For real! I thought it was fairly instinctive. I guess I was wrong.

me dead yo 🤣

We actually ARE bilingual fren 😁

lmao nah same i always seh how mi wish mi coulda speak spanish bcs jamaican patois is so easy fi understand but this video proved me wrong 💀

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what does it mean in South Africa please???? I LOVE when we find our commonality! We are after all long lost relatives 🙂

It's more of an expression than a word. It has no meaning. It just adds to whatever you were saying

@@keletsongake2884 Yes! It's the same for us! I can't really explain what it means myself lol

@@keletsongake2884 cho normally appears before or after a negative comment, usually use to show frustration.

@@oranebrown2169 Yes and no, because Cho can also be used in conjunction with a swear word to express the surprise of all surprises, i.e Cho bumbo***!!

Must I tell u 😂😂

The second Jamaican is questionable Iv never seen that outfit since I was born in Jamaica and still in Jamaica

Lmao. Bless them. Rihanna? Work? 😂😂

as a jamaican i think this is borderline racist and stupid those arent real jamaicans

facts

I thought the same thing!

Where he from?

who is he? what's he known for?

I think he was in the "black or white" video of Michael Jackson

@@keesikay lol omg it does look like him

Honestly 🥲

When you have no clue what people are saying, it's always complex. Lmao.

I understood most of these, but I also did grow up around a lot of Jamaicans.

@@n25bast I did also and still barely understand. Idk what is it with me and accents. Even a person with a British accent I have a hard time understanding 🤦🏽‍♀️

Ikr

Same.

riiiiiight

@@illcon4829 happy emancipation day!🇯🇲

Dats bad.

Same

I hear that Ghana and Jamaica are very similar in culture .

@Rashad Bakshar Yes. Many Jamaican slaves were from Ghana. I think some also came from Nigeria.

We even have a village called Accompong where the Maroons live. They speak a version of Jamaican Patios that is very similar to the Akan language. There are some videos on KZfaq where Ghanaians visited Maroons from various Caribbean Islands and some South American countries, and they were able to speak to each other 🙂 We are family that has been separated and taught to hate each other. We have more in common than we do difference.

@@shaylataylor9525 Yes! According to my DNA I am almost 50% Nigerian. There is Accompong town and Abeokuta national park in Jamaica 🙂. I'm from Westmoreland where enslaved people were taken from Abeokuta in Nigeria.

I’m Ghanaian and Jamaican. I have to say there are so many similarities in culture.

Yes please, or vice versa either way

I wish someone could teach me! 😫

They would get them right cause they are almost similar

That wouldn't make sense

As a Jamaican myself I can assure you even I get lost with the similarities. So it would be great to see. I think Nigerians have an easier time with Patois. Both videos would be amazing to see.

You are absolutely correct lol

I'm from Barbados🇧🇧 and I nearly died laughing re: Rih reference 😂 tho technically "Rude Boy" is dancehall influenced.

That would have been hard for them

I wish I could like this comment a thousand times 😭😂

The fact they confused Sean Paul with Sean Kingston

some words are a bit understood, but the fast talking i have to listen slowly lol

Poor mi think dem understand wi😂

When I was in Jamaica I could somewhat get by but it was a struggle😂 some phrases are so close to English but some are completely different

Timely seeing these on my TL today the 1st ⚫️🟢🟡

ikr I said this just a while ago

❤

🇯🇲best mix🇹🇹👍🏾

Me too girl, 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

Sameeeee! 😂

I'm the opposite.... born and raised in the bronx ny...I caught that patois so perfectly...ppl ask me... where me come from inna Jamaica... all the time.... visiting...I look different... but they can't trick me FOR NOTHING!!! 🤣🤣🤣

this!!!!

Same but I'm from London lol, I can understand it but when I speak it back I sound dumb af

It was so cringe!!

How do you pronounce it?

@@SOULarLioness Patois, generally pronounced "pat• wa" by Jamaicans.

It hurt my soul each time 😭

@@SOULarLioness PAT-twa

Im from London but because of 85 south, I'm fluent

😭

what if they had DC or one of Face's homies on it

Oh. dear. GOD. 😂😂😂

😭😭😭

YES WE ARE 🙌🏽

we always a keep lol

i second this

Most is hyperbolic....

I've heard of this but sadly that is the reality of speaking a minority low prestige language, children don't want to learn it because they see it as backwards and adults don't want to teach it because they don't see it as economically beneficial. I saw this video of a Bocas del Toro Panamanian saying "Chico, hablame como los bomboclaat jamaicanos. Somos jamaicanos. A wi roots and culture" and it made me tear up that that was how he felt about the decline of hos language

It's like San Andrea Island in Colombia. Jamaicans were taken there. They speak patois mixed with Spanish

U Jamaican

Lol never mind your trini 😂😂😂

Hayyy not “ay”and gweh! not “gway”😉.

😂😂😂

@Rashad Bakshar Hmm, why do you think that is?

@Rashad Bakshar I really doubt it, I’m from Indiana and even the slang I use here other black ppl from different States don’t know what it means

@Rashad Bakshar just sounds like your biased towards foreign blacks then for black Americans

I think it would be fun there is still confusion between UK and USA English so guessing AAVE would be a roller coaster for foreign black people🤣

@Rashad Bakshar wait are you saying you think Non- American black people would understand aave better than we would understand the languages of foreign black people? because I could understand that but it's really because we don't care about the outside world. Black American culture is just very mainstream and American culture generally is very globally popular.

Except that they were talking something completely different from an accent. They were literally speaking mostly mesolectal Jamaican Patois (not deep patois). You can call it a dialect- something similar to a creole language. When the Jamaicans were speaking Standard English, that's the Jamaican accent. There is a difference between accent and dialect.

I wondered where I recognised him from!

Like they said, Mr Gunter had something personal. Those phrases were so specific lol

Same girl! Two of them got me!

The patois he speaks is what the old gen speaks, and is especially spoken among the elderly who reside in the countryside.

Yea it depend on what part u come from like the first lady was saying. As someone from Clarendon, I grew up hearing and understood everything that man said 😂😂😂😂

I always find it amazing how close Belizean Kriol is to Nicaraguan creole where my family is from.

You sound the closest to Jamaicans

Yeassss!!!! Big up Belize!!!

🇧🇿 🇧🇿 🇧🇿 🇧🇿 🇧🇿

Ur creole is copy of jamaican patois. And its getting better as the year progress.

trueeee

Yes !

You are right! Her translation was off 🤣

Wow! Bad intentions is also badmind in Nigerian pidgin or “bad ting fo mind” interesting..

Crassis makes me think of crisis which kinda works 🤔

Ohhhhh! I thought he looked familiar. The Raiden hat threw me off. Yessir, Marked for Death. He got his ass beat in the fragrance department.

I instantly recognized him from the Michael Jackson "Black or White" video 🤣🤣

I was wondering if anyone would notice him. Just looked it up and he’s 75! He looks amazing!

I remember him. He’s been in nearly tv show I saw in the ‘90s.

@@RickyJ718 yesssss 😂😂😂😂 arm broke and all

FACTS! #ProudJAMERICAN 💪🏽🇯🇲🤎✨

Mn look straight out of a anime 💀

When I saw the thumbnail, I thought he was a caricature of an actual person.

The beard was confusing

@@krystingrant6292 😂😂 it’s not centered correctly

Lots of Guyanese use Jamaican patois from what they hear in dancehall music. Naturally the patois r very different.

Guyanese people does sounds like Jamaican people

@@trinabelle guyanese do NOT sound like Jamaicans! #1 no 2 creoles naturally sound alike. #2 no other people naturally sound like Jamaicans. This is KZfaq! NEVER have Jamaican patwa n Guyanese Creole sound similar much less alike!

@@trinabelle being 🇯🇲🇬🇾, they do not sound alike.

@@Girlforaction yes, they do... To me they do

Lmaoooo

😂😂😂😂

I was thinking the same thing!!!!!

Don’t kill me 🤣

Hey you teach me I teach you

Lol I died at that part 😭

The embarrassment as a caribbean person

Well, wasn't she appropriating Jamaican culture? Like Dancehall & all that stuff lol idk.

@@mustardmillionare no because she is from Barbados and they also have a patois. Plus Soca ❤️❤️

@@Talisa3636 i dont know what ur talking about, she DID use Jamaican patois. She hardly ever used her bajan creole

Yeeees my Mississippi grandma talks similarly. I was shook at how much I knew too!

Wow, that’s amazing! I learn something new about the Afro diaspora every day.

That southern patois is strong. My ex husband used to always have to translate for me 🥴😹😹

Sure did! My great granny is from Kentucky. It was definitely written off as uneducated, but it also wasn't easily understandable. I hate that the "speak proper" b****a**ness stripped a lot of us from that

Big up yuh damn self! 🇯🇲

🇬🇾🇯🇲🇬🇾🇯🇲 best mix

Guyana is not the Caribbean.

@@slimthickaz. , it IS culturally Caribbean (not geographically) and also part of Caricom. You didn't learn that in primary school?!

@@jamdawgutube County in South America. The Caribbean is islands so no its not.

@@slimthickaz. , can you read or NOT? Did you not read that I said that the country is not GEOGRAPHICALLY located in the Caribbean, (BUT) it's CULTURALLY and HISTORICALLY Caribbean?! Guyana's history and culture more closely align with the other English-speaking Caribbean countries, not the other countries in South America. Guyana is the only English-speaking country in South America! That is why, for example, Guyana is a part of CARICOM (Caribbean Community). Guyanese can travel/move freely within the other CARICOM countries. Their passport has the CARICOM seal on it. If they decide to attend the University of the West Indies, their tuition would be subsidized because their government is a contributing country. They sit the same regional exams (the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination) as the other Caribbean nationals. It's the same thing with Belize- a country that is geographically located in Central America but is culturally considered a Caribbean/CARICOM country. Belize is also the only English-speaking country in Central America. You should be paying me for this lesson! Please do your research BEFORE you proffer another response!

Thats so annoying

Ok that's what I thought. Us country folks be like woo woo woo 🤣

@@juxtaposebeauty247 haha I have heard (and used) tar tar tar but that one is angrier in my opinion

Exactly👆🏾

I’ve heard Rae tae tae as etc

I’ve heard Rae tae tae as etc

She meant Jamaican patois has contributions from the different people groups that have come to the island inclusive of the Indians , Chinese and and even German in certain parishes with a German population like seaford town in st Elizabeth

@@kareemismail8654 She said the language "ORIGINATED from...". Like I said no one Is in doubt that other groups of people have since immigrated to the country and been exposed to the language founded by once enslaved African-Jamaican ancestors but which contributions have the Chinese and Indians for e.g made to the language? Don't try to whitewash my history. I know those of Indian and Chinese heritage are not White but the anti Black sentiment of trying to erase factual Black history is.

@@az1infin268 i Thought i was the only one vexed and perplexed about that part! I was like "HUUUUH"?? "COME AGAIN MY GIRL"????

@@amandawilliams8708 I was disgusted and shocked Mandy Star, to think I was nyaming my food at the time, her disrespectful idiocy left a bitter taste... I mean, how did she just fabricate a whole origin story like that, especially when the actual origin has so much Black struggle, pain and ultimate victory attached. How disrespectful to the ancestors and all that they went through in creating the language. Cocoa butter should have fact checked her but I can see how they too would not have imagined she would come and make up something so ignorant and anti Black.

@Burp The European enslavers forcefully tried to strip the Black African people of their African identify and culture (knowledge especially of self is power). The European colonisers tried to violently forbid the African people from speaking their African languages etc, forcing them to only speak English and other European languages. The colonisers were stupidly mistaken though because the Black African people were so resourceful that they used it all to create their own language that the enslavers couldn't understand, so they could plan uprisings amongst themselves. "overseers"? Bereft, barbarics you mean. Call them what they truly are. As Kwame Ture says "Black Africans civilized Europeans" and the Black Jamaican language is a part of that, as it originated from Black people's resourcefulness in the fight for liberation against European Barbarism.

A good resource on the history of Jamaican patois, is Miss Lou - she's passed now, but there's a bunch of videos on KZfaq etc. She used to be a children's educator/entertainer (amongst many other things) - she uses a lot of humour in her work, also, songs/nursery rhymes etc For example, one of the main sources/influences for Jamaican patois is the African language "Twi". Hope this is at least somewhat useful.

@@alpachinko9154 Miss Lou actually misattributed a lot of things to Twi. The only thing that comes to mind right now is when she said pinda is Twi when it's Kikongo. But I know there were other instances

Gyal. Saint Catherine. Nice. From near Spain. Well, near Spanish Town.

I'm from Old Harbour too, Bowers to be exact

What part are u from? That is most likely the reason lol

@@AckeeandSaltfish st James

Yesss 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹

If they use our trini trini words, nobody will catch it Not even the other Caribbean people