Native speakers: Can you tell where fighters are from by accent?

[PhilMcCavity]

As someone who lives in Scotland, I cannot understand people who think British (English) accents are like Australian lol, I just cannot comprehend it after hearing these accents so much in my life

Because they’re Americans

 

[PhilMcCavity]

Israel Adesanya has such a thick Xiang accent that you can immediately tell that he grew up in northern Guangxi.

He wrote off his Lamborghini trying to parallel park it too

 

[Thawing Mammoth]

Sometimes guess right, sometimes guess wrong. Es normal.

 

[Masturbin]

Tony and Cain have gringo accents

 

[wwkirk]

As someone who lives in Scotland, I cannot understand people who think British (English) accents are like Australian lol, I just cannot comprehend it after hearing these accents so much in my life

Sometimes Americans have trouble even understanding other Anglo speakers. I recall one season of TUF with a British team where the producers were tempted to employ subtitles. (They didn't, though.)

 

[BlankaPresident]

To me, it sounds fine, but I can hardly speak it. Am curious now as to if that's why he is so easily intelligible to me. Hope someone with more experience can chime in.

Tbh, I would even say a lot of (American) fighters can barely speak English, so it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of these poorer Brazilians are the same, but worse.

Charles speaks normally relative to his upbringing. It sounds ok and completely intelligible.

 

[DiddlyDoodly]

Then you have this Monkeywrench.

 

[Kono dio da!]

UFC 290 has english in american, south african, australian, etc. Most people in the US can tell if someone is from the south, boston, or NY based on accent. For native spanish speakers, do Yair / Moreno have an acccent. Like does Yair have more 'proper' spanish ? Can you tell where whittaker and volk may have grew up based on their accent or vocabulary ?

Dricus' is easily recognisable for me.
As is Whittaker's
As are British accents.
I can recognize some American accents: New York, new Jersey, Texans, Boston, some southern ones. California is tricky because it's so ubiquitous, non Americans like me have been led to believe that that's how all Americans speak, which isn't true.
So yeah in short I can recognize accents. Met a Filipina and she asked me to guess where she was from and I got it right on the first try.

 

[Spinkick KO]

American accents are proper rhotic English, British nobility created their accents in the early 1800s to sound different from the poor unwashed masses. Then the poors copied them anyway
https://englishforless.com/2015/05/american-accent-the-original-british-accent/

Accents aren't created, a standardised pronunciation is somewhat constructed, but accents naturally evolve.

The non-rhotic accents/dialects usually show up in populations of high Irish - working class concentration, like Boston and Melbourne.

I can always spot the Aussie accents, all Aussie UFC fighters sound like bogan tradesmen who are going to damage something expensive, can pick out the west/east coast and regional US accents and most of the Europoor accents. That's because I'm not an American who is basement ridden and doesn't spend all day playing sonic the hedgehog and having mom make me tendies and choccy milk.

 

[wufabufa]

Native English speaker from the US but I'm conversational in Spanish. I can hear most accents from other Anglo countries and place them pretty easily. Even Canadian accents vary a lot from coast to coast(Quebec doesn't really count since they've obviously got their own thing going on). The further north an accent is from in the UK, usually the harder they are to understand for me. Kiwis and Aussies tend to pronounce certain vowels a lot differently, but with a ton of similarities overall. ......probably as similar as your average middle American and Canadian accent. Sometimes white South African accents can be really similar to generic English accents since they had so much influence in that country over the years. If Afrikaans was their first language then it's a little more apparent that they're from South Africa, at least to me.

Spanish from the Caribbean like Domican, Cuban, and Puerto Rican speakers speak a lot differently than what you hear in Mexico or Central America. They tend to drop their the S sound in words a lot. Spanish from Colombia and Venezuela sounds a lot clearer/cleaner since they enunciate their words properly. If someone is from Spain they're easy to pick out since they lisp and mumble a lot due to the Castilian accent.

 

[Pepy]

more than obvious that Dern is from Arizona

 

[Busgosu]

Spain they're easy to pick out since they lisp and mumble a lot due to the Castilian accent.

Lol this guy here doesn't know wtf he's talking about. Accents vary inside Spain in some cases even more than between Spain and America. Castillian accent, lmao gimme a break, do you come from the middle ages or what?

 

[wufabufa]

Lol this guy here doesn't know wtf he's talking about. Accents vary inside Spain in some cases even more than between Spain and America. Castillian accent, lmao gimme a break, do you come from the middle ages or what?

There are about 6 different distinct accents from Spain, the Northern and and Southern Castilian ones are the easiest for me to pick out. No other Spanish speaking country has that accent. Sorry your ears are broken.

 

[ChimRichalds]

Because they’re Americans

God damnit, Phil McCavity.

 

[Royce's Gi]

Apparently Charles can barely speak Portuguese( according to Costa LOL). Can a speaker confirm if this true?

Well, as the Regent of England, is he really required to?

 

[Bork Neslar]

Who cares.

 

[Askafan]

I can tell most of the various English, Welsh and Irish accents apart but funnily enough not Scottish accents ..... Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, they all sound the same to me although I assume Scots can identify them easily enough. No problem to identify South Africans, Canadians and Australians apart but New Zealanders just sound Australian too me.

 

[Busgosu]

There are about 6 different distinct accents from Spain, the Northern and and Southern Castilian ones are the easiest for me to pick out. No other Spanish speaking country has that accent. Sorry your ears are broken.

Lol. Castillian more distinct that andalusian, seems you know what you are talking about. Please, stop.

 

[wufabufa]

Lol. Castillian more distinct that andalusian, seems you know what you are talking about. Please, stop.

Do you have one of those ridiculous pijo accents? Lol, I bet you do.

 

[13Seconds]

Apparently Charles can barely speak Portuguese( according to Costa LOL). Can a speaker confirm if this true?

This is a lie. Charles portugese is actually more coherent than Paulos.

Costa is trolling lmao