Do You Speak English? - Big Train - BBC comedy
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- Опубликовано: 19 дек 2008
- Simon Pegg and the Big Train comedy sketch team perform a funny short on life of an English speaking tourist in France.
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First time I went to Greece and asked people "Do you speak English?" they often replied "nai". It took me some time to realize it actually means "Yes".
That hurts my Japanese-speaking brain, because "nai" means "not"
@@Rinabow nan der
@@Ben_Dover753 Probably. I don't know how to spell it. That's just how I heard it.
eal ls 😂😂😂
And in Norwegian it means no too
Wish I knew English because this is hilarious.
w h a 😂
😆
Yea true
ahahahaha
oder Deutsch vielleicht
Welcome to Quebec.
Welcome to Russia.
@@tweetiepie551 Russians kant speak English
Or Paris, where someone will tell you “Non” even though you literally heard them speaking fluent English with someone less than 5 seconds ago lol 😂
@Johan Jacobs they really hate Anglos don't they?
@Johan Jacobs Imagine Jim Browning challenging a French Quebecois tech support scammer after they ran their gambit in perfect Montréal English, and hearing "Je ne parle pas anglais, Djim." That's what I'm imagining here
I wish I could understand what they are talking about... I'm very positive it's something funny!!!
да, блять, на столько смешно, что ты обосрешься просто
I'm pretty sure I saw a little spark between them
Zhigger Abozaid 😂
Zhigger Abozaid yep it is lol...
what the.........
- Do You speak English?
- Yes, I don't.
🤣👏
🤣🤣🤣
Americans will never beat the Brits when it comes to weird comedy. Pure joy.
Ugh this kind of comments "hurr durr British comedy superior to American"
Daniel Angel Astudillo it’s not
Daniel Angel Astudillo there’s north america and south america
JusticeFor Alexei so then there’s only 5 continents. America, Antarctica, Africa, Oceania, and Eurasia
It always gets too offensive when we try
"Nur ein oder zwei Worte, aber bin ich nicht fließend" is forever stuck in my head when I try to attempt my pigeon German.
Wörter*
wooooosh
😂😂😂😂
Ja das wäre toll
It's "aber ich bin nicht fließend", not "aber bin ich nicht fließend".
Cos it's, "but I'm not fluent", not, "but am I not fluent?" Get it right lol.
And he said Wörter not Worte. Cos that's too posh
It's such a shame I never learned to speak English. So, naturally, I didn't understand a word anyone was saying :/
Dominik from Germany so do i
Dominik from Germany
Nur ein Deutsches wort. :(
+Dominik from Germany (dominikfromgermany) My situation even worse. I can't type any words in English! Not one of them!)
The same, I even did't get that humor that one speaks in English and says that he don't understand any English word at all. (((
U know islam then?
Please put subtitles on this video? Don't understand anything..
+dubi186 I would but I'm not exactly sure what your comment says, I can't read english.
haha ok that one got me
+jack tenrec I don't speak English and I have no comprehension of its literature either. I know they call it the language of Shakespeare. I should have paid more attention in school. But never mind.
+dubi186 If you don't understand nothing then you understand everything. (double negative) .. Duh
Actually, it only means he understands SOME things, just not NOTHING.
I'm sad to say that this really happens! I was in France not long ago and i was lost. I went up to a woman, asked if she spoke english and she said 'no, i do not speak english, now if you don't mind, i'm on my way to buy some begonias!' and she walked off. This is absolutely true!
I don't know what the begging situation looks like where you were but in Vienna, if somebody asks you if you speak English, about 19/20 times it's somebody who if you stop starts going into often pretty long-winded monologues about how they want some money from you.
So maybe she assumed that that's what would happen if she stopped to listen.
(It's of course still weird that she didn't just ignore you or lie.)
lol: Frogs gonna frog...
@@notthere83 nah; just another arrogantly smug, condescending, patronizing, frog, doing as have all frogs from 54BC thru today, lol...
i am brazilian, so if someone ask me "do you speak english?" i really will say "i dont speak english" cause i'm not fluent
I think it's a French thing.
When I was in Paris and asked for help French people seemed annoyed when asking if they spoke English. Like offended why tourists don't speak French
i swear i wanna prank a tourist like this xD
TikO LoRd hello sweet bard
It worked once for me. I’ve been living in China for quite few years, and many people ask me if I can speak Chinese. Once I had a (very) small chat with Chinese about me not speaking Chinese in Chinese
I speak quite a few languages, so I could have some fun with this XD
Well, I did a couple times. But they don't seem to be getting the joke since their minds are usually so busy breaking the communication barrier.
Before I left my hometown I did do this after seeing the skit. Just for the memory. I speak Spanish and someone asked me "¿hablas español?" I told them"No, yo no hablo español, pero en la cantina cruzando la calle y el personal hablan español" they were so confused.
The French sign in the beginning of that video shows that they are inspired by the custom of French people never to answer in English, but only if you talk to them in French...! 😊
C'est vrai!
Good spotting! And good custom too - respect the country you visit :)
Yes!
@@lightawake It's a wrong idea that if you don't speak a language then you are ultimately disrespecting the country or culture.
@@lightawake If we did that to an English speaking tourist in India, that would (rightly) be considered rude. But it's kosher for the French to be gratuitously rude for some reason. *shrugs*
Reminds me of my older half-brother... Years ago he was standing in a bus stop, smoking, and an old lady came up to him and asked him if he could light her cigarette. My brother replied with the smoke still in his mouth: Sorry ma'am, I don't smoke. And she was like "oh okay, anyway thanks" and walked away.
😂😂😂
did he become a politician when grew up?
@@VsevolodSidorenkospat my coffee 😂
@@RasheedKhan-he6xx nothing is funnier than truth
Love it! every time I watch it, it always makes me laugh, never gets old.
I am watching this again after 2 years and it still is a masterpiece.
LOL "Do you speak english? No I don't speak english" it litterally means "Do you speak english? No I don't speak english", for those of you who are curious xD
Pure genius I love French comedy!
Well then why are they speaking French?
Well if it was a British show they'd know how to speak British wouldn't they.
But they aren't? He clearly states he can't speak English!
Sorry, could you say that in English, I don't understand French.
"Ich bin nicht fließend" No obviously you're not xD
The woman says, in german: "I speak a bit of german, do you speak german?" Simon says (in german): "German? No. Do you speak german?" The other guy says: "No. I know one or two words but I'm not fluent."
At the end, after the other guy says that he might learn english, Simon says: "Or maybe german." and the other guy says "Yeah, that would be great."
Wish I can understand what they were saying in German but I can't read English
"The other guy" is der Schauspieler Kevin Eldon.
Also, he says "just one or two words" (not "I know").
really? that's what they said? good god!
Who?
British comedy is the best kind of comedy. I don't even understand what they're saying but I absolutely love it.
It's 14 years old and still the funniest
Whats the joke here, i dont speak english
The show ran from 1998 to 2002.
A French girl once approached us in Croatia - she wanted some help with her camera. But we couldn't help her, because she would only communicate in fluent French. When addressed in English, she would shake her head with a big smile on her face.
This video never gets old, love it!
I love Simon Pegg, he is the best!
I’m an American and living in France and I do this all the time when someone asks me something in French even though I Speak it 😂
I can understand it if you're american but on the opposite with the video, french people are generally bad in english language even after many years of school ! It's not to criticize, it's a reality. I'm french born in France and I think the teaching methods are bad.
He said "Its one of those things, really i wish i paid more attention to in school".
It's just great to be able to understand both languages! :D
One of the finest comedies ever.
I come back to this at least once a week 😂
brilliant! Love big train.
While walking down a street as a tourist in Mexico, some other tourists stopped me and asked if I speak "American". I didn't miss a beat, and said, "no, but I do speak English fairly well".
Wow! You are so funny!
I've never heard a single soul in America refer to English as "American".
@@lorblauh Live a little longer, you will.
@@lorblauh I have said to a few British tourists in the U.S. that their American was very good.
@@alwaysuseless Hahaha I would love to know their reaction!
" I can speak english." -"So can I." Hahahaha
That part ruined the whole sketch :( Why explain the joke
@@Floing1337 It's making fun of the way how some people (*cough* the French *cough*) say they don't speak English to tourists even though they can, either because they couldn't be bothered to help a complete stranger or don't like the fact that this tourist didn't bother to learn a few basic words in the local language.
That laughter at the end from the guy on the bike!! Amazing
If you are bilingual or trilingual, this is what you hear sometimes on the street and wonder why they cannot understand each other.
I wish I could have understood English to enjoy Simon Pegg's great humour
Pardon?
Man I love Pegg
One of my favourite sketches 🤣
Thank god for the subtitles, i couldn't understand a word
I came to read the comments but I can't understand a single word anyone has written.
It's terrible , innit, all those forriners speaking their forrin lingos.
@@johannalange802 😂
I can’t understand English
trolling like a boss :D
What a twist at the end!
Never gets old
Sometimes, stating the obvious like how they did at the end makes the whole sketch funnier.
;) their german was pretty good
ps: i love simon pegg
I'm so happy i found this video again..!
Greatest sketch ever.
No me canso de ver este video jajajjaja es buenisimo
Years have passed by and I still wanna use this joke with a foreign someday haha
I post the link to my English students.
i'm so glad i found this again
Tohle je prostě boží ))
Ah, British humor is refreshing
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Can't believe this has been up for nearly ten years without a translation. I'd have a go myself but my English simply isn't up to the task.
I put it into google translate. It's a conversation about crabs and genital warts. You really don't want to know the details.
"Sprechen sie Deutsch? -Deutsch? Nein" 😂
Hahahaha. You're a legend!
omg hahaha😂😂😂I can't really stop laughing help😂
What is the joke?
Their German was actually really good and I'm surprised bc it usually (from what I've experienced) sounds really bad when English people try to speak German 😅
We Brits are shit with languages but we usually speak better German than French (sorry France).
@Mario There's more to Britain than England. :) Besides, I meant in terms of pronunciation and ability: more people know French, but those who know German can, IME, speak it far better. We Brits find German a lot easier to pronounce than French, as it has fewer new sounds to learn and pronunciation is closer to English than languages like French.
@Mario They speak mostly Urdu and Punjabi in Pakistan
@@Communist-Doge At my Scottish secondary school, around a third of incoming students took German, although not through choice in my case. It was popular with less able pupils as it was reputed to be easier to learn.
Susann Badewitz come off it, German is just like english with a German accent and longer words
mother of all pranks, well done lads!
Brilliant😂❤
I spent the past 12 years learning English so I can understand them now it's time for another 12 to learn german and understand the rest of the video
I'm german but I have to admit ^^.....deadpan british humour is the best ! but it's good you know to see that humour can be a connection between different countries. it's not always about who is better than the other-it's just making fun of yourselves and laughing with eachother instead of laughing at eachother.
and yes, such a kind of comedy is one reason why I am learning english XD
What did they say in German?
@@ayszhang “German, no, do you speak German?” “German? No. Only one or two words, but I’m not fluent”
“…next time you’re over maybe we’ll have learnt a bit of English for you” “Or German, perhaps” “Yes. That would be great”
"each other," not "eachother." I'm sure this correction will be enormously helpful only 12 years after you posted your comment. Feel free to reply anytime in this century.
@@alwaysuselessThanks for correcting me. I could hardly remember the comment I made over 12 years ago but my English has significantly improved by now.
@@ayszhang Sorry for not answering sooner but I could barely remember the comment I had made over 12 years ago!
One of the best satire!
I love Simon Pegg😂
why there' s no english in the comment..
joe symptons I don't understand your comment and I won't respond to it
nobody speaks that
@@emer157 i actually understand tho lol
@@pix_d20 I was using a quote from a well known TV show
@@emer157 oh well guess it's not well known to me.
I wish this video had subtitles.
Im in love with this video.Dont u see how cute they are 🤣😘👌❤
Bloody awesome 👍
Can someone translate please?
Into what, English? Oder Deutsch vielleicht?
Sorry I didn't understand.
dragonitedla44 Hahaha, quality!
Rob Fraser Was??
La chica pregunta: disculpa, hablas inglés?
El: no, no lo hablo , lo siento.
Ella: es que se me descompuso el coche y necesito un taller.
Bueno! Mejor aprendan inglés! 😀
I feel her ! I'm an Eastern European trucker and this is happening to me everytime when i go to Germany, just to Germany but im not even mad anymore, it makes me laugh because it reminds me of this video. ha ha
Legendary
I adore Simon Pegg!
I've been around the United States for a while now but never got a chance to learn any English. Can anyone translate this to me to English?
+OverLordGoldDragon yea what a shame. All they ever teach in US is American, they should have included English in school.
OverLordGoldDragon but you actually typed English words in here, how could you not know 😐.
ArzGaming HD Sarcasm ;)
Hông biết dịch!
I don't speak english either sorry
I hope to learn english one day so i can understand british humor!
The best of Big Train.
that outro was insane. keep it up
Wish I could understand this, I get the feeling this was truly hilarious,
+Danii Iba Here is the joke: She is English, and her car has broken down in France. She asks the French person "Do you speak English?" "He says 'No, I don't".. but he is speaking to her in perfect English. Same thing with other French guy.
Bill Osborn Ummm, yeah, I got the joke...I was making a joke...nevermind.
+Danii Iba Bạn có nói tiếng việt không, mình giải thích cho, mình không biết tiếng Anh.
r/woooosh to all of you!
@@BillinHungary english? What an earth could your subconscious unsatisfactory brain cells be waffling about. I do know bond though. My favourite one is my hand and a salami. So whats english?
Wow, that German was pretty good! (Compliment from a real German)
Brighton Beach avenue in Brooklyn, NY. Two elderly men are standing on the street and discussing something in Russian. A tourist approaches them and addresses with: "Excuse me, where is..." and continued asking for directions to a nearby attraction. Two men politely stopped talking but said nothing. The tourist seemingly perplexed softly asked: "Do you speak English?" to no avail. A somewhat vexed tourist left the two men. One of them said the other in Russian (interpreted): "So, has his English helped him?"
No’ a single waaaard. That british accent is so damn lovely ❤️
Nein, tut mir ebenso leid, ich kann auch kein deutsch sprechen. Schreiben schon gar nicht.
Ich auch nicht :(
Da haben wir alle etwas gemeinsam...
Deutsch ? hab ich noch nie gehört.
Had to translate this in Google translate, I am so silly :)
Guten Tag! Love from India :)
too bad i don't speak English because it seems funny...
Haha
He is the best!!
I love it!
This is a sketch, but if you ever go to Geneva you will find yourself in exactly that situation.
This is how anime be like when a Japanese character asks a foreign character if they speak Japanese even though the dubbing the foreigner speaks is also in Japanese.
Love this xD
Do you speak English?
Bung Mokhtar: Pak Yiu!
each time I watch this I can't help laughing out loud, btw I'm french lol
i wish i could understand your comment, but i don't speak a word of french 🙃
malheureusemenent je ne parle pas francais non plus @@mattrogers5188
Can someone translate this for me? I'm French.
+gimmyed
-Parlez-vous anglais?
-Non, pas du tout.
-Ouais, ma voiture ne marche plus. Savez-vous où un garage se trouve?
-J'ai déjà dit. Je ne comprends pas. Pardon monsieur, parlez-vous anglais? La dame a un problème.
-Bonjour, ma voiture ne marche plus.
-Je ne comprends pas.
-Donc, parlez-vous alemand?
-Non.
-Seulement un ou deux mots.
-Merci.
-Près d'ici, il y a un village, peut-être il y a qn qui parle anglais.
-Et peut-être vous allez apprendre l'anglais?
-Ouais.
-Ou peut-être l'alemand.
-Au revoir.
-Je parle anglais.
-Bien sûr, moi aussi.
+Max Maximus lol you fell for it?
+Max Maximus - Thanks, and my wife is German. Anybody?
+gimmyed Désolé je ne parle pas français, comme personne ici à vrai dire.
+gimmyed The language in the sign is probably is French, isn't it?
that's brilliant
This. Is. Amazing.
🤣🙏💛
Is that Simon Pegg
Yes, he started as a comedian in the UK. I recommend Big Train (this video) and Spaced.
They probably mentioned it in the description, but I don't speak English, so I have absolutely no idea.
No it's Gary King
You have no idea how often we French play this joke on tourists. Never gets old…
It's not really a joke to you lot though. It's a bit of your egos lol
Couldn't be further from the truth but whatever...
oh we know, because you still do it when you go to other countries!
How is that a "joke"? That's just rude.
Then again, cos French people do that to me, I always laugh when they speak English in that accent, cos that's actually funny.
@@yomomma9687 you mean English in the French accent that, funny or not, steals all your girls….
Simon you beauty.
Nic dodać, nic ująć :)
BTW, I love British sense for humor. Their jokes are usually really great in their comedy TV shows.
Do u know what is this shows name?
@@vandang3468Big Train
I'm just realizing that this was also a satire of French people not speaking English even if they know it.
Ah, Big Train. Absolute classic
this is perfect
They're basically saying they don't understand her as they don't speak English, the chap on the bike tries to communicate that there is a village nearby where she has a good chance of meeting somone who can speak English. The delivery comes at the end when both men reveal they can actually speak English.
Thank you so much pal, I wouldn't have been able to make sense of what they were saying because I never really got the chance to learn English, which is a shame. Hopefully some day.
Thanks for translating. I don't speak English myself, so this was really helpful.
@@sebfox2194 Happy to help!
how he keeps a straight face is beyond me. One thing I am pretty sure of is that there were plenty of out-takes =D
Such those talkative guys ...,
This brings back painful memories!