Can You Guess the Nationality of Asian English Speaking Countries by Their English Accent?
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Do you know that some Asian countries speak English for native language?
Can you guess their nationality by their English Accent?
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Putting a Singaporean and a Malaysian together definitely made it tricky.
And they're both ethnic Chinese ..
@@JosephOccenoBFHMalaysia not etnic chinese
@@JosephOccenoBFHMalaysians and singaporeans can tell the accents apart.
@@Kane_2001 Malaysia has 3 ethnic group which is Malay, Chinese, and Indian. So this one is definitely a Chinese!
@@sukarap7754and cannot considered as Malaysia
Finally a good representative of the philippines. She has the most common filipino english accent
yep
Very easy to guess! As easy as the Indian accent to me.
Maraming salamat po 😊😊😊
Not the most common though.
#4 uses collegiate accent, much different from the accent of politicians and the thick Filipino accent by the masses
The lady of US did a good job guessing most of them , even when she got "wrong" Malaysia 🇲🇾 when they lady said she lived in Singapore as well , excellent Brooke 😂
but both of those countries also have multiple ethnic groups with quite distinct accents. so, that's difficult
she got the region right haha
not sure why she thought 3 is pakiszani though
The Malaysian one should be a pure Malay la haiyaaaa
The guesser was not familiar with Malaysian conversation.
@@lovindessky408 The Malaysian lady did not use "lah" or "can".
@@ThorNado24 bo ho sey la😆 they should invite someone who can speak both language malay&english fluently. Haiyaaa
Here in Malaysia they mostly dont know how to speak malay fluently then claim themselve as a Malaysian and participated such program.
They should be shame.
We might be same as Malaysian but we malay and chinese is different whenever we speak english.
She exposed english malaysia as chinese people not the nationality..Malaysia.
For the longest time I’ve always seen Americans as bad at languages because most of them have a monolingual background. It’s refreshing to see someone who’s actually aware of languages and geography. And considering she is monolingual she actually did a good job distinguishing those accents so good job very smart lady
Staged.
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This is an American living abroad lol. Being a little knowledgeable is sorta required
and shes cute right?
Now arent you just stereotyping now?
Philippines and Indian accent has their very distinctive sound sound she really did not have a hard time with those two. Still the way she was able guess Hong Kong was extremely impressive for a westerner. Most people dont know even the existence of Cantonese.
Also, did anyone else thought the Singapore one sounded like Japanese speaker on the first line?
Yes. I thought the 3rd girl is Japanese. So Kawaii hahaha
i think cantonese is more well known in the US because most of their historical chinese americans are mostly cantonese or taishanese
@@xXxSkyViperxXx I live in the USA, most Asians get surprised if a nonAsian person even mentions Cantonese/Mandarin. They just say Chinese.
@@IOADESTOYER yeah but the usual "chinese" people think about there in the states seems to usually be historically cantonese or taishanese and now these days, mandarin cuz a lot of mandarin migrants there these days. the names of the chinese food there in the states are mostly in cantonese, like chop suey, dim sum, wonton, bok choy, kumquat, chow mein, yi mein, lo mein, etc.
@@xXxSkyViperxXx All those things, Chinese Americans think doesn't matter, non Asians in USA don't even know the existence if anything but Chinese.
Indians & Filipinos' English accents are quite distinct for the world's English speakers, as these two countries are the main source of overseas Call Centres Support. Many people around the English speaking world would have had "familiar" with their accents, from the 1990 - 2023.
India accent so funny 😂 like indo 😅😂
Filipinos are better than us Indians- as far as call center kind of services are concerned.
@@emotionalIntelligence2078you are Muslim or mallu
@@haikalshahalam1584Malaysia is joke
@@abcdefghi2302 Malaysia so nice country
I’m singaporean.
And I wouldn’t have guessed #3 was singapore.
Not to invalidate her. It was a possible accent. But in my circles, it’s not a common accent.
Singapore may be small, but there are very distinct accents (along a continuum) especially between socio-ethnic groups
Yeah it didn’t sound like Singlish at all. I would’ve guessed Japanese
@@Mattmerrisonwhat do you mean? Singlish is a creole SG accent is an accent. Singaporeans don’t need to use Singlish to sound Singaporean.
Ya her accent is so not like most Singaporeans. The Malaysian girl spoken more like a Singaporean. Not surprising as both countries speaks English the same.
she sounds more like she spent her formative years in china… and with a name like jing…
The give away was the attempt to try to be clear with their pronunciation and everything goes wrong when they put an extra R at the end of words without a R
OLIVIA not OLIVIER
I agree there’s different accents within Singapore but I’ve noticed this trend even amongst the different accents
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Completely agree .
I can see why she didn't exactly get Singapore and Malaysia right, because both countries used to be one country called Malaya under the British at one time, the cultures and language spoken is very very close. Even the way English is spoken and the accents would have been challenging to tell apart. The 2 countries are very close in proximity, the land crossing between Singapore and Malaysia is one of the busiest in the world, and Singaporeans and Malaysians often have family in either country. So Singapore and Malaysia would have been a huge challenge, and even more so when you consider that both countries have multi-cultural Chinese, Malay and Indian populations as citizens, among other ethnicities. So yes, BIG challenge there! The other 3 English accents from the Philippines, Hongkong and India are definitely more distinct. I'm from Singapore, and sometimes it's hard for me to tell Singapore and Malaysia accents apart when both are speaking English. It's like how it's sometimes hard to tell a Canadian from an American, 'cos the accents sound quite close.
As Malaysia is predominately of 68% Malay-origin, they should invite a Malay-Muslim ethnicity girl to present "Malaysia", as a Malay girl's spoken English will be quite distinct because of the Malay-Austronesian Langue influences & accent. Although the Chinese-Malaysian accent is also quite distinct, but this girl who has grown up in Singapore will not be a very good sample representation for Chinese-Malaysian Accent English, for that matter. For the record as of 2022, Singapore is ranked number 1 in Asia for English proficiency, followed by Malaysia. And as for the last girl from Hong Kong, i was very impressed by her spoken English because she doesn't has the "Hongkie-Cantonese-accent" -- good for her.
but , malays is dominant population in malaysia
@@nickgoh8947nope. She does have Hong Kong accent and it’s too obvious. Just because Singapore is ranked number one it doesn’t mean the whole nation speak the same way anyway.
So what if malay is the dominant race? You are just a racist anyway
@@tevikumares5022 of course if a singaporean learn and are quiet fluent in certain accent, they will sound different. but it's also correct that singaporean do have their own way on speaking english.
I'm a malaysian and I instantly recognized my fellow accent. Also indian and philippines is easy as well since their accent is stronger. Was thinking 3 was japanese or taiwanese until the part where she talks about her favourite color, the singlish just went wild haha
Before that, they were reading prepared text. The test was supposed to detect accents.
The longer I live/work in the West the hard for me to distinguish Msian and Singapore accent.., esp the younger generation
Are you sure?! Please do some research before speaking lies! The only group of Filipinos who got that weird thick accent are the Tagalogs and the uneducated on es who learned English from the street! The rest speaks like perfect American accent!
I mean ALL OF THEM has accents that are strong. But you mean malay, singsporean, and hong kong'er have UNFAMILIAR accents.
@@we_want_SHINEE_worldtours because there is no Singaporean and Malaysian accent. Both places have many accents based on ethnic roots and generations.
Good presentation of the Philippines, the accent is spot on! India and Philippines are the most distinct!
really???hahahahahaha funny!!!
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@@izzrafael2591 Hahahahahaaha 🤡😂🤡
@@izzrafael2591 What is there to laugh about? The reason for this is, India and the Philippines are on the top five English Speaking countries in the world today (as a second language, such as the Philippines has two languages, Primary is Tagalog and English is second, . The Philippines has been under the US since 1898. Some Asian countries go to the Philippines to learn English.
I remember an English teacher of mine from the Philippines who said that she was one of the first teachers in English in Singapore. iThey hired many of them because Singaporeans did not know English then a few decades ago.
@@izzrafael2591u r Racist👹
The thing with Singaporean is they have two different accents when speaking casually and formally. I can tell the singaporean girl try so hard to speak formally, if she try speak like she speak to her friend im sure everybody can guess it.
dude, you're so right about this. They try to mask it.
The same goes for the Filipinos, but it doesn't matter if they try. You can clearly hear their accent.
Fish time of someone from Hong Kong 🇭🇰 on World Friends , cool , but i think the best part of the video is the new US member , what a smart and lovely lady , she guessed right way more than she could thought 😊
I’m from Hong Kong 🇭🇰:)
Chinese Hongkong
I got Hong Kong!
I’m not from Hong Kong 🇭🇰 (I’m from Philippines 🇵🇭) but I’m proud to finally have a representative from Hong Kong 🇭🇰❤
Exactly
I think Philippines is very easy to guess. It's neutral, but distinct.
The thing that sets it apart from all the other accents in this group is that it's distinctly AMERICAN. Philippine English is based on (General) American English, as a former American colony, and it is distinctly rhotic (the R is pronounced before consonants). It is most similar to the English accents in the Pacific Islands.
In contrast to India, Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong, which are based on (RP) British English as former UK colonies. They are non-rhotic (the R disappears before consonants, so words like "farm" would be pronounced like "fahm").
No it is not neutral. It is quite distinctive
The way she said "stare'' the consonants and vowels
@@jisookruzat What are you even talking about. That's exactly how "stare" is pronounced with a General American accent, which again, is what Philippine English is based on.
In BRITISH English, it becomes something like "steh".
@@AngryKittens you wouldn't get it
i feel with singapore and malaysia, you'll need to have them talk longer to be able to discern their accents. putting those two next to each other was definitely a challenge. it wasn't until jing talked about her favourite colour that i could tell she was SG. while the accents are _similar_ the slang they use, the arrangement of the words, their intonation and etc are different from MY. this was a really cool video tho, US guest was really good at guessing and describing accents. linguist perhaps?
When she said like is a dead giveaway basically for singaporean
As a Malaysian who went through public school and university in England, and practised as a London Barrister, I think my English language proficiency is up to UK standard. Unfortunately, when I was applying to Georgia Tech for a Masters degree, they said that their regulations stated that only graduates from American universities or citizens from a small set number of countries like UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand were deemed to be able to satisfy their English language entry requirements. When I politely and sarcastically wrote back to them questioning their logic, they insisted that because I was not a British citizen, I still had to do the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) to prove my English language proficiency!
Because it's not your first language no matter how good you are in English, it's their requirement and you just have to abide.
Only graduates from American universities and not British universities satisfy their English language requirements? And I thought that the English language originated from England and not the USA?
I'm a Malaysian, Cantonese tribe.
Funny thing is, English is actually my first language. All other languages/dialects that I speak fluently, which includes Malay, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka, they are all translated from English straight from my mind, as English is my thought-process.
I had to take TOEFL/IELTS after my college days, for my application into UK/US universities. I ended up in US for my under/post grad.
As I had my education in the UK, I actually put English as my first language in an application to another American university. But as my citizenship was still Malaysian, they refused to accept that English was my first language and said that as a Malaysian, my first language was Malay! Go figure :)
@@yskwong
we are are unqiue in our own accents!
I live in Singapore for 25 yrs...and I cannot guess the number 3. Shes probably from Mainland China and migrated to Singapore. The common accent for Singaporean is actually number 2.
Explain why she was educated in jurong primary school and grew up in Singapore? And explain why her surname Quah is only found in Malaysia and Singapore only?
yes...malaysian and singapore have the similar accent
@tevikumares5022
So it turns out that she’s actually a Malaysian who lived in Singaporean since a young age. But the accent is unmistakable. Chinese is her first language.
@@ABC-ed8cg exactly my point. Just because someone who speaks Chinese as her first language it doesn’t mean she is from China. Close to 29 percent of Singaporeans speak Chinese as their first language so who are you to judge anyway?
@@ABC-ed8cg and she is now a Singaporean citizen not Malaysian citizen anymore
Those who are really good English speakers in the Philippines use neutral accent. That is also usually taught in schools
She has Filipino neutral accent actually. But there is something in a Filipino accent that is easily recognizable.
@@DaveChuaaOur plosives
@@DaveChuaawell we Filipinos pronounce "A" like "UH" (ex. BAT is pronounced as BUT) and I think that's the most recognizable accent for a Filipino.
And aside from that, Filipino do also pronounce X like GZ for example EXIT is pronounced as EGGZIT😂
No one has a neutral accent. The Filipina here was quite good but not representative of English spoken by Filipinos.
The singaporean doesn't sound singaporean and i'm from singapore 😅 She was likely borned in China and then migrated here thus the hint of china accent that everyone is talking about in the comment section.
A good tricky one would be a korean person who learned fluent english the philippines. A lot of the times, you cant distinguish them from a filipino. That could make it a fun twist for these kinds of video.
1:16 I think what many foreigners don’t understand that English speakers from these countries are not on the same situation like Koreans or Japanese speaking English, because unlike in Korea or Japan, English is actually an official language where they come from. In their counties, the language is used as the medium of instruction at school.
In countries like India, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and the Philippines, English is so important that for some segments of the population it becomes their first language. It’s the language they use at home with their family. So they ARE native speakers, just like any other native speakers from the US or from the UK.
I personally know people from Malaysia and Singapore who speak English as their first language, but they still retain their uniqueness, which is why they call their brand of English: Manglish and Singlish. They have their own vocabulary and sentence structures that are unique to them.
That being said, I wouldn’t be able to differentiate between Singlish and Manglish speakers either. But India and Philippines here is a dead giveaway. 😁
It’s really different from, say, my own country Indonesia, where English is considered a foreign language just like French, Russian, Dutch, Vietnamese or Swahili.
Malaysia and Singapore speak English, Malay, Tamil, and English. #2 is from Malaysia and #3 is from Singapore, though their accents are different. Like Malay and mandarin influences.
Yeah all of these countries where at one point part of the British Empire and The Phillipines were controlled by the Americans after the Spanish were kicked out.
I imagine Malaysians closer to the border sound more similar to singaporeans anyway.
Hard to distinguish between Malaysians, Singaporeans and Cantonese because they all have Chinese accent when speaking in English. It would be a bit challenging to guess India if a Pakistani was added to the mix.
Filipino accent is way too unique among other English speaking Asian countries I can't think of a certain group of people from Asia that would sound the same as them.
@@darkmoney7762 Malaysians and Singaporeans don't have a Chinese accent and the Malaysian and Singaporean accents are actually very different to Chinese accents.
@@user-jt3dw6vv4xGuess you're right. Perhaps I'm just more exposed to Malay-Chinese and Singaporean Chinese that it has become like my general perception of Malay and Singaporean English accents. And everytime I hear Chinese speak English, they pronounce sentences as if they don't have spaces which is what I also hear from Malay-Chinese and Singaporean Chinese.
"India and Philippine's accent is very distinct".. dude, wherever you go, there will always be an Indian or a Filipino in the workforce, tech, or medical. How can you not get used to it.
Shoutout to my Indian brothers and sisters out there! Lol
Are you an American? I heard shootout
Work on getting an Italian accent.
If you mean by distinct is recognizable nobody can argue with that if comparing the two nationality by thier accent. Filipino has more docile tongue compare to Indians who are more rigid.
@@giwibrion3356That's true!
All facts I'm here in UK my workmates were from this two countries 🤣
Sis is so knowledgeable, I'm learning from her keep it up Brooke
Really like the episode!! Well done production team:)😊😊😊
In Malaysia and Singapore we also have "bahasa rojak(mix languages)" basically combined languages of Malay,English,Mandarin,Tamil or others native languages.
For Singapore, they should put a Malay representative next time. Just for a totally different accent. 🇸🇬
Lol that is more fitting for Malaysia
so stupid bitter haha LMAO
@@izzrafael2591what n why bitter, merely a suggestion 😅oh come on
Actually the Singapore sounds more like a prc turned Singaporean accent..
@@Gpower188 n her name was jingx2? Some giveaway there
Wow, I'm from Malaysia and I could only be sure about the Indian and Phillipines accent.
The SG & MY are so similar and I thought no.5 is from Korea 😅
Brooke’s voice is so calming
Brooke wearing glasses makes her look really smart! 🤓
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Glad to see someone from Hong Kong but not only from China anymore. As many of you may not know, Cantonese actually has much longer history than Mandarin. It keeps more ancient Chinese characteristics than Mandarin. So it’s much more interesting to compare it with other Asian languages.
I’ve been wanting to hear Cantonese on the channel so now I’m excited!
Cantonese sounds like Vietnamese so the girl's first guess was pretty close
Cantonese does not have a longer history that is disingenious. What you mean to say is Cantonese retains more of the original sounds of Middle Chinese.
Mandarin is also an evolution of Middle Chinese, but is the dominant one spoken in the North China Plain. Yue aka Cantonese only split off and diverged from the North China Plain during the Song to Yuan Dynasties from Middle Chinese.
In a way, it would be more accurate to say Mandarin is older than Cantonese if we were to carry on with this line of thinking, as Cantonese split from Middle Chinese in 1000 ad approx.
Tl;dr: You cannot say Cantonese is older than Mandarin as they both share the same roots. It is however true Cantonese is like a FOSSIL for what Chinese used to sound like.
@@sw36jl Cantonese does have longer history and also keeps more characteristics of ancient Chinese.
The earliest record would be the time that Qin Shi Huang conquered the Baiyue and brought the ‘Yayan’ (so-called authentic Chinese at that time) there.
Another significant period would the time that of the Upheaval of the Five Barbarians（304-316). Many people, especially the rich people and the scholars ran from the north to the south. These people were relatively insistent about their traditions, cultures and language. They bulit walls to surround their homes and intentionally isolated themselves from the others. To a certain extent, these made ancient Chinese was well kept in the Southern China than the Northern China. It eventually mixed with some local dialects and developed into Cantonese.
On the other hand, the language in the Northern China (or the Central plains) was merged with many other languages of the Barbarians because of wars, immigrations, etc. And then eventually become Mandarin that people speak nowadays.
To be fair, none of them can be called the Authentic Chinese’ but they do develop from the same origin. However, Mandarin is mixed with other languages dialects more than the Cantonese does. So it would be more interesting to study Cantonese if you are intrigued how the ancient Chinese sounds.
I speak Cantonese, i'm from Hong Kong. I hate mainland mandarin. But just stop these Cantonese propaganda. We love our language. But language is language. Average hong konger don't know much about the language, stop pretend like you know Cantonese is better.
What if someone proves that Hakka is objectively better than Cantonese? Make similar to the "real Chinese" "more traditional" "kept the most traditional phonetic features so it's the best for 唐詩"
Do we all just switch to Hakka and dump Cantonese?
We love Cantonese because we grow up speaking it. And Hong Kong had its best time with its cultural export. That's it.
Because of the good representation to the Ph, I'm subscribing!!
#1, #4 and #5 were quite obvious after a few sentences of speaking.
#2 was either Malaysia or Singapore, because that's how it sounds like over there.
#3 was definitely not a good example of Singapore. Even I thought she was from Taiwan with that cutesy voice, and that's likely why Brooke guessed Japan initially, except she didn't have problems with b/v and r/l. But Pakistan?
Agree #3 was a horrendous choice. And that cutesy voice is OMG 🙄.
Ya, number 3 is a bad choice to represent singaporeans.... -.-
singlish accent quite distinctive, super easy to pick up, more like the 2nd person
Brooke is giving me a “let’s be friends” vibe ✌🏼
Most of these societies have very large differences in accents based on education, socioeconomic status, and exposure to people abroad.
True that
As someone born in Singapore who has Hong Kong ancestry and friends, no.2 sounds more Singaporean than no. 3. No.3 sounds like she was not born in Singapore, but probably from China. No.5 doesn't sound like a Hong Kong accent. I thought she was from China too.
Nope. No 3 was educated in jurong primary school and grows up in Singapore and she may have spoken singlish but she decided to change her English to make everyone understand her. No 5 on the other hand sounds very Hong Kong.
@tevikumares5022
Stop spreading your lies everywhere. #3 is from Malaysia and she moved to Singapore. She definitely speaks Malaysian mandarin at home which explains her weird twang. No Singaporeans speak like that. Singaporean mandarin sounds different from Malaysian mandarin so even mandarin-speaking Singaporeans don’t sound like that when speaking English.
Number 3 doesn’t have a common Singaporean accent. She sounds foreign; most Chinese Singaporeans don’t sound like that. Even if she’s not Chinese she still doesn’t sound Singaporean
That’s because she is not one of the “most Singaporean chinese”.
From China probably
@@kittybaby269 nope. She wasn’t even born there. She attended primary school in Singapore and grows up in Singapore
The plain and simple truth is this tevikumares account and jennylawrence are both her and she is a foreigner going around masquerading as a Singaporean then trying to bash anyone who calls her out.
Really? You are seriously in denial actually. jennylawrence even asked me the language I typed and you dare to accuse me?
She is actually very much on point of her observation. But for Filipinos born and raised in the US, they kind of adopt the intonation in the US, so it will become a bit tricky in that aspect.
well if they are born in the US, that would make them US citizens
@@kbar6644 And speaking American accent if they're raised there
love how she explains her choices with adjectives that Ive never used on how to explain someone's speaking style 🎉
you can't really tell a Singaporean from the accent of our spoken English. We have so many different races here that all of us actually have different accents. You can however tell a Singaporean from our sentence syntax. Give us free reign to speak and you can pick us out in a crowd based on how our sentences are structred.
You should give an example of free-reign Singlish, Kenneth😄
@@psoon04286when #3 was describing what colour she liked, the sentence just give way. That's such a common way of informal speaking in Singapore
For me, #2 sounds like singaporean and malaysian chinese. The way they speak quite similar. Malay english sounds a bit different. But i never guess #3 is from singapore. I thought no. 3 is from korea or japan. lol 😂
Indian English can be found easily even when the hearer is deaf 80%
Yeah. With the bobblehead.✊
@@amaliahmontefalcodelmoral651 you can hear a gesture ?
@@amaliahmontefalcodelmoral651 atleast their bobbleheads are more real than your face
love it!❤
Really glad to see Hong Kong representative in the video, thanks for the video!
Not gonna lie, the US lady did an excellent job! She must be genius that her guess close to 70% accurate?
She guessed the num. 2 was from MY on the first, but it's probbly cause her (num. 2) accent was too influenced by the singlish accent which still strong though, then the US lady changed her bet.
For num. 3 it's sounds like her accent was slightly differ from the common SG accent, maybe (?) Since i have several friends from SG, and their accent sounds different than this one. Then means no chance.
Honestly, its quite hard to tell apart the Malaysian and Singaporean english accent, they're really quite similar. The shortened words and the flow are very close. When I travel, its easy to recognise a Malaysian or Singaporean when they start speaking, but gets more difficult pin pointing which of these two countries they are from. Infact, just listen to the question asking about their favourite colour, you can clearly tell no.3 was speaking either Singlish or Manglish, no other two countries speak this way.
Indeed
@@4b1dd3n quite different, eg the "for us" singaporean pronounced as for ahs, while malaysian pronounced as for erhs.
Wow, brooke is really smart. English is my 3rd language and i cant tell the different between them. They sounds the same, just another person with a cute sound, with a loud sound, etc. I cant tell the accent :')
That is NOT a Singaporean accent. I was HORRIFIED when she revealed she was from Singapore. Please do not believe that's what a Singaporean sounds like.
I couldn't agree more
I thought she was Chinese
def from china
That’s because you think you guys know better when clearly not every Singaporean is going to speak the same accent anyway.
if singaporean speak eloquently it will sound like Jing not the normal Singlish
I'm impressed she did that well.
I watched with my eyes closed and India/Phillipines were obvious from the first second. I guessed Malaysia/Indonesia/Singapore for 2 and Chinese for 3. I thought 5 was Thai at first, but as soon as she said Hongkong I knew she was right.
Malaysian and Singaporean (Chinese speaking English) is like comparing USA and Canada English. Both 99% same.
Tell them to speak in mandarin and it will become clear very fast... they both have unique terms native to Malaysia and Singapore..
Actually, English-educated Chinese-Malaysians and Mandarin-educated Chinese-Malaysians have different accents.
INDIA, THE PHILIPINES, MALAYSIA, SINGAPORE & HONG KONG.
Brooke has a very cute and beautiful smile and laugh. It's contagious 😍
Gotta admit that Brooke has a really pleasant and sweet voice.
#3 sounded Korean English because of the R sound especially on the "Hi, my name is Olivia, nice to meet you".
Lady from US is very smart. Good guess.
Don't mind me, I'm just gonna keep repeating Brooke doing her intro here. I don't know why. Suddenly, I felt a soothing vibe running through my veins.
Since I work abroad and many expat asian colleagues,it is very easy for me to distinguish those Asian English even they grew up from UK and Australia I still can distinguish it😅
She did really well, however the Pakistani guess was really bad. They basically have the same accent as Indians lol
Umm no ...Indian and Pakistani does not have same accent
@@garimasuhani7227 A lot of them do though
@@garimasuhani7227 It's mostly the same as North Indians. Watch cricket commentary, you can't distinguish it if you don't know them.
@@farukhsheikh5790no it's not as north I am telling you we don't sound like that
@@farukhsheikh5790No Pakistanis have a lot more Western/posh accent. We do not talk alike.
Brooke did well. Bravo 👏🏽
She's very respectful and observant. I'm impressed!
Nice one, Anicadoll!
This girl makes me proud, not only as an American, but also as a Floridian! We are stereotyped as being completely ignorant and backwards, I always want more people to see the opposite. Nice job!
Well, I take you are not a fan of Trump and/or Desantis. 😅
She was really good at this guessing game. Definitely breaking the American stereotype 👍
She seems like a linguist
Wow she's very intelligent
I think people tend to forget that in the UK although we speak English, there is always regional variations. People who come to the UK are always shocked at the differences,and when travelling in the country find it quite hard to understand these variations.
I know that Scottish Welsh the 2 Irish all have different accents
I actually thought no.2 sounds more singaporean than no.3. But No 2 is Malaysian and I believe No 3 may have come from Singapore and prob have lived in S'pore for quite some time but not Singaporean. She sounds hesitant when she speaks, unlike most educated Singaporeans who speak English like they firing a machine gun. And then she said her name is Jing, so most likely a Chinese immigrant that have been in Singapore for quite some time. Singaporean Chinese don't usually have a name that goes by Jing which sounds more like a mainland chinese name but she looks more Japanese. Also a Singaporean don't usually speak in such soft manner.
With all due respects, I have seen many Singaporean Chinese using pinyin given names and not every Singaporean Chinese is going to speak the same accent anyway
Actually, a lot of young Chinese singaporean given names are pin-yin based. For instance, their surname can be "Ng" which is a Cantonese sounding surname, but their given name is in Pin-yin, which is based on Mandarin.
To me she sounds like she’s the 2nd or 3rd generation of her family who migrated from China. Probably studied in a Chinese school and doesn’t interact much with other races when growing up.
I literally call my Singaporean born friend Jing LOL
And by the way please explain why she was educated in jurong primary school and grew up in Singapore and her surname Quah is only found in Malaysia and Singapore?
If you want to see this in a historical background, Singaporean Malaysian Indian and Hong Kongers use British spelling due to them being former British Colonies while the Filipino uses American English spelling since the Philippines was a commonwealth of the United States 1898-1946. For the Malaysian in the video she's a Singapore Airlines crew
Wow! She did so good out of five. She got three of out five. I’m really impressed with her ability to listen that is one gift that most people are lucking now a days.
Most of them pronounce "can't" the British way which tells u they're somewhat related. And well even a Malaysian myself can't even identify no 2 and differentiate that with Singaporean 😅 no 3 does sound like a streamer tho..
To me, that HK guess is really impressive!
Yes, you are right about the way people pronounce 'can't' in English, In Australia and UK it is pronounce as can't but in US it pronounce as can t.
Welcome Anika, new girl from Philippines! 😃
Ano ito squad? Temporary employee lang sila
Ano ito squad? Temporary employee lang sila
Maraming salamat po sa suporta! 😊
@@sarang_anica7040 Hi Anica.
Enjoy your stay in Korea! 😃
I love how you can distinguish those accents and not being racist. Im from the Philippines and live in the US but sometimes I get push back because of my accent. But i know for a fact that we can construct an English language with perfect grammar unlike those who are born and raised in the US.
Wtf is racist about stating what their expression about foreign English language. Gtfo with your woke nonsense. Everything is snowflakes and sensitive with you all!
"we can construct an English language with perfect grammar" Funny how you claim this but prove yourself wrong at the same time.
Hahahaha! Your paragraph is even flawed.
@@bukojoetheslapsoils8273 I live in the US half of my life and most Americans think they speak English better compared to other nationalities. The reason I think is because they were born in U.S. and they have this belief that no matter what they say it is a perfect English. I myself is not good in grammar when it comes to verbal English but I still can compare someone speaking grammatically good English. Here it comes.......most Americans suck in English. Peace.
Great Topic World Frends
Wowww good job!
The girl from Singapore seems to have a trace of Mainland Chinese accent.
that's a normal thing in singapore/malaysia
@@rikiyaaragakino it isn’t.
likely born and spent formative years in china
@@InfernoXV it's normal, because a lot of singaporean/malaysian didn't use local language as well, they use english with another, and their native language in the same community
The people whose mother language is Mandarin have same accent
As a Singaporean, I would say number 3's accent is not good representation of Singaporeans. She sounds like she grew up in a Chinese-speaking family or she was not born or raised here.
Explain why she was educated in jurong primary school and grew up in Singapore?
And that’s cos #3 is actually from Malaysia but moved to Singapore. She definitely speaks Malaysian mandarin at home which explains the weird twang.
Singaporean mandarin is different from Malaysian mandarin. Hence, even with the interference of a strong Chinese accent, the English from mandarin-speaking individuals from both countries will sound different.
number 2 and 4 kind some similar and i like the way they soeak english its understandable and clearer for me
Round 4 really helped make their accents sound more distinctive haha
No.3 sounds like those chinese livestreamers that tries to be cute💀
Explain why her surname Quah is only found in Malaysia and Singapore only?
Lady 2 is a better representative of a malaysian (or singaporean since she spent so much time in singapore) who is skilled in 'standard english' that is used when speaking to non-malaysian/singaporeans. 'standard english' lacks many elements in singlish and manglish.
Lady 3 is less skilled in switching to 'standard english' and you can say that she is more representative of what a typical singaporean local sound like when they are speaking english
No 3 doesn’t sound Singaporean at all. Heck, the Malaysian sounds more Singaporean than her. How sure are we the producers got it right?
Amazingly accurate.
I swear... It gets even more confusing being Singaporean now that Gen Zs are adults.
Millennial and older Singaporeans would sound very similar to the Malaysian lady. Stronger Chinese/Malay/Tamil accent.
The Gen Z Singaporeans are so mixed(race)+ New citizens+ consume so much tiktok till they somehow adopted all sorts of accent which sounds kinda odd at times.
I have to admit, amongst the younger gen, I don't even know who's Singaporean and who's foreigner anymore in my own country.
As a Singaporean, I could not have guessed number 3 as Singapore either HAHAHA.
And that’s cos #3 is actually from Malaysia but moved to Singapore. She definitely speaks Malaysian mandarin at home which explains the weird twang.
Singaporean mandarin is different from Malaysian mandarin. Hence, even with the interference of a strong Chinese accent, the English from mandarin-speaking individuals from both countries will sound different.
Technically Singapore had SOOO MANY ACCENTS, for example you meet people from different households they have their own accent as well it's Abit weird. There's no one fixed accent
I was also very surprised a Singaporean girl would would talk like that too, but let's not argue over her representing Singapore. This channel is supposed to bring people together not divide them, so welcome newcomer Jing and all others. I find the American girl Brooke very amazing when figuring out #5. First guess was maybe Vietnam but at the end switched to Hong Kong, a small city yet very distinct. She probably has met some HKers before and come across our accent. The HK girl's way of pronouncing 'cute' should give her away as it is totally the British one. Brooke caught that detail and nailed it. You're so awesome Brooke.
that's the product of travellers/vlogger with intelect un dictions of every countries he or she meets. put on her/his mine Cobgrats & Bravo🖐️🖐️🖐️😆😆
honestly , you cannot tell malaysians and Singaporeans apart solely on their english accents since we sound 99%alike , we can only tell them apart with their slang words or vocabulary used
How to tell the Hong Kong accent is that some words are spoken with British accent. We were taught British English in school (unless ppl attend international schools) so you could tell when the lady said "can't", she said it with British accent. And sometimes we make mistakes saying the R sound when there's no R in the word. For example when the lady say "Oliva" she kinda said "Olivar".
I think the American girl did a pretty good job guessing everyone 😆
No, hongkonger raised up in Hong Kong does not has British accent because of the Cantonese accent is very strong. They have to train the tongue muscles to change the accent.
( I’m hongkonger🇭🇰)
@@TheETchild I'm HKers too and you didn't understand what I meant. There're certain words in English that ppl say and you can tell if it's UK accent or US accent. For example the words "can't"( you can google it yourself if you want to know the differences)
Also there're certain words in English used in HK like 'lift', 'flat', 'rubbish bin' or 'rubber' which are words that is more common to use in the UK. On the contrary US will say 'elevator', 'room', 'trash can', 'eraser'.
So even though that lady in the video had prominent Cantonese accent, I can hear the British accents ones in between.
@@pandayy8865 back, black, beck, bad , bed, bat, bet 👈🏻 HKers tongue speak these words are in a same pronunciation.
@@TheETchild ok
I think you meant the word choice/type of English rather than the accents. I do think HK people have distinctive Cantonese accents but definitely not British accents 😅, I actually can hear similar accents from people originate from Cantonese speaking regions. the words used however, are British English, just like how Indians use it too because they were colonized by British before.
Well done, Brooke!
From 9:53, that's why this channel is called "World Friends". Make friends from different countries 🌎🌏🌍
You should get a Korean from Cebu to speak English. They’d be such a good twist!
Even as an actual Singaporean I’m having a hard time between 2 and 3
In Malaysia itself there are several different english pronunciations. For example Malay, Chinese and Indian our pronunciation is different even though we are the same Malaysian because we have different dialects of daily conversation
You can’t use the ethnicities to determine the accents because in Malaysia there are Chinese who were not Chinese educated and Malay who are not malay (national school) educated and Indian who are not tamil educated and each state of Malaysia including Sabah and Sarawak have different accents so it’s very unfair to use the ethnicities to differentiate their accents.
She did very well!
I was expecting the India girl name to be Anika and filipino lady's as Grace. That was a surprise there.
Indian and Filipino accent are known worldwide, no problem to spot 'em
Interesting video 👏👏👏
Singapore & Malaysia have the same accent which has some influence of a Chinese dialect,but this accent is only common among the local Chinese there while Indians & Malays have different accents when speaking English.
You can’t use the ethnicities to determine the accents because in Malaysia there are Chinese who were not Chinese educated and Malay who are not malay (national school) educated and Indian who are not tamil educated and each state of Malaysia including Sabah and Sarawak have different accents so it’s very unfair to use the ethnicities to differentiate their accents.
There’s actually a very big tell here in way they pronounced can’t. It is different for American and British english. When they’d said the word, you could tell if they were part of a British colony or not: Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and so limit your guesses.
no hate, but I never understood why american english evolved to pronounce can't like "can" and "can-t"; the british way "can" and "cun-t" is so much clearer and unambiguous
Finally someone came who has our proper Indian accent and she is beautiful❤
i can also guessed 1 & 2 only with assurance but not really sure about the rest.
I love her energy