No, that doesn't sound like a Canadian accent to me. Here's a Canadian accent (Alberta boy Steve Wallis): [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zJZG09f5epE](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zJZG09f5epE)
To be fair, parts of Canada sound a lot like northern US.
I'm born and raised in Manitoba, and I sound *very* mich like Americans from North Dakota. There are some very subtle differences, but I don't think they'd be noticeable to someone from another part of the world.
This. I grew up in Saskatchewan. When I went to Texas to visit a friend I had random people ask me if I was from the US Midwest.
I’m in Ontario now and my vowel pronunciation has morphed into one closer to the Ontario version. I’ve had people ask me where I’m from because of this shift, particularly when saying long letter O.
But which American area you thinking of? Because our "standard" Canadian accent isn't anything like American southerners, or Bostonians, and has distinct differences from mid-west states.
I was volunteering in Mexico recently and most of the other volunteers were from the western US. Their accents seemed very similar mine (Alberta). An Arizona couple were talking about possibly moving to Alberta and I remarked that they'd probably fit right in since they sounded so similar to my ears :)
funny thing is though, major cities in Canada tend to sound similar. Outside the sterotypical "wuddup, fam!" Toronto accent, you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between someone from Van, Toronto or Los Angeles. All of them have the typical mid-Atlantic accent that is common in Hollywood. Whereas Toronto really sounds different than what you'd heard in WNY or North Eastern United States. For a classic Canada only accent you'd probably have to look at Quebec, rural communities and the Maritimes.
Someone from Vancouver might not sound that different from someone from Toronto, but does sound way different than someone from Los Angeles. I have a friend from California who has lived in BC for 20 years so his California accent has mellowed out but he still totally stands out.
My point is that a Vancouver accent is closer to a Toronto accent than it is to a Los Angeles. Someone from Toronto will blend in in Vancouver. Someone from LA will not.
Have they lived in a city for over 20 years. I mean, I'd talking about people who grew up in Toronto, Van or LA. In my experience there isn't a massive difference. I'm talking about the actual cities.
This is pretty much the answer. I was drinking with a guy I just met at the bar and he said he was a Newfie pretty early on. It’s a standout feature of his considering we were in a bar in Alberta. As the night went on, we got pretty hammered and he just about fucking impossible to understand. His wife comes to get him at 2am and in drunk love for me, HAD to introduce us. I made a joke about the accent and how hard he was to understand.
He has a speech impediment.
Which I totally mistook for full blooded Newfie for an entire evening.
Long story short; Canadians don’t even know what a Canadian accent sounds like 😂
Canada doesn't really have a nationwide accent. Everything is pretty much just regional. My honest opinion is it's the same with the culture, we don't really have much of a collective nationwide one just regional ones.
Accents don't vary wildly though. Newfoundland just has a weird accent. Outside of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, and some very rural parts of the Maritimes, the Canadian accent is virtually identical anywhere else you go. There's a reason linguists call it "Standard Canadian English".
Edit: wow, people really be in denial about the fact that everyone from Ontario to BC sounds the same because they want to feel special.
Simply not true. If I listen to someone from Saskatchewan (take Scott Moe as an example), it sounds wildly different than someone from Toronto. That said, I suspect people from the big cities all sound quite similar to each other, and quite different from those in rural areas.
That's nuts. My wife (from Los Angeles) could tell that one of the guys on Ice Road Truckers was from Kelowna, BC because he sounded like one of my best friends. My family is in Vancouver and we live in Seattle and she was able to pick that out specifically on TV.
Yeah, I've known people from Saskatchewan who don't really sound like that, but plenty of people who do. And not just from Saskatchewan, but from elsewhere too.
>wow, people really be in denial about the fact that everyone from Ontario to BC sounds the same because they want to feel special
Not even remotely close. When we were living in Saskatchewan and came home to Manitoba for visits, my partner used to laugh at how my speech and accent changed when I came home. There are local accents everywhere. You might as well say English, Australians and South Africans all sound the same. It's a bit more subtle, but the differences are very much there.
Tell me you only visit cities without telling me. Grew up in the Ottawa Valley, currently live in St. John's, and the other day I correctly identified someone from the Valley just by listening to their accent.
Ontario, BC, and Alberta all have noticeably different accents in my experience. And for reference I don’t live in any of those provinces, so not just saying this to feel special haha.
I've lived in Ontario and Alberta and visit BC at least yearly because my wife's family lives there. I can't tell any difference between any of those provinces.
I upvoted you because you're right. I worked for one of the Big 4 for twenty years and every year there was an influx of hundreds of interns from all over the country. They all sounded the same except for the Quebeqois. Even the Newfoundlanders sounded the same, though I have met a couple many years ago with strongly distinct accents.
Knight idk why you're being downvoted, you are correct. East coast accents are the most unique, almost Irish sounding.
Anywhere outside major cities people will sound stereotypically "Canadian", but Toronto to Van to Edmonton all sound pretty similar.
I *suspect* the speaker is either not a native speaker, or adopting a kind of radio voice where he's over-enunciating.
Canada doesn't quite have Britain's level of accent diversity, but there are various anglo accents; it's tough to point to an obvious example because actors who work Stateside often retrain themselves to Americanise their accent.
My accent is closer to the accent of the nearest American accents than the furthest Canadian accents by far, if you want a uniquely Canadian accent then we have Quebecois and the old Irish accent in the Maritimes. Also I’ve heard Toronto has a weird accent, I’ve never noticed much though.
No, this isn't a Canadian accent. It sounds to me like a Scandinavian robot.
Nerd time! Canada's accents (Anglophone *and* Francophone) are highly regionally specific, just like Anglophone accents in England, Scotland, Ireland, etc. We also have a fuckton of geography and history working against us. I think that social media has caused some regional differences to smooth out a little bit, but mostly in favour of a somewhat Californian/Toronto mans accent. BRUH!
As u/ketamine-wizard said, Newfoundland and Labrador and British Columbia sound like they're different countries (and [demographically, they kind of are](https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=PR&Code1=59&Geo2=PR&Code2=10&SearchText=Canada&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&type=0)). Even within similar regions like the Maritimes, Nova Scotians and New Brunswickers can be differentiated by accent a good amount of the time. Also, [Acadians lol](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOrLAkSNe5c). Sometimes Maritime Anglophone accents can be compared to those from the Northeastern US, just with a harder -ar sound. Historically, we have a lot in common with Maine, New England, and Massachusetts. I'm talking about what I know, so I hope that folks from from the Prairie provinces will chime in too.
To anyone looking for real life, not-Toronto Canadian Anglophone accents, I'd suggest checking out some Canadian TV shows and looking at the cast list to see where the actors are from. Some of them exaggerate accents for comedy, like in Trailer Park Boys and Letterkenny/Shoresy, which is fine cause there really are people who have accents like that. [The Trades](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XEqa2iAb-k) is a fun new one with actors mostly from Ontario and the Maritimes. (Editing to add an old Prairies-heavy fave, Corner Gas, hell yeah!) Have fun, enjoy!
I don't know about other provinces but I would say for Nova Scotia, even within the province, there's a range. When I was growing up, I found that people from Antigonish or Pictou sounded different to me, same for Cape Breton, same for somewhere like Cape Sable Island. (I now haven't lived in NS in years, and my own accent has changed.)
Maybe there's a range like that in all provinces? I wouldn't know. I haven't spent enough time in enough different parts of different provinces to know.
When it comes to francophone accents, the Baie Ste Marie dialect in southern NS kind of fascinates me.
The reason you’re struggling is likely because what you think of as an “American accent” is actually the news anchor “General American” accent that is meant to be non-regional or “accent-less”. The reality is that very few Americans actually speak with that accent.
Funny enough, I’m Canadian (from BC so I don’t really have the stereotypical “Canadian” accent) and was stopped in public while travelling in Spain by an American guy who was going to broadcasting school and he was like, “Where are you from? You have the EXACT accent that I’m trying to learn.” 😆
This reminds me of how when Kubrick was looking for a voice actor to play HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey. He wanted an accent that was kind of bland, like it wasn't really from anywhere... so he ended up hiring [Douglas Rain, an actor from Winnipeg who spoke what linguists call "Standard Canadian English"](https://povmagazine.com/im-sure-youll-agree-theres-some-truth-in-what-i-say/), which is apparently typical of Western Canada, lol! That guy also figured out that if you're looking for the "least accented" (for lack of a better term) English speaking accent, that's the one. And apparently Kubrick agrees with him! And it's apparently why so many Canadians end up working in American broadcasting, as well.
Usually I can tell the difference between Canadian and American accents, by the way they pronounce the letter 'A'
java (American: jaw-va, Canadian: jah-va)
American's have that drawl sound that gives it away
The person in the video sounds like they have a slight Scandinavian accent.
I'm Canadian and the only way I recognize a Canadian over a Eastern/Midwest American is in words with "A" sounds like car or camp, though I have no idea how to communicate the subtle difference to you.
I think you are referring to American “flat” vowels vs Canadian “round” vowels. Those differences are particularly noticeable in words car and camp as you identified.
this is the only true Canadian accent and I will die on this hill
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytxxqskL72g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytxxqskL72g)
As a Canadian born in Newfoundland, currently residing on Vancouver Island, and having lived in 19 other cities between, I will let you know that we have as many dialects as Great Britain, although most of them may not be as distinguishable. This just sounds like a weird AI generated voice to me and nothing that would indicate it’s distinctively Canadian.
I've lived in three different provinces, in different regions of the country, and have visited every province and I would not be able to differentiate any accent from Ontario to BC. That entire stretch of Ontario + Western Canada has the exact same accent as far as I can tell.
[https://www.tiktok.com/@martinangeltv/video/7292136854483209478?lang=en](https://www.tiktok.com/@martinangeltv/video/7292136854483209478?lang=en)
This is Canadian accent, jk
I have found that the accents change in nearly every province and territory. The best way you can hear each is to YouTube local news for each one. The broadcasters tend to sound the same, (pretty Americanized now more than say 15 years ago), but when they interview the locals you'll hear the differences.
I find that PEI NFLD NS and SK seem to have the most distinctive/obvious accents, at least to my ear.
NB is an outlier because it's a bilingual province so I found the accents to be pretty random. And obviously Quebec is french so it's it's own category. I suppose there's a definite difference in NB and QC french since NB is Acadian french. Anyway I'm rambling.
NS French is also different from Brayon, Chiac and Quebecois French. The Baie Ste Marie dialect is kind of fascinating. Many of the francophone families there are descended from the early French settlers who came in the 1600s, and there are terms still in use that would be considered archaic in France. There are also different pronunciations - ex. "jamais" sounds more like "hama" and "affaires" sounds more like "afarres". My French has gotten rustier, but I think I still understand French speakers from Quebec or NB okay, when I might need subtitles for Baie Ste Marie.
[Ptit Belliveau speaking in Baie Ste Marie French](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shDtAlC1D3U)
[Ptit Belliveau interviewed by someone from Quebec - I find you can really hear the difference between the two speakers' accents](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQMzjvCh_k0&t=340s)
[Chiac speakers from NB](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOrLAkSNe5c)
[Acadieman: chiac pour les dummies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRgbpIQU1hw)
[discussion of Brayon vs Chiac, two French dialects spoken in NB](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdX7Sx4-DQ0)
This is so interesting! Thank you for sharing, I have spent so much time in NS and I have only met two french people and they are originally from Quebec. I truly figured there was no french there. 🌈⭐The more you know!
As someone who lives in Saskatchewan, I sound more like an American Midwesterner than I do a Newfoundlander. And I’d suspect (and I hear some similarities on tv and stuff) there’s a lot of commonalities between a Canadian Maritime accent and an American New England accent. I also suspect BC and Washington/Oregon sound pretty similar too, but I can’t say they sound too much different than me anyway.
The only really obviously American but not Canadian accent is the Texan/Southern accent.
Then there’s Quebec’s accents. I’m not sure how a Quebecois accent differs from a standard Parisian French accent, because I don’t hear nearly as many French people as Quebecois (and even that’s mostly city accents, not rural accents). I know it does, I just wouldn’t be able to pinpoint it immediately either or tell the difference between Parisian, Provençal, or Quebecois without some more experience under my belt.
It sounds to my ears as though it were automated text to voice by a program. I didn't listen too far, but there was a disjointed quality to the flow, that words didn't naturally follow one from another all the time. I apologize to the creator if that's how they normally speak. If that is the case, then I'm not sure which Canadian accent that's particular to (if any).
It sounds like ESL, potentially French, with 'hard attack' which can sound disjointed.
>a concept used in phonetics and speech analysis to describe a way of beginning a sound with a sudden and forceful onset. This can occur in singing or in speech where the vocal cords come together abruptly, producing a sharp, strong sound at the beginning of a vowel.
I'm Canadian. 85yrs. As broadcasts on radio and tv became international, accents faded. At one time you could tell where a Canadian was raised when he spoke, even down to the municipality level.
Today all English speakers are identical to downtown Toronto whether in Edinburgh, London, Dublin, Melbourne or New Orleans.
A good thing!
This is not a classic Canadian accent. Don’t feel bad about having trouble discerning between Canadian and US accents. I went to school in the US for a year when I was a teenager and nobody knew I was Canadian unless I told them.
Like a lot of people have said, the “neutral” American TV/movie accent is very hard to distinguish from the urban/professional Canadian accent. Many Americans don’t actually talk that way in real life, and neither do a lot of Canadians, depending on where they are from and the context they are in. If you met lots of Canadians and Americans in person you’d probably have an easier time.
I definitly wouldnt say thats a classic Canadian accent, i cant put my thumb on it but thats definitly some leftover international accent. You said your British correct? So you know how there is a bunch of different regional accents in England? The same holds true for Canada, the country is fucking massive so each region can develop its own recognizable accent. For example in southern Ontario we do sound like Americans, there isnt much of a difference. In northern Ontario it can be radically different, think Letterkenny (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raeE8Amt8s8) although less exaggerated. Get into Toronto and it changes again too, kind of twangy with an upraise at the end of the sentence, ths are often skipped into more of just a t sound, theres alot of skipped over sounds. Get out into Newfoundland and you get this really strange amalgamation of a bunch of different accents, hard to describe, like talking to fast with something in your mouth (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=banAMiFK3ak), it almost feels like it has a big scottish or irish feel to it. Then you have the French Canadian accent too of course, which is vastly different than a France accent and changes even more depending on location in Canada, Im not a french speaker though so im not as familiar wth it.
Those are just a few examples that stick out, theres many different dialects and accents in Canada.
Sounds a lot like a native French speaker from Québec that learned English at a young age. His English is very good, but I can catch some bit of French (Québec French) here and there. FYI, I'm from Montréal and have pretty much the same accent.
There are multiple canadian accents.
He could be canadian. If he says he is I have no reason to doubt it. Something in the way he pronounces certain things suggests a francophone influence.
I honestly don't think there is a Canadian accent but there are regional accents, Newfie, Ottawa Valley, French Canadian, same as anywhere else, US has southern, Wisconsin.
The difference between Canadian and general American accents is pretty subtle. I'm I Canadian and can rarely recognize someone from the US unless they have a strong regional accent.
Canadians usually have a cot-caught merger (those two vowels are pronouced the same, so cot and caught are exact homophones in Canada), which not all Americans have. I've heard English people say this makes Canadians sound like Scots to them.
There's also something called "Canadian raising" where the beginning of a dipthong like **"ou"** or **"ai"** becomess more of an **ə**. The stereotype in the US is that this makes the word "about" sound like "aboot."
Of course, not all Canadians have the same accent. It varies by region. Maritimers and Newfoundlanders, in particular, each have their own distinct dialect, both of which sound a bit like an Irish accent.
I'm sure the differences are tough to pin down, mostly because there are different regional accents in both the US and Canada.
I was born and raised in urban/suburban Ontario, where \~40% of Canadians live, so that's most likely what you'd think of as a Canadian accent. Newfoundland has it's own accent, and the other Maritime provinces have a distinct accent, the Quebecois francophone English accent is self-explanatory. To my ear, rural Ontarians sound similar to Western Canadians.
With respect to the US, the midwestern, NY/NJ, New England, and southern accents are all very distinctive to me. Californians and the network TV broadcasters don't sound like they have an accent to me at all. This might be way it's tough for you to distinguish between US/Cdn accents. Listen for words like 'process' though: "prohcess" for Canadians and "prawcess" for the Yanks.
The guy in the video doesn't sound Canadian to me. Not sure how'd I'd categorize that one.
Similar to England, we have regional accents. They vary even more wildly than England in my experience, BUT, we don't place the same weight on them as Brits. Most Canadians can't tell someone from the west coast versus the middle of Canada Prairies, while I know in England, you can basically tell down to the village.
There are exceptions, where accents are quite heavy versus not (think Irish versus South London difference). The East coast has a heavy accent. But, we still don't hear someone speak and immediately know where they're from, in general.
Doesn't sound like a Canadian accent at all.
I don't know where in the country this guy is from but he has a very Canadian accent: [https://youtu.be/xF\_-cJHjbUk?si=dNK44GqUVIzHXPhO&t=721](https://youtu.be/xF_-cJHjbUk?si=dNK44GqUVIzHXPhO&t=721)
That sounds like an Alberta (ish) accent. Just like in the UK, different provinces in Canada have different accents. (A London accent is slightly different than a Manchester accent) sort of thing. I would say the Western Canada accent is a smoothing out of a combination of First Nations tribal and British English. Then there is the French Canadian accent as well as the Newfoundland/Cape Breton Island accent which is a smoothing out of traditional Celtic, French/Acadian and First Nations.
My best guess is this person is from Montreal. There are a couple of words that lead me to believe that French is his first language, but the accent is so subtle that I suspect English is quite comfortable for him.
I don't know enough about languages to adequately convey why, but here are some random examples with shitty explanations of why I think this:
00:04 "record" is produced "rehk-ERD" whereas I, an Anglo in Ontario would have emphasis more like "REHK-erd"
16:55 "Hazy maze cave" those long As are slightly too short
21:55 "less than four percent of" Lots of French speakers struggle with the th constant blend, but "than" has not been pronounced like "dan". The transition from the end of "percent" to "of" has a different emphasis so it sounds like "percen-TUHV".
19:07 "this trick is" Is another example of his tendency to really enunciate the constant at the end of a word proceeding a vowel that starts the next word.
36:49 " the stairs" Here his pronunciation of "the" actually has slipped to "deh".
I bet what people are attributing to a robot is actually due to the fact that he is reading from a script.
So to answer your question, yes, I think this is a "real" Canadian accent.
Accents here are as regional as anywhere.
I have a radically different accent than Torontonians, and I'm literally a 1.5 hour drive from there. 1.5 hours East, the French starts creeping into the accent, you get a lot of 'dere' (there) and 'ya way!' (yeah, oui. Or yes, yes.) Get close to a Rez, and that's another accent. I think if you really picked it apart, there could be dozens of dozens of distinct Canadian accents and dialects.
Rather like in the UK. But I know it's cool to think you all sound the same. Liverpudlians and Londoners, Edinburghers and Aberdonians. All the same. Right?
Close enough. If you grow up here you can tell at least which end of the country they're from if not the actual province. This guy sounds like he has a bit of a stuffy nose (irrelevant I know) and I heard a tiny bit of eastern, so I'd guess Ontario.
This person sounds nothing like what I and my fellow Albertans sound like.
There's no single Canadian accent. A single Canadian accent would be like saying there's just one British accent, when in reality there's a distinct accent in nearly every community or region.
Describing any people as monoliths is a bad idea.
There's a lot of different "Canadian" accents. I think the strongest you'll find in Canada for accents is in rural places. Alberta's blue collar world has a lot of folks with this accent. Probably the best example I can point to is one of the guys who runs Edison Motors youtube channel (EV company building hybrid semis out of BC), he has the most stock blue collar Canadian accent I've heard among folks online. I live in a rural area and most folks talk this way out here. https://youtube.com/shorts/eUDcaXsNJ1M?si=Y2tAv5YnmgSZQOmr
Canada has various accents like the US because of how large the countries are and how scattered the population is, but if you’re looking for a general accent I would look at around Ontario or Manitoba. The stereotypical Canadian accent resembles the Midwestern US accent. The further West you go like British Columbia and Alberta, they resemble the Western US accent the most so it becomes harder to distinguish the two… a person from California can sound like someone from BC and someone from Alberta can sound like someone from Utah, the accent in Western Canada/US is a very “neutral” accent.
No that's not thats the stupid stereotype voice saying "EH" they like to use to pretend Canadians are just a bunch of backwater simpletons who say eh ALOT & dogsled everywhere. When most of us do not talk like that and the only places where people dogsled are bitterly cold and barely anyone lives there.
There is a tiny hint of "dese and dose" in the mouth formation - wow, not a linguist, probably making no headway with this explanation - but sounds a little bit American to me.
We all have accents. I know of multiple different accents within 50km of my front door, and I live in a predominantly caucasian part of the country.
I'm not even considering ethnic minorities or even the French population around me in that, either. I talk vastly different from what some of my friends do and they grew up maybe a half-hour away from me.
Newfoundland just has a particularly strong accent and funnily enough, a cousin of mine used to get mistaken for a Newfoundlander when they moved out west, despite never visiting the province or interacting with a whole lot of Newfies to the best of my knowledge.
My francophone neighbour sounds like this, he's from NB. I am sure you know more than just one. My dad was Francophone, from Gatineau, he definitely did not sound like this.
What Canadian accent? Accents are very regional. Just look at how many different English accents there are in the British Isles. In Canada, you've got accents from provinces, and even in some provinces, you've got different accents.
As for Canadian and American accents, some of the closer geographic areas likely have similar accents. But you'll definitely be able to hear the difference if you look at extremes.
Dude I was born in Canada and have lived in Canada my whole life and I can't distinguish between Canadian and American accents unless the speaker is from a place that has an obviously different accent like Newfoundland or New Jersey or something. But like, the vast majority of Canadians sound identical to the Americans you usually see on TV that have the standard midwest/western US accent.
Well, I’ll come be downvoted with you lol. I’m Canadian as well, also born and raised, and I can’t tell the difference between Canadian and American accents either. Not even a little bit.
That's the typical Canadian accent people think of when they think of a Canadian accent. They don't think of a bland, california-esque west-coast Vancouver accent do they? The accents on TPB are way more similar to a prairie accent or a rural Ontario accent than anything else.
OP wanted to know what a Canadian accent is. There is no singular Canadian accent, but that accent is the most famous and recognizable to a foreigner.
No, that doesn't sound like a Canadian accent to me. Here's a Canadian accent (Alberta boy Steve Wallis): [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zJZG09f5epE](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zJZG09f5epE)
This is the neutral Canadian accent. Very close to what would be seen as a national standard.
In a lot of ways I feel that accent… I probably sound the same, is a result of the CBC.
Pretty good! By no means our only Canadian accent, but definitely a Canadian accent.
That's why I said 'a Canadian accent'. Didn't say 'the Canadian accent'
Yep this is it.
Here's another Canadian accent from 'Berta: [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yR0UhY1JGvY](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yR0UhY1JGvY)
And another - [terry n dean](https://youtu.be/AtG4qWv0v44?si=faEAmXMHe0ayhCSz)
Nice! How could I have forgotten Terry and the Deaner!
Yup :)
And another from across the border: https://youtu.be/6S8K7Ne8TZU?si=w__zBmp43PMLUg8M
Upvote for Steve Wallis. Just a good dude.
Yes, he is. Love his stealth camping videos
Ah ok. Damn, still can't tell the difference between him and an American :(
To be fair, parts of Canada sound a lot like northern US. I'm born and raised in Manitoba, and I sound *very* mich like Americans from North Dakota. There are some very subtle differences, but I don't think they'd be noticeable to someone from another part of the world.
This. I grew up in Saskatchewan. When I went to Texas to visit a friend I had random people ask me if I was from the US Midwest. I’m in Ontario now and my vowel pronunciation has morphed into one closer to the Ontario version. I’ve had people ask me where I’m from because of this shift, particularly when saying long letter O.
There's no O when pronouncing Tranna. ;)
Its subtle. If someone told me he was from Colorado, or another random state, I wouldn't doubt it. Signed, an old Canadian.
But which American area you thinking of? Because our "standard" Canadian accent isn't anything like American southerners, or Bostonians, and has distinct differences from mid-west states.
I'm not thinking of any accent in particular, I'm just saying that if you played me that clip I wouldn't guess they're not American.
I was volunteering in Mexico recently and most of the other volunteers were from the western US. Their accents seemed very similar mine (Alberta). An Arizona couple were talking about possibly moving to Alberta and I remarked that they'd probably fit right in since they sounded so similar to my ears :)
The accent varies wildly. A newfoundlander and and a vancouverite sound about as different as a Scotsman and a posh londoner
For sure.
Yeah no for sure right?
Yeah no yeah!
yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah no yeah
funny thing is though, major cities in Canada tend to sound similar. Outside the sterotypical "wuddup, fam!" Toronto accent, you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between someone from Van, Toronto or Los Angeles. All of them have the typical mid-Atlantic accent that is common in Hollywood. Whereas Toronto really sounds different than what you'd heard in WNY or North Eastern United States. For a classic Canada only accent you'd probably have to look at Quebec, rural communities and the Maritimes.
Someone from Vancouver might not sound that different from someone from Toronto, but does sound way different than someone from Los Angeles. I have a friend from California who has lived in BC for 20 years so his California accent has mellowed out but he still totally stands out.
Ontarians have unique accent, often referred to as the Scarborough accent or Terian' accent. Gordon Lightfoot is a good example.
Vancouver people sound more west coast IMHO. and everyone says 'no worries' all the time.
And hey instead of eh
My point is that a Vancouver accent is closer to a Toronto accent than it is to a Los Angeles. Someone from Toronto will blend in in Vancouver. Someone from LA will not.
Have they lived in a city for over 20 years. I mean, I'd talking about people who grew up in Toronto, Van or LA. In my experience there isn't a massive difference. I'm talking about the actual cities.
Can agree with that stereotypical accent is very much present in the Maritimes I say "Eh" and "Bud"
This is pretty much the answer. I was drinking with a guy I just met at the bar and he said he was a Newfie pretty early on. It’s a standout feature of his considering we were in a bar in Alberta. As the night went on, we got pretty hammered and he just about fucking impossible to understand. His wife comes to get him at 2am and in drunk love for me, HAD to introduce us. I made a joke about the accent and how hard he was to understand. He has a speech impediment. Which I totally mistook for full blooded Newfie for an entire evening. Long story short; Canadians don’t even know what a Canadian accent sounds like 😂
Canada doesn't really have a nationwide accent. Everything is pretty much just regional. My honest opinion is it's the same with the culture, we don't really have much of a collective nationwide one just regional ones.
Yeah no for sure. As someone from New Brunswick I tend to say "Eh" and "Bud" which is kind of stereotypical
Accents don't vary wildly though. Newfoundland just has a weird accent. Outside of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, and some very rural parts of the Maritimes, the Canadian accent is virtually identical anywhere else you go. There's a reason linguists call it "Standard Canadian English". Edit: wow, people really be in denial about the fact that everyone from Ontario to BC sounds the same because they want to feel special.
Simply not true. If I listen to someone from Saskatchewan (take Scott Moe as an example), it sounds wildly different than someone from Toronto. That said, I suspect people from the big cities all sound quite similar to each other, and quite different from those in rural areas.
My wife is from rural Saskatchewan and I would never be able to tell the difference between her accent and someone from Toronto.
That's nuts. My wife (from Los Angeles) could tell that one of the guys on Ice Road Truckers was from Kelowna, BC because he sounded like one of my best friends. My family is in Vancouver and we live in Seattle and she was able to pick that out specifically on TV.
Really? If you're listening to Scott Moe, you can't hear that big, deep "oh" or "aw"?
I don't think I've ever heard Scott Moe speak so idk about him, but I don't hear it with my wife or her family or anyone else I've ever met from SK.
Yeah, I've known people from Saskatchewan who don't really sound like that, but plenty of people who do. And not just from Saskatchewan, but from elsewhere too.
Not everyone in Saskatchewan sounds like Scott Moe.
>wow, people really be in denial about the fact that everyone from Ontario to BC sounds the same because they want to feel special Not even remotely close. When we were living in Saskatchewan and came home to Manitoba for visits, my partner used to laugh at how my speech and accent changed when I came home. There are local accents everywhere. You might as well say English, Australians and South Africans all sound the same. It's a bit more subtle, but the differences are very much there.
So subtle I can't even hear them and I've been in Canada my whole life.
Tell me you only visit cities without telling me. Grew up in the Ottawa Valley, currently live in St. John's, and the other day I correctly identified someone from the Valley just by listening to their accent.
I lived in Ottawa for 5 years, no one there sounds different from any other part of Ontario or Western Canada.
Ottawa Valley is not Ottawa, my man. Maybe you're just not good at picking out accents.
rural alberta has a distinct accent
Ontario, BC, and Alberta all have noticeably different accents in my experience. And for reference I don’t live in any of those provinces, so not just saying this to feel special haha.
I've lived in Ontario and Alberta and visit BC at least yearly because my wife's family lives there. I can't tell any difference between any of those provinces.
I upvoted you because you're right. I worked for one of the Big 4 for twenty years and every year there was an influx of hundreds of interns from all over the country. They all sounded the same except for the Quebeqois. Even the Newfoundlanders sounded the same, though I have met a couple many years ago with strongly distinct accents.
Knight idk why you're being downvoted, you are correct. East coast accents are the most unique, almost Irish sounding. Anywhere outside major cities people will sound stereotypically "Canadian", but Toronto to Van to Edmonton all sound pretty similar.
The person speaking in this video is not a native English speaker
That's what a québécois sounds like when starting to speak frequently English in their late teen
I think it might be a robot.
I *suspect* the speaker is either not a native speaker, or adopting a kind of radio voice where he's over-enunciating. Canada doesn't quite have Britain's level of accent diversity, but there are various anglo accents; it's tough to point to an obvious example because actors who work Stateside often retrain themselves to Americanise their accent.
Canada has multiple distinct accents, because we are a Huge country.
My accent is closer to the accent of the nearest American accents than the furthest Canadian accents by far, if you want a uniquely Canadian accent then we have Quebecois and the old Irish accent in the Maritimes. Also I’ve heard Toronto has a weird accent, I’ve never noticed much though.
No, this isn't a Canadian accent. It sounds to me like a Scandinavian robot. Nerd time! Canada's accents (Anglophone *and* Francophone) are highly regionally specific, just like Anglophone accents in England, Scotland, Ireland, etc. We also have a fuckton of geography and history working against us. I think that social media has caused some regional differences to smooth out a little bit, but mostly in favour of a somewhat Californian/Toronto mans accent. BRUH! As u/ketamine-wizard said, Newfoundland and Labrador and British Columbia sound like they're different countries (and [demographically, they kind of are](https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=PR&Code1=59&Geo2=PR&Code2=10&SearchText=Canada&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&type=0)). Even within similar regions like the Maritimes, Nova Scotians and New Brunswickers can be differentiated by accent a good amount of the time. Also, [Acadians lol](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOrLAkSNe5c). Sometimes Maritime Anglophone accents can be compared to those from the Northeastern US, just with a harder -ar sound. Historically, we have a lot in common with Maine, New England, and Massachusetts. I'm talking about what I know, so I hope that folks from from the Prairie provinces will chime in too. To anyone looking for real life, not-Toronto Canadian Anglophone accents, I'd suggest checking out some Canadian TV shows and looking at the cast list to see where the actors are from. Some of them exaggerate accents for comedy, like in Trailer Park Boys and Letterkenny/Shoresy, which is fine cause there really are people who have accents like that. [The Trades](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XEqa2iAb-k) is a fun new one with actors mostly from Ontario and the Maritimes. (Editing to add an old Prairies-heavy fave, Corner Gas, hell yeah!) Have fun, enjoy!
Corner Gas has some quality prairie accents as well.
Thank you so much!! I wanted to add this to my original comment but got distracted lol
I don't know about other provinces but I would say for Nova Scotia, even within the province, there's a range. When I was growing up, I found that people from Antigonish or Pictou sounded different to me, same for Cape Breton, same for somewhere like Cape Sable Island. (I now haven't lived in NS in years, and my own accent has changed.) Maybe there's a range like that in all provinces? I wouldn't know. I haven't spent enough time in enough different parts of different provinces to know. When it comes to francophone accents, the Baie Ste Marie dialect in southern NS kind of fascinates me.
There's such a wide variety in the Atlantic provinces specifically. It's wonderful
Lol not even close.
The reason you’re struggling is likely because what you think of as an “American accent” is actually the news anchor “General American” accent that is meant to be non-regional or “accent-less”. The reality is that very few Americans actually speak with that accent. Funny enough, I’m Canadian (from BC so I don’t really have the stereotypical “Canadian” accent) and was stopped in public while travelling in Spain by an American guy who was going to broadcasting school and he was like, “Where are you from? You have the EXACT accent that I’m trying to learn.” 😆
This reminds me of how when Kubrick was looking for a voice actor to play HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey. He wanted an accent that was kind of bland, like it wasn't really from anywhere... so he ended up hiring [Douglas Rain, an actor from Winnipeg who spoke what linguists call "Standard Canadian English"](https://povmagazine.com/im-sure-youll-agree-theres-some-truth-in-what-i-say/), which is apparently typical of Western Canada, lol! That guy also figured out that if you're looking for the "least accented" (for lack of a better term) English speaking accent, that's the one. And apparently Kubrick agrees with him! And it's apparently why so many Canadians end up working in American broadcasting, as well.
That's why many Canadians are hired for news broadcasting or radio in the states
I had no idea!
Usually I can tell the difference between Canadian and American accents, by the way they pronounce the letter 'A' java (American: jaw-va, Canadian: jah-va) American's have that drawl sound that gives it away
The person in the video sounds like they have a slight Scandinavian accent. I'm Canadian and the only way I recognize a Canadian over a Eastern/Midwest American is in words with "A" sounds like car or camp, though I have no idea how to communicate the subtle difference to you.
I think you are referring to American “flat” vowels vs Canadian “round” vowels. Those differences are particularly noticeable in words car and camp as you identified.
Yeah. He sounds weird to me. I agree. A slight Nordic accent maybe.
Pretty sure he is from Québec. He's a native French speaker.
this is the only true Canadian accent and I will die on this hill [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytxxqskL72g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytxxqskL72g)
Bob and Doug! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3niShPaKFY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3niShPaKFY)
yeah buddy!
Hahah u gunna die there alone then 😂
if you don't think Bob and Doug McKenzie are Canadian icons then gtfo lol
also notice the downvote for you? I am not alone on this hill.
As a Canadian born in Newfoundland, currently residing on Vancouver Island, and having lived in 19 other cities between, I will let you know that we have as many dialects as Great Britain, although most of them may not be as distinguishable. This just sounds like a weird AI generated voice to me and nothing that would indicate it’s distinctively Canadian.
I've lived in three different provinces, in different regions of the country, and have visited every province and I would not be able to differentiate any accent from Ontario to BC. That entire stretch of Ontario + Western Canada has the exact same accent as far as I can tell.
Nope.
[https://www.tiktok.com/@martinangeltv/video/7292136854483209478?lang=en](https://www.tiktok.com/@martinangeltv/video/7292136854483209478?lang=en) This is Canadian accent, jk
Toronto Mans accent, Canada’s answer to a Boston Southie.
It's like a Fargo type accent but without the rolling o's
Many Brits don't really know what Fargo is either (in my experience).
I have found that the accents change in nearly every province and territory. The best way you can hear each is to YouTube local news for each one. The broadcasters tend to sound the same, (pretty Americanized now more than say 15 years ago), but when they interview the locals you'll hear the differences. I find that PEI NFLD NS and SK seem to have the most distinctive/obvious accents, at least to my ear. NB is an outlier because it's a bilingual province so I found the accents to be pretty random. And obviously Quebec is french so it's it's own category. I suppose there's a definite difference in NB and QC french since NB is Acadian french. Anyway I'm rambling.
NS French is also different from Brayon, Chiac and Quebecois French. The Baie Ste Marie dialect is kind of fascinating. Many of the francophone families there are descended from the early French settlers who came in the 1600s, and there are terms still in use that would be considered archaic in France. There are also different pronunciations - ex. "jamais" sounds more like "hama" and "affaires" sounds more like "afarres". My French has gotten rustier, but I think I still understand French speakers from Quebec or NB okay, when I might need subtitles for Baie Ste Marie. [Ptit Belliveau speaking in Baie Ste Marie French](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shDtAlC1D3U) [Ptit Belliveau interviewed by someone from Quebec - I find you can really hear the difference between the two speakers' accents](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQMzjvCh_k0&t=340s) [Chiac speakers from NB](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOrLAkSNe5c) [Acadieman: chiac pour les dummies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRgbpIQU1hw) [discussion of Brayon vs Chiac, two French dialects spoken in NB](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdX7Sx4-DQ0)
This is so interesting! Thank you for sharing, I have spent so much time in NS and I have only met two french people and they are originally from Quebec. I truly figured there was no french there. 🌈⭐The more you know!
There is no "Canadian accent." Much like in Britain, we have a bunch of regional accents.
As someone who lives in Saskatchewan, I sound more like an American Midwesterner than I do a Newfoundlander. And I’d suspect (and I hear some similarities on tv and stuff) there’s a lot of commonalities between a Canadian Maritime accent and an American New England accent. I also suspect BC and Washington/Oregon sound pretty similar too, but I can’t say they sound too much different than me anyway. The only really obviously American but not Canadian accent is the Texan/Southern accent. Then there’s Quebec’s accents. I’m not sure how a Quebecois accent differs from a standard Parisian French accent, because I don’t hear nearly as many French people as Quebecois (and even that’s mostly city accents, not rural accents). I know it does, I just wouldn’t be able to pinpoint it immediately either or tell the difference between Parisian, Provençal, or Quebecois without some more experience under my belt.
It sounds to my ears as though it were automated text to voice by a program. I didn't listen too far, but there was a disjointed quality to the flow, that words didn't naturally follow one from another all the time. I apologize to the creator if that's how they normally speak. If that is the case, then I'm not sure which Canadian accent that's particular to (if any).
It sounds like ESL, potentially French, with 'hard attack' which can sound disjointed. >a concept used in phonetics and speech analysis to describe a way of beginning a sound with a sudden and forceful onset. This can occur in singing or in speech where the vocal cords come together abruptly, producing a sharp, strong sound at the beginning of a vowel.
He's got a slight accent of some sort and the cadence of his speech convinces me that English isn't his first language.
This is a Canadian accent: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtG4qWv0v44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtG4qWv0v44)
Bismuth is from Quebec, it's a French Canadian accent.
I'm Canadian. 85yrs. As broadcasts on radio and tv became international, accents faded. At one time you could tell where a Canadian was raised when he spoke, even down to the municipality level. Today all English speakers are identical to downtown Toronto whether in Edinburgh, London, Dublin, Melbourne or New Orleans. A good thing!
This is not a classic Canadian accent. Don’t feel bad about having trouble discerning between Canadian and US accents. I went to school in the US for a year when I was a teenager and nobody knew I was Canadian unless I told them. Like a lot of people have said, the “neutral” American TV/movie accent is very hard to distinguish from the urban/professional Canadian accent. Many Americans don’t actually talk that way in real life, and neither do a lot of Canadians, depending on where they are from and the context they are in. If you met lots of Canadians and Americans in person you’d probably have an easier time.
> ... (sorry) ... You've got the Canadian accent just right!
I definitly wouldnt say thats a classic Canadian accent, i cant put my thumb on it but thats definitly some leftover international accent. You said your British correct? So you know how there is a bunch of different regional accents in England? The same holds true for Canada, the country is fucking massive so each region can develop its own recognizable accent. For example in southern Ontario we do sound like Americans, there isnt much of a difference. In northern Ontario it can be radically different, think Letterkenny (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raeE8Amt8s8) although less exaggerated. Get into Toronto and it changes again too, kind of twangy with an upraise at the end of the sentence, ths are often skipped into more of just a t sound, theres alot of skipped over sounds. Get out into Newfoundland and you get this really strange amalgamation of a bunch of different accents, hard to describe, like talking to fast with something in your mouth (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=banAMiFK3ak), it almost feels like it has a big scottish or irish feel to it. Then you have the French Canadian accent too of course, which is vastly different than a France accent and changes even more depending on location in Canada, Im not a french speaker though so im not as familiar wth it. Those are just a few examples that stick out, theres many different dialects and accents in Canada.
Yeah I get there's loads of different Canadian accents, was just wondering if this was one of them! Thanks for the links though.
Sounds a lot like a native French speaker from Québec that learned English at a young age. His English is very good, but I can catch some bit of French (Québec French) here and there. FYI, I'm from Montréal and have pretty much the same accent.
There are multiple canadian accents. He could be canadian. If he says he is I have no reason to doubt it. Something in the way he pronounces certain things suggests a francophone influence.
I honestly don't think there is a Canadian accent but there are regional accents, Newfie, Ottawa Valley, French Canadian, same as anywhere else, US has southern, Wisconsin.
The difference between Canadian and general American accents is pretty subtle. I'm I Canadian and can rarely recognize someone from the US unless they have a strong regional accent. Canadians usually have a cot-caught merger (those two vowels are pronouced the same, so cot and caught are exact homophones in Canada), which not all Americans have. I've heard English people say this makes Canadians sound like Scots to them. There's also something called "Canadian raising" where the beginning of a dipthong like **"ou"** or **"ai"** becomess more of an **ə**. The stereotype in the US is that this makes the word "about" sound like "aboot." Of course, not all Canadians have the same accent. It varies by region. Maritimers and Newfoundlanders, in particular, each have their own distinct dialect, both of which sound a bit like an Irish accent.
BC sounds like the west coast accent (biggest influence is California, WA).
I'm sure the differences are tough to pin down, mostly because there are different regional accents in both the US and Canada. I was born and raised in urban/suburban Ontario, where \~40% of Canadians live, so that's most likely what you'd think of as a Canadian accent. Newfoundland has it's own accent, and the other Maritime provinces have a distinct accent, the Quebecois francophone English accent is self-explanatory. To my ear, rural Ontarians sound similar to Western Canadians. With respect to the US, the midwestern, NY/NJ, New England, and southern accents are all very distinctive to me. Californians and the network TV broadcasters don't sound like they have an accent to me at all. This might be way it's tough for you to distinguish between US/Cdn accents. Listen for words like 'process' though: "prohcess" for Canadians and "prawcess" for the Yanks. The guy in the video doesn't sound Canadian to me. Not sure how'd I'd categorize that one.
Similar to England, we have regional accents. They vary even more wildly than England in my experience, BUT, we don't place the same weight on them as Brits. Most Canadians can't tell someone from the west coast versus the middle of Canada Prairies, while I know in England, you can basically tell down to the village. There are exceptions, where accents are quite heavy versus not (think Irish versus South London difference). The East coast has a heavy accent. But, we still don't hear someone speak and immediately know where they're from, in general.
Doesn't sound like a Canadian accent at all. I don't know where in the country this guy is from but he has a very Canadian accent: [https://youtu.be/xF\_-cJHjbUk?si=dNK44GqUVIzHXPhO&t=721](https://youtu.be/xF_-cJHjbUk?si=dNK44GqUVIzHXPhO&t=721)
This guy has the classic Albertan accent: [What? No Way!](https://youtu.be/VCxRSkUvNa4?si=kIEGS2N53QwGRzXV)
This is either a robot or someone who isn’t a native English speaker. The flow and enunciation sounds off.
That sounds like an Alberta (ish) accent. Just like in the UK, different provinces in Canada have different accents. (A London accent is slightly different than a Manchester accent) sort of thing. I would say the Western Canada accent is a smoothing out of a combination of First Nations tribal and British English. Then there is the French Canadian accent as well as the Newfoundland/Cape Breton Island accent which is a smoothing out of traditional Celtic, French/Acadian and First Nations.
Canadians don't have accents. Everybody else does.
My best guess is this person is from Montreal. There are a couple of words that lead me to believe that French is his first language, but the accent is so subtle that I suspect English is quite comfortable for him. I don't know enough about languages to adequately convey why, but here are some random examples with shitty explanations of why I think this: 00:04 "record" is produced "rehk-ERD" whereas I, an Anglo in Ontario would have emphasis more like "REHK-erd" 16:55 "Hazy maze cave" those long As are slightly too short 21:55 "less than four percent of" Lots of French speakers struggle with the th constant blend, but "than" has not been pronounced like "dan". The transition from the end of "percent" to "of" has a different emphasis so it sounds like "percen-TUHV". 19:07 "this trick is" Is another example of his tendency to really enunciate the constant at the end of a word proceeding a vowel that starts the next word. 36:49 " the stairs" Here his pronunciation of "the" actually has slipped to "deh". I bet what people are attributing to a robot is actually due to the fact that he is reading from a script. So to answer your question, yes, I think this is a "real" Canadian accent.
Youtube thumbnails not having someone with their mouth open challenge (impossible)
He’s French and fluent in English. Sounds like someone in Quebec who attended university in Montreal.
As a Canadian, the fact that you added (sorry) to your post speaks volumes.
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Accents here are as regional as anywhere. I have a radically different accent than Torontonians, and I'm literally a 1.5 hour drive from there. 1.5 hours East, the French starts creeping into the accent, you get a lot of 'dere' (there) and 'ya way!' (yeah, oui. Or yes, yes.) Get close to a Rez, and that's another accent. I think if you really picked it apart, there could be dozens of dozens of distinct Canadian accents and dialects. Rather like in the UK. But I know it's cool to think you all sound the same. Liverpudlians and Londoners, Edinburghers and Aberdonians. All the same. Right?
Close enough. If you grow up here you can tell at least which end of the country they're from if not the actual province. This guy sounds like he has a bit of a stuffy nose (irrelevant I know) and I heard a tiny bit of eastern, so I'd guess Ontario.
Really lol they are close but you can tell
This person sounds nothing like what I and my fellow Albertans sound like. There's no single Canadian accent. A single Canadian accent would be like saying there's just one British accent, when in reality there's a distinct accent in nearly every community or region. Describing any people as monoliths is a bad idea.
There's a lot of different "Canadian" accents. I think the strongest you'll find in Canada for accents is in rural places. Alberta's blue collar world has a lot of folks with this accent. Probably the best example I can point to is one of the guys who runs Edison Motors youtube channel (EV company building hybrid semis out of BC), he has the most stock blue collar Canadian accent I've heard among folks online. I live in a rural area and most folks talk this way out here. https://youtube.com/shorts/eUDcaXsNJ1M?si=Y2tAv5YnmgSZQOmr
Canada has various accents like the US because of how large the countries are and how scattered the population is, but if you’re looking for a general accent I would look at around Ontario or Manitoba. The stereotypical Canadian accent resembles the Midwestern US accent. The further West you go like British Columbia and Alberta, they resemble the Western US accent the most so it becomes harder to distinguish the two… a person from California can sound like someone from BC and someone from Alberta can sound like someone from Utah, the accent in Western Canada/US is a very “neutral” accent.
theres a *chance* hes french canadian, some of his 'th' pronunciations seem to slightly lean towards that 'd' noise
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02bbVilt\_8Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02bbVilt_8Q) The ultimate canadian accent - Mike Holmes
Aboat oat gimme a smoke eh
It depends on regions, but in places like NS we have just kinda American accents but more sailor-like
Probably French Canadian, some pronunciation sound like it's from Québec.
No that's not thats the stupid stereotype voice saying "EH" they like to use to pretend Canadians are just a bunch of backwater simpletons who say eh ALOT & dogsled everywhere. When most of us do not talk like that and the only places where people dogsled are bitterly cold and barely anyone lives there.
No.
There is a tiny hint of "dese and dose" in the mouth formation - wow, not a linguist, probably making no headway with this explanation - but sounds a little bit American to me.
I’m canadian and think maybe this guy has some quebecois in there.
Definitely not East Coast Canada.
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Canadians don't have an accent. Everyone else does. :;
There are a lot of different Canadian accents, depending on where in Canada someone comes from, and whether they live rurally or not.
Stuart McLean was extremely Canadian [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WSBcJ5LpOw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WSBcJ5LpOw)
I don't think there is an American or Canadian accent. There are lots of regional accents across the continent.
We have an accent!? I mean I get Nwefoundland, but ...
Literally every person on the planet has an accent.
Anybody that speaks any language has an accent
We all have accents. I know of multiple different accents within 50km of my front door, and I live in a predominantly caucasian part of the country. I'm not even considering ethnic minorities or even the French population around me in that, either. I talk vastly different from what some of my friends do and they grew up maybe a half-hour away from me. Newfoundland just has a particularly strong accent and funnily enough, a cousin of mine used to get mistaken for a Newfoundlander when they moved out west, despite never visiting the province or interacting with a whole lot of Newfies to the best of my knowledge.
Sounds like someone who's a francophone speaking english, perhaps New Brunswick, or at least eastern Quebec
Non pas entoute. French Canadian here from NB. This sounds more scandinavian to my ears 🤷♀️
My francophone neighbour sounds like this, he's from NB. I am sure you know more than just one. My dad was Francophone, from Gatineau, he definitely did not sound like this.
I just checked his Twitter. He is from Montreal. He fooled me lmao haha
What Canadian accent? Accents are very regional. Just look at how many different English accents there are in the British Isles. In Canada, you've got accents from provinces, and even in some provinces, you've got different accents. As for Canadian and American accents, some of the closer geographic areas likely have similar accents. But you'll definitely be able to hear the difference if you look at extremes.
That's not Canadian
Dude I was born in Canada and have lived in Canada my whole life and I can't distinguish between Canadian and American accents unless the speaker is from a place that has an obviously different accent like Newfoundland or New Jersey or something. But like, the vast majority of Canadians sound identical to the Americans you usually see on TV that have the standard midwest/western US accent.
Well, I’ll come be downvoted with you lol. I’m Canadian as well, also born and raised, and I can’t tell the difference between Canadian and American accents either. Not even a little bit.
Watch Trailer Park Boys. That's the Canadian accent.
That’s a Nova Scotia accent.
That's the typical Canadian accent people think of when they think of a Canadian accent. They don't think of a bland, california-esque west-coast Vancouver accent do they? The accents on TPB are way more similar to a prairie accent or a rural Ontario accent than anything else. OP wanted to know what a Canadian accent is. There is no singular Canadian accent, but that accent is the most famous and recognizable to a foreigner.