And we Indians focus more on our language.

Katulad ng anak ko hindi marunong magtalog at hindi rin alam kung anong word yan. Katulad ng maganda hindi niya alam ang meaning. Ang baba ng mga grades niya sa filipino.

kya it is also our duty to ensure na alam pa rin nila ang local language natin... iba rin kc ang bilinigual.. yun mga english speakers , bilib sila sa nkkpagsalita ng other language aside frm the local language...

@@Cris-bp6sknako po maam delikado yan. Malilimutan po ang ating wika at kultura ng mga hinaharap na mga kabataan. --> masaya may ibang lenguwahe kang alam bukod sa English. Kasi dito sa amerika ay malaya naming napaguusapan ang mga tao sa harapan nila nang di nila nauunawaan ang aming mga sinasabi. Kunwari may mabahong kano sa Tren, sasabihin namin "tangina lakas ng anghit netong kano na to. Nakakasulasok ang amoy" Pagsabihan nio anak nio. ayan di nila nauunawaan hahaha

@@Cris-bp6skthat’s where u come in, same with my nephew but the reason is no one talks to him in Filipino and for ur son no one in ur house I assume push him to speak in Tagalog as this generations first language is KZfaq or KZfaq university the problem is including my sister and bro in law they didn’t talk to him in Tagalog at all thinking he’ll get confused and no one really teaches parents that kids can learn and absorb 4 languages simultaneously specially since born up to they become a teenager and up. While my other nephew is fluent in Tagalog and English coz his parents never talked to him in English only Tagalog coz he already learned English from KZfaq and netflix cartoon movies and my nephew speak to him in English so he is bilingual and it boils down to parents not the child. Now that bilingual kid is in elementary school so he’s learning the proper grammar, reading, speaking, spelling in Tagalog and English. And in the future his advantage over my nephews who only understands and speaks English is way way way more than the kids like urs and my nephews and nieces and cousins who lives in the Philippines and USA and Canada. We’re not at the peak of globalization and the kids abroad are multilingual usually bilingual but many are multilingual speaking and understand 3 or more languages and that’s a skill and an advantage when it comes to the future.

Even if the show or movie is in Filipino language I still tend to read the English subtitle 🤣

​@@AsianSP😂

exactly, you got the point!

True mahaba pagtagalog ang sub.

Why is this so true? 😂

Indians are critical thinkers to which flips aren’t. Indian accent is undeniably thick but they freely speak their minds to the disadvantage of flips that are timid and keep their opinions to themselves.

That's true. Their vocabulary is good.

​@@gardenrxpert6573"flips"?

True. I can mimic indian accent perfectly hahaha. I usually used it when my customer is indian. Haha sorry india. I am just a happy persom hahahlha.

I think I agree this. part of the reason why Indian have this is because we feel a need to express ourselves freely in language we speak. So, first thing we do is expand our vocab and try to speak everything that comes in the mind in English. This is something which I did. Yes, accent is important but that's the secondary to thing. First thing is fluency and ability to speak your mind in the language. IDK why it is so for us Indians, but its like this for most people.

before you come at me, I am filipino btw

I had tears in my eyes reading this coz this is genuinely so warm , thanks , I’m a south Asian and it’s honestly quite rare to see an acknowledging / appreciating American 💜much love.

@@archangelmichael8209 💜 to you! I’ve met and know of a lot of South Asians, who are some of the most brilliant human beings I know.

Because we were occupied by the Spaniards for more than 300 yrs and US almost 50 years, that's why..

english is part of the curriculum of the filipino students... so as a filipino that study english in public or private school is embarrasing if you cant speak even a little understanding on it.... on this generarion... just imagine our ancestor can speak fluent english even not studying before cause of the colonozition of american... they adopt...

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ᜋᜌ꠸ᜇ̥ᜂ̥ᜅ꠸ ᜆᜌ̥ᜅ꠸ ᜊᜌ꠸ᜊᜌ̊ᜈ꠸

thanks captain obvious@@sameensantiago

The colonisers are used to the idea that their colonies like ti impress them

What if you're applying for a job like in The BPO Industries, call centers🤔😁🤔?

​@neptunefog6082 There's no one from the UK on the panel, so no colonizers here

@@jvaish Americans, English and European behave like colonists towards the rest of the world and rank the slaves” ability to speak their high language

is it needed to impress the english natives speakers? Who says? Why? Love ur own language !!!!! Dont mind the grammar and the accent as long as you understand each other that’s the most important thing!

hahaha. Not so in Australia or probably in UK. They have different brand of spoken English.

@@burgundyhome7492 I am not familiar about Australia, but I was also sent to our London office to TRAIN my colleagues there (a huge international law firm) and I managed superbly! In fact, they were also blown away by the way I speak in English considering I am of Asian descent. FYI, I’ve been speaking in English since I was in the Philippines. Think UP graduate and not Taglish. I suppose Australian English is inferior because of your thick accent?!

Not really, though. If you really travel to the Philippines, most people can only understand basic English which they would stutter when speaking.

Same thing here. I'm a Filipino and I went to work in Beijing as a teacher for an international school where a great number of its faculty were native English speakers. In my first 2 weeks, I never noticed that they all thought I was American. They only found out I was Filipino when they saw me interacting in Tagalog with another Filipino teacher. But even then they assumed I grew up in the US. When I asked one of my American friends why, he said it's my accent, diction, and fluency. I understood and used a lot of American idioms and was quick to grasp the context in our conversations. It also didn't help that I didn't have the typical features most foreigners would associate as Filipino, nor the accent. I was a bit flattered, not gonna lie, but I also felt bad and annoyed. I kept insisting I grew up IN the Philippines and that we're actually good English speakers.

@@andreamenosa6609 Thank you for sharing your story. That’s amazing! It’s funny though that there are certain people commenting here who do not believe our story. Typical crab mentality. Or simply enviousness (I bet they can’t even spell that!). Anyway, let me share a really funny story. One time, I met a guy who sarcastically said to me: “I thought the Filipinos live in nipa huts.” Without batting an eyelash, my response was: “Yes, some of us still do, but we now have elevators!” 🤣 😂😊 My best regards.

I know as an American, I have never had an issue understanding a Filipino person, perhaps save for the occasional elderly person who might speak softly or struggle for the right word. And while there has always been a tinge of an accent, Filipinos seem to know more everyday language and slang -- it's not the textbook language.

@@DeveusBelkan Totally agree!!!

I hate english in scholl but i learnd from holly movie ,,,now i can communucate western ,like canadian ,australian hahhahaha but struggle asometimes thier accent

Everybody has an accent. It doesn't matter as long as you can communicate and understand one another. I like the sound of the butchered english.😂✌️

Always USA thinks..😂😂😂

We can't really compare apples to oranges. Singapore is a tiny island nation with a small population. So definitely their education system can reach more people quickly. The Philippines has more than 120 million people scattered over 7,000 islands. Not all are accessible by modern education and technology. Therefore, the quality of education will not be the same in all areas. Thus those living in large urban areas have the the privileges of receiving better education (including English), while those in small, remote barangays may not get the same quality of education. Thus its not really a fair comparison. Maybe compare Singapore and Hong Kong, or Philippines and Indonesia.

​@@goingplaces2274tell that to the owner of the channel. 😂

live* in the rural areas

Plus the fee to learn English from a Filipino English Teacher is cheaper

Are you that smart to judge people?

Why don't u try!?

😂

Cause America is part of the world? Also, ENGLISH is the global language. So, obviously, an American or a British person would sit on one end to talk about english. Like, what did you want? A Filipino ranking Asian countries' Tagalog accent??

​@@_Pixelated 90% of their videos feature Americans sitting a noticeable separate distance from everyone else, as if to imply that Americans are 'default' and any other nationality is 'alternative'. IMO it's very cringey, and defeats the purpose of this channel. There's 20+ countries that speak English natively: Ireland, South Africa, a host of Caribbean countries, etc. Why not use any of these nationalities for a change?

​@@cherriepieI agree. It has always been " American was shocked by other languages". I hope they come up with knowledgable videos. Instead of repeatitive stereotypes and differences between US and UK english.

@cherriepie ..Bro I understand you ..but anyways the Americans can only speak 'English' 😹 unlike us Asians who have plenty of languages within each country:)

Indians are very smart I’m actually amazed because they know all the company policy.

agree most of the time when people from India spoke to me it's very easy to recognized them. that person is from India and I could tell most of them are smart when it comes to computer tech.

India is number 1 in scamming old people in america by hacking their computer and bank accounts

No offense- if someone calls me with Indian accent I just feel not safe- I think of SCAMMERS

India surpassed the Philippines in the BPO industry now. I thank all the wonderful and generous Indian agents who helped me with my calls when I called them in the Billing Section. They are very patient and they are very respectful and extend more help to me even if I didn't ask for it. I learned a lot of technical solutions from them even if I struggled sometimes to understand some of them but they are very kind.

India is sometimes good English but the different is their Accent Fluent in English is not so Good and not easy to understand, I am a seafarer from the Philippines I work in the ship for 8 years I am a chief mate in cargo ship, we are different countries in this ship, some is Indonesian, Malaysian and some is Indian we only 4 Filipino here, but most of the promotion ask an officer of the ship is came from Philippines, since the shipping company believed that we are good leadership and also good english accent.

@Raymund38TVM the males in our family mostly opted to become a seaman. I have 1 uncle who retired, and 1 became a captain of a cargo ship. 4 cousins and 1 still studying to become a seafarer. Ingat po sir!

Mr. Bean cant talk

hahaha agree😂😂 pahamak talaga tong si mr bean😂

Didn't jose rizal claimed himself as malay?

@@boboboy8189 Maybe Rizal although he is Filipino, he considered as Pride of Malay Race

He didn't claim that he is a Malay but he wants every single Filipino to go back as Malay like pre-colonial era where the land of the Philippines consists of people like Malay, Chinese, Taiwanese and more. If he succeeded with his plan back then, then there will be no Filipinos just Malays living in the Philippines in modern world.@@boboboy8189

Uncle Sam is also a former British Colony

@@Alpha_Online Yep 😊😊

Filipina using US english

I have a Filipino neighbour and sometimes I'm surprised that they don't know some common words. But yeah, they speak it really fluently and very easy to understand. I'm from Hong Kong and we're the opposite. We try to learn really difficult words but many people can't speak it fluently and stutter a lot. (And missing articles, missing plural, inconsistent tense. But I gave up)

Well, you have a point. But in the US, grammar is not a thing to be concerned of as long as you are understood. 😁

@@vanzealotbush2244 True.

Most of us are employed in call centers or work as ESL teachers; hence, it is possible to acquire these skills..

Absolutely 😂

Mismo

La misma. ❤

Remember Filipino language can be quite sassy, full of cussing or curse words and savage 😂

opo lahat letra sa PINOY ay nabbigkas d tulad ng chinese,korea and japan meron isa letra nawawala hirap sa pagbigkas

I'm Filipino, as well, but proficiency wise, let's give it to Singapore.

@@bryx170Well? For a tie breaker, she should have them sing in English and then the true winner will be clear.

@@bryx170Well? For a tie breaker, she should have them sing in English and then the true winner will be clear.

@@MG77740 valid point. But once Filipinos sing, they lose their accent.

@@bryx170 Yes, so funny. My daughter in law’s father had a hard time communicating with me but could sing like the reincarnation of Elvis Presley. I told him that and he had a good laugh.

How do you explain the older generations who can't speak English in Singapore?

@@tevikumares5022back then education in Singapore was not the best. Students were sent to schools where same ethnic grounds were attending.

Nope. That still doesn’t explain why because nearly 30 percent of the Singaporeans speak English as their first language according to the data 2020

Agree!! This Singaporean girl doesn't sounds like a true-bred Singaporean 🤪

It should be Philippines to come first because of a perfect accent & Singaporean should be in second because the accent ..very bad accent

And Singapore was poorly represented 😂

Tama. Ang daming mga Pilipino, lalo na mga nasa lower class, no offense, mahina talaga sa English. Di rin naman nila kasalaman dahil karamihan walang proper education. Sa Singapore, on average, regardless of economic social class, fluent sa English.

Singapore accent is Chinese .

​@@jrexx2841De lhat Singaporian fluent in English base on my experience i have been in SG hirap intindihin .but yun younger gen.yes

True, the way they construct their grammar is more complex in my opinion. Filipinos has an advantage of having a neutral accent but it is more simplified. But most kids in the Philippines nowadays tend to learn conversational English first before Filipino so this might change in the near future

@@ShaqItGood problima din sa pinas mhina tayo sa comprehension at grammar kc karamihan youngter ngayong tamad mg aral unlike sa SG talagang dibdiban yun pag aaral nila.

Oh, I am from Turkey. Yes, in our country so many people don't speak English or don't understand %100 of English. There are so many reasons behind of that. Like, we haven't been under colonisation. And our education system only make us learn grammar, not make us speak well. And people are just being shy for speaking though they know English. Sometimes they think their accent is cringe and people can make fun of that but this is really not necessary cuz we are not native English speaker it is extremely normal that we speak like non-native. So I can speak English some even though my sentences (I am writing these sentences by myself now) are not the best, it really improves me a lot. So I am happy about my accent and it's development.

As a filipino native tagalog,. Based on living here.. the person that has the thick accent, mostly are trilligual,. Their mothertongue, Filipino , and English.. so yeah.. even if theyre speaking Tagalog, the native tagalog speaker would recognize the accent.., so if before Make fun of the accent.. try to have a 2nd 3rd or all the languanges . Most people that criticize are monolinguals.

Be proud of your accent keep it it’s your identity.❤

@@hovengutierrez2914be proud of your accent keep it it is your Identity.

Huh! American colonized the Philippines w/in 48yrs hehehe are you studied in communist school?...

Also depends on the age and sometimes if you are from the province or city even if you are from the northern Islands or down south I think :) Also I hear many English words spoken BUT they have a very different 'meaning' than what the word means to English speaking visitors to the Philippines. I did see an interesting video where they went to the streets and asked passerby's to ONLY speak in Filipino/Tagalog and not many could do that .They always went back to Taglish when trying to answer the questions :):):):)

That's what I'm saying. The quality in english proficiency in Filipinos varies unlike in Singapore where English is used in their daily life. Filipinos have a better accent though in my opinion.

@@jacers14 oh yeah..For people who are residing in the upper-class village their mother tongue is English and their second language is Filipino. It is based on my personal experience as a Filipino teacher for a year in a school within a village.

​@@jazelynruela5266, Here in Ifugao, even poor learned english from their mother...

in malaysia were forced to learn english malay and chinese if we go to a chinese primary school at just the age of 4

@@YiHangZhu-rn2bq we are not forced in the Phil but its part of the education system and the government

Tanda mo na lolo. Five or ten cents? Piso na minimum dito at wala na din kwenta dahil sa kabobohan nyong iboto si Marcos hahaha

If I remove every other letter in what you just wrote, I can hear your Malaysian accent 😂😂😂

Exactly, accent is our identity

totally agree..just came from there Malaysia is indeed truly Asia!

BUNAL ato na 😂😂😂😂

Furthermore, we studied British English and not American English like the Philippines did.

Singaporean people has lost their own identity. They tried their best to sell their soul to British but still Britain did not recognize them.

Thank god they replaced the American koolaid token Indian

Did you say US lady Brooke is pretty cool! I would say she's very pretty and pretty beautiful as well ✌️❤️✌️!!!

She’s such a poor representation of how Singaporeans speak English. She pronounces the words in such a weird manner and not how Singaporeans would say it. The blue shirt speaks more like a Singaporean than her.

Lol she's just a typical clueless American.

As a Hong Konger, I think the English proficiency of Singapore must be better than Hong Kong since Singaporean use English in daily life, and whereas Hong Kong use english as second language in general. Also, there are heavy migrants from southern China to Hong Kong which can eliminate the proficiency of Hong Kong

Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time. Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them). Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. 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Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad). Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning! Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures. Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement. It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them. (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).. God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.” (2:136 / Translated by Community) Salam (Peace) --------------------------------

You are soo right. We want to make our guests comfortable. Because of watching Kdramas I tend to speak Korean to Koreans but I noticed that they do not appreciate it. They'd rather that you speak to them in English.

It's now people pleasing character 😂

​@@haruharu380huh??

Hindi rin. Most Filipinos are not fluent in English. They can speak and write in basic English but not fluently. Aminin mo na.

As a Singaporean, i concurred. There are 3 points to take-away & note : 1. The selected representations may not be from each of the Countries' Averages. 2. The personality of each individual influences her speech fluency, coherent and depth of articulation or expression. 3. The yard-stick in this instances is based on an American South Speaker's perspective, rather from the British standard, and Language Origin. So, we still needed to get a widely researched data, mainly from an International Audiences and Researchers' perspective, rather than from the American POV.

World ranking said that Singapore place world 2nd in English speaking

I agree to your points to a certain extent. But there is nothing to concur to. 1. True. But the previous commentater is stating that our representative knows that her proficiency in English is not as good as the average SGean and the other representatives. That is why she apologised in the video. 2. This I don’t agree as stated by our representative, it depends on the upbringing of the individual. For example, if their family were immigrants, which generation they’re from. I’m gonna be in my 30s and some of my classmates only speak English with their family and their proficiency in their mother tongue is almost none. And if you listen to kids talk nowadays no matter what race, I’d say more than 90% of them are talking in English even if they’re of the same race. But our representative in this video sounds like she speaks her mother tongue more. Also the group of friends we hang out with affects our speech. There’s more for me to say but I feel like I’ve spent enough effort to think this more thoroughly and type this out. 3. I TOTALLY AGREE on this point. No arguments here. Long story short, our English proficiency should be higher than in this video but at the cost of our own mother tongue. Our representative probably has a higher proficiency in her mother tongue which I hope her offsprings don’t lose

@@BatroSkywatcher Cos when we speak Chinese people say we from China… might self speak English sua…

@@BatroSkywatcher That is up to you as a parent to create the conducive environment to nurture both English and Mother Tongue then....Singapore is doing great at this point

true*

For real 😂 Me, I adopt the French accent when speaking English. Nakakainis😂

Yes, that's what i heard she said as well "signs and maps"!!!

It’s Math. Not “maths”. I am in Singapore and here we have largely switched to American English for many of the everyday words and spelling.

@@chaotiongsai "Maths" would be correct usage in keeping with Singapore's history. I know the youth find the "Amercan" accent and slang cool, but you're in danger of losing your identity.

@@chaotiongsai Malaysians use British English, hence Maths is correct

Not all Malaysians are Chinese.

Lol

Agree.

How so?

Nope

How? They can't even pronounce "Fiilipino" but instead "Pilipino" 🤣

And some of them who can speak English they are so Arrogant to their fellow Pilipino,i know alot they are so Arrogant

Yeah sad but true. 😔

Except, she was talking about the Malaysian girl. We don’t have articles in Malay. We don’t have gender, verb conjugation, plural form, tenses, etc too.

@@fab8490 oh I wasn't aware of that. I did make the assumption ignorantly, assuming malay and indonsian and many other south east asian languages evolved from proto-indo-european roots. I'll read more into it :)

But you are very POOR on analogy comprehension phrases standard grammar and vocabulary...

​@@josephlin4431 When it comes to grammar, we're very strict. But in terms of comprehension, we admit that, due to this reason that the government don't put much effort on improving the comprehension of the kids here in the Philippines.

I'm sorry don't ever call bicolano a dialect again

@@victorlarryesmenda2805 Bicolano is not a Dialect. People from Bicol called Bicolano or Bicolana like my mother ..

@@zensosa17 I meant bikol

I think it’s because she’s Chinese by birth

I know right? Like, totally! 😁

Nah we speak faster than the south out west

You're wrong. 15% of people living in America foreign born, the majority bilingual in English and Spanish, and then many other languages. And about 20% grew up with a parent speaking a non-English language to a certain degree. That's at least 1/3 of the population.

@@DankSiDepends on which part of the west. The US is so vast. Mountain west states (Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Utah) have a different culture from Pacific West and Southwest.

U say in the west of U.S, they speak very slow, followed by "Oh my God"? U may be surprised to know that in the countries where the 5 girls above are from, American English, whichever part of U.S they are from, is still too fast for us Asians.

From my experience with Singaporeans, they do speak very poor English. Why live in self denial. You guys are Asians right? It is perfectly understandable that English is not your birth language.

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Yes, but Singapore still has the best English compared to other countries in Asia. It's just the accent that sounds a bit weird. But in writing you can communicate everything because all subjects at school are taught in English, and English is everywhere. When I visited nobody had problems understanding English in Singapore, unlike other countries like Hong Kong, India and the Philippines.

@@geosophik9369 thanks. But the point of a language is to communicate. We may have better vocabulary compared to other Asian countries (which i actually dont think it's always the case), but it's useless if we can't make ourselves be understood. You highlighted that our education is taught in English and we have no problem understanding English, you're right but that's exactly tragic, cos we are taught in english yet fail to articulate verbally in English well enough for others to not have difficulties understanding us. If someone's language proficiency needs to be evaluated based on their writting skill (despite receiving it as a medium of education), i think chatGPT scores better than us Singaporeans, both in writing and in verbal articulation.😅

@@mono9196 I understand your point. Maybe this can make you feel better: here in the US, sometimes they put subtitles when a British person speaks, because many people have a hard time understanding a different accent. Especially when they have a Cokney or variant that is not the standard "royal high class" British.

@@geosophik9369 ah yes those can be challenging to understand for anyone who is not well exposed to their accents. But I believe most media these days put up subtitles in the same language as the spoken one not necessarily because of accents difference but rather because they are trying to make it more accessible for the hard-of- hearing? Anyway my actual point in my comments here are not entirely about accents, but more towards the suffocating Singaporeans' arrogance thinking we are so good while we fail to realize we are not actually that good.

She said "My mother tongue is Chinese"

@@tevikumares5022 don't get fooled by the subtitles. listen to her 🤣

I never get fooled by the subtitles because I said it based on what I heard and she just said it quicker than you think

Their accent is lot similar to thai Or Myanmar

Both cannot speak thier Mother language

​@@Kane_2001Who?

Kane stop being racist already

​@Kane_2001 both? I see 3 countries mentioned in this comment. Which 2 nations can't speak their own mother language? Malaysia has Malay, India has various languages (I only know Hindi, Tamil and Bengali), and Singapore is English but they also speak the languages from where their ancestors came from.

@@zennoix9984 most Chinese Sinkies are Teochews but don't speak Teochew.

Cheap labor. Pity Pinoys😢

​@@jetagha5140 The point was, the USA companies chose the Philippines as their customer representative and technical support in the call center industry because of English proficiency.

@@jetagha5140 Do not pity the pinoys, pity yourself instead by trying to make it bad for them.☺️

Native SPEAKERS do poorly in grammar and they would not have noticed that it's grammatically not correct

I give you advice, don't use English every day because of the experience of the Malaysian people now many who can't use their mother tongue because in school they are not required to learn Malay and now they have an identity crisis because young people in Malaysia are embarrassed to use their mother tongue, wait a few years for them to forget the history of their country

​@@andriokurniawanWe Filipinos not literellay used Engslih everyday. However, for example, most Filipinos are working in a call center so we use english in our workplace.

National language is filipino not tagalog.

National language is Filipino not Tagalog. Big difference

What language do you study in Filipino language at school? Isn't tagalog? What's the problem with that? Tagalog or Filipino. Not a big deal

Your right. But sometimes Asian countries like Korea loves to mock other countries because of how they speak english.

Explain her surname Quah which is only found in Singapore and Malaysian then? At least she speaks English better than many older generations of Singapore who can't speak English or even Singlish

When I was reading the subtitle I also found it really weird. And then I immediately realised. Because all of them talked about learning Science and Maths in English

That's because the subtitle is generated automatically and so because the Malaysian girl didn't pronounced the words properly

I thought we would learn those in Malay not English? I'm from Sekolah Kebangsaan fyi...

​@izanimelayumi I'm from smk. I remembered we have dwibahasa (English/ malay), but for our school all taught in English. I think it depends on time, as our education direction changes from time to time

Nobody really cares 😂

Lol. It just because we pronounce words syllabically that influence our accent or english.

Really? Try speaking singlish...

One year and you already know how to judge? So being educated in jurong primary school and grows up in Singapore is not good enough? Singapore is not that small actually and it is also very crammed too.

​@@tevikumares5022Not enough if u still sound like a foreigner. So haolian your primary school for what? U never pass to go Secondary school ah? That's why never say. 😂😂😂😂 Immigrant just admit lah u immigrant, u dont represent how we Singaporeans speak english! don't pretend then demand everybody to believe your lies ! 😂😂😂

I agree

At least you busted yourself here with your alter ego so who are you to accuse right now?

I think Indians add part of their culture to everything even in language, and it’s great that a person cherishes their culture anywhere in the world

Well I use to watch I.T related vdeos on youtube, and for the indian english I almost always needed subtitles. My experinece that Indian english is just horrible.

I've worked with lots of Indians and I've rarely had trouble understanding them. However I find it surprising that you say you learn it starting from grammar. While any Indian I've met has been fluent and has decent pronunciation, the grammar isn't really there. When you say "bunch of Indianisms", I think what you really mean is direct translations which make it broken English. For example Indians say "today morning", "I am agree", and "isn't it?" when it doesn't work, this isn't "Indian English", it's broken English. When Swiss people make mistakes we don't say they're speaking "Swiss English".

@@michaelsniknejs6326 He is talking about people who studied English in their school. Someone saying "I am agree" must have picked it up later. Majority of indians rarely need to speak english in india.

​@@michaelsniknejs6326well you're a a swiss and you're a perfectionist. I lived in Germany for few months and most of them act like their English is not very good but when they start speaking , you realize that their English is amazing. In India , people are happy when they are able to communicate. They don't spend too much time working on their accent , pronunciation, or grammar. And even our teachers have the same accent , pronunciation and grammar. That makes it difficult for us to know when we are wrong.

Singapore is delightful!