Well, I would say in some way English based AI has been heading in such direction for a while already. So unlike American English yes one day British English might land on "rare dialects" list.
Apparently, what Britain, and most of its contingent of commonwealth offspring former colonies consider "proper" English happens to be just a rare form of bastardized usage that was popularized among the upper gentry in one part of the country. At one point the accent had more in common with the currently American style. But with the introduction of this new form, it deviated and has lasted to this day. It's endearing on some level and is eloquent but for the most part is muffled and indistinct unless if you have been natively attuned to it. It's sort of like how everyone in Spain started to talk with a lispy, muddled accent because some Monarch had it way back when and everyone started to speak like it to pay respect or stay in the inner circle what have you. It's ridiculous but to them it's the [Insert title] [insert language] and everyone goes on to use it without question no matter how ludicrous it is.
@@musicalidy6026 That is where you are wrong. As someone who speaks the queen's English, and all my friends being international students. They made it a point that my form of English is THE most comprehensible compared to how the lower classes speak.
With the horrible accents that exist in the uk , with the butchered pronounciations, yes , the English man does need to be taught how to speak their own language with comprehensible, telligable and clear pronounciations.
The truth is this is now reality. I was teaching in a class in a British University (can't name it here, or I will get sued!). It was a post-graduate class, and almost all the students were international, including Chinese, Indians, many East Europeans, Italians, French, German etc. There were just a couple of English students in the class. Every class had a case or exercise, so there was lot's of group discussion in the class. Most of the time, students spoke with their respective accents in the class, but everybody understood each other all the time. And then one day, one of the few English students (who were mostly silent) spoke and made his point. Suddenly there was a stunned silence in the class! And I quickly realized this was because not one of the students understood a word of what he spoke (except for the couple of other English students!). This student was from Liverpool. Then one of the international students politely requested him to repeat what he said. Again, none of the students understood him. Then he repeated himself a third time. And then out of sheer frustration, he just said 'oh well, forget it', and gave up! But by then I had picked up what he said, and interpreted what he said for the rest of the class. That scene was remarkable for me. This was a British University sitting in the heart of London, offering a British PG degree. And yet, all the international students could converse and understand each other perfectly in English, except when the actual native English student spoke! That to me suggested English had now truly become an international language, and was no more owned by England! (although England will always get full credit for having created the language).
i want to say that your english so elegant and kindly easy that i could fully understand your point without any difficulty as a foreign person to whom english is a second language. Thank you for sharing your vivid experience!
I know the exact situation from work camp. The Welsh boy had to repeat his speech sometimes. There were many people from every corner of Europe and they were speaking English, but sometimes didn't understand to british people.
This phenomenon isn't unique to English. I learned Italian, and there are still some dialects that are very tricky for me to understand, and some idiomatic speech that makes little sense to me. On the other hand, I understand other Italian learners very well. Native speakers we take a lot of things for granted, and understand a lot of things implicitly. And when they mostly speak with other native speakers, they can use a lot of idiomatic speech (or as you note, may have accents that are tricky).
What we call stereotypical accent is also cool though, yeah it's not cool when the whytes/racists do. That's where it gets troubling. Btw it also sounds completely nice to me!
This is hilarious. The British man sounds so posh. If you don't mind, I have an idea for a future comedy sketch: the British man and the French man from the previous iRabbit videos try to help a recent American purchaser of the iRabbit because the iRabbit doesn't understand the American's easy-to-understand accent. Raj returns with advice about getting an accent coach, and someone fires back that iRabbit needs the coach more.
@@jeboshifru Yes, I am American. No, there are so many regional American accents that I could not have presumed that everyone knows "the American accent." Since posting my sketch idea, I have realized that accent understandability is so relative that the types of American accents that I understand best are not necessarily the types that others, even other Americans, have an easy time understanding.
@@themeiafy It depends of your native surrounding, I suppose. I grew up in former Yugosavia, we watched American movies, but also a lots of British sitcoms, BBC scientific program, etc.
@@jeboshifru Well, I didn't watch movies in English growing up, but I was taught British English at school and then spent 5 years at university listening to records in RP and British dialects. I still find the American accent more comprehensible.
The girl has a venezuelan accent. Goes to show you don't know any difference between Spaniard and Spanish accent. Travel more and use stereotypes less.
@@Nadiesalevivo The girl has the typical accent of central Spain. I know it because 1) I'm Spanish myself; 2) I shared a flat in London, in the late 1960s, with two Venezuelan students and I'm familiar with the English accent of Venezuelans.
Love this episode 😂👍 P.s. when I lived and worked in England, for me a challenge was to understand the Irish and Scotsmen. Felt always horrible when had to ask to repeat what they said.
Though I could easily identify irish and Scottish accents, I never had a problem with them, but once I went with my friend in the north east region and boy, my comprehension rate dropped to 30%… It was quite humiliating for me as I had been living for a year and a half in the UK without ever a single problem… (I’m from France…)
As a non-native, Indian is definitely on the harder spectrum to understand as an accent. It's not bad but the people tends to speak very fast. It's MUCH more easier to understand American and (standard) British accent. The roos people don't seem to hold back their accent either but it's okay-ish. But I just can never understand the Scottish accent. Japanese, Koreans, and Chinese at least try to speak slower as they know they're doing it not exceptionally good.
British Gas pre-warns you that you are a racist before connecting you to a South African call centre where many of the operators don't fully understand standard English and speak English with accents that are strongly Bantu-influenced. This leaves the caller hesitant and fearful of making an accidental racial _faux pas_ and often unable to communicate the problem or complaint that they have called about. I suppose that British Gas wins by having cheaper workers, by looking woke and by filtering out many complaints. I've never had any such problems with Indian call centres.
This is an unpopular opinion of mine too (I dont like indian accent and contrary to what they think they are not that fluent) and yeah I can't say this outloud because someone's gonna be madly offended and call me racist or whatever. It's a matter of preference like people like a certain color over other but I guess most people just wanna be offended by something so yeah I'll stop here.
@@Guru-gh6qcwhich is why hearing a language rather then only memorizing the spellings helps. Speaking from my experience. Babies hear the language and thats how they pick phrases, words and learn the pronunciation. Hearing is the natural way to learn the language. Spellings dont stay consistent with how a word sounds like and sounds change over time but spellings hardly. I know what happens in Indian and Pakistani schools they will teach with major focus on how the word is spelled and then just pronounce it that way and any one who has worked hard on their pronunciation and doesn't have a thick accent gets made fun of and get called names like "angreez ki ulad" cz you dont sound like the rest of them.
i believed i understood the meaning of the video (i don't speak about the goal of the sponsor), but i'm not sure since i share it to my English tutor. _> So What is message of the video ? (i believed maybe an ironic situation (British accent is an reference) but depending on the point of view, it's not so ironic (there is maybe more indians who speak English than Britishers/Brits/britons (google translate change the word depending the -phrase- -> sentence))
You won't go to these Indians if you want to learn English, though. There are 200 000 Serbs in Vienna, some of them teach German. I want to master C2 level, so I looked for some tutors online. When I find some Serbian who teaches German with Serbian accent, I just skip, and look for the native guy.
The Indian people have a very funny 😂 and rare accent and they also add up some new vocabulary to standard English when they talk English that one minute you stop and tell them 🙄 what 😂😂😂.
As a non-native speaker, I didn't get the humor of the last sentence. If my interpretation is invalid please correct me. The police's comment indeed refers to the actions of the customer support assistant (CSA), who had informed the police about the British man's behavior, including geolocating him and alerting the authorities. So, the police are essentially referring to this intervention by saying that the man needs to do something about his accent, which, in this context, suggests that the CSA's actions have led to the police involvement due to the misunderstanding. 😢
I am an Indian from Bombay and I do both British and American accent as my hobby because I am good in mimicry... And I can relate to that 🤣🤣 your cuss words in British style almost kil led me 🤣🤣 despite I speak in Indian accent with Indians I have slightly western touch especially the standard american one this is why one of the girl called me CIA agent 🤣🤣🤣 since I am a muslim so I also read Quran and pray so i do this like Arabs 🤣🤣🤣
@@Lesyenka. It is possible to change your accent. I have solely learned English by watching Hollywood movies from 5th standard onwards, but if I speak to other English speaking people from other parts of my country, the first question they ask me is " Did you study outside or was born in the U.S..😂😅
Ha ha ha the time when Received Pronunciation is not understood can only be found in this video. Only other accents are understandable here. I forgot my sadness for a while watching this video. Thank you very much.
I know this is a comedy but I can't enjoy it when the plot is beyond stupid. The first 20 seconds look like some middle schoolers trying to make a joke with too obvious stupidity that you can't take them seriously. My school friends and I spent learning English mostly by writing and reading but we could understand the British tourists just fine.
I'm from Brazil, Rio de Janeiro city. I loved this video, I was looking videos aboult English and I found It, very good! I like so much India and indian people, you are very intelligents and creatives. Congratulations!!! 👏👏👏
@@kc4276 My grandfather was in British regime and he spoke like an English gentleman and to certain extent minority of Indian elites and learned people was indeed speaking in RP English.
I love it! Actually you really throw a ton of sarcasm against wokism! Thank you so much for that 🎉 Yes, Shakespeare is “racist, homophobic, antisemitic, offensive” etc. if we accept wokism as our new religion. And I love both Queen’s English and Indian accents ❤
I wonder what you think 'wokeism' is that you dislike it so much...surely it's nothing more than having more than a passing acquaintance with history, and a better acquaintance with the modern world. Oh, and not trying to offend others. In other words, just being a decent human being. iRabbit will connect you now.
@@sollyolly9547 - by « not trying to offend others » you get a Disney movie about « Snow White » without prince, without dwarves, without love story. Just a dry feminist statement. That’s what wokeism produces.
It's curious as me, a non first language English speaker can understand most of the variants of english but hardly some of the variants spoken around Índia and I must make it clear, that is not Índia, but the countries around Índia.
Mexican here. I decided to setup my iPad’s keyboard to English (UK) just because (and it sounds fancy to me). My iPad died trying to recognise what I was writing on it 😂 Now seriously, I like British accent, cheers mates!
@@terenceaustin7186 As a Spanish speaker, that's 100% Spanish accent, and is a shame Spanish speaking people pronounced like that English language... Is just because they're lazy and do not try to pronounce it correctly, they just speak awfully! British English should be the standard and not American English, which has soullessness in its core!
Wow, that was so funny :) I got a joke even I'm a foreigner speaking not as good as native RP speaker but probably much more clearly than this guy ... Of course from Customer service :)
I am a native American English speaker. I couldn't understand a government worker and kept kindly asking her to repeat herself and saying I was so sorry, but I couldn't understand her. She ended up yelling at me, saying of course I could understand her because she was certified in English! The problem is that her teacher back in The Philippines or wherever she was from, was probably a teacher who wasn't a native speaker, so she just learned an incomprehensible accent and was "passed" by someone with the same bad accent. When I told her I was a native English speaker and couldn't understand her, so the problem lied with her....she just cut me off. This happens all of the time. And, then if we take it over their heads, saying we can't understand them, we are treated like we're racist. We're just Americans trying to get American benefits by talking to people who should be able to speak and understand American English, for goodness's sake.
I don't believe you. Your grammar is too perfect, and you actually use punctuation. You didn't even drop the "s“ in the possessive form of "goodness". Rarely does anybody do that nowadays. I'd say you are too well-educated to be an American. If I were to guess, you are an ESL speaker.
I think the problem may be when some Indians speak very fast. It wasn't like that a generation or two ago, when Indians spoke more slowly. But for some reason, many of today's young Indians tend to speak very fast (express speed!), which them makes it difficult to decipher what they are saying, unless you concentrate very hard!
I am happy tha GB is not a racist country.. i am very happy to see indo people in their Govermrnt.. Also as PM wow you must be proud. And your king... also nice half Greek half English.. At least he is harmfull because he is doing nothing..
