American Accents

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier seeks to be better understood by his co-hosts by diving headfirst into the American accent. He meets with dialect coach Joel Goldes, who’s helped coach actors like Viola Davis through her various accent roles. As “The Dialect Coach” (www.thedialectcoach.com), Joel teaches David how to place his tongue to sound more American, and takes Farrier through what he’s been doing wrong. Monica, Rob and David also take an accent quiz to see how good they are at picking American accents (which you can try at home too: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliafurlan/pahk-the-cah-nomaaaaaah) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm David Ferrier in New Zealand accidentally marooned in America and I want to figure out what makes this country tick.
0:07.0	Now one of the amazing things about making a podcast about America is that I'm slowly getting to see a lot of America and that means I get to
0:15.1	hear a lot of America too and wherever you end up in America it sounds different
0:20.6	Americans sound different.
0:23.0	He was one of the best pizza guys ever in New York.
0:26.0	Someone in New York sounds different to someone in Philadelphia.
0:30.0	New York might say they have the best sub sandwiches hero and stuff like that.
0:33.8	Subway and not defending anybody compared to the real Italian hoagies.
0:37.8	It's not even close.
0:38.8	And the Americans in New York and Philly definitely sound different to the Americans in say the Everglades.
0:45.6	Hell out seven, eight years old I was off on my own, you know.
0:50.4	Same with like the fishing.
0:51.6	I had a boat before I had a driver's license.
0:53.8	And that's different to how locals sound in a small town out of Oklahoma City that had just been hit by a tornado.
1:00.0	Where are you from? I'm from New Zealand.
1:02.0	New Zealand, oh man, you've been? New Zealand.
1:05.0	You've been walking far?
1:06.0	Even up in the attic where we make this show,
1:09.0	everyone sounds wildly different.
1:11.0	Throw up very loudly.
1:13.4	I mean, loudly, loudly, loudly.
1:16.6	And the dough ferments longer than New York style.
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