LOL at Ken Jeong. He's a Korean being asked about Singaporean! Korea and Singapore are thousands of miles apart. It's like asking Swedish person about Portuguese words.
Singlish is not a whole new language (like Korean vs. English), it's just colloquial English used in Singapore. I've not watched the movie, but the entire Crazy Rich Asians book is peppered with it. Surely some of it would have caught on
Because only Michelle and Henry lived in Malaysia. Michelle is Chinese lived in Malaysia and Henry is malaysian mixed with caucasian. Constance is Chinese her family are from Taiwan origin so she is Taiwanese American. Ken is Korean so he is Korean American
I'm so pleased to see that Michelle Yeoh is a true Malaysian-born Chinese (from Ipoh, Malaysia) in the way she talks about chili crab, deep-fried mantou (I agree, they're the best part of eating chili crab) and love of food. Oddly, the producers of the film somehow failed to introduce Constance Wu to chii crab during the film shoot in Singapore. She'll have to make amends on a return visit for the Crazy Rich Asians sequel!
As a Singaporean, I just would like to mention that Singlish is really a mixture of English (due to the colonisation of the British) and languages/dialects from the various races in Singapore. Hence, some words like “makan” and “lepak” are actually from Bahasa Melayu and Malay slang. “Lah” is also used in Bahasa Melayu and in Cantonese slang. It’s really just culture mixed into a common language. I hope it helps ☺️
Just to clear things up, in this part of the world, "Chinese" does not necessarily mean "people from/born in China"... Indonesian Chinese, Singaporean Chinese, Malaysian Chinese are terms to describe people from that particular country of ethnic Chinese descent, much like the term "Caucasian" which doesn't tell you where a person is from, but a person of white descent. Also, not all caucasians speak english, so not all Chinese descendants speak mandarin, though most do. These so-called Singlish terms are not exclusive to SG, "shiok, makan, lah, leh lor..etc etc"... are a mixed bag of language and expressions used throughout Indonesia, SG and MY in English, in Bahasa Indonesia and Malaysia. Chili crab is shiok, no doubt and SG does have some very good ones, but hey, it can be found in almost whole of SEA including Thailand, so yeah.. just chill on these terms.. it's just a movie shot by a main cast with very little knowledge of the locale and this is but a promo video.
You nailed it! Exactly my thoughts! I get so irritated whenever my Malaysian Chinese friend gets referred to as Chinese, she would get so offended and so quick to say "no no no, I am not Chinese" 😞
Origin of Singlish words in the video: Lah = Cantonese slang Shiok = Brunei Malay (it's from the word, Siok) Makan = Malay/Indonesian Anyway, I am disappointed that there isn't any Hokkien slang being showcased in this video. That is what distinguish Singlish from Malaysian English.
wow i'm singaporean and i never knew the origin of the word shiok haha. i just love that word cuz no other english word comes close to describing what shiok feels like haha
Lah is not just Cantonese Slang, it could be Hokkien too. I am not sure is it something original in Malay language, but since the Baba Nyonya were descendants of Hokkien, probably they are the one who influence Malay to adopt it. We rarely heard Indonesia or Brunei using "lah", which makes me believe it is not originally a Malay thing. But we all know not much foreigner could master "Lah", they simply add "Lah" in the end of every sentence.
Henry Golding is a British citizen... He left Malaysia for the UK at 7 years old, only returning to this SE Asia in his 20s. He has been living and working in Singapore for the last 6 years.
i saw a lots of malaysian and singaporean fighting and claiming about those words(?) . hello , we are geographically close and we speak the exactly same language which is malay and english so obviously we shares the manglish/singlish words . please don’t fight about this little thing , we’re one !
This video is about Singlish leh.... so who are the trouble makers? The usual trolls coming here to claim something when the video was never about them in the first place. lol
As for me Malaysian, idc if singaporean claim those words or whatever , bcuz we can surely understand each other PERFECTLY. Cmon, we're just few hours drive to singapore 😂. But if indonesians do claim they use the same word in their speaking too, then idk what to say 😂😌🤐
In the 80s, there was a college girl in Singapore wrote an essay paper about Singlish. It's titled "English where got like that one?" The story made it to major papers in the US.
Shiok is a borrowing from Malay that has acquired multiple uses and meanings in everyday Singapore English. It is an exclamation expressing admiration or approval, just like 'cool!' and 'great!'
As a Singaporean, i think "LAH" and "SHIOK" are the closest terms to be considered as Singlish, the rest are just words from other languages like the Malay language that most Singaporeans use. I guess that's what you get when you have different people of different ethnicity living together for half a century. And Chilli Crab is just a restaurant dish :) Great video guys!
Lah is also adopted from the Malay language. Shiok is Hokkien. As long as you speak with a Singapore accent with Singapore grammar and vocabulary, it's considered Singlish.
Well that's what living in Singapore is speaking more singlish that have malay and hokkien and abit of Indian slang.. Mandarin words like bojiao Wal Lau Wei are not singlish.. Those are mandarin people uses around the world so not singlish to me..
Manglish and Singlish are similar in such as they both contain english, malay, chinese (and the dialects), tamil and probably more. However, Manglish uses more malay words compared to Singlish, which typically uses more words from the chinese dialects. In this video, they used the “Singlish” words from malay so it may seem that it’s more of Manglish than Singlish.
Michelle Yeoh from Ipoh from Peninsular Malaysia and Henry Golding are mix Europe Malaysian.His father is Europe and his mother from Borneo (Sarawak), Malaysia.His mother is IBAN(a big ethnic in Sarawak)
The actors here (in the video) are not from Singapore - they are Malaysian, a Malaysian/British, A Korean and a Chinese American. The story was set in Singapore but filmed mostly Malaysia and Changi Airport.
I once met my Singaporean friend, and he ways more to say "Lah" in the end of every his words😂 since I'm Indonesian, I found it still interesting though I understand the meaning since the begining
Love how Makan and Lapa (as what Henry said haha) means eat in english. It sounded like mangan (to eat) which is a word from the ilocano dialect here in the Philippines and Lapa sounded like lafang, colloquial term for eat also here in the PH. :D
Interestingly chinese language also has a word 啦 (pronnounced lah) to use at the end of words to make it sound more informal with the same nuances as singlish
My malay butt screamed the meaning of every word when the actors cant answer them and jumped every time michele yeoh explains every word in details yes queen
did they use any singlish in the movie? i checked the trailer, they used 'normal' american english. i haven't seen the movie 'coz not yet played in my country. so disappointed if they did not use any singlish as the story background i believe in singapore.
Erm thats because both of them are Malaysian and they would definitely understand all if nt most of the slangs. Because of the shared culture between Singapore and Malaysia our slangs are like 80-90% the same.
"-Lah" is such a difficult word to explain tbh. Like if you wanna translate "okay lah".. We know what it means. I get your tone and the meaning of that tone, it means "i have other opinions but im too tired to voice them out cause really really your opinion is as good so let's just go with that" ← all of that.. Cause you used "lah"
“LAH” - used it when we were in Beijing! 😅 yeah it was like a slang-ish? tour guide would answer us with “OKAY LAH” MAKAN - in the Philippines it a word from Ilocano dialect w/c also means eat/food #ASIANsLoveFood
Constance Wu gets a pass because she played an American who was just visiting Singapore, but Ken Jeong played a Singaporean person so he's inexcusable.
Chilli crab not singlish lah.... simi sai man... michelle yeoh and henry are the only ones that show anyone genuine understanding. But den again, they explain ang moh also don’t understand
I remember she was miss Malaysia. I traveled to Singapore once (5 years ago), I think they speak just like an Asian trying to perfect English in USA, kind of English that just Asian with Asian knows that who is better in English. And Singaporeans not only Chinese Cantonese but mandarin, and Malay, Thailand, Vietnamese,... só for me, such words like Lah, shiek or else not that so popular in normal public. Maybe the ones in the same community do speak like that. I was just a Vietnamese young traveler at that time, and it was my first time to go abroad, so what I can remember just that. Now when I have been in USA for 4 years, I still think Singlish is not that much alian words combined as the English in Chinatown USA 🤔
phuong nguyen that’s really wrong LOL most of us use lah shiok and so on so forth, we just change the way we speak for foreigners to understand us better. Sometimes we break down our english so travellers from other asian countries can understand us.
Malaysia has a large native-born ethnic Chinese population dating back centuries. Michelle was born to a mainly Cantonese-speaking Chinese community in Ipoh and grew up in an English/Malay-speaking household. Later on she brushed up her Cantonese for her roles in Hong Kong action movies, and spent a year learning Mandarin for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
Idk why are people fighting abt who and who's words are their from but im 100% sure that Malaysian and Singaporean people share the same languege which is mixed Chinese(well there's more to chinese such as hokkien), Malay,English and more
Michelle is such a QUEEN! She was the main reason I watched the movie and she was my favourite character. Totally bad arse!!!! (Gemma Chan's was my second favourite!)
Because in Singapore, Malay words are often used back in the days? I see alot of salty Malaysians trying to fight about whether its not Singlish but Malaysian English. Singlish is more recognized internationally because we DO use these words almost in our everyday life. Do you guys even used it often? LOL
Fariha Mohamed Hilmy Tenang teman, filem ini sepatutnya cerita pasal Singapura. Walaupun mostly filmed in Malaysia and most main cast dia bukan Singaporean pun, saja ja nak tanya sebab filem tu. Kesian gak Mat Salleh asyik nampak Bali ja kat Indonesia kan? Biar orang lain bodoh tak tahu, gaduh dengan orang-orang ignorant meluat nanti jadi. Kita tau, depa rugi tak tau.
"Lah" is such an addition word at the last of your sentence. It's commonly used in the Malay Archipelago such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam, and definitely Singapore.
Omg this is relatable to Indonesian and Malaysian English too. My God Michelle Yeoh can speak Bahasa (our language) lah cause she is from Malay. Ken know nothing bcs he's a Korean yo. Thats very far away from Southeast Asia.
i was today years old when i found out that henry is a sarawakian!! im so happy to find out a malaysian celebrity that isnt from semenanjung or any famous towns 😂😂
im not even chinese but the “LAH” culture is so contagious ive lived in a chinese speaking country for a couple of years and now im very much stuck with “lah” when i speak to my chinese friends
1:21 Isn't that the doctor who read some questions in a video..i don't actually remember from which channel..lol..he was so savage while giving answers to them😂😂
70% of this singlish is indonesian language. Such as Makan, Lah ( i know it's more common to be use in malaysia or singapore but indonesia also use it generally), or maybe some word in movie like sate (satai). This comment means nothing but just an information so you know that we share the same culture. And sorry for my english (it's BAD). And i don't know who the first country use that word from historical background. So yeah..
LOL at Ken Jeong. He's a Korean being asked about Singaporean! Korea and Singapore are thousands of miles apart. It's like asking Swedish person about Portuguese words.
Well he’s playing a Singaporean in a huge Hollywood movie that is centred around Singapore, so..........
So that should make him fluent in the local language..........
Singlish is not a whole new language (like Korean vs. English), it's just colloquial English used in Singapore. I've not watched the movie, but the entire Crazy Rich Asians book is peppered with it. Surely some of it would have caught on
rivenade IT IS FUCK A FUCKING GAME. Grow a sense of humour.
People like you need an ass kicking
constance laughing at her own joke was so funny
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Hahaha damn right her laughing to her own joke is so much funnier lmao!!
CONSTANtly
Neil McLarren i know i was making a pun hahah
Who? Timestamp?
Ken express "LAH" best : " a texture of Singapore" ... beautiful !
CC Perfect description!
hahaah, right, in HK too!!
Malaysia too
Singaporeans and Malaysians punctuate their sentences with 'lah' like how Hongkongers say 'lor' in Cantonese.
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Michelle Yeoh and Henry Golding would know how to speak Singlish. They grew up speaking Malaysian English.
Well Basically they both from malaysia (their parent)
manglish
Yeah one of michelle n henry's parents is malaysian
michelle is chinese-malaysian, henry golding’s mum is ibanese (an indigenous group in borneo)
So it's malish
Only Michelle got all the pronunciation right! OK la... Henry too...
Henry got 'mat saleh' accent (when speaking Malay
Shes malaysian thats why
Both are malaysian/part malaysian that’s why
Because only Michelle and Henry lived in Malaysia. Michelle is Chinese lived in Malaysia and Henry is malaysian mixed with caucasian. Constance is Chinese her family are from Taiwan origin so she is Taiwanese American. Ken is Korean so he is Korean American
Regina Elon Hephzibah well Michelle is Ipoh girl, Henry half brits half Iban..
Constance cracking up at Shiok lol
I'm so pleased to see that Michelle Yeoh is a true Malaysian-born Chinese (from Ipoh, Malaysia) in the way she talks about chili crab, deep-fried mantou (I agree, they're the best part of eating chili crab) and love of food. Oddly, the producers of the film somehow failed to introduce Constance Wu to chii crab during the film shoot in Singapore. She'll have to make amends on a return visit for the Crazy Rich Asians sequel!
I think they did have chili crab! The hawker scene when they first arrived to Singapore had mantou and chili crab on the table. Haha.
Im kinda sure she did. Didnt she eat chilli crab for one of the scene?
The best one is still on KL i believe. Singaporean food is just trash to be frank
no
The mantou is sooo nice by its own but it's also good if you dip in the sauce
As a Singaporean, I just would like to mention that Singlish is really a mixture of English (due to the colonisation of the British) and languages/dialects from the various races in Singapore. Hence, some words like “makan” and “lepak” are actually from Bahasa Melayu and Malay slang. “Lah” is also used in Bahasa Melayu and in Cantonese slang. It’s really just culture mixed into a common language. I hope it helps ☺️
Very true
Constance is me laughing at my own jokes when she defines SHIOK. lolololol
Just to clear things up, in this part of the world, "Chinese" does not necessarily mean "people from/born in China"... Indonesian Chinese, Singaporean Chinese, Malaysian Chinese are terms to describe people from that particular country of ethnic Chinese descent, much like the term "Caucasian" which doesn't tell you where a person is from, but a person of white descent. Also, not all caucasians speak english, so not all Chinese descendants speak mandarin, though most do. These so-called Singlish terms are not exclusive to SG, "shiok, makan, lah, leh lor..etc etc"... are a mixed bag of language and expressions used throughout Indonesia, SG and MY in English, in Bahasa Indonesia and Malaysia. Chili crab is shiok, no doubt and SG does have some very good ones, but hey, it can be found in almost whole of SEA including Thailand, so yeah.. just chill on these terms.. it's just a movie shot by a main cast with very little knowledge of the locale and this is but a promo video.
Mlmbbn guy
You nailed it! Exactly my thoughts! I get so irritated whenever my Malaysian Chinese friend gets referred to as Chinese, she would get so offended and so quick to say "no no no, I am not Chinese" 😞
god bless you for including indonesian / chinese indonesian
we're always excluded even though we share the same peranakan culture :(
here in indonesia i said makan every single time when i want to eat
oops sorry we don’t use these terms in thailand lol
Singaporeans dont say "how are you lah", we be like "eh you havent die yet ah?"
Lololllllll
Hahahahahahahahaha thats so moroccan we do that tooahah
cætsto 5 Vietnamese r the same haha especially for besties
This exactly happen here too in malaysia 😂 we be like eh kau tak mati lagi
🤣🤣🤣
Michelle is a timeless actor. I freaking love her. Especially her character arc in Star Trek Discovery. Terran Phillipa is so mean.
Makan chili crab, very shiok lah!!
Vicky Likes This I still don't understand how to put shiok with other sentence. I thought shiok is cheap. Didn't know till now
Nicely done
Shiok (or Syok in Malaysia) is literally taken from the word "Shock", but feel shock in the good way.
@@AddyLepak syok in malay is also when youre so into someone like fall in love with someone. I syok kat you. That way.
Makan chili crab sibei shouk lah !!
Of course Michelle and Henry knows all of the words. They're Malaysian and pretty much speaks singlish also!
lmaoo Ken is hilarious. Also, Michelle Yeoh's makeup is spectacular here! she looks amazing
Origin of Singlish words in the video:
Lah = Cantonese slang
Shiok = Brunei Malay (it's from the word, Siok)
Makan = Malay/Indonesian
Anyway, I am disappointed that there isn't any Hokkien slang being showcased in this video. That is what distinguish Singlish from Malaysian English.
wow i'm singaporean and i never knew the origin of the word shiok haha. i just love that word cuz no other english word comes close to describing what shiok feels like haha
Yala where's the paiseh
@Santos Lewynn lah is derived from cantonese. Rookie is right.
Actually Lah also exist in some malay words, if I'm not wrong.
Lah is not just Cantonese Slang, it could be Hokkien too. I am not sure is it something original in Malay language, but since the Baba Nyonya were descendants of Hokkien, probably they are the one who influence Malay to adopt it. We rarely heard Indonesia or Brunei using "lah", which makes me believe it is not originally a Malay thing. But we all know not much foreigner could master "Lah", they simply add "Lah" in the end of every sentence.
Kalau Datuk Michelle tak tahu jawapannya, saya tak tahu apa nak kata.
way to go, Michelle Yeoh. true Malaysian
she's a thorough bred malaysian. Lovely to see how proud she is to be a Malaysian.
She no longer a datok.. She's a Tan Sri now.. Makin up weeeiiii.. Haha but she still down to earth and humble. you've gotta love her.
dia tak lupa her roots surprisingly
Henry Golding pun Malaysian juga...
Henry Golding is a British citizen... He left Malaysia for the UK at 7 years old, only returning to this SE Asia in his 20s. He has been living and working in Singapore for the last 6 years.
i saw a lots of malaysian and singaporean fighting and claiming about those words(?) . hello , we are geographically close and we speak the exactly same language which is malay and english so obviously we shares the manglish/singlish words . please don’t fight about this little thing , we’re one !
Wait till the Indonesians come and claim everything is theirs LOL...
bila masa lah kami claim itu ini..we're just the same lahhhh no need fight fight we good people bah (excluding butthurt Indonesians jk)
@@clementj everything except their annual haze 😂
This video is about Singlish leh.... so who are the trouble makers? The usual trolls coming here to claim something when the video was never about them in the first place. lol
As for me Malaysian, idc if singaporean claim those words or whatever , bcuz we can surely understand each other PERFECTLY. Cmon, we're just few hours drive to singapore 😂. But if indonesians do claim they use the same word in their speaking too, then idk what to say 😂😌🤐
Ken just made this 10 times more hilarious
I'M LIVING FOR KEN BEING SUPER PETTY TOWARDS HENRY
“It’s a texture of Singapore”. Probably the best one liner explaining “lah”.
In the 80s, there was a college girl in Singapore wrote an essay paper about Singlish. It's titled "English where got like that one?" The story made it to major papers in the US.
Ken is korean lmao and there's literally no similarities between korean and singlish😩😂
YX Lau None of them actually speaks Singlish
its supposed to be a fun game lol. Not an actual quiz.
@@lllllllllarose Henry Golding and Michelle Yeoh are Malaysians. Manglish shares similar traits to Singlish.
But Korean and Hokkien do have some similarities. Ken should pick up one word or two tho.
Ken Jeong is hilarious! "My manager has told me that, who is also my *mom*."
HAHAHA!! That's asian mom for you.
I love this so much!! Asians mostly get make fun of their language and accent, but in this video is like kinda of embracing the language.
I was born and raised in Philippines. I stayed in Indonesia for quite some time, and I came back sounding like Michelle Yeoh. I'm keeping it 😂
its ironic that the main casts are not singaporean
Yew Phin Teoh lol.
Bcos how many sgreans r actually crazy rich? Most r foreigners parking money here what?
Henry’s mom is Sarawakian, Michele is from Perak Malaysia, idk the rest.
Bakri Halim still... not singaporean
it sounds like you are saying "its ironic that Man of Steel is cast by a British"
Shiok is a borrowing from Malay that has acquired multiple uses and meanings in everyday Singapore English. It is an exclamation expressing admiration or approval, just like 'cool!' and 'great!'
it's "Shock" in English, not Malay.
it's a malay slang, but singaporean somehow turned it into english, so idk
syok is the malay word, same pronunciation
As a Singaporean, i think "LAH" and "SHIOK" are the closest terms to be considered as Singlish, the rest are just words from other languages like the Malay language that most Singaporeans use. I guess that's what you get when you have different people of different ethnicity living together for half a century. And Chilli Crab is just a restaurant dish :) Great video guys!
Lah is also adopted from the Malay language. Shiok is Hokkien. As long as you speak with a Singapore accent with Singapore grammar and vocabulary, it's considered Singlish.
what about walao
Angelus9015 siok from bruneian malay....and coincidencely similiar to hokkien. LAH can be found throughout sea archipelago..even in Bali
Santos Lewynn ya lah, they have so much banana in Singapore they forgot that they a actually Pisang.
Well that's what living in Singapore is speaking more singlish that have malay and hokkien and abit of Indian slang.. Mandarin words like bojiao Wal Lau Wei are not singlish.. Those are mandarin people uses around the world so not singlish to me..
Manglish and Singlish are similar in such as they both contain english, malay, chinese (and the dialects), tamil and probably more. However, Manglish uses more malay words compared to Singlish, which typically uses more words from the chinese dialects. In this video, they used the “Singlish” words from malay so it may seem that it’s more of Manglish than Singlish.
"mind grapes" reminder that ken jeong's a doctor
"Lah" is the suffix in Malay/Indonesian language. The affix that put at the end of words. It just a particle.
Golding and Yeoh obviously knows what these words mean. Yeoh is residing in Malaysia and Golding IS Malaysian.
theyre both malaysian tho.
Malaysians. Michelle Yeoh is Malaysian and Henry G is Malaysian currently living in Singapore.
Michelle Yeoh is actually a Malaysian , she’s from Ipoh haha
Michelle Yeoh from Ipoh from Peninsular Malaysia and Henry Golding are mix Europe Malaysian.His father is Europe and his mother from Borneo (Sarawak), Malaysia.His mother is IBAN(a big ethnic in Sarawak)
I love how Michelle Yeoh says MAKAN that I repeated it many times 😂💖👌
The way Michelle Yeoh describes the chili crab instantly makes me crave for it... marvellous!!
Ken jeong is legend. A very humorous doctor ❤️
"Have you seen the movie La La Land, lah?" - LOL
i'm living for audrey who laughs so much over ken jeong and his beautifully hilarious remarks. i would have laughed so much too 😂 😂 😂
"I'm not just shook, i'm SHIOK "
HAHAHAAH OMG she had me here
Elvis Presley used the word "shook". His music was very popular in Singapore during the 60s. I wouldn't be surprised if it became "shiok".
Henry: "when you lapar, then you makan"
Subtitles: "when you (speaks foreign language) then you makan"
😂
The actors here (in the video) are not from Singapore - they are Malaysian, a Malaysian/British, A Korean and a Chinese American. The story was set in Singapore but filmed mostly Malaysia and Changi Airport.
I once met my Singaporean friend, and he ways more to say "Lah" in the end of every his words😂 since I'm Indonesian, I found it still interesting though I understand the meaning since the begining
Very smart of you,lahh!!
Love how Makan and Lapa (as what Henry said haha) means eat in english. It sounded like mangan (to eat) which is a word from the ilocano dialect here in the Philippines and Lapa sounded like lafang, colloquial term for eat also here in the PH. :D
I clicked coz Dr Ken Jeong is here 🤣👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Michelle Yeoh 😍 she's aging beautifully 💕
“All about henry and his abs” 😂😂
AHHH IM SO PROUD TO SEE THIS VIDEO!!! i always wanted a vid where celebs explain singlish ahahah
Ken is Korean.
😂😂😂
Shannon Mc None of them is Singaporean.
Crazy rich Asians is up there with my favourite films ever. Wish they would make a second movie. I watch it at least twice a month
michelle yeoh is malaysia. it's impossible for her not to know.
Michelle Yeoh and Hendry are Malaysians. Generally, Malaysia and Singapore share most cultures in common.
0:53 A MOOD I LOVE HER 😂
Okay but Constance making jokes and laughing at them more compared to the interviewer, and then wanting walk out to save face is me.
OR A CRAB THATS REALLLLYYY COLD hahhahahaa so cute omg aw
"It is a texture of Singapore"
- Ken Jeong, 2018
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍🌶🍋😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
“how are you lah”
wtf is that
Ikr! I'm Malaysian and that's not how we use it too
EXACTLY. I cringed
Just saw it for the second time. Still loved and enjoyed it. Never going to the theater to see a movie twice. I m crazy for CRA.
'lah' comes from the Malay language. It is a word ending that expresses emphasis or to issue a command.
Never mind Michelle is actually from Ipoh.
Interestingly chinese language also has a word 啦 (pronnounced lah) to use at the end of words to make it sound more informal with the same nuances as singlish
@@XxiaoMinn very interesting indeed. Makes one wonder whether Malay borrowed it from a Chinese language. Which Chinese language is it?
@@chacmool2581 mandarin, cantonese,
My malay butt screamed the meaning of every word when the actors cant answer them and jumped every time michele yeoh explains every word in details yes queen
did they use any singlish in the movie? i checked the trailer, they used 'normal' american english. i haven't seen the movie 'coz not yet played in my country. so disappointed if they did not use any singlish as the story background i believe in singapore.
I like Crazy RIch Asians. I love HENRY GOLDING of LAST CHRISTMAS very much
I’m not just shook I’m shIIIOOOOK
Henry Golding & Michelle Yeoh are so refreshing
Erm thats because both of them are Malaysian and they would definitely understand all if nt most of the slangs. Because of the shared culture between Singapore and Malaysia our slangs are like 80-90% the same.
0:40 "how are you, lah?" That is a Singaporean crime. Maybe "how are you hah?" and the "har" in a very blur tone, maybe that can.
Yah omg I cringed so much at that
In malaysia, we say "how are you ah?"
IDK about Singapore, but in Malaysia, we do say "Long time no see. How are you lah?"
@@AddyLepak huh? Never heard anyone say like this before. It always ends with ah when we ask how is someone.
Addy Lepak really?
In Malaysia have that slang . Michelle Yeoh and Henry Golding is Malaysia,so they two that meaning.
"-Lah" is such a difficult word to explain tbh. Like if you wanna translate "okay lah".. We know what it means. I get your tone and the meaning of that tone, it means "i have other opinions but im too tired to voice them out cause really really your opinion is as good so let's just go with that" ← all of that.. Cause you used "lah"
Michelle yoeh is so cultured and connected to the roots...
“LAH” - used it when we were in Beijing! 😅 yeah it was like a slang-ish? tour guide would answer us with “OKAY LAH”
MAKAN - in the Philippines it a word from Ilocano dialect w/c also means eat/food #ASIANsLoveFood
Makan is eat in Indonesia
Constance Wu gets a pass because she played an American who was just visiting Singapore, but Ken Jeong played a Singaporean person so he's inexcusable.
Can we just settle and agree they're both Malaysian n Singaporean words? Seriously this fight over word origin is just going childish n demeaning.
The host, Audrey Cleo, is stunning in that outfit
Technically, *chilli crab* isn't Singlish...
Michelle Yeoh is still a babe. She was a Bond Girl on "Tomorrow Never Dies". More like "Tomorrow Never Comes"....this woman does not age!
Chilli crab not singlish lah.... simi sai man... michelle yeoh and henry are the only ones that show anyone genuine understanding. But den again, they explain ang moh also don’t understand
also because they're both Malaysians ;)
I’m moving to Singapore next week and I can’t wait 😬 thanks for the Singlish tips!
SINGAPORE REPRESENT 🇸🇬
proud with michelle & henry!!..
Question - Is Michelle Chinese? Malaysian? Chinese-Malaysian? Or Chinese that grew up in Singapore or Malaysia?
She's Malaysian Chinese.
I remember she was miss Malaysia. I traveled to Singapore once (5 years ago), I think they speak just like an Asian trying to perfect English in USA, kind of English that just Asian with Asian knows that who is better in English. And Singaporeans not only Chinese Cantonese but mandarin, and Malay, Thailand, Vietnamese,... só for me, such words like Lah, shiek or else not that so popular in normal public. Maybe the ones in the same community do speak like that. I was just a Vietnamese young traveler at that time, and it was my first time to go abroad, so what I can remember just that. Now when I have been in USA for 4 years, I still think Singlish is not that much alian words combined as the English in Chinatown USA 🤔
phuong nguyen that’s really wrong LOL most of us use lah shiok and so on so forth, we just change the way we speak for foreigners to understand us better. Sometimes we break down our english so travellers from other asian countries can understand us.
Malaysia has a large native-born ethnic Chinese population dating back centuries. Michelle was born to a mainly Cantonese-speaking Chinese community in Ipoh and grew up in an English/Malay-speaking household. Later on she brushed up her Cantonese for her roles in Hong Kong action movies, and spent a year learning Mandarin for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
KDLC she is Malaysian Chinese
Idk why are people fighting abt who and who's words are their from but im 100% sure that Malaysian and Singaporean people share the same languege which is mixed Chinese(well there's more to chinese such as hokkien), Malay,English and more
ik every single word here but im frm malaysia not singapore.
Michelle is such a QUEEN! She was the main reason I watched the movie and she was my favourite character. Totally bad arse!!!!
(Gemma Chan's was my second favourite!)
More of Malaysian English honestly
Yeah😂😂
Lol nope, honestly its singapore malaysian english
These 2 countries share a lot in common
Because in Singapore, Malay words are often used back in the days? I see alot of salty Malaysians trying to fight about whether its not Singlish but Malaysian English. Singlish is more recognized internationally because we DO use these words almost in our everyday life. Do you guys even used it often? LOL
umm hello? yes we do.
I am French but lived and worked in Singapore for a year and a half! I won't lie, I was proud to see that I knew all of the slang ;)
IM SHIOK
*Ken Jeong is just to fun to watch!! He will be a great friend to hang around with!*
The words are more Manglish (Malay + English) than Singlish 😒
That's right, but people only recognize Singapore.
Fariha Mohamed Hilmy Tenang teman, filem ini sepatutnya cerita pasal Singapura. Walaupun mostly filmed in Malaysia and most main cast dia bukan Singaporean pun, saja ja nak tanya sebab filem tu. Kesian gak Mat Salleh asyik nampak Bali ja kat Indonesia kan? Biar orang lain bodoh tak tahu, gaduh dengan orang-orang ignorant meluat nanti jadi. Kita tau, depa rugi tak tau.
All Asian women are BEAUTIFUL and that’s a fact
Um manglish too
"Lah" is such an addition word at the last of your sentence. It's commonly used in the Malay Archipelago such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam, and definitely Singapore.
Omg this is relatable to Indonesian and Malaysian English too. My God Michelle Yeoh can speak Bahasa (our language) lah cause she is from Malay.
Ken know nothing bcs he's a Korean yo. Thats very far away from Southeast Asia.
i was today years old when i found out that henry is a sarawakian!! im so happy to find out a malaysian celebrity that isnt from semenanjung or any famous towns 😂😂
its a distortion term of endearment like in sanskrit lal to a short version lah
im not even chinese but the “LAH” culture is so contagious ive lived in a chinese speaking country for a couple of years and now im very much stuck with “lah” when i speak to my chinese friends
who the heck says “how are u lah”
Yaa.. we said how are u meh 😂😂
1:21 Isn't that the doctor who read some questions in a video..i don't actually remember from which channel..lol..he was so savage while giving answers to them😂😂
I thought this said Sinhalese, and then I realized that it wasn’t
Michelle grew up from Ipoh, Malaysia. She would speak Cantonese too! Ipoh is famous for their Ipoh thick noodle!
70% of this singlish is indonesian language. Such as Makan, Lah ( i know it's more common to be use in malaysia or singapore but indonesia also use it generally), or maybe some word in movie like sate (satai).
This comment means nothing but just an information so you know that we share the same culture. And sorry for my english (it's BAD). And i don't know who the first country use that word from historical background. So yeah..
of course an indonesian had to claim
To sum up your comment, ID, MY and SG are pretty much similar in terms of slangs and food so don't claim everything is from your country ya :)
no stress, just chillin' ay bro i aint claiming anything its this dude pesek banget whos doing it im just stating what ive been observing
Wan Izzati I was replying to that pesek banget not you 😅
no stress, just chillin' haha ooo my bad!!!!
We also have a similar meaning of MAKAN here in the philippines.. its an ilocano word (one of the filipino dialect)