hello my name is Sydney and my accent is
botched if you've been following me
since the start of all of this you will
know that I have never really sat down
and explained why my accent sounds as
ridiculous as it does despite the fact
that almost everyone ever has asked me
as a lot of you also will know I'm in
the United States at the moment more
specifically in Colorado at my uncle's
house which is why the scenery is a
little different and I just really don't
have the time between seeing family
members and going places to sit down and
make a proper video but if this is not
your kind of content and this is not
what you really want to see from me
that's absolutely fine just give it a
couple weeks till I'm back home and back
to making my usual stuff but for those
of you who are interested in why I sound
like I do this is my explanation and I
won't waste any more time on this weird
exposition so for some context my
parents are from two different
continents my mom is from the United
States and my dad is from Australia
no-brainer there
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all right the other thing that a lot of
people have asked me as well and this is
a side note is why I have jewel American
Australian citizenship and that is
because I guess I was entitled to it
because my mom is an American citizen
and I was born abroad her ago I have
American citizen born abroad paperwork
and a piece of paper that you know
verifies me as an American human being
so that's kind of cool what I fear eyes
based on how I grew up and mind you I
don't know this might not even be a
thing this is not backed up by science
or statistics this is just my assessment
of what happened during my childhood
growing up my mom had an awful lot of
input on how I spoke how my brother and
iceberg and how we learn to understand
the English language how we learn to
sound out words and use phonetics and
things like that
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Australian for better the assessment
that I've made you know from thinking
about it is that having my mom be the
predominant influence on the way that I
was speaking and saying words and
obviously spending most of my time with
her I think I learned to adopt her way
of talking base from that so for
instance if I was reading a book and I
said bridge and then she repeated it
back to me to correct it or whatever I
probably would have adopted her way of
saying it over my dad and this is not to
say that my dad didn't have input in my
childhood because he absolutely did but
he didn't have input in the same way
that my mum did insofar as learning to
talk growing up both my brother and I
did have American accents and my brother
I think sounded very American up until
he went to school so when he started
primary school I think that just being
around the Australian accents so much
more than the American accent probably
just started to change the way that he
pronounced things and slowly but surely
he lost his American accent well there's
some of the sounds that he makes her
kind of American sometimes contrary to
popular belief on the Internet where a
lot of people like to comment on my
videos and say things like she only
sounds like just because she watched a
lot of American movies growing up this
is meant to be typing just by the way I
don't know he types like that I
definitely don't it definitely don't
sound like this because I watched a lot
of American television but different to
what my brother went through where he
went to school I guess I went to school
and didn't lose my accent at all but I
did get picked on a lot for it because I
sounded American and I wasn't from
America so I definitely made a concerted
effort over the years as well like my
brother to die go back and lose the
American accent which is probably why I
ended up with this qualities so good as
I got older I just sort of noticed that
my accent wasn't changing and although I
put effort into sounding more Australian
and making words sound more Australian
it just isn't how I naturally talk and
it doesn't actually feel right to speak
like that despite the fact that I can do
a very good American accent and a very
good Australian accent
so this is how I sound and it's
an interesting story it's not like I
lived in you know the the Peruvian
mountains that's not even in America but
that doesn't matter it's not like I
lived in the Rocky Mountains in a cave
for a thousand years and you know and
then maybe I'm a vampire and I'm just
not sure how to speak English so I just
don't even know where I'm going with
this
so yeah the explanation of my accent is
probably considerably less interesting
than you were anticipating and I'm sorry
for everyone that's really disappointed
in the explanation I wish I could make
it better for you I guess I do want to
know that one thing that really annoys
me about people listening to my accent
and look I know that it's not for
everyone because you know it is
frustrating to listen to someone swap
back and forth mid-sentence between one
way of talking and another I get that it
is frustrating but you know I really
irritates me when people think that I'm
either putting it on or I'm doing this
to be more interesting or whatever but
that's just not I don't know who anyone
who would pick this you know who would
pick to sound half-and-half like no one
with with half a brain cuz I repeat it
anywhere I don't fit in in America
because people are like what are you
from and they're not even sure they're
they can't even like work it out I mean
that being said Americans are never 100%
sure where you're from because they
think Australia is in Austria or in
Europe at least let's be fair Americans
don't really know accents anyway but
with mine they're even more like I don't
understand did you just grow up in like
a shed are you were you were you
home-schooled are you harm school so you
know I can forgive the Americans for not
being a hundred percent about it but in
Australia they're like where are you
from so while it might be interesting
and cute to some people for a lot of
people the way that I sound is very much
not interesting and cute it is very much
annoying and frustrating yeah I get this
a lot actually from Americans where
they'll say things like you don't sound
that Australian and I always think to
myself yeah but I grew up in Melbourne
where I feel like the accent is not
ridiculously strong and that a lot of
people associate the Australian accent
we
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anyway that's just why my accent sounds
like it does that's the really an
exciting story I grew up with an
American parent and an Australian parent
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