It's true that the word 'lepak' is derived from Malay. But the Singaporean might have misunderstood its real meaning since Malay isn't her mother tongue. 'Lepak' doesn't mean 'to rest', at least in Malaysia. It means to hang around somewhere, while not doing something important or meaningful, usually to just kill time. For example if you're a student and your class ends and you don't want to go home still, you can 'lepak' with your friends in a mall, or a cafe. I wouldn't say I wanna 'lepak' in my own room after a tiring day at work, since it doesn't mean to rest. 😊

Im so glad the filipino girl refered to our languages as languages and not dialects! It kinda annoys me that people say theyre dialects 😭 i love the way she explained how we speak English too! Its pretty accurate :)

I liked this Filipina, she’s well informed.

As a Hongkonger born after the handover, I think I use both British and American pronunciation/wording. I really don't know which word/pronuciation refers to British/American English. This might be due to the influence of both British and American English on the Internet. And some books nowadays don't always use British English.

Lepak is a urban term in Malay that means to hangout, mostly to waste time or just meet friends with no objective at all. But sometimes we also use it to mean "relax" when someone its worked up over something, but it has to had an extender "Lepak Lah". So to just rest is not the definition of Lepak

In India we use brinjal because that was brought to us by the Portuguese...we also use ananas for Pineapple because of the same reason! And we definitely use petrol station...no one says gas in India...its always petrol!

Finally, we have an accurate Filipino representative..good job girl.👍

The Singaporean girl must be second 2nd generation mainlander Chinese or even mainland Chinese that grew up in Singapore from young. She just has that look that is very different from a typical Singaporean Chinese female,I just know it

theyre so respectful and nice to each other, i love this :)

Malaysian and Singapore accents are sometimes hard to tell apart if you exclude the local words such as "la, lepak" "haiya" "ok la". I was born and raised in Malaysia, live in Singapore for awhile - some people would say I sound like a Malaysian, others would say Singapore so if I'm on the show people are going to have a hard time guessing my country of origin lol😅

India doesn't have national language anymore ..we have 22 official languages

I like this group of ladies learning about each others language. It's exactly how I enjoy meeting new people from different countries. I work with Filipinos, Indians, Singaporeans, Malaysians, Indonesians, French, China and I'm used to meeting different people from different countries. My closest friends are Burmese and Norwegian. 😅

"The architecture is real glass. Really real glass." LMFAO. She said WORLD-CLASS. What's wrong with the transcribers? 🤣

The term "comfort room" or CR, originally used in the United States, has been a part of Philippine English for over a century. Its earliest report was in the Santa Fe Daily New Mexico, which defined it as "a room in a public building or workplace furnished with amenities such as facilities for resting, personal hygiene, and storage of personal items (now rare); (later) a public toilet (now chiefly Philippine English)." Despite the term's disappearance in the US, we continue to use it in our daily conversations. Regarding gas stations, Filipinos refer to them as "gasoline stations." Although some may shorten it to "gas station," the former is the more commonly used term.

I know she's really curious how filos pronounce "honest" since we pronounce salmon with "L", but I really laughed hard 😂😂😂

Jing’s English is not representative of Singapore English

I've never in my life seen gas being used in India. We say petrol pump throughout.

Ph 🇵🇭 accent is very noticeable, you can quickly distinguished by just a single word when they speak. clear and thick indeed. when it comes to the accent and pronunciation, Ph dominate among all these nationals and Singapore dominated as English fluency and proficiency. English speaking countries particularly in Asia developed differently due to a variety of factors such as the languages and dialects (mother tongue) they speak in a nocertain regions. like she said, in India their English accent and pronunciation varies according to regions they live in and the dialect used

The Singapore one like… abit…. Not right leh…. Not actual Singlish accented, but more like how a foreigner would learn to speak that. In fact, her China accent is incredibly strong.

Of all the representatives that I've seen from the PH, I think Anikanov explained things about the PH the best. :) 👏👏

Nice to watch this batch of reps, quite knowledgeable. Good job guys!

This filipina girl is by far the best ph representative I've seen from all these kinds of videos. That's the perfect "Philippine English" right there. Also, I love how she's very well-informed.

This channel impressed me so much. ❤

I don't know where Jing is from, but I had a couple of Singaporean friends before and she does not sound like a Singaporean. My friend's English is a lot more... clear, for a lack of a better word. She sounds jumbled. Is she one of those people who gets tongue tied when she's nervous, maybe?

You guys should do days of the week, months, counting, how they address strangers (in Singapore, people call then Aunty or Uncle. In the Philippines it's ate(big sister) or kuya(big brother)), how they address family members (in the Philippines, we call our aunts or uncles as Tita or Tito but we also call friends of our parents as Tita or Tito.)

Filipino language somehow is a genderless language where pronouns do not have a classified gender. For example, the pronoun siya (she/her, he/him, they/them) can be used to refer to anyone regardless of gender. That is why most Filipinos usually find it challenging using 'she' and 'he' when conversing.

Out of all the Filipinos I've seen in videos like this, she is by far the most Filipino sounding. But I hope in other videos, someone would point out that we also roll our Rs and that we don't usually flap our Ts

I've never heard anyone calling it eggplant in Malaysia until recent years due to influence of Hollywood movies. we always call it brinjal. aubergine is never used and I think most people wouldn't know 😅

"Comfort Room" is actually an American term. The US brought it to the Philippines when the Ph was part of the US. The term is no longer used in the US (at least I haven't ever heard it here), but lives on the Philippines.

Finally a well represented Philippines.. she was correct 100%

I think it's cool that these countries learn a lot of languages from childhood. Here in the USA, you'll mainly just have English, even if you're a 1st generation born to immigrant parents. You have to make a really conscious effort to teach your children another language here.

In india they say petrol pump not gas station i never hear someone who say gas station

Philippines was the only one among them that was never part of the British Empire, so I actually expected more similarities between them and the US (of which it had been a colony. Yes, I know the US says Unincorporated Territory, but tom-ay-to, tom-ah-to)

Ate Ms. Philippines I love you for representing us so well!

the Singaporean doesn’t even sound like a local Singaporean…

1)India doesn't have national language. Hindi is most spoken language in India but its not a national language. India has 22 official languages(Hindi, Sanskrit, Marathi, Punjabi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati, Assamese, Urdu, Dogri, Bodo, Maithili, Manipuri, Sindhi, Nepali, Kashmiri, Odia, Santali and Konkani). 2)She is right about learning three languages but its not in every school or even in every regions like in many southern states people don't learn Hindi, just their mother tongue and English. But indians has one more common language other than English i.e. sign language 😂 3)Brinjal is forever😂 Eggplant i never see anyone saying until recent years but still not among general public 4) We don't say gas station but petrol pump 5)We use toilet too besides bathroom(its actually used for rooms to take shower or bath but sometimes for toilet purposes too)and washroom

We also call eggplant as brinjal in Malaysia.

Malaysia 🇲🇾 and Singapore 🇸🇬 are basically in the same space and many people from these countries switch with the other , hearing both I can't tell any difference , Hong Kong and Philippines i can hear the differences easier

growing up in Malaysia in the 80s, I heard the terms Lepak and Lego, which lepak means "let's park" or let's hang out or let's chill, and lego means "let go or let's go", eg. "lego2!" in soccer means to tell your teammate to let go of the ball to him, or to leave the place.

im a singaporean and i can't tell that the third lady is singaporean lol

Singaporean here and we use LEPAK and we meant to hangout and chill somewhere.

In malaysia, brinjal is also used for eggplant 🍆. Terung is used in Malay for eggplant.

"Comfort Room" is old American slang from the early 20th century that fell out of favor in the US, but survived in the Philippines. It is originally American.

I’m glad they chose Hazeline to represent M’sia as she’s well traveled and speaks well. Brinjal 🍆 is widely used in both SG M’sia, to a lesser extent egg plant but people do still understand if either is used. M’sia and SG are the most similar, tough to differentiate, while the Filipino, Indian and HKong accent were the easiest to identify. Interesting video!

Galing ni ate gurl! Bongga!

Why 🇸🇬 girl sounds different😅 Mabuhay from 🇵🇭🙂

Pretty sure Anika (PH) said she wanted to go back to Singapore because the architecture is “world class”, not “real glass” as the subtitle says 😂

Im Malaysian, n i really love to hear Philipine Tagalog.

finally may filipina nang guest na maganda at bata bata

Jing really doesn’t sound like most Singaporeans that I’ve met 😅 Hazeline does sound like many Singaporeans and Malaysians because people from these two countries are very similar to each other. Like what I’ve guessed before, this is probably because Jing speaks with exclusively Chinese-speaking friends and family members while Hazeline probably has a more diverse circle being a former flight attendant. The subtitles are inaccurate, it’s not “boring” but “bo liao”in Hokkien. “Lepak” actually means more like “to hang out” in Malay. BTW “brinjal” is used in Malaysia and Singapore as well, I don’t know why Jing and Hazeline didn’t mention it. Maybe they’re to bougie to go to a mamak stall and order brinjal curry 😁

India does not have a national language, but it has 22 official languages. Yes, we tend to learn three languages as we grow up

Finally a good representative from Philippines 😊

When speaking with foreigners, Filipinos feel it is difficult to build sentences, and there are words in the Philippines that have an easy-to-remember English term, and Taglish may also be popular now I think.

When I was in the Philippines when I was younger, I had a family friend ask me where the "CR" was .. I really didn't know what that was until I eventually knew he meant toilet .. Looking back, I wonder how much longer did this guy have to hold his shit in before he got an answer out of me !! And if someone gets food poisoning, its not really a "comfort room", is it ? ..

In India, We don’t say gas station, we say petrol pump.

Oh my gosh Hazeline! I follow her KZfaq Channel and she’s amazing! The fact that she used to juggle being a flight attendant and her studies. Serious respect for her. Loved this video!

Nowadays filipinos were more comfortable speaking TAGLISH😉🤗❣️🇵🇭

In filipino, we tend to pronounce english words in their spanish pronunciation if the English & Spanish equivalent is almost the same Like February, we tend to pronounce it like the spanish Febrero, or telephone we tend to pronounce it like telefono

In the Philippines, we pronounce every letter for words who have a local counterpart/version, otherwise we pronounce it with an American accent ...

The most neutral English accent is the lady from the Philippines.

in Philippines different language we called it hiligaynon.the meaning of lepak is thunder

My children could speak English well because they like to watch British cartoons since small, like to watch Harry Porter and King Arthur tv series. All of them finish reading the 7 volumes of Harry Porter Books before going into secondary schools.

“In America we say cu-pon” me who lived in Philly the first 5 years of my life and still lives in the suburbs of Philly “uh it’s Q-Pon”

14:32 CR or comfort room was a term originally used in the United States with the Oxford English Dictionary noting that its earliest report was in the Santa Fe Daily New Mexico and the word’s original meaning, “a room in a public building or workplace furnished with amenities such as facilities for resting, personal hygiene, and storage of personal items (now rare); (later) a public toilet (now chiefly Philippine English).” The Americans brought the term over and while its use, linguistically, disappeared in the United States we’ve kept it for more than a century now.

Yes in the philippines we dont say bathroom if there is no shower to bath 😝😝😝 made sense, instead we call it CR comfort room

Such cute women especially the women from Singapore and Philippines...I loved the way the Philipina was dressed but they all looked exactly like dolls

All 5 Asian girls speak English proficiently (no broken grammar). It all comes down to accent. The thicker the accent, the harder to understand but these girls' English accents are clear enough.

Brinjal is common in India, and we don't say 'gas station' if you say nobody would understand, we use 'petrol pump', and we also use 'Toilet' , 'restroom' .

Lepak means hang out in Malaysia. Not 'to rest". For example "jom lepak kat mamak". 'jom' is a slang for let's go. So Let's go hang out at mamak". Another meaning is sit down and doing nothing. You can say it considered as resting but we're not using the word lepak as to rest. The Malay word we use for 'to rest' is beristirehat.

I am Filipino, and that is accurate- when the Filipina said that we commonly refer to the bathroom or toilet as C.R., which means Comfort Room

Very good, thanks

As a Korean, I am familiar with the Indian accent.. I can clearly understand what's being said😊

She is Malaysian Chinese so her english accent is definitely a Malaysian Chinese accent .. Malaysian Malay have a very different accent from that .. similar to Malaysian Indian..we also have different accent..

The accent gives the identity. 💕

I hope the world countries could unite like these people in these video who are really world friends

Well, imma Malaysian mix with Singaporean and i speak 4 languages which is my mother tougue TAMIL, English, Chinese and bahasa Kebangsaan. even though English is an international, 1st priority i gave to my mother tongue.

philippines accent is amazing even people dont have degree.they spoke nice and clear. 😊

The only country that uses "comfort room" lol 🇵🇭

I like that voice so cute SG Next to IN 2:33 PH 5:18 it’s so perfect with who this is girl flag on right

wah jing u really keep old traditions alive ah, i thought people don't use bedak sejuk anymore. power lah u

I love how they make a world become a friends. Looks like very beautiful world if we can laugh together like them. Forget about the war, forget about the genocide, forget about the country's problem.

Yeah another video featuring three beautiful ASEAN ladies:Hazeline of Malaysia, Jing of Singapore and Anika of the Philippines Malaysia and Singapore are former British colonies and today it was part of Commonwealth of Nations so that English is the language of the two aside Malay, Chinese and Tamil The Philippines is former Uncle Sam influence for more than 50 years and English is the Constitutional Language of the Philippines, together with Filipino language and many Filipino students are send to US universities to study like Havard, Yale and University of California Jing and Anika are the prettiest women for me, lol and she is my crush because she is very kawaii and Anika’s style is a resemblance of MNL48 and JKT48(my favorite girl groups) so I like these two so I love you so much Anika and Jing, mwah 😘😘 I like Hazeline too so pretty and I love her as friends 😊😊

How many videos with this subject do you guys already have!? LOL

Ang ganda ni Anika! Also Brooke's a voice actor?! Awesome! Does anyone know where?

You are the pride of Malaysia. Proceed

I don’t think Jing is a good representation of Singapore tbh

India, Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong are more British-influenced while Philippines is more American-influenced. Same with Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand being influenced by British English and Canada being influenced by American English (although Canada is odd with written British and spoken American)

we also say petrol punk in India, i was confused when she said gas station because ive never seen anyone use it, also for bathroom we also say 1 bathroom for peeing and 2 bathroom for pooping

Erm.. Malaysians definitely learn it as brinjal in most public schools and not eggplant but of course we understand all variations including aubergine.

Singapore and Philippines woman are so fucking fine.

as a Malaysian, the word 'boring', I will replace it with 'sien lah' personally😂, btw this lady speak not that strong typical Malaysian's accent, even though we've different accents among races, and there're lot of funny Malaysian's English word and phrases like got，really，already，gostan，or not，car park，blur blur，walao eh，haiya，apuden，huiyo，aiyer etc，I think even there's someone make a Wikipedia bout it Manglish

In Thailand we often put krub and ka at the end of the sentence , for ex. where do you want to go krub/ka? , Ps. krub for male , ka for female❤

San Francisco native 🌁 here. Many types of Asians live here. So do different types of Latinos. I traveled to and from The Philippines 🇵🇭 for 26+ years, to and from Canada 🇨🇦 for more years. The Asian who pronounces Spanish better than other Asians is the Filipina. ➕ Filipinos pronounce th well because of Spanish and English.

I've seen 2-3 videos with these same girls on it. Your Malaysian representative doesn't seem to know that Malaysia also speaks/learnt British English. We're a commonwealth nation. Also, your girl from India who mentioned how they pronounce vowel, that's literally how it's pronounced in the Malay language. Furthermore, more Malaysians also say brinjal instead of eggplant.. she was right about "toilet" but bathroom & restroom are equally interchangeable. Lastly & more accurately, "lepak" means "hang out", not "rest." And to the interviewer, the Singaporean rep who said "boliaw" as an alternative for boring, said it's Hokkien, how did you hear Cantonese? The 2 words don't even remotely sound the same. Also, it's Malaysia, not Malay. Malaysia = country. Malay = specific race within Malaysia (and Singapore).

As a Malaysian, I'd see 'lepak' less as 'to rest' but 'to stay at a place doing something/nothing'. Like: Friend: "What're you doing now?" Me: "Nothing, just lepak-ing in the park." (In Manglish) Friend: "Apa kau buat sekarang?" Me: "Apa benda pun takde, sedang berlepak di taman." (In Malay, my Malay isnt that good, if I got something wrong I'm sorry) In this context it would be like, taking a stroll. In other contexts it could also be as what Hazeline said, to chill. I like using 'lepak' more than 'chill' but it definitely depends on the person. A fun fact about Malaysians is that we could merge any words from the languages we know into a sentence or as an entire conversation😂 Sometimes we would switch between different languages in one conversation too. As Malaysians, Malay is compulsory and we have English classes in primary schools and secondary schools. Some ethnicity learns their own mother tongue language or dialects too like Chinese with Mandarin and their dialects and Indians with Tamil, etc etc. We usually use Malay as a medium to communicate but we could also use "Bahasa rojak" which is mixed language (Of Malay + English) or English, depending on who you're talking to.

We do call eggplant as brinjal here in Malaysia.

Im from the philippines, the singaporean girl is melting me... why is her accent so kyut! so cute!!!! It's like her speaking voice has a spell on it.

U really want go to singapore because of 'crazy rich asian' and Michelle Yeoh but all of that is Malaysian 😂😂😂 lot of scene in that movie actually cast in Malaysia ❤❤❤

I can say Singlish (Singapore) and Manglish (Malaysia) are 95% similar. Perhaps Singaporean English is much more clearer and able to use deeper phrases 😂

The girl representing Singapore doesn’t sound like a typical Singaporean at all. More like a PRC Chinese immigrant or someone from China who has lived here for many years and hasn’t lost that Chinese accent.