21 Accents

I’d hit that (just wanted to be the first to say that). You know she had this done so she could read all the comments about how doable and ‘hot’ she is!

Kiwi accent was pretty terrible. Stereotype rather than realistic.

Definitely not an Aussie. I would just presume/guess that the first one is the natural accent. Pretty impressive talent. Leaves Sean Connery’s Russian for dead.

Egads! O_o

oh that brooklyn accent was dismal and pretty insulting

..not every Canadian speaks with a french accent.. she should have used Montreal as an example instead of Toronto.

If you liked that you’d probably love this site:

http://accent.gmu.edu/index.php

A great effort to cover a whole lot of territory. Her South Carolina accent is in the ballpark but still needs work.

By the way, the female southern accent (anywhere from southern Virginia through Mississpi) is the most beautiful, sexy accent there is, at least in the US!

I don’t know what Tona B is talking about, because that Texas accent was horrid. I’m a native Texan, and I might have a bit of a drawl sometimes but it is NOT that. Even the country folk I know don’t sound so.. old western movie-ish.

It’s OK.

I wished she would’ve stuck to doing only actual English-speaking countries, and that would’ve been funnier, such as Australia, NZ, South Africa, Canada, the Southern USA regions, the SW US regions, Hawaii, Jamaica, etc etc……….

Dunno… the italian accent pretty much sucked.

her SC accent is horrible.

well, maybe it’d be accurate like 50 years ago.

If not entirely accurate, it was at least entertaining. I hope us Canadians don’t actually sound like the Toronto accent…do we? The Russian one was pretty sexy though.

The Texas accent is pretty ridiculous caricature.

How is her Russian accent in any way sexy? Being Russian myself, I find it pretty horrible, reminds be a bit of the accents used in old movies.

I’m sure everyone that is from one of the places she did feels the same way but her Charleston accent was completely off. I could buy it as just your basic southern accent but Charleston has a very distinct accent that she was nowhere close to.

Hello my name is Amy Walker and I have multiple personality disorder….seriously, that was mildly entertaining, even though I have to agree, the Brooklyn, Aussie and German accents were kind of bad.

I’m a New Yorker and I gotta say, she got a smirk out of me on the Brooklyn accent. It was bad, sure, but it was funny.

I’m impressed because if I try to do more than one accent at a time my brain gets stuck. It’s interesting to see the comments here, though. I didn’t know there was a Seattle accent, but I’ve never been out there, either. I think her last accent was the most interesting because that sort of accent always feels unnatural to me.

I also realized she didn’t do an “Ohio” accent… Which, as I’ve been told, is what people are trained with to have “no accent.” (DJs and stuff go to school here for that, apparently.)

I’m a Texan and did not like the accent. I thought she was going to pull out six shooters and whoop… YEE HAW YEE HAW etc.

The California accent was dead on, but only to the SoCal area.

Overall, extremely impressive/entertaining.

WOW Lay off her jesus!

Thanks for the link.

I know I sure as hell couldn’t do that many accents half as well as she could. Can you? Maybe you can create a youtube video so we can make fun of you.

she does porn

It’s wicked funny that so many people will say, “OMG, that is NOT how we sound here.”

Yeah, yeah it is.

Actually, I’m a Kiwi and I thought she pretty much nailed the NZ accent. The Toronto accent worried me a bit – she sounded a bit irish there for a second – but then again what would I know. I know the NZ accent.. she got it. Brookyn accent was a stereotype (I lived there for 5 years) but you know.. what are ya gonna do the whole place is a stereotype.. forget about it.

First off Bravo!!! great range of accents.

I do voices and have a range. But boy has she got them down pat!!!

Keep up the Great work Amy, and I hope some agency picks you up very very Soon!!!!!

If she’d done a Brummie (UK) accent it would have been hilarious.

She was good. Few people could do that. Yes, her accents were off, but unless she’d spent considerable time in each of the places she was mimicking, I’m sure we can forgive her.

The belfast accent could really do with some work, having lived in those parts 20+ years, every time I hear such an accent on TV I cringe as it’s so grating with so many words mispronounced, after the lucid tones of the presenters.

bean — she wasn’t doing a bad “Katherine Hepburn” imitation, she specifically stated she was doing the “transatlantic” accent that was ubiquitous in American movies in the 1930s and 40s (though, yes KH was best known for the sound.)

I think she did an admirable job. It’s easy to criticize someone else’s work. But unless you can do better lay off. I’ve seen professional actors raking in tons of money who couldn’t match her.

As a southerner (Mississippian) I think her SC accent was horrible. The typical “this is the southern accent Hollywood believes to be true” Maybe I’m prejudiced, buy I have NEVER heard anyone who wasn’t from the south do a good southern impression.

irish ones were terrible,especially belfast,it sounded the same as the forced dublin accent,all hatred aside………..she was decent,cant fool the irish

If her she made her voice higher her russian accent wouldn’t have been bad. Russian women have high voices

Heck, she does a good job. Of course they are all stereotypes and the subtle lackings in each can be spotted by native speakers. Getting such a range of accents covered in a single take is pretty challenging, though, and she showed her capabilities well. I’m sure if she were cast as a single one in a theatre or film production, she could hone things further.

Oh I forgot to say, yes her scots andm irish were out but good god she was brilliant by comparison to some of the garbage accents I’ve heard from US films and TV.

The TV show LOST had an episode covering the back story of the Scottish guy, in that were fake jock accents last heard in Brigadoon.

So she is a hell of a lot better than most I’ve heard.

She’s a cunning linguist.

I suppose I’m out-voted on the Texas accent, but I don’t mind. (Admitedly, I grew up on MTV.) I think she did rather well, regardless. Especially if that was without any voice coaching. I like that she tried different personas with her accents, and the rapid-fire delivery was impressive, too.

Finally, it’s satisfying to know I called what state she’s from!

*smartypants dance*

Was there supposed to be a difference between California and Seattle? They both sounded pretty much the same to me. And they sounded like me… but I’m Canadian.

Toronto? i thought that was s’posed to be minnesota. boo.
and i wonder if she’s spent any time at all in italy (or knows any english-speaking italians)? that was just… weird.

I can’t remember that chick’s name, but she sure gets around!!!

glasgow accent was rubbish reminded me of those terrible 50′s american films about scotland where everybody sayed things like och i laddie:(

Her Californian accent sounds…
unnatural.

Weird, since I have never heard anyone try to imitate it.

Toronto was good, but exaggerated… i don’t know anyone from Toronto who actually talks like that. I’ve only ever heard that accent on 22 Minutes and Air Farce (satire shows).

They all seemed believable to me, except the one I speak, which is by-God Southern.

Her Charleston accent, like that of so many awful Hollywood movies, sounds like Foghorn Leghorn at a Civil War reenactment.

Good Southern accents by non-Southerners:

Miranda Richardson in “The Apostle”
Jennifer Aniston in “The Good Girl”
Kelly Macdonald in “No Country for Old Men”

No sure why I picked all women there…

The Toronto accent was horrendous.

I’ve been an actor for over 30 years, and I have to give her props for being able to switch from accent to accent and actually do a pretty decent job on most of them. I agree with the comment that if she had an opportunity to listen to an actual speaker from those regions for 30 minutes she would probably be dead-on. I also agree that very few actors who are not from the South can do a convincing Southern accent. As any Southerner will tell you, there are so many regional variations that a Southerner can usually discern that probably sound alike to a non-southerner. Georgians and North Carolinians, for example, sound quite different to me (a Virginian).

Ugh.

Bad. Really, really bad accents. They are all so exaggerated I couldn’t stop cringing. Especially the Aussie ones. Those were hideous.

However, if this is her audition reel, I expect her to get parts on American television.

Bleah.

The only believable one was Seattle which, I guess, makes sense.

I LOVED the Transatlantic accent. I had to play it a couple of times to hear it again.

Ok, English is not my mother tongue, so almost all accents sound acceptable enough. The German accent is a bit too soft still (she should cut the words more into syllables – that is almost what a good German pronunciation is about…)
I think, you can never expect someone to speak a totally 100% right accent if he/she is not originally from that place.
I am totally impressed by all the accents she uses, and I’m wondering if she is able to really use them in normal conversation over a length of time.

Toronto accent sounded like the awful accents on 22 Minutes or the Simpsons. I speak with Canadians all across the country every day, and only a very few Maritimers speak it that thick.
Other accents sounded forced and stereotypical. Do Russian women really lower their voices like that?

Me think there are some that doth protest too much. She’s a voice over artist and every one of her dialects and accents are realistic for what is used in the industry. Especially interactive work. (Video Games for those that don’t know)

She’s got a lot of talent to be able to fire them off like that and until you’ve done that kind of studying and work for this craft, slamming her seems a bit petty and rude.

wow….. just wow. i only noe one accent.. singlish!

I think I’m in love with this girl.

Eh, i suppose they’re stereotyped on purpose and the Irish accents could have been worse (Heroes season 2 anyone?) but they were pretty bad! Congrats for actually attempting a Dublin scanger accent though, it’s a toughie!

I went to swat you all down for taking offense from her (entirely sensibly, use your brains) stereotyped rendition of your respective accents, but then discovered I am jaded by sharing a local accent with her! But then again, I had an english accent as a child and many family members with different German accents, all of which she nailed, so poo on you jerks! Ms. Walker, that was fabulous!

I thought it was quite entertaining.

I thought they all sounded good, though i’m not one of the know-it-alls who seem to know what every accent is “Suppost” to sound like perfectly. Amazing I didn’t realize it was possible to be born and /or live long enough in all those countries to know exactly the perfect accent for each one. -rolls eyes-

And of course accents are going to sound slightly different to different people, and a foreigner is most likely going to make it sound a little harsher because they aren’t used to it.