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[@mick7156]

Jaby! Reason why each person has different accent is because it's a "Mother Tongue Influence" because we have 20+ Major languages & over 1000 dialects.. so more than consuming English from different sources may affect their vocabulary/ pronunciation or sentence phrasing/grammer but their local language accent kind of overpowers & dominates resulting in a different accent. Even an Indian accent can surprise another Indian too if they belong to different regions & speak different languages & dialects. Edit :- thanks for so many likes & sharing your thoughts as well.

[@jai_yogi]

true

[@victoria14royalattic82]

26 official language 1635 dialect

[@chahatnainwal6343]

💯true

[@itisharma4875]

True!!

[@biswajitjena1314]

+1

[@prashantsinha6781]

This is four years old video, and i can guarantee that people's opinions have changed in these 4 years. People are now more open to different accents and also people have started feeling pride in their native language and stopped regarding English language as an educated man's identity.

[@jordaneshwar5317]

True, proper Hindi is coming back here in North.

[@raiza1439]

Yup

[@Saurav99999]

Exactly

[@drunk_taylor]

@@jordaneshwar5317 I hate when people try to brag by mixing in some English words with my native language. Like choose one, idc that you know some English words.

[@MrRahul6464]

@@drunk_taylor tabhi mein ya to gadhwali mein baat karta hoon ya Hindi mein. Meine angrezi mein baat karna kai varsho se chod diya hai.

[@iampigoinkoink5185]

Actually your mother tounge has huge impact on your accent ... India has so many languages and dialects .. And it's true English is simple and easy to learn in comparison to other languages in my opinion ..

[@nikhilpolekar8325]

Not really easy! We are taught early. Trust me some other languages are far easier like Spanish or Korean. English has confusing pronunciations (there, here, hear, care, hair, hare etc), one word meaning multiple things (wear, wind etc) and a lot of borrowed words. If you fail to teach English as child, it's very difficult to learn English.

[@ratanshukla3900]

It is not easy at all you're exposed to it all your life thus it feels easy if you're a beginner you'll find difficulties due to lot's of complexity in writing and pronouncing words.

[@technicaldifficulties368]

That's just not true. English is known to be rather difficult to learn.

[@iampigoinkoink5185]

@@technicaldifficulties368 man it is far more easier than hindi , Korean , Chinese ..but then again it'sy opinion you can have different opinion

[@dikshasuman]

​@@iampigoinkoink5185 nope it's harder than hindi, I have seen people learning Hindi just from Bollywood movies. Can you learn English just from hollywood?

[@akshaym7859]

Not just what people watch, but I feel it also depends on their native language. We tend to speak English with a tinge of what our mother tongue / regional language/ dialects sounds like. That's why the accents might sound different.

[@thejokersmile9302]

yup agreed 100 percent!

[@Knowledge_TV01]

This is the reason.

[@user-yg1cs3ov9y]

"a tinge" which means you claim to use a little bit of your regional accent but in reality you all actually use it a lot and to the point that most people outside of your community find it hard to understand what you people are saying.

[@rishis4292]

our english is a very mixed bag between british and U.S. accents...the british part comes from the british rule ofcourse and the american part from hollywood.....mix in 30% of native language ( bengali, tamil, punjabi etc etc) and you get ENGLISH from an individual in india

[@muralikartik6813]

Apt description bro 👏

[@Nandigraam]

In India, Hindi is not a first language in many states. Like in Southern and middle part Telugu, Tamil, Gujrathi,Marathi, Malayalam and other languages are 1st language of respective states. Even in North & NE Hindi is not first language in states.

[@theindiangenius1602]

Everyone knows it I think you are a newbie

[@ratanshukla3900]

Hindi is not first language anywhere in India besides the part of west UP where it originates from being from East UP my first language is Awdhi there are Bhojpuri and Brij boli speakers too in UP. Same goes for Rajasthan, Bihar and every other northern state has their own 2, 3 language and dialects but we all can easily communicate with each other because of Hindi.

[@SerCrispinCole]

yeah but no matter how much you argue Hindi still is the first language of the majority. As Bihar and UP are most populated states and they speak in Hindi. other than them it's UK, Rajasthan, Haryana(although is haryanvi but more or less very very very similar to hindi), MP and Jharkhand.

[@tusharchoudhary4043]

U can argue but hindi is still the biggest language in INDIA

[@85GauravSingh]

Hindi is first language bro every state has own language but they understand hindi Maithili and bhojpuri is my language but I understand hindi

[@funboy8175]

actually we dont speak english with each other casually. i went to convent school and students used hindi(obv not in front of teachers). now ofc things r changing. parents r speaking to their children in english. so for me personally it was just the teachers plus tons of english movies (since childhood). didnt speak english even in college. no one did . so u r right about the exposure which primarily comes from movies, but also teachers, workplace, training (like call centers ,flight attendants go through). also ppl from different regions have different way of speaking any language. so that is absorbed in their english as well.

[@funboy8175]

@@SmugCat85 haha truly a land of diversity.

[@Karthik-fw9mi]

our native languages can never fade away, no matter how many languages u speak, u speak ur mother tongue comfortably at home and in ur comfort zone

[@Molly-gw6gl]

Not completely true, kumauni and garhwali(pahadi languages) are on the unsafe category acc. to UNESCO. I am from Nainital and here not a lot of people speak pahadi here, if you speak hindi and english you are considered to be well educated.

[@mohan_reddy.]

What about sanskrit? As time passes languages evolve

[@sarikasinghai7166]

Not true sir , many languages like bundeli, braj, avadhi, spoken in M.P. and U.P., Magadhi, Mathili , Bhojpuri in Bihar , Hadoti, Mewati, Dhundari in Rajasthan, Bangaru in Haryana , many pahadi languages are all going to extinct. Hindi language will devour them completely. These languages do not have script and only local people of older generation speak them. There are a handful of people who are trying to save them but to no fruition. And it's not just about the language But the cultures they are parts of . Food, music , dances , various traditions will all die out . As someone who grew up eating bundelkhandi food , just imaging it never being around is so depressing. But also like said in the video , you can't do anything about it, although sad it's life.

[@abhijithcheneri7827]

What happened to awadhi,brajbasha etc etc ?..

[@us-du44fx4u]

​@@ok-SideCharacter lol...most of the shlokas and rituals are in Sanskrit...be it birth, marriage rituals or last rites... sanskrit may not be spoken by common people but it will be always there.

[@jichu3185]

1:49 actually it is true. the highest literacy rate of india comes from the southern states and I, a north Indian can confirm that due to the amount of poverty being higher in north india, the literacy rate tends to go down here.

[@anmoldwivedi5403]

Because mostly trade happens in the Southern part of the country. Hence when there is no trade then there is no exposure. Ultimately, no exposure results in no literacy

[@kiranpandith]

@@anmoldwivedi5403 There's actually a video regarding this same topic, named "Why is South India better than the North India."

[@introvert2023]

@@anmoldwivedi5403 You're right but exposure was there ; a brutal one tbh from invasions for 1000years

[@anmoldwivedi5403]

@@introvert2023 and its effect whole country

[@shiveringsilence]

Let's just ignore Mizoram like we always do to ne🗿

[@mxhxsh]

The reason why people in India have different accents is because people speak different languages and each language has their own accent which gets engrossed in the English Language as well.

[@mxhxsh]

Turns out literally everyone in the comment section has the same thought.

[@ashimaurya5900]

American accent most worst accent in whole world I believe

[@vgautamkrishna5197]

@@mxhxsh true dude haha

[@dolugarg1609]

Difference in English accents is because of different native languages. Languages here even have different scripts. In North India most languages are in Devanagari script whereas in South India most languages are in Dravidian script. So are vocal habits and mouth openings, so the accent flows differently 🙏🇮🇳

[@gautamnanda1995]

The thing is there is no one Dravidian script. All scripts evolved from Brahmi script. Even Sanskrit was written in brahmi script before the 7th century when the devanagari script came into use. Tamil used brahmi script until the 3rd century. All the modern scripts in India evolved from the same Brahmi script and hence you can see many similar alphabets in Bengali, gyrmukhi, modi, devanagari, Telugu or kannada scripts.

[@gautamnanda1995]

@Pranesh Sekar maybe. All I wanted to say is there is no one south Indian scipt to the original commenter.

[@vncstudio]

Like the old joke, it's not seero but jeero! 🤣

[@Dara_107]

I think there’s uniformity in accent in English too.. but it depends on the region .. often times the regional languages and dialects impact the English that the people speak. Though we do have a somewhat uniform metropolitan English (spoken in cities) which has global English influences (as jaby mentions).

[@jordaneshwar5317]

For me personally, If you speak proper HINDI without any Urdu words (no diss to Urdu, it's beautiful) I will be more fascinated and charmed. I speak hindustani (Hindi+Urdu) but proper Hindi is what I am trying to learn and I find it so beautiful.

[@MrRahul6464]

Haan. FAT(Farsi, Arbi aur turki) free hindi bolne ka the karta hoon.

[@arunkamat4338]

U stole my words ...I am trying to learn sudh Hindi too

[@florad629]

Likin shudh hindi se zaida khalis urdu khubsurat hay. Dilkish aur dil-aawez.

[@ujju_k7157]

Infact hindi too is too mixed up. I often end up saying "kar diyo" instead od kr dena.. or Apan, instead of hum

[@DADDY_PUTIN]

It is beautiful but we only need to increase our vocabulary if we only want to speak Hindi 👌 But for me Sanskrit is something have totally different charm compared to any other language

[@chakri4eva]

I don't agree with our regional languages disappearing. We just like to speak in English so that communication isn't lost between people coming from different states in India. Not everyone understands Hindi or regional languages. Also our accent is just based on our mother tongue.

[@youityou]

Exactly

[@Sai_096]

Why are you separating Hindi from other regional languages. Hindi is also a regional language

[@PSYCH066..]

In India who speaks English is Educated , even though they didn't answer some basic questions about India , basic math , science etc ....THEY thinks that speaking English is cool , they trying to showoff everywhere ,even where it is not necessary ...... Tell them that Speaking English & being Educated is two different Things ....btw Love yours reaction Jaby .....

[@Naveen75574]

Within India the accents are different because of the local langauge influence. Bengalis dont have Va. They use Ba instead, similarly people from Kerala speak a totally different accent of English because of Malayalam influence. Sabraw is very good in Analyzing, she got it right on when she spoke of families whose second language is English and also when she mentioned that Abu was the only Indian and so many imagined all Indians to be like him. Massive respect to her Intelligence.

[@spylock8816]

Whatever content you May watch it does not have to impact your English but obviously you will have more power over the language to articulate better... My theory is that the reason why majority Indians have different accent is because every state has its own regional language and English is always a second language they learn because of which the tonal methods utilised in their regional language gets carried on to how they converse in English as well...

[@AKASH-zt8oi]

A dialogue I remember from the film KING - "English is so simple and so boring" and I think that's why it is easier to learn for many people.

[@sunnyk007]

"English is simple" is the understatement of the century. This can only hold true for someone that has barely scratched the surface of this language. English is a mishmash of numerous languages like Latin, Greek, Spanish, Italian, German and Sanskrit amongst many others and it can take more than a lifetime to truly master it.

[@sakshiparikh4502]

2:33 I think it is because the video is shot in a big city where people from all over India would have come to study and since India is so diverse and everyone has a different first language, all of their English sounds different. And it's the same with indian immigrants in America but for them, adapting to american accent is an added influence to the accent.

[@Swatisri001]

I am still getting confused whether the notification is from "Cine Desi" or "Only Desi" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@victoria14royalattic82]

Same here

[@KARMAYANGTSHEN]

Same 😂😂😂

[@PawanSahare]

Aye 😂

[@jobangharekhan2601]

Same bro but Only Desi doesn't upload videos that frequently so most of the time it is Cine Desi

[@clarkj0sephkent]

I work part-time in a fast food chain here in the UK and 9/10 I can identify people from kerala, tamil nadu, Andhra, telengana and karnataka from just their English accents alone. I'm from kerala myself and I can go even further and say which district of kerala someone is from just their English accent just coz of the way malayalam spoken in thrissur is widely different from the way it's spoken in kottayam. it's all in the intonation, how diff people stress diff words, flow and everything. all of this carries over from their mother tongue and I'm sure this is the same for other states and languages as well. that's why I have a problem with calling it an indian accent. there is no 'one' Indian accent. there are Indian accentS. multiple.

[@JujubeMenon]

Malayalam is very fascinating in its variability over such a small area.

[@jojosoni]

My parents have gov job, so we had to transfer every 1-3 years. So i lived in many different districts of my state. This alone made my dialect and vocabulary different. So when i transfer to a school in new area, many found it funny how i sound different. Foreigners finding indian accent funny reminds me of those school kids.

[@adityachaudhary1610]

A Haryanvi born and raised in GUJARAT educated in English medium. I know 4 langauge and that has an effect on my accent and it's crazy 😂

[@PaawanJayswal]

Kem cho samaj ma ave che gujarati.

[@AryanMoond]

Do you know haryanvi? I doubt that.... Even people born in haryana don't speak it properly these days.... I'm from a village so I notice people faking it all...especially young people...

[@diamittal4664]

1:35 I am from north India and its true!

[@rakshitsingh40]

The faqqq its true.... U know nothing about being educated and to be able to speak English they speak English more often bcoz they can't communicate in hindi which happens to be the national language of India and they are so arrogant and ignorant of nort Indians that they won't speak hindi and they always look down upon the north Indians i don't know why......it was maybe 5-10 years ago that north indian were not educated but now we are all educated.

[@robustlion]

It's not entirely

[@diamittal4664]

@@robustlion the literacy rate is definitely higher

[@robustlion]

@@diamittal4664 yaa true

[@robustlion]

@@diamittal4664 But the thing is most of the South Indian give 2nd preference for English after there native language. Unlike other Indians whose 1st language is the native language 2nd is Hindi and 3rd is English.

[@anshnanavati]

I think an important thing to keep in mind is people's socioeconomic status. My parents were well-off enough to send me to a very good private school where English was the language of instruction and the first language I learned to speak fluently. We even spoke it at home, except for with my grandparents and the house help (which should tell you how privileged I am - we had house help!). Two streets down from our house, there was a massive Government school where if you started speaking in English people would give you funny looks. Our country has one of the highest wealth disparities in the world, so those lucky ones in the top few percent will have a lot better education (not saying mine was; I'm just upper middle class lmao) and speak more fluent English, commonly with a hint of a British accent in their tone, while those in the bottom few percent will be lucky to go to school at all, let alone speak English. Sorry for the essay lol, this video made me think a lot. Love from an Indian college student studying abroad and missing home.

[@harshitrajput6865]

For some reason I just love American accent. It sounds too cool, chill, flowy and laid out.

[@praveenkumarm6560]

It's just that Indian accent has high sound with low deep. Our English is more of well constructed in terms of grammar. For you guys from USA and UK English is your mother tongue and that's the language you speak from birth. But to us it's just an additional knowledge. So our subconscious mind is keep translating what we are hearing, and when we are speaking it's keep processing the things we have to say. When you are writing you'll go with well constructed sentences. We are writing what we have to say in English and translating what we are hearing in our mind.

[@simransingh3399]

Even I think english is really easy to learn so that's why people from different country are learning it. I really have fascination for languages, I just try to learn some words from different languages that i watch or hear. People should never forget their native language that way we can preserve the culture. But learning new languages can sometimes be super fun.

[@jayakumari3973]

As pointed out by many, english accent depend very much on dialect and Mother tongue of the person in India. It has much to do with culture and english education as well and it will be all different even if you are living in same society or may be same home. Even when Indians speak hindi , their accent vary . Its mostly because of regional accent

[@learn-2-earnn]

If there's one culture where they won't lose touch with their roots ,it's india...and in the last decade or so ,that feeling of pride in being an indian and everything related to it , has definately increased among the youth ...now the youth are more interested in the true past of India ,it's great men ,the indian army and such things ...

[@daenerysstormborn]

12:26 I do agree that Indian regional languages are slowly disappearing. In Pune and Mumbai many school students are choosing German/French/Sanskrit as their 3rd language subject. The major regional languages will stay for quite long but the dialects are diminishing at a faster space. My mother's dialect was Ahirani, I cannot speak and I cannot even understand it. There are thousands of youngsters like me from Northern Maharashtra region who have forgotten and are not aware of Ahirani dialect. All of this happened in just a couple of generations. My grandmother spoke only Ahirani, my mother spoke fluent Ahirani, my elder sister understands somewhat of Ahirani meanwhile my niece is completely unaware that this dialect even exists

[@akhilamadhavan8286]

Jaby, I would say most Indians know 3 languages, Hindi, English and their mother tongue which varies from State to State. Accents, intonation, dialects all affect how we learn and speak English.

[@Sai_096]

English mother tongue and whatever language they want to learn or whatever language they need in their workplace

[@ManishSharmaX]

Hindi: Not everyone

[@STARK50]

8:05 the problem is not with Apu, the problem with racist people who use Apu as an insult to Indians. Also Americans are GOD when it's come to stereotyping other culture and religion.

[@dileepnarayanan]

Thanks guyz for your India-reaction videos. India has 22 official languages including Hindi and English. 23 States and Union territories do not have Hindi as official language - especially South and North East of India speak less of Hindi, where English is more understood and spoken. Hindi is the official language of 8 states of Central India : Bihar, Delhi, Haryana, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. The Indian-English accent of Kerala is different from TamilNadu though both belong to South of India. Similarly mid and North-indian states' English accents also differ. In fact, our English accents are connected to and influenced by our respective Mother-tongues. Usually we think in mother-tongue and then translate to English, and that influence carries. :-) .

[@AyushKrPandey07]

That dude saying South Indians are more educated is wrong af 🤣. How tf english is parameter to judge person is educated or not.

[@victoria14royalattic82]

Agreed

[@drpop_25]

He wasn't saying on the basis of English But on overall academic

[@AyushKrPandey07]

@@drpop_25 not even in overall academics. There are just 5 states and some union territories southern part comprises of but what about northern part , they literally have lot of states hence more populated as well. And 1% dumb in 1 billion makes it 1 crore so it's very diverse , you can't judge it as a whole.

[@drpop_25]

@@AyushKrPandey07 And that doesn't change the fact that AVERAGE population of the South are more educated I'm talking about AVERAGE

[@AyushKrPandey07]

@@drpop_25 3 person each havin 50 rupees makes the avg 50 but one having 150 and otherr two 0 also makes it 150.

[@sachindevbumbum]

The variety in every other Indian's English is due to MTI (Mother Tongue Influence) Many states many mother tongue. Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Gujrati, Maithili, Konkani, Nagamese, Manipuri, Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Santhali, Rajasthani, Punjabi to name a few. 29 States and all 29 different languages exclusive of indigenous tribal dialects.

[@spylock8816]

But it's true that South Indians Excel academically .... It's majorly because in North India it's the second generation of individuals getting primary education. What i mean by that is in majority cases their grandparents doesn't have primary education where as majority South Indians have been educated since many generations (as in their first generation of individuals getting primary education were there great-grandparents)

[@bld-cd6xb]

South indians in general I will say they are better in English than North indians, but that doesn't mean academically anyone is better, bihar is known as the most uneducated state perhaps but again biharis are generally good in cracking tough exams , so just knowing english doesn't make any one academically good.

[@spylock8816]

@@bld-cd6xb No-one claimed its just because of knowing English that one is academic good... That's the conclusion you yourself came to! Don't get salty by cherry picking words... See other than regional language schools, academic system in its entirety depends on the language English... And states that have higher literacy tends to excel in academics as well(statistically speaking) and therefore which results in having more command over English .

[@bld-cd6xb]

@@spylock8816 academically as in what? If u r saying literacy rate then true, of course southern states have higher literacy rate than Northern states. But academically I didn't get what are u saying when u say 'academically'

[@vivekheer6369]

It's just because North Indians live life and don't spend whole life licking books.

[@bld-cd6xb]

@@vivekheer6369 that's false, let's not fight within ourselves now. This isn't North vs South war.

[@shiveringsilence]

12:37 from my observation it's somewhat true because when you start using a language extensively you often gradually lose or forget the vocabulary of the native language and many Indian languages are actually getting extinct because they had few speakers

[@ashimaurya5900]

American accent most worst accent in whole world I believe

[@Kathakathan11]

That’s why art is important

[@dybiosol]

From what I've read from multiple sources, linguistically the fact that English only has 26 alphabets along with a pretty fluid grammar rule set makes it a fairly easy language to teach AND learn. It's fundamentally one of the main reasons why English can have a variety of dialects and accents, but still be used to communicate across a wide range of people since you don't need to adhere to a lot of rules to "communicate" efficiently. Mandarin/Cantonese in contrast, as pointed by Jaby, is a fairly complex language to grasp and takes time in mastering to fluency. Complex languages do not generally have multiple "dialects" or accents because of the very nature of the language and strictness in grammatical rules. Sometimes they might not even sound too different unlike say between Gaelic vs RP vs American vs Indian.

[@IAMSIKKU]

People in this video are trying so hard to speak English😅. And that one dude was like 75 percent speaks fluent English, but bro 75 percent is not even the literacy rate of India. In reality, around 12 percent can read and write English while around 5 percent can speak it fluently.

[@ramdhanmeena5121]

Finally someone🤧

[@robustlion]

South Indian speaks more English coz there 2nd language is English. Other Indian have 1st priority to Regional language then Hindi and English is 3rd priority.

[@nikhilk91]

Indians english accent is based on their own Mother tongue that's why it feels different from person to person and in India every 3 miles accent changes even they are speaking same language 😊😊😊😊😊

[@NewMoviese]

Every person's English pronunciation is different in India because in India people learn English just to pass the exam not to speak. (in short people don't learn spoken english)

[@gauravmishra7158]

Accent doesn’t come from what we’re watching but it comes from the accent of local our languages. Each region has unique accent of their vernacular language

[@Nandigraam]

Jaby's theory about Ameriacn shows and accent is correct. I agree.

[@rakshitsingh40]

Right

[@TilikaVispute]

I actually like hearing different accents .. and even American too… And I think most people don’t judge others based on their accents 🌸💕🌸💕🌸💕

[@annaiyengar1980]

It is the influence of their mother tongue how each accent differs from one to the other

[@balabharatb]

as some one already told below, their english accent depends on the native language they speak.

[@Cizengaming.]

Yes, you're right all are speaking differently because different people belong to different communities .😂😅 love from India🇮🇳❤️

[@mohitgangwar2553]

I simply find the video funny. The interviewer herself is sounding funny and trying really hard to have an accent. Also, most people in the video don't sound fluent. According to me a good Indian accent is quite neutral influenced by the phonology of the Indian languages.

[@Vitasha_Saraf]

This video is old and in last couple of years, people have stopped regarding English as so important, as a sign of education and manners and we have started to love our native languages with Pride

[@ManjuSharma-ud9bu]

The main reason is there are many languages in India. But to be able to talk to each other. They need a common language. Though they could talk to each other

[@HINDUSTANJINDABAD22]

they should appreciate us . we r making tough efforts just to communicate to them.

[@jiophone2412]

Our accent depends on our mother tongue. Every state has different language. So the tonality and certain pronunciations of the English words change accordingly.

[@Baishalirocks]

Wow, 4 years, I guess people take pride in regional language, now that other world economies are downhill and India is doing pretty well!!!!

[@LikeAButterFly7777]

Aint no way the native languages are disappearing. We just don't talk it in front of camera. But if we talk about day to day REAL life everyone uses their native language in their own state !! With their native accent even within the states. Its just you don't see but everyone talks Odia here in Odisha. Everyone talks in Bengali in bengal. Regional and native languages can never fade. Even I can confirm hindi is not the first language for 80% of people in India. It comes 2nd and then English ig ?

[@SenSei_ANKIT_JUYAL]

For that Indian accent my POV is we Indians speaks 100s of different languages so our tongue movement made a perticular setup for our Different languages so everyone who speaks the same language speaks the same accent but whenever language changes our English accents also change according our mother tongue and Community

[@kumarvivek1866]

Macaulay dream has been achieved. Their slaves are keeping their dreams till eternity.

[@archie7646]

when we say, India is diverse country and here we celebrate diversity. It's not something only like a quote somehow this is the diversity we're all talking about! Forget english funnily people have different hindi accents too. It is like second world with different continents, languages, food-culture and everything.

[@Akash_158]

bro, Our accent majorly influenced of our native language..(and there are hundreds (if not thousands) different forms of all 25-30 major languages) .... so when a person from haryana speaks English... his accent is influenced by the haryanvi accent which is totally different from his neighbouring state Himachal Pradesh.... and HP'S accent is totally different from a garhwali person living in it's Neighbouring state Uttarakhand....and it pass it on to other states.... EVERY STATE of INDIA has a different regional language... and some states even have more than 10.... There is a popular saying in india" iss desh mein har 10 km mein language sur pehnawa change ho jata hai" ... this shows how diverse india is....

[@alireacts890]

That guy was not wrong when said South indians are more educated.. If We check literacy rates... Kerala is top in that ... Top 10 include 4 south indian states 4 north east state and 2 north indian state (delhi and punjab) ... I can be totally wrong regarding top 10 states but kerala is the highest

[@Bhairavvvv]

Kerala is overrated ! I see they lack civic sense and hygiene big time despite their higher literacy levels

[@vkone7162]

Because brits came first colonized South and bengal and used their people to replace native education system to English education system including spreading Christianity that's why South and Bengal had most Christians then ! It has nothing to do with intelligence and even I can say most millionaire and billionaire are not S Indian...and neither most south Indian are doing big startup in India...even after having upper hand of English for quite long. Still people from kerala go to Middle Eastern Countries to work as construction workers in big numbers...and that too after having highest literary! And most "is is" recruitment is happens from kerala.

[@sanaljoy5017]

Why does the host in the video have this weird accent. In a video talking about accents, why does the host have a fake accent?

[@sarthakkharade7112]

yeah the theory that Jaby hard completely makes sense, our(indian) English is really influenced by American or British shows we watch and also many of us learnt English listening to Eminem, we don't have a specific Indian accent but the way West mimics indian accent (saying "D" instead of "T")is really hilarious and accurate sometimes.

[@Rudrapratap627]

Being an Indian i find ur accent and discussion interesting...i think it's subjective

[@divyanshtandon6123]

Indians have one of the most clearest english accent, since childhood we have been taught to pronounce each and every letter in a word very clearly, making our accent crystal clear for anyone to understand, unlike people from countries having english as their mother tongue. Just take the example of Steph herself, she doesn't pronounce so many letters, like when saying "what" she would say something like "whaye". we could understand it, but its very irritating sometimes! I mean why can't people simply pronounce simple words clearly?

[@sauravpurohit7637]

Wahdumeaaann?

[@Fat_Paws]

This is the crap that is fed to us. We are NOT taught correct pronunciation, intonation, etc. We are forced to memorise grammar rules, not understand them. We are forced to learn literal interpretation of poems, not analyse. We are forced to cram cookie cutter answers for board exams, not explore literature. This goes for native languages too. But the inherent familiarity lets most people understand the nuances of their so-called mother tongue better. The level of English we study even in 8-12 is below the international standard. English was introduced as a way to educate clerks for the raj, and our current curriculum perpetuates that. Just because you hear some weird accent or incorrect grammar from a foreigner doesn't mean everyone speaks like that or you know English better than they do. You are confusing accent with some misplaced standard of "correctness."

[@divyanshtandon6123]

@@Fat_Paws I'm speaking about accent along not grammatical correctness or the standards of English, but as far as accent is concerned Indian english accent is far more clear and smooth than I'd say any of the other ones out there.

[@Fat_Paws]

You are again mistaking accents you are familiar with "correctness." Why can't people pronounce simple words correctly, you ask? It is just that you are unfamiliar with the accent. An Aussie greeting may sound like "Go Die" to you, but they are being friendly, not wishing you ill. What we call the "American" accent is itself a multitude of different accents. I don't just mean the stereotypical southern accent. An average black person in NY city will have an accent more in common with a rich white dude living on 5th avenue than another black man from say Philadelphia. Differs by age too. Societal norms and segregation in the last century created all kinds of variants even within small geographical areas in the US. I have a lot of trouble understanding old people speaking with a mid-western accent. But I can mostly get what they are saying. Contrast that with two Irishmen talking, I have no idea if they are speaking English or Gaelic. Or Mandarin for that matter. You never know what an Irishman who grew up in Beijing will sound like to their countrymen.

[@Lazymath007_]

I am NRI and I know exactly how it sounds

[@MrObedDaniel]

Due to MTI issue (mother tongue influence) u can say each state has a unique accent due to India having varied diversity in languages and dialects.

[@sunraysfalls]

This is of the rhythm they follow while speaking their mother tongue.

[@drpop_25]

1:35 Actually South India is more Educated than the North region South Indian state of Kerala has the highest literacy rate I'm from North East And my region is more into sports

[@ShivendraVerma]

If you would have any idea how they measured litreacy rate in India then you would have knew how big scam it is 😂😂😂😂😂😭

[@Cosmicsence99]

Jaby he's not lying south Indians are indeed much more educated that North Indians you can google if you want before making those wierd faces.

[@japq550]

North Indian are not educated and doesn't even know to write A word

[@japq550]

South know ¶ this word very well

[@aarushi7714]

Steph is completely right. If your first language is not English, then obviously, your English accent would differ. Jaby said that if he goes to London, most people would have the same accent at least people hailing from that region, but that is their first language. If you come to a particular region in Punjab, then those people would have the same Punjabi accent, specifically people from a particular region. It's a matter of what's your first language. I think Indians with Hindi as their first language have the same Hindi accent across regions. English is not our first language, so of course, everybody's accent differs.

[@dhruveshpatel1109]

It's not because of watching different content. It's because of the wide variety of native dialects.

[@kumarvivek1866]

Jaby ka chatne walo k liye ye video bnaya hua hai 😂😂🤣🤣

[@thefonz8373]

I would say I recognize my accent is distinctly Indian and not American and I owned it while working in American companies. I never bothered to learn the American accent. My accent is what naturally works for me, so I stuck with it. Haven't had a single complaint from any of my American friends or colleagues, I was able to converse just fine. Also someone in the comments pointed out and I wanna reiterate, Indian accent really varies by where you grew up in India. Someone from Kerala and someone from Delhi speak very different English because this is really influenced by how they spoke growing up. I have to say, I found the Grey shirt guy annoying.. Dude was being unnecessarily extra while accusing Americans of being extra.

[@user-jp9308]

I personally like Indian English accent sounds very smart like this young generation English accent very smart they have very smooth voice

[@zethusissus]

Steph is looking BREATHTAKING

[@victoria14royalattic82]

I don't think English is dominating....I think people find it cool when people speak all kind of language......

[@mick7156]

It's true to some extent but not entirely! Now a days especially Gen Z they are not consuming much Indian literature & even if they read they would go for English edition. I get surprised with people who are of my age group the 90's kid... Simple Hindi/urdu words they don't know. Numbers & direction they don't know. Many Hindi Alphabets they don't know how to pronounce. So a Lil bit of encouragement is required IMO. Else it will meet the same fate like Sanskrit & they wud not be able to understand the beauty it brings. Kids would say Hindi/urdu, it's too difficult, doesn't make sense, pronunciation is difficult, who even speaks that!? What are you Ancient Aliens!? Because being snappy, obnoxious & cool for no reason is a trend. So I guess a Lil push is required. For ex :- i know modern slangs, lingo etc but I am aware of my language & maybe still very far from knowing it on a good level hence always curious to learn more, so love for our own languages is a need as much people are eager to learn & know English.

[@jai_yogi]

these kids are personification of hypocrisy 🤦‍♂️ " I feel very offended..." *Very Next Minute* "..Russian accent is funny..xyz is funny..."

[@o0...957]

Yeah, that's why I feel hesitant to watch interview of Indian people in Asian Boss.

[@jai_yogi]

@@o0...957 me too

[@meowiscute356]

Lolz I'm 3days late... Anyway I'm from north east India and the theory Gaby shared in this video actually is true to some great extent because I've been into watching a LOT of american movies since when I was a kid and I'm 18 and my english accent kinda shifts the american way and I realised this back in 7th-8th grade and idk what's wrong with a big majority of the people here because if somebody decides to adapt to a new accent - they are most likely to judge that somebody. And I think it's totally okay to adapt to a particular accent that you like and every indian's english accent aint really same like Gaby pointed out and that's also basically because of their mother tongue, the tunes affect their english accent.

[@namjooningOT7]

English spread because of colonisation then it became more prevalent because of want and need to communicate with neighbour countries and with time far lands as well, English just so happened to be understood by most.

[@abishaikothapalli1648]

14:05 regarding languages evolving etc., I'm glad you brought up an example like Aramaic. I think history shows that certain languages do end up "dying", almost, if not completely. I think the evolving you are talking about is the dominance of a language which happens due to the dominance of a kingdom or nation over the world. Hebrew was almost replaced with Aramaic due to the Babylonian and Persian empires. Eventually Rome became the dominant empire and therefore, Greek and Latin grew in popularity as it was taught to the nations under the rule of the dominant empire etc. My point is, while I don't necessarily see many Indian languages dying, as also the there are so many, it can't be denied that the English empire's influence and brainwashing did leave such an impact on India that speaking in English was considered as progress and development. I think many Indians strive to learn and speak English well as we see that in conjunction with success and progress, which is not necessarily true. But, it cannot be denied the the two of the big superpowers in the world today speak English and therefore, English is very dominant in the whole world today.

[@leedex]

Indian accent: Hello, you are talking with …… from The Microsoft 😂

[@Bangaliyana2024]

I personally feel that native language will not disappear, however it shall evolve to a distorted form with heavy English influence, for example, people speaking Hinglish or Benglish more and more. 🙏🇮🇳

[@mayankpnwr4514]

1:32 I'm laughing so hard rn 😂😂

[@zayhansdah]

My accent sure is shaped up by foreign media, but I haven't picked those up completely, and it's just a subtler version of them. Also because I was in a catholic missionary school where English was really emphasized with phonetics and all, so much so that I'm not as fluent the rest 3 languages as I want to be ..... Lol

[@t7mytchannel94]

In my opinion, indians having different accent in itself is becoz of the language we are speaking, india has more than 1500 language and in every language the way we speak are totally different, the way we roll our tongue has some influence in the way we speak English

[@NotJoegoldberg]

You're right...the content we consume does impact our accent to a certain extent

[@morticias5043]

I'd say since we don't have British people here to teach us English, we just pass it on however we can. So it changes based on where you are, what you've heard, who taught you, etc

[@ankurmitra918]

It's a good point the what you watch influence how you speak. But if you remember the Shashi tharoor video you watched about indian english words, he said a poignant note that our census only records our first language. I feel lot of our understanding and nuance of english comes from how the 1st language sounds. People tend to get varied indian accents from the fluidity of their own mother tongue. Just a thought!

[@sanjaycool6915]

1: English is easy to learn, 2: that being the case, it acts as a linking language...Even in India, if u traveled to every state, it's different everywhere, so instead of knowing 30 languages ,u learn 1! So that also gives way to ppl not learning native language that much maybe!

[@human6729]

3:00 it is based on native and mother tongue .simple that touch is applied or flows while speaking english, yes i will learn chinese (indians can learn it )and also always first mother tongue and also sanskrit

[@sugiee_gene]

In our educational system (govt) until 12th class mother language or Hindi is mandatory and it is treated as 1st language and English as the 2nd language so i have a hope that we are not going to forget our roots

[@rajeshkhilari]

02:25 each one's English sounds different for 2 reasons - (1) Heavy influence of the intonation of eachone's mother tongue - Tamil, Haryanvi, Punjabi & Marathi doesn't have soft intonations while Malayalam is one of the sing-song language in the world. Hence, anyone from Kerala would sound like singing English instead of speaking. Only Bengali is a language with soft tones. However, every Indian language is spoken with clear sounds & pronunciation and we Indians like to speak English that way too and strongly believe that we pronounce every word clearly. If you look at Priyanka Chopda Jonas, she constantly attempts to imitate US accent whereas Deepika Padukone Singh remains faithful to the Indian English accent even at the Oscars Award Ceremony. (2) People educated in Convent Schools as against the other English schools is another reason. Interestingly, people educated in convent school whether in Mumbai, Jaipur, Delhi, Shimla, Gangtok, Imphal, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Bengaluru, Goa all have similar intonation & diction.

[@lokeshgurajala2641]

MTI- Mother Tounge Influence plays a pridominant role in Indian Accent

[@rohit30584]

The way we speak our native language makes our english accent. There is no single indian accent. Our country is so diverse in languages that there cannot be a single one.

[@nichen6966]

No the actual reason Indian English accents vary so much in india is because every one grows up speaking their local regional language or dialect, in most households, across the country. There are exceptions of course, but true of most Indians. Now every Indian language and dialect have their own sounds and nuances the way they are spoken. This gets ingrained when they speak English. For example people who speak English in Kerala, whose native language is Malayalam have a strong Malyaalee accent in their English. Similarly as another example, people from Gujurat speaking Gujurati or from Punjab speaking Punjabi have their native language style of pronunciation merged into the way they speak English. Hope this clarifies 😊.

[@ronikalapala919]

Our accents also change depending on the native language we speak. Even with the grammar perfect, the way we pronounce our vowels and consonants differs.

[@theuseless4219]

An Indian's English accent depends upon the part of India they come from. The flow or the way they speak their native language reflects in their English accent. That's why the South Indian accent sounds more jolly than North Indian accent

[@Layla-xm2lx]

Every person in India have a different accent and pronunciation..ofcourse region, area, mother tongue has a major influence but many a times even in same family people have different accents.. And well the English becoming uniform language in India do trouble me as atleast earlier we were taught to speak in mother tongue at home, hindi/english at school with friends and in school.. Then children were taught to speak hindi at home and now tet are taught to speak only in English at home.. But well India is a big country, area wise and population wise as well so it's not that much of a concern for now.. Most of the people who knows english can speakschool hindi as well their mother tongue and ofcourse their third language subject in school..

[@hitenbhatt4107]

I love how Steph Sabraw talks in a "sing-song" way :D lol