Jamaican Patwa - Country Folk (Jamaica 101)
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- Jamaica 101: In 2012 I visited the Island of Jamaica, where my parents come from for the first time. I took my camera and I attempted to film absolutely EVERYTHING. This clip, might seem to most people, quite mundane, but it features my mum, my sister, and family having a conversation in their beautiful Patwa and generally living the everyday country life... Enjoy
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He's not speaking because he is focusing so he doesn't cut his fingers off. I miss eating fresh sugar cane... the soil is so good you can practically farm in your back yard.
tazia hall glad I'm the only one who found that to be a little insulting. lol white people.
+Mattniificent he's black
+tazia hall HEYYY! Tazz we meet again! My favorite carribean artist! Second time I find you on TH-cam! Keep them SOnic fan arts coming sis!
+Pela G Yes, but Black is but skin colour on some. He is westernized in his thoughts being a Londoner. That's why there's the disconnect with the ppl. His channel is interesting enough but he's simply over exposed to whites and can't shake their influence. Asking stupid arrogant questions more times than not. Even though he didn't mean anything by it.
1. Black isn't skin colour, it's an original mindset! My skin is the same brown as my family from Jamaica; the same brown as my family from Nigeria, and we all do things differently. We are all westernized to differing degrees, as we are all on different lands, as a result of western intervention. Nigeria was named by Britain.
2. Yes there is a disconnect, as I live and was raised in the city of London, and not a Rural area like Silent Hill. As far as being over-exposed to whites, that is a problem with the whole world. It's called White Supremacy, and Jamaica has been tainted by it since colonisation and slavery, which is why you can find so much shade-ism on the island.
3.There is no such thing as a stupid question, only stupid answers. It was my first day in Jamaica, and being on a fact finding mission, my questions were not for me, but for those who would be watching the videos I went there to make. As an interviewer, I find you get the best answers if you act like you don't know anything. Trust me I know how to cut sugar cane, I just wanted them to show me. These are just my techniques; they work well and have served me well for years. Don't get it twisted!
4. I did not for one minute expect these videos to catch on to the degree that they have. I just wanted to document my trip, as I had never been, and to make a documentary of clips, and share it online. It just so happens that a lot of home-sick Jamaicans living in the UK, and elsewhere suddenly discovered the clips, and they started watching and sharing them. I give thanks.
Jamaican Patois flows extremely well, nicely rolls off the tongue
might roll nicely off the tongue, but it becomes a ten pile car crash in the ears :p
+EvilPlagueDoctor lmao
LMAOOO hahaha
Yeh bot wud dem nuh njam while dem a taak mi wud even zeen wha dem seh :)
tru truuu if you want to hear more on the it from different Jamaicans : th-cam.com/video/kYkMDNukO5w/w-d-xo.html
Nice kids, you can't tell that those kids are being brought up to be strong young man. Much respect to the parents.
my people are living and eating healthy. waw!!! MI LOVE JAMAICA.
Hmmm i am from Cameroon and nvr had a Jamaica friend, let alone bn in Jamaica but i understand the Language very well. The whole west coast of Africa is not new to this language. its our language brought to the Americas during the slave trade. I feel a deep love for my Jamaica brothers and sisters. We love u in Cameroon.
Speaking from Jamaica, I have some beautiful friends from Cameroon, Ghana,Nigeria and Togo whilst living in the UK and we still keep in touch.
Patois isn't some downgrade language. It's a beautifully spoken freedom dialect, which is to be respected.
The Queens English shouldn't be used as a precursor for intelligence. So stop with those idiotic notions, and show some respect.
Pre- independence Jamaicans had spoken clear English for years, at home and in public.
Jamaicans Louis Bennett and Ranny Williams were very much instrumental in reviving the Patois as an indigenous Jamaican dialect, to be loved and appreciated.
Suddenly in the 1950's onward, Jamaicans began going back to the slavery days and thus creating a revival of our language.
This wave then created a Renaissance of School plays, Ring games, Anancy Stories and Other Historical Cultural appreciation.
So what was seen as an embarrassment of pubilically speaking Patois, was now viewed as a proud national heritage of Jamaica....
So please put some Respeck Pon Wi Culture... Zeen!😊
View Master Respect!
Nate Sharpe Jr Respect to you also, my brother....
To a previous dude who later erased his bafoonry comments, so I had to jump to defend, however I chose to leave my comments regardless....🤔
Isaias No worries bruh....😊
View Master Awoah! Tell dem again deh fi mi!!!
I LOVE Patois! Beautiful language.
Indeed. I love how miss Lou expounded upon the point and encouraged thinking of it as a legitimate unique language cultivated over centuries with rich diverse influences and origins instead of just a tougue of less intelligent people 😀
In my young days I peel that Cane with mi teeth
+Johnny Khan word dude. just push dat inna yuh jaw caana an tear aff de skin. those were the days.
Try that now with you rip out your fillings and implants
Lol me too
You expect dem young boys to know bout dem good ole days?
Johnny Khan Indeed so true
Yess oo and di June-plum too. A wey knife a go
Authentic country folks, so lovely.
I was born in Trelawny. Mudane should never use when you talk bout Jamaica.
Thank you for filming everything. 15 years and I look forward to going home.
Hugh Gayle my mom side from Wait-a-bit and litchfield
This place is just like 🇬🇭Ghana.U want to come visit us.WE LOVE our brothers and sisters
Ebenezer Appiah amen well said so true believe forever love straight from the heart in the eyes of God we pray amen praise the Lord
Much respect GH to Ghana
Well, many of us do not love you. Remember it was you guys and other Africans that sold us into generations of chattel slavery simply because you wanted guns, rum, whiskey and trinkets.
@FreeTraders You are out of your mind. I'm 97% of west African heritage with parents from rural Jamaica. The history of Jamaica is my passion and trust me, we were not Israelites. These are a people that existed in Biblical times and by and large had NOTHING to do with black people.
@FreeTraders :-)
I love Jamaica (been there 5 times in 4 years)-- Jamaican food, people, mountains, beaches. Enjoy being out and about in Jamaica and immersing myself in the culture. It beats staying in a boring old resort that looks the same, regardless of whether you're in Jamaica, Florida or California. What's the point of going to some place outside the U.S., if all you're going to do is stay in your "ivory tower"? Videos like this are interesting to me. I would love to be able to understand Patois better and be able to speak it some day. Can't get enough of Jamaica.
I'm part jamaican & I chose to do my minority language presentation on Jamaican Patois... I'm pretty sure I'm gonna use this. Looks peaceful there!!! :) I also talked about how the British made it seem like a low-prestige language compared to Standard Jamaican English. And I touched on the influence of reggae on raised consciousness, nationalism, and covert prestige. So geeked! Thanks for sharing this with all of us!!!
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They've got beautiful African features I tell ya
That's where our fore parents are from.
If you're black your people come from Africa.
Tcyan Carr obviously 🙄
Long live Africa!
Black Mind ✊🏾🌍 ❤️!
The kids are cute and brilliant.♡ ♡ Deep knowledge of the land already ♡♡
That country looks beautiful! Natural.
My parents are exactly from this environment in Jamaica. Coincidentally, here in The Netherlands where I now live, a child of Jamaican immigrants to London came around to our house for tea yesterday. The conversation got on to Jamaican Patois and he claimed he was discouraged to speak it at home, whereas in my parents' home in Birmingham, UK that never ever came up. Consequently I grew up speaking Jamaican Patois and to this day my Patois is indistinguishable from that spoken in Jamaica.
much better than most blockbusters movies
This looks just like my country in Africa.
What makes it look like your country?
View master I totally agree. That patois is one of the reasons why our culture is so authentic and unique. Left Ja since 71 naw change Fi nobaddi. ZEEN. One luv Jamaica for life.
Andrea Barnes Guyana and Trinidad also speaks patois lol
I know that.
Brings me back to my childhood when Grummah used to give me cane to chew....😢😢😢 I miss her so very much.
Respek to the beautiful patoi language zeen... much love outta Ghana.... One people ... One Love..! A so e go..!
Same so! Natural
@Soraya Much respect...!! Trully well said... Jah Bless..
@@Andrefresh986 yes me bredren... !! Much respect..!
@Sweelen Simpson Much Respect...!! One people...
Why doesnt he talk?
BC he's concentrating not to cut himself man...let him doo eeet!
Bernard Popp Yeah, sometimes you just don't feel to talk.
Bernard Popp u mean, Dweet.
Smart
He was talking bout the other dude
Best life ever!
I love the way my Caribbean people, and Africans have their own dialects that are spoken casual settings. What makes it even better is that it's embraced. It liken to African Americans and the many variations of slang depending on which city your in. I think Americans should embrace the slang more as a "Freedom language " . It's cool and unique. Standard English is not some gauge of intelligence although I do believe it should be used as a standard means of communication when in a formal situation.
Jamaica is paradise!!!! Aall natural EVERYTHING!!!!
I used Jamaican Patois in my English class and my student learned the basic of patois. I feel very prouda.
I love this. I pray this video will remain up on TH-cam for many years to come. This is one of few videos that gives you the RAW AUTHENTIC patios where if you are not Jamaican (that livescin Jamaica; especially from the rural areas) you will have a hard time understanding the words or what is being said. Also to non Jamaicans they will only hear one sound,but there are accents in patios,depending on which area of the country the speaker is from. They sound like they're either from parish of St.Mary or St.Elizabeth.
AM STILL WATCHING IN 2019 HOPE EVERYONE IS DOING WELL 🤗 SWEET SWEET 🇯🇲 JAMAICA AND JAMAICANS ✌🏿✌🏿🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹
the fruit in the end is called June plum
ebony rebel
ebony rebel we call it golden apple in Guyana when it ripe it delicious hmmmm
Country life nice all natural and healthy living
yes they understand English SAUNFYRE and they also speak english, but you have some people that cant speak it properly becaue of where they come from but we do understand english in school we speak english (we learn in english) we only talk patwa with our friends
yup
Language is so complex!! tru truuu if you want to hear more on the it from different Jamaicans : th-cam.com/video/kYkMDNukO5w/w-d-xo.html
Reminds me of my family in Jamaica
Beautiful scenery .. I wish i was there ... i would be so much happier than in new york
Country living the best, food ah any a which part yu deh
EL Eloheem amen well said so true these was the days of our lives
Talk truth, A St. Ann mi from any kind a food you want you get it here
nun beat di vibe of di yaad. especially pon di country side. di feel jus so raw and real, pure and true unlike a lotta di world we see today. much respect to dis family whereva dey be 💪🏿💪🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲
Love this life remember growing up just like this it’s the best life ever wish I could go back trust mi
Alva Wilson amen well said so true I really miss these days
my great grandma and my family from my mom's side (they grew up in the country) talk with this kind of dialect like the older women in this video
Kayray531 yess sahh old country talk yaa
bwoy mi a tell u dem a real jamaican
Calvin Mcdonald yes real country people..wi lub dem
Calvin Mcdonald So because am from the city and may not speak like that AM A FAKE JAMAICAN
@@markwatson8725 Maximum respect all townie & junglie mass & crew...
I don't understand but I want to learn beautiful Jamaican patois
I am from St thomas. our section don't talk like that
i LOVE to hear Jamaica's speak heavy patois & try & keep up with wat dem ah sey. its a beautiful accent, & the slang off da hook. even the word patois dont look the way its pronounced. by heck, that's alot of English words
Jamaicans like to use the spelling: "Patwa" to refer to their english-based lingual, rather than: "Patois" which they use in reference to the french-based lingual on other islands… It makes sense.
Nothing sweet like picking fresh food and fruits 😍
S D2 st bez
Beautiful, thanks for sharing. They sound just like my family, my mom and my dad are both from Blackwood, Clarendon.
Wait ,my mom's from there too!!!
Trishana rowz Maybe she knows my family, we're a big family lol We're Manning's and McKenzie's :-)
I knew a girl named Nikki I guess you could say she was a sex fiend....
Vam TheAnomaly ;-)
Darling Nikki So Niki, "How'd ya like to waste some time, I cannot resist"?
Patois is its own language. I’m not playing with anybody who says it is broken English or bastardized English. Patwa is it’s a blend of languages English be in the base but not the full language. Patois specifically Jamaican patois is one of the most distinct languages in the Caribbean and deserves to be put up high. In my lifetime I would like to see the standardization of Jamaican patois and the nationalization of Jamaican patois. Jamaica needs to teach patwa in schools, we need to write books in patois. I was born in Canada and it was very hard for me to speak patois because I can’t read it. I understand every word but my accent is terrible, I would love to writes poetry in patois, and books in patois. Hopefully this will change the stigma of people placing Patois lower than standardize English. And I know there’s gonna be a lot of pushback saying we should just keep it our secret language but could you imagine how unified we would be internationally and how easy it would be to teach young Jamaicans in the diaspora like myself.
I love hearing my man speak patwa, I'm an American girl who is in love with a Jamaican man !!!
Love to hear young JA kids speaking patois.. .so raw and endearing
Omg!!!!!! I miss Jamaica😢😢😢😢😢
Paulette J. So true I really dose
This looks just like Sierra Leone in west Africa
awww, emotions...
Yes we do understand and speak English too, our dialect is a mixture of Dutch French Spanish and English. all in one...
Africa too.
I am from the UK and have no idea how to speak patois and i am white so i do not have any kind of upbringing with this culture but for some strange reason, i understand patois. Very strange but i love it and i love the language a lot. I find it is very poetic almost for some reason.
There are wjite people in jamaica too... There is a small town full of white people in jamaica called German town..theu are the german decent who live in Jamaica.
U understand it cuz its derived from english. UK english to be precise. So people from UK will understand it a lot more than say an american, to whom it sounds like spanish for all they know.
Would you like to learn patios
mostly African and English origins but some Spanish in it too...still each term pronounce totally different than its original with different patterns therefore best described as a Creole than "broken English"
+Christopher Hinds I'd like too
I love this so much feeling so nostalgic right now remind me of my childhood beautiful Jamaica
Hmmmhmm sugar cane! I miss that.
Kayla Ali Indeed I really do these was the days of our lives
This reminded me of my first visit to Bamboo St. Elizabeth to visit my brother's family. It was a far different experience from what I'm am used to in Kingston.
My people. 🇯🇲.
Being In America so long brought me here I love my country 🇯🇲🇯🇲😂😂❤️I miss hearing Jamaican
Those boys are so mature and charismatic
Hey I'm redibo from Nigeria... you Jamaicans are beautiful
How can you be redibo? What does that even mean?
My beautiful sister's from Jamaica one love.
What a beautiful place and language (:
That us a nice garden, they even grow sugar cane. Reminds me of my home.
Reminds me of myself back home in Liberia. I used to eat sugarcane just like that at that tender age.
very beautiful I visited ocho rios in April. best country I've ever been to ! want to go back xx JoJo xx
We have a lot of them in my beautiful country Vanuatu Southwest Pacific, it's a Tropical Islands just like Jamaica. Mi love that video and thanks for sharing.
Reminds me of my first visit..so much memories!
Marcia Barrett’s book Forward, brought me here 😄love learning about foreign cultures especially rural life. Beautiful family.
It makes me smile. They are so relaxing to watch, It makes me miss home. Thanks for sharing. The June plum tree bear bad. lol
Haitians need to embrace Creole the same way
Haitians need to speak French
@@Mecduhall91 no, creole
@@marcusxavier6467 nah Haïtiens need to speak French and embrace the French language. For political et professional reasons. Considering the fact that their language is FRENCH. And their country is pretty much French. In almost everything (other than on the street conversations).
On a professionnel scale French will bring them up ⬆️. There’s no problem with speaking creole but Haiti also needs to make French more seriously.
@@Mecduhall91 judging by the fact that you said “their country” i’ll assume you’re not Haitian. that being said, shut up and sit down.
A real Jamaican talk that! Love it!
Wow very nice thank you so much for sharing these clips with us :-).
Sugarcane!! I had some in Egypt this summer fresh from the farm my cousins got it for me it was deliscious!!
Dem teeth Strang sah. Wish mi could a reach out an pic one'a dem June plum deh. My favorite fruit. Laawd it a mek,mi mouth wata.
nothing more beautiful than the country in Jamaica and the June plum
That's my kinds of life that I grow up with living with my grandmother and grandfather oh lord these was the days of our lives. R.i.p grandma and grandfather. R.i.p gone too soon glory be to God the only God the invible God the lord will take care of y.all in Jesus name we pray amen now I'm here living in Canada I been thinking about these days😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍👉💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
Hey! Beautiful video. I would like to know how do they call in Jamaica (or any other caribbean island) to those fruits they're enjoying in the final part of the video. In my island we call it "jobo" and most of us prefer to eat jobos that way too, not ready 'cause they're super acid 😆
the fruit is called golden apple in Barbados, it has one big prickly seed in the middle and the tree grows to about 30ft or more.
beautiful dem.
2:56 the lady said see a whole heap of cane up there for you to eat, and the cameraman showed some bamboo, real foreigner that, don't know the difference between can and bamboo. LOL
Lol
🤣🤣🤣
this is such a wholesome vid. i miss jamaica
Country life complete nice
Imogene Byfield the best ever I really miss these days
Love those fruits sweet sour taste.....
Love eatin sugar cane..just like Puerto Rico..Big ups . Much love
I'm not keen on Carribean music but i like their accent or dialect. It'sooo laid back.
Mi love jamaica yu si ! 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
I remember getting fresh sugar cane when I lived in Taiwan back in the early 80's.
Anyway, Jamaican Patois is fascinating, especially how it evolved in its history. I guess some argue it is a dialect of English but to me, it is a unique language. Spanish and Italian are derivatives of Latin so why then should Jamaican Patois not be classified as a unique language?
I'm Jamaican and I didn't even quite understand some of what they were saying. It sounded foreign. Not trying to throw shade, I love my people and our language
You can't be Jamaican (as in born and raised) and don't understand what they are saying! I left Jamaica years ago and understand, clearly, everything they're saying.
U can't be Jamaican and don't understand what they're saying shhh u ain't Jamaican!!
My great grandfather had sugarcane fields. My dad used to cut it into little bits for me to chew. Memories.
Seeing them eat sugar cake is making me miss Nigeria. The sugar cage season was 😘😘😘
Did I hear the older lady mention snow? "Snow catch it" I thought she said
Google June plum so u can no the difference between ginnep an June plum.i grew up eating these in Jamaica as a lil boy
and get some salt with it to, boy some good fruit dat.
I find a fun way to learn patois is to get Louise Bennett's books like (Jamaica Labrish, Aunty Roachy Sey and Selected Poems) then read along with the poems on youtube.
3:16 " Eeh waa wan tick fi kotch up eeh" - Lord god. LMAO - Bring him come ah farrin soon before its too late.
LOOOOOOOL
He needs a stick to hold it up 😂😂😂😂
I am a proud Jamaican, patois mi seh
Little Brit you should be
At 2:37 my mouth was watering watching them eating that "cajarana" that's how we call it in Brazil
I My time growing up the trees use to be big enough to climp nowadays the agriculture department has the short breathe in many plants now
Im Costa Rican and its rare to come by people that speak patois
this is an Asian plum wow how did it end up in Jamaica happy to see people enjoying
Zina Chum Chinese immigrants
Zina Chum we have it in Trinidad also
Idk remember Jamaicans have Asians too we have all races 😂😂😂
Jamaican créole near to french créole(Martinique, Guadeloupe...) just they are based on english lexical and us on french lexical.
For example to say " im eating" jamaican creole "mi a eat" and martinican creole "mwen ka mangé" ( je mange in french)
Actually we would more likely use the word "nyam" for eat which is from the Wolof west african language,
Been around Jamaicans all my life... Jamaican accents are not hard to understand....however I came across some rastas that gave me a run for my money... It was difficult.
My two little friends from old-time kitchen with their GRANDMA
mi a miss dis