"I'm stupid..I'm slow..I'm uneducated!" this is the hardest part to watch

People who speak solely English making fun of another person who speaks broken English is the most infuriating thing to me. At least these people are out here, making an effort to learn and make a living. Have you ever tried to learn a language? It's not easy. I'd be less angry if they were at least bilingual. They've never had to flee from a country to a completely unfamiliar one. Some people just have no respect.

ENGLISH IS A LANGUAGE. NOT A MEASUREMENT OF INTELLIGENCE.

It's so sad that we judge someone's intelligence by how fluent they are in English

I hate that people kinda speak down to my mum because of her English like it somehow is connected to her intelligence and knowledge simply because she doesn't have the full capability to fathom and express her thoughts in English.

Screw all of the people that judge others for speaking in broken English. When I was younger, I asked my mom why somebody's mother spoke with an accent and she told me, "That just means that they can speak two (or more!) languages." As a child, I thought it was so cool that somebody could be able to speak more than one language. That simple statement encouraged me to grow up, learn Spanish and travel to new and interesting places where I was then the person speaking with an accent. I've learned so much being on the "other side" of things.

People who say “ this is America speak English” 1. Just stop 2. Why don’t you go to a foreign country and speak that language fluently

Awh The girl with the glasses had such a hard experience. Can't believe people would do that to her mom.

If someone punched my mom they'd catch these hands so fast

i love when (foreign) people speak broken English, like they're probably doing a better job than i would if i spoke their language

English is just a language. Not all are supposed to speak it cuz others do

Where my children of broken English parents at?!

The broken english is not even the problem. You get looked at funny if you speak english with an accent. It's sad

Society: Be yourself Also society: But you need/have to fix this and that

Honesty, if someone speaks broken English, try to speak their language fluently and see how that goes for ya. There is something called DIVERSITY and CULTURE sooooo... yeah. Just be kind and be respectful of someone’s culture and understand how hard it is to learn a whole other language and not give up halfway through.

3:25 reminds me of Gloria in modern family, when they made fun of her for speaking 'funny' and she yelled at them "Do you know how frustrating it is to have to translate everything in my head before I say it?! To have people laugh in my face because I'm struggling to find the words? You should try talking in my shoes for one mile" and when they try to correct her she yells "I know what I meant to mean, do you know how smart I am in Spanish?! Of course you don't"

I hate whenever people say "This is America. Speak English!" that's not an excuse to be inpatient, unkind and ignorant

My father's mother spoke broken English with a strong Yiddish accent, which embarrassed him. He didn't let her know when there with school nights for parents to meet the teachers. Suddenly, she showed up at one of them and met his favorite teacher, who had encouraged him. At the end, his teacher took him aside and told him how charmed he was to meet his lively, lovely mother. Suddenly my father realized how wrong he had been to be ashamed of his mother. (Widowed, with nothing, she brought up 6 children with humor and love.) I am named for her.

whenever someone's complaining about my English I would just say, "Oh I'm sorry. English is only my fourth language so I'm not very good at it." Also my mom can't speak English at all but she actually speaks five languages.

usually some racist white people: HAHAHA YOUR MOM CANT SPEAK ENGLISH, SHE SOUNDS SO WEIRD HAHAHAH me: yeah you're laughing but my mom can speak Spanish, broken English, perfect Japanese and also Chinese meanwhile i can speak perfect Spanish and English in a variety of accents and i am currently learning french, while you can barely pronounce "quesadilla" or "fajita" the right way.

English is just another language not a measure of inteligence. So when people laugh at me for my broken english,i laugh at them for not able to speak at least two languages.:)

"I'm stupid...I'm slow...I'm uneducated." At this point I started crying😢

When that girl said "I love you so much" in Vietnamese, I melted into a babbling, crying mess 😭😭

People born in America have no idea how hard immigrants lives are. Absolutely zero idea.

my friends always feel awkward because they don't understand my dad so they would just awkwardly laugh

I always translate for my mom ☺️ 17 years in the US and and knows no English She doesn’t have time to learn she cleans 5 houses a day comes home till 6pm and leaves at 6am I love her she is always there for me ❤️ I try helping her with English but I don’t have time and she’s almost never home

i have seen americans saying "ohh your english is so fluent" coz m asian. I think language, accent and ur fluency doesn't matter but what actually matter is your knowledge, your thoughts. Language is just a medium to express your views and yourself that's it. edit: sorry if my english isn't that perfect :3

I'm stupid..I'm slow..I'm uneducated!,this part is twisting my heart, it hurt

The one about her at the park made me tear up..... Am I the only one?

I alway thought I was the only one who had to translate when going to parent-teacher meetings. How I never had help with my homework because I had to be independent. How I feel embarrassed when I go out in public. But I know my parents struggle as much as me

I hate it when I speak Spanish on my phone to talk to my mom or dad and my friend's screams speak English this is America we speak English but don't I have the right to speak another language

Drive thrus are the worst with parents and broken english

Native English Speakers : Hi! Me:Hi Native English Speakers: I don't understand what you're saying. It's the accent.

They should be proud of their parents. Their parents were brave enough to leave their home country for better life for their kids.

I remember moving to the US at 13, and my dad trying his best with english. Me and my brother, since we knew more english, we would poke fun at my dad's english because it was the worst of all of us. He would always tell us that the people at his job said he spoke very good english and we'd laugh at his face. It wasn't until I was already in college that I felt regretful of making fun of my dad. His english still isn't great. He got fired from a job and spent almost a year without a job because all of his interviews were over the phone and since he wasn't very good at explaining things simply using words in english, he had trouble getting hired. And for the first time, he told me, crying (and this man never cries), he told me, "you know, my english is very bad." And explained how he never realized it until he went through countless of phone interviews, and people having trouble understanding what he was saying. Me and my brother had the privilege of learning english halfway through our lives. My parents did not.

Why do I translate for my parents? Because I love them.And as a child it broke my heart seeing how other adults belittle someone I looked up to and loved so much

"I'm stupid..I'm slow..I'm uneducated!" I put my tears to good use

America is so cruel In Egypt we like people who dont speak Arabic well and we just help them

my mom has broken english too and i have been translating loads for her and never felt shame about it. My mom is lucky to be a confident lady and she never gets upset about not being able to communicate the best with people.

That kicking story hit me hard for some reason

I started crying when that girl started crying.

Bruh im literally in tears my mum also speaks broken english, and i always got so frustrated with her and now i regret everything. Pls dont take ur parents for granted.

I think its worse when *you* are the one who speaks broken English. I’m Turkish and I live here, my mother is American and if we ever move to the U.S. I am afraid of getting bullied at school for it.

IM NOT CRYING UR CRYING

Wtf was up with those women at the park? Seriously, she didn't even touch the girl.

This is so heartbreaking and all I want to do is hug my mom and tell her she means the world to me 😭😭😭💔💔💔

wrong: "this is america, speak english!" right: "this is america, speak americish!" dude, americans don't even have their own official language. i mean it's called english not american nor americish coz it's the language of england, right.

Why is some one cuttin onions in my room

not going to lie but I cried :'( people in this world are cruel, esp the park one which really got me.

4:35 The girl speaks Vietnamese with an English accent, which is the cutest thing ever

3:32 I started tearing up

This hits so close to home. I'm literally crying.

the world is such a sad place.. this video made me cry.

My mom speaks a little bit of English Whenever there’s parent teacher conference I get really nervous I’m not really fluent in Vietnamese some words are forgotten behind in my head And it gets really awkward I always have to translate and talk to people Sometimes I don’t even understand what they mean like “Want a refund?” Or whatever something like that and I get so stressed out bc Idk what to say nothing sounds right I try to find the perfect words to fit in but nothing works

My Indian mum comes from Nepali immigrants to India, and my German-Indian dad wad born to German immigrants who fled after Germany lost ww2 to British India. My dad can't speak good Hindi and my mum can't speak good English, and me and my sibling were raised to speak German, Hindi, Nepali and English. They still somehow are still going on strong after 20 years of marriage and speak with each other in broken Hindi.

Dang, I feel like this was alot sadder than it should've been..

This video is killing me inside. I still remember the little Vietnamese girl I used to be friends with back when I was in Elementary... Her family couldn't speak even a little bit of English, But they both worked non-stop to try and give there kids a better life. I didn't notice this until this video. Man does this hurt me inside.

I'm Vietnamese I know how it feels to translate everything to my parents. I've cried on pointless nights several times, I'm just so grateful for my parents.

I Started crying when she started crying because my parents spoke broken English

the worst part is when u ur parent have an accent but ur the translator and the person goes "wow u speak very good English" like tf is that shocking for? I was raised here and went to school here just like ur kids!

4:33 she said “con thương má nhiều lắm” which means mom, I love you so much!

I work in a doctors office and I see so many parents come in and struggle to just even check in.. The relief is so evident on their faces when I speak my broken Spanish to them. My grammar isn't correct, I use the wrong conjugation and I mispronounce alot of the medical terms... But I feel good knowing that I tried and my efforts come from the heart ♥!

People in the United States don't even speak English correctly, so we have no right to make fun of anyone with an accent when we changed the language to meet our standards.

What the hell is wrong with some people???? These people who aren't able to commincate well and are trying to work or protect their children have to work ten times as hard. Why instead of helping and making it easier do people have to give them such a hard time?????

I live in London and when I speak Hungarian on the phone with my parents my always feel kinda cool. Plus in my area many people are bilingual and people generally think that it is hard and clever to be able to speak another language, they respect it.

Watching this again 3 years later, this still gets me sooo emotional !

The story about the little girl kicking the sand was awful :(

My mom speaks broken English but I don't get bullied for it or anything, most ppl are pretty understanding at my school

This hit me so hard,when the lady said that her parents couldn’t help her write a sentence,it hit me so hard because I was my own educator,it’s also hard to see all your friends hang out with each other because they speak English and you’re always left out because my parents can’t speak English,I’m grateful for my parents because even though they could never understand my homework and my books they always pushed me harder to be my best.

The story with the girl at 1:38 made me want to cry. As a person that's learning new languages...I understand how hard it is. This whole video is just heart breaking.

My father is an immigrate from Romania and has extremely bad English. We usually converse in Romanian because he is fluent in it and we have more laughs, but whenever he calls my name out with his accent, people give us the dirty look and it's kind of depressing when you have to stop having fun for the sake of others peoples happiness smh

I never will understand why people are so mean

1:06 I can totally relate.... I was like 8 trying to translate the bills to my parents, not even knowing what half of the words meant.....

3:20 broke my heart😭

My mom has a Russian accent and she hates it and is embarrassed by it, but I think that's what makes her unique and even more beautiful❤️

This is a very deep video to me.. my mom growing up in the Philippines and she went here She Didn't understand anything because my mom escaped from her parents because they abused her... She met my dad who knew English and he helped her out. My mom had a really strong Filipino accent when she helped my BUT my mom is very dedicated and strong and learned English. She still has a small Filipino accent but she Is the most smartest person I know.

i honestly want to hug all these people now.

To all those who are ashamed of their language or culture...don't be. You are special so let's stand together ♥

I play the flute and my mom would always go "Jayd time to play the fruit" it was the cutest thing ever.

It's just crazy people all over the world judge just because you can't speak a language they think is normal.

This video really resonated with me. My parents’ first language is Spanish and when I was young, their English was not as good as now. My mother still gets anxiety speaking English and it comes out broken. And it broke my heart when people looked down on my mom for her accent. Thanks to her, I am a great listener and very good at explaining things in a way that is easy to understand.

imagine being in their situation where they have to move to another country, and being shamed because you can't speak, for example, spanish, or japanese, and getting extremely excluded just because you don't speak the language everyone else speaks. (I'm not hating on spanish or japanese people I just randomly thought about these two languages as an example)

This was so very touching. We were very moved by this.

"I'm very sorry for the grammatical mistakes. I don't speak English very well. It's not my mother tongue." - Person from another country "I can't drink milk bcoz am lack toes intoler ant." - Native English speaker

I find English an underdeveloped language which just got popular cuz it's native to rich countries

instead of saying h, my mom would pronounce it like ech.

I'm the oldest of my siblings so I'm the one my parents go to when they need a translator but what makes me frustrated is the fact I can't translate well in Vietnamese. I can understand it well but when I speak it, it sounds forced and pronounced oddly to the point where they don't understand what I'm trying to say. I live in an area that doesn't offer classes to learn Vietnamese so I can't learn it. My mom suggested for me to speak only Viet at home but I can't because I'm more fluent in English so automatically I would revert to that when I don't know a word in Viet. I'm envious of those who can speak their parents' language so well and is a better translator because of that

My mom immigrated from Lithuania to the Netherlands, I'm happy that my dad taught her to speak Dutch. I remember she told me that people in our village didn't really interact with her because she came from a different country and had an accent, that made me feel pretty frustrated and sad. Thankfully, she became friends with some of the moms in my village. And now she can speak it fluently, sometimes she still doesn't know how to write something but she has me, my dad and my little brother to help her 😊 Also the funny thing is, I don't even hear an accent. It's so weird because my dad and grandma hear it, even my friends mock my mom sometimes about it (which I don't like of course) but I don't hear it, I think she speaks Dutch without an accent (probably because I grew up with it and just don't hear the difference). I'm happy that my mom is able to speak multiple languages, she speaks Lithuanian, Dutch, English and Russian which I'm amazed by. And I'm happy that I'm able to communicate with my family on the Lithuanian side in Lithuanian. I think we all should be proud with our parents who come from a different country because we have the advantage of knowing more than one or two language(s) 😊 (this is sooo long, I'm sorry 😅)

This video is too relatable. I breakdown every single time I watch it. I remember being embarrassed of the fact that my parents couldn't speak English all throughout my school life but then feeling guilty that I was embarrassed. But I'm extremely proud of my parents. Hats off to all those parents out there who sacrificed their life and take a hit to their pride just to give their kids a better life.

My mom's broken English is beautiful and I would break the jaw that speaks bad about my mom. Unless it's a chick then my sister would do it

3:25 kills me everytime

There are a few of people who looked down at me just because i speak English with accent. It bothered me. Until i realise that i speak three languages and i actually sound me when i speak English with my accent. Those people who look down at others for their broken English are certainly trapped in their so-called English speaking country. They've simply never been out of their comfort zone.

as someone who has parents who speak broken English yes it does get frustrating when you have to translate everything but it does have it's benefits, you also get communication skills. but personally my friends always ask me "why can't your parents speak English if they've lived here more than 25 years" well Ashley, may be it's because they prioritised taking care of me rather than learning some language they don't need. I also think us kids with parents who don't speak good English have it the worst only because imagine having to translate things racist, rude, uneducated people say to your parents.

I am proud to be Chinese 🇨🇳 and born and raised in Canada 🇨🇦

"broken english." - when my mother struggles to spell a word in english I want to break the entire language into little pieces so the edges of these letters will stop cutting her.

seriously people with broken english speak other languages fluently! I speak three languages and if u tell me I have an accent or I dont speak english very well I'm gonna be cursing u in french and arabic

I cried so so much. My parents are the most precious beings to me. They struggled so much just to give their girls better lives. I forever thankful for them. Always. 🧡🧡🧡

These types of videos make me cry. It makes me think about my parents even more than myself.

OMH I cried so,hard. I can totally relate. I'm 11 right Now, and I literally have to translate everything. I think the one where the woman said that her biggest regret was not teaching her parents more English..... No I'm going to try harder to teach my parents more English. All of these are so relatable. The park one just got me sobbing.

My mum told me I often corrected her English back then, I said sorry but she was like "It's okay, I know 3 languages, 7 dialects. I laugh whenever you try to communicate with your relatives in those languages, it's more broken than my English."