Learn Jamaican Patois (beginners) 20 Common questions and answers

[@sholokov]

I'm trying to learn Patois. Mi kom fram Pakistan. Wagwaaaan Jamaica!

[@hendrywilliam]

HAHAHAHA

[@fromheaventoearth5779]

There are quite a few Pakistani Jamaicans on the northcoast. I went to school with them back in the day.

[@AleksPatters]

It' Actually , Mi Come From Pakistan

[@lisahyland7317]

Its wah gwaan

[@squidria]

@@AleksPattersnope, the way they said it is another way also

[@gabby5927]

My parents made the sad mistake of raising me in America. So now it’s my job to nurture myself. And my patois is pretty good for an American, I refuse to live my life without being fluent in patois

[@xniphe_2912]

Same with me but I'm in the UK x 😭

[@castieldiallo2945]

Really? You seem like a coconut to me. Lol.

[@user-yz8jj2gu7h]

You’re my type of person who is always proud of where you come from.

[@ism1876]

Same but Canada lol

[@drewsimon3500]

Respect Jamerican Breddrin! 🇯🇲 🇺🇸 , my mother come from London before raising me and my sisters mostly in America but have been to yard visiting uncles and grandmother so I study my roots nuff because I needed to understand mi cousins Dem, Respect

[@chacho6032]

Thank you for the lesson🙏🏻 “Mi Bruck like dawg” caught me off guard ngl😂

[@candyluna2929]

Does that literally mean "I am broke like a dog" 😅

[@peterdowsett1462]

I love the Jaimaican accent, love the rhythm of it. I'm from England and white. Have loved the Jaimaican culture for a long time, thank Jah for its influence in UK. Especially when I was growing up in the 90s and being big part of Jungle in the Rave/Dance music culture not to mention reggae and dub for chilling. Selecta!!😮

[@AmaniElArnab]

Honestly I would not consider it an accent

[@PoppaBadger]

I'm a Canadian man that looks nothing like a Jamaican man. But, I RESPECT the culture, the love and respect for others so much that I feel it necessary to learn to speak Jamaican, especially next time I go back. These videos are very, very helpful. Its a beautiful and oddly rhythmic dialect. ❤️👍🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@ryancornwell8563]

There are a lot of white people in Jamaica, the famous Jamaican musician Yellowman is as white as can be

[@PoppaBadger]

@Ryan Cornwell I'm very aware my friend. Lol As I stated above, I've been there a couple of times already. Actually 3 times, which is another reason I'd love to learn. It's a bit of a cool shock when you walk up to a man that isn't brown and he starts speaking Patois. That may have been the moment when I realized that speaking in the Jamaican dialect WOULDN'T be offensive but actually but quite the opposite. My brother, I just want to tell you that black and white are shades. I'm not white. I'm Caucasian. Much respect brother. Maybe I'll catch yuh in Jamaica some day. An afterthought for you. Why does Yellowman call himself Yellow?😳😆 Serious question, if you happen to know the answer, im very curious. 👍🏻🙂🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@HappyLifeFoodAroundTheWorld]

Tank yuh ! Mi love learn jamaican patois wid yuh lesson

[@jorenthar9186]

It's easier to learn than I thought. It's sort of like speaking english slang as a language. Thank you those who speak this language.

[@DavidAlvarez-he6sd]

Wow por fin un curso de patwa! Finally a patwa course!. Thank you so much. Greetings from Barcelona

[@firemanmusic256]

I like the way you Teach, You Teach wid lov

[@calvthomas6153]

I am an American trying to learn Patwa. I love the language💕

[@IO-nt9kx]

I‘m from Europe and my new boyfriend is Jamaican, so I started to learn Patwa a few weeks ago. I’m so happy I found your channel. You explain everything on point, I love your lessons!

[@PierreVladimirLebon-xq7ox]

From Haiti 🇭🇹, still learning patwa , the accent it's so good

[@LaLoveRn5683]

I nvr saw Patois spelled like Patwa. I am obsessed with bi and multilingual ppl. I love the sticata of some languages. The Caribbean has such beautiful n genuinely graceful harmony about it.

[@PikeFight]

This is fascinating you're a great teacher I want to learn more

[@mikbete]

Hollow Jamaica, I love you Jamaica from 🇹🇿

[@caruso2922]

You do such an excellent job translating.

[@angelafrankenschloss9627]

It sounds so Musical 🎶, almost as if it were being sung! 👍 ❤

[@SniffyPoo]

I was listening to Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce talk and decided I love patois, so now I'm here

[@princessjojosworld1073]

Thanks!!! Hopefully my half Jamaican kiddo can learn patois to understand her family now

[@jr.rasentertainment4074]

Thanks for this one. Watching all the way from Vanuatu

[@TimDwg]

You look stunning in red! Really brings out your beauty.

[@Karen-id6ey]

Yr image yr presentation & teacher skills EXCELLENT!

[@pedroalejandrochaconsanche2242]

Thanks for all, I'm from cuba but I'm living in Jamaica now

[@TonyFord-n2z]

Thank you very much I'm leaning my people language ya man

[@caribean22]

Woman!! Yuh good me andastan,mi com straight outta Uganda✊🏾

[@user-ky4dn8yy2r]

Am from Uganda 🇺🇬❤️But the love i have towards jamaican people is maximum💕That's why am here to learn, thx u so much dear

[@beezyru6055]

So educational thank you so much I love Jamaican culture and dialogue ❤❤❤

[@ceecee7976]

I so Love the Jamaican culture, this is a very informative way to learning the language of the culture. Thank you so much for posting this. I LOVE THE CULTURE ❤

[@Ann19421]

I am already Jamaican but I like watching these videos it so educational

[@guimino_2082]

Sou brasileiro e sempre cresci ouvindo e vendo coisas culturais da Jamaica, agora que estou adulto quero explorar esse mundo, a história, linguagem e tudo mais!

[@prempehama]

Thanks teacher Shan🙏🏽❤️

[@lamgai5405]

Mi luv di energy yuh put pon dis work Luv yuh mi teacha From Africa Juba South Sudan ❤peace and love ✌️this little patwa I have memba yuh kno mi learned it from the teacher Vybz kartel ❤❤free World Boss

[@byagonza4571]

Thank you for your good lesson

[@robertloupas5094]

These videos are really the best instruction on genuine patwa on the internet, please keep up the good work! You look super😍in this video too btw!

[@Crxelsvummer.13]

My baby nurse was a Jamaican woman and apparently when I was younger I had a bit of a Jamaican accent. Now that I’m older, at my job some of my customers are Jamaican and I want to be able to somewhat communicate with them in their native language

[@tva_broadcast_gt]

a each lesson of yuh mi regret a neva knowin bout Patois before grow a likkle more. Besides ya' really lovely ... Bess riggad from Brasil ! P.S.: mi tryna fi hours to catch what yuh said between "undred dola" and "thousand dola" LOL

[@packymalley5446]

Enjoy the lessons, thank you! (Mi luv di lessons!)

[@rossannathari4950]

I like Jamaica because my mother looks like a Jamaican 🌹🌹good job, excellent ...♥️♥️♥️

[@Hometown989]

i just found this but thank you this was so helpful

[@amiller221]

Great video! I’ll definitely be watching more. I have a couple of new Jamaican friends and I want to understand them better. This video was already very helpful!! Now I just have to get them to slow down some lol😂

[@moseschilekwa1266]

I am learnig this language Gorgeous!

[@taniabedford4722]

Love your teaching style.

[@nikkirichards6272]

Wow... I've seen a lot of people try to teach Jamaican to the public and most of them are a disaster... Yours is the first one I've seen that made any sense.... Great job actually. Luv ow y'aa yuuz'i kyasidi sistim 👌🏽

[@user-hk7pe9zk9y]

Thanks. It was very helpful.

[@marcrubin8844]

Very' 'elpful indeed! Yah prezentieshan raichass

[@ShansPatwaAcademy]

Bless!

[@candyluna2929]

....all this time I was so confused as to why I couldn't understand Jamaicans, ppl from Trinidad, and Aruba when they spoke...is an entirely different language today I learned 😊

[@Aritro77]

This is great, thanks so much

[@ShansPatwaAcademy]

Glad it was helpful!

[@biancaporteous3896]

So cool❤ thank you for sharing this video

[@IsaacAzomyann-gz1gt]

Please can you do a video on everyday activities like (1)Am eating (2)Lets go(3)

[@delem463]

Shan a mi Jamaican patois teacher ahn mi wife also… 😉

[@rahjwilliams5278]

I’m trying my best to learn different languages as a single black mother in American trying to learn where my roots and ancestors came from and just different languages in general gain more knowledge I graduated a low rated alternative school We’re they don’t teach u anythin!! like 8 years ago and I just wana approve be a better woman and be so much more

[@colleenhenry8022]

Blessings sista, me haffe send dis to me granddaughter Dem !! love how you explain everything!!

[@user-yz8jj2gu7h]

Shan, you ROCK!!! I wish you can be my teacher. Whichpaat yuh live? Some of the sentences are close to broken English spoken in Nigeria. Enjoyed your teaching. Keep up the custom.

[@SunnyIlha]

Teach more always please. 😌

[@kirriffacedlaadlaa4257]

this is the new english so good

[@roselynsoudenclarke9217]

Good job. Remember the variation in patois also has to do with the parish In which you live.

[@claygarrett4772]

This is great! Why add "inoh" on the end of "mi gud"? What is "inoh"?

[@anthonymasando8844]

Very informative,, mi now naw Jamaican vocabulary😍😍

[@healttechsolutions]

wow, Mi wish could a stop stodying kompyuuta earlier, so dat mi could a concentrate pon patois

[@TonyFord-n2z]

Mi come from asante ya man

[@fitzroymiller4458]

Great teachering am loving it

[@charlesjohnson4465]

I took a DNA test far as Caribbean it show Jamaica and far as Africa Nigerian.im born in America well as my mom and dad and I was not taught that I was Jamaica or nigerian.im born in America but I say I'm Jamaica and Nigerian since there is where my roots at I'm still studying and trying to learn the language here in America we have the same roots mainly Jamaican/Haitian/ Barbados and Nigerian and Ghana we are still the same people but just born in America and separated from are ancestors

[@lydiaboafo]

Good job darling 👌👏

[@kingchandamale2567]

Nice ting an big up yourself mi wah fi go Jamaica which part MI should come an haffi vacation deh mi like chat baad Unno mek mi go pan badah level give tanks

[@ShansPatwaAcademy]

Big up

[@TonyFord-n2z]

Mi like my people

[@yonelofficiel6806]

Good job

[@darkages4589]

Yuh look pretty

[@jeannereed4989]

Girl top! Yuh nah 53! ❤

[@allthingslexi6046]

Mi tink mi favourite one is “Mi bruk laik daag” 😂

[@Soul_Archaeologists]

Whenever mi grand asked if him hungry, he a say “ eeheeh, a could eat.”

[@Moko_Bomoi]

Imagen se mi de ya medz how mi alreadi chant 😂😂😂😂 Great video and big up yu self muma 🇯🇲👍🏾

[@joeoestreich6404]

Yow bless up empress, mi a aks yuh 1 ting bout “ where are you from “ is “whichaat yuh baan”, same suh?

[@ShansPatwaAcademy]

Yes, it can mean that. But it’s more specifically ‘where were you born?

[@lualjolkon1264]

Waw thanks you for your lesson I really like it

[@ShansPatwaAcademy]

Bless!

[@thetrend3416]

Mi like yah klass .Big up

[@kianathomas8691]

I’m trying to design any shirt for a track team that’s primarily Jamaican how would you say Who runs faster than me? I was thinking it’s who run faster pon mi but uncertain if that’s correct

[@SunnyIlha]

Mi niem Sanny 😄

[@angellawhitesenior4778]

Every one

[@angellawhitesenior4778]

Mi now everyone 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😅😘😘😘😘😘😘😘🥰🥰😍😍🤩🥳🤪😛😏😔😜🥰😋😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘

[@Themindofreyrey]

53? You look 29! ❤

[@melsanimals4275]

she didn’t mean it lol it was just an example

[@paulomauricio3264]

Nice! Do you have classes with reggae?

[@RealTBTKenya]

"mi bruk like daag"🤣🤣🤣

[@JAMESLOONEY-kd1nu]

I am broke like a dog, never met a rich dog yet.just lazy misspelt English words sad

[@KIMCHAMPAGNEE]

❤❤❤❤

[@shadimills]

i love you

[@TheGuerrillaOffical]

Wichpaat yoh liv? RIGHT NIER Di BEAACH. BWOOOOOYEEE!!

[@K_A86]

Thanks for this video ❤

[@thecrepesoul]

10:42 "Nah mi noh hungry, mi look hungry?________Why mi haffi be hungry? I can't figure out what she said about her mouth after mi look hungry, and it's driving me crazy!😂😂

[@Troy-Moses]

Another thing is grammar: "a" = is --> eating = a eat, running = a run, going on = a go on... So, Wha a gwaan = What's going on.

[@abubakarrjalloh8437]

Mi deh yah inna Sierra Leone West Africa but mi lek patios so fi dat mi bredren Dem lek mi

[@g0d821]

Is it more proper to use the “A”? Or does it not matter at all?

[@Ssloobakbar]

You can’t be 53, you look great

[@malhurt]

No way you are 53 years old.

[@merk9837]

Black don't crack

[@shekunabangura879]

What dawg mean please? ❤❤❤

[@ENERGY_J]

Wah does Bomboclat mean?

[@eulaanderson8897]

Very helpful thanks

[@ShansPatwaAcademy]

You're welcome! bless

[@jeanetteking7583]

i am not hearing clearly what the writing is red is. please write it for me

[@MargaretteRichards]

Mi tie the knot

[@krucified7654]

Sorry had to stop the video at 2:14 53 took me out if ur really 53 GHAT DAMN U LOOK AMAZING dats waah gwaan right there🤙🏾

[@brandenadams9874]

If you think about it, it's just southern 😅 with like an Irish twist

[@brandenadams9874]

Or a down east Carolinian accent 😂

[@francistv1555]

How do you guys coined this written, is similar to pigin Enligh in West Africa.

[@zulkiflijamil4033]

Wa yoh niem? Mi niem Zul. Yaa u'moch ? Yoh gud?

[@colleenhenry8022]

Trying to get my grandchildren to practice the patois, but they are with their other grandma most of th time, they learned Spanish and they need to learn to speak it ,Their Dad and their Uncle speaks fluently, but I am not giving up!