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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Hello!
I'm sorry, were you not ready?
What?
Alright, were you not ready? I'm sorry, I just...
I thought you were ready.
Yeah, I'm ready.
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I'm ready.
You're always ready.
I was born ready.
You were born ready.
Yeah.
Yes.
That's good.
Yeah. Thank you.
Let's do it.
This is what I'm talking about.
Jokes aren't funny.
Jokes aren't supposed to be funny.
Well, it was...
It wasn't a joke then.
It wasn't a joke.
Because he was funny.
He was the funniest.
It wasn't a joke.
Got it.
Yeah? Alright.
Can I have two seconds, please?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, I do...
To get ready?
No.
To get ready?
Okay.
Nice to meet you.
I'm Sofomoa, and I enjoy social media.
Okay.
I live in Tennessee, USA, for my family's convenience.
Tennessee, I guess?
Is that...
Tennessee?
I mean, it's not something she's trying to hide the place.
No, all states can be represented in two letters.
Yeah, I think that's Tennessee.
It's not something that she's trying to...
I live in T-Street.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
She's not hiding it.
Okay, okay.
Yeah, so she's living in a Tennessee...
Yeah, because you're trying to hide...
I'm trying to hide my...
No, no, it's Georgia.
Okay.
PJ Maxx.
Yes!
Kroger.
Kroger?
What's that?
It's a grocery store.
Ah, okay.
Thank you.
So this is Sofomoa-san.
Again?
Yes, yes, yes.
I'm interested in English accents and watching a lot of videos.
I live in the south, so I'm studying southern accents.
Okay.
So, "G-O-N-N-A" becomes "fixing to" or "think" becomes "record" or "u-o" becomes "your".
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At school, even children with disabilities are taught "yes, ma'am, yes, sir" to their teachers.
Kevin-san often imitates Texas accents, but it's actually very interesting to hear.
Kevin-san, I heard on YouTube that you don't have an accent, but I'm glad you can tell us if you're a "G-A" or not.
Yeah.
Is that a southern accent?
No, that was not a southern accent.
Basically it's...
Oh, thank you.
That's a little right thing.
So, "u-o" becomes "your".
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean...
What?
It's a common thing everywhere.
So, the "your" thing?
Yeah.
It's a pronunciation.
It just sounds more southern.
What?
I just did a tongue trick here.
"Your" just sounds more southern.
Oh, okay.
Like, compared to like "cannot" to "can't" or like...
What?
"They are" to "they're".
It's a little different.
Like, when you shorten "you are" to "y'all", it just...
I don't know.
That just sounds more southern.
I don't know why, but just...
Yeah.
But you need to say like "y'all".
"Y'all"?
Yeah, like that.
With that, you know, sounding.
Yeah.
It's not "your".
Yeah, it's "y'all".
Yeah.
That's southern one.
Yeah.
Okay.
So, do you know the other two?
Yeah, fixing two and reckon.
I think that's...
I don't know if that's an accent thing, but...
Well, then I'm guessing that the southern people replace the word with it,
but it's just...
It's a different way of saying it, that's all.
Okay.
So, "I'm gonna eat this".
Yeah, "I'm fixing to..."
Well, I mean...
"I'm fixing to..."
Yeah, "I'm fixing to go to the supermarket and buying, you know, carrots".
"I'm fixing to..." is like...
What are you fixing?
"I'm going to..." that's what it means.
"I'm fixing to..."
"I'm fixing my schedule to go to..." kind of nuance.
Okay, okay, okay.
"I'm fixing to..."
"having lunch with my friend".
Yes, yes.
There you go.
Okay.
Oh, that's new to me.
Yeah.
Oh.
So, it's not a typical southern accent.
It's rather common in the United States.
It's just...
Yeah, it's...
...wording.
Yeah, it's just a wording.
Okay, okay.
So, what about "think" becomes "recon"?
I reckon...
Don't Ed Sheeran say this?
I mean, that's a word.
"Recon".
Yeah.
It's not an accent, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, I agree.
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I think it's not an accent thing.
Okay.
But I guess...
I don't know, maybe the southern, like, replaces it more with "recon".
Okay.
But, yeah.
Hmm, okay, I see.
So, "I'm going to..."
Wait, "I'm fixing to..."
But, do they say "fixing to"?
Like, "fixing to"...
Because "fixing to" is too...
Wordy?
Like, clean.
Okay.
Yeah, I guess if you link that, "fixing to".
"Fixing to".
"Fixing to" is the thing.
I guess southern people don't say "fixing to".
Uh-huh.
Because it's too, like, sound...
True, true.
Like, true.
Yeah.
"I'm fixing to get my car fixed."
"Fixing to."
Yeah, okay.
So, that means "I'm gonna do something."
"Fixing to."
"Gonna" in each other is more like "gone".
"I'm gone."
"Gone."
Wow.
So...
"I'm on, I'm on ketchup."
"I'm on."
"I'm on."
"I'm on, I'm on."
"I'm on gold..."
"I'm on getting some grocery store at the grog."
Yeah.
"I'm on, I'm on."
Yeah.
Wow.
M-O-N.
"I'm on."
"I'm on."
Yeah.
Yeah, but I hear that sometimes.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's...
Wow.
That's going to...
"I'm on."
Wow.
Do we still have time?
We... that's...
Yes, we have a two and a half.
Okay, she sent us a video about...
Great.
Southern accents.
Okay.
Great, she's done, I think, eight different programs for HBO over the years.
We sent her out to talk to real Americans in the South.
Now, I'm going to show you this video.
I want you to understand something because she wrote me a long letter explaining this.
She did not cherry-pick these...
Okay.
So, this is a clip called "A Visit to Mississippi".
Okay.
So, I guess people from Mississippi talking.
Yeah.
Okay.
Why is Mississippi so conservative?
Well, you're in the heart of the Bible Belt.
We believe in family.
We believe in Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.
Whoever gets elected needs to be family-orientated.
God should come into his mind in everything that he does.
You never liked the President of Mississippi?
Never, and never will.
Why not?
One thing, his name is Obama.
This is America.
Our President should be American, not Muslim.
I don't even like it.
When I see him on TV, I turn it off.
I don't like it.
Is it because he's black?
No, it's not because he's black, he's a half-red.
He's black too, but he's a half-red.
You got some little phrases.
Are you?
You don't like black people?
Not much.
Why not?
They'll talk.
What is this?
Well, we're the state of Mississippi.
I don't care for the government.
They don't show me anything.
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You get food stamps.
Yeah, but I think I deserve food stamps.
I have no one to fund me.
I hate Obama care.
I think it's retarded.
Stanford?
What?
What are you talking about?
No, what did he say?
A food stand?
Food stand.
We're the state of Mississippi.
I don't care for the government.
They don't show me anything.
You get food stamps.
Yeah, but I think I deserve food stamps.
I have no one to fund me.
I hate Obama care.
I think it's retarded and pointless.
But a lot of people in Mississippi need health care.
Yeah.
Back in the day, I didn't have all that.
Is it a comedy show?
I guess it's a comedy show.
Of showing...
I don't want to say this, but how...
How the people in Mississippi
doesn't really have a grasp on what's going on with the government thing.
And some people were heavily racist right there.
Did you hear that?
Like Obama.
Whoa.
That was pretty racist.
And I guess that was played as a joke there
at a TV show in the US.
Yeah, the accent was heavily Southern.
Especially the old people.
That was pretty heavy.
Like this guy.
Yeah.
Wait.
Why not?
One day your name will be Obama.
Wow.
One thing is fine.
One thing is fine.
Wow.
This is so hard to...
Hard to understand?
Yeah, I don't understand.
But a lot of people...
I did say, like, Georgia...
I didn't grow up with an accent.
But a lot of people...
A lot of old people there,
the elderly, they have the Southern accent.
And yeah, a lot of people around me have that.
Some...
One of...
Like only a few of the students have this accent.
But most of the students, they just didn't have any accent.
I wasn't...
I didn't grow up with it.
I don't have a Southern accent, but yeah.
This is heavy accent.
Southern accent.
So Mississippi is a state?
Yeah.
Okay.
Is it near from your Georgia?
Mississippi.
The same area?
Like Southern...
I think it's the Southern area.
I forgot where it was.
But I believe it's the South.
Let me check.
Yeah.
Mississippi.
Can you...
Sure.
Wait, what if it's not a state?
I'm sure it is.
Yeah, it's a state.
Okay, good. It's...
Is it Mississippi?
Okay.
It's close to Georgia.
Where is Georgia?
Right side.
Oh, this one.
Yeah.
Okay.
Oh.
Yeah, this one.
Yes.
Oh, it's...
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Oh, Georgia is close to Florida.
Did I not ever tell you that?
It's right above it.
Oh, wow.
I didn't even...
It's right above it, man.
Oh, it's very like...
South and East, actually.
What do you mean South and East?
I mean South and East.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
South and East.
Wow.
It's next to Florida.
I'm next to Florida, yeah.
Oh, nice.
Thank you.
But, you know, it's very far, you know.
Of course.
It's very far.
Of course.
We're next to each other, but it's huge.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right.
Yeah.
So, okay, it's 12 minutes.
Okay, thanks.
So, yeah.
All right.
Southern accent.
There you go.
Okay.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Bye-bye.
