Can I Fool Brits With a FAKE British Accent?!

The british have an in built accent detector because from birth we are trained to know someones socio-economic status after a single sentence.

You sounded quite staccato, that's why some people thought that you might be German.

One of the biggest issues ive noticed is that you dont quite use words and phrases that a british person would use. You just try to adjust the vowel sounds to what a british speaker would do.

He does sound like a German fella who’s learned British English. I think hanging around Brits helps wonders to pick up the accent.

the funny thing is that even if he spoke in his native canadian accent people would probably assume hes from germany or netherland

If you're trying to explain to British teenagers what RP is, call it the BBC news accent. They'll immediately know what you mean.

That one kid nailed it when he said what city are you from, even RP speakers have regional inflections, if some one is speaking perfect RP they are not a native speaker

The amount of work and effort you have put into this video is amazing! Well done!

Put a lot of effort into mastering that RP, just to develop the Dutch accent - priceless

Paul’s regular Canadian accent sounds a bit German to me. All very clipped and precise. This is maybe why Paul’s RP accent sounds German/Dutch/Swedish.

Mate this was brilliant, would love to see another upload of something similar. Going on video chat undercover with a different accent of some kind

I’m American and I would love to speak that RP accent on a daily basis. People would think I’d lost my mind, but it sounds so good!

You actually sound incredibly German- like a very good English speaker who is native to German. Have no idea how you managed that. It’s definitely the the staccato. Seriously uncanny.

I am from Germany and when I discovered your channel many years I ago thought you were a non-native speaker of English probably Danish or from another Scandinavian country. The way you shorten vowls and the stiff way you pronounce sentences also came through slightly when you were speaking in the RP accent.

You really do speak super clear. Even the YouTube auto generated subtitles are catching every single word

You are very gifted. Its a fascinating subject. Really enjoyed this post. Well done

I think the first attempt sounded more South African to me 😂

When you ask people in the context of a quiz, "where do you think I'm from?" People will assume the answer is not what it seems.

Your observation about people who learn authentic pronunciation is very interesting. Cultural immersion vs. observation and such. I'm an English speaker from America, and I learned Spanish in college, but it wasn't until I spent a semester in Spain that I learned to speak it decently well. I was very fascinated by the country around me and felt deeply connected to it. Spanish speakers know immediately that I'm not Spanish, but once in a classroom in America, one of my students from Colombia heard me speak Spanish and commented that I had an accent. As in, my Spanish was different from the Spanish she was used to, not that it was off or lacking. It felt pretty good to hear that. Best wishes to all the language learners out there.

From about halfway through, in the segment with the voice coach, I actually forgot that your voiceover was you doing the accent because it sounded so natural! So cool to see the progression of honing it