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Accent Expert Explains Similarities Between Different Accents | WIRED
Many accents from different parts of the English-speaking world actually have a ton of similarities. Dialect coach Erik Singer talks about how this happens, and breaks down which mouth and tongue shapes correlate to the sounds we hear. Also, check out the free WIRED channel on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Android TV.…
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Ezra Dreyar
October 23, 2019 at 1:46 pm
HE’S BACK 😍💕💕💕💕
Melissa Peterson
October 23, 2019 at 1:49 pm
I watch these videos not for the mouth sounds but for the Eric sounds
Dani Hatton
October 23, 2019 at 1:51 pm
I really want him to do a series of 5 min tutorials of how to do popular accents correctly!
derdiedas9911
October 23, 2019 at 1:54 pm
God bless Erik Singer !! Dudes a genius
Megat Harith
October 23, 2019 at 2:03 pm
All i went is to hear Erik speak in those accents
wishywashywara
October 23, 2019 at 2:05 pm
Back by popular demand!!
Charlie Onions
October 23, 2019 at 2:11 pm
Fish and chips chips
Anonimo69 ANONIMO
October 23, 2019 at 2:11 pm
By the thumbnail I thought it was some complex maths thing
Ace-of-Wands
October 23, 2019 at 2:15 pm
01:14 As if we haven’t already spent every past video of his mimicking the sounds and mouth shapes he describes 😂😂
Justine Helene
October 23, 2019 at 2:15 pm
Have you ever done a video about how one becomes a dialect coach?
kinderriegel junkie
October 23, 2019 at 2:26 pm
I love this man.
ChaseTheSun
October 23, 2019 at 2:30 pm
is it just me or does the Boston accent have similarities with an Australian accent?
Buckaroo Banzai
October 23, 2019 at 2:42 pm
If YouTube banned all non Erik Singer videos, it would still be the top video streaming platform.
Lauren Piro
October 23, 2019 at 2:46 pm
Oooh yeah, more Language Daddy
Furkan Aktaş
October 23, 2019 at 2:46 pm
Fish and Chips!
bladervn
October 23, 2019 at 2:48 pm
I see Erik Singer I click
rawnak
October 23, 2019 at 3:02 pm
It’s ant man
Egg with 5000 subscribers
October 23, 2019 at 3:06 pm
Its fake, His brain is a paid actor..
Joel Weiss
October 23, 2019 at 3:06 pm
Erik Singer needs to go on tour. ASAP
Jonny P
October 23, 2019 at 3:14 pm
I had an epiphany yesterday that English and American are opposite ends of the spectrum on the same plane and australian/kiwi/south african are all somewhere in between
Rhys McGoIdrick
October 23, 2019 at 3:14 pm
About the Boston/Irish thing. I imagine that originally English had that fronted sound.
“Car” is a short form of “carriage” after all and I don’t say “Cahr-ridge” but “caar-ridge”.
Rico Ten
October 23, 2019 at 3:18 pm
A friend of mine visited relatives in Pittsburgh. She remarked that for “It is,” they said, “Utt uzz.” That seems to be the kit-centering you referred to.
lavkian
October 23, 2019 at 3:29 pm
Anyone else have a raging clue after listening to this man?
No? Just me?
Tom Wylde
October 23, 2019 at 3:36 pm
please Erik, audiobook now please please please
shmook
October 23, 2019 at 3:36 pm
King
Antonie de Koning
October 24, 2019 at 10:17 am
The reason he’s on so many of these videos is cause Linguists struggle to find jobs and this is at least something to do other than awkwardly staring at random people talking in public.
M J
October 24, 2019 at 10:57 am
I will never not click on Erik Singer’s videos. Holy cow, this stuff is interesting!
Vermoot
October 24, 2019 at 11:04 am
Can anyone recommend any good books about all this? (english accents, their evolution, the study of accents, etc) Preferrably with accompanying audio examples
Eric Yang
October 24, 2019 at 11:33 am
Wired should fund Erik to start his own youtube channel
IamNoodly
October 24, 2019 at 12:36 pm
MOAR
Mary S.
October 24, 2019 at 1:10 pm
I’d love to see a video with Erik that mentions the Newfoundland accent(s) (there are some variations, though they’re largely very similar). I think it’d be pretty cool
Matt Bassett
October 24, 2019 at 2:35 pm
More of this man!!
Shauday Smith
October 24, 2019 at 3:43 pm
so flipping good!!!
Shanaynay
October 24, 2019 at 5:39 pm
Thank you so much I love your vids! I’ve been practicing accents as a hobby for years n your vids definitely help me fine tune them!
Laura M
October 24, 2019 at 5:53 pm
Canadian accents do some major mouth raising.
Allison Scruggs
October 24, 2019 at 7:22 pm
thanks Eric, love u
Kate Mullins
October 24, 2019 at 7:46 pm
Safe to say this is now the “Erik Singer” channel? … and I’m AOK with that 🙂
M S
October 24, 2019 at 8:03 pm
Get. this. guy. a. TV. show.
Rob Ballantine
October 24, 2019 at 9:07 pm
Comment sections under Erik Singer videos are the most pleasant places on the internet
kittadyne
October 24, 2019 at 10:15 pm
I wanna hear Eric DO more accents
Obr Kenobi
October 24, 2019 at 10:48 pm
I love this series! May Eric singer be with us foreva and eva.
Jennifer Dharmaratnam
October 25, 2019 at 2:16 am
As a student in linguistics, this just made things so much clearer for me
Andi Alexander
October 25, 2019 at 3:00 am
This is my favourite one yet!
David G Austin
October 25, 2019 at 6:18 am
I see Erik in the thumbnail, I hit the “like” button before I’ve even started watching. Somebody PLEASE give this guy his own channel!
SpaceMonkey
October 25, 2019 at 6:30 am
Could you do a segment on the weird somewhat half-British-half-Californian-sounding accent that pop-punk and pop-emo bands adopt, a la Blink-182 or Green Day?
whanowa
October 25, 2019 at 7:21 am
We need a video of Eric Singer doing 25 accents.
Justine Kerford
October 25, 2019 at 10:15 am
I did three years of Linguistics in varisty and I think I get some things about vowels better now then I did when I graduated. So interesting! Also think I now understand why people might confuse South African and New Zealand accents when that didn’t make sense before
Crash
October 25, 2019 at 1:12 pm
i would listen to this mf talk about accents all god damned day
Joseph Fuller
October 25, 2019 at 3:29 pm
*Question:* While I believe that pronunciations that have the sounds clearly distinguished are correct, which pronunciation of the word “genre” is closer to its etymological roots?
Is it the /ʒ/ sound like in the French “je ne sais pas” or the /dʒ/ sound like in the English name “John”?
Joseph Fuller
October 25, 2019 at 3:29 pm
*Question:* While I believe that pronunciations that have the sounds clearly distinguished are correct, which pronunciation of the word “genre” is closer to its etymological roots?
Is it the /ʒ/ sound like in the French “je ne sais pas” or the /dʒ/ sound like in the English name “John”?
KaptSuolisolmu
October 25, 2019 at 6:59 pm
I love these Eriks dialect videos
Crismodin
October 25, 2019 at 7:34 pm
So when is Erik going to buy WIRED and turn it into a language university?
imshinycaptain
October 25, 2019 at 7:49 pm
This is way better than any dialect coach I’ve ever had.
Sara Fet
October 25, 2019 at 9:12 pm
i have 2 phonetics professors, my phonetics professor and erik
Nixycat
October 25, 2019 at 10:19 pm
My fave series!!! <3 As an Aussie, I love hearing the breakdown of Aussie/Kiwi/South African accents, as they're all quite similar but so hard for other speakers to nail! 😀
jgranahan
October 26, 2019 at 12:16 am
Really awesome!
Teri Davis
October 26, 2019 at 2:22 am
I *love* these videos!!! More please!!
lindsayyy
October 26, 2019 at 2:42 am
ERIK HAS A TATTOO
j Cadence
October 26, 2019 at 11:09 am
Very cool. I love you ES!
mllebiddies
October 26, 2019 at 11:52 am
Omg… THANK YOU for (finally!) explaining this with a visual aid! Been watching these videos for a long time and I have the hardest time visualising/understanding some of the explanations of the tongue placement in the mouth. More, please!!
Kristin Cornejo
October 26, 2019 at 7:33 pm
I want to see Erik Singer doing all the accents in a compilation video.
ymustisignin
October 26, 2019 at 8:35 pm
I want to hear Erik break down Ozzie Osbourne’s accent
Kana Beats
October 26, 2019 at 8:53 pm
Crazy how our tongue do dat
Crazziii
October 27, 2019 at 2:25 am
So he’s South African?!
Grant Coble
October 27, 2019 at 4:05 am
Things I appreciate:
1. That the Wired YT team hired Erik Singer to dot hat first “accent breakdown” video
2. That Wired took note that the video struck a chord with viewers.
3. That Wired and Erik are willing to ride this roller coaster as far as it goes
4. That the videos have turned into mini lectures on linguistics
Keonna Gardner
October 27, 2019 at 6:43 am
Can we do a 5 levels video featuring Erik Singer. I’d like to see him explain this to people at differing levels. It would be cool.
Steven Clauson
October 27, 2019 at 7:04 am
Is anybody else dying to hear this guy actually perform accents? I want to know just how well all of his professional knowledge might translate to performative skill.
Do You Speak?
October 27, 2019 at 12:48 pm
Why does Erik Singer not have his own channel yet? *edit* He does, there just isn’t much there 🙁
Jack Paul
October 27, 2019 at 1:00 pm
Like the weather girl of vowels
DonnaLuuuu
October 27, 2019 at 10:20 pm
Maaan I would love for him to tell us what he thinks about the accents in the Oscar Pistorius lifetime movie
Sanguillermo 76
October 27, 2019 at 10:40 pm
Next episode: expert breather breaks down 10 breathing scenes in movies
Raymond K Petry
October 28, 2019 at 12:23 am
*_…chart lacks ‘my-favorite’ A-sound {bate}, which is brighter than the ‘eh’-sound {bet}…_*
*_…chart also lacks das ü-klang {führer, crude} more-closed than the ʉ-sound {crewed}…_*
*_…also puzzling, the chart alignment of front-vs-back e.g. y-{near-j}-vs-y-grec-{near-g}…_*
*_…(I’m thinking that chart is for how-to-simulate using diphthongs for ‘mid-phthongs’)…_*
ElBacanDelgado
October 28, 2019 at 4:34 am
Episode request: Talk about Finnegan’s Wake
Radspakr
October 28, 2019 at 8:14 am
Keep bringing him back this stuff is really interesting, I’m curious if he knows the history of accents how do they form?
Baerschenarts
October 28, 2019 at 5:41 pm
More of Erik!!!
Tyree Brown
October 28, 2019 at 6:46 pm
I’m always participating in the activities he gives lol.
Christy Dethlefs
October 28, 2019 at 7:27 pm
I love these videos!! Thank you
salmourn
October 29, 2019 at 3:34 pm
god u know what just w this one map and him walking thru different ways our mouths are positioned it feels so much easier to do an accent
chichoskruch21
October 29, 2019 at 3:42 pm
Let’s just change WIRED to Erik Singer & co at this point