupid and not funny things/situations.

@@s.v3903 in latin america maybe but not in Spain

All y'all!

@@jtidema You got it!

Exacto. Y es hermosa 🤩

menos mal que me obsesiono leyendo comentarios y he leído ésto. Eres un solete, mil gracias ☺️😚🌸😋

@@compashinpei 🥺🌸🌸🌸💜

@@_irenesanz Ostras no esperaba que ibas a leer mi comentario 😂😂

@@compashinpei pues sí 😂

That would be perfect. They should have used it

That's not the point of the video

@@screenshoot2 the point is to recognise who is American no? That would easily answer tht question.

@@bhavikakosambia3307 Clever!😮Except I don't know what my weight is 😅 so I would simply answer:"I don't know."

I'd just tell you 150 pounds. That's not correct and I don't know what the correct answer in pounds would be, but I know that 150 pounds is a reasonable weight for a woman to have

"Americans" are all people who live in the American continent, not just in the United States!!

@@revolucion-socialista what’s that gotta do with my comment

Most British people know most American ‘versions’ of words and phrases. Most Americans don’t know most of the corresponding British words and phrases. As such, a British person can more easily pretend to be American than an American trying to pretend to be British.

Unless you can figure out how to scroll ahead, and skip all that...

Who said that this video was about us?

@@r0bw00d lol, what a pissy answer.

@@r0bw00d idk.. this kinda hurts🤣

@@bernlin2000 How was I to know that part would be in there?

I'm like the one person I know who hates all fries.

America is a Continent!! Ignorant

You young people have no idea. When I was a kid, the fries were cooked in beef tallow! They were so amazing. Now...meh...not so much.

@@harvestmoon_autumnsky damn. start a restaurant then and show us what we're missing.

I felt like bringing up burgers and McDonalds as their favorite was a dead giveaway for not being American. Foreigners have this stereotype but honestly I don’t know anyone who goes to McDonalds unless they have to.
Because there’s a lot of healthier fast food to get quickly nowadays. McDonalds is like the cheapest place and bottom of the barrel.
Why go there when there’s higher quality, healthier, and quick food elsewhere?

Philadelphia and New Jersey regions nearby will fail “water”, heck I’m from PA, water from that region comes across as something close to “wuder”.

It’s true lol 😂 I didn’t realize how I pronounce water so wrong until one day I was working (I use to work at a rest stop) and some British dude ask for some water. I was like “oh you want some WUDER” and I cringe so hard because realized how weird my accent was lol.

@@minervaowl8298 My sister went to college out towards Reading and I have cousins from New Jersey. I can’t say much though I have a bit of a PA Dutch accent myself, if I’m not watching it I have caught myself telling my son to “red up your ruum” instead of “rid up your room”.

@@laguna4life what does “rid up your room” mean?

Lol Fr, idk why other people on here were saying it was good.

nah yea people saying it was good clearly don’t have much exposure to european speakers. it was very obvious she was from europe. The only europeans who i’ve ever met who on occasion have REALLY good US accents are the Dutch, and even then they’ll say something here or there that will clock them.

lol the Dutch? they have horrible accents xD i have worked in customer support with people from all over Europe (I'm Danish myself) and the Dutch team had the worst accent by far! in my opinion, no European nation is free from a heavy accent. it's completely individual from person to person whether they have overcome that accent or not (I haven't)

German and Dutch are the closest languages to English. Most have very little accent.

True, the only people in the US that has an accent similar to her are the Amish.

Tbf most Brits and Europeans know American English pretty well, due to American TV and movies.

"Americans" are all people who live in the American continent, not just in the United States!!

@@revolucion-socialista Sure, but people in countries besides the United States usually refer to themselves as Canadians, Mexicans, Brazilians, Columbians, etc. The US has such an *awkward* name, that Americans becomes the term used for people from the USA, especially since America is actually part of the same. What's the alternative, United Statians? USAns? Do we pronounce the letters or sound them out?

@@LANouveau BRAVO! Lucas must be south american 'cause they're the only ones that get offended by this term. Like, as if they had been "left" behind instead of "falling short" themselves (most latinamericans). It's their way to spit hate onto The States for growing richer, stronger, better etc (in spite of!).
That's nothing but a despicable kind of envy from them.
I wonder if they do not see that the U.S. had and still has as much (if not more) corruption, crime, education neglect, economic falls, drugs, mafia/gangs, pollution, poverty and other problems as their own countries do.
They fail to take into account that, for some reason, americans evidently approach and resolve things differently as to be able to make end-meats "even though"
I would suggest them to follow a simple formula: COPY + PASTE. If not from the U.S. from Deutschland, Japan or any Nordic country.

#4 sounded American

@@laur-unstagenameactuallyca1587 im british i thought she sounded pretty british

"What's you favorite American food?"
"...mAcDonALds....."
Top Ten Answers That Revoke Your American Citizenship

And I feel like she tried really hard to talk like she was unsure, make it sound like she's translating in her head....pretty good trickery :P

"Americans" are all people who live in the American continent, not just in the United States!!

I'm Indian and I'd love to see if I can pass off as a Pakistani mahajir from Karachi 😬

I would actually like to hear a Filipino accent thrown in there with the Indian. I feel they both have some similarities in pronunciation when speaking English even though I can tell them apart pretty well.

ColOmbia.
Edit: Thank you for correcting :-)

Even inside Spain you can find a lot of differences between the accent of northern people, southern, Mediterranean, etc. We've got many different accents.

Argentinian are like italian speaking english

I don't agree at all. the standard German accent is extremely difficult to hide and Germans have dubbed tv/movies, which makes it difficult for many Germans to learn the American accent.

@@tinyspyro8163 Its also the closest to the standard American accent though, so 🤷

@@tinyspyro8163 I am a German studying English at university to teach it some day and yes, Native Germans speakers are more natural at speaking English because (just like German) English is a stressed time language. Spanish is a syllable timed. Furthermore, German has a clearer pronunciation. If you put in a little more time, Germans can sound perfect. I was often told I speak like a British person 😜

@@theinktician not as a general rule, no

@@ClaireEmilia but that's the case with all languages - put in some time and it will sound better. However, a native German, living in Germany, speaking English? That's the most recognisable accent in all of Europe 🤣🤣🤣

yesss that would be so good!!

Nah, they'd fail miserably. The only accent most people know is London accents and I'd trip them up on a London Underground question. Anywhere else like Liverpool, Manchester etc they wouldn't nail the accent. Maybe they'd get Scottish, but again, it'd be relatively easy to trip them up coz we all have an understanding of England enough to answer questions about it. (I'm a Londoner)

@@30secondstomarsMBH Lmao it would be so easy because americans don’t know that much about the Uk and always do the same accent, which is awful

They’d all sound like the queen or a cockney. We have hundreds of accents in Britain. If anyone came on pretending to be from Carmarthen or Dudley, I’d be impressed. Not likely though.