As a Canadian, I can translate: "right on man right on". On a side note, I found this guy HILARIOUSLY Canadian. Wearing plaid and said "eh" - couldn't fit the stereotype more imo
@@Thindoramareally? The standard Punjabi is same but real Punjabj which people speak in villages and suburbs is can't be understand by Hindi speaker? हिंदी: क्या कर रहे हो? पंजाबी: की करण डे जे? हिंदी: तूने क्या करना जान कर? ਪੰਜਾਬੀ: तें डॉके लौने? These are only two examples but there thousands
Before I watched this video, I had been hesitant to speak English with my strong Japanese accent for a very long time because I wanted to sound perfect like a native speaker. But now, I feel a bit more confident with my accent. This video made me realise that there are many accents in the world, and I don’t need to be ashamed of mine. It helped me become more confident with my English. I really appreciate you uploading this video.
Most of us do not care, especially in America, one third of us speak perfectly, the second doesn’t speak English, and the third has English as their only language and still speaks it incorrectly
The cool thing about english, and as demonstrated beautifully by this video, is that English is spoken by so many different people worldwide that any native english speaker has spoken with many people with extremely varying and different accents. So, feel free to speak with a heavy accent, its normal and english speakers see it as normal.
Dude having an accent is badass, we're all from different places and that should be celebrated. The way we speak ours, and other people's languages is amazing and just the fact that we can communicate at all is so awesome.
Americans love when anyone tries to learn English, especially Japanese people. Japan is so developed that English isn't really needed there, so it shows a lot of dedication.
i am cuban and it is difficult for someone from my country to make an effort or be interested in learning english normally in the country only 2% know a little english
is it just me or did she seem uncomfortable af in front of the camera. seemed as if she was wondering if it would come back to her. she even made sure to say on camera to some random stranger that "oh its nice to see him again i havent seen him in so long" in order to seem less connected to the other side. am i crazy?
8:25 Being german myself, the fact that this guy is literally the prototype german in his suit in front of a radiologist office with his Currywurst leads me to believe he's a paid actor lol All jokes aside, awesome video!
@@john-ic9vj makes a point. But i learned english in school as first foreign language. Then practiced it in online gaming. Then suddenly we realised, that we can move from Kazakhstan to Germany, but we need to (no surprise) learn german too. Later in Germany you realize that there are dozens of dialects that barely similar, so you need to learn local dialect too to understand local redneck customers. Taking into account that Kazakhstan is officially bilingual too, it is already 4 languages (plus dialects), different cultures that i honored to getting know. This is a good brain gym to keep it fit, can only advice to learn languages. USA is great country too, but sometimes you want to see Europe and what's more important speak with some people that only knows one their native language.
I am English learner from JAPAN. Almost Japanese people hesitate to speak English because they can't pronounce English like native english speaker. But it's doesn't matter. There is a several english pronunciation. This video and channel teach me that. I take a break from my university to study english in SYDNEY. By the time I get back to Japan, I want to be able to speak english fluently!!
Your English is great by the way! Is it common in Japan to write countries / cities in capital letters? I like that and you are the first one I've noticed that.
I have been learning the English language over 7 years and I can tell it is still hard to comprehend other vernacular dialects. So fluent English is hard to achieve, C1 is more likely
My heart broke a little at the Cuban one! “I know my English is not as good as I need it to be but I’m trying!” 🥺 honestly the fact he could even communicate that emotion should be celebrated considering most English speakers can only speak English. I commend anyone making a genuine effort to learn another language 👏 Wish I could cheer him on!
it's not that unique, it's similar to kazakh. but if you want to hear something unique hmm maybe "doske" (bro) or "azyr lagman zhep zhatam" (i'm eating lagman right now)
Ikr. Do they actually have conversations in zulu Xhosa etc or do they just add some words here and there? Cause in TV shows i only ever see them adding some words
@user-lb6tx1gx7k Its the same as in South Africa, There's the languages which are purely spoken by some people but there is ALWAYS an English Blended langauge. Eg "Ekse Cav this thing. I saw this Hun and I wad like Yho, Muhle lomntwana. Tell you i fell like like ke morata from day one nou nou. Wangkwishisha?"
Southern Africans are really something else. I was at a gas station in rural Eastern Cape, ZA and the gas station attendant said proudly that he spoke thirteen languages.
Saying someone has a "British accent" means basically nothing. Someone from Glasgow will sound completely different to someone from London, but both of them are British.
@@kxkxsjk2There’s no such thing as ‘England English’. Even within England there is significant variation in accent, particularly between the north and the south.
Amazing video.. Clicked for the accents, fell in love with the beautiful mix of people. And personaly, the fact that you put Swahili at the end motivated me to learn it.
I, as an English French speaker from Canada, moved to Tanzania a few years ago when finishing up high school. It's a very easy language to learn. I'm not gonna lie! I took about 3 years to get to intermediate level by doing lessons once a week and doing duolingo! You should really learn! Noun classes are the only really difficult part up to what I know. It's mostly about building up suffixes and prefixes on either end of a verb. And it's like playing freestyle with language cause kind of everything is right and everything is wrong. It's fun and has a rhythm! I really recommend it giving it a shot on duolingo.
@loganfytchy-powow4580 Thank you for this information. I moved to Kenya 6months ago.. I will try duolingo, and then classes when I get the chance. It really is a beautiful sounding language.
To be fair, they missed most of the interesting dialects and accents from the South and Appalachia. AAVE, Louisiana Creole, Appalachian, and 'Southern' are all quite distinct and it's sad that the closest we got was 'midwest'.
That guy from Colombia is from my city, Medellín, he has a "Paisa" accent, which is just one of the around 14 accents that we have, which are VERY different from one another, just like being in another country. I'm an English teacher, and I can tell you that being my students from everywhere in this country, I can tell you that all of them have very different accents when speaking in English. Whatever the case, this is a really interesting video and I'm gonna show it from now on to my students. Thanks a lot and greetings from Colombia.
@@quangos9455 Well, there's also variation among people with the same background. I almost have a perfect "American" accent to the point that some American tourists think for a moment that I'm from the States, but some other people have a mild "paisa" accent, like the guy in the video, and some others have a very thick paisa accent, some even after living for decades in the States.
@alejobola its so interesting how we could tell where people are from based on how they speak english. and i think the most obvious one is paisa. im from cali living in nyc!
That's so true. I'm from the coast and I've speak English with many people of other cities, who would say that even in English our accents still remain!
Aww, that's not how language learning works though! There's never a deadline where you have to be fully fluent by then, so you can't actually fail, you can always keep learning! 💪😊
As Midwesterner myself, can confirm, most of us barely speak the one. xD Thankfully, I love language and want to become at least conversational in Japanese so I can teach English there.
That was not a French Canadian accent, it was very clearly French. And it makes sense; a lot of French people emigrated to Quebec, especially Montreal, so it's very easy to find around Montreal French speakers that are actually not French Canadians.
I speak English but my parents spoke a Southern Italian dialect around the house. They never taught it to me because they used it as their secret language when they didn't want me to know what they were talking about. In high school I took two years of Italian and thought, now I'll know what they're saying. But it was formal Italian so it sounded different and my plans were foiled.
Wait, what? How it is possible? So your parents spoke literal Italian with you, but Southern accent with eachouther? What the heck? In my opinion it is a little bit weird if i understood you right
@@Вгостяхугеймера-м1к Penso che intendesse dire che i suoi genitori parlavano un dialetto del sud tra di loro, ma i dialetti non sono solo un accento, sono quasi un'altra lingua che però deriva sempre dall'italiano
This is amazing. There are too many English accents around the world to take in. Most non-native speakers still speak it with a heavy accent coming from their native language, but it's still okay to many native English speakers. There are also countless different and unfamiliar things out there in the world awaiting me. By the way, I wouldn't like to leave my home country for the first time soon because I feel more comfortable watching these awesome videos at home. Thanks for uploading this eye-catching one, Dan. 😊
As Ukrainian who consumed absurd ammounts of content (both in British accents and American ones, additionally to few quirky ones), I can safely say that I understand my thick-accented compatriots (or anyone with particular types of heavy accents) way less than natives.
@@PUARockstar ну якщо ти добре говориш мовою якоюсь ти знаєш як правильно вимовляти слова то так коли хтось каже "зис" можеш не зрозуміти одразу що він має на увазі "this" але ти напевно розумієш англійську з українським акцентом. взагалі навіть неправильна граматика, порядок слів тощо можуть бути зрозумілі тому що можна здогадатися що хтось переклав надто буквально з української на англійську
I just wanted to say that this is a really wholesome comment. Everyone is so nice in the comments on this video, it makes me happy how this kind of exploration of people and cultures brings out so much kindness in everyone
Britain and Ireland both have many different regional accents. The "british accent" shown here is only found in southern England and usually only by middle class people, but in the north of england in places like Newcastle there are accents that are different enough to be from a different country. Scotland and Wales also have several regional accents unique to the rest of britain, as well as both having endemic languages separate from English.
2:35 this guy's english is really really good, i think his lack of confidence in english comes from the comparison between english and the other languages he speaks
I can speak 12! My family is from Cuba and we have a history of learning a lot of languages. My great-grandfather knew 5. I know Spanish (my first), English, German (studied 6 years), French, Italian, Ukrainian, JSL (Japanese sign), FSL (French sign), Old English, Greek, Braille, and Korean
This guy also has like what almost sounds like a little bit of a western ny accent? When he says “dad,” the first syllable of “Spanish” and the second syllable of “America.” (Someone please tell me if I am laughably horrible terribly wrong. I don’t know anything about languages, I’m just a person who is from the northeast and have spent time in south Florida, and many family members who have moved from the northeast to south Florida.)
It's the "flat" American accent similar to the "media voice" you'd hear for advertising or broadcast. It's supposed to be the most understandable English accent.
We need more of these to remind the world we're all just people learning and living the best we can. You can see how their faces light up when they talk about or in their language and country. Wish the world was always this easy going!
British not being split up into Welsh, Scottish, English, Northern Irish is odd. The girl you interviewed had an upper class accent anyway, very few English people speak like that.
Strange how even neighbour counties of Britain can sound completely different with different words (Same with Spanish and Italian) while in Russia it's the same Russian, same sounding and vocabulary everywhere. In Kaliningrad near Poland, Murmansk near Norway or Vladivostok near Korea and Japan in 10000 km away
im surprised they didnt touch on the australian and new zealand accents. They are sort of mixtures of the british accents, and are quite interesting to compare nvm i didnt watch it all
This video is a priceless tool for showing children other languages, teaching about how some countries have more than one language, and getting the map out. It opens so many avenues for a teacher!
These videos are always very interesting to watch. It is always special when you see that 1 rare person who can speak an Unbelievable amount of languages! (7 is the most I've seen)
I just wanted you to know that if you ever read this, your video is so beautiful and seeing the pure joy and interaction between you and the people you interviewed made me tear up. Thank you for documenting so many beautiful moments of people first and foremost, and also a small highlight of some of their culture through language. Beautiful and refreshing video ❤
OMG! So simple and creative idea, so good filming, so good faces and smiles. I love all these folks. And.. I'm sort of high now)) and I love everybody. Kissahugs from St.-Petersburg, Russia.
I had an Aussie friend whose accent was actually way closer to British RP than the stereotypical Aussie accent. I want to say she was from the Adelaide area but I don't remember for sure.
@@NormanDimmick I'm from NSW, Tamworth and have a semi-country accent. But unfortunately my accent was influenced by school, they taught "proper English" and that's what I learnt.
@@weirdfairy Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh are Hindu Buddhist lands under Islamic colonisation When are you vacating these lands ? There are 1.1 billion zionist hindus in the world
1:42 - Your english is fine dude. You're trying really well. Luckily a lot of South Floridians speak Spanish or are used to Cuban accents and can likely understand and help you more if you get stuck on a word that's hard to remember or translate. Keep up the good work :)
The southern France man is my opposite. I speak English and French but I struggle with French vocabulary while comprehending and conjugating verbs somewhat well.
True. I just thought it would be interesting to include a clip of a younger Chinese woman next to a woman from the older generation to hear the difference. It's in no way meant to imply her English isn't clear and fluent - it is!
Chinese Americans do have an “Asian accent” just like other racists it’s just not very different from the standard accent however overtime you will begin to notice it @choonblaze
@@chiefpanda7040 The girl on this vid isn't a part of that whatsoever, it's American accent dear. Born and raised in USA with an American accent. Not a trace of any Chinese or foreigner notes in her voice at all.
@@choonblaze people of chinese descent in the us have a slight accent like @con9244 said there is a very slight asianness similar to how other racial groups may exhibit their own accents even though living in the contry
She’s probably South African born in Zimbabwe, in Zimbabwe we don’t speak Xhosa or Zulu here, just Shona, vandu, Ndebele and other languages like Makhuwa and choma
2:36 he looks like quite the character, he looks like he’s going to build some crazy machine that could possibly end the world and take me on an adventure
for those interested, the International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA) has samples of over a thousand region-specific accents and dialects of English. they list not only the country, but also the city, age, and sex of the person speaking. it's such an interesting resource.
Islam just had a very big impact on culture in places, where it was spread. I'm myself tatarian from Republic of Tatartstan, one of Russian region, and we have a lot of Arabic and Persian words in our language, even tho our ancestors had very different language and culture from those region. The trade changed our language and culture a lot! We were used to some muslim words from Koran without even realizing it ain't originating from ancestor language. This one is clear example
There are many borrowings in the Russian language. But the connection with the Koran by this user is too far-fetched (if he did not mean the Tatar language). Similarly, it can be associated with Latin (through Byzantium) or French (through the 19th century).
I met a girl from here and it’s so interesting how similar there mannerisms and way of speaking is. I was like is there another girl from the Bronx who sounds similar to me with my mannerisms and form of speaking. Humans are interesting how we hold culture.
Is Taiwanese accent actually sounds like that?. bc pretty sure they are sounding like how most chinese people speak in hollywood films, which is basically just upper class chinese american accent.
@@v-trigger6137 it's pretty possible since they are outside of that country, that the most of the populace are more lesser to attenting foreinge things or foreinge affair, and most people in this country can't really speaking any foreinge language outside an English, and they can't really even speaking if say an japanese or korean, or even really the dielact in China, in fact, they are also seemly hakka, as well are more differently than the main major ethical group here.
