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Date of upload: Jan 4, 2024 ^^
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For the longest time Iโve always seen Americans as bad at languages because most of them have a monolingual background. Itโs refreshing to see someone whoโs actually aware of languages and geography. And considering she is monolingual she actually did a good job distinguishing those accents so good job very smart lady
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I can see why she didn't exactly get Singapore and Malaysia right, because both countries used to be one country called Malaya under the British at one time, the cultures and language spoken is very very close. Even the way English is spoken and the accents would have been challenging to tell apart. The 2 countries are very close in proximity, the land crossing between Singapore and Malaysia is one of the busiest in the world, and Singaporeans and Malaysians often have family in either country. So Singapore and Malaysia would have been a huge challenge, and even more so when you consider that both countries have multi-cultural Chinese, Malay and Indian populations as citizens, among other ethnicities. So yes, BIG challenge there! The other 3 English accents from the Philippines, Hongkong and India are definitely more distinct. I'm from Singapore, and sometimes it's hard for me to tell Singapore and Malaysia accents apart when both are speaking English. It's like how it's sometimes hard to tell a Canadian from an American, 'cos the accents sound quite close.
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Philippines and Indian accent has their very distinctive sound sound she really did not have a hard time with those two. Still the way she was able guess Hong Kong was extremely impressive for a westerner. Most people dont know even the existence of Cantonese.
Also, did anyone else thought the Singapore one sounded like Japanese speaker on the first line?
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i feel with singapore and malaysia, you'll need to have them talk longer to be able to discern their accents. putting those two next to each other was definitely a challenge. it wasn't until jing talked about her favourite colour that i could tell she was SG. while the accents are similar the slang they use, the arrangement of the words, their intonation and etc are different from MY. this was a really cool video tho, US guest was really good at guessing and describing accents. linguist perhaps?
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As a Malaysian who went through public school and university in England, and practised as a London Barrister, I think my English language proficiency is up to UK standard. Unfortunately, when I was applying to Georgia Tech for a Masters degree, they said that their regulations stated that only graduates from American universities or citizens from a small set number of countries like UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand were deemed to be able to satisfy their English language entry requirements. When I politely and sarcastically wrote back to them questioning their logic, they insisted that because I was not a British citizen, I still had to do the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) to prove my English language proficiency!
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@Fuzzy_Llama
3 months ago
Putting a Singaporean and a Malaysian together definitely made it tricky.
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