US vs Australia vs Singapore vs South Africa ENGLISH Pronunciation Differences! (Part.2)

[@bubbleteabeatboxx]

I feel proud watching as a South African.

[@snowypmoon1893]

Me too

[@spookyasmr8889]

same

[@tebogomakhubo8845]

True

[@katehodson8469]

Me too

[@EnhypenNikiStan]

Yessir

[@JOCOPIE]

Hello everyone!! It was another fun video!!! Thank you for having me here! ❤️❤️🇸🇬🇸🇬 Hope you guys enjoyed Singlish!!!! Its just a creole which we use for informal settings! As for Standard English, people would code switch to any form of accent so for me, after staying in Korea, I became more used to pronouncing my Ts better to help my international friends understand better which could be why my standard english sounds more British! Btw I would just like to clarify that a lot of explanations by others were not included perhaps due to editing reasons which we have no control over :/ And since Singlish is rather foreign, I tried to explain to help my friends understand better which might be why I might seem to be “talking too much” quoted by someone! Nonetheless, hope you guys had a great laugh! 💕💕

[@CK-wv9pp]

Hi Jo, I hope you will have the opportunity to explain our adaptable “Can” to your non-Singaporean friends one day. Can? 😆

[@TheAaronsFamily]

My favourite Singlish teacher Jo 😍

[@JOCOPIE]

@@CK-wv9pp cannn hahaha

[@JOCOPIE]

@@TheAaronsFamily my favourite student hahaha with great hand gestures

[@TheAaronsFamily]

@@JOCOPIE if all else fails… charades!

[@Isha-tb4es]

the south african guy was a really good addition! I really liked his presence!

[@ChristinaDonnelly]

This video was so much fun! 🤗 It was interesting how some words were quite different, and others sounded really similar! And for those who are curious about my accent, I am from Massachusetts, but because of my work and living outside of my hometown, I pronounce words a bit more clearly now using each syllable! But the Boston accent still sneaks in every now and then 😜 See you in the next video ❤ -Christina 🇺🇸

[@Rishi_yadav.7]

I only watch this for you and your beautiful American accent!

[@garyfontenot2786]

"What are you talking about?" in some parts of the US is, "Whatcha talking about?".

[@ChristinaDonnelly]

@@garyfontenot2786 yes, very true!

[@TheAaronsFamily]

Love it when your Boston accent comes out 😂 - Grace 🇦🇺

[@GogoanJerry-ic4gq]

Cute guy Christi teach me your American accent😂😀 lol

[@creeper5191]

In Singapore, “sorry to bother you” will be “paiseh ah”

[@charcolatier]

Or sorry ah 😂

[@tiffanyd3235]

Lol exactly

[@IdkPotatoes]

Or sorry sorry 😂

[@just_kathz]

HAHAHA

[@deeadeline3932]

What’s the matter = simi daiji !

[@BlueMistYT]

5:04 as a singaporean of 'What are you talking about' will be WHAT TALKING YOU?

[@JOCOPIE]

Yesss hahaha i mentioned it actually but it was not included in the video:(( such a waste!

[@dysaint3383]

or Jiang simi (sai)

[@DuckMass]

“What talking you?” in Malay is “Cakap apa awak?”

[@soolanteng1122]

Ikr I thought it would be mentioned in the video

[@tehtarik4326]

or some just go: "ah?"

[@TheAaronsFamily]

I hope you have as much fun watching this video as we did making it! 😍 - Grace 🇦🇺

[@aalice1521]

have a good day Graceee😍😍

[@TheAaronsFamily]

@@aalice1521 Heehee, thank you! You too!

[@eundongpark1672]

When I was living in the US, a couple of times people picked me up for the way I said tomato, pointing out that I pronounced the Ts (both of them). I speak a very standard Aussie accent (I grew up in rural NSW but spent most of my adult life after uni working in Sydney and Brisbane) so I guess this reflects the reality that even within a country there is a spectrum in pronunciation. Also, while working in a hospital in the US, I had to deliberately fake an American accent when I asked patients if they wanted water, or they often wouldn't understand me... instead of wortah I'd say wahder

[@1158supersiri]

the south african guy was a really good addition! I really liked his presence!

[@SinilkMudilaSama]

💋💋💋💋

[@aaronbastardo7674]

Oh Christina is back, this is really good, I love the videos with Christina.

[@ChristinaDonnelly]

🤗🤗🤗❤

[@TarunKamboj_]

Me too 😊

[@annetw2891]

Me too

[@jlylx]

Singaporean version of "what are you talking about?" would literally just be "huh?"

[@actuallydylan-robloxmore3242]

Or it will be paiseh ah!

[@davidliu2243]

HUH

[@shouldbenamed7006]

I feel like i want to my kids be born and raised in Singapore. Asian mentality country, target to business and technologies with english as an first language. Looks like a perfect place, have to learn more about this country.

[@ChriSX13]

don't forget asian schooling mentality, high emphasis on studying and getting good grades just like in most other east asian countries

[@star12341998]

It depends lol. I grew up in singapore, and it’s a safe country for children and teens to grow up in. But education is competitive. I know people who really dislike Singapore as a place for children, because it can be demoralising and mentally exhausting. Personally I wouldn’t change my childhood lol. It was safe and I had fun. But also yes lol, english became our first language not long after we gained independence. Thanks to Lee Kuan Yew, who had the vision of Singapore being a transit/business hub. It’s compulsory to learn two languages growing up too, English and our Mother Tongue, which depends on our ethnicity.

[@ignatiuschua5268]

@@star12341998 So many average or below average Singapore students who subsequently went abroad to further their university studies under FNM scholarship comes back with honours. Easy to do well as Singaporeans have been program to study hard.

[@star12341998]

@@ignatiuschua5268 Yep lol.

[@MakhalanyaneMotaung]

Except they can't chew gum and conscription. Otherwise 👍🏾

[@deanmcmanis9398]

This is a fun and diverse group! Some of the words and pronunciation is almost identical, and some are very different. The Singlish variations remind me of different US accents and pronunciations, especially in the southern US and Texas. Christina has a slight northeastern accent, but it's subtle compared to the greater variations down south. It's nice that Jo can just bounce between Singlish and other variations so easily.

[@kelp2243]

i think usa has more variations than us. we only have the singlish ver and the standard english ver (that we use in more formal settings or when speaking to foreigner)- many people dont realise we code switch so when they just hear us speak in singlish, they think we r bad at english but thats not the case

[@imran3995]

In Singapore "what are you talking about" can be said as "what sia" too.

[@teddy_room9207]

No we just do “huh ?”

[@imran3995]

@@teddy_room9207 or just the eyebrows.

[@Upala94]

what siao ?

[@MizuNyan108]

Singapore & Malaysia is like "The shorter the better" & probably mix all the 3 languages into one sentence just to shorten it up even more. xD

[@siewmingwong4510]

Change it to malay,chinese and english to get rid of 1 syllable lol

[@theminicosmos]

hello! as a singaporean, this was really fun to watch!! though i would say that jo definitely used a more toned down version of singlish 😅 for the word tomato, we usually say it as toMAYto, but when referring to ketchup, it's toMAHto ketchup :p also, for the "sorry to bother you", we would just say it as "paiseh ah" (in singlish!)

[@extremelycreativeusername]

I want a video with people from the UK, US, NZ, Canada, Australia, Singapore, and South Africa together

[@manukabello]

The South African guy is my man

[@Lilsappy]

Omg I love watching videos of this bunch they’re literally so funny and genuine 🖤

[@petitsjoujoux5011]

I just love Grace and Christina in a video!!!! Oh I love Lauren and Marina as well!

[@hollish196]

I love the "What's the matter?" section. What you say to a child.... indeed!

[@agvelfakhri6168]

I'm on love with Christina voice

[@apryltampan7279]

I love the way Cristina pronounced her own language💖

[@Towkeeyoh]

There are basically full singlish slang replacements for all examples, some shortening the phrases even more.

[@MagsonDare]

Christina's awesome, but I also feel like she's enunciating a lot more on some of these than we normally would. I felt that a little bit in general, but specifically on the "what are you talking about?" she enunciated every syllable when most would just slur it into a mushy "wuddya tokkin 'bout?" or "whacha tokkin 'bout?"

[@spagettech]

If I was talking quickly id say "whatcha talkin bout?"

[@absofsteel9323]

I would really like to see someone with a thick southern American accent on here! Southerners pronounce words completely different from people up north

[@15_1j_katrina6]

I'm a teen from singapore so the singlish and slang used by Jo has changed slightly??? Most of it is the same tho -3- I think nowadays some kids tend to just say "what talking you" (wat toking u) for like the memes maybe and we do use british english in our oral examinations, especially taking note of proper articulation of our words. If you use singlish in an oral exam...you're toast.

[@berenice3626]

she said she mentioned it (what talking u) but the vid got cut off

[@kevinhermawan369]

The australian girl is so adorable

[@ewaldventer598]

Lekker man lekker!! Zeno!!

[@zizounina3617]

Is very important for students to know the deferment types of pronunciations

[@katehodson8469]

I'm living in poland but I'm south african. And hearing howzit is so cool

[@bhgoh8090]

Singlish for "What is the matter?" is "simi dai ji?" Or smdj in short. Haha Singlish for "What are you talking about?" is "What talking you?" Haha.

[@Dominicsomelofski]

im not from south Africa but i just realized i got a slight south African accent lmao i from israel

[@we_are_close]

good channel. and videos are so wonderful. i really love it. good luck. from uzbekistan

[@avrinrose5457]

In my fictional world, Malaysia surpasses Singapore in every area because they have Boboiboy and Ejen Ali

[@DamnDemi]

"Howzit", was the basis of an entire ad once 😂

[@chewingdoraemon9131]

Singaporean commonly learn British English in the school, so we pronounce the "T" sound, like "better" "water" "daughter" "tomato".

[@Ess_Chalk]

Instead of "what are you talking about?", I've heard "what you on about?" more frequently in South Africa.

[@daphnesdumpster]

in SA (mostly Cape Town) if you're talking kak then they'll say "What you talking?"

[@moreserendipity]

ayy the south african guy knows what's up🔥 "wat u talkin bout"

[@thaovidang9411]

Grace looks gorgeous in this video.

[@etaf33]

Reminds me of the time I was studying in Australia and the way they pronounce the word "data" is so different..

[@masonfremlin193]

Canadian English 🇨🇦 is also very famous for speaking so fast too

[@SinilkMudilaSama]

Not too fast near to manglish or singlish no way, they're very most fast, canadian english is the opositors very pretty and explicated the same vibe of filipino english.

[@igot7mencalledgot76]

4:04 "just push someone over ooh sorry" nah mate its "oh sorry sorry sorry" The meaning: 1st sorry: oh they fell cause of me 2nd sorry: oh they are still on the floor *helps them up* 3rd sorry: sorry again for what I did

[@AsherOvSacrifice]

As someone with an Australian friend, the shortened words I hear a lot lol.

[@anndeecosita3586]

I’m from the USA. I grew up in Southern California, and am a journalist. I tend to pronounce words the way Christina does in these videos in her non original accent but a large percentage of US population especially in the Southeast and Northeast doesn’t fully enunciate words. In the northeast often er sounds like ah. Better will sound like bettah. Southerners tend to slur words together and drop syllables especially g in ing. They would likely say Whachu talkin’ bout? Or even talmbout. Also the word garbage is commonly used in the US. But which words people use can depend on region. For example, I say soda but some places say pop. I pronounce route like row-te but some places pronounce it the same as root. I say aunt as awnt but some say ant.

[@LuanaBatistinhaa]

Zeno ❤

[@ellasmommy9278]

Hi from USA 🇺🇲 now I want to see you do different dialects of the USA. New england, New York city, Maryland, because Baltimore is a very specific dialect, Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, and ones that have flattened their accents like California,

[@Th4t_guy_]

It's interesting because Australians will actually pronounce a fair amount of words closer to the US than Britain. For instance "pasta" was basically the same, whereas British people would use a brighter "a"

[@blendermyles]

Australia didn't. Gain there independence from britan until 1950s and mostly all australians come from Britain as it was a britsh colony same with all the other countries in thiis video. Expect American agained independence earlier in 1800s

[@Th4t_guy_]

@@blendermyles I don’t really know your point, I’m not saying they’re wrong for speaking things a certain way haha I will say, Australia gained true independence in 1942, and the U.S became independent in 1776.

[@tc16169]

I'd like to hear how each one says the word process. In the US we pronounce it as "praw-cess" but I've heard others pronounce it exactly as it's spelled; "pro-cess".

[@SparrowdeSparrow]

Proudly South African 👍🏻🇿🇦

[@ExaShark]

as a singaporean, I say and hear tomato as TO-MEH-TO more often

[@EddieReischl]

In the US, for "What's the matter?" we usually say "Wassup?" or "Sup?". More recently, we've added "Que pasa?", as we've had a lot of immigration lately.

[@davidliu2243]

Wassup or sup is more of a greeting term tho

[@anndeecosita3586]

What’s up doesn’t usually mean what’s the matter in the USA. It’s usually a greeting or used to ask what someone has been up to lately. Que pasa is old.

[@Yuleni21299]

As an Aussie, I don’t say “what are you talking about”, I more say “what are you going on about?”

[@blendermyles]

Same as me I'm from UK

[@rurihurori2204]

Ahahah I had a good laugh 😂

[@iremmylmz]

Christina🥰🥰

[@suki2404]

suddenly i’m very interested in going to singapore )): i wonder if with covid it’s okay to go soon

[@Fisher_Ash]

Australian speak fast because of accent I have family in Nepal and they could not understand because I am Nepalese Australian imagrant

[@bimocandrawardana1344]

Singlish pride😀❤️

[@fernandyprima6728]

The Singaporean said the Tomato in Malay/Indonesian accent 😅 I think they just say the Malay word there and the Singaporean only said "Sorry" probably because in Chinese 不好意思 (means sorry) used to say "sorry to bother you"

[@bipagurung4989]

i live in sg and sometimes instead of saying" what are u talking about", me and my friends say "what talking u?"(obviously only when talking with each other)

[@shariblake8948]

I'd love to see this with a Caribbean country!

[@SinilkMudilaSama]

Singlish is very nice and pratical

[@somethingisbaking2401]

The examples are already given in standard English. When Jo said Singlish, she should've just speak singlish rather than just adjusting the tone

[@chezelleten]

Omg I’m cracking up as a singaporean cos she’s so accurate and how we say things are so hilarious actually

[@muslimman6724]

American accent was best is best will be best love you chiristina🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@irenecarrillo6750]

That's because there are no brits

[@muslimman6724]

@@irenecarrillo6750 wdym?

[@irenecarrillo6750]

@@muslimman6724 I personally prefer the british accent

[@muslimman6724]

@@irenecarrillo6750 ok i respect your decision

[@daris008]

this is a very interesting channel, you have people from a large number of countries , but why is there no person from Russia?

[@wendyk00]

They’re based in South Korea so maybe they just haven’t found someone who’s Russian that wants to be on the channel 😅

[@daris008]

@@wendyk00 hehe, ok ,but it would be interesting if there was someone else from Russia

[@meleksabena]

South African is like British can’t lie

[@ReggyTheBerryFerry]

I feel proud as a Singaporean now 👁👅👁

[@lyraaalyn_]

I love english videos 😂

[@luvposie6805]

SA IS BOOTIFUL AND SO IS THE OTHER COUNTRIES PERIOD

[@rachelwilliamson7618]

Y’all need to do pronunciations from different states/parts of America

[@IceSpikesStudios]

I feel proud watching as a singaporean

[@luckyprobrawlstars368]

In Sinagpore, it is like "Ayyyy" Hahaha I was laughing like crazy. So true.

[@mydancejournal3016]

The problem with having only one person from each place is that like in the US the east coast, south and northwest all sound very different form each other. I'm from the Northwest and it sound very different to the Boston accent. We are quite bland

[@Deedee-im6wb]

Battery and Heirloom! These are two words to rule them all!

[@aimisakee867]

This one is better. That Singaporean girl doesn't try to be American. Looking proud of her root. That's more like it

[@ProjectElf]

lol when i was in australia n speaking singlish....all the locals would ask me "are u speaking english??" xD

[@javier6465]

Typically, when Singaporean use "What you talking" is the person already "Dulan" (irritated or impatient). lol

[@egemix894]

still not very dulan or else become "Gong sia siao"

[@xx_snugglebear_xx1648]

The rest of the world needs to understand that we pronounce most of our T’s as D’s in Australia Butter is pronounced as ‘buDDa’

[@CarlosSanchez-bv5fj]

Could you do the same with Spanish speakers? 💪🏽😼

[@kennyzeng21]

I can understand South African English more than Australia's. From Singapore

[@h.m.5724]

Until you hear them say 'stishin' to mean station or 'thrain' for train

[@kennyzeng21]

@@h.m.5724 hmm........

[@GogoanJerry-ic4gq]

Wow I like American accents. American accent is my dream lol.

[@chris9879]

What's the matter in Singlish - Simi dai ji?

[@pulanesetswalo8278]

In South Africa we don't really use the word chips a lot we often say zimbas and we don't say what's the matter we say what's the matter now? If you want to say it softly we say what's Wrong

[@zizounina3617]

Is there any area to practice English in this community ?

[@ReggyTheBerryFerry]

Grace: The words are very short, and we speak them fast so… When she meets Singlish: Oh Mah GaWd

[@TnTedDE]

But it depends on what part of the US you are in! Regional dialect differ greatly!

[@connorcostello8204]

3:00 australia is actually just “scarnon” translates to “what is going on”

[@avrinrose5457]

Where is Malaysia?

[@fitrasucil]

I love you American

[@muffinandme1]

This was a lot of fun. I am Australian born and bred, but I am one of the small percentage who talk with a Received Pronunciation, or posh English if you like. Growing up I was forever being asked how long I had been in Australia.

[@SiilanPies]

Where did you grow up? I know anyone who spoke received where I grew up in QLD would have been teased constantly for sounding too pommie.

[@muffinandme1]

@@SiilanPies I was born in Frankston Victoria, but grew up in Canberra. My mother was a Queenslander growing up on the family farm outside of Kin Kin and in Brisbane. Her grandfather and my great grandfather was an old Etonian and I am guessing that is where it all started.

[@bri1085]

@@muffinandme1 whetted you go to school?apparently Received pronunciation isn't really spoken by English people but more people who went British International schools, so in England they stick out as well

[@nicoleleeman428]

Heres a fact in south africa in the local areas they say Awe if you know what i mean then cool

[@rachele6844]

Awe

[@ronnie2779]

3:00 in sg can be. ape ah sial. what u want, etc

[@xxuenii]

Tomato = toe meh toe Daughter = Doorter Hello = AYEE (like in the video) Whats the matter = Why? What happen? / Simi dai? Sorry to bother you = Paiseh ehh / sorri sorri / sorrly sorrly What are you talking about? = Huh? / What talking you / Simi sai?

[@Sky13Puput]

Where is the "ah" or "lah" at the back for singlish accent?😂 Been waiting for that one..

[@krazikatladi3729]

Hahaha! I thought it's gonna be like 'what talk you?

[@Nizam-l9p]

i am Born Singaporean 🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬❤❤❤

[@andzanizoe7802]

I feel proud as a South African

[@tseboremo3760]

Nigerian❤️ would've killed me 😂

[@jusufagung]

Important and impotent have a very different meaning. 😂

[@joelleang1997]

I am Singaporean so I know what Jo was going to say !!!