Screw all of the people that judge others for speaking in broken English. When I was younger, I asked my mom why somebody's mother spoke with an accent and she told me, "That just means that they can speak two (or more!) languages." As a child, I thought it was so cool that somebody could be able to speak more than one language. That simple statement encouraged me to grow up, learn Spanish and travel to new and interesting places where I was then the person speaking with an accent. I've learned so much being on the "other side" of things.
that's awesome!! i was in the same situation as you only it was reversed, me parents encouraged me to learn english (i speak spanish) and i'm currently learning portuguese
Honestly, well said👏 Nobody should be shamed for the type of accent they have, it's just rude and disrespectful! On that note, I wouldn't mind if you checked out my channel :)
That's so sad, nobody should feel like that just because languages are hard... And if someone is mean to us because of our difficulties just remember we are making an effort to learn a new language and that's really cool :) we are cool!!
Why do I translate for my parents? Because I love them.And as a child it broke my heart seeing how other adults belittle someone I looked up to and loved so much
well i' am the one who doesn't speak proper english. people do not appreciate how exhausting it is to clean up the accent and speak properly too while keeping up with the cultural nuances . sometimes I am burned out and i seek refuge in german.I feel free and when I am back in europe. I feel cleansed again. My son can't understand this now , i just hope one day he'll understand what I am going through. I am working on a project that needs a voice over in english. Here I am , I can't do this , i have to ask him to provide the voice for me.
People who speak solely English making fun of another person who speaks broken English is the most infuriating thing to me. At least these people are out here, making an effort to learn and make a living. Have you ever tried to learn a language? It's not easy. I'd be less angry if they were at least bilingual. They've never had to flee from a country to a completely unfamiliar one. Some people just have no respect.
Actually English is one of the hardest languages to learn for people arriving from another country. Because we have a lot of grammar rules that many don't understand, hell sometime English confuses me and it's the only language I speak. You can't really learn perfect English without being taught and just listening from other people. Think about it, we have so many words that sound exactly the same but mean, and are spelled differently.
Especially when they also have to make a living at the same time. The only way to learn English is to stay up at night after a bunch of part time jobs. There's just no time, and it's a shame.
One of my aunts is a translator who is fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, and Tagalog. However, because she only speaks functional English, she was jeered at during her visit to the U.S. when she told some people she was a translator.
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nobody did that its just an annoyance to go to a country and not try to learnt he language if u r n a country 5 years and u cant speak the language u arnt even trying thats being lazy
The Rock but that doesn’t determine your intelligence. People will judge it? Yes. But there’s a difference between asking you the same questions in English or Spanish, you are obviously more advance in one language that in the other one.
I hate that people kinda speak down to my mum because of her English like it somehow is connected to her intelligence and knowledge simply because she doesn't have the full capability to fathom and express her thoughts in English.
I had to learn various languages to survive (I lived in different countries growing up). Teenagers are especially brutal when it comes to looking down on you based on your language skills. I was called all kinds of names and made fun of. And I grew older and realized that I can actually speak several languages whereas those who tease me can't. And those who also speak several languages understand your struggle and do not judge you or insult you even if you are not proficient in that very language. The more bullied you are, the more you must build your inner strength and trust yourself.Those who look down on your mom for her English are idiots who probably can't even speak a word of any other languages apart from English.
I can't really relate to the vid but I come from a country(island) where although we speak English, many times when tourists(white) talk to us they tend to talk down to us as if our accents are so difficult to understand and by us having a different way of speaking English from them we are somehow less intelligent. So I understand your comment. Some people just think anyone different from them is less than them.
3:25 reminds me of Gloria in modern family, when they made fun of her for speaking 'funny' and she yelled at them "Do you know how frustrating it is to have to translate everything in my head before I say it?! To have people laugh in my face because I'm struggling to find the words? You should try talking in my shoes for one mile" and when they try to correct her she yells "I know what I meant to mean, do you know how smart I am in Spanish?! Of course you don't"
+Angela Amoako yeah, maybe even just assumed to be physical assault. Which definitely didn't sound like the case, but in those women's twisted perspectives... :(
could be that the parents are bullies too because it could have been that they were racist. I get picked on sometimes at school when I speak Spanish cuz "it's weird" or "your not in Mexico" kind of a thing
+Angela Amoako the daughter said "my mom touched her leg and told her to stop" but it could mean two different things. 1. She touched the girl and told her to stop 2. The mom touched her own leg and bent forward and said stop
+Emmasaurs 2004 False equivalency, if Americans were pouring into other people countries and only tried to speak English you'd have a point, but you don't, cause other people are doing that to America, not the other way around. Moron.
English is just another language not a measure of inteligence. So when people laugh at me for my broken english,i laugh at them for not able to speak at least two languages.:)
Honesty, if someone speaks broken English, try to speak their language fluently and see how that goes for ya. There is something called DIVERSITY and CULTURE sooooo... yeah. Just be kind and be respectful of someone’s culture and understand how hard it is to learn a whole other language and not give up halfway through.
@Joe Dick Doesn't work like that. Two of my colleages, an English speaker and the other Austrian, still haven"t learn local language despite working and living in my country for 2 and 5 years respectively. We never make fun of them.
I usually don't cry but when the girl said what her mother felt and said, I broke a little. It hurts because as a child I used to get annoyed getting asked to translate, but overtime I decided for the sake of my mom I was going to advance in English and teach her a little bit in the process. In a way it hurt me more because I realized that when my mom needed help(she was abused) she thought she couldn't get it because of a language barrier
Interesting you you could replace: "This is .... / Speak ...!" for any other country in the world and as an American you would say "I'm sorry, you're right. I just haven't learned it" But I definately agree that there is never an excuse to be impatient and rude. It just doesn't solve anything.
sophiaryaun yes I mean how would they feel if they go to other non English speaking country and people tell them the exact same thing...it's not reasonable
If America was really patriotic they'd get their own language, called American. The fact that you're still speaking English (from England!) should make it very clear thst you're an immigrant too.
I have always translated for my parents . People would condescendingly ask why don't my parents speak English as an 8 year old I didn't know what to say. As an adult I understood my father worked 2 jobs to feed his family. I am still translating for my mother my father passed away so my mother "leans" on me. When you are a child of immigrants the responsibility of facilitating to get things done is immense. Going to medical appointments HARD b/c I had to tell my father he had cancer it's been over 25 years but I'm crying b/c it just sucked. Most Americans don't understand b/c they are monolingual.
If your mother is in California, she has a right to medical translation/interpretation www.legal-aid.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Your-Right-To-An-Interpreter_English.pdf
Those on the phone translators are horrible from my personal experiences. We would always get this one particular man who was super rude and impatient with us. They will also translate things wrong. The doctor asked my dad if he was in pain and it was translated to "do you smoke?" What if he doesn't smoke but the whole point of the visit was that he was in pain, that would have been disastrous. I find that medical assistants/nurses/doctors were also impatient with the phone translators. If they cannot schedule a physical translator to be there, do not trust those on the phone service. It irritates that not only are my parents being treated this badly from both sides but that one side can't get things translated correctly.
My father's mother spoke broken English with a strong Yiddish accent, which embarrassed him. He didn't let her know when there with school nights for parents to meet the teachers. Suddenly, she showed up at one of them and met his favorite teacher, who had encouraged him. At the end, his teacher took him aside and told him how charmed he was to meet his lively, lovely mother. Suddenly my father realized how wrong he had been to be ashamed of his mother. (Widowed, with nothing, she brought up 6 children with humor and love.) I am named for her.
Dani Ellie Everybody is born with hatred, but we're taught against it in most circumstances. If people weren't born with hatred, why would things such as religion or even government exist, these are things put into place so that we don't kill each other for our own goals.
Teodora Kutlaca Yeah but most American are bad and mean person, generally. That's my common sense that I got from actual visiting "The Great and Pride United States of America"
This video is killing me inside. I still remember the little Vietnamese girl I used to be friends with back when I was in Elementary... Her family couldn't speak even a little bit of English, But they both worked non-stop to try and give there kids a better life. I didn't notice this until this video. Man does this hurt me inside.
This is a very deep video to me.. my mom growing up in the Philippines and she went here She Didn't understand anything because my mom escaped from her parents because they abused her... She met my dad who knew English and he helped her out. My mom had a really strong Filipino accent when she helped my BUT my mom is very dedicated and strong and learned English. She still has a small Filipino accent but she Is the most smartest person I know.
whenever someone's complaining about my English I would just say, "Oh I'm sorry. English is only my fourth language so I'm not very good at it." Also my mom can't speak English at all but she actually speaks five languages.
I know how hard it is to start learning a language after you already know one and how hard it is to learn it BTW I know 2 languages! I feel proud but WOW 4 languages
@@gurnoorgill9631 same besides knowing English I take French and next year for my Sophomore year I decided to take sign language . I think people really underestimate how hard it is to know more than one language let alone speak it fluently. All the hard work is worth it though but it sucks that when foreigners move or visit the U.S they are just expected to know English I can't help but feel bad for them.
My father is an immigrate from Romania and has extremely bad English. We usually converse in Romanian because he is fluent in it and we have more laughs, but whenever he calls my name out with his accent, people give us the dirty look and it's kind of depressing when you have to stop having fun for the sake of others peoples happiness smh
Jimin's Smile their just passed cuz they probably don't know 2 languages don't let the haters stop you from what your parents worked so hard to give u ❤
Jimin's Smile I'm Romanian too and I know what you mean. We live in Finland and here people speak Finnish and English and he doesn't speak neither but I help my dad whenever he needs and we speak in Romanian but I'm so grateful because without him working so hard and coming to a foreigner country for my sake I wouldn't be here
Well, you should give that dirty look right back to them. They're the ones being rude. He can call your name however he wants to, it's none of their business! I hate when people think it's all about them, they seem to take personal offense whenever someone doesn't know how to "speak 'Murican".
usually some racist white people: HAHAHA YOUR MOM CANT SPEAK ENGLISH, SHE SOUNDS SO WEIRD HAHAHAH me: yeah you're laughing but my mom can speak Spanish, broken English, perfect Japanese and also Chinese meanwhile i can speak perfect Spanish and English in a variety of accents and i am currently learning french, while you can barely pronounce "quesadilla" or "fajita" the right way.
By the way it's so much harder for a white, living in a country that's main language is English/American but everyone else learns the language because that's the language used, it's not our fault we don't need to learn a new language to adapt
I always translate for my mom ☺️ 17 years in the US and and knows no English She doesn’t have time to learn she cleans 5 houses a day comes home till 6pm and leaves at 6am I love her she is always there for me ❤️ I try helping her with English but I don’t have time and she’s almost never home
I teach ESL in Korea and most of my Korean is aimed at pure survival or scolding/directing children. I've lived here for 12 years and people assume I'm fluent. I wish, but I haven't really not been working to actually study the language since college. My free time was more about recharging to not be an angry teacher. It takes so much more effort to learn a language as an adult!
+Neave Robinson i guess it's pretty funny how on the news there are some people who are very quick to taint all immigrants as a bad/lazy/dangerous bunch of people when they themselves have lived a relatively sheltered, cosy life they have no idea how many countries' economic success is built upon the hardworking nature of immigrants but hey trump/brexit campaigners won't be mentioning that anytime soon
+WanderLust it's pretty easy to put yourself into other people's shoes and realize the struggles they go through all the time. It is possible to understand what other people are going through without going through it. Also, if you have family that ate immigrants you ARE involved in what they go through daily. Not everyone has the mindset that you have described, sir/ma'am.
+Mikey A. I have to disagree with you on that. I personally believe that you don't truly know what a person or family is going through unless you go through it. you might have a idea but you won't truly know the struggle.
PDTSShady Top Trash yes that's what I meant. Sorry I didn't elaborate enough. I meant you can understand to a sort of extent, but not fully understand it.
I'm sure a ton of sacrifices were made by her parents, but coming to the US wasn't one of them. When the US withdrew and the North Vietnamese entered the South, they were killing anyone they even suspected had fought for the South Vietnamese army. Getting out was survival.
+blaster chris true, but just let other people state their opinion before rushing in to defend them and at the same time somewhat attack the other person who made the comment
"I'm very sorry for the grammatical mistakes. I don't speak English very well. It's not my mother tongue." - Person from another country "I can't drink milk bcoz am lack toes intoler ant." - Native English speaker
I don't speak broken English but I still have a little accent when I pronounce things. I came to the US at age 11. One time I was translating for my dad and I was telling a lady something on the phone. She was stressed out I get it but she ended up insulting me saying: "Do you even speak English?" Inside me I was like: "B*tch of course I do, what language am I speaking now?" But instead I raised my voice a little and I said: "Ma'am I perfectly know English and I am just translating"
my mom has broken english too and i have been translating loads for her and never felt shame about it. My mom is lucky to be a confident lady and she never gets upset about not being able to communicate the best with people.
It most definitely was. I've been ashamed heavily by having poor uneducated parents a hella lot but I have never even thought about this as a thing that should bring tears or sadness to my life. Some people on the other side of planet don't have what to wear, eat, drink... and you HAVE parents. That's a blessing
OMH I cried so,hard. I can totally relate. I'm 11 right Now, and I literally have to translate everything. I think the one where the woman said that her biggest regret was not teaching her parents more English..... No I'm going to try harder to teach my parents more English. All of these are so relatable. The park one just got me sobbing.
Gamertastic 101 I'm eleven as well. I still have to translate for my parents but, I've taught them lots of English. But it's not like Native American speakers, but it's the best they can do. But the hard part is, since I have to speak Khmer aka Cambodian, sometimes in class, on habit, I speak Khmer on accident. I've been bullied and teased bcuz of that. But, it hasn't happened lately.
Visila In You've been bullied bcz you spoke another language? It shows that you are way smarter than they are. Those guys who made fun of you are stupids and probably just speak one language.
what sucks even more is when teachers tell you to ask your parents for help on homework thats english related and everyone else has parents that help them revise their essays and your parents want to help you but just can't
There will be a day in a child's life when he discovers he knows more than his immigrant parents. It's a rude awakening when he realizes he is now on his own.
+Anime Lover What is your problem you don't know there story...or why their there. and how your complaining about how they can speak proper English is rude and inconsiderate so shut your mouth and mind your own business
Sometimes they genuinely can't understand you. I speak to foreigners all the time, and whilst I try my best, some speak in such broken English that it is VERY difficult to understand what they're actually saying, even listening as hard as I can. It's not us trying to be rude to you, but the pronunciation of some words is not comprehensible or they speak too fast that it sounds like another language almost. I find Indians and Africans the hardest to understand by far
my mom, dad, and I are white, and I don't have an accent but my mom does and my dad doesn't speak any english and sometimes I feel really jealous of american kids because they don't have to deal with all of this btw my dad is italian and my mom from spain but I was born in Venezuela.
I have SO many people talking to me like I don't understand English because I have an accent~ they speak slowly or explain things that I understand 🙄🙄😐🙃
"broken english." - when my mother struggles to spell a word in english I want to break the entire language into little pieces so the edges of these letters will stop cutting her.
Bruh im literally in tears my mum also speaks broken english, and i always got so frustrated with her and now i regret everything. Pls dont take ur parents for granted.
People in the United States don't even speak English correctly, so we have no right to make fun of anyone with an accent when we changed the language to meet our standards.
Let’s be fair. Languages changing depending on the region is totally normal. That being said I doubt most Americans can speak another language without an American accent so
CocoAnimate that’s one word if the two languages were that similar every one who spoke one would speak the other do you think I learned English over night no I am learning German now and let me tell you they are not similar at all if they were that similar I would already speak German
CocoAnimate if European languages are so similar and easy then what does this mean and what language is it. No google translate μαλακα by the way if you do use google translate know It’s describing you
I live in Germany and my parents don't speak German too well, basically just the everyday things to get by and vocabulary that they need at work. They have been working since the day they got here and it drives me crazy when people ask me "Why don't your parents speak German? They've been here for so long. Look at blablabla, her parents speak German so well!" Little do they know that her parents are send to German classes because they are unemployed and the government wants them to find jobs in German shops, companies etc. Those courses are paid by the tax payers, which also means by my parents who have never been unemployed all their life. Not only would they have to find the time besides working up to 12 hours a day, seven days a week but they'd have to pay to attend these courses. Find the mistake here! Stop judging the book by it's cover, a lot of people really try.
Your comment really got to me, maybe because it's the same with my parents ? I'm sorry you have to live with that frustration, sometimes people don't understand. But I do, and you're not alone with this c:
+Republicanrican Diaz (War Stories) You can never please people like you. If they are unemployed you bash them, and if they don't speak german you bash them. But you can't do both of them?
+ZombiecoHQ to be honest the Netherlands would be a good idea, since it's also close to the german language it's easy to learn if you know some basic german already. They also speak some damn fine english so that's probably a cool idea
Prasad Rajaretnam Right? I really feel for these people. In America I have not seen this happen. I didn't have a lot of non-white friends. Not because I didn't want them, but because where I lived, there weren't a lot of minorities. I have lived in Asia almost my whole life and I am thankful that they have always been accepting and supporting of me. I respect everything your parents have done to give you the life that you have now. I love you guys.
i have seen americans saying "ohh your english is so fluent" coz m asian. I think language, accent and ur fluency doesn't matter but what actually matter is your knowledge, your thoughts. Language is just a medium to express your views and yourself that's it. edit: sorry if my english isn't that perfect :3
your english is perfectly fine as a child of broken ish english and cantonese speaking parents I approve( obviously I'm not the only one to say your english is good)
I'd always be so embarrassed when my mom was speaking in broken English over the phone or with someone. I'd be sitting next to her, shaking my head and sighing. Once she was done, she'd say, "They can't speak Korean as well as I do, can they?" That sure shut me up.
I am crying on my bed, watching and relating to this. My mom is Korean and speaks broken English with a Korean accent. I can't speak Korean, and she misses her country where she can be accepted and understood. This video was incredibly moving.
I hate it when I speak Spanish on my phone to talk to my mom or dad and my friend's screams speak English this is America we speak English but don't I have the right to speak another language
I think it's alright if he/she is just teasing or joking. But if they really mean it, I'm sorry, but you shouldn't be friends with them. They're terrible, terrible human beings.
Jainy Ramirez Tell your “friends” (unless they’re joking, they shouldn’t be your friends), that the US doesn’t actually have an official language so you can speak whatever language you want
Honestly if they treat you like that they aren’t your friend and tbh it’s like when the go on holiday to a foreign country people scream at them stop speaking English it just rude and disrespectful
Im just tearing up. My mom speaks a really small amount of english and people are rude to her at at stores refusing to attend her because she cannot speak english, so everytime she goes out I have to come along in case she needs me. She studies HARD.. But im proud evertime she can manage to comunicate some words back to fluent english speakers.
This hits so close to home. My mother is Korean and every time one of my friends come to my house she speaks English instead of Korean because my friends have made comments about how rude it is for her to speak in her native language. And then when she speaks English they make fun of her accent and how she can't pronounce most of her words correctly. You just can't make people happy in this country no matter how hard you try. Shedding some tears.
I'm sorry I don't want to offend you but your friends are jerks... It's very rude of them to make fun of your mom. How old are they? I'd tell their parents about this foul behavior.
+Ra Bia i agree, friends who arent accepting (assuming that they are at an age where they should understand), arent friends who you should have in life.
I alway thought I was the only one who had to translate when going to parent-teacher meetings. How I never had help with my homework because I had to be independent. How I feel embarrassed when I go out in public. But I know my parents struggle as much as me
That is so true, not only do i have to translate everything for my mom and dad but I also gotta do everything by myself and if I want help I have to translate everything I need help on and I am also struggling in English too so that doesn't help, I've learned to not ask my parents for help with homework because they can't not even Math because they had to work instead of learning to stay alive when they were younger. It's a sad truth for many kids with parents who don't speak English
@@scottw6375 you actually cant my mom doesnt know english but if i were to say that i got good grades in a ptc but actually got bad grades the look on her face would give it away to the teacher
dont feel embarrassed. you should feel embarrassed of not embracing the cool things about your culture and language and letting others know how cool other countries can be too! People usually doesn't get to know that and learn until they travel
the worst part is when u ur parent have an accent but ur the translator and the person goes "wow u speak very good English" like tf is that shocking for? I was raised here and went to school here just like ur kids!
This is the same as my mom she only can speak Chinese ,hokkien,Cantonese and Malay ...... She can't speak English very well because she stopped studying in primary 6 But she is my pride and joy as I love her with all my heart ,brain ...... and other body parts
I remember I was translating to my mom about what a retail worker had said and I didn't have the heart to tell her. But what the retail worker had said was, "tell your mom I won't help her unless she learned english. So please leave the store." All I did was ask my mom if we could leave.
My mom immigrated from Lithuania to the Netherlands, I'm happy that my dad taught her to speak Dutch. I remember she told me that people in our village didn't really interact with her because she came from a different country and had an accent, that made me feel pretty frustrated and sad. Thankfully, she became friends with some of the moms in my village. And now she can speak it fluently, sometimes she still doesn't know how to write something but she has me, my dad and my little brother to help her 😊 Also the funny thing is, I don't even hear an accent. It's so weird because my dad and grandma hear it, even my friends mock my mom sometimes about it (which I don't like of course) but I don't hear it, I think she speaks Dutch without an accent (probably because I grew up with it and just don't hear the difference). I'm happy that my mom is able to speak multiple languages, she speaks Lithuanian, Dutch, English and Russian which I'm amazed by. And I'm happy that I'm able to communicate with my family on the Lithuanian side in Lithuanian. I think we all should be proud with our parents who come from a different country because we have the advantage of knowing more than one or two language(s) 😊 (this is sooo long, I'm sorry 😅)
I'm the oldest of my siblings so I'm the one my parents go to when they need a translator but what makes me frustrated is the fact I can't translate well in Vietnamese. I can understand it well but when I speak it, it sounds forced and pronounced oddly to the point where they don't understand what I'm trying to say. I live in an area that doesn't offer classes to learn Vietnamese so I can't learn it. My mom suggested for me to speak only Viet at home but I can't because I'm more fluent in English so automatically I would revert to that when I don't know a word in Viet. I'm envious of those who can speak their parents' language so well and is a better translator because of that
Me too. I only know basic Spanish and sometimes my father goes to me not for a translator but to just talk and I can't really respond. But I find myself so selfish since he try's to speak to me in English and does a really good job but I can't do the same to him.
since I'm oldest, my mom gets bully at work, i wish i can help but people who speak the same language as her also make fun of her :( when my mom comes homes, she's tells me that a lot people hate because she can't speak english and me and my sister always have to translate for my mom to understand when buying stuff or asking for something. theres only one thing i can help her is learn more viet and translate it to english :)
Dude don't even worry! It's the same for me too! Sometimes me and my mom laugh together whenever she can't say a word, and she would hit me right back by talking in vietnamese where i cant understand it haha
@@ailanouk I'm from Shanghai so I'll only speak for Shanghai. It's quite common for young people in Shanghai to speak English fluently or at least conversationally so at least among young people those who speak English exceptionally well aren't necessarily looked up to. Maybe being able to speak English is a big deal for people outside of big cities like Shanghai or for the older generation, but it's quite common among young people living in big cities.
Actually, most Americans are nice to people that don’t speak English well. I worked at a job in high school with a lot of immigrants, and the Americans would just use our body language or say basic words or phrases to our coworkers.
My dad doesn't speak broken English he actually speaks perfect English because when he moved to the United States he worked and went to college to make sure he knew English but he still has a very thick accent and people make fun of him for it and it breaks my heart
same my dad came to the U.S. from Mexico to work and learned English and he actually joined the U.S. army and bc of the army he had to live in Germany for 3 years and he also speaks German a little bit
+jackie yo omg your dad is all kinds of wonderful you are so lucky your dad went to german and the united states and maneged to learn new languages im realy happy for your family 🙌❤️
even just seeing what the title of the video, already hit a sensitive topic for me, but while watching the video, it was nice to feel that, it wasn't just me, that i'm not the only one that had to grow up with this
but can you imagine what it feels like to have to ask your child to translate for you? and to hate yourself for embarrassing your child? and to disappoint your child? it might be harder for them than it is for you. p.s. i know without a doubt it is hard for you as well. i can't imagine what you and your family go through.
L S, yeah i ain't cryin' there's just something iny eyes, some transparent liquidity stuff, which tastes like a solution of salt and water! 'Kay? I am not crying!
I remember moving to the US at 13, and my dad trying his best with english. Me and my brother, since we knew more english, we would poke fun at my dad's english because it was the worst of all of us. He would always tell us that the people at his job said he spoke very good english and we'd laugh at his face. It wasn't until I was already in college that I felt regretful of making fun of my dad. His english still isn't great. He got fired from a job and spent almost a year without a job because all of his interviews were over the phone and since he wasn't very good at explaining things simply using words in english, he had trouble getting hired. And for the first time, he told me, crying (and this man never cries), he told me, "you know, my english is very bad." And explained how he never realized it until he went through countless of phone interviews, and people having trouble understanding what he was saying. Me and my brother had the privilege of learning english halfway through our lives. My parents did not.
His English might not be that bad. He might have just failed at having a good interview because he was not prepared. I think if he works on it diligently, he can beat it. Even native speakers need to get prepared, memorize some kind of template and theme sentences to look attractive in an interview. If he had managed to work there his life halfway through and did not have any problem until then, it really could be that. I am not a native speaker of English myself but I saw pretty many native speakers just live by a few hundreds words for years because circumstances do not require any change. Occupational English is difficult. This is no about being intelligent or educated , either. Time changes, languages also change and we learn from all our experiences. See the silver lining.
What the hell is wrong with some people???? These people who aren't able to commincate well and are trying to work or protect their children have to work ten times as hard. Why instead of helping and making it easier do people have to give them such a hard time?????
I'm crying. The emotions I'm experiencing are on another level right now. I'm in the same boat as these and many other people, but I didn't experience it to the same degree as them. I'm blessed to live in a mostly Hispanic area, which means that needing or being my parent's translator wasn't an unusual thing. But hearing these stories still hits me hard, especially knowing it could've been much worse for both me and my parents and knowing that it IS a lot worse for so many other people.... Knowing we have nothing to be ashamed about, yet we are constantly made felt as if not knowing English is a sin committed against a superior being who is incapable of understanding our struggles. I'm so glad this video was made. :) hopefully through this video people will be able to get a glimpse of what we go through and get a better sense of what many immigrants and their families go through. ♡
seriously people with broken english speak other languages fluently! I speak three languages and if u tell me I have an accent or I dont speak english very well I'm gonna be cursing u in french and arabic
I think its worse when *you* are the one who speaks broken English. I’m Turkish and I live here, my mother is American and if we ever move to the U.S. I am afraid of getting bullied at school for it.
Only kids would bully others for speaking broken english. I moved to the US three years ago at 14 years old, and I’ve always had this unique accent from a certain region in my country which is known for its very strong accent. To my surprise, people didn’t bully me or even judge me because of my accent. I’m know 16 and I’d say I’m pretty fluent in english although I still make mistakes from time to time. Don’t worry about your english not being perfect :)
I am living in Turkey too and both of my parents are Turkish and They don't know how to speak English. I learnt English from cartoon shows and I am proud of my english. Maybe I am not fluent and I have no one to practice my english but I am fine with my accent. All I mean is, You shouldn't be upset about your accent. You should be happy about you know two languages.
people do not understand how hard it is for someone who only spoke one language their entire life to suddenly learn a new one these people are adults so learning languages and all their grammatical and phonological rules is an extremely challenging cognitive process (while children of young age pick up language more or less naturally) ridiculing, disrespecting or making fun of a person who struggles with learning a language is utterly ignorant
+Michael Taylor I disagree. English is grammarly pretty simple (no verb conjugation, no articles, few verb tenses). The struggle is vocabulary (you guys have A LOT of words) and gaining fluency. Also, english speakers can be really mean to new learners.
+The Pells (Thepells) It depends on what your native language is. For a speaker of let's say... Mandarin Chinese, it would be very difficult to learn English unlike someone who speaks Dutch. So for speakers of one language, English can be the hardest language to learn, and for speakers of another language, it can be fairly simpler.
There are a few of people who looked down at me just because i speak English with accent. It bothered me. Until i realise that i speak three languages and i actually sound me when i speak English with my accent. Those people who look down at others for their broken English are certainly trapped in their so-called English speaking country. They've simply never been out of their comfort zone.
My mum told me I often corrected her English back then, I said sorry but she was like "It's okay, I know 3 languages, 7 dialects. I laugh whenever you try to communicate with your relatives in those languages, it's more broken than my English."
I'm Vietnamese I know how it feels to translate everything to my parents. I've cried on pointless nights several times, I'm just so grateful for my parents.
My friends r always saying "Why do ur parents speak weird?" And inside im like shut up they know another language and u dont so their smarter than u. Thank you to my friends who actually have respect.
One of my best friends laughed at my mom for pronouncing hamburger wrong, and my mom speaks better english than her parents. Also, you should get rid of those disrespectful "friends"
I once had a friend (not my friend anymore) who spoke 3 languages, French, English, and Spanish. We were both about 10 or 11. One day, my mom came to pick us up from school, we were carpooling together. And in the car, my mother starts asking me about my day in Persian. My parents were both born in Iran, and they immigrated here for me, because life is very, very hard there. Anyways, she was speaking to me in Persian because English was hard for her, when my friend says: “what language do you speak? It sounds funny...” and I say Persian. And she was like: what that? And I’m like it’s just a language from the Middle East. And she just looks at me for a little bit, and goes: “does your mom know English?” And I confidently say: “yeah! Of course she does!” And she goes cool. Then my mom starts talking in English to my friend, and says: “how was your day?” In her broken English. And I see my friend laughing beside me, and trying to control her laughter. At that point, my mom saw and heard her snickering, and her heart was broken. I saw her wipe a tear of her cheek. I was crushed. I wanted to punch my friend. Then when we came home, my mom comes to me talking Persian, saying: “You know, I’ve had a really, really bad life as a child. My parents didn’t have money, I lived in a horrible house with 5brothers and no sisters. I had to cook for the whole family, my mother didn’t care about me, and my father passed away when I was 2. I don’t even remember him. *tears come* I was miserable, all I wanted my entire life as a child was to be able to afford a pack of colored pencils. I begged and begged, but I never got it. I only had one pair of pants, and those were filled with holes and stains. “ “I came to America while I was pregnant with you, even though I knew it would be hard for me, because I knew that where I grew up was not right for you. I didn’t want you to suffer what I suffered. And look at you now, you are smart, you succeed in school, you love your life, you are my unbelievably amazing, you are 13 years old, you’ve grown up in front of my eyes, my one and only daughter. And me and your father have tried so, so hard for you to love your life. And now, you are wealthy. You have a mother and father who love and care for you. Your father goes to work as a doctor, because he came here for you and to succeed educationally. You have everything you could possibly want, a large and fancy house, a family, toys, everything. Appreciate everything I And your father have done for you, remember that all we want is for you to have a great life. *cries extremely and gives hugs and kisses* and stay away from your friend please. Everyone, please understand what my mother and father and every other immigrant have and still must go through. Understand that your parents would sacrifice anything, and I mean anything for you.
Tricked ya Your mother seems great and so kind. You can be so proud of her. However, kids are kids and I don't think you can blame a child for their ignorance (unless it is like straight on bullying but in this case it was just a wrong response)
Omg my grandma always gives me the phone when someone starts speaking English. She's like "are they just trying to sell me something?" And I start laughing because it's always someone trying to sell her something
wrong: "this is america, speak english!" right: "this is america, speak americish!" dude, americans don't even have their own official language. i mean it's called english not american nor americish coz it's the language of england, right.
Screw all of the people that judge others for speaking in broken English. When I was younger, I asked my mom why somebody's mother spoke with an accent and she told me, "That just means that they can speak two (or more!) languages." As a child, I thought it was so cool that somebody could be able to speak more than one language. That simple statement encouraged me to grow up, learn Spanish and travel to new and interesting places where I was then the person speaking with an accent. I've learned so much being on the "other side" of things.
that's awesome!! i was in the same situation as you only it was reversed, me parents encouraged me to learn english (i speak spanish) and i'm currently learning portuguese
We need more people like you. people who are open and understanding. Thank you. :)
Honestly, well said👏 Nobody should be shamed for the type of accent they have, it's just rude and disrespectful! On that note, I wouldn't mind if you checked out my channel :)
your mom is awesome.
When I was yonger, when I heard people with a accent, or speaking a diffrent language, I was so jealous and I always wanted to learn a new language.
"I'm stupid..I'm slow..I'm uneducated!"
this is the hardest part to watch
yeah true :(
shots fired
Ikr and when people were over exaggerating and punched a mom that did nothing it actually hurts me too a bit
That's the worst part for me. English is not a measure of intelligence.
Once i asked my mom if she could help me with homework and this was what she said
Awh The girl with the glasses had such a hard experience. Can't believe people would do that to her mom.
Prabh Sangha ah ikr
Ikr
she's Latina cuz her parents said mi'ja
Just cuz she told the other girl "Stop" when she was throwing sand on her...
Prabh Sangha standard entitled parents
ENGLISH IS A LANGUAGE. NOT A MEASUREMENT OF INTELLIGENCE.
Veejay Fongkam yep
THE ABILITY TO GRAB ANY LANGUAGE IS. So, sit down please.
Yes, people who only speak one language would probably lower IQ?
Veejay Fongkam EXACTLY
Veejay Fongkam nope, it’s an international language so you are having gay sex right now
I'm stupid..I'm slow..I'm uneducated!,this part is twisting my heart, it hurt
It's ok. We all have a different language, because we come from different parts of the world. That makes us unique and so cool to people native to us!
No you're not. Don't ever say that to yourself. We all are different.
That got me crying 😭💔
Mhm
That's so sad, nobody should feel like that just because languages are hard... And if someone is mean to us because of our difficulties just remember we are making an effort to learn a new language and that's really cool :) we are cool!!
Why do I translate for my parents? Because I love them.And as a child it broke my heart seeing how other adults belittle someone I looked up to and loved so much
This^
well i' am the one who doesn't speak proper english. people do not appreciate how exhausting it is to clean up the accent and speak properly too while keeping up with the cultural nuances . sometimes I am burned out and i seek refuge in german.I feel free and when I am back in europe. I feel cleansed again. My son can't understand this now , i just hope one day he'll understand what I am going through. I am working on a project that needs a voice over in english. Here I am , I can't do this , i have to ask him to provide the voice for me.
People who speak solely English making fun of another person who speaks broken English is the most infuriating thing to me. At least these people are out here, making an effort to learn and make a living. Have you ever tried to learn a language? It's not easy. I'd be less angry if they were at least bilingual. They've never had to flee from a country to a completely unfamiliar one. Some people just have no respect.
Yes, and english is the easiest language in the world, so if they tried to speak idk, maybe catalan or spanish, they'd struggle really hard
Actually English is one of the hardest languages to learn for people arriving from another country. Because we have a lot of grammar rules that many don't understand, hell sometime English confuses me and it's the only language I speak. You can't really learn perfect English without being taught and just listening from other people. Think about it, we have so many words that sound exactly the same but mean, and are spelled differently.
+Jessica Colton english is literally the easiest language lmao
Especially when they also have to make a living at the same time. The only way to learn English is to stay up at night after a bunch of part time jobs. There's just no time, and it's a shame.
Thank you for this
It's so sad that we judge someone's intelligence by how fluent they are in English
Diego Valdez You may not know English, but you do know another language while they don’t :)
One of my aunts is a translator who is fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, and Tagalog. However, because she only speaks functional English, she was jeered at during her visit to the U.S. when she told some people she was a translator.
nobody did that its just an annoyance to go to a country and not try to learnt he language if u r n a country 5 years and u cant speak the language u arnt even trying thats being lazy
I USA probably. Anywhere else, or more specifically here In U.K we judge intelligence by intelligence.
The Rock but that doesn’t determine your intelligence. People will judge it? Yes. But there’s a difference between asking you the same questions in English or Spanish, you are obviously more advance in one language that in the other one.
I hate that people kinda speak down to my mum because of her English like it somehow is connected to her intelligence and knowledge simply because she doesn't have the full capability to fathom and express her thoughts in English.
me too, i completely get that and i hate it so much and it makes me so angry yet also sad
+Animares 822 I know what you mean but there are some people who will treat others like their less inelegant because of their english
I had to learn various languages to survive (I lived in different countries growing up). Teenagers are especially brutal when it comes to looking down on you based on your language skills. I was called all kinds of names and made fun of. And I grew older and realized that I can actually speak several languages whereas those who tease me can't. And those who also speak several languages understand your struggle and do not judge you or insult you even if you are not proficient in that very language. The more bullied you are, the more you must build your inner strength and trust yourself.Those who look down on your mom for her English are idiots who probably can't even speak a word of any other languages apart from English.
I can't really relate to the vid but I come from a country(island) where although we speak English, many times when tourists(white) talk to us they tend to talk down to us as if our accents are so difficult to understand and by us having a different way of speaking English from them we are somehow less intelligent. So I understand your comment. Some people just think anyone different from them is less than them.
Right 🙌🏼
3:25 reminds me of Gloria in modern family, when they made fun of her for speaking 'funny' and she yelled at them "Do you know how frustrating it is to have to translate everything in my head before I say it?! To have people laugh in my face because I'm struggling to find the words? You should try talking in my shoes for one mile" and when they try to correct her she yells "I know what I meant to mean, do you know how smart I am in Spanish?! Of course you don't"
that seen made me very emotional ;(
I teared up so badly in that moment.
:)
That's so true... but when we have to study a foreign language, for a job they ask us to be "natives", and it's IMPOSSIBLE....
Sad but true. I feel really bad for my ex's mother and him in general..I pressured him once into asking her to learn. I'm a horrible person I'm sorry
Wtf was up with those women at the park? Seriously, she didn't even touch the girl.
I think at there perspective they thought she touched the girls leg ( sexaully assaulted the little girl )
+Angela Amoako yeah, maybe even just assumed to be physical assault. Which definitely didn't sound like the case, but in those women's twisted perspectives... :(
IKR!
could be that the parents are bullies too because it could have been that they were racist. I get picked on sometimes at school when I speak Spanish cuz "it's weird" or "your not in Mexico" kind of a thing
+Angela Amoako the daughter said "my mom touched her leg and told her to stop" but it could mean two different things. 1. She touched the girl and told her to stop 2. The mom touched her own leg and bent forward and said stop
People who say “ this is America speak English”
1. Just stop
2. Why don’t you go to a foreign country and speak that language fluently
technically USA doesnt have an official language so you can speak anything you want
+Emmasaurs 2004 False equivalency, if Americans were pouring into other people countries and only tried to speak English you'd have a point, but you don't, cause other people are doing that to America, not the other way around. Moron.
lol there are schools with only Spanish classes for kids. I'm guessing you are from an area where there are mostly white and/or black people.
Except when Americans go to other countries, they then love to complain about people not speaking English there. :\
It's still unacceptable if you've lived somewhere for more than a decade and still not speaking the local language
Where my children of broken English parents at?!
Here, believe it or not
Here
Right Here
Yo
Here
"I'm stupid..I'm slow..I'm uneducated!"
I put my tears to good use
GOT7 HOT7 ......ahgahsae...
Just when I saw this the part when they said it just start lol
me too
GOT7 HOT7 THOT7 VISUAL7 M E
Pendeja.
i love when (foreign) people speak broken English, like they're probably doing a better job than i would if i spoke their language
IKR
Omg same here!
Freaking true.
like SOME ppl neva look at it from different ppls perspectives
duh
This hits so close to home. I'm literally crying.
Alice Handersand pat pat
Alice Handersand Same 😭😢
Same 😭😭😭
Alice Handersand Same here
Alice Handersand same 😭
If someone punched my mom they'd catch these hands so fast
Me too.
hell yeah bro
hell yeah
dude same
LMAO YOUR PICTURE OF JIMIN
I started crying when that girl started crying.
Me too
Hin Hin I started crying at the sand story
Mury I was 1000 like
Same
Mury me too...
English is just a language. Not all are supposed to speak it cuz others do
MsUsagi513 requirement? What I am trying to say is yes english is more global language but it is nothing to made fun of, if you don't speak it.
ARMY!!!
MsUsagi513 yeah
Infires Taekook yeah
Infires Taekook no u have to speak english everwhere
the world is such a sad place.. this video made me cry.
same i hate reality
really made me cry once i realized this video is very relatable...
+Areej Fatima Ghafoor your profile picture is my phone case
+Javeria Faheem yours is mines
+VKookMin Luvs omg yass
English is just another language not a measure of inteligence.
So when people laugh at me for my broken english,i laugh at them for not able to speak at least two languages.:)
I speak 4 languages >-
+- MyBlues - same and I'm learning more 😂
hannah Potter Me too! 😂 Love learning different languages and cultures.
+hannah Potter oh gosh, how did you guys do that?
Haha that's good
my friends always feel awkward because they don't understand my dad so they would just awkwardly laugh
I feel you :'D
My friends with my grandmother though!!
i can totally relate
my friends would do that with my mom a lot
Good thing my parents speak english
Honesty, if someone speaks broken English, try to speak their language fluently and see how that goes for ya. There is something called DIVERSITY and CULTURE sooooo... yeah. Just be kind and be respectful of someone’s culture and understand how hard it is to learn a whole other language and not give up halfway through.
I love your roast lmao
Good one!
@Joe Dick
Doesn't work like that.
Two of my colleages, an English speaker and the other Austrian, still haven"t learn local language despite working and living in my country for 2 and 5 years respectively. We never make fun of them.
I usually don't cry but when the girl said what her mother felt and said, I broke a little. It hurts because as a child I used to get annoyed getting asked to translate, but overtime I decided for the sake of my mom I was going to advance in English and teach her a little bit in the process. In a way it hurt me more because I realized that when my mom needed help(she was abused) she thought she couldn't get it because of a language barrier
KookieMonsterWants HisSugaKookie armmyy
this is not related to the video but i couldnt help myself .....
Hi Army🙋
can you please shut up
Ekin T why?
Ekin T ?
I hate whenever people say "This is America. Speak English!" that's not an excuse to be inpatient, unkind and ignorant
Interesting you you could replace: "This is .... / Speak ...!" for any other country in the world and as an American you would say "I'm sorry, you're right. I just haven't learned it" But I definately agree that there is never an excuse to be impatient and rude. It just doesn't solve anything.
sophiaryaun yes I mean how would they feel if they go to other non English speaking country and people tell them the exact same thing...it's not reasonable
If anyone says that, tell them to look up the national language for the US, and watch the horror creep on their face.
Alex Larson It's English tho..
If America was really patriotic they'd get their own language, called American. The fact that you're still speaking English (from England!) should make it very clear thst you're an immigrant too.
I have always translated for my parents . People would condescendingly ask why don't my parents speak English as an 8 year old I didn't know what to say. As an adult I understood my father worked 2 jobs to feed his family. I am still translating for my mother my father passed away so my mother "leans" on me. When you are a child of immigrants the responsibility of facilitating to get things done is immense. Going to medical appointments HARD b/c I had to tell my father he had cancer it's been over 25 years but I'm crying b/c it just sucked. Most Americans don't understand b/c they are monolingual.
oh my god that's horrible. YOU'RE SO STRONG!!!!
If your mother is in California, she has a right to medical translation/interpretation www.legal-aid.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Your-Right-To-An-Interpreter_English.pdf
Hugs.
Those on the phone translators are horrible from my personal experiences. We would always get this one particular man who was super rude and impatient with us. They will also translate things wrong. The doctor asked my dad if he was in pain and it was translated to "do you smoke?" What if he doesn't smoke but the whole point of the visit was that he was in pain, that would have been disastrous. I find that medical assistants/nurses/doctors were also impatient with the phone translators. If they cannot schedule a physical translator to be there, do not trust those on the phone service. It irritates that not only are my parents being treated this badly from both sides but that one side can't get things translated correctly.
My father's mother spoke broken English with a strong Yiddish accent, which embarrassed him. He didn't let her know when there with school nights for parents to meet the teachers. Suddenly, she showed up at one of them and met his favorite teacher, who had encouraged him. At the end, his teacher took him aside and told him how charmed he was to meet his lively, lovely mother. Suddenly my father realized how wrong he had been to be ashamed of his mother. (Widowed, with nothing, she brought up 6 children with humor and love.) I am named for her.
beautiful story
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@Joe Dick he was a teen. Teenagers can be very stupids sometimes
That kicking story hit me hard for some reason
same man
.... was that a pun?
Ikr. People can be so unreasonable and ignorant
+Tianna It was.
+Tianna Haha!
I never will understand why people are so mean
It's just basic American traits probably.
Apparently people aren't born with hatred they slowly learn and now it's a malicious custom
Dani Ellie Everybody is born with hatred, but we're taught against it in most circumstances. If people weren't born with hatred, why would things such as religion or even government exist, these are things put into place so that we don't kill each other for our own goals.
+Christian Djami You don't need to be American to be a bad person? God, have some common sense.
Teodora Kutlaca Yeah but most American are bad and mean person, generally. That's my common sense that I got from actual visiting "The Great and Pride United States of America"
This video is killing me inside. I still remember the little Vietnamese girl I used to be friends with back when I was in Elementary... Her family couldn't speak even a little bit of English, But they both worked non-stop to try and give there kids a better life. I didn't notice this until this video. Man does this hurt me inside.
same,i’m also vietnamese and this video made me realised how blessed i really am.
Europa Man nice story, bro 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
ethan theone I’m vietnamese lol
Europa Man they're humans toi
ethan theone I'm Vietnamese and I don't have to do this only on my dad he is not bad at it but he forgets his English is pretty broken
Society: Be yourself
Also society: But you need/have to fix this and that
Fr
IM NOT CRYING UR CRYING
this is the best commet
I AM CRYING AHHH!!!
+JennyPennyXP PEW PEW COMMETS IN DA SKY
Who's your profile pic?
mine??? it's Suga from BTS ^^ a kpop group haha
The one about her at the park made me tear up..... Am I the only one?
Lol no I started crying too😂
That made me sad too her mom is Hispanic and so is mine so that just made my heart brake
I was almost tearing up.
It was so sad no you aren't the only
+aesampson_3 okay but |-/
This is a very deep video to me.. my mom growing up in the Philippines and she went here She Didn't understand anything because my mom escaped from her parents because they abused her... She met my dad who knew English and he helped her out. My mom had a really strong Filipino accent when she helped my BUT my mom is very dedicated and strong and learned English. She still has a small Filipino accent but she Is the most smartest person I know.
whenever someone's complaining about my English I would just say,
"Oh I'm sorry. English is only my fourth language so I'm not very good at it."
Also my mom can't speak English at all but she actually speaks five languages.
Cool
I know how hard it is to start learning a language after you already know one and how hard it is to learn it BTW I know 2 languages! I feel proud but WOW 4 languages
Do you know French?
I know five languages and I'm like 17.😕
@@gurnoorgill9631 same besides knowing English I take French and next year for my Sophomore year I decided to take sign language . I think people really underestimate how hard it is to know more than one language let alone speak it fluently. All the hard work is worth it though but it sucks that when foreigners move or visit the U.S they are just expected to know English I can't help but feel bad for them.
My father is an immigrate from Romania and has extremely bad English. We usually converse in Romanian because he is fluent in it and we have more laughs, but whenever he calls my name out with his accent, people give us the dirty look and it's kind of depressing when you have to stop having fun for the sake of others peoples happiness smh
Jimin's Smile their just passed cuz they probably don't know 2 languages don't let the haters stop you from what your parents worked so hard to give u ❤
Jimin's Smile Şi familia mea este din România, şi eu. Umpic ami ajutat pe ei, dari ei au învățat repede.
Jimin's Smile I'm Romanian too and I know what you mean. We live in Finland and here people speak Finnish and English and he doesn't speak neither but I help my dad whenever he needs and we speak in Romanian but I'm so grateful because without him working so hard and coming to a foreigner country for my sake I wouldn't be here
Well, you should give that dirty look right back to them. They're the ones being rude. He can call your name however he wants to, it's none of their business! I hate when people think it's all about them, they seem to take personal offense whenever someone doesn't know how to "speak 'Murican".
@@akkerman9154 daca era din moldova stia romana :))
Inseamna ca parintele tau e rus sau alta naționalitate,dar a crescut in moldova
usually some racist white people: HAHAHA YOUR MOM CANT SPEAK ENGLISH, SHE SOUNDS SO WEIRD HAHAHAH
me: yeah you're laughing but my mom can speak Spanish, broken English, perfect Japanese and also Chinese meanwhile i can speak perfect Spanish and English in a variety of accents and i am currently learning french, while you can barely pronounce "quesadilla" or "fajita" the right way.
By the way it's so much harder for a white, living in a country that's main language is English/American but everyone else learns the language because that's the language used, it's not our fault we don't need to learn a new language to adapt
thanks for that stereotype... "at least 50% of Americans"... really?
I'm British and I completely understand what ur saying it's just for us who speak English in England that's all we need
no it's not.
I like ur profile
not going to lie but I cried :'( people in this world are cruel, esp the park one which really got me.
TAE TAE
+Sienna Fatutoa Isn't he so Bae
taehyung my ult babe
priscilla loves hwanhee ;) ;)
ikr
I always translate for my mom ☺️
17 years in the US and and knows no English
She doesn’t have time to learn she cleans 5 houses a day comes home till 6pm and leaves at 6am
I love her she is always there for me ❤️
I try helping her with English but I don’t have time and she’s almost never home
I teach ESL in Korea and most of my Korean is aimed at pure survival or scolding/directing children. I've lived here for 12 years and people assume I'm fluent. I wish, but I haven't really not been working to actually study the language since college. My free time was more about recharging to not be an angry teacher. It takes so much more effort to learn a language as an adult!
Why is some one cuttin onions in my room
D:
my eyes are getting sweaty
my eyes are taking a shower
same
sorry I was making salsa
Drive thrus are the worst with parents and broken english
My mom is English and it takes 15 minutes to order at the drive thru 😂
Literally was at a drive thru 20 minutes ago with my dad, you won't believe my dad and the way he talked
True...
Hey army!
+Zipp You K-pop fans are literally everywhere
People born in America have no idea how hard immigrants lives are. Absolutely zero idea.
So?
+Neave Robinson i guess it's pretty funny how on the news there are some people who are very quick to taint all immigrants as a bad/lazy/dangerous bunch of people when they themselves have lived a relatively sheltered, cosy life
they have no idea how many countries' economic success is built upon the hardworking nature of immigrants
but hey trump/brexit campaigners won't be mentioning that anytime soon
+WanderLust it's pretty easy to put yourself into other people's shoes and realize the struggles they go through all the time. It is possible to understand what other people are going through without going through it. Also, if you have family that ate immigrants you ARE involved in what they go through daily. Not everyone has the mindset that you have described, sir/ma'am.
+Mikey A. I have to disagree with you on that. I personally believe that you don't truly know what a person or family is going through unless you go through it. you might have a idea but you won't truly know the struggle.
PDTSShady Top Trash yes that's what I meant. Sorry I didn't elaborate enough. I meant you can understand to a sort of extent, but not fully understand it.
When that girl said "I love you so much" in Vietnamese, I melted into a babbling, crying mess 😭😭
I'm sure a ton of sacrifices were made by her parents, but coming to the US wasn't one of them. When the US withdrew and the North Vietnamese entered the South, they were killing anyone they even suspected had fought for the South Vietnamese army. Getting out was survival.
This was so very touching. We were very moved by this.
+blaster chris I thought the same thing
@Wesley Nicholls could have possibly watched the video with a friend and was referring to 'we' as the person he watched the video with.
+blaster chris true, but just let other people state their opinion before rushing in to defend them and at the same time somewhat attack the other person who made the comment
Myself and two other friends looked at this video and we were all very moved by what we saw. I really didn't mean any harm or to disrespect anyone.
+blaster chris honestly, calm down.
"I'm very sorry for the grammatical mistakes. I don't speak English very well. It's not my mother tongue." - Person from another country
"I can't drink milk bcoz am lack toes intoler ant." - Native English speaker
Viktor 'Ice Daddy' Nikiforov lmao yes
Viktor 'Ice Daddy' Nikiforov 😂accurate
Fanfiction in a nutshell.
Viktor 'Ice Daddy' Nikiforov honestly
oh they don't like people who don't have any toes on their feet? roger that //walks away
I don't speak broken English but I still have a little accent when I pronounce things. I came to the US at age 11. One time I was translating for my dad and I was telling a lady something on the phone. She was stressed out I get it but she ended up insulting me saying: "Do you even speak English?" Inside me I was like: "B*tch of course I do, what language am I speaking now?" But instead I raised my voice a little and I said: "Ma'am I perfectly know English and I am just translating"
Good job keeping your cool, I probably would have lashed out. xD
lol yeah! sometimes is better to calm down
my mom has broken english too and i have been translating loads for her and never felt shame about it. My mom is lucky to be a confident lady and she never gets upset about not being able to communicate the best with people.
My mom speaks broken English but I don't get bullied for it or anything, most ppl are pretty understanding at my school
that's how it supposed to be! :)
Ashley were Do u live like what country
LeaveAshley me too
LeaveAshley Not everyone's that fortunate. I wish I could be you...
Lucky you.
Dang, I feel like this was alot sadder than it should've been..
yeah...
It most definitely was. I've been ashamed heavily by having poor uneducated parents a hella lot but I have never even thought about this as a thing that should bring tears or sadness to my life. Some people on the other side of planet don't have what to wear, eat, drink... and you HAVE parents. That's a blessing
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yeah those two storys in particular actually made me cry and gosh they really somehow hit hard
The world is a lot more mean than it should be
I play the flute and my mom would always go "Jayd time to play the fruit" it was the cutest thing ever.
Jayd Foo Aweee❤
Do you play the skin flute?
awww ahahaha cutee
Jayd Foo armmyy
Jayd Foo it's really cute 💜
"I'm stupid...I'm slow...I'm uneducated."
At this point I started crying😢
OMH I cried so,hard. I can totally relate. I'm 11 right Now, and I literally have to translate everything. I think the one where the woman said that her biggest regret was not teaching her parents more English..... No I'm going to try harder to teach my parents more English. All of these are so relatable. The park one just got me sobbing.
Gamertastic 101 I'm 11 too and I also have to translate a lot of things to my mom and I'm gonna try and teach her more english👍🏼👍🏼😭😭
Gamertastic 101 I'm eleven and it's hard to literally translate everything
Gamertastic 101
I'm eleven as well. I still have to translate for my parents but, I've taught them lots of English. But it's not like Native American speakers, but it's the best they can do. But the hard part is, since I have to speak Khmer aka Cambodian, sometimes in class, on habit, I speak Khmer on accident. I've been bullied and teased bcuz of that. But, it hasn't happened lately.
Visila In You've been bullied bcz you spoke another language? It shows that you are way smarter than they are. Those guys who made fun of you are stupids and probably just speak one language.
Same
The story about the little girl kicking the sand was awful :(
what sucks even more is when teachers tell you to ask your parents for help on homework thats english related and everyone else has parents that help them revise their essays and your parents want to help you but just can't
There will be a day in a child's life when he discovers he knows more than his immigrant parents. It's a rude awakening when he realizes he is now on his own.
They should be proud of their parents. Their parents were brave enough to leave their home country for better life for their kids.
Native English Speakers : Hi!
Me:Hi
Native English Speakers: I don't understand what you're saying. It's the accent.
I feel you man!!! I just want them to go to a different country with a different accents so they know how we feel.
+Anime Lover What is your problem you don't know there story...or why their there. and how your complaining about how they can speak proper English is rude and inconsiderate so shut your mouth and mind your own business
true!!!
Sometimes they genuinely can't understand you. I speak to foreigners all the time, and whilst I try my best, some speak in such broken English that it is VERY difficult to understand what they're actually saying, even listening as hard as I can. It's not us trying to be rude to you, but the pronunciation of some words is not comprehensible or they speak too fast that it sounds like another language almost. I find Indians and Africans the hardest to understand by far
English people sometimes don't understand English people too XD Like Geordie accent XD
The broken english is not even the problem. You get looked at funny if you speak english with an accent. It's sad
my mom, dad, and I are white, and I don't have an accent but my mom does and my dad doesn't speak any english and sometimes I feel really jealous of american kids because they don't have to deal with all of this btw my dad is italian and my mom from spain but I was born in Venezuela.
Lol no
I have SO many people talking to me like I don't understand English because I have an accent~ they speak slowly or explain things that I understand 🙄🙄😐🙃
yeah..and they start treating you like an alien even though you can understand everything :(
Accents are freaking amazing!
"broken english." - when my mother struggles to spell a word in english
I want to break the entire language into little pieces
so the edges of these letters will stop cutting her.
Why did this make me cry lol??
s.s these 3 lines made my cry more than this video
*snaps intensely* (for your poetic creativity)
Perfectly said!
You must be the sweetest person
Bruh im literally in tears my mum also speaks broken english, and i always got so frustrated with her and now i regret everything. Pls dont take ur parents for granted.
People in the United States don't even speak English correctly, so we have no right to make fun of anyone with an accent when we changed the language to meet our standards.
Let’s be fair. Languages changing depending on the region is totally normal. That being said I doubt most Americans can speak another language without an American accent so
kasey estevez exactly
CocoAnimate that’s one word if the two languages were that similar every one who spoke one would speak the other do you think I learned English over night no I am learning German now and let me tell you they are not similar at all if they were that similar I would already speak German
CocoAnimate being similar dies not mean there the same. And also stop bragging I know the same amount of languages as you it’s nothing special
CocoAnimate if European languages are so similar and easy then what does this mean and what language is it. No google translate μαλακα by the way if you do use google translate know It’s describing you
I live in Germany and my parents don't speak German too well, basically just the everyday things to get by and vocabulary that they need at work. They have been working since the day they got here and it drives me crazy when people ask me "Why don't your parents speak German? They've been here for so long. Look at blablabla, her parents speak German so well!" Little do they know that her parents are send to German classes because they are unemployed and the government wants them to find jobs in German shops, companies etc. Those courses are paid by the tax payers, which also means by my parents who have never been unemployed all their life. Not only would they have to find the time besides working up to 12 hours a day, seven days a week but they'd have to pay to attend these courses. Find the mistake here! Stop judging the book by it's cover, a lot of people really try.
Your comment really got to me, maybe because it's the same with my parents ? I'm sorry you have to live with that frustration, sometimes people don't understand. But I do, and you're not alone with this c:
I love your family's story, hang in there
*too bad; how ironic!
+Republicanrican Diaz (War Stories) You can never please people like you. If they are unemployed you bash them, and if they don't speak german you bash them. But you can't do both of them?
+ZombiecoHQ to be honest the Netherlands would be a good idea, since it's also close to the german language it's easy to learn if you know some basic german already. They also speak some damn fine english so that's probably a cool idea
It's just crazy people all over the world judge just because you can't speak a language they think is normal.
Prasad Rajaretnam Right? I really feel for these people. In America I have not seen this happen. I didn't have a lot of non-white friends. Not because I didn't want them, but because where I lived, there weren't a lot of minorities. I have lived in Asia almost my whole life and I am thankful that they have always been accepting and supporting of me. I respect everything your parents have done to give you the life that you have now. I love you guys.
i have seen americans saying "ohh your english is so fluent" coz m asian. I think language, accent and ur fluency doesn't matter but what actually matter is your knowledge, your thoughts. Language is just a medium to express your views and yourself that's it.
edit: sorry if my english isn't that perfect :3
Your English is better than some native e]English speakers, your doing great sweetie
your english is perfectly fine as a child of broken ish english and cantonese speaking parents I approve( obviously I'm not the only one to say your english is good)
Yeah. Indeed. Plus, even though the person is not so fluent, or have an accent, the most important thing is to be able to communicate ideas
I'd always be so embarrassed when my mom was speaking in broken English over the phone or with someone. I'd be sitting next to her, shaking my head and sighing.
Once she was done, she'd say, "They can't speak Korean as well as I do, can they?"
That sure shut me up.
you mom is really tough. :D
Abhishek Tanwar She's badass. XD Ah, how I love her.
+Dragonfeathers I'm assuming you're Korean mate, that's awesome
INFIRES ?!? Of course at least one K-pop fan shows up.
Your mom is amazing person haha I'm Korean also! :)
I am crying on my bed, watching and relating to this. My mom is Korean and speaks broken English with a Korean accent. I can't speak Korean, and she misses her country where she can be accepted and understood. This video was incredibly moving.
My mom has a Russian accent and she hates it and is embarrassed by it, but I think that's what makes her unique and even more beautiful❤️
Same. I love my mothers accent
Russian accents are genuinely so amazing. They're deeper in a soothing way
aww I think Russian accents are so cute and so sweet idk i love them
Russian accents are sexy, just like Russian women 👍❤️😘
Hehe thanks guys it means alot😊
I hate it when I speak Spanish on my phone to talk to my mom or dad and my friend's screams speak English this is America we speak English but don't I have the right to speak another language
Tbh they don’t sound like a very good friend if they say that,,,
I think it's alright if he/she is just teasing or joking. But if they really mean it, I'm sorry, but you shouldn't be friends with them.
They're terrible, terrible human beings.
Lmao wut
Jainy Ramirez Tell your “friends” (unless they’re joking, they shouldn’t be your friends), that the US doesn’t actually have an official language so you can speak whatever language you want
Honestly if they treat you like that they aren’t your friend and tbh it’s like when the go on holiday to a foreign country people scream at them stop speaking English it just rude and disrespectful
Im just tearing up. My mom speaks a really small amount of english and people are rude to her at at stores refusing to attend her because she cannot speak english, so everytime she goes out I have to come along in case she needs me. She studies HARD.. But im proud evertime she can manage to comunicate some words back to fluent english speakers.
1:17 love her she’s so cute and kind
yvonne arredondo Is she an elementary school teacher ?
Dude "she" is a guy
She is super sweet we need more people like that 😍😘
Her story is so sad though
I pressed this and got a commercial
This hits so close to home. My mother is Korean and every time one of my friends come to my house she speaks English instead of Korean because my friends have made comments about how rude it is for her to speak in her native language. And then when she speaks English they make fun of her accent and how she can't pronounce most of her words correctly. You just can't make people happy in this country no matter how hard you try. Shedding some tears.
How can your friends make fun of your mother in front of you ?.
I'm sorry I don't want to offend you but your friends are jerks... It's very rude of them to make fun of your mom. How old are they? I'd tell their parents about this foul behavior.
They probably don't realize how much it hurts. You should tell them how it makes you all feel.
Drop your friends. How dare they make fun of your mother
+Ra Bia i agree, friends who arent accepting (assuming that they are at an age where they should understand), arent friends who you should have in life.
I alway thought I was the only one who had to translate when going to parent-teacher meetings. How I never had help with my homework because I had to be independent. How I feel embarrassed when I go out in public. But I know my parents struggle as much as me
That's good cause you can tell your parents the teacher said I am doing really good even if the teacher said you were the worst in the class
You shouldn't be embarrassed to go out in public be proud of who you are
That is so true, not only do i have to translate everything for my mom and dad but I also gotta do everything by myself and if I want help I have to translate everything I need help on and I am also struggling in English too so that doesn't help, I've learned to not ask my parents for help with homework because they can't not even Math because they had to work instead of learning to stay alive when they were younger. It's a sad truth for many kids with parents who don't speak English
@@scottw6375 you actually cant my mom doesnt know english but if i were to say that i got good grades in a ptc but actually got bad grades the look on her face would give it away to the teacher
dont feel embarrassed. you should feel embarrassed of not embracing the cool things about your culture and language and letting others know how cool other countries can be too! People usually doesn't get to know that and learn until they travel
This actually made me cry...because i can see my story in there
the worst part is when u ur parent have an accent but ur the translator and the person goes "wow u speak very good English" like tf is that shocking for? I was raised here and went to school here just like ur kids!
Omg yes!🙌🏻
I had that once.
same. happens to me.
Happens to me all the time... sadly :/
IKR
This is the same as my mom she only can speak Chinese ,hokkien,Cantonese and Malay ......
She can't speak English very well because she stopped studying in primary 6
But she is my pride and joy as I love her with all my heart ,brain ...... and other body parts
Ong Junwei Are you from Malaysia? Singapore?
Li Ern Singaporean
Ong Junwei Mate you said only... That's a lot of languages, your mum is so cool!!
If anyone makes fun of her for any messed up reason- your mom will always be smarter
Ong Junwei hi
This is so heartbreaking and all I want to do is hug my mom and tell her she means the world to me 😭😭😭💔💔💔
I remember I was translating to my mom about what a retail worker had said and I didn't have the heart to tell her. But what the retail worker had said was, "tell your mom I won't help her unless she learned english. So please leave the store." All I did was ask my mom if we could leave.
omg, that is just disgustingly rude
I would have said, "I would like to speak with your supervisor now. Perhaps she can be of assistance." Never let the ignorant ones wear you down.
same thing happened to me and my mom. Honestly it was so rude, like how can you treat another person like that ugh
oh my god...that's horrible
I would throw a rock into the retail store lol
My mom immigrated from Lithuania to the Netherlands, I'm happy that my dad taught her to speak Dutch. I remember she told me that people in our village didn't really interact with her because she came from a different country and had an accent, that made me feel pretty frustrated and sad. Thankfully, she became friends with some of the moms in my village. And now she can speak it fluently, sometimes she still doesn't know how to write something but she has me, my dad and my little brother to help her 😊 Also the funny thing is, I don't even hear an accent. It's so weird because my dad and grandma hear it, even my friends mock my mom sometimes about it (which I don't like of course) but I don't hear it, I think she speaks Dutch without an accent (probably because I grew up with it and just don't hear the difference). I'm happy that my mom is able to speak multiple languages, she speaks Lithuanian, Dutch, English and Russian which I'm amazed by. And I'm happy that I'm able to communicate with my family on the Lithuanian side in Lithuanian. I think we all should be proud with our parents who come from a different country because we have the advantage of knowing more than one or two language(s) 😊 (this is sooo long, I'm sorry 😅)
Don't apologize for what you want to say (:
Thanks for sharing 😊 I totally agree that being able to speak more than one language is awesome
So cute, your mom is amazing.❤
that a nice story
MsMadKim Thank you, she really is ❤
I'm the oldest of my siblings so I'm the one my parents go to when they need a translator but what makes me frustrated is the fact I can't translate well in Vietnamese. I can understand it well but when I speak it, it sounds forced and pronounced oddly to the point where they don't understand what I'm trying to say. I live in an area that doesn't offer classes to learn Vietnamese so I can't learn it. My mom suggested for me to speak only Viet at home but I can't because I'm more fluent in English so automatically I would revert to that when I don't know a word in Viet. I'm envious of those who can speak their parents' language so well and is a better translator because of that
I can relate
Me too. I only know basic Spanish and sometimes my father goes to me not for a translator but to just talk and I can't really respond. But I find myself so selfish since he try's to speak to me in English and does a really good job but I can't do the same to him.
same, i speak viet but i can't translate very well
since I'm oldest, my mom gets bully at work, i wish i can help but people who speak the same language as her also make fun of her :( when my mom comes homes, she's tells me that a lot people hate because she can't speak english and me and my sister always have to translate for my mom to understand when buying stuff or asking for something. theres only one thing i can help her is learn more viet and translate it to english :)
Dude don't even worry! It's the same for me too! Sometimes me and my mom laugh together whenever she can't say a word, and she would hit me right back by talking in vietnamese where i cant understand it haha
America is so cruel
In Egypt we like people who dont speak Arabic well and we just help them
Adam Same in China. American kids somehow are just more mean :/
@@dailyyakofmandarinchinese3363 no, china is pretty damn racist
@@ailanouk Well that's true. But people with good language skills (INCLUDING Chinese) are looked up to in general.
@@ailanouk I'm from Shanghai so I'll only speak for Shanghai. It's quite common for young people in Shanghai to speak English fluently or at least conversationally so at least among young people those who speak English exceptionally well aren't necessarily looked up to. Maybe being able to speak English is a big deal for people outside of big cities like Shanghai or for the older generation, but it's quite common among young people living in big cities.
Actually, most Americans are nice to people that don’t speak English well. I worked at a job in high school with a lot of immigrants, and the Americans would just use our body language or say basic words or phrases to our coworkers.
My dad doesn't speak broken English he actually speaks perfect English because when he moved to the United States he worked and went to college to make sure he knew English but he still has a very thick accent and people make fun of him for it and it breaks my heart
Same here. My father is a smart man, has a degree in Social Studies but there always be people making fun of him, of us, no matter how good he is.
same my dad came to the U.S. from Mexico to work and learned English and he actually joined the U.S. army and bc of the army he had to live in Germany for 3 years and he also speaks German a little bit
+jackie yo omg your dad is all kinds of wonderful you are so lucky your dad went to german and the united states and maneged to learn new languages im realy happy for your family 🙌❤️
same exact thing with mine. My dad has lived here for over 30 yrs and people don't seem to understand that he is a qualified american!
+katherine sagastume aww thank you! :)
even just seeing what the title of the video, already hit a sensitive topic for me, but while watching the video, it was nice to feel that, it wasn't just me, that i'm not the only one that had to grow up with this
I still have to grow up with it, but my Dad knows more English than my mom so I never have to explain stuff to him. It's mostly my Mom.
Agreed
Yes! Its nice to know that so many other people face this struggle!
but can you imagine what it feels like to have to ask your child to translate for you? and to hate yourself for embarrassing your child? and to disappoint your child? it might be harder for them than it is for you.
p.s. i know without a doubt it is hard for you as well. i can't imagine what you and your family go through.
christine kim same 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 we are technically smart dictionaries so props and kudos to us I translate English to Spanish what about you guys
my eyes are sweating, I swear I'm not crying
damn ur eyes sweat too?!
1-800-273-8255
Aww
L S, yeah i ain't cryin' there's just something iny eyes, some transparent liquidity stuff, which tastes like a solution of salt and water! 'Kay? I am not crying!
I remember moving to the US at 13, and my dad trying his best with english. Me and my brother, since we knew more english, we would poke fun at my dad's english because it was the worst of all of us. He would always tell us that the people at his job said he spoke very good english and we'd laugh at his face. It wasn't until I was already in college that I felt regretful of making fun of my dad. His english still isn't great. He got fired from a job and spent almost a year without a job because all of his interviews were over the phone and since he wasn't very good at explaining things simply using words in english, he had trouble getting hired. And for the first time, he told me, crying (and this man never cries), he told me, "you know, my english is very bad." And explained how he never realized it until he went through countless of phone interviews, and people having trouble understanding what he was saying. Me and my brother had the privilege of learning english halfway through our lives. My parents did not.
His English might not be that bad. He might have just failed at having a good interview because he was not prepared. I think if he works on it diligently, he can beat it. Even native speakers need to get prepared, memorize some kind of template and theme sentences to look attractive in an interview. If he had managed to work there his life halfway through and did not have any problem until then, it really could be that. I am not a native speaker of English myself but I saw pretty many native speakers just live by a few hundreds words for years because circumstances do not require any change. Occupational English is difficult. This is no about being intelligent or educated , either. Time changes, languages also change and we learn from all our experiences. See the silver lining.
You should practice interviews with him, and help him correct some of his mistakes.
What the hell is wrong with some people???? These people who aren't able to commincate well and are trying to work or protect their children have to work ten times as hard. Why instead of helping and making it easier do people have to give them such a hard time?????
so true :'(
Because in our generation, technology replaces compassion.
Because 'Murcia. Land of the free and home of the brave....you know unless you're anything other than cauc Asian in that case get the hell out
+everysamthing lol. Idiot.
I'm crying. The emotions I'm experiencing are on another level right now. I'm in the same boat as these and many other people, but I didn't experience it to the same degree as them. I'm blessed to live in a mostly Hispanic area, which means that needing or being my parent's translator wasn't an unusual thing. But hearing these stories still hits me hard, especially knowing it could've been much worse for both me and my parents and knowing that it IS a lot worse for so many other people.... Knowing we have nothing to be ashamed about, yet we are constantly made felt as if not knowing English is a sin committed against a superior being who is incapable of understanding our struggles. I'm so glad this video was made. :) hopefully through this video people will be able to get a glimpse of what we go through and get a better sense of what many immigrants and their families go through. ♡
seriously people with broken english speak other languages fluently! I speak three languages and if u tell me I have an accent or I dont speak english very well I'm gonna be cursing u in french and arabic
Lebanese?
could be algerian or tunisian as well :D
+Om Satapathy I ammmmm
I speak Arabic Chinese French
+Einstein Apple 10309299398284 and English
I think its worse when *you* are the one who speaks broken English. I’m Turkish and I live here, my mother is American and if we ever move to the U.S. I am afraid of getting bullied at school for it.
Only kids would bully others for speaking broken english. I moved to the US three years ago at 14 years old, and I’ve always had this unique accent from a certain region in my country which is known for its very strong accent. To my surprise, people didn’t bully me or even judge me because of my accent. I’m know 16 and I’d say I’m pretty fluent in english although I still make mistakes from time to time. Don’t worry about your english not being perfect :)
I am living in Turkey too and both of my parents are Turkish and They don't know how to speak English. I learnt English from cartoon shows and I am proud of my english. Maybe I am not fluent and I have no one to practice my english but I am fine with my accent. All I mean is, You shouldn't be upset about your accent. You should be happy about you know two languages.
I feel you. Maybe not today but one day you will realize how special gift it is.
people do not understand how hard it is for someone who only spoke one language their entire life to suddenly learn a new one
these people are adults so learning languages and all their grammatical and phonological rules is an extremely challenging cognitive process (while children of young age pick up language more or less naturally)
ridiculing, disrespecting or making fun of a person who struggles with learning a language is utterly ignorant
English is the most complicated language in the world
+Michael Taylor I disagree. English is grammarly pretty simple (no verb conjugation, no articles, few verb tenses). The struggle is vocabulary (you guys have A LOT of words) and gaining fluency. Also, english speakers can be really mean to new learners.
actually its arabic
+The Pells (Thepells) but it is harder to learn English as a foreigner than it is to learn a foreign language as an English speaker
+The Pells (Thepells) It depends on what your native language is. For a speaker of let's say... Mandarin Chinese, it would be very difficult to learn English unlike someone who speaks Dutch.
So for speakers of one language, English can be the hardest language to learn, and for speakers of another language, it can be fairly simpler.
There are a few of people who looked down at me just because i speak English with accent. It bothered me. Until i realise that i speak three languages and i actually sound me when i speak English with my accent. Those people who look down at others for their broken English are certainly trapped in their so-called English speaking country. They've simply never been out of their comfort zone.
I speak 3 languages and my English had an accent too. I feel you. Wich languages to you speak? I speak Spanish, Portuguese and english.
I love people speaking English with accent..:)
I speak Tagalog,Spanish and English
right. I speak Tagalog, English and French.
I speak finnish, estonian and english. I have a horrible accent😂
My mum told me I often corrected her English back then, I said sorry but she was like "It's okay, I know 3 languages, 7 dialects. I laugh whenever you try to communicate with your relatives in those languages, it's more broken than my English."
That's so cute omg. ❤️
😂 😂 😂 omg thats so cool😂
I'm Vietnamese I know how it feels to translate everything to my parents. I've cried on pointless nights several times, I'm just so grateful for my parents.
I can totally relate to this. It's even more annoying when it's a friend or a roommate making fun of your mum for her less than perfect english
I quod never be friends or roommates with them ever again. Luckily I have friends who can relate or understand.
That's why I don't make white friends. All ethnic all the way.
@Zan Ali they weren't white...
My mum be making me write her Facebook status all the time.
Lol
OMG SAMEE
Lmaooo same
Dude the struggle is real. And then I feel so guilty when I am in a bad mood and don't want to do it and she can tell that I'm being annoyed.
SAMEEEEE
3:25 kills me everytime
Saddest bit :'(
I honestly cried at this part because this happened to my mother it kills me to see my her cry😭😭😭
I cried too, I told myself i wasn't going to, but this broke me
Same😢
tears
4:35 The girl speaks Vietnamese with an English accent, which is the cutest thing ever
My friends r always saying "Why do ur parents speak weird?" And inside im like shut up they know another language and u dont so their smarter than u. Thank you to my friends who actually have respect.
honestly, people who criticize your family aren't really you're friends
One of my best friends laughed at my mom for pronouncing hamburger wrong, and my mom speaks better english than her parents. Also, you should get rid of those disrespectful "friends"
I once had a friend (not my friend anymore) who spoke 3 languages, French, English, and Spanish. We were both about 10 or 11. One day, my mom came to pick us up from school, we were carpooling together. And in the car, my mother starts asking me about my day in Persian. My parents were both born in Iran, and they immigrated here for me, because life is very, very hard there. Anyways, she was speaking to me in Persian because English was hard for her, when my friend says: “what language do you speak? It sounds funny...” and I say Persian. And she was like: what that? And I’m like it’s just a language from the Middle East. And she just looks at me for a little bit, and goes: “does your mom know English?” And I confidently say: “yeah! Of course she does!” And she goes cool. Then my mom starts talking in English to my friend, and says: “how was your day?” In her broken English. And I see my friend laughing beside me, and trying to control her laughter. At that point, my mom saw and heard her snickering, and her heart was broken. I saw her wipe a tear of her cheek. I was crushed. I wanted to punch my friend.
Then when we came home, my mom comes to me talking Persian, saying:
“You know, I’ve had a really, really bad life as a child. My parents didn’t have money, I lived in a horrible house with 5brothers and no sisters. I had to cook for the whole family, my mother didn’t care about me, and my father passed away when I was 2. I don’t even remember him. *tears come* I was miserable, all I wanted my entire life as a child was to be able to afford a pack of colored pencils. I begged and begged, but I never got it. I only had one pair of pants, and those were filled with holes and stains. “
“I came to America while I was pregnant with you, even though I knew it would be hard for me, because I knew that where I grew up was not right for you. I didn’t want you to suffer what I suffered. And look at you now, you are smart, you succeed in school, you love your life, you are my unbelievably amazing, you are 13 years old, you’ve grown up in front of my eyes, my one and only daughter. And me and your father have tried so, so hard for you to love your life. And now, you are wealthy. You have a mother and father who love and care for you. Your father goes to work as a doctor, because he came here for you and to succeed educationally. You have everything you could possibly want, a large and fancy house, a family, toys, everything. Appreciate everything I And your father have done for you, remember that all we want is for you to have a great life. *cries extremely and gives hugs and kisses* and stay away from your friend please.
Everyone, please understand what my mother and father and every other immigrant have and still must go through. Understand that your parents would sacrifice anything, and I mean anything for you.
Tricked ya Your mother seems great and so kind. You can be so proud of her. However, kids are kids and I don't think you can blame a child for their ignorance (unless it is like straight on bullying but in this case it was just a wrong response)
If they don t know english then they don t speak two languages so no,they aren t better :)))
I could speak broken English just to annoy my teachers
lol
Hamza Bhatti lol
Omg my grandma always gives me the phone when someone starts speaking English. She's like "are they just trying to sell me something?" And I start laughing because it's always someone trying to sell her something
Aw same here!
lol!!
ARMY
wrong: "this is america, speak english!"
right: "this is america, speak americish!"
dude, americans don't even have their own official language. i mean it's called english not american nor americish coz it's the language of england, right.
Idk there's lots of Spanish countries too 🤷🏽♂️
So if you see someone speaking a different language in England you tell them to speak English. I get it lol
Why are my eyes sweating so much
she was tearing up