Well actually I didn't understand part of the video, the way they talk it's a little complicated because of the cultural expressions they use, but it definitely sounds funny. The guy is making fun of the way they talk and how are they different from Americans in grammar and pronunciation. He said that they put words together that are opposite in standard English and they also like to pluralize. One of the difference between this English and the American English is that they don't pronounced some of the vowels like it's supposed to (in American English). I think it is because it sounds more British.
The comedian here is trying to explain that while the language is the same, cultural differences make the use of different grammar and context in expression have different meanings in different cultures.
As my classmates were saying, the English keeps being the same but the difference is the grammar and also the gestures they used to say some words, meanings, etc. but in my opinion this is all because the cultural differences they have between native Americans that's why in the video it sounds funny and if you pay close attention is a little of British because the make emphasis on the vowels and little bit of Jamaican ,on the way they raise their voices to make points.
OMG! This video definitely need subtitles, I only understood a few words the man was saying. He must have been saying something really funny because the audience was laughing a lot. As I understand, the man was explaining that English is usually the same language, but cultural differences are what make it different.
Really good way of teaching us about different cultures.
OMG!! This was so hard to understand, i had to listen it twice to try to get the idea of what he was talking about,(still i couldn't get it, please on tuesday translate this to me). When he took his time to pronounce de words i try to get the get the joke he was saying about English in other countries is the same everywhere, and that they also have rule of grammar or pronunciation. In that time he said something that i really wants to know cause everyone on the place (audience) were laughing.
It was so funny but still i had to listen twice to completely understand it! The comedian is trying to make a comparison between american english and their english and he makes jokes of it. For me was really interesting to heard how they cut or use differents words to say the same things that are completely different on american english.
I didn't understood anything at all the first time, just when he was speaking slowly and trying to copy how American talks, but when he was mixing words and talking the way Trinidadian do, it was really hard, and how he explained the way the changed grammar, like the example of the Americans saying they reverse out of the garage, and Trinidadian say they reverse back, just because they can also reverse forward, it was really funny.
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ReplyDeleteWell actually I didn't understand part of the video, the way they talk it's a little complicated because of the cultural expressions they use, but it definitely sounds funny. The guy is making fun of the way they talk and how are they different from Americans in grammar and pronunciation. He said that they put words together that are opposite in standard English and they also like to pluralize. One of the difference between this English and the American English is that they don't pronounced some of the vowels like it's supposed to (in American English). I think it is because it sounds more British.
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Laura M. Herrand
2009-5297
The comedian here is trying to explain that while the language is the same, cultural differences make the use of different grammar and context in expression have different meanings in different cultures.
ReplyDeleteVideo was pretty funny.
Luis Cano-2008-5426
As my classmates were saying, the English keeps being the same but the difference is the grammar and also the gestures they used to say some words, meanings, etc. but in my opinion this is all because the cultural differences they have between native Americans that's why in the video it sounds funny and if you pay close attention is a little of British because the make emphasis on the vowels and little bit of Jamaican ,on the way they raise their voices to make points.
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ReplyDeleteOMG! This video definitely need subtitles, I only understood a few words the man was saying. He must have been saying something really funny because the audience was laughing a lot. As I understand, the man was explaining that English is usually the same language, but cultural differences are what make it different.
Really good way of teaching us about different cultures.
Katherine Mejía
2009-5837
OMG!!
ReplyDeleteThis was so hard to understand, i had to listen it twice to try to get the idea of what he was talking about,(still i couldn't get it, please on tuesday translate this to me). When he took his time to pronounce de words i try to get the get the joke he was saying about English in other countries is the same everywhere, and that they also have rule of grammar or pronunciation. In that time he said something that i really wants to know cause everyone on the place (audience) were laughing.
By the way it was really funny listening to it
Pamela Abreu
2010-5491
It was so funny but still i had to listen twice to completely understand it! The comedian is trying to make a comparison between american english and their english and he makes jokes of it. For me was really interesting to heard how they cut or use differents words to say the same things that are completely different on american english.
ReplyDeletePerla M. Abreu
2010-6069
I didn't understood anything at all the first time, just when he was speaking slowly and trying to copy how American talks, but when he was mixing words and talking the way Trinidadian do, it was really hard, and how he explained the way the changed grammar, like the example of the Americans saying they reverse out of the garage, and Trinidadian say they reverse back, just because they can also reverse forward, it was really funny.
ReplyDeleteFreddy Garcia. 2010-5969