She sounds that way all the time. Is that what is termed the "Valley Girl" accent? ... And why is she almost always asking questions? ... I don't know; she sounds pretty funny. ... By the way, the Filipina sounds to be the most reserved and nervous among the girls in her speech due to her shyness. And that South African likes to hear herself speak. ... But that Malaysian? ... She's HOT.
I don’t think ranking them is very meaningful- English is spoken in so many places, so native English speakers can understand lots of different accents. All of the girls here are fluent and easy to understand
Agreed. I've met french people with amazing accents and vocabulary, and I've also met Dutchies who sounded... Well I suppose that's how Dutch is supposed to sound like but I don't have so many examples there 😂.
As an American myself, I find her English extremely slow and not representative of the speed that English is typically spoken across much of the country and among most of the regional accents. Even in the South, her speed would be considered slow.
Ranking a country's English sounds ridiculous. Only because English speaking fluency and accents are influenced by a host of factors. E.g. in India there are 22 official languages of the states and 2 official languages of the Union Hindi and English. An organisation called the People's Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI) has published 50 volumes of an exhaustive survey where they declare the great nation to have 66 different scripts and over 780 spoken languages. According to the National Census, there are 1365 rationalised mother tongues and 234 identifiable mother tongues, all adding up to 1599. This is besides the 122 major languages. Furthermore, it also depends on the school you go to, whether you live in an urban or rural setting and your socioeconomic status. Also, as alluded to earlier, there will be differing levels of influence of our mother tongues and other Indian languages spoken. I was surprised when I was told I had an accent when I moved to Australia as a student. Because in India the English I spoke would be considered 'neutral' or without an accent. And the other accents that I'd heard were American, British, Australian etc.
@@howtouzisure, though India has more English speakers than most English speaking countries so more people speak English with an Indian accent than most of the 'native' English accents.
In India, accents can be based on your state or region within the state. India has two official languages and 22 scheduled (official) languages.( 23 in totoal). Each state has its regional languages and medium of education. So the mother tongue plays an important role in shaping the accent. In my state itself more than dozen indigenous lanagues are recognised as lanagues (but are not given official status) and the state gov recently approved of 5 indigenous Languages as medium of education for primary schools. ( So we have 8-9 different medium of education in a single state)
As a Brazilian, I think Indian English is the most interesting because in Brazilian Portuguese, when we pronounce words in English as we would read them in Portuguese, we pronounce them like Indians pronounce words, but if you hear them speak, when they speak quickly, it's kind of hard to understand, so I think it's interesting that even when we sound similar it's still hard to understand because my ears are trained to hear American English. Even so, I understood everything the girls said because they spoke very clearly and not quickly. I think I would have some difficulty understanding them if they spoke faster, but to be honest, I think that's my problem because I have some difficulty understanding even Brazilian Portuguese speakers when they speak too fast.
If Indians use the international phonetic alphabet in their English they will have the most logical, phonetic, literal and easiest English in the world. It's time for Indians to do this for good and step out of the shadows of the British and Statenitans forever.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
How is your reading speed? You can only perceive spoken language as fast as you can read, some words are skipped because your brain can't process them quickly enough. Also as we get older our hearing is not as good and some of the sounds blends in and will sound different, so also harder to understand others
I think it's bc Indian languages don't have stress tone. Like in English u have to stress certain syllables and draws the time longer. Indians when speaking English tend to follow their mother language habits and do not emphasize on certain syllables like it's meant to be, which makes it all clumped together and sound extremely fast
It is amazing how diverse the english levels are in the philippines as a whole and within various philippine populations. There are some who speak/write english perfectly, many who speak english poorly and write perfectly, many who speak/write english in perfect grammar but with unintelligible pronunciation, and many who speak a native english vocabulary full of american idioms but can't write grammatically intelligible english....and of course most just speak filipino (and/or local dialect) full of english words wherever the english word is shorter to say, more commonly associated, and/or wherever the topic gets into deep language. Occasionally you'll run across a, usually older, filipino who can speak in a pure native dialect at all topic levels. Things get most interesting when you get filipinos together with no shared dialect and they break out the english (many regions have much better english because this is more often necessary for them).
when you mention local dialect, could you give an example? 😊Would like to know what variant of that language you're referring to. Considering we're talking about languages, it's probably a good time to learn the difference between languages and dialects :)
@@partyeslife8157 that in itself is an interesting topic, there is a lot of debate about how much variation in words and grammar is required to signify a different dialect and then again how much is required to create a different language. I lean toward there being more dialects of most languages than are recognized in the linguistics community -- for example there is no way that north carolinian english is the same dialect as californian english or that either is of the same dialect as huntsville or brooklyn, let alone south african or kiwi. Back to the philippines, for example, in luzon, where most people speak "tagalog" as the primary local language, different areas will use different words or slightly different grammar... the further you travel the greater the number of variations to where it gets to be enough that they refer to it as a different dialect. Many consider it a different dialect when mutual intelligibility reaches a certain statistical threshold, while others hold to it being more about grammar variance. It is a hotly debated topic exactly how many distinct dialects are spoken in the philippines (and this has been debated for hundreds of years and in the last 100+ years a whole bunch of commissions have formed just to discuss/investigate the topic) and there is also some debate about whether some are distinct enough to be categorized as their own languages. For language stratification some use intelligibility and variance while others use root word originations. So even each expert of philippine language would give you different answers. Decades ago I was told there were around 250 dialects + languages in the philippines. More recently I hear around 120 languages with several hundred dialects of those languages. But language itself is dynamic, so who knows? Heck, it took them who knows how much money and how many years to come up with a standard for the "Filipino" language as distinct from Tagalog (a distinction of little concern to most Filipinos).
@@Doing_Time now this is probably the best answer/response has given me while i troll them online lol yes, my parents and their generation use the word dialect while the younger crowd late 90s 00s+ tend to use language. It seems like the definition of a dialect was different when they were going to school back in the philippines. Now a days what defines a dialect would be regarding mutual intelligibility. Languages are formed once the particular dialect has evolved into such a way that they can no longer be understood between one another. Like a parent child relationship, which splits forming little clusters and pockets of variants of the languages. Found this cool when i was learning spanish/italian/portuguese and saw the similarities due to latin root words. At the time i was calling them the dialects of Latin 😂So Ilocano being called a dialect, it makes me say "dialect of which language? - this is my response to my parents saying the Ilocano Dialect. :) I liike to dumb it down saying look, If you wanna call Ilocano a dialect and Tagalog a dialect and Cebuano a dialect, then we should might as well call Malay, and all the other Austronesian variants a dialect too! Anyways, have a good one!
Bangladeshi people's accent is different and unique from other south asians they tend to speak the english of the country they learn like if they learn american english they will have that accent and if british then that accent..we dont only talk in english in our country even if we do its similar to american accent..
@@maremaralte5939 have you even ever seen a fluent speaking Bangladeshi?? don't just go around sharing hateful opinions we dont speak English that much in Bangladesh so not everyone here is fluent and even if we are we use amercian accent mostly and accent she's speaking is mixed as you can see cause she's not fluent go see a fluent bangladeshi English speaker then say "WoRsT AcCeNT iN tHe WoRLd"
@@chaeryyou typical bangladeshi local people english is worst ever, each non english speaking countries have many people who are fluent in english with a precise accent... but i mean local, dont deny it you guys are terrible
Most people can't tell American and Canadian English apart, so there's your answer, unless you're dealing with unusually thick rural or antiquated American and Canadian accents. The spelling is probably the most different thing about the two, we Canadians spell more like the UK than the US, but we sound much more like the US.
@@karllogan8809 For me, the best way I can tell the difference between Canadian English and American English is that Canadian English speakers tend to pronounce words with the vowel "o" in them very differently, examples are; about, coat, process etc. In general, there's a slight difference in the pronounciation of vowels in comparision to American English. Secondly, the writing part also helps but I think if I don't hear the person talking, I won't be able to easily tell if it's canadian or american english (except if they write colour, then I know right away what it is 🤣). That's just me as a foreigner! You can correct me if I'm wrong since you're Canadian anyway, I'd love to know more!
i'm filipino, came here as a child, could distinguish between ilocano and tagalog english lol. What really makes me laugh is the eastern English spoken by the locals. The ones that get made fun of a lot are the Newfie and New Brunswick accents lol
@@EagleOverTheSea there are Call Centers in the Phil. that caters not just america and canada but Australia, Europe, MIddle East and East and Southeast Asia.
Finally, a video about accents cause my last comment on another video about why Singapore has the best English in terms of Fluency while Philippines has the best Accent in Asia. So people can understand the difference between fluency and accent.
But it's all subjective. I find Malaysian English far more easier to understand than some Indian English. We have heaps of South Africans here in Australia so it's much easier, although Afrikaan native speakers do have a very thick accents and are a little more difficult to understand. I never knew Bangladesh had English as an official accent. The Phillipines accent is heavily influenced with the US accent because they adopted the American school system. The US have had a very big influence on many parts of Filipino lives, from schooling, government, infrastructure and more since the end of WW2.
in fluency singapore over philippines? no. they score higher in one specific exam (thats not even IELTS, its probably even sponsored by singapore) and then rated is as the "global ranking". singapore is only doing marketing as they always do to boost their country's reputation but in real life? filipino speaks way way better english than any southeast asian country. not even singapore is on their level.
@@rots.866 omg here we go again. Do some research. What do you think will happen to a country with many language Malay, Mandarin, Hindi, etc. what do you think they will use as a language medium for communication in day to day? Unlike in the PH we use Tagalog as the medium to speak with Bisaya, Ilonggo, Waray, Kapampangan, ilokano etc.
The American girl be like "like, maybe like, like, also like, like, umm like, like, it's like, like, don't you like" and then would speak at .50 speed. 😭
I usually speak English with Malaysians. I love the way they use ‘nah’, ‘lah’, 'ya' to make a sentence less serious (no worries nahhh :D). It’s similar to my language. Sometimes, when learning English, I feel it can be a bit too stern.
Going by her responses, the Indian girl is from the North (likely Delhi) as her opinions reflect the biases I have noticed in other North Indians from the Delhi-UP belt. They regularly forget that Gujaratis and Punjabis have perhaps the largest numbers of immigrants and the generic Indian accent that is parodied in American media sounds like a mix of Punjabi and Gujarati accents.
I have many friends from south cauz i worked in Bengaluru, they sound really like their regional languages such as kannada, tamil, etc. they like to use a tone for the end of every sentence..😀 same goes with northern languages...but I feel that in American dramas they kinda exaggerated the accent just for making fun...
@@RiyaAdvani7Actually this channel is all about stereotypes. They have hire people which fits their own agenda who doesn't even have any knowledge about their country like the Bangladeshi girl literally said that English is used as the second official language of Bangladesh but the reality is Bangla(real name) is the only official and national language their. So although this channel is called world friends but still they hire same people from same countries and stereotypes them and their viewers just tend to fight each other in the comment section which is very good for them😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
im a filipino and contrary to what she (american) said, we dont tried hard to sound or speak english in a clear manner but clarity is within our veins we "TAGALOG" speak really clear.
LMAO. BS because only tagalog. Even your english here is wrong. 😂 Kung ang google niyo ay googel, noodles niyo ay noodels, uncle niyo ay angkel. Ano naman ang table?
As an English person, I am surprised how many country's use the English language. The south African girl spoke the more RP English, Therefore sounded most British.
True that which is similar to Zimababwean English. British missionary schools cemented the language during colonial Rhodesian times. If you hear old speeches from Robert Mugabe you would think he was born in England from the mid 20th century since he sounded like an old BBC presenter. I guess it is not surprising as we still receive BBC radio and television transmissions via different delivery methods the internet included and I personally would watch the old BBC documentaries and think that they made the best documentaries compared to anywhere else in the world.
@@twotec-9s Hence I mentioned old documentaries they were somewhat balanced back then than today. You have to remember that they were created by a different generation many of those people are no longer with us and it was pre-internet and television was a new thing. Journalistic ethics were stringent back then compared to now.
@@subject_7 exactly. So happy to see someone talking about my country Zimbabwe too. We speak British English. Our accent is a little more similar to the South African English accent now but in the past you'd think we were all British people. Haha
@@SiddheshDesai-r1m Many people from Northeast India have East Asian facial features, such as monolid or epicanthic fold eyes, a flatter nose, and higher cheekbones. These features are more similar to those of people from neighboring countries like China,Japan thailand , Korea, Philippines etc.
as french, at school they teach more english uk than english US haha, i had more british english teachers but i had also english teacher with american accent, we are used to both but i prefer english us than english uk
Of course we were able to grasp some of each of those accents but it really depends on the person. If you pick other people from every of those countries, you might get a totally different level of enunciation and therefore understanding. Pretty interesting video though. Kudos to all of you!
Most Malaysians nowadays especially the new generation speak with less local accent (and it's becoming less and less over the years) because they learn english mostly from social media and western movies/shows especially from the US and UK than in school. Easy access of internet plays major role for that. It's not a bad thing though, their pronunciations are much better now if you look in the positive way.
Not everyone is going to speak in the same accent in Malaysia especially we have many ethnicities and types of schools and also types of media. Unlike Singapore, Malaysia has more than just one accent.
Actually in Malaysia "normal Malay school" also teaches 7 ish languages, I said ish cuz it depends on the region, the languages are Siam(Thai), Semai, Punjabi, Arab, Iban, Kadazan and Japanese.
I don’t see any school offering Siamese yet and punjabi must be studied in a specific institution and for Japanese it’s offered in government secondary schools while Chinese, tamil, arab, Iban, kadazandusun and semai are offered in government malay primary schools and also offered at government secondary schools in Malaysia.
Point of view is from an American. Thus, The Philippines 🇵🇭 has an advantage: that is the only nation in Asia 🌏 which has variant of an American English as an official language due to being an ex colony of the USA 🇺🇸 All the other nations listed here use British 🇬🇧 English. As an American, I disagree 👎 with the fellow American: English from Canada 🇨🇦 is the easiest to understand. My Vancouver relatives have 90% echo of my San Francisco 🌁 accent. 2 English from The Philippines 🇵🇭 3 British 🇬🇧 English. 4 South Africa 🇿🇦 5 Australia 🇦🇺 6 New Zealand 🇳🇿
By that logic you should've put Americans 1st then. I've never met native Canadians who have never spoken English (their native language btw) from birth.
Though English is second official language here in Ph., We still have a lot of Local languages here as our mother tounge so English are mostly the 3rd or 4th language of filipinos except for central Tagalogs. Most of the native languages here lack of f,v,z, and th sound and the consonants are only ah, eh, ii, ow, oo sound. Philippine languages are also VSO in word order and the pronouns are gender neutral so sometimes our word order in English are not in a way of SVO especially with the use of preposition, particles, and some conjunction. We have a lot of enclitic particles as well on our native languages so sometimes we cant express the way we speak in Filipino.
According to the 2023 EF/EPI English Proficiency Index, the countries with the highest English proficiency globally are: Netherlands Austria Denmark Norway Belgium Sweden Luxembourg Germany Poland Finland Some additional points: The Netherlands leads the overall ranking with "very high" proficiency. Singapore is also ranked with "very high" proficiency, ranking 2nd overall. Europe dominates the top of the ranking, with 8 European countries in the top 10. Other highlights include the Philippines (20th) and Malaysia (25th) with "moderate" proficiency in Asia. In Latin America, Argentina is the best performing country, ranked with "high" proficiency and in 28th position overall. Therefore, considering data from the EF EPI 2023, European countries, especially the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark and Norway, lead in terms of overall English proficiency worldwide. Singapore stands out as the highest-ranking non-European country.
I found it rather awkward to have a theme of ranking the accents. I'm from Pennsylvania, USA, and understood each young lady very well. Their speech was clear and smooth.
I am from Bangladesh and I must say that we are definitely one of the best English speaking countries in the world besides India and rest of the countries
I think Spanish is very big in the US, I think there is also a big influence on the accent in parts because of Spanish. Even though it's not an "official" language, I think it should be considered as there are just so many speakers of it, around 16% speak it natively of bilingually, that's over 50 million people. But ranking people only leads to arguments, there's nothing productive about it at all. Everyone has an accent and even fluent speakers can be harder to understand than someone that is not so fluent. My boss is Chinese and her English is very good, but her accent is quite thick and can lead to misunderstandings sometimes. But there is also another person at work whose English isn't as fluent but their accent is much softer and far easier to understand. It doesn't matter what country you're from, there are people from there that are easy to understand and harder to understand.
The easiest accent is the one you are most used to listening and anyone who speaks that accent (including yourself) would seem neutral to you. Like the American girl said, she grew up thinking she didn't have an accent until perhaps she travelled abroad.
comparing their accent is not good idea.because they are professional they know how to adjust... we comparing about accent those people lives in rural area. so that we will know who is better accent.😊
johncarlolibadia4052 you are the one having issue with how a Malaysian should sound like when clearly Malaysia has many accents and you are not even from Malaysia so who are you to judge her? It’s her not “him” so fix your English before commenting again.
Actually this channel is all about stereotypes. They have hire people which fits their own agenda who doesn't even have any knowledge about their country like the Bangladeshi girl literally said that English is used as the second official language of Bangladesh but the reality is Bangla(real name) is the only official and national language their. So although this channel is called world friends but still they hire same people from same countries and stereotypes them and their viewers just tend to fight each other in the comment section which is very good for them😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yah, I can't speak Hindi and it's nothing strange because we also have our own culture and language. They can't make Hindi the only official language and impose it to all Indians because it is like disrespecting our culture
Two countries that wasn't in this video where the official language is English are Belize and Canada. It was awesome to see these ladies from their countries and what their English sounds like. I definitely knew that English is one of South Africa's official languages. I think it would have been nice if that South African girl in this video would have mentioned that actress Charlize Theron was born and raised in South Africa. When Charlize speaks in English her voice literally sounds like she has a normal American accent. She also speaks Afrikaans which is one of the other official languages of South Africa. Definitely a great video though.
Did you know the present native Americans are also the original English speakers. The US and UK share common roots but as people adopt in different regions they sound different and that's how they have their own way of speaking it.
"They try really hard to sound fluent.." girl..even someone talks with Japanese accent, they could be fluent. American accent ≠ English language fluency.
Sorry, I'm a Malaysian too but I'm really comfortable with British English. Maybe because I was taught in BrE during my school days. Kids nowadays are more to AmE, especially with that rhotic accent. They may find that BrE is more complicated than AmE due to several accents. Watching films from the UK might help them with different accents.
Girl not everyone speaks Hindi or not the official language of the state there are so many states, we don't have Hindi in our schools mostly specially in Government or Govt spons school, we have Sanskrit and Devnagri script. But English is common for every school.
@@Kooookaatiif you are Indian you should know there are about 20+ official languages in India. English is probably the most common but we Indians focus on by-hearting the grammar to simply pass examinations rather than learning to speak English, I am sure this statement is correct
South Africa 🇿🇦🇬🇧if you didn’t know is a English speaking country, we were colonised by the British for over 200years…We tend to have similarities with Australia and New Zealand
To me as long as you are understood, then it is good. I never lost my Filipino accent or Visayan, geez. I have lived in Canada for more than 30 years now still..hehe because so many Pinoys here. I am the only one speaking Filipino in the house. Our common language is English yet I still have the accent.
I am from North East India & here English is just the basic local language just like our mother tongue ....We grew up watching Walt Disney , Harry Potter , Nancy Drew & all the English movies & commedies & hearing all the hit English Songs from Bryan Adams , Backstreet Boys , Westlife , One Direction , Titanic, Twilight & many many more .... But , I am personally a big fan of UK English accent the Harry Potter English which is so pleasing to hear ....Yup , American english is fast & quick but British english is just like honey It depends upon person to person & states to states ....My state is still more of a UK English fan
The indian girl definitely was from delhi-up belt!! Talking about south indian accent as if north indians are any different. Every indian have an accent whether u like it or not!! And she literally forgot that punjabis are the most popular community from india!!! So no its definitely not just south accent thats shown in the media. Also education in india is not just in hindi or eng its done in every other regional language!!!
She has a very strong accent, yet try to insult others. South India has highest no of English speakers, she is speaking in a way that up, bihar, Orissa are better English speakers than South indians. North Indian have less English speakers and least developed part of india
I'm sorry but the girl American accent is harder for the non speakers,,,, We don't exactly carry any specific accents.... Our actions come from our mother languages actually.... So the main point is accent is not important....Just speak clearly so that we could understand
It's interesting, I found they all had better English than the American. I suppose that it is because I have worked with all of the nationalities apart from people from the US. It is odd that the woman from the US wasn't aware that Approximately 430 languages are spoken or signed by people in the US, of which 177 are indigenous to the U.S. or its territories.
Considering the information on proficiency and mastery of English in world friends, those who should evaluate the excellent speaking and oratory of English and quiz nowadays are the Nordic countries, Germany, Austria, Netherlands and Belgium and Luxembourg and Finland. These countries must say within the channel which Anglophone and non-Anglophone countries speak English well or not. It is biased and unfair to give English assessment to countries that do not have full command or proficiency in English. This has to change on all Korean entertainment channels 🎡🎠 the day before yesterday.
I always thought south african was the hardest of all "native" english "accents", until I traveled the world...now I rank it right behind north carolinian and kiwi english. However, I'm going to argue that many of the most difficult english "accents" are confounded by different "dialects" with even their own grammar rules
Even in the UK. There are different accents like how people from Liverpool (scousers) speak English compared to people from London who attended colleges in London speaks standard English.
We don't use English as official language, unlike Philippines & Malaysia who fail to use Malay / Tagalog to unite the people & had to resort to use English as the "bridge" language. Which is kind of weird because we have more local languages than both of you combined.
@@tevikumares5022 oh I am not saying non Malay in Malaysia can't speak Malay. But are you denying a huge chunk of them are not native level in Malay and have to use English to some extent to communicate? Hence I call them "bridge language", even if it's not as bad as in The Philippine. If you want to bury your head in the sand then that's your call.
Once again you are not from Malaysia to say for us and not to mention you generalize "Malaysia" as in the whole Malaysia. And the huge chunk of them don't even speak English so what are you on about?
The American girl sounded like she didn't sleep last night
😂😂😂 lol. This is the funniest comment I ever seen so far in this video🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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She Smokes Jamaican/dutch Cigs....
She sounds that way all the time. Is that what is termed the "Valley Girl" accent? ... And why is she almost always asking questions? ... I don't know; she sounds pretty funny. ... By the way, the Filipina sounds to be the most reserved and nervous among the girls in her speech due to her shyness. And that South African likes to hear herself speak. ... But that Malaysian? ... She's HOT.
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I don’t think ranking them is very meaningful- English is spoken in so many places, so native English speakers can understand lots of different accents. All of the girls here are fluent and easy to understand
Agreed. I've met french people with amazing accents and vocabulary, and I've also met Dutchies who sounded... Well I suppose that's how Dutch is supposed to sound like but I don't have so many examples there 😂.
You are right, but this is for all the views, they want million views
exactly, especially in this set up. Why would you decide how a whole country perform based on one individual?
The american girl speaks at 0.5x speed fr
She bad tho I wouldn’t mind if she speaks slow or not
As an American myself, I find her English extremely slow and not representative of the speed that English is typically spoken across much of the country and among most of the regional accents. Even in the South, her speed would be considered slow.
@@johnlabus7359 thought so
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Well she explains that in their region its more laid back american english that sometimes they called it lazy english coz its so slow 😄
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Why the American girl always saying Filipinos sound slow when they speak English when the Filipina girl here speaks twice as fast as her? 😂😂
Yes that is funny. Actually in Hong Kong the speaking speed of Filipinos I heard day to day is somehow like a machine gun.
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Non-native English speakers struggle to understand fast English.Maybe so, she chose to speak slowly.
Ranking a country's English sounds ridiculous. Only because English speaking fluency and accents are influenced by a host of factors. E.g. in India there are 22 official languages of the states and 2 official languages of the Union Hindi and English.
An organisation called the People's Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI) has published 50 volumes of an exhaustive survey where they declare the great nation to have 66 different scripts and over 780 spoken languages.
According to the National Census, there are 1365 rationalised mother tongues and 234 identifiable mother tongues, all adding up to 1599. This is besides the 122 major languages.
Furthermore, it also depends on the school you go to, whether you live in an urban or rural setting and your socioeconomic status.
Also, as alluded to earlier, there will be differing levels of influence of our mother tongues and other Indian languages spoken.
I was surprised when I was told I had an accent when I moved to Australia as a student. Because in India the English I spoke would be considered 'neutral' or without an accent. And the other accents that I'd heard were American, British, Australian etc.
Yeah, but internationally, there's a certain indian accent that we know when an indian speaks English.
Yeah, but internationally, there's a certain indian accent that we know when an indian speaks English.
@@howtouzisure, though India has more English speakers than most English speaking countries so more people speak English with an Indian accent than most of the 'native' English accents.
The ranking is based on how easy it is to understand for this American gal over here not how good it is per se.
@@urnotyummitrue. Ranked by an American girl who may not have been exposed to how English is spoken around the world.
In India, accents can be based on your state or region within the state. India has two official languages and 22 scheduled (official) languages.( 23 in totoal). Each state has its regional languages and medium of education. So the mother tongue plays an important role in shaping the accent.
In my state itself more than dozen indigenous lanagues are recognised as lanagues (but are not given official status) and the state gov recently approved of 5 indigenous Languages as medium of education for primary schools. ( So we have 8-9 different medium of education in a single state)
We've 22 official languages including hindi and English ....it is not 24..
@@alpha_soul_0001 it's actually 23 ( i thought hindi wasn't part of scheduled lanagues as it was a official language.)
@@jagatdeuri3261 yeah,22 are indian languages and +1 english.
There are 22 official language in the constitution... no such things anywhere found on your statement...please explain where you are study..
Which state r y frm?
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Is it monsoon season?
@@GuillermoCambro-cq3gl idk im just gaming at home lol
@GuillermoCambro-cq3gl yes but not raining everyday
@@GuillermoCambro-cq3gl Yes,now it's monsoon season in Bangladesh.
As a Brazilian, I think Indian English is the most interesting because in Brazilian Portuguese, when we pronounce words in English as we would read them in Portuguese, we pronounce them like Indians pronounce words, but if you hear them speak, when they speak quickly, it's kind of hard to understand, so I think it's interesting that even when we sound similar it's still hard to understand because my ears are trained to hear American English. Even so, I understood everything the girls said because they spoke very clearly and not quickly. I think I would have some difficulty understanding them if they spoke faster, but to be honest, I think that's my problem because I have some difficulty understanding even Brazilian Portuguese speakers when they speak too fast.
Thanks for sharing your view, as a Indian myself ❤
If Indians use the international phonetic alphabet in their English they will have the most logical, phonetic, literal and easiest English in the world. It's time for Indians to do this for good and step out of the shadows of the British and Statenitans forever.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
How is your reading speed? You can only perceive spoken language as fast as you can read, some words are skipped because your brain can't process them quickly enough. Also as we get older our hearing is not as good and some of the sounds blends in and will sound different, so also harder to understand others
Don't pretend, you're indian
I think it's bc Indian languages don't have stress tone. Like in English u have to stress certain syllables and draws the time longer.
Indians when speaking English tend to follow their mother language habits and do not emphasize on certain syllables like it's meant to be, which makes it all clumped together and sound extremely fast
It is amazing how diverse the english levels are in the philippines as a whole and within various philippine populations. There are some who speak/write english perfectly, many who speak english poorly and write perfectly, many who speak/write english in perfect grammar but with unintelligible pronunciation, and many who speak a native english vocabulary full of american idioms but can't write grammatically intelligible english....and of course most just speak filipino (and/or local dialect) full of english words wherever the english word is shorter to say, more commonly associated, and/or wherever the topic gets into deep language. Occasionally you'll run across a, usually older, filipino who can speak in a pure native dialect at all topic levels. Things get most interesting when you get filipinos together with no shared dialect and they break out the english (many regions have much better english because this is more often necessary for them).
when you mention local dialect, could you give an example? 😊Would like to know what variant of that language you're referring to. Considering we're talking about languages, it's probably a good time to learn the difference between languages and dialects :)
@@partyeslife8157 that in itself is an interesting topic, there is a lot of debate about how much variation in words and grammar is required to signify a different dialect and then again how much is required to create a different language. I lean toward there being more dialects of most languages than are recognized in the linguistics community -- for example there is no way that north carolinian english is the same dialect as californian english or that either is of the same dialect as huntsville or brooklyn, let alone south african or kiwi. Back to the philippines, for example, in luzon, where most people speak "tagalog" as the primary local language, different areas will use different words or slightly different grammar... the further you travel the greater the number of variations to where it gets to be enough that they refer to it as a different dialect. Many consider it a different dialect when mutual intelligibility reaches a certain statistical threshold, while others hold to it being more about grammar variance. It is a hotly debated topic exactly how many distinct dialects are spoken in the philippines (and this has been debated for hundreds of years and in the last 100+ years a whole bunch of commissions have formed just to discuss/investigate the topic) and there is also some debate about whether some are distinct enough to be categorized as their own languages. For language stratification some use intelligibility and variance while others use root word originations. So even each expert of philippine language would give you different answers. Decades ago I was told there were around 250 dialects + languages in the philippines. More recently I hear around 120 languages with several hundred dialects of those languages. But language itself is dynamic, so who knows? Heck, it took them who knows how much money and how many years to come up with a standard for the "Filipino" language as distinct from Tagalog (a distinction of little concern to most Filipinos).
@@Doing_Time now this is probably the best answer/response has given me while i troll them online lol yes, my parents and their generation use the word dialect while the younger crowd late 90s 00s+ tend to use language. It seems like the definition of a dialect was different when they were going to school back in the philippines. Now a days what defines a dialect would be regarding mutual intelligibility. Languages are formed once the particular dialect has evolved into such a way that they can no longer be understood between one another.
Like a parent child relationship, which splits forming little clusters and pockets of variants of the languages. Found this cool when i was learning spanish/italian/portuguese and saw the similarities due to latin root words. At the time i was calling them the dialects of Latin 😂So Ilocano being called a dialect, it makes me say "dialect of which language? - this is my response to my parents saying the Ilocano Dialect. :) I liike to dumb it down saying look, If you wanna call Ilocano a dialect and Tagalog a dialect and Cebuano a dialect, then we should might as well call Malay, and all the other Austronesian variants a dialect too! Anyways, have a good one!
Bangladeshi people's accent is different and unique from other south asians they tend to speak the english of the country they learn like if they learn american english they will have that accent and if british then that accent..we dont only talk in english in our country even if we do its similar to american accent..
Its her own accent may be she learn and practice alot, typical bangladeshi accent is worst ever in the world maybe
@@maremaralte5939 have you even ever seen a fluent speaking Bangladeshi?? don't just go around sharing hateful opinions we dont speak English that much in Bangladesh so not everyone here is fluent and even if we are we use amercian accent mostly and accent she's speaking is mixed as you can see cause she's not fluent go see a fluent bangladeshi English speaker then say "WoRsT AcCeNT iN tHe WoRLd"
@@maremaralte5939Rendian mallu 😂😂😂
@@chaeryyou typical bangladeshi local people english is worst ever, each non english speaking countries have many people who are fluent in english with a precise accent... but i mean local, dont deny it you guys are terrible
@@AbirAhmed-qm6jyekdøm thīk dhorsen.. ( ͡ʘ ͜ʖ ͡ʘ)
I wonder how they feel about Canadian English. There are a large Filipino and Indian Community, especially Vancouver and Toronto.
Most people can't tell American and Canadian English apart, so there's your answer, unless you're dealing with unusually thick rural or antiquated American and Canadian accents.
The spelling is probably the most different thing about the two, we Canadians spell more like the UK than the US, but we sound much more like the US.
@@karllogan8809 For me, the best way I can tell the difference between Canadian English and American English is that Canadian English speakers tend to pronounce words with the vowel "o" in them very differently, examples are; about, coat, process etc. In general, there's a slight difference in the pronounciation of vowels in comparision to American English. Secondly, the writing part also helps but I think if I don't hear the person talking, I won't be able to easily tell if it's canadian or american english (except if they write colour, then I know right away what it is 🤣). That's just me as a foreigner! You can correct me if I'm wrong since you're Canadian anyway, I'd love to know more!
i'm filipino, came here as a child, could distinguish between ilocano and tagalog english lol. What really makes me laugh is the eastern English spoken by the locals. The ones that get made fun of a lot are the Newfie and New Brunswick accents lol
I watch linus tech tips. I'm familiar with Canadian English. Not so sure about these girls.
I really like the South African girl’s accent ! Its smart, clear, on point and easy to understand
There's a reason why Philippines is becoming the call center capital of the world. They're very easy to understand.
@@damn671 America is not the world.
@@EagleOverTheSea i think american employs more Philippines and india than their own and its cheaper i think
@@EagleOverTheSea there are Call Centers in the Phil. that caters not just america and canada but Australia, Europe, MIddle East and East and Southeast Asia.
Most of them can't pronounce 'f', 'v', and the 'th' sounds in words like 'the, these, etc' LMAO
@@MrBlabax i'll take that over a very thick indian accent any day
Finally, a video about accents cause my last comment on another video about why Singapore has the best English in terms of Fluency while Philippines has the best Accent in Asia. So people can understand the difference between fluency and accent.
But it's all subjective. I find Malaysian English far more easier to understand than some Indian English. We have heaps of South Africans here in Australia so it's much easier, although Afrikaan native speakers do have a very thick accents and are a little more difficult to understand. I never knew Bangladesh had English as an official accent. The Phillipines accent is heavily influenced with the US accent because they adopted the American school system. The US have had a very big influence on many parts of Filipino lives, from schooling, government, infrastructure and more since the end of WW2.
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in fluency singapore over philippines? no. they score higher in one specific exam (thats not even IELTS, its probably even sponsored by singapore) and then rated is as the "global ranking". singapore is only doing marketing as they always do to boost their country's reputation but in real life? filipino speaks way way better english than any southeast asian country. not even singapore is on their level.
@@rots.866 omg here we go again.
Do some research. What do you think will happen to a country with many language Malay, Mandarin, Hindi, etc. what do you think they will use as a language medium for communication in day to day? Unlike in the PH we use Tagalog as the medium to speak with Bisaya, Ilonggo, Waray, Kapampangan, ilokano etc.
@@jacers14 here we go again? Lol. Clearly youve heard of this before because everyone doesnt agree with u so.
The American girl be like "like, maybe like, like, also like, like, umm like, like, it's like, like, don't you like" and then would speak at .50 speed. 😭
Fr fr😭
I like SA accent here. She is really fluent.
I like how the South African answers.. Shes very well spoken, accent on point and smart too😊
Im inlove the girl wearing the white dress The Bangladesh girl is so pretty 🥰😍🥺
BTW I'm from Philippines 🇵🇭
I'm from Bangladesh 🇧🇩✨
I usually speak English with Malaysians. I love the way they use ‘nah’, ‘lah’, 'ya' to make a sentence less serious (no worries nahhh :D). It’s similar to my language. Sometimes, when learning English, I feel it can be a bit too stern.
Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇧🇩
Going by her responses, the Indian girl is from the North (likely Delhi) as her opinions reflect the biases I have noticed in other North Indians from the Delhi-UP belt. They regularly forget that Gujaratis and Punjabis have perhaps the largest numbers of immigrants and the generic Indian accent that is parodied in American media sounds like a mix of Punjabi and Gujarati accents.
I had butterr chicken 🐣 for breakfast and I lovedd it.
She's east indian. Not north
I have many friends from south cauz i worked in Bengaluru, they sound really like their regional languages such as kannada, tamil, etc. they like to use a tone for the end of every sentence..😀
same goes with northern languages...but I feel that in American dramas they kinda exaggerated the accent just for making fun...
@@RiyaAdvani7Actually this channel is all about stereotypes. They have hire people which fits their own agenda who doesn't even have any knowledge about their country like the Bangladeshi girl literally said that English is used as the second official language of Bangladesh but the reality is Bangla(real name) is the only official and national language their. So although this channel is called world friends but still they hire same people from same countries and stereotypes them and their viewers just tend to fight each other in the comment section which is very good for them😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
im a filipino and contrary to what she (american) said, we dont tried hard to sound or speak english in a clear manner but clarity is within our veins we "TAGALOG" speak really clear.
“we dont tried hard”??? Bobo
LMAO. BS because only tagalog. Even your english here is wrong. 😂
Kung ang google niyo ay googel, noodles niyo ay noodels, uncle niyo ay angkel. Ano naman ang table?
you tagalogs pronounce feather with peder, father with paderr, apple with epol......
Waa... Awesome lah..!
As a Bangladeshi i used to hear american accent on 2x speed
Philippines is 4th largest speaking country in the world..even our names are either english or spanish
tsk tsk tsk
everyone/every country has their own style. so respect all country... ❤
As an English person, I am surprised how many country's use the English language. The south African girl spoke the more RP English, Therefore sounded most British.
True that which is similar to Zimababwean English. British missionary schools cemented the language during colonial Rhodesian times. If you hear old speeches from Robert Mugabe you would think he was born in England from the mid 20th century since he sounded like an old BBC presenter. I guess it is not surprising as we still receive BBC radio and television transmissions via different delivery methods the internet included and I personally would watch the old BBC documentaries and think that they made the best documentaries compared to anywhere else in the world.
@@subject_7BBC is biased
@@twotec-9s Hence I mentioned old documentaries they were somewhat balanced back then than today. You have to remember that they were created by a different generation many of those people are no longer with us and it was pre-internet and television was a new thing. Journalistic ethics were stringent back then compared to now.
@@subject_7 exactly. So happy to see someone talking about my country Zimbabwe too. We speak British English. Our accent is a little more similar to the South African English accent now but in the past you'd think we were all British people. Haha
It seems slow when each of the letter is dictated
I understand South African English, I have been exposed to their movies and able to catch up with what they say
Make a guessing video on northeast Indian coz They look like Thai, Philippines , Chinese , Japanese , Korean.
Yes 👍🏻👍🏻 it would love to see it
You want to say aliean
@@SiddheshDesai-r1m Many people from Northeast India have East Asian facial features, such as monolid or epicanthic fold eyes, a flatter nose, and higher cheekbones. These features are more similar to those of people from neighboring countries like China,Japan thailand , Korea, Philippines etc.
Our ancestors were south east and east asians , of course we'll have the mongoloid features duhh@@liveyounglivefree2967
@@SiddheshDesai-r1m ☠
Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇧🇩❤️❤️❤️
as french, at school they teach more english uk than english US haha, i had more british english teachers but i had also english teacher with american accent, we are used to both but i prefer english us than english uk
Because your country enemy with uk 😅😅
for me, whatever accent you have as long as I can understand you is fine with me.. watching from manila Philippines 🇵🇭 🥰
Of course we were able to grasp some of each of those accents but it really depends on the person. If you pick other people from every of those countries, you might get a totally different level of enunciation and therefore understanding. Pretty interesting video though. Kudos to all of you!
I am proud to be born in Bangladesh
I'm from the Philippines 🇵🇭
And all of them can speak in English very well.
yes we are Mixed English Accent
stop lying
south african accent is so attractive i guess. I so love it.
The Malaysian one is hiding accent if you look Malaysian speaking English are like Singaporean accent and Chinese accent
Most Malaysians nowadays especially the new generation speak with less local accent (and it's becoming less and less over the years) because they learn english mostly from social media and western movies/shows especially from the US and UK than in school. Easy access of internet plays major role for that. It's not a bad thing though, their pronunciations are much better now if you look in the positive way.
Not everyone is going to speak in the same accent in Malaysia especially we have many ethnicities and types of schools and also types of media. Unlike Singapore, Malaysia has more than just one accent.
Right. Lol.
I think as she said, their family used to converse in English at home.
Just like 'Uncle Roger'
Actually in Malaysia "normal Malay school" also teaches 7 ish languages, I said ish cuz it depends on the region, the languages are Siam(Thai), Semai, Punjabi, Arab, Iban, Kadazan and Japanese.
I don’t see any school offering Siamese yet and punjabi must be studied in a specific institution and for Japanese it’s offered in government secondary schools while Chinese, tamil, arab, Iban, kadazandusun and semai are offered in government malay primary schools and also offered at government secondary schools in Malaysia.
@@tevikumares5022 can I ask something, which part of Malaysia you from
I am from kl but my mother is from Kelantan
@@tevikumares5022 so you're born, schooled and everything in KL?
You can say so yes. But I did grow up in kelantan for a bit
Point of view is from an American. Thus, The Philippines 🇵🇭 has an advantage: that is the only nation in Asia 🌏 which has variant of an American English as an official language due to being an ex colony of the USA 🇺🇸
All the other nations listed here use British 🇬🇧 English.
As an American, I disagree 👎 with the fellow American: English from Canada 🇨🇦 is the easiest to understand. My Vancouver relatives have 90% echo of my San Francisco 🌁 accent.
2 English from The Philippines 🇵🇭 3 British 🇬🇧 English. 4 South Africa 🇿🇦 5 Australia 🇦🇺 6 New Zealand 🇳🇿
By that logic you should've put Americans 1st then. I've never met native Canadians who have never spoken English (their native language btw) from birth.
Though English is second official language here in Ph., We still have a lot of Local languages here as our mother tounge so English are mostly the 3rd or 4th language of filipinos except for central Tagalogs. Most of the native languages here lack of f,v,z, and th sound and the consonants are only ah, eh, ii, ow, oo sound. Philippine languages are also VSO in word order and the pronouns are gender neutral so sometimes our word order in English are not in a way of SVO especially with the use of preposition, particles, and some conjunction. We have a lot of enclitic particles as well on our native languages so sometimes we cant express the way we speak in Filipino.
According to the 2023 EF/EPI English Proficiency Index, the countries with the highest English proficiency globally are:
Netherlands
Austria
Denmark
Norway
Belgium
Sweden
Luxembourg
Germany
Poland
Finland
Some additional points:
The Netherlands leads the overall ranking with "very high" proficiency.
Singapore is also ranked with "very high" proficiency, ranking 2nd overall.
Europe dominates the top of the ranking, with 8 European countries in the top 10.
Other highlights include the Philippines (20th) and Malaysia (25th) with "moderate" proficiency in Asia.
In Latin America, Argentina is the best performing country, ranked with "high" proficiency and in 28th position overall.
Therefore, considering data from the EF EPI 2023, European countries, especially the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark and Norway, lead in terms of overall English proficiency worldwide. Singapore stands out as the highest-ranking non-European country.
I found it rather awkward to have a theme of ranking the accents. I'm from Pennsylvania, USA, and understood each young lady very well. Their speech was clear and smooth.
I am from Bangladesh and I must say that we are definitely one of the best English speaking countries in the world besides India and rest of the countries
No you're not.
Can you guys please give the American lady an ENERGY DRINK... she is like bored, sleepy and I dont know....
The official language of Bangladesh is only Bengali but English is 2nd.
Many people know it even a little.
Also English is taught from kindergarten.
These unemployed people doesn't even know the basic facts about their countries😂😂😂😂
I understand American English, bcoz of exposure to American TV and media, I easily understand them
My compliment;s
Lovely girl and my dream American English from the USA
and over all African; is the best from others.
I think Spanish is very big in the US, I think there is also a big influence on the accent in parts because of Spanish. Even though it's not an "official" language, I think it should be considered as there are just so many speakers of it, around 16% speak it natively of bilingually, that's over 50 million people.
But ranking people only leads to arguments, there's nothing productive about it at all. Everyone has an accent and even fluent speakers can be harder to understand than someone that is not so fluent. My boss is Chinese and her English is very good, but her accent is quite thick and can lead to misunderstandings sometimes. But there is also another person at work whose English isn't as fluent but their accent is much softer and far easier to understand. It doesn't matter what country you're from, there are people from there that are easy to understand and harder to understand.
Actually US doesn't has any official language not even English.
Lots of love from Philippines ❤️
Correct ranking.
Filipino english slowly and very clear..
I m fome Bangladesh ❤❤❤❤
mayer doya kheloar
Thank you for being a Bangladeshi. You are healing a lot of people by just being a Bangladeshi.
@@aasamspb967 huh
From** u mean?
mama age ingrəzi shikho XP
Seriously underrated! ⬆️
I'm British & I would rank the American 3rd or 4th in that lineup.
I am american I rank British is 11 . remember usa is English speaking countries .British do not understand English,bo'oh6 wo'ah?
@@baccamau80 You are not An American & your English definitely needs some work.
@@GaryV-p3h your English is need to improve
@@baccamau80But you are vietnamese
@@baccamau80Most English people pronounce the Ts properly in bottle and water, unlike Americans who say it with a D
Malaysia pretty tho!I like Australian accent.🇵🇭
That Malaysian girl has the LA accent bro, most of the Chinese Malaysians don't have an American accent that much
The easiest accent is the one you are most used to listening and anyone who speaks that accent (including yourself) would seem neutral to you. Like the American girl said, she grew up thinking she didn't have an accent until perhaps she travelled abroad.
comparing their accent is not good idea.because they are professional they know how to adjust... we comparing about accent those people lives in rural area. so that we will know who is better accent.😊
johncarlolibadia4052 you are the one having issue with how a Malaysian should sound like when clearly Malaysia has many accents and you are not even from Malaysia so who are you to judge her? It’s her not “him” so fix your English before commenting again.
Actually this channel is all about stereotypes. They have hire people which fits their own agenda who doesn't even have any knowledge about their country like the Bangladeshi girl literally said that English is used as the second official language of Bangladesh but the reality is Bangla(real name) is the only official and national language their. So although this channel is called world friends but still they hire same people from same countries and stereotypes them and their viewers just tend to fight each other in the comment section which is very good for them😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Says someone who doesn't even understand what my comment is about.
Fluency scale
1= South Africa
2=Malaysia
3=india
4= PHILIPPINES
5= Bangladesh
malaysian girl is faking her accent, she said in the previous videos.
Yeah she is just really bad since in first video his accent is truly malay
@@garnedmatser in the previous video yes but in this video it was natural... But the Bangladesh girl still trying so hard lol
With all due respect malay is an ethnicity and it has a different accent conpare to other ethnicities’ accents in Malaysia
@@tevikumares5022with all no due respect accept the fact that she is just bad
Do this again but have someone from a different country ranking with someone from USA being ranked
Nice to meet you all🤝🤝🤝
2:06 There are 22 official language in india👍 Hindi is not only a official language👍
Yah, I can't speak Hindi and it's nothing strange because we also have our own culture and language. They can't make Hindi the only official language and impose it to all Indians because it is like disrespecting our culture
I don't like the thing " ranking" because everyone/every country has their own style😊
Two countries that wasn't in this video where the official language is English are Belize and Canada. It was awesome to see these ladies from their countries and what their English sounds like. I definitely knew that English is one of South Africa's official languages. I think it would have been nice if that South African girl in this video would have mentioned that actress Charlize Theron was born and raised in South Africa. When Charlize speaks in English her voice literally sounds like she has a normal American accent. She also speaks Afrikaans which is one of the other official languages of South Africa. Definitely a great video though.
American ranked English... It's like Brazilian ranked Portuguese or Mexican ranked Spanish.
American is different than the others.they are invented English become global language .British doesn't . people learn English because usa ,not uk
Did you know the present native Americans are also the original English speakers. The US and UK share common roots but as people adopt in different regions they sound different and that's how they have their own way of speaking it.
Brazilians can also definitely rank Portuguese and nothing is wrong with it cause their first language is Portuguese no matter where it originated
Love from Bangladesh ❤
You're right. Our Bangladeshi sister has a very soothing voice and accent. I can hear her nonstop. Love it ❤.
"They try really hard to sound fluent.." girl..even someone talks with Japanese accent, they could be fluent. American accent ≠ English language fluency.
❤Non-native English speakers struggle to understand fast English.Maybe so, she chose to speak slowly.
The Philippines had been once an american territory thats why education is based on american curriculum.
i put american girl's speech 2x speed and she speaks normally like others
Sorry, I'm a Malaysian too but I'm really comfortable with British English. Maybe because I was taught in BrE during my school days. Kids nowadays are more to AmE, especially with that rhotic accent. They may find that BrE is more complicated than AmE due to several accents. Watching films from the UK might help them with different accents.
Girl not everyone speaks Hindi or not the official language of the state there are so many states, we don't have Hindi in our schools mostly specially in Government or Govt spons school, we have Sanskrit and Devnagri script. But English is common for every school.
But I guess hindi and english are two "official" languages of India. There is no national language though I'm sure.
So may be you don't recognise government owned or government funded schools 's students as Indian. You racist😡😡😡😡😡
@@Kooookaatiif you are Indian you should know there are about 20+ official languages in India. English is probably the most common but we Indians focus on by-hearting the grammar to simply pass examinations rather than learning to speak English, I am sure this statement is correct
South Africa 🇿🇦🇬🇧if you didn’t know is a English speaking country, we were colonised by the British for over 200years…We tend to have similarities with Australia and New Zealand
I'm From Bangladesh❤
To me as long as you are understood, then it is good. I never lost my Filipino accent or Visayan, geez. I have lived in Canada for more than 30 years now still..hehe because so many Pinoys here. I am the only one speaking Filipino in the house. Our common language is English yet I still have the accent.
I am from North East India & here English is just the basic local language just like our mother tongue ....We grew up watching Walt Disney , Harry Potter , Nancy Drew & all the English movies & commedies & hearing all the hit English Songs from Bryan Adams , Backstreet Boys , Westlife , One Direction , Titanic, Twilight & many many more ....
But , I am personally a big fan of UK English accent the Harry Potter English which is so pleasing to hear ....Yup , American english is fast & quick but British english is just like honey
It depends upon person to person & states to states ....My state is still more of a UK English fan
The indian girl definitely was from delhi-up belt!! Talking about south indian accent as if north indians are any different. Every indian have an accent whether u like it or not!! And she literally forgot that punjabis are the most popular community from india!!! So no its definitely not just south accent thats shown in the media. Also education in india is not just in hindi or eng its done in every other regional language!!!
Ask her to pronounce School or Spiderman and she'll be like Eschool and Espiderman 😂
She is from West Bengal not North India
She has a very strong accent, yet try to insult others. South India has highest no of English speakers, she is speaking in a way that up, bihar, Orissa are better English speakers than South indians. North Indian have less English speakers and least developed part of india
She said the truth 😂😂. Cry about it
I'm sorry but the girl American accent is harder for the non speakers,,,,
We don't exactly carry any specific accents.... Our actions come from our mother languages actually....
So the main point is accent is not important....Just speak clearly so that we could understand
Only Brits have the right to judge us, not Americans. Bangladeshi here. lol
5:13 The standard UK accent doesn't include the glottal stop, /ˈwɔːʔə/. The normal pronunciation would be /ˈwɔː.tər/.
I think the accent from people of India is very distinct.
they are good in english, regardless of their accents.
The "you sure ah" "can understand ah" represented every person in Msia😩
Sorry, my family is excluded.
Nope. Not all Malaysians say that at all.
love from Bangladesh
It's interesting, I found they all had better English than the American. I suppose that it is because I have worked with all of the nationalities apart from people from the US.
It is odd that the woman from the US wasn't aware that Approximately 430 languages are spoken or signed by people in the US, of which 177 are indigenous to the U.S. or its territories.
Considering the information on proficiency and mastery of English in world friends, those who should evaluate the excellent speaking and oratory of English and quiz nowadays are the Nordic countries, Germany, Austria, Netherlands and Belgium and Luxembourg and Finland.
These countries must say within the channel which Anglophone and non-Anglophone countries speak English well or not.
It is biased and unfair to give English assessment to countries that do not have full command or proficiency in English.
This has to change on all Korean entertainment channels 🎡🎠 the day before yesterday.
I like British accent 🙆🏻♀️
Indian and filipino accent I can Identify easily. Just ask to pronunce number 50. Indian - fifTea .. Filipino - pipti
lol😂
Can you please create a learn English Language with podcast for all levels of students in future ?
I always thought south african was the hardest of all "native" english "accents", until I traveled the world...now I rank it right behind north carolinian and kiwi english. However, I'm going to argue that many of the most difficult english "accents" are confounded by different "dialects" with even their own grammar rules
Even in the UK. There are different accents like how people from Liverpool (scousers) speak English compared to people from London who attended colleges in London speaks standard English.
❤️❤️ from 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩
If I get to rank I'll put the American one at the bottom, she sounded drunk literally. 🌚 The south african girl nailed it.
They pick an American girl who speaks English funny to critique other nationalities speaking English.
love from bangladesh
*Fun Fact in Southeast Asia Malaysia🇲🇾is the most similar to Philippines🇵🇭not indonesia as these indonesians been claiming.*
Yeah you're right
We don't use English as official language, unlike Philippines & Malaysia who fail to use Malay / Tagalog to unite the people & had to resort to use English as the "bridge" language. Which is kind of weird because we have more local languages than both of you combined.
pogogod6036 you have never been to Malaysia to judge us so you can't say for sure about how we speak to each other in Malaysia
@@tevikumares5022 oh I am not saying non Malay in Malaysia can't speak Malay. But are you denying a huge chunk of them are not native level in Malay and have to use English to some extent to communicate? Hence I call them "bridge language", even if it's not as bad as in The Philippine. If you want to bury your head in the sand then that's your call.
Once again you are not from Malaysia to say for us and not to mention you generalize "Malaysia" as in the whole Malaysia. And the huge chunk of them don't even speak English so what are you on about?
Is this girl high ?
No, she's just like that
Honestly, the moderator doesn't give good feedback or should I say she wasn't able to elaborate her thoughts. #opinion