People Try Translating Jamaican Patois

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  • Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024

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  • @kingdy4245
    @kingdy4245 2 года назад +4325

    My fellow Jamaicans, put Jamaican Patois on your resume because I thought we were understandable but after this Lmaoo we are bilingual 😭

    • @70RY
      @70RY 2 года назад +221

      For real! I thought it was fairly instinctive. I guess I was wrong.

    • @anna-kayepowell8979
      @anna-kayepowell8979 2 года назад +49

      me dead yo 🤣

    • @frakasha24
      @frakasha24 2 года назад +176

      We actually ARE bilingual fren 😁

    • @goodgyalmo1474
      @goodgyalmo1474 2 года назад +140

      lmao nah same i always seh how mi wish mi coulda speak spanish bcs jamaican patois is so easy fi understand but this video proved me wrong 💀

    • @tizzubestar
      @tizzubestar 2 года назад +3

      😆

  • @ShaniceN
    @ShaniceN 2 года назад +2603

    As a Jamaican, this is hilarious 😂

    • @oneilliamason9183
      @oneilliamason9183 2 года назад +19

      Must I tell u 😂😂

    • @breadyblox2263
      @breadyblox2263 2 года назад +66

      The second Jamaican is questionable Iv never seen that outfit since I was born in Jamaica and still in Jamaica

    • @snickerdoodle212
      @snickerdoodle212 2 года назад +38

      Lmao. Bless them. Rihanna? Work? 😂😂

    • @matslakk
      @matslakk 2 года назад

      as a jamaican i think this is borderline racist and stupid those arent real jamaicans

    • @mphenomenal
      @mphenomenal 2 года назад +1

      facts

  • @candiceallen4455
    @candiceallen4455 2 года назад +1010

    It's so interesting to see how people interpret our dialect. Makes it seem more complicated than it actually is.

    • @Kashleighsays
      @Kashleighsays 2 года назад +17

      Honestly 🥲

    • @deb1920
      @deb1920 2 года назад +100

      When you have no clue what people are saying, it's always complex. Lmao.

    • @n25bast
      @n25bast 2 года назад +14

      I understood most of these, but I also did grow up around a lot of Jamaicans.

    • @FaithandNova
      @FaithandNova 2 года назад +7

      @@n25bast I did also and still barely understand. Idk what is it with me and accents. Even a person with a British accent I have a hard time understanding 🤦🏽‍♀️

    • @kadamyers8488
      @kadamyers8488 2 года назад +1

      Ikr

  • @ivorymarie82
    @ivorymarie82 2 года назад +822

    The fact that Mr.Jeffrey is almost 80 years old is sending me. I haven’t seen his face on my screen in a while. Seeing him here today is such a treat. 🤗🤗

    • @sweetlyketoffee
      @sweetlyketoffee 2 года назад +10

      I thought the same thing!

    • @kaysaladd5873
      @kaysaladd5873 2 года назад +2

      Where he from?

    • @lenamay1736
      @lenamay1736 2 года назад +10

      who is he? what's he known for?

    • @keesikay
      @keesikay 2 года назад +128

      I think he was in the "black or white" video of Michael Jackson

    • @goodgyalmo1474
      @goodgyalmo1474 2 года назад +7

      @@keesikay lol omg it does look like him

  • @yourgirljessyd920
    @yourgirljessyd920 2 года назад +1217

    I’m a child of Jamaican immigrants that cannot speak patois but understood everything 😂

  • @Shenzii_Love
    @Shenzii_Love 2 года назад +248

    As a Jamaican and I just kneeeeew I'm gonna laugh😂😂😂
    I love my native tongue. Yall did good enough😊🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

  • @aliceghans5659
    @aliceghans5659 2 года назад +689

    I'm from Africa.. Ghana to be exact and I actually did well guessing what they were saying... I'm so proud of myself 👏🏾😁... I salute all my Jamaican brothers and sisters ❤️🇯🇲

    • @Strawberryfearsforever
      @Strawberryfearsforever 2 года назад +47

      I hear that Ghana and Jamaica are very similar in culture .

    • @shaylataylor9525
      @shaylataylor9525 2 года назад +40

      @Rashad Bakshar Yes. Many Jamaican slaves were from Ghana. I think some also came from Nigeria.

    • @sweetlyketoffee
      @sweetlyketoffee 2 года назад +41

      We even have a village called Accompong where the Maroons live. They speak a version of Jamaican Patios that is very similar to the Akan language. There are some videos on RUclips where Ghanaians visited Maroons from various Caribbean Islands and some South American countries, and they were able to speak to each other 🙂 We are family that has been separated and taught to hate each other. We have more in common than we do difference.

    • @sweetlyketoffee
      @sweetlyketoffee 2 года назад +21

      @@shaylataylor9525 Yes! According to my DNA I am almost 50% Nigerian. There is Accompong town and Abeokuta national park in Jamaica 🙂. I'm from Westmoreland where enslaved people were taken from Abeokuta in Nigeria.

    • @sweetytweety0011
      @sweetytweety0011 2 года назад +18

      I’m Ghanaian and Jamaican. I have to say there are so many similarities in culture.

  • @antoniaPrince
    @antoniaPrince 2 года назад +305

    Rolling up to our 60th independence this was amazing to watch. Thank you !🇯🇲🇯🇲🤗

    • @TruAnn876
      @TruAnn876 2 года назад

      Timely seeing these on my TL today the 1st ⚫️🟢🟡

    • @tavyalawrence5526
      @tavyalawrence5526 2 года назад

      ikr I said this just a while ago

    • @NanaLia_18
      @NanaLia_18 9 месяцев назад

  • @tizzubestar
    @tizzubestar 2 года назад +322

    These guesses are funny😆 I thought everyone understood us.
    Admittedly, I didn't know the African-origin words or the modern slang words but I understand the rest and used context clues and knew what they were talking about. 🇯🇲

    • @twitterg3774
      @twitterg3774 2 года назад +2

      some words are a bit understood, but the fast talking i have to listen slowly lol

    • @roylle6346
      @roylle6346 2 года назад

      Poor mi think dem understand wi😂

    • @GabrielChillin
      @GabrielChillin Год назад

      When I was in Jamaica I could somewhat get by but it was a struggle😂 some phrases are so close to English but some are completely different

  • @latoyat129
    @latoyat129 2 года назад +337

    Please please please do one with Jamaicans guessing Nigerian Pidgin!!!

    • @o.t9358
      @o.t9358 2 года назад +11

      Yes please, or vice versa either way

    • @sushimitten
      @sushimitten 2 года назад +1

      I wish someone could teach me! 😫

    • @praxym9293
      @praxym9293 2 года назад +19

      They would get them right cause they are almost similar

    • @slimthickaz.
      @slimthickaz. 2 года назад +1

      That wouldn't make sense

    • @latoyat129
      @latoyat129 2 года назад +21

      As a Jamaican myself I can assure you even I get lost with the similarities. So it would be great to see. I think Nigerians have an easier time with Patois. Both videos would be amazing to see.

  • @marciamendez653
    @marciamendez653 2 года назад +97

    As a child of jamaican and Trinidadian parents I understood everything it made me realize that understanding my st elizabeth family made it easy to understand the rest of the island

    • @kaynine9
      @kaynine9 2 года назад +1

      🇯🇲best mix🇹🇹👍🏾

  • @JGXXD
    @JGXXD 2 года назад +455

    We Jamaicans are the most entertaining & genuine people on the planet 🌍🇯🇲

  • @tanyasschedule7551
    @tanyasschedule7551 2 года назад +70

    "Reh reh reh reh" carries sooooooo many meanings - it can mean knick-knack, or excitement (positive or negative) or argument; it can be used to summarize an argument, or even used in the same way north Americans use "whatever-whatever, or what-not.

  • @hardheelgal7313
    @hardheelgal7313 2 года назад +724

    I cackled when they felt more sure about Rihanna being Jamaican (she isn't) and they weren't sure whether Sean Paul is Jamaican and he actually is 😆
    I guessed all of these correctly. I'm from Turks and Caicos 🇹🇨 Patois can actually be more complicated than this. Jamaicans from the countryside aka "country" speak way faster and sometimes use their own phrases that are unique to their area.

    • @jamdawgutube
      @jamdawgutube 2 года назад +22

      You are absolutely correct lol

    • @seawomancreativemedia8117
      @seawomancreativemedia8117 2 года назад +37

      I'm from Barbados🇧🇧 and I nearly died laughing re: Rih reference 😂 tho technically "Rude Boy" is dancehall influenced.

    • @kingirie9892
      @kingirie9892 2 года назад +3

      That would have been hard for them

    • @Ms_T_Perfectly_Imperfect
      @Ms_T_Perfectly_Imperfect 2 года назад +2

      I wish I could like this comment a thousand times 😭😂

    • @bestclips2616
      @bestclips2616 2 года назад +10

      The fact they confused Sean Paul with Sean Kingston

  • @kikox8902
    @kikox8902 2 года назад +581

    Okay, this makes me feel a little better about myself... as a Jamaican American I be thinking I understand patois perfectly, but I'm quickly humbled when I go back to visit. Don't know what they're saying 50% of the time 🤣

    • @AuntieSenSen
      @AuntieSenSen 2 года назад +22

      Me too girl, 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

    • @bougiebabeken1996
      @bougiebabeken1996 2 года назад +4

      Sameeeee! 😂

    • @radiantyc8001
      @radiantyc8001 2 года назад +27

      I'm the opposite.... born and raised in the bronx ny...I caught that patois so perfectly...ppl ask me... where me come from inna Jamaica... all the time.... visiting...I look different... but they can't trick me FOR NOTHING!!! 🤣🤣🤣

    • @jaew9692
      @jaew9692 2 года назад +2

      this!!!!

    • @rachaelb2729
      @rachaelb2729 2 года назад +20

      Same but I'm from London lol, I can understand it but when I speak it back I sound dumb af

  • @Macbeth99
    @Macbeth99 2 года назад +57

    My favourite accent, bar none.
    I find the variety of accents on the planet absolutely fascinating.
    The woman in the gold coloured top has a gorgeous voice.
    She should do voice overs, or talking books. Just lovely 😊

    • @jamdawgutube
      @jamdawgutube 2 года назад +5

      Except that they were talking something completely different from an accent. They were literally speaking mostly mesolectal Jamaican Patois (not deep patois). You can call it a dialect- something similar to a creole language. When the Jamaicans were speaking Standard English, that's the Jamaican accent. There is a difference between accent and dialect.

  • @DesiXGurl91
    @DesiXGurl91 2 года назад +109

    We need Atlanta hood translations next!

    • @rantsandfaves
      @rantsandfaves 2 года назад +6

      Im from London but because of 85 south, I'm fluent

    • @Damngoodchicken_
      @Damngoodchicken_ 2 года назад +2

      😭

    • @AM-rp8xn
      @AM-rp8xn 2 года назад

      what if they had DC or one of Face's homies on it

    • @gaudylady7
      @gaudylady7 2 года назад +1

      Oh. dear. GOD. 😂😂😂

  • @rhodabaruch4
    @rhodabaruch4 2 года назад +31

    I did pretty well and I’m not Jamaican, but my daddy swore he was a Rasta growing up! All his music I listen to paying off! Been looking for a patois translation video like this forever! Cocoa Butta with that premium content again!

  • @naturally_nica
    @naturally_nica 2 года назад +43

    I was really expecting more "ay likkle dutty bwoy, GWAY" 😂 this was a little gingerly to watch.

  • @rachellejohnsonfoster
    @rachellejohnsonfoster 2 года назад +41

    I'm a costarican Jamaican descendant and I am honestly surprised that I understood the great majority. In Costa Rica there is a province called Limón which was mostly populated by Jamaicans. Sadly the patois is not being passed down to the younger generations. You still hear the old folks talking it which is so heartwarming

    • @micayahritchie7158
      @micayahritchie7158 2 года назад +2

      I've heard of this but sadly that is the reality of speaking a minority low prestige language, children don't want to learn it because they see it as backwards and adults don't want to teach it because they don't see it as economically beneficial.
      I saw this video of a Bocas del Toro Panamanian saying "Chico, hablame como los bomboclaat jamaicanos. Somos jamaicanos. A wi roots and culture" and it made me tear up that that was how he felt about the decline of hos language

    • @zamunda_king
      @zamunda_king 5 месяцев назад

      Would you mind being my travel guide 'cause I would be visiting Costa Rica soon 😅

  • @royaltee72
    @royaltee72 2 года назад +16

    Ayeee that's the brother from MJ's Black and White video ( I always remembered that goatee)! Also, it's so wonderful to learn the history of languages... we connected!

    • @Marsha-be
      @Marsha-be 2 года назад +3

      I wondered where I recognised him from!

  • @naomi6372
    @naomi6372 2 года назад +99

    The way they’re pronouncing “patois”

    • @opiesblack
      @opiesblack 2 года назад +18

      It was so cringe!!

    • @SOULarLioness
      @SOULarLioness 2 года назад +1

      How do you pronounce it?

    • @zunguzeng428
      @zunguzeng428 2 года назад +15

      @@SOULarLioness Patois, generally pronounced "pat• wa" by Jamaicans.

    • @natorieaiko9110
      @natorieaiko9110 2 года назад +5

      It hurt my soul each time 😭

    • @naomi6372
      @naomi6372 2 года назад +1

      @@SOULarLioness PAT-twa

  • @MonaLisa-lx2er
    @MonaLisa-lx2er 2 года назад +244

    I’m not from the Caribbean, but as a Londoner I understood what was going on 😂🤝

    • @kamigriff
      @kamigriff 2 года назад +31

      Americans can’t understand what y’all be saying either. 😂

    • @mariakerr85
      @mariakerr85 2 года назад +18

      I’m a Londoner too, the guesses sent me over the edge 😅🤣

    • @Sooopa_Doopa
      @Sooopa_Doopa 2 года назад +40

      There are more Jamaicans in London than in Jamaica. London is damn near a suburb of Jamaica 🤣🤣🤣

    • @Ms_T_Perfectly_Imperfect
      @Ms_T_Perfectly_Imperfect 2 года назад +1

      @@Sooopa_Doopa 😂😂😂

    • @MonaLisa-lx2er
      @MonaLisa-lx2er 2 года назад +2

      @@Sooopa_Doopa 😂 yep I believe you, and I love it

  • @kay_reigna
    @kay_reigna 2 года назад +35

    This is extra funny because some of these are maybe the easiet phrases you're going to get and the rest is just us being super extra 😂😂 I love my ppl 🇯🇲🇯🇲

  • @ja14997
    @ja14997 2 года назад +118

    As a Guyanese American, I understood everything, and I'm low-key shook at how similar the Patois is lol

    • @amandawilliams8708
      @amandawilliams8708 2 года назад +13

      Lots of Guyanese use Jamaican patois from what they hear in dancehall music. Naturally the patois r very different.

    • @TRINABELLEFROMATLBYWAYDADE305
      @TRINABELLEFROMATLBYWAYDADE305 2 года назад +8

      Guyanese people does sounds like Jamaican people

    • @amandawilliams8708
      @amandawilliams8708 2 года назад +29

      @@TRINABELLEFROMATLBYWAYDADE305 guyanese do NOT sound like Jamaicans! #1 no 2 creoles naturally sound alike. #2 no other people naturally sound like Jamaicans. This is RUclips! NEVER have Jamaican patwa n Guyanese Creole sound similar much less alike!

    • @Girlforaction
      @Girlforaction 2 года назад +5

      @@TRINABELLEFROMATLBYWAYDADE305 being 🇯🇲🇬🇾, they do not sound alike.

    • @TRINABELLEFROMATLBYWAYDADE305
      @TRINABELLEFROMATLBYWAYDADE305 2 года назад +3

      @@Girlforaction yes, they do... To me they do

  • @Ragnarokstorymaker
    @Ragnarokstorymaker 2 года назад +254

    Can you guys have to foreign black people try and guess AAVE phrases/sentences? I think that'd be unique.
    Love from the Midwest.

    • @Ragnarokstorymaker
      @Ragnarokstorymaker 2 года назад +10

      @Rashad Bakshar Hmm, why do you think that is?

    • @lxrdchina
      @lxrdchina 2 года назад +31

      @Rashad Bakshar I really doubt it, I’m from Indiana and even the slang I use here other black ppl from different States don’t know what it means

    • @Gold3nMisfittt
      @Gold3nMisfittt 2 года назад +21

      @Rashad Bakshar just sounds like your biased towards foreign blacks then for black Americans

    • @nova_kris6366
      @nova_kris6366 2 года назад +2

      I think it would be fun there is still confusion between UK and USA English so guessing AAVE would be a roller coaster for foreign black people🤣

    • @graceblossoms130
      @graceblossoms130 2 года назад +22

      @Rashad Bakshar wait are you saying you think Non- American black people would understand aave better than we would understand the languages of foreign black people? because I could understand that but it's really because we don't care about the outside world. Black American culture is just very mainstream and American culture generally is very globally popular.

  • @shaani7978
    @shaani7978 2 года назад +122

    Love to all my Jamaican brothers and sisters! ❤ 🇯🇲
    Please do Belizean Kriol next! 🇧🇿

    • @kimkimsan
      @kimkimsan 2 года назад +5

      I always find it amazing how close Belizean Kriol is to Nicaraguan creole where my family is from.

    • @876mostvaluabletreasure2
      @876mostvaluabletreasure2 2 года назад +4

      You sound the closest to Jamaicans

    • @Pink_celeb420
      @Pink_celeb420 2 года назад +1

      Yeassss!!!! Big up Belize!!!

    • @keLskanator
      @keLskanator 2 года назад +1

      🇧🇿 🇧🇿 🇧🇿 🇧🇿 🇧🇿

    • @jeromegardner1843
      @jeromegardner1843 9 месяцев назад +1

      Ur creole is copy of jamaican patois. And its getting better as the year progress.

  • @foxroxy86
    @foxroxy86 2 года назад +19

    I think Jeffery has looked the same for several decades. He was in that Black and White music video. Dude is definitely a vampire.

  • @catinaumekowilliamskohn
    @catinaumekowilliamskohn 2 года назад +48

    The Young Lady was Right Sean Paul and Sean Kingston are Jamaican . The Guy Saying Rihanna is 🤣😂🤣 on the floor now in stitches. Ri Ri is Barbadian a Yard Gurl .

  • @1uvnii
    @1uvnii 2 года назад +25

    Both my parents are from Jamaica, but I was born here in America and although I don't speak much Jamaican Patwah, I understood everything completely, growing up in a cultural home :)

    • @BlackGirlUnLOST
      @BlackGirlUnLOST 2 года назад

      FACTS! #ProudJAMERICAN 💪🏽🇯🇲🤎✨

  • @diamonddouglas1040
    @diamonddouglas1040 2 года назад +11

    THIS IS WONDERFUL!!! I was smiling the whole time 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

  • @KamisKisses
    @KamisKisses 2 года назад +10

    You guys did well! Proud of the Jamaicans participating!🙌

  • @juxtaposebeauty247
    @juxtaposebeauty247 2 года назад +152

    I'm from Mississippi and the elders definitely had their own patois. I had to get grown to realize the english translation of their phrases. For instance "God almighty" was just gigh da mighty. But our patois is just written off as uneducated but in reality I feel like ppl of african descent speak in real time and we are not as concerned with how the words appear when written.

    • @offbeatttt_
      @offbeatttt_ 2 года назад +19

      Yeeees my Mississippi grandma talks similarly. I was shook at how much I knew too!

    • @jadesiress3382
      @jadesiress3382 2 года назад +7

      Wow, that’s amazing! I learn something new about the Afro diaspora every day.

    • @Miss_Cali
      @Miss_Cali 2 года назад +2

      That southern patois is strong. My ex husband used to always have to translate for me 🥴😹😹

    • @sweedy3333
      @sweedy3333 2 года назад

      Sure did! My great granny is from Kentucky. It was definitely written off as uneducated, but it also wasn't easily understandable. I hate that the "speak proper" b****a**ness stripped a lot of us from that

  • @EmpressDestroyer
    @EmpressDestroyer 2 года назад +18

    Y'all need some 🇹🇹 content on here... Steeeups
    This was a funny watch tho 😂

  • @praxym9293
    @praxym9293 2 года назад +13

    When the man started talking, I was lost🤣🤣🤣🤣I was like,'bro open your mouth and speak slower.'🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣reminded me of a sign language test where I felt like crying cause I didn't know what was going on

  • @jessicazaytsoff1494
    @jessicazaytsoff1494 2 года назад +6

    I learned a bunch in this video and was smiling while I did!
    As ever, thanks for making it!

  • @feliciav.ramnanandavidson5923
    @feliciav.ramnanandavidson5923 2 года назад +38

    Living in Jamaica and is from the Caribbean 🇬🇾 I just love this 😂 it’s also a chance for me to see how much I’ve learnt since living on the island. Cho is my fave word… that guy from Sainty is the best 😂

    • @TFESmiles
      @TFESmiles 2 года назад

      🇬🇾🇯🇲🇬🇾🇯🇲 best mix

    • @slimthickaz.
      @slimthickaz. 2 года назад

      Guyana is not the Caribbean.

    • @jamdawgutube
      @jamdawgutube 2 года назад +5

      @@slimthickaz. , it IS culturally Caribbean (not geographically) and also part of Caricom. You didn't learn that in primary school?!

    • @slimthickaz.
      @slimthickaz. 2 года назад

      @@jamdawgutube County in South America. The Caribbean is islands so no its not.

    • @jamdawgutube
      @jamdawgutube 2 года назад +4

      @@slimthickaz. , can you read or NOT? Did you not read that I said that the country is not GEOGRAPHICALLY located in the Caribbean, (BUT) it's CULTURALLY and HISTORICALLY Caribbean?! Guyana's history and culture more closely align with the other English-speaking Caribbean countries, not the other countries in South America. Guyana is the only English-speaking country in South America! That is why, for example, Guyana is a part of CARICOM (Caribbean Community). Guyanese can travel/move freely within the other CARICOM countries. Their passport has the CARICOM seal on it. If they decide to attend the University of the West Indies, their tuition would be subsidized because their government is a contributing country. They sit the same regional exams (the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination) as the other Caribbean nationals. It's the same thing with Belize- a country that is geographically located in Central America but is culturally considered a Caribbean/CARICOM country. Belize is also the only English-speaking country in Central America. You should be paying me for this lesson! Please do your research BEFORE you proffer another response!

  • @prestonmatthews725
    @prestonmatthews725 2 года назад +8

    The Gunter dude was on point. I can’t wait to go home. I love it whenever I go over my Jamaican friend’s house so that I can talk patios.
    Affi a chat propah more while mek mi dark and miserable.

  • @jaylenhill4982
    @jaylenhill4982 2 года назад +142

    Irrelevant to the video but i was excited to see Jeffrey Anderson gunter. He was in one of my most favorite Jamaican/action/voodoo movies of all time… “marked for death”!!! To this day I still praise that movie, because they had no demons, no special effects, no cgi, wasn’t intended to be scary, and yet it scared the HELL out of me as a kid 😂😂😂 I’m still scared of screwface to this day!
    Side story/ I met/saw basil Wallace (screwface) in real life about a decade ago, and even though he didn’t look anything like his character from the movie in real life, I was so scared to introduce myself, because I kept thinking “oh my god, it’s screwface, he crazy frfr” 😂😂😂

    • @RickyJ718
      @RickyJ718 2 года назад +6

      Ohhhhh! I thought he looked familiar. The Raiden hat threw me off. Yessir, Marked for Death. He got his ass beat in the fragrance department.

    • @MaxineShaw_84
      @MaxineShaw_84 2 года назад +16

      I instantly recognized him from the Michael Jackson "Black or White" video 🤣🤣

    • @sadenaeema9987
      @sadenaeema9987 2 года назад +12

      I was wondering if anyone would notice him.
      Just looked it up and he’s 75! He looks amazing!

    • @eaqua56
      @eaqua56 2 года назад +9

      I remember him. He’s been in nearly tv show I saw in the ‘90s.

    • @jaylenhill4982
      @jaylenhill4982 2 года назад +4

      @@RickyJ718 yesssss 😂😂😂😂 arm broke and all

  • @zylphiacarron6988
    @zylphiacarron6988 2 года назад +9

    Please make more of these! It's awesome to hear these phrases! I'm Haitian-American so we speak a creole language, but I've always loved trying to learn Patois (I'm really bad). Jeffrey was my favorite!

  • @gabbie3174
    @gabbie3174 2 года назад +122

    As a Jamaican who left the country when I was very young, I think I did well! Most of them were pretty easy, but Gunter used some phrases that I’ve never heard any Jamaican speak, so I had to use context clues💀😭

    • @shawnephipps
      @shawnephipps 2 года назад +23

      Like they said, Mr Gunter had something personal. Those phrases were so specific lol

    • @rosemariewildflower1
      @rosemariewildflower1 2 года назад +5

      Same girl! Two of them got me!

    • @Dali_House
      @Dali_House 2 года назад +47

      The patois he speaks is what the old gen speaks, and is especially spoken among the elderly who reside in the countryside.

    • @AckeeandSaltfish
      @AckeeandSaltfish 10 месяцев назад

      Yea it depend on what part u come from like the first lady was saying. As someone from Clarendon, I grew up hearing and understood everything that man said 😂😂😂😂

    • @hcassells66
      @hcassells66 4 месяца назад

      I left young too but my mum always spoke old time patois to us so we know everything 😂

  • @oneilliamason9183
    @oneilliamason9183 2 года назад +7

    Dis a di type a entatainment mi wah si.
    This is the type of entertament I wanna see. 🇯🇲

  • @QR_Code
    @QR_Code 2 года назад +86

    bro, Jeffery almost look animated 😂

    • @GGoaT_
      @GGoaT_ 2 года назад +16

      Mn look straight out of a anime 💀

    • @2ndedition766
      @2ndedition766 2 года назад +11

      When I saw the thumbnail, I thought he was a caricature of an actual person.

    • @krystingrant6292
      @krystingrant6292 2 года назад +6

      The beard was confusing

    • @beautiful_wonderfullymade
      @beautiful_wonderfullymade 2 года назад +1

      @@krystingrant6292 😂😂 it’s not centered correctly

    • @tatendamadziba7026
      @tatendamadziba7026 4 месяца назад

      😂😂😂

  • @shawnephipps
    @shawnephipps 2 года назад +51

    "Rae rae rae" is more akin to "etc" not "drama" because it can be used in different situations.

    • @juxtaposebeauty247
      @juxtaposebeauty247 2 года назад +5

      Ok that's what I thought. Us country folks be like woo woo woo 🤣

    • @shawnephipps
      @shawnephipps 2 года назад +2

      @@juxtaposebeauty247 haha I have heard (and used) tar tar tar but that one is angrier in my opinion

    • @gabbie3174
      @gabbie3174 2 года назад

      Exactly👆🏾

    • @TemptressTeelia
      @TemptressTeelia 2 года назад +4

      I’ve heard Rae tae tae as etc

    • @TemptressTeelia
      @TemptressTeelia 2 года назад +2

      I’ve heard Rae tae tae as etc

  • @sophia4christ
    @sophia4christ 2 года назад +42

    These American translations are 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I am a proud Jamaican! 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

  • @bumemchukwuah5689
    @bumemchukwuah5689 2 года назад +7

    I recently just went to Montego Bay and Kingston, and this gives me so much flashback I had no idea what the locals were saying I would just smile and pretend like I understood

  • @margretharris9532
    @margretharris9532 2 года назад +8

    10 years of watching Ras Kitchen has come in handy! I got them all right! Hey, Matty and Rasta Mokko!

  • @natidaschoolboy
    @natidaschoolboy Год назад +27

    But why does his face look drawn

  • @Roblox_with_raiah
    @Roblox_with_raiah 2 года назад +37

    RHIANNA!!!? as she is bajan/Barbadian🤣🤣🤣🤣 im also bajan

    • @christy2252
      @christy2252 5 месяцев назад

      They didn’t even know the one thing they thought they knew 😂

  • @SakiAjali.
    @SakiAjali. 2 года назад +53

    Omg not he didn’t know Sean Paul was Jamaican ahdhdhdhd

  • @carleontafari
    @carleontafari 2 года назад +16

    I’m first gen Haitian-American 🇭🇹 and grew up listening to 90’s dancehall and lovers rock. This is how I learned Jamaican patois. And it’s really second language to me at this point @ 32 years of age. The effort to translate is hilarious. Big up di yaadie dem still any weh yuh deh ina e world 💯

    • @berrybuena
      @berrybuena 2 года назад +1

      Big up yuh damn self! 🇯🇲

  • @ceea6802
    @ceea6802 2 года назад +66

    Crassis means problem/misfortune. I don't know what the girl in the mustard was saying. Bad intentions is badmind/mixup in Jamaican Patois.
    Video was fun though ☺️ Everything else was straight

    • @goodgyalmo1474
      @goodgyalmo1474 2 года назад +4

      trueeee

    • @aanyamallick7747
      @aanyamallick7747 2 года назад +1

      Yes !

    • @jamdawgutube
      @jamdawgutube 2 года назад +2

      You are right! Her translation was off 🤣

    • @KBZee-nf3ff
      @KBZee-nf3ff 2 года назад +5

      Wow! Bad intentions is also badmind in Nigerian pidgin or “bad ting fo mind” interesting..

    • @allthatsheiz
      @allthatsheiz 2 года назад +4

      Crassis makes me think of crisis which kinda works 🤔

  • @JamaicanFujoshi
    @JamaicanFujoshi 2 года назад +7

    Oh my. This was sooo funny. I'm from Old Harbour and I'm sending this to the whole family.

    • @liizzset
      @liizzset 2 года назад

      Gyal. Saint Catherine. Nice. From near Spain. Well, near Spanish Town.

    • @camtra18
      @camtra18 2 года назад

      I'm from Old Harbour too, Bowers to be exact

  • @dee246.
    @dee246. 2 года назад +458

    Rihanna ?? 🤣🤣🤣 she’s not even Jamaican

    • @kk6044
      @kk6044 2 года назад +25

      Lol I died at that part 😭

    • @pheonic3665
      @pheonic3665 2 года назад +61

      The embarrassment as a caribbean person

    • @Talisa3636
      @Talisa3636 2 года назад +52

      @JE no because she is from Barbados and they also have a patois. Plus Soca ❤️❤️

    • @amandawilliams8708
      @amandawilliams8708 2 года назад +32

      @@Talisa3636 i dont know what ur talking about, she DID use Jamaican patois. She hardly ever used her bajan creole

    • @amandawilliams8708
      @amandawilliams8708 2 года назад +32

      @JE yes she was. She n Nicki Minaj hardly ever used their own creole

  • @k0zmiik
    @k0zmiik 2 года назад +11

    Nuff respect Cocoa Butter!!! Definitely fulljoy dis 😊🇯🇲

  • @mostblunted_211
    @mostblunted_211 2 года назад +17

    Can we talk about Jeffrey looking like a real life cat in the hat 😂

    • @73lyfe96
      @73lyfe96 4 месяца назад

      😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @quirkyviper
    @quirkyviper 2 года назад +48

    I'd love to know more about the history of some of these words and phrases. Like which parts are from which countries and what's the difference between the other flavors of African based Patois.

    • @alpachinko9154
      @alpachinko9154 2 года назад +2

      A good resource on the history of Jamaican patois, is Miss Lou - she's passed now, but there's a bunch of videos on RUclips etc.
      She used to be a children's educator/entertainer (amongst many other things) - she uses a lot of humour in her work, also, songs/nursery rhymes etc
      For example, one of the main sources/influences for Jamaican patois is the African language "Twi".
      Hope this is at least somewhat useful.

    • @micayahritchie7158
      @micayahritchie7158 2 года назад

      @@alpachinko9154 Miss Lou actually misattributed a lot of things to Twi. The only thing that comes to mind right now is when she said pinda is Twi when it's Kikongo. But I know there were other instances

  • @az1infin268
    @az1infin268 2 года назад +18

    Where did that woman get her history of the Jamaican language from? Originated from the Chinese and indian language? The language was created by Black Jamaican enslaved people so the enslavers couldn't understand them when they planned uprisings. It was formulated long before Chinese and indians immigrated to Jamaica.

    • @kareemismail8654
      @kareemismail8654 2 года назад +5

      She meant Jamaican patois has contributions from the different people groups that have come to the island inclusive of the Indians , Chinese and and even German in certain parishes with a German population like seaford town in st Elizabeth

    • @az1infin268
      @az1infin268 2 года назад +5

      @@kareemismail8654 She said the language "ORIGINATED from...". Like I said no one Is in doubt that other groups of people have since immigrated to the country and been exposed to the language founded by once enslaved African-Jamaican ancestors but which contributions have the Chinese and Indians for e.g made to the language? Don't try to whitewash my history. I know those of Indian and Chinese heritage are not White but the anti Black sentiment of trying to erase factual Black history is.

    • @amandawilliams8708
      @amandawilliams8708 2 года назад +6

      @@az1infin268 i Thought i was the only one vexed and perplexed about that part! I was like "HUUUUH"?? "COME AGAIN MY GIRL"????

    • @az1infin268
      @az1infin268 2 года назад +1

      @@amandawilliams8708 I was disgusted and shocked Mandy Star, to think I was nyaming my food at the time, her disrespectful idiocy left a bitter taste... I mean, how did she just fabricate a whole origin story like that, especially when the actual origin has so much Black struggle, pain and ultimate victory attached. How disrespectful to the ancestors and all that they went through in creating the language. Cocoa butter should have fact checked her but I can see how they too would not have imagined she would come and make up something so ignorant and anti Black.

    • @az1infin268
      @az1infin268 2 года назад +1

      @Burp The European enslavers forcefully tried to strip the Black African people of their African identify and culture (knowledge especially of self is power). The European colonisers tried to violently forbid the African people from speaking their African languages etc, forcing them to only speak English and other European languages. The colonisers were stupidly mistaken though because the Black African people were so resourceful that they used it all to create their own language that the enslavers couldn't understand, so they could plan uprisings amongst themselves.
      "overseers"? Bereft, barbarics you mean. Call them what they truly are.
      As Kwame Ture says "Black Africans civilized Europeans" and the Black Jamaican language is a part of that, as it originated from Black people's resourcefulness in the fight for liberation against European Barbarism.

  • @gigimain217
    @gigimain217 2 года назад +9

    I’m Haitian but most of my ex’s were Jamaican and I understand most of it. So proud of myself

  • @osibrown6565
    @osibrown6565 2 года назад +11

    Yes!!! I do believe that we are bilingual😁 "Kumujin" is translated to English as curmudgeon. We Jamaicans usually use the word to describe someone who is not genuine in their dealings and hypocritical. When he said the word means stingy, I was shocked. Variations of Patois I tell you! Love MI Patois bad!

  • @rspen2142
    @rspen2142 2 года назад +24

    Oh, so the man on the thumbnail picture was real...

    • @myahb1065
      @myahb1065 2 года назад +1

      I was thinking the same thing!!!!!

    • @MonaLisa-lx2er
      @MonaLisa-lx2er 2 года назад +4

      Don’t kill me 🤣

  • @Itsdjyummie
    @Itsdjyummie 2 года назад +14

    😂😂😂 I’m married to an American and I’m 100% Jamaican and now I understand. The FUNNIEST part is that the Jamaican actors patois NOT the strongest and they still can’t understand. Cho BUMBOCLATTTTT

    • @jamdawgutube
      @jamdawgutube 2 года назад +2

      Same thing I was thinking. But I think you wanted to say patois instead of accent.

    • @Itsdjyummie
      @Itsdjyummie 2 года назад

      @@jamdawgutube 😂😂 same way! #namal

    • @hcassells66
      @hcassells66 4 месяца назад

      Yeah the patois was a bit stoosh at times, especially the first one 😂

  • @ljtheone
    @ljtheone Год назад +3

    3:39 as a Jamaican i have never heard this in my life completely understandable they got it wrong

  • @katy9569
    @katy9569 2 года назад +12

    The second person was so hard and I was raised in a Jamaican household lol

  • @SashieETV
    @SashieETV 2 года назад +8

    Okay, the man from St. Elizabeth had me lost and I’m Jamaican 😂😂😂

    • @AckeeandSaltfish
      @AckeeandSaltfish 10 месяцев назад +2

      Yea this is like ole time ppl talking. Also more countryside slang lol

  • @lindab3340
    @lindab3340 2 года назад

    I really enjoyed this! My partial grasp of Cameroonian pidgin helped me understand a lot of them. I couldn’t get any of the last female.
    It sound so beautiful. Loved all of it!

  • @tamoycampbell8523
    @tamoycampbell8523 2 года назад +3

    As a proud Jamaican, I am so happy watching this. Love mi patois, love mi island

  • @KINGDOMDAUGHTER
    @KINGDOMDAUGHTER 2 года назад +7

    Potwah, it is pretty up to spell Patois....the Jamaican dialect is multifaceted and is different depends on the parts of the Island you ale from....

  • @YesYouNice
    @YesYouNice 2 года назад +5

    “Don’t go there, there’s a fire”🤣🤣🤣

  • @clipmotiontv
    @clipmotiontv 2 года назад +11

    😂😂 that second dude speaking patios from my grandmother days…… this new generation doesn’t speak like that no more

    • @krissy172
      @krissy172 2 года назад +1

      That's what I'm saying listening to him reminds me of my grandmother🤣

    • @clipmotiontv
      @clipmotiontv 2 года назад

      @@krissy172 😂😂 I haven’t heard anyone talk like that in a minute

    • @AckeeandSaltfish
      @AckeeandSaltfish 10 месяцев назад

      Lmaoooo my mother told me to kibba my mouth just this morning 😂😂. Def an older gen thing and also more so how the country ppl dem talk

  • @Danieei
    @Danieei 2 года назад +15

    As a Jamaican some of these phrases I’ve never heard of lol

    • @AckeeandSaltfish
      @AckeeandSaltfish 10 месяцев назад

      What part are u from? That is most likely the reason lol

    • @Danieei
      @Danieei 10 месяцев назад

      @@AckeeandSaltfish st James

  • @naturalyawd7814
    @naturalyawd7814 Год назад +1

    Rahtid! Mi luv dah video yah. I love this video, well done.

  • @QueenChroniclesOfficial
    @QueenChroniclesOfficial 2 года назад +25

    Im not Jamaican, but I feel good I got a lot of them right! 😆

  • @Lalacookies182
    @Lalacookies182 2 года назад +1

    Part two please!! This was awesome

  • @poisoncream1
    @poisoncream1 2 года назад +9

    Not Jamaican but west Indian I understood everthing,, and laughed my ass off

  • @nickinickienicky5751
    @nickinickienicky5751 2 года назад +4

    I’m Jamaican🇯🇲…and yes, even tho I twang a lot (heavy New York accent), I still speak my Patois. There are different dialects (how we speak Patois) based on where in Jamaica you come from.

  • @555starangel_
    @555starangel_ 2 года назад +10

    I’m not Jamaican but I got most of these💀 probably because I grew up around the culture when I was younger.

  • @ahblezasellars
    @ahblezasellars 2 года назад +1

    I love this so much. Shoutout to UK rap artists, BBC Radio 1xtra, a whole host of bbc shows I’ve found on RUclips, and man like Akala for training my ear to AT LEAST recognize most of this…and also recognizing I know so little.

  • @TheCarlScharnberg
    @TheCarlScharnberg 2 года назад +5

    That's the dude from the MJ Black or White video (at the very end when the people changed ethnicity)! :D

  • @Djlol221
    @Djlol221 2 года назад +18

    1:03 “a weh di bloodclaat dis” 😂 I was about to cuss y’all OUT for the thumbnail only to see it’s an ACTUAL Jamaican… fam I am deceased ⚰️ AND they gave the best translations the other 2 LIED to y’all ✨😂

  • @MelissaMNaturealiztabeauty
    @MelissaMNaturealiztabeauty 2 года назад +4

    “I don’t know who he’s talkin about but like bathe your child “ - 😭😭😭 this is hilarious as a person of Caribbean descent who understands more Caribbean dialect than I speak😭. I love black content like this where our different cultures can be shared.. everything is so much alike. Do some north NY vs dirty south dialect. That would be funny.

  • @JuaniqueVerde
    @JuaniqueVerde 2 года назад +2

    This was good!! Idk there was different types of patois! And it makes sense that there are different versions of Jamaican patois based on region, but like AAVE! Also, p.s., why y’all ain’t tell Joyce her shirt was up!?

  • @random_bajan7416
    @random_bajan7416 2 года назад +16

    Now Ryan you know good well Rihanna isnt from Jamaica lol 🥴🥴 she is 🇧🇧🇧🇧
    As a Caribbean person this was very entertaining... I cant speak it but I understood most of it lol 😂😂

    • @hcassells66
      @hcassells66 4 месяца назад +1

      Yeah but in her songs like work and man down she sings in Jamaican Patois

  • @tweetzzzz2365
    @tweetzzzz2365 2 года назад +2

    Yo dis funny!!!!😂😂 as a jamaican born and raised this a d funniest video of jamaican translation me eva see me neva know our dialect did so difficult for others to translate😂🔥🇯🇲

  • @ivorymarie82
    @ivorymarie82 2 года назад +7

    I died laughing. We need more. 😂😂😂

  • @maljamin
    @maljamin 10 месяцев назад

    Super fun to watch back after u know. Easy to hear after a listen or two.

  • @ohshanana2397
    @ohshanana2397 2 года назад +3

    I’m west African and we have something called pidgin that we speak. And understanding pidgin. It was very easy to understand patois. Like the word picnic means child, but in pidgin the work for child is pikin

    • @jamdawgutube
      @jamdawgutube 2 года назад

      In Jamaican patois it's spelled Pickney/pickni, not picnic. And it's derived from Spanish.

  • @itsyourgirlamanda1624
    @itsyourgirlamanda1624 2 года назад +1

    Jamaican right here🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲😍😍😍😍
    Big up deh channel yah🔥

  • @queenofbuttercream
    @queenofbuttercream 2 года назад +8

    As a Gullah Geechee, I did alright, I knew more than one would think🤣

    • @WhyCee74
      @WhyCee74 2 года назад +1

      That's because your ancestors are from Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 and our broken English language Krio is very similar to Jamaican Patois.

  • @dreaa_333
    @dreaa_333 2 года назад +1

    Wow!! would love to see a part 2

  • @nias2709
    @nias2709 2 года назад +7

    Loved this! Do Trinidad next!!!!’

    • @terri-annyoung9656
      @terri-annyoung9656 2 года назад

      Yesss 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹

    • @jasminespencer2872
      @jasminespencer2872 2 года назад

      If they use our trini trini words, nobody will catch it
      Not even the other Caribbean people

  • @BlackGirlUnLOST
    @BlackGirlUnLOST 2 года назад

    LOOOOOOOVVVVVEEEEE my Jamaican roots and understood each and every word!This warmed my heart! 🤎🇯🇲✨✨ #RareBreed #OneOfAKind #ProudJaMERICAN

  • @gabrielakiki3168
    @gabrielakiki3168 2 года назад +7

    "Now she said minimum wage"💀😂 lmaooo

  • @byBrieMoore
    @byBrieMoore 2 года назад +3

    I got my honorary Jamaican degree with this video, since I understood it all. That NYC upbringing means you know people from everywhere. Lol.

  • @AmberCaprie
    @AmberCaprie 2 года назад +9

    I got the ladies but the gentleman had me lost. This was a great video

  • @tonib4800
    @tonib4800 2 года назад +2

    The man with the hat on, wasn’t he in the movie “Predator “ or wasn’t he in the movie with Steven Seagal “ mark for dead” and Michael Jackson’s video “ Black or White”?

  • @thugmonk9837
    @thugmonk9837 2 года назад +3

    As a south asian from the UK I'm kinda proud I got 90% of those right lol. Big up J.A 💯

  • @gin3205
    @gin3205 2 года назад +2

    LMAO the "whicha part you come from" killed me. I'm from Nevis and when I went to Trinidad, that's exactly how the Trinidadians pronounced the things I said. We speak very similar to Jamaicans.

  • @shemab2639
    @shemab2639 2 года назад +4

    A part 2 please ♥️ from 🇯🇲

  • @michs3435
    @michs3435 2 года назад +1

    Although I don't live there now I'm from the US and I got most of them right. I have travelled around and I have a wide range of multicultural friends . And I am so humbly grateful and blessed for the variety of people in my life.
    I remember and incident where these two girls were speaking on the bus talking about the people. I understood everything that they said, they were surprised. The church I attended in my teens had Caribbean and Africans so I used to hear it a lot although I never spoke it.