Episode Details

The Valley Girl accent is a style of speaking associated with young women from California's San Fernando Valley (Northern suburbs of Los Angeles) in the 1970s and 1980s. It became famous through movies, TV shows, and pop culture, and many people now use "Valley Girl" to describe both an accent and a speaking style.

As you know, it can be extremely useful to focus on one dialect/accent of a foreign language when trying to learn how to sound like a native speaker. In fact, this is something I highly encourage. — All I ask, however, is that when you’re learning to speak English, you don’t chose this one.

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Timestamps:

0:00 The Valley Girl accent

0:47 Episode intro

3:00 Speech analysis

15:42 More examples

25:18 Final thoughts

Link to the videos used in this episode:

Clip #1 - https://www.tiktok.com/@michellee_lim/video/7341510309045292334

Clip #2 - https://www.tiktok.com/@caitlyngiannini/video/7625812183267527950?q=valley girl accent&t=1780262046661

Clip #3 - https://www.tiktok.com/@alexisoakleyy/video/7403136243799756075?q=valley girl accent&t=1780262046661

Clip #4 - https://www.tiktok.com/@elizapearl0/video/7094073907539397931?q=valley girl accent&t=1780262046661

Clip #5 - tiktok.com/@itsamyareias/video/7283559075987017006

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