I've learned that Babbel USA just taught in this video what I had to minor in African-American Studies to learn because even in college the rich history of those of African descent was breezed over in my "Global" Studies class and over 90% of that semester was SOLELY focused on Europe. THANK YOU and BRAVO to Babbel and the host Sierra Boone! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️🖤💚
As a non-english-native I heard about aave SO late. When you just pick up English phrases from people in the internet, you don't get any of the cultural nuance
no, this is actually political woke garbage. some people use some of these words and constructions but to say it's African American is disingenuous at best because it doesn't apply solely to black people and it never did. if anything it tries to erase post-emancipation people's struggles and put it under one umbrella for pride
thanks a lot for this. honestly, as an asian woman, i wasnt fully aware of the words roaming around the internet and the context behind those. it’s true that social media has influenced the culture in many different ways and i just want to sincerely apologize to all the people i have been offended if i ever told some inappropriate words in the past. what we can and must do now is to EDUCATE people and to spread awareness, especially on the internet. and as we’re in the modern times now, canceling people is not a solution, rather teach them to respect and appreciate other’s cultures. i have seen so many ebonics on social media platforms, and thinking some are internet slangs, but clearly are not. maybe some are just adapting it with appreciation but mostly are possibly being ignorant. again, we all have to be responsible and mindful. thank you for being informative once again and i shall spread this message on the internet. ☺️
As a non-black person and non-native english speaker, my entire immerssion for learning english has been unconsiously aave based, so I've always known that the phrases and pronuntiations I've been using come from black culture. I really hope im not insulting anyone by using it.
@@BFSarthur Im from latin america but i have identity issues, so I dont really know if Im white. Although I think I might have race privilege, Im not entirely white
No, you're not insulting. As long as you're not incorporating any stereotypical movements, offensive immigrations, or insensitive physical characteristics of African Americans when you're speaking it. Like, rolling your eyes, "acting black", etc. After all, the entire South speaks AAVE even though they won't admit it. Southern whites speak AAVE and not their ancestors true language, which is standard American English. Lol.
I’m a black American female and I remember they use to tell us that we don’t speak a language. They use to mock us and clown us. We even had to code switch our words as best we could and accent. Now everyone wants to be us. It’s a joke
Hi! I have a question, I’ve recently been seeing people saying that slay is a part of AAVE, and wanted to know if it was ok for me, a white person, to say it? I never use it to mock people I usually say it to uplift people, like if someone said “your amazing!” Or “you killed this! 💕” or I just say it when something gets awkward bc I’m just a very awkward person. If it is bad, I’ll definitely stop! I would never mean to offend people. I just really wanna know, bc I don’t want people to think I’m being rude, when I don’t know. My worst fear is offending people by accident. 💀 It would be great if you responded lol, but ofc you don’t have to. 👍
@@woah2850 I think “slay” was developed by black queer folk, as a lot of popular AAVE-to-internet slang terms are. I am a white queer woman, and I have heard that some people in the lgbt community don’t like white people to say it and other words credited to black queer folk. But I would like to hear from a black person’s perspective.
@@00droo00I as a black person have no problem with y’all using the word slay it is word we use to uplift people actions and etc so it’s no problem for y’all to use it as well
As a kid who went to a nearly all-black school and lived in an almost all-black neighborhood this is the type of language my siblings and I would use. Everybody used it. I remember one of the schoolteachers, a black lady, who was frustrated at how we kids spoke and she was going to teach us how to speak the "King's English" (in St. Louis, LOL!). But as we grew up and eventually moved out of the area, we lost touch with AAVE and what AAVE is now has no relation to what it was then even though I remembered the examples and how they were used.
I grew up in the hood so AAVE was basically what I grew up speaking. My mother made fun of me for it and said I was trying to be black, everyone used to say I sounded like a black girl, and I was exposed to a lot of different cultures once I started traveling more. But can I still slip into the dialect around the right people? Hell yeah and that's how I feel more comfortable speaking if I'm going to be honest. Now I just feel like everyone would give me the side eye if I spoke like that because I'm white.
When I lived in Texas, whenever someone was about to do something, they would say something like, “I’m fixin’ to go….” Then I moved to NYC and it’d be something like, “I’m bout to go….”. I moved to Florida and I hear, “I’m finna go….”.
During slavery, a slave was severely beating or even killed if he or she was trying to learn or gain an education. AAVE was a tool of survival during slavery. Think about it, if the slave was perceived ignorant, he or she isn’t a perceived threat to the general population at that time. AAVE is a mixture of African native languages, Aboriginal indigenous languages, & poor US Southern English. A lot people, did not realize, we code switch base on environment in which we find ourselves. My child will continue to embrace both SAE and AAVE.
You are bring your _own_ baggage into this comment. Speaking AAVE has nothing do with "education" or being perceived as "ignorant". It's a creole, with African grammar rules. Speaking AAVE does not mean one is poor or ignorant🙄 Also, southern America English is solely regional- has nothing to do with poverty. Code switching is a natural thing that happens across the world. It's not bad. It is always a way to fit in, survive , or express something with more intensity.
I'm from north Africa but I started learning and being interested in "english" by watching afro American shows and sitcoms cuz they felt more relatable, and how i talk rn is based from that. This was rather informative
They felt more relatable to you in Africa? How did they feel more relatable? This is a genuine question btw I was just wondering how our cultures compare in that.
@@kay-collins bc black people have a more vibrant culture similar to middle eastern / brown people i general. i think they were comparing black shows vs white shows.
Most "slang" terms like "shade" and "tea" are specifically terms created out of the LGBTQ+ culture of African Americans. Slang isn't a dialect, as much as it's a linguistic expression to communicate. They both contribute to AAVE language.
It's NOT tea! It's T!!! Short for truth! Spill the truth is spill the T! "Spill it" is a very Common expression in the UK and has been for decades upon decades and it means "say something" so spill the T is say some truth. Tea is a type of plant that you brew and drink.
Maybe it's because I grew up in an area with predominantly black and Hispanic population, but I can always tell when a new internet slang is AAVE. There's just something so distinct about it. Thank you for creating this video and educating myself and all of us on the internet about this!!!💕
You can absolutely always tell. The people saying “oh I didn’t know that was AAVE” I often wonder if they’re telling the truth bc how can you not tell?? Smh
@@kay-collins personally my first language isnt english so often i learned the words from internet. This is why i generally cant tell apart if its AAVE or not. So i asumme most people who didnt know are foreginers like me .
thanks for this, i'm a brazilian english teacher and this was a very educational video that helped a lot to create better classes! I'll be showing it to my students
Oi Maria Eduarda, nice to meet you :) Também sou prof de inglês independente por aqui, explorando esse tópico e trazendo ele pras aulas. O que você acha de marcarmos uma chamada pra trocar ideia sobre como estamos fazendo nossos preparos? Penso que poderia ser muito interessante e útil pras duas. It's always great partnering with another dedicated teacher 🌼
If you are truly an English teacher, please stick to teaching the conventional English, not AAVE. The purpose of language is effective communication, not "sounding cool" My father, a black man, was an English professor and he would be ashamed at how undereducated our culture looks by using language and grammar that our ancestors used on plantations. Again, please do your students a favor and refrain from teaching them AAVE. I am sure their job interviews will go more easily if they stick to using proper English.
Hello everyone, I am a foreigner who recently moved to Louisiana. I think that AAVE as it is described is not only an African American thing as I met European Americans who speak similarly. They say "aks" instead of "ask". One of them uses "don't" instead of "doesn't". Same for "y'all". I think that the scope should be widened. As AAVE developed in the South, African American slaves and whites were in contact and ultimately ended up speaking an undeniably similar English dialect on a continuum. As for other features I did not hear them speaking with whites, such as the absence of "is" and "are". I just feel like we should acknowledge the fact that AAVE in Louisiana is not "African", but rather an integral part of the Louisiana accent with its differents shades depending on communities. Thank you for reading and commenting. Best regards,
Very informative video! As an English teacher abroad, it’s sad when teachers who speak AAVE are told that their dialect is “wrong” and should not be taught… Although I am not African American, I’m happy that I can introduce this dialect and its cultural influence to my students when discussing different ways English is spoken. Thank you again for such a great video!
I'm white and I grew up in an all black neighborhood from the age 2 until I was 16 back in the 1980's and early 90's. My whole life whenever im around new people they always ask me where im from and tell me I have an accent. It's kinda funny.
Great video. I'd say the shaming, devaluing, and ridicule of AAVE is not only racism but also long-term xenophobia. We have to remember Black Americans were brought to America as enslaved people from other countries. Our accents, vernacular or dialect (and existence) is given the same sentiment "Speak English" and "Go back to Africa". It's not only racist but xenophobic even though we've been here hundreds of years now. Plus we're safest speaking with our natural accents and using our vernacular within our communities.
Please do not try to convince anyone that ALL BLACK COMMUNITIES USE AAVE. That simply is not the case. Within our black community, there are groups of black people who speak perfect English (including Obama, Oprah, my parents, my brothers, my sisters and myself). Many black people are embarrassed by the AAVE used by others, since it does open us to "shaming, devaluing and ridicule" and rightly so. If we still cannot use proper english that we started learning in grade school, what does that say about us? Why should anyone take us seriously if we continue to talk the way our ancestors did on plantations because they were NOT able to have educations? AAVE helps validate the perception that we are an inferior race.
Wrong. This dialect started in southern and western England. In the 1600 and 1700s. It was brought to the southern states here by them. Read some Thomas Sowell.
@@WorkingmanX Yes, these double standards. But honestly, I've always thought that this slang (whether spoken by whites, blacks, asians i don't care) sounds really awful. I can hardly take a person seriously. I don't understand how you can be proud of the fact that a certain cultural group has adopted this bad and uneducated English and then present it as something totally great and unique. But maybe it's just me
@@WorkingmanX No one gives a f*ck what you think. If black people breathe wrong we’re even sh*tted on for that.😂 Mind your business & stay the f*ck out of ours.
I had NO CLUE this was a dialect and any of the origins of it. Thank you so much for the video. I wish this was included in school instead of learning about it by pure happenstance. I literally just opened an email and had my world expanded 10x. Thank you Babbel team!
Even some old dialects of British and American English used to pronounce 'ask' as 'aks'. From a Farmville Herald article: "It derives from the Middle English form 'acsion' and was in fact used by Chaucer and later Queen Elizabeth I. Eventually speakers of the standard variety of English chose the variation 'ask' over 'aks' and 'aks' was retained only in more rural and more isolated dialects of English."
This video was HIGHLY informative! I loved it. I honestly get annoyed when people who are not black do this for views, get fame and are called creative and cool meanwhile blacks use it and are called uneducated and non creative and ghetto. It honestly annoys me like black people cant have a language for us without everyone nipping at it for a come up. Especially the tiktokers 🙄.
Google the origins of AAVE. You will see that it actually originated in Europe in the 1600s and was brought to America by European immigrants who settled in the southern portion of North America, especially Virginia. Listen to the pronunciations of older European dialects and you will hear the accents and verbiage are extremely similar.
That's a lie. No it didn't. It originated with Africans learning English and still retaining certain speaking rules or grammar rules of their languages of origin. Stop being a typical lying and deceiving European! No Europeans talk like us at all.
This is very insightful and delivered with such a warm and inclusive energy. Breaking down syntax differences between SAE and AAVE really puts me in the right frame of mind to let go of the deeply flawed and narrow definition of "proper" English that I inherited at home and in school. Time well spent.
@PIZZA Standard American English is a dialect, just like AAVE. It's (obviously) descended from British English. Do you think that everyone who speaks American English is also being willfully ignorant? If not, your logic is inconsistent.
@PIZZA @PIZZA "Dialect: (noun) 1. a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region *or social group*. 2. _Linguistics_. a variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features of phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, and by its use by a group of speakers who are set off from others geographically *or socially*." From your other comments it's clear you're a racist scumbag with an agenda to push about Black people being dumb, so I don't actually expect you to critically consider your position on this. But facts don't care about your feelings, and you're incorrect.
I understand that all rules in all languages are by convention, but how far can we stretch that? Isn't it possible that someone could say something to someone else, and it's taken in a way the original speaker didn't intend?
I never realized I was talking AAVE. Im not black either. I just grew up in a heavily populated AA city. My school was nothing but blacks/ hispanics. This was in the 90s so of course there was no social media. Do I just change my whole way of speaking so people dont get the wrong idea of me? But at the same time I can't change how I speak cuz once again thats how I grew up. 😟 now ima look like one of these dang kids pretending to talk a certain way cuz its "a trend" smh . 😩
Black american here, It is 100% understandable and normal to adopt a certain thing because you grew up around it. Language is something that is learned, rather than input in us. I don't think it is an issue for you to speak like this at all especially in that regard. But the people who are speaking AAVE just cause it's trendy are the real examples of people appropriating our culture, they arent being respectful. But since you aren't one of them, and it occurred naturally for you, you are good.
It’s not a problem at all, if this is how you talk. AS BLACK PEOPLE, we don’t like when it’s being mocked by other races or people doing it just for social media. I’m from Cali (LA), and Hispanics talk like this all the time because we all grew up around each other. I’ve never heard a Hispanic person, purposely doing it and it being cringy! It’s always them other people.
thanks internet strangers! now i dont feel bad about growing up with my black extended family and "stealing" their dialect! i'm a asian/hispanic btw, i always have to explain im not black just because my cousins are 😅
Is it appropriate to use AAVE as a white person? And how does it differ when you don't know that something is AAVE? I'm a white guy, but I live in the South, and most of my coworkers and also a lot of my closer friends are young black people. As a result, when I hear the people around me using slang I haven't heard before, it's difficult to tell whether it is internet slang, AAVE, or slang they came up with themselves. But naturally as humans we like to copy the people around us's speaking styles. I just always feel a little weird picking up speaking styles from my black friends bc I don't know if something would be taken as offensive coming from me. (obligatory note that I'm not talking about obvious things like the n word but just about the types of expressions she was giving in the video that are big social media trendy phrases that originated from AAVE)
Black people usually don’t care as long as it isn’t awkward or out of context. If it sounds like a word you normally use they’ll let you rock, ask any deli owner.
Like another commenter said, it's all on how natural you sound with it. One of my best friends of almost 20 years is a huge white guy, but he grew up living in the same area I did, and so parts of how he speaks is AAVE. It sounds super natural coming from him, like it's not put on for fun or just to say a cool thing, the usage and inflections and tone is all correct, and he'll hit you with some ooold slang that you really only know if you were speaking like that pre-social media. As for what words to use and not, that's tough. If you see or hear some word you want to use, treat it like any other word and ask what it means/look it up. Ask the person that used it, Google, or Urban Dictionary. I would say stay away from slang or trends that stems from recent gang culture (some are in the wider pop culture already, like the term OG, so those I guess are on the table, if a bit cringey). Personally, I stay away from slang that was super insider stuff in various queer communities (I'm part of it, but wasn't in the clubs or have a huge circle of friends to pick up on the slang from, so I don't). But yeah, in general if it sounds natural and correct, we don't trip. If it sounds inauthentic but otherwise correct, it's awkward. If it's inauthentic and incorrect, I personally take it like mockery and would pull up aside and have a word
@@SnrKagemusha Thanks for the detailed info! Part of the problem for me is that I've only been in the South for about four years so I haven't really gotten accustomed to the regional differences in speech and also wouldn't know what phrases were used pre-social media. But your explanations seem helpful!
I’m glad this video exists so that we have a good jumping off point to what this actually means. I think part of the problem is that English doesn’t really have accents or dialects that change grammatical rules. I took Italian in High School and learned that there are some very heavy dialects that change words and grammar. I’m thinking this is a similar situation. However, like in my Italian class, we need to make sure that children are learning the universal English rules. As for people using it, I understand the historical background, but America does take ideas and phrases from all cultures and make it their own. I do see a little bit of a silver lining that it’s being accepted by the general public which keeps it alive
English definitely has, as you put it, very heavy dialects that change words and grammar, some of which are only partially mutually intelligible with standard forms of English. Have you ever heard someone from rural Cumbria or Munster speak their local dialect of English?
"don't" is not the conjugation of 3rd person plural. it's more like the "general conjugation" (if that's a term 😅) since in standard english "don't" is used for ALL subjects except 3rd person singular. nice video btw. thank you.
This is an awesome video. I grew up speaking both AAVE (before knowing it had an official name) and standard American English, and still speak both today. My mother expressed the importance of Standard American English as being absolutely necessary for acceptance and success in this country while at the same time in casual situations where there were only African Americans present me and my siblings were allowed to speak AAVE but only after we were able to fully communicate using SAE. The craziest part is that I knew all of the AAVE equivalents to the standard English expressions before she showed them in the video but never thought about the uniqueness of the grammatical structure. I'm glad our dialects are finally getting positive recognition.
Not to take anything from AAVE, this is not an internet phenomenon. This is a GTA5 phenomenon. To the topic: very good and informative. Thank you, I learned something
What's even crazier is that if you are black and don't talk like this your own people look at you funny...sigh. aave has literally been a thorn in my side, not because of the dialect itself but because of the ostracization if one cant speak it in the black community.
AAVE's history is not being erased by influencing internet slang, it's being expanded... Being the primary influence or origin of the speech on the internet is new history being written.
I came here to educate myself on the matter and this video was really really really great! :D I really thank and respect the community and now know history for this, you guys are amazing! :D thank you!!
woahhh, as a non-native english speaker that earned through the internet, i didn't know about this! This is super interesting and im glad i know about this! Thank you so much!
It was really cool to learn about how it actually works. I’m embarrassed to say I just thought it was slang lol, but now when I hear those words I know where it came from :) But I have a question; is it okay for people who aren’t black to use this dialect? Also, I’ve read somewhere that “shade” and “yas queen” are apart of queer language but it was bunched together with aave so idk which words I can use or not. (I’m trans and pansexual)
Okay, I watched this to know what AAVE means. This is just English, which has become the common language and evolution of it to type of community and locations.
@thechosenone172 Sorry, I think I didn't get my point across right. I was not saying that AAVE was English. I was saying English is basically a common language. While AAVE is not it specifically adapted to a group of people from one community, like people from New York have different in the way they speak and New Jersey have a difference in the way they talk.
I like how she made it seem like Ebonics ain’t wrong. Lol. Like it’s a pidgin or something. Even pidgin is wrong. But I see what she’s saying. English has rules though. And AAVE doesn’t abide by those rules which makes it improper.
Wtf can we just talk how we wanna talk why are people entitled to a dialect when they haven’t even experienced slavery. Just because my great great grandpa was a veteran doesn’t qualify me for veterans discounts at a store even thought I am his descendant.
This isn't about slavery. Some use AAVE to mock or disrespect black Americans. There's also a tendency for society to think it's no longer ghetto if a white person is saying it. That's where the problem lies. I don't have an issue with non blacks using AAVE however just as long as they aren't misusing it or mocking us
OMG! This is some amazing information and a beautiful presentation that easily leads to a new paradigm. I am one of those that has "corrected," though usually only silently to myself, the metathetical constructions such as aks for ask. Now I won't feel the need to cringe when I hear this anymore. THANK YOU!!!
America would be the place labeled “boiling pot” and yet is one of the country’s that people see culture and think it’s so bad to share, where Literally everywhere else in the world people share their culture gladly.
This is what I was trying to explain to my parents, we are immigrants and they think black Americans just speak broken English but I was telling them it has rules and even a whole tense that typical English doesn’t have
@@ebsolsbeerbottle3002 Wow ignorant alert because I DON'T agree with you i'm not part of your culture. I'm sorry to break t to you but the world doesn't revolve around you. And you can have an opinion on something even if you're not a part of it. Sorry but mature a little (:
@PIZZA did you know when the American English dialect was coming along British speaking people were telling them they were speaking wrong?American English became a dialect much as aave so yes don't be disrespectful language change over time
As a southern, non POC who uses AAVE in daily language, Im glad that the POC communtiy is getting the recognition and credit they deserve for the amazing dialect! ❣
Wait can someone pls answer my question Am I not allowed to say some of these words I never knew what AAVE is until recently and I have realized I have been speaking some of the words all my life I was never taught it anywhere I really don’t want to offend anyone because the words are in my everyday vocabulary since I was 6
If you're not American, it's probably best to avoid using this type of speech and just listen to it to understand it but don't try to reproduce it, but if you're around black people enough, one tends to want to fit in with the group and it's natural to copy them on certain phrases.
I’m not sure honestly. I was called racist in a discord server because I used AAVE when I’m white, (and at the time I had no idea what it was) but I’ve grown up surrounded by some of these words and I’ve been speaking them my entire life
@@jamescarter9208 I can't believe we as a race, are going to low that we're claiming words that are purely just slang. It's making AA culture pathetic and not at-all unique.
@@Goatboy12 its ridding the world of "culture", people are getting possessive to feel special. call me crazy, but im pretty sure the entire purpose of culture is for it to be spread through humanity (regardless of color or race). its insane to live in this world lol
A lot of slang terms I use/like (deez nuts, take the L/W, wack) come from hiphop and rap, I don’t think a lot of terms I use evolved over slavery or anything like that, am I still allowed to use them if they come from hiphop as opposed to slavery and such? Also, am I allowed to sing parts of hiphop songs (YOUUUUU from soulja boy. No slurs.)? Any education on hiphop or AAVE would be appreciated
@BearyCity first of all it is real. And it wasn’t called aave in the beginning. White people chnaged the name of it. And if your African you have no room to talk because this has to do with black Americans. So stay in your lane. And I as a Black American don’t have a problem with anyone using it. I will say the gistory behind it is racist so that’s why some Black Americans get upset when others use it because in the past we were discriminated against for speaking that way naturally.
@BearyCity unless your speaking of the first African slaves of America when they were learning to speak English that’s a stretch. It used to be called Ebonics. Look it up. Which is an American thing. Try again. And I’m not gatekeeping anything. Try reading my post again. I have never been against anyone using it but don’t try to pretend it’s not real.
You have an accent which is quite distinct for us who have English as a second language. For example, sometimes you say "impor'ant" instead of "important", where the comma stands for an almost mute "t". See it happening here 5:05. Is this part of the AAVE heritage?
At heart, Black English is a mixture of the nonstandard English dialects spoken by the British settlers of the American South and the indentured servants who often worked alongside them. These dialects are the source of not just some but most of its features. Odd as it seems, the main wellspring of African Americans’ home dialect is not the kingdoms of West Africa but the hinterlands of Britannia and their environs, just as with all of the other English dialects in America.
That's the Dialect Divergence hypothesis right... But there is also the Creole Origin hypothesis. Those are the two main theories. Is the latter now not popular?
People that are not of color who grow up in black communities and use it should not be blamed for using it. Just came here to learn about this from a video saying white people should not use it, when it’s not their fault they grow up with people who use it around them.
Oh so I technically already speak this and all the black people around me. Just never knew it was called AAVE. Thank you for educating me about something I’m doing unintentionally 😊
I'm 3 minutes in and I'm realizing how much I don't know about the history. They didn't teach any of this in school. Thank you so much I have a lot more to learn!
i'm so happy that i found this because i now know the history of AAVE and whenever i see it or say it I can remember and respect the rich history of the dialect.
Galaxy Queen right and the beauty about it no other race have to like it, it’s our it’s not for them why do they always got something to say about our stuff and then they end up appropriating it 😂🤣 anyway wow! Are they jealous?🤫🤔🫢🥱
I am very fluent in Black English and have been speaking it my whole entire life. It's a Creole mixed Caribbean dialect and people don't know that. For example listen to how our brothas and sisters in Jamaica speak AAVE has been around in our culture since the transalantic slave trade. Many Black-Americans were stripped from their languages and culture. AAVE was all Black-Americans had. This was how we communicate amongst eachother. It may be funny to most but this is actually a language and a dialect.Our mothers grandmothers uncles all speak it. On the streets in the hoods we speak it all over the world and in certain parts of the Caribbean Islands.
Don't come at me, seem have similar rules when come to ASL (sign language) and how different region have their own "accents". Sorry my English not great .
Using 'don't' instead of 'doesn't' is common in the UK too in certain dialects. We've been taught it's incorrect English and I have to admit that it grates when I hear it. I'd never heard of AAVE until today. It's always good to learn something new and open one's mind a tad more. I'll be telling my teens about it so they're more aware of the origins of what they're hearing on tiktok! Interesting stuff!
Omg the amount of teachers in my school that would constantly repeat “it’s not AX, it’s ASK” 🙄 I’m not even black and that shit pissed me off. Like everyone has to speak the same way in America, which is supposed to be a melting pot, not viewed as a refinery
Ax and ask are two different words, THAT'S WHY. Try telling someone you're going to chop down a tree with an "ask." They'll think you just had a stroke!🙄
Because AAVE is culturally American? It's about Black American culture. Just because you're black doesn't mean you use AAVE. It's just a dialect that is different depending on where you're from.
I can’t tell between AAVE and the Southern accent in terms of the pronunciation and intonation. Dolly Parton speaks Southern accent not AAVE innit? So how can you deal with people going “I am using Southern accent” when you tell them they are using AAVE.
this is all new to me. can someone give me an example of using AAVE that would seem offensive? because my english was heavily influenced by the internet when growing up. i am just so confused right now, do i change how i speak??
@@fitzcannon Thats what I was saying. You need to learn American stand English or how to code switch to be taken seriously intellectually and professionally. Also necessary to know if you’re in a debate with somebody of another race, you won’t get your point across as effective using aave or Ebonics.
I know there are many people around today who are too young to have known a pre-Internet world. But it did exist, and trust me, AAVE existed long before. This video felt like an introduction. Nothing of much substance was declared. I kept waiting for her to break into some honest AAVE patter, the kind she said she grew up with. That would have been both entertaining and informative. Instead, we just got a couple of dumbed-down AAVE Internet expressions. This is the second AAVE YT video I've seen that really didn't deliver. The other was "Is 'Talking White' Actually a Thing?" This discussion deserves more attention. 🙂
It means that instead of it just being a trend, that it is an actual dialect of a language that has rules behind how its spoken. It means that one can learn how to speak it and speak it correctly just like any other dialect (creole,patois,gullah) BUT it also means that when people outside of the community do speak AAVE that its noticeably different when it isnt natural but learned. So when black americans say “they’re trying to sound black” its because we can literally hear the difference between how we speak AAVE and how someone else does. So I guess what im saying is, yes people outside of the community can use AAVE, but unless you do it right it can be compared to (for example) a native Spanish speaker speaking english fluently but with an accent, while also arguing that they sound the exact same as a native English speaker. Yes you’re saying the right words but the way it sounds is different
Why did she add LGBTQ to the topic regarding AAVE? White LGBTQ people are African American too? The force teaming is ridiculous, give credit where credit is due.
I recently saw black stand up comedians and AAVE is almost like another language. I understood one of them without much issue, but the headliner I struggled to follow. That’s why I went looking for videos like this, to learn more about the vernacular. I will say Colorado AAVE is a lot easier for me to understand than Georgia AAVE. The sentence structure isn’t the hard part to understand, it’s more that words aren’t enunciated as strongly in AAVE and can be difficult to understand if you’re not used to it. I think American English in general is moving more toward AAVE, partly because it’s more efficient, but also because we’re finally giving platforms to black people and language/dialects are meshing together. I wouldn’t be surprised if I start hearing more Mexican Spanish in American English for the same reason. Edit: the headliner at the comedy show was Desi Banks
I'm going to assume you mean a non-black person who didn't grow up speaking like this and is wanting to speak it as an older person. My gut reaction is to say: don't. There's probably no way to respect the history and think it's a good idea to do. That's not to say don't learn to understand it! Being better able to understand a lot of people is always a good thing. But unless you grew up speaking it and in black spaces with black people from pretty early on, chances are you'll sound pretty minstrelsy
Oh yes the people who were forced into speaking English should be held at the same standard as the people who downplay a dialect but also dilute it by misusing and popularizing the dialect. Amazing job.
For non-native English speakers, I thought I'd point out that at 4:23, when explaining metathesis, when she gives the traditional pronunciation of the word "ask," she pronounces it differently from the Standard American dialect. She pronounces it "azk" with a voiced "Z" sound, instead of an unvoiced "S" sound. It sounded really unusual to me and jumped out to my ear. I'm much more used to hearing the standard American "ask" or AAVE "ax" pronunciation. I'm curious if any other Americans have heard the "azk" pronunciation anywhere?
What is something new you learned about AAVE from this video? 💭
I've learned that Babbel USA just taught in this video what I had to minor in African-American Studies to learn because even in college the rich history of those of African descent was breezed over in my "Global" Studies class and over 90% of that semester was SOLELY focused on Europe.
THANK YOU and BRAVO to Babbel and the host Sierra Boone! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️🖤💚
Thanks so much for watching!
@@LearnSpanishBabbel - Thank YOU for such QUALITY and EDUCATIONAL content! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I’ve learned y’all are a bunch of snowflakes✌🏾
@@kyocerii1924 I’ve learned that the people who call other’s snowflakes are the real motherfuckin snowflakes. Exit to the left.
As a non-english-native I heard about aave SO late. When you just pick up English phrases from people in the internet, you don't get any of the cultural nuance
no, this is actually political woke garbage. some people use some of these words and constructions but to say it's African American is disingenuous at best because it doesn't apply solely to black people and it never did. if anything it tries to erase post-emancipation people's struggles and put it under one umbrella for pride
It's not even a culture, it's just language used by illiterate folks
Gotta be honest, most white Americans don't even recognize it. It's a shame.
thanks a lot for this. honestly, as an asian woman, i wasnt fully aware of the words roaming around the internet and the context behind those. it’s true that social media has influenced the culture in many different ways and i just want to sincerely apologize to all the people i have been offended if i ever told some inappropriate words in the past. what we can and must do now is to EDUCATE people and to spread awareness, especially on the internet. and as we’re in the modern times now, canceling people is not a solution, rather teach them to respect and appreciate other’s cultures. i have seen so many ebonics on social media platforms, and thinking some are internet slangs, but clearly are not. maybe some are just adapting it with appreciation but mostly are possibly being ignorant. again, we all have to be responsible and mindful. thank you for being informative once again and i shall spread this message on the internet. ☺️
That's some quality virtue signalling.
The same had happened to me, I’m also glad that I’m now educated!!
If u a horrible person just say dat
I'm Brazilian and I had this problem too, I didn't know vibe check was AAVE until this video!
@kombucha. what
As a non-black person and non-native english speaker, my entire immerssion for learning english has been unconsiously aave based, so I've always known that the phrases and pronuntiations I've been using come from black culture. I really hope im not insulting anyone by using it.
Just as long as you aren't white
@@BFSarthur Im from latin america but i have identity issues, so I dont really know if Im white. Although I think I might have race privilege, Im not entirely white
same thing here
@Liz Muschinski Now explain black
No, you're not insulting. As long as you're not incorporating any stereotypical movements, offensive immigrations, or insensitive physical characteristics of African Americans when you're speaking it. Like, rolling your eyes, "acting black", etc. After all, the entire South speaks AAVE even though they won't admit it. Southern whites speak AAVE and not their ancestors true language, which is standard American English. Lol.
I’m a black American female and I remember they use to tell us that we don’t speak a language. They use to mock us and clown us. We even had to code switch our words as best we could and accent. Now everyone wants to be us. It’s a joke
Hi! I have a question, I’ve recently been seeing people saying that slay is a part of AAVE, and wanted to know if it was ok for me, a white person, to say it? I never use it to mock people I usually say it to uplift people, like if someone said “your amazing!” Or “you killed this! 💕” or I just say it when something gets awkward bc I’m just a very awkward person. If it is bad, I’ll definitely stop! I would never mean to offend people. I just really wanna know, bc I don’t want people to think I’m being rude, when I don’t know. My worst fear is offending people by accident. 💀 It would be great if you responded lol, but ofc you don’t have to. 👍
@@woah2850 I think “slay” was developed by black queer folk, as a lot of popular AAVE-to-internet slang terms are. I am a white queer woman, and I have heard that some people in the lgbt community don’t like white people to say it and other words credited to black queer folk. But I would like to hear from a black person’s perspective.
@@00droo00I as a black person have no problem with y’all using the word slay it is word we use to uplift people actions and etc so it’s no problem for y’all to use it as well
You was not those slaves that dont got anything to do with you
We still have to code switch in "professional settings" without being judged, it gets exhausting sometimes.
when she said nadine be shopping i was like, “Nadine DO be shopping”
Nadine be like that 🤷♂️
Hahaha, good ol’ Nadine
OMG - lol. I was like, Nadine do be shoppin' 'noh .
Nadine be shopping and Nadine do be shopping are two different meanings…
@@beigenegress2979well yes and no, with my friends and it looks like here its a emphasis on her shopping. like damn she REALLY do be shopping.
As a kid who went to a nearly all-black school and lived in an almost all-black neighborhood this is the type of language my siblings and I would use. Everybody used it. I remember one of the schoolteachers, a black lady, who was frustrated at how we kids spoke and she was going to teach us how to speak the "King's English" (in St. Louis, LOL!). But as we grew up and eventually moved out of the area, we lost touch with AAVE and what AAVE is now has no relation to what it was then even though I remembered the examples and how they were used.
I applaud your teacher for trying.
RedNeck Moment
I grew up in the hood so AAVE was basically what I grew up speaking. My mother made fun of me for it and said I was trying to be black, everyone used to say I sounded like a black girl, and I was exposed to a lot of different cultures once I started traveling more. But can I still slip into the dialect around the right people? Hell yeah and that's how I feel more comfortable speaking if I'm going to be honest. Now I just feel like everyone would give me the side eye if I spoke like that because I'm white.
When I lived in Texas, whenever someone was about to do something, they would say something like, “I’m fixin’ to go….” Then I moved to NYC and it’d be something like, “I’m bout to go….”. I moved to Florida and I hear, “I’m finna go….”.
Northern Black dialects and Southern Black dialects are always in dialog. Part of it is the popularity of Atlanta hip hop among New York Black folk.
During slavery, a slave was severely beating or even killed if he or she was trying to learn or gain an education. AAVE was a tool of survival during slavery. Think about it, if the slave was perceived ignorant, he or she isn’t a perceived threat to the general population at that time. AAVE is a mixture of African native languages, Aboriginal indigenous languages, & poor US Southern English.
A lot people, did not realize, we code switch base on environment in which we find ourselves. My child will continue to embrace both SAE and AAVE.
It’s words
@@______xxfunky_space_panda4183 yea let’s act like words don’t have meaning or history 😵😵😵
@@dfredankey bet, I’ll start by burning all the Bible’s
@@______xxfunky_space_panda4183 ok
You are bring your _own_ baggage into this comment.
Speaking AAVE has nothing do with "education" or being perceived as "ignorant". It's a creole, with African grammar rules.
Speaking AAVE does not mean one is poor or ignorant🙄
Also, southern America English is solely regional- has nothing to do with poverty.
Code switching is a natural thing that happens across the world. It's not bad. It is always a way to fit in, survive , or express something with more intensity.
As a Korean who is passionate about learning the English language, I learned more about AAVE from this video~! Thanks👍
I am learning English for understand the vast internet 🥰🥰🇧🇩🇧🇩
@@LevRiv
Thank you so much 🥰🥰
I'd steer well away from AAVE if you're trying to learn English. It's an abhorrent dialect that sounds poorly educated and vulgar.
@@MrHowardMoon I could not agree more. You cannot learn the language properly if you learn from idiots.
@@MrHowardMoon Lol, "poorly educated" I bet you feel the same about patois 🤣
I'm from north Africa but I started learning and being interested in "english" by watching afro American shows and sitcoms cuz they felt more relatable, and how i talk rn is based from that.
This was rather informative
Africans are our brothers and sisters anyway. ☺
They felt more relatable to you in Africa? How did they feel more relatable? This is a genuine question btw I was just wondering how our cultures compare in that.
@@kay-collinsgenerally south asians, Arabs, and Africans are raised similarly and have the same experiences abroad.
@@ShahrukhKhan_OfficialYT huh? I’m asking them how did Black AMERICAN shows feel more relatable to them.
@@kay-collins bc black people have a more vibrant culture similar to middle eastern / brown people i general. i think they were comparing black shows vs white shows.
Most "slang" terms like "shade" and "tea" are specifically terms created out of the LGBTQ+ culture of African Americans. Slang isn't a dialect, as much as it's a linguistic expression to communicate. They both contribute to AAVE language.
It's NOT tea! It's T!!! Short for truth!
Spill the truth is spill the T!
"Spill it" is a very Common expression in the UK and has been for decades upon decades and it means "say something" so spill the T is say some truth.
Tea is a type of plant that you brew and drink.
@@drrd4127 thanks for being sane and unwoke
Here we go, child truth be told, lgbtqlmop needs to be called out for acting like black women
@@amerika9225 black women don't behave in one specific way.
😂wtf? No bruh
Maybe it's because I grew up in an area with predominantly black and Hispanic population, but I can always tell when a new internet slang is AAVE. There's just something so distinct about it. Thank you for creating this video and educating myself and all of us on the internet about this!!!💕
Yea it is distinct alright!!
You can absolutely always tell. The people saying “oh I didn’t know that was AAVE” I often wonder if they’re telling the truth bc how can you not tell?? Smh
@@kay-collins personally my first language isnt english so often i learned the words from internet. This is why i generally cant tell apart if its AAVE or not. So i asumme most people who didnt know are foreginers like me .
thanks for this, i'm a brazilian english teacher and this was a very educational video that helped a lot to create better classes! I'll be showing it to my students
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Oi Maria Eduarda, nice to meet you :) Também sou prof de inglês independente por aqui, explorando esse tópico e trazendo ele pras aulas. O que você acha de marcarmos uma chamada pra trocar ideia sobre como estamos fazendo nossos preparos? Penso que poderia ser muito interessante e útil pras duas. It's always great partnering with another dedicated teacher 🌼
Mam, Why would you use redneck speach in your clases?
If you are truly an English teacher, please stick to teaching the conventional English, not AAVE. The purpose of language is effective communication, not "sounding cool" My father, a black man, was an English professor and he would be ashamed at how undereducated our culture looks by using language and grammar that our ancestors used on plantations. Again, please do your students a favor and refrain from teaching them AAVE. I am sure their job interviews will go more easily if they stick to using proper English.
@@juliaalvessoares Oi, Júlia! Não sei se ainda tem interesse, mas eu me candidato 😄também sou prof e adorei sua ideia. Qualquer coisa me fala ;)
Hello everyone,
I am a foreigner who recently moved to Louisiana. I think that AAVE as it is described is not only an African American thing as I met European Americans who speak similarly. They say "aks" instead of "ask". One of them uses "don't" instead of "doesn't". Same for "y'all". I think that the scope should be widened. As AAVE developed in the South, African American slaves and whites were in contact and ultimately ended up speaking an undeniably similar English dialect on a continuum. As for other features I did not hear them speaking with whites, such as the absence of "is" and "are". I just feel like we should acknowledge the fact that AAVE in Louisiana is not "African", but rather an integral part of the Louisiana accent with its differents shades depending on communities. Thank you for reading and commenting. Best regards,
Very informative video!
As an English teacher abroad, it’s sad when teachers who speak AAVE are told that their dialect is “wrong” and should not be taught…
Although I am not African American, I’m happy that I can introduce this dialect and its cultural influence to my students when discussing different ways English is spoken.
Thank you again for such a great video!
I don’t recommend you attempting reintroduce culture to the very people who brought it to you
@@BonafidexDopeness I don’t believe I follow you. Could you elaborate?
If you're an English teacher then you should realise that aave isn't a dialect, but a result of shunning literature.
@@dubiouscaesar3709 I understand. Thank you for your input.
@@dubiouscaesar3709 no, you’re wrong.. it is a dialect.
I'm white and I grew up in an all black neighborhood from the age 2 until I was 16 back in the 1980's and early 90's. My whole life whenever im around new people they always ask me where im from and tell me I have an accent. It's kinda funny.
Great video. I'd say the shaming, devaluing, and ridicule of AAVE is not only racism but also long-term xenophobia. We have to remember Black Americans were brought to America as enslaved people from other countries. Our accents, vernacular or dialect (and existence) is given the same sentiment "Speak English" and "Go back to Africa". It's not only racist but xenophobic even though we've been here hundreds of years now. Plus we're safest speaking with our natural accents and using our vernacular within our communities.
Ridiculous
learn critical thinking@@crazylikeafox7341
This sounds so silly. Xenophobia ? Really?
Please do not try to convince anyone that ALL BLACK COMMUNITIES USE AAVE. That simply is not the case. Within our black community, there are groups of black people who speak perfect English (including Obama, Oprah, my parents, my brothers, my sisters and myself). Many black people are embarrassed by the AAVE used by others, since it does open us to "shaming, devaluing and ridicule" and rightly so. If we still cannot use proper english that we started learning in grade school, what does that say about us? Why should anyone take us seriously if we continue to talk the way our ancestors did on plantations because they were NOT able to have educations? AAVE helps validate the perception that we are an inferior race.
Agreed
Wrong. This dialect started in southern and western England. In the 1600 and 1700s. It was brought to the southern states here by them. Read some Thomas Sowell.
So much for cultural appropriation. But it is an ugly slang anyway
@@hannahlindemann4190 lol. Right? And I agree.
@@WorkingmanX Yes, these double standards. But honestly, I've always thought that this slang (whether spoken by whites, blacks, asians i don't care) sounds really awful. I can hardly take a person seriously. I don't understand how you can be proud of the fact that a certain cultural group has adopted this bad and uneducated English and then present it as something totally great and unique. But maybe it's just me
@@hannahlindemann4190 It's not just you. I feel embarrassed for folks, when I hear them talk that way.
@@WorkingmanX
No one gives a f*ck what you think.
If black people breathe wrong we’re even sh*tted on for that.😂
Mind your business & stay the f*ck out of ours.
I had NO CLUE this was a dialect and any of the origins of it. Thank you so much for the video. I wish this was included in school instead of learning about it by pure happenstance. I literally just opened an email and had my world expanded 10x. Thank you Babbel team!
It’s not bro this shit a joke ngl
@Take 1 you say as you speaking it! 🤣🤣🤣 can't make this shit up 😅
its just shitty english lmao
@@Fari-100 exactly it’s just slang terms idk why they’re trying to coin it as some kind of African American dialect thing
@@gokusamm exactly
Even some old dialects of British and American English used to pronounce 'ask' as 'aks'. From a Farmville Herald article: "It derives from the Middle English form 'acsion' and was in fact used by Chaucer and later Queen Elizabeth I. Eventually speakers of the standard variety of English chose the variation 'ask' over 'aks' and 'aks' was retained only in more rural and more isolated dialects of English."
This video was HIGHLY informative! I loved it. I honestly get annoyed when people who are not black do this for views, get fame and are called creative and cool meanwhile blacks use it and are called uneducated and non creative and ghetto. It honestly annoys me like black people cant have a language for us without everyone nipping at it for a come up. Especially the tiktokers 🙄.
I had no idea this is what I was speaking all my life.
Google the origins of AAVE. You will see that it actually originated in Europe in the 1600s and was brought to America by European immigrants who settled in the southern portion of North America, especially Virginia. Listen to the pronunciations of older European dialects and you will hear the accents and verbiage are extremely similar.
That's a lie. No it didn't. It originated with Africans learning English and still retaining certain speaking rules or grammar rules of their languages of origin. Stop being a typical lying and deceiving European! No Europeans talk like us at all.
Anybody else going down the AAVE rabbit hole right now since you found out it's a thing?
I just thought that’s just how I speak. Now I’m learning Ebonics has a new name.
This is very insightful and delivered with such a warm and inclusive energy. Breaking down syntax differences between SAE and AAVE really puts me in the right frame of mind to let go of the deeply flawed and narrow definition of "proper" English that I inherited at home and in school. Time well spent.
As a queer foreigner who speaks English as a third language I love AAVE. Thanks to who??? Thanks to African American history 💚
Nobody cares about your sexual orientation 🙃
I care about your orientation and that you are proud of it!
@@nasira3339 🥰
THANK YOU
@PIZZA im not proud of being ignorant that’s why im learning about these topics
@PIZZA Standard American English is a dialect, just like AAVE. It's (obviously) descended from British English. Do you think that everyone who speaks American English is also being willfully ignorant? If not, your logic is inconsistent.
@PIZZA @PIZZA "Dialect: (noun)
1. a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region *or social group*.
2. _Linguistics_. a variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features of phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, and by its use by a group of speakers who are set off from others geographically *or socially*."
From your other comments it's clear you're a racist scumbag with an agenda to push about Black people being dumb, so I don't actually expect you to critically consider your position on this. But facts don't care about your feelings, and you're incorrect.
I understand that all rules in all languages are by convention, but how far can we stretch that? Isn't it possible that someone could say something to someone else, and it's taken in a way the original speaker didn't intend?
Yes it is possible, it happens with my wife and I every day.
A necessary video that should be seen by many. Good job!
This channel is extremely underrated 😔
@kombucha. You don't learn it, you unlearn grammar and then it just sort of comes.
I love AAVE, it's structured so much cooler than other English varieties
I never realized I was talking AAVE. Im not black either. I just grew up in a heavily populated AA city. My school was nothing but blacks/ hispanics. This was in the 90s so of course there was no social media. Do I just change my whole way of speaking so people dont get the wrong idea of me? But at the same time I can't change how I speak cuz once again thats how I grew up. 😟 now ima look like one of these dang kids pretending to talk a certain way cuz its "a trend" smh . 😩
Black american here, It is 100% understandable and normal to adopt a certain thing because you grew up around it. Language is something that is learned, rather than input in us. I don't think it is an issue for you to speak like this at all especially in that regard. But the people who are speaking AAVE just cause it's trendy are the real examples of people appropriating our culture, they arent being respectful. But since you aren't one of them, and it occurred naturally for you, you are good.
It’s not a problem at all, if this is how you talk. AS BLACK PEOPLE, we don’t like when it’s being mocked by other races or people doing it just for social media. I’m from Cali (LA), and Hispanics talk like this all the time because we all grew up around each other. I’ve never heard a Hispanic person, purposely doing it and it being cringy! It’s always them other people.
Same 😭
thanks internet strangers! now i dont feel bad about growing up with my black extended family and "stealing" their dialect!
i'm a asian/hispanic btw, i always have to explain im not black just because my cousins are 😅
No one has a right to tell you how you can or can't speak regardless of what your race is black or white no one owns words.
Is it appropriate to use AAVE as a white person? And how does it differ when you don't know that something is AAVE? I'm a white guy, but I live in the South, and most of my coworkers and also a lot of my closer friends are young black people. As a result, when I hear the people around me using slang I haven't heard before, it's difficult to tell whether it is internet slang, AAVE, or slang they came up with themselves. But naturally as humans we like to copy the people around us's speaking styles. I just always feel a little weird picking up speaking styles from my black friends bc I don't know if something would be taken as offensive coming from me.
(obligatory note that I'm not talking about obvious things like the n word but just about the types of expressions she was giving in the video that are big social media trendy phrases that originated from AAVE)
I wanna know too
Yes, it's cultural appropriation. Southern dialect is not exactly the same but there is overlap obviously.
Black people usually don’t care as long as it isn’t awkward or out of context. If it sounds like a word you normally use they’ll let you rock, ask any deli owner.
Like another commenter said, it's all on how natural you sound with it. One of my best friends of almost 20 years is a huge white guy, but he grew up living in the same area I did, and so parts of how he speaks is AAVE. It sounds super natural coming from him, like it's not put on for fun or just to say a cool thing, the usage and inflections and tone is all correct, and he'll hit you with some ooold slang that you really only know if you were speaking like that pre-social media.
As for what words to use and not, that's tough. If you see or hear some word you want to use, treat it like any other word and ask what it means/look it up. Ask the person that used it, Google, or Urban Dictionary. I would say stay away from slang or trends that stems from recent gang culture (some are in the wider pop culture already, like the term OG, so those I guess are on the table, if a bit cringey). Personally, I stay away from slang that was super insider stuff in various queer communities (I'm part of it, but wasn't in the clubs or have a huge circle of friends to pick up on the slang from, so I don't).
But yeah, in general if it sounds natural and correct, we don't trip. If it sounds inauthentic but otherwise correct, it's awkward. If it's inauthentic and incorrect, I personally take it like mockery and would pull up aside and have a word
@@SnrKagemusha Thanks for the detailed info! Part of the problem for me is that I've only been in the South for about four years so I haven't really gotten accustomed to the regional differences in speech and also wouldn't know what phrases were used pre-social media. But your explanations seem helpful!
I’m glad this video exists so that we have a good jumping off point to what this actually means.
I think part of the problem is that English doesn’t really have accents or dialects that change grammatical rules. I took Italian in High School and learned that there are some very heavy dialects that change words and grammar. I’m thinking this is a similar situation. However, like in my Italian class, we need to make sure that children are learning the universal English rules.
As for people using it, I understand the historical background, but America does take ideas and phrases from all cultures and make it their own. I do see a little bit of a silver lining that it’s being accepted by the general public which keeps it alive
English definitely has, as you put it, very heavy dialects that change words and grammar, some of which are only partially mutually intelligible with standard forms of English. Have you ever heard someone from rural Cumbria or Munster speak their local dialect of English?
"don't" is not the conjugation of 3rd person plural. it's more like the "general conjugation" (if that's a term 😅) since in standard english "don't" is used for ALL subjects except 3rd person singular.
nice video btw. thank you.
This is an awesome video. I grew up speaking both AAVE (before knowing it had an official name) and standard American English, and still speak both today. My mother expressed the importance of Standard American English as being absolutely necessary for acceptance and success in this country while at the same time in casual situations where there were only African Americans present me and my siblings were allowed to speak AAVE but only after we were able to fully communicate using SAE. The craziest part is that I knew all of the AAVE equivalents to the standard English expressions before she showed them in the video but never thought about the uniqueness of the grammatical structure. I'm glad our dialects are finally getting positive recognition.
Not to take anything from AAVE, this is not an internet phenomenon. This is a GTA5 phenomenon.
To the topic: very good and informative. Thank you, I learned something
Dang this crazy, I grew up in Atl so I been talking like this lol and I’m just now realizing I’ve been using AAVE all my life
What's even crazier is that if you are black and don't talk like this your own people look at you funny...sigh. aave has literally been a thorn in my side, not because of the dialect itself but because of the ostracization if one cant speak it in the black community.
AAVE's history is not being erased by influencing internet slang, it's being expanded... Being the primary influence or origin of the speech on the internet is new history being written.
I came here to educate myself on the matter and this video was really really really great! :D I really thank and respect the community and now know history for this, you guys are amazing! :D thank you!!
is it better to avoid using it or is it disrespectful to use it ?
I don't mind as long as it's not used for mockery, I'm black by the way
@@jaxthewolf4572 exactly
Thank you for this video! Sierra’s skin looks absolutely stunning!
skin...?
woahhh, as a non-native english speaker that earned through the internet, i didn't know about this! This is super interesting and im glad i know about this! Thank you so much!
It was really cool to learn about how it actually works. I’m embarrassed to say I just thought it was slang lol, but now when I hear those words I know where it came from :) But I have a question; is it okay for people who aren’t black to use this dialect? Also, I’ve read somewhere that “shade” and “yas queen” are apart of queer language but it was bunched together with aave so idk which words I can use or not. (I’m trans and pansexual)
no. only black people can say it. not even gay non black people can.
"Yas queen" is in reference to drag queens.
@@drrd4127 it comes from Black American women and the Ballroom scene.
No, It is not wanted, according to many of the black community, since culturally (mis)appropriated?
Okay, I watched this to know what AAVE means. This is just English, which has become the common language and evolution of it to type of community and locations.
It’s not just English it’s a cool way to communicate with your friends that’s why y’all copy us
@thechosenone172 Sorry, I think I didn't get my point across right. I was not saying that AAVE was English. I was saying English is basically a common language. While AAVE is not it specifically adapted to a group of people from one community, like people from New York have different in the way they speak and New Jersey have a difference in the way they talk.
I like how she made it seem like Ebonics ain’t wrong. Lol. Like it’s a pidgin or something. Even pidgin is wrong. But I see what she’s saying. English has rules though. And AAVE doesn’t abide by those rules which makes it improper.
Wtf can we just talk how we wanna talk why are people entitled to a dialect when they haven’t even experienced slavery. Just because my great great grandpa was a veteran doesn’t qualify me for veterans discounts at a store even thought I am his descendant.
This isn't about slavery. Some use AAVE to mock or disrespect black Americans. There's also a tendency for society to think it's no longer ghetto if a white person is saying it. That's where the problem lies. I don't have an issue with non blacks using AAVE however just as long as they aren't misusing it or mocking us
@@jaxthewolf4572 most of the youth just use it as slang,I feel like it’s more appropriated to teens then adults
OMG! This is some amazing information and a beautiful presentation that easily leads to a new paradigm. I am one of those that has "corrected," though usually only silently to myself, the metathetical constructions such as aks for ask. Now I won't feel the need to cringe when I hear this anymore. THANK YOU!!!
can i still use it? I saw someone getting attacked for saying swag. I don't mean it in a offensive way btw
America would be the place labeled “boiling pot” and yet is one of the country’s that people see culture and think it’s so bad to share, where Literally everywhere else in the world people share their culture gladly.
@@thomastate5412 lol yea i agree
Imagine asking lmao, anyone can
@@cloydxx yea, just said this to not get cancelled ☠️
This is what I was trying to explain to my parents, we are immigrants and they think black Americans just speak broken English but I was telling them it has rules and even a whole tense that typical English doesn’t have
Don’t listen to bearycity they are just ignorant
Question - isn't AAVE different enough from standard english to qualify as a separate language and not just a dialect?
I hate how people are like "omg why are you gatekeeping aave, it's just internet slang☹️☹️☹️" bro... WHAT ABOUT THE "AA" PART???
Everyone thinks they can use AA culture without giving anything back to them.
Slangs are for everybody. And everybody is allowed to speak a certain dialect if it's not mocking someone.
@@unknowns78 another non black person trying to have an opinion on others culture, nothing new
@@ebsolsbeerbottle3002 Wow ignorant alert because I DON'T agree with you i'm not part of your culture. I'm sorry to break t to you but the world doesn't revolve around you. And you can have an opinion on something even if you're not a part of it. Sorry but mature a little (:
@@ebsolsbeerbottle3002 lmaoooo I never seen black folks take MULTIPLE slang words from other cultures.its always someone on the outside lmao
thank you for this. i try to educate myself as much as possible to avoid disrespecting people
@PIZZA Whyte Americans have no culture.
@@James-lu4hb that's disrespectful to say
@PIZZA did you know when the American English dialect was coming along British speaking people were telling them they were speaking wrong?American English became a dialect much as aave so yes don't be disrespectful language change over time
@@Fanwithnblades Americans still are...
@@yourdad587 still are?what? Speaking wrong?ha it's too late it's already diffrent
As a southern, non POC who uses AAVE in daily language, Im glad that the POC communtiy is getting the recognition and credit they deserve for the amazing dialect! ❣
*black people... not "people of color"
@@oziatv7321 who cares
@@wondersmith5403 because they’re two different things… I suppose on a video about language it’s important to use the correct terms… nahmean?
Nigga do NOT use aave. PERIODT.
@@venny7190 they can ues what they wants to
Wait can someone pls answer my question
Am I not allowed to say some of these words
I never knew what AAVE is until recently and I have realized I have been speaking some of the words all my life
I was never taught it anywhere I really don’t want to offend anyone because the words are in my everyday vocabulary since I was 6
As long as you are speaking it naturally without trying to sound cool or mocking, I see no issue.
@@jaxthewolf4572 oh thank you for telling me I didn’t want to offend anyone by saying them on accident,
If you're not American, it's probably best to avoid using this type of speech and just listen to it to understand it but don't try to reproduce it, but if you're around black people enough, one tends to want to fit in with the group and it's natural to copy them on certain phrases.
It’s just a dialect, it’s fine
I’m not sure honestly. I was called racist in a discord server because I used AAVE when I’m white, (and at the time I had no idea what it was) but I’ve grown up surrounded by some of these words and I’ve been speaking them my entire life
videos like this are much more needed, our dialect doesn't deserve to be talked down on.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
No it belongs in the trash.
@@jamescarter9208 I can't believe we as a race, are going to low that we're claiming words that are purely just slang. It's making AA culture pathetic and not at-all unique.
@@Goatboy12 The black community is a god damn joke
@@Goatboy12 its ridding the world of "culture", people are getting possessive to feel special. call me crazy, but im pretty sure the entire purpose of culture is for it to be spread through humanity (regardless of color or race). its insane to live in this world lol
A lot of slang terms I use/like (deez nuts, take the L/W, wack) come from hiphop and rap, I don’t think a lot of terms I use evolved over slavery or anything like that, am I still allowed to use them if they come from hiphop as opposed to slavery and such? Also, am I allowed to sing parts of hiphop songs (YOUUUUU from soulja boy. No slurs.)? Any education on hiphop or AAVE would be appreciated
You’re allowed to use any aave you wish. The first amendment says so.
I will use aave. For me it's English.
Now cry to sleep. Ain't nobody got time to care
Why this be racist?? My man just wrote in AAVE. Nothing wrong with that.
Honestly to me it’s just a dialect that you speak. And you just wrote in it perfectly 👏🏽
Do what you want boy, but to follow up AAVE condescendingly to mock AAs, after speaking standard English is super cringe not gonna lie 🤣
@BearyCity first of all it is real. And it wasn’t called aave in the beginning. White people chnaged the name of it. And if your African you have no room to talk because this has to do with black Americans. So stay in your lane. And I as a Black American don’t have a problem with anyone using it. I will say the gistory behind it is racist so that’s why some Black Americans get upset when others use it because in the past we were discriminated against for speaking that way naturally.
@BearyCity unless your speaking of the first African slaves of America when they were learning to speak English that’s a stretch. It used to be called Ebonics. Look it up. Which is an American thing. Try again. And I’m not gatekeeping anything. Try reading my post again. I have never been against anyone using it but don’t try to pretend it’s not real.
You have an accent which is quite distinct for us who have English as a second language. For example, sometimes you say "impor'ant" instead of "important", where the comma stands for an almost mute "t". See it happening here 5:05. Is this part of the AAVE heritage?
At heart, Black English is a mixture of the nonstandard English dialects spoken by the British settlers of the American South and the indentured servants who often worked alongside them. These dialects are the source of not just some but most of its features. Odd as it seems, the main wellspring of African Americans’ home dialect is not the kingdoms of West Africa but the hinterlands of Britannia and their environs, just as with all of the other English dialects in America.
That's the Dialect Divergence hypothesis right... But there is also the Creole Origin hypothesis. Those are the two main theories. Is the latter now not popular?
I am an African American man and my AAVE started coming out of me when I was a young adult.
AAVE is legit, don't get why people are discrediting it. If people want to use AAVE, they should be allowed to.
Always trying to steal black American culture.😩 we can’t have shit.
People that are not of color who grow up in black communities and use it should not be blamed for using it. Just came here to learn about this from a video saying white people should not use it, when it’s not their fault they grow up with people who use it around them.
Thank you so much for this, I hope more people would see this and get educated 💕
I hope so
Sorry but aave is due to a lack of education, particularly an ignorance towards literature.
this is miseducation
Get educated.
AAVE is not derived from black culture. It comes from white people in Southern England in the 1600s
Now they also want to claim words . Lol
Oh so I technically already speak this and all the black people around me. Just never knew it was called AAVE. Thank you for educating me about something I’m doing unintentionally 😊
I'm 3 minutes in and I'm realizing how much I don't know about the history. They didn't teach any of this in school. Thank you so much I have a lot more to learn!
I used to say library as “lie-berry” and was corrected. I always thought I was saying it right, but I eventually just stopped saying it that way.
i'm so happy that i found this because i now know the history of AAVE and whenever i see it or say it I can remember and respect the rich history of the dialect.
One man's treasure is an other man's trash
@@yourdad587 you're so wise dad
@@Shanx317 You're so high your highest.
@@johnmachenzie1613 indeed, that is why they call me that.
Sierra's English is easy to listen.
AAVE is a beautiful dialect! Thank you so much for educating us on this topic.
Yeah, right. 🤡
Galaxy Queen right and the beauty about it no other race have to like it, it’s our it’s not for them why do they always got something to say about our stuff and then they end up appropriating it 😂🤣 anyway wow! Are they jealous?🤫🤔🫢🥱
@@perfectmoment0 it's no black uniqueness or cultural precondition to be poorly or lacking in education in ability to communicate
I am very fluent in Black English and have been speaking it my whole entire life. It's a Creole mixed Caribbean dialect and people don't know that. For example listen to how our brothas and sisters in Jamaica speak AAVE has been around in our culture since the transalantic slave trade. Many Black-Americans were stripped from their languages and culture. AAVE was all Black-Americans had. This was how we communicate amongst eachother. It may be funny to most but this is actually a language and a dialect.Our mothers grandmothers uncles all speak it. On the streets in the hoods we speak it all over the world and in certain parts of the Caribbean Islands.
Don't come at me, seem have similar rules when come to ASL (sign language) and how different region have their own "accents". Sorry my English not great .
i didnt know aave was, i thought it was gen z language, iam not american so i had no idea. but i am glad i am educated now
Respect to our African American bros and sisters. Thanks for the video
What do you think? Is AAVE descended from African Creole languages or from the west of England, perhaps a mix of both?
its just english with a few twangs in american english meaning that its not proper no similarities with african creole or whatever.
Using 'don't' instead of 'doesn't' is common in the UK too in certain dialects. We've been taught it's incorrect English and I have to admit that it grates when I hear it.
I'd never heard of AAVE until today. It's always good to learn something new and open one's mind a tad more. I'll be telling my teens about it so they're more aware of the origins of what they're hearing on tiktok!
Interesting stuff!
it is so Aly G
Omg the amount of teachers in my school that would constantly repeat “it’s not AX, it’s ASK” 🙄 I’m not even black and that shit pissed me off. Like everyone has to speak the same way in America, which is supposed to be a melting pot, not viewed as a refinery
Ax and ask are two different words, THAT'S WHY. Try telling someone you're going to chop down a tree with an "ask." They'll think you just had a stroke!🙄
Why don't black people in England use AAVE? They all speak English clearly.
No they the youth Talking a mixture from Nigerian/jamaivan english
Because AAVE is culturally American? It's about Black American culture. Just because you're black doesn't mean you use AAVE. It's just a dialect that is different depending on where you're from.
@@luv83 It's uneducated.
@@anthonyscott5612 It's cultural.
I can’t tell between AAVE and the Southern accent in terms of the pronunciation and intonation. Dolly Parton speaks Southern accent not AAVE innit? So how can you deal with people going “I am using Southern accent” when you tell them they are using AAVE.
Because they are extremely different but to help you understand the south is the real motherland for AA
Thank you! Now I'm more educated Ong frfr
You thought you did something with that corny wannabe AAVE didn’t you??💀
this is all new to me. can someone give me an example of using AAVE that would seem offensive? because my english was heavily influenced by the internet when growing up. i am just so confused right now, do i change how i speak??
can we continue saying it (not mocking) as long as we dont discredit the origin?
Personally I don’t see a problem with it. Have at it 👍🏽
@@Khandiee 👍🏻*
@@wondersmith5403?
@@cloydxx I was making a racist joke
If you grow up African American only hearing aave, you need to learn standard American English as well to be taken seriously.
We really don’t
@@imushrooms4011 lol
@@imushrooms4011 your a child, you’ll understand when you need a job
Most people can code-switch from aave to standard English.
@@fitzcannon Thats what I was saying. You need to learn American stand English or how to code switch to be taken seriously intellectually and professionally. Also necessary to know if you’re in a debate with somebody of another race, you won’t get your point across as effective using aave or Ebonics.
The explanation of ask vs aks was the eye opener for me.
Good job am Egyptian and I love America thx for explain
I know there are many people around today who are too young to have known a pre-Internet world. But it did exist, and trust me, AAVE existed long before.
This video felt like an introduction. Nothing of much substance was declared. I kept waiting for her to break into some honest AAVE patter, the kind she said she grew up with. That would have been both entertaining and informative. Instead, we just got a couple of dumbed-down AAVE Internet expressions.
This is the second AAVE YT video I've seen that really didn't deliver. The other was "Is 'Talking White' Actually a Thing?" This discussion deserves more attention. 🙂
Does it mean that people could use AAVE if he/she would give credit to the creators or the AAVE speakers?🤔Pls educate me🙏🏻
It means that instead of it just being a trend, that it is an actual dialect of a language that has rules behind how its spoken. It means that one can learn how to speak it and speak it correctly just like any other dialect (creole,patois,gullah) BUT it also means that when people outside of the community do speak AAVE that its noticeably different when it isnt natural but learned. So when black americans say “they’re trying to sound black” its because we can literally hear the difference between how we speak AAVE and how someone else does. So I guess what im saying is, yes people outside of the community can use AAVE, but unless you do it right it can be compared to (for example) a native Spanish speaker speaking english fluently but with an accent, while also arguing that they sound the exact same as a native English speaker. Yes you’re saying the right words but the way it sounds is different
Yes you can.
Not at all, it's still *African American* Vernacular English
@@ebsolsbeerbottle3002 No one owns a language please educate yourself before making yourself ridiculous in the comments (;
Nobody has the right to dictate how you speak. Speak however you want.
I love the explanation of AAVE... My family from North Carolina and we are Bilingual.
Why did she add LGBTQ to the topic regarding AAVE? White LGBTQ people are African American too? The force teaming is ridiculous, give credit where credit is due.
When writing legal or financial documets in which each word needs to be precise, AAVE may run into problems.
Y’all petty for this one.
Oops was ther aave
Agreed
I recently saw black stand up comedians and AAVE is almost like another language. I understood one of them without much issue, but the headliner I struggled to follow. That’s why I went looking for videos like this, to learn more about the vernacular. I will say Colorado AAVE is a lot easier for me to understand than Georgia AAVE. The sentence structure isn’t the hard part to understand, it’s more that words aren’t enunciated as strongly in AAVE and can be difficult to understand if you’re not used to it. I think American English in general is moving more toward AAVE, partly because it’s more efficient, but also because we’re finally giving platforms to black people and language/dialects are meshing together. I wouldn’t be surprised if I start hearing more Mexican Spanish in American English for the same reason.
Edit: the headliner at the comedy show was Desi Banks
You learn new things every day. Thank you for such a great informative video!
Oh my god this was BRILLIANT!! Thank you for enlightening us!!
This video was very informative and helpful! Thank you for creating it and sharing with the world!
Very clear breakdown, thank you.
Also, the subjunctive use of the verb be is used by Newfoundlanders, in Canada.
I’m of Puerto Rican descent, born in The Bronx and AAVE/Ebonics is my first dialect.
I feel so educated now, and i won’t miss use it
@GigaSpear dam man you’re just a troll ay?
I’m still a bit confused here, can non-black people use AAVE? or we can but just use it correctly?
I'm confused why do you want to use it?. LOL😂
If you use it correctly I don't see why not.
I'm going to assume you mean a non-black person who didn't grow up speaking like this and is wanting to speak it as an older person. My gut reaction is to say: don't. There's probably no way to respect the history and think it's a good idea to do.
That's not to say don't learn to understand it! Being better able to understand a lot of people is always a good thing. But unless you grew up speaking it and in black spaces with black people from pretty early on, chances are you'll sound pretty minstrelsy
Simple: If ur family doesn’t speak in AAVE, don’t use it
Use it but don't make fun of people like every other dialect. Not that deep
lmao this shit hilarious, time to gatekeep African Americans from speaking English, since you know they weren't there when old English was written.
They weren't educated, that is why aave was created, white people DIDN'T TAKE CARE of black people, so yeah
Oh yes the people who were forced into speaking English should be held at the same standard as the people who downplay a dialect but also dilute it by misusing and popularizing the dialect. Amazing job.
For non-native English speakers, I thought I'd point out that at 4:23, when explaining metathesis, when she gives the traditional pronunciation of the word "ask," she pronounces it differently from the Standard American dialect. She pronounces it "azk" with a voiced "Z" sound, instead of an unvoiced "S" sound. It sounded really unusual to me and jumped out to my ear. I'm much more used to hearing the standard American "ask" or AAVE "ax" pronunciation. I'm curious if any other Americans have heard the "azk" pronunciation anywhere?