Why people like to imitate the american accent?

[GUA MENG THI(我問天）]

Most of my friends that have better english than me speak in an very american way, I never heard british, austrilian, etc from them. And meanwhile me still speak like this: https://youtu.be/mo4ufPKTq0E?si=cS3dbAKUYo6YfF9w

[Jolly Devil]

RED WHITE AND BLUE MF!!!! *fires gun*

[Devsman]

I'm kind of intrigued to hear how bad European or Asian attempts to mimic American accents are.

But I don't have the data to watch a video right now.

[Jolly Devil]

Originally posted by Devsman:

I'm kind of intrigued to hear how bad European or Asian attempts to mimic American accents are.

But I don't have the data to watch a video right now.

Anytime I've seen a TikTok or YouTube video of Europeans using American accents, they either go NYC, Texas, or sufer bro accent. I wanna hear some of that mid-west twang "Oh how ya doing there bud. It's awfully cold don't ya know!" kinda ♥♥♥♥.

[Kenneth Adams]

Are you sure they "like" to do that?

[Xautos]

George W. Bush imitation. "My Fellow Americans."

Originally posted by Devsman:

I'm kind of intrigued to hear how bad European or Asian attempts to mimic American accents are.

But I don't have the data to watch a video right now.

Jason Isaac's is British and he did a passable southern accent while doing Star Trek Discovery.

[Stranger]

movies mostly.

if the rest of the english sphere hadn't hamstrung all of their creative properties you'd hear more Whovian and trailer park boy accents

[Ulfrinn]

The American accent is most natural. The most prompted virtual accent was made up in the mid 1800s. There are also more native English speakers in the US than pretty much every where else combined. And many people practice new languages through watching and listening media in that language of which the US exports the most.

[Electric Cupcake]

Implying there's only one American accent, are yah?

[Electric Cupcake]

My brother has been living in China for several years, teaching English to the kids there.

I hope they're all coming away from it with Minnesota accents.

[Ashes-To-Ashes]

Why do people forget that America about the size of Europe and we have multiple accidents here?

[Haruspex]

Originally posted by LtEggSalad:

Why do people forget that America about the size of Europe and we have multiple accidents here?

Yeah, and accents too.

[TWPanda77]

I have never tried to speak with an American accent, it would be a very bad version of Chinglish.

[76561198356019466]

Originally posted by Electric Cupcake:

Implying there's only one American accent, are yah?

I see what you mean, but I don't consider southern accents an accent because I don't think they're speaking english to begin with.

[aka]

Originally posted by GUA MENG THI(我問天）:

Most of my friends that have better english than me speak in an very american way, I never heard british, austrilian, etc from them. And meanwhile me still speak like this: https://youtu.be/mo4ufPKTq0E?si=cS3dbAKUYo6YfF9w

Why do Americans pretend to be Japanese ? Weird? or totally makes sense ?

Perhaps when you answer this you will know something useful towards your own question.

Ponder away

you're welcome

[Devsman]

Originally posted by tiny E:

Originally posted by Electric Cupcake:

Implying there's only one American accent, are yah?

I see what you mean, but I don't consider southern accents an accent because I don't think they're speaking english to begin with.

You've got a lot more than that. Minnesota, Indiana and New Hampshire all have pretty different accents also.