you are one of my new favourite creators! so excited to see you thrive 🫶🏽

I very rarely need subtitles for British and Irish accents, including many regional ones. For American movies and TV shows I almost always turn on the subtitles, because to my ear, many American voices come across as a mumble. For context, I'm Australian and English is my first language. Just think it's kind of funny. Especially funny to have an Australian accusing anyone else of 'mumbling'

@KarraMeansSpicy

Ай бұрын

ok so weirdly, I can understand Australian just fine, it's just Bri-ish people that my brain refuses to comprehend without subtitles. Also, I can see the need for Americans to have subtitles. We don't make sense most of the time anyways.

@lucawilloughby2271

Ай бұрын

That makes a weird sort of sense? Australian English is kind of smooshed between British English and American English a lot of the time. Plus, we often downplay our accents and slangier use of language cause it feels really cringe to say "aw yeeh nah the chippie's run by eshays now" or whatever

I feel very lucky to be someone who works in ESL teaching, since my students are some of the kindest people you'll ever meet! One of my students invited me to have Iftar dinner with them and her whole family was so welcoming. The portrayal of adult students with a teenage mindset doesn't hold true at all in my experience. Most of my students are very dedicated to learning and improving their English skills inside and outside of class. One of them even joined a local soccer team so he could practice speaking with his teammates. We still have lots of fun in the classroom though with games and puzzles designed to make learning engaging and enjoyable. I personally haven't been flirted with by any of my students, though one of my fellow teachers told me her student asked whether she had a boyfriend, which she used as an opportunity to discuss vocab around relationships!

@KarraMeansSpicy

Ай бұрын

100% agree. I feel like when people (especially Americans) approach those who don't speak English very well, they are forgetting that they are fluent in another (sometimes multiple) languages. Also, very cool that a real-life "Mr. Brown" watched this video :)

@AidanSullivan-tq1tr

29 күн бұрын

@@KarraMeansSpicy Absolutely agree. We have students who are incredibly smart polyglots who were trained as lawyers, engineers, doctors, journalists, etc. in their home country whose experience sadly doesn't "translate" to job positions here in the states without fluency in English (and/or just having to go to law school again)

I gotta say I am loving your outfit in this video, no matter if you hit the 70’s on the nose or aimed for 70’s and missed and landed in the 60’s the decade before. It is super cute and actually reminds me of clothes that I had as a child in the early 2000’s.💞🌸🦩🤩

@KarraMeansSpicy

Ай бұрын

Thank you!! I've had this dress for almost 8 years and I've never worn it except for filming this video

I've never seen the show, but this particular concept is so funny to me. My grandparents were Hungarian refugees who came to the UK after fleeing the Soviets in the 1950s. They spoke absolutely no english when they arrived, and by the time they both died almost 70 years later their grasp of it was much better but still very, very tenuous lol. Every time I visited I'd be greeted with an enthusiastic "Dalink!" ("Darling!") and a big kiss on the cheek, and while they didn't teach me any hungarian (I think due to a sad mixture of trauma and xenophobia), I did pick up on a few swear words and the eternally famous "hogy hívják?!" ("what is it called?!") courtesy of my slightly potty-mouthed grandmother. Which is why the hungarian character who shows up speaking no english, shouts a single catchphrase, then gives up and leaves so fucking funny. I think my grandparents would have liked this show too, if they ever watched it. Now pass me the hogy hívják so I can change the channel.

@KarraMeansSpicy

Ай бұрын

Bocsánat? ok this comment made me LAUGH OUT LOUD props to your grandparents, they've probably been through more than we can ever comprehend

Ok so basically he got home eat some dinner took a bath and went up stairs for bed He's specifically speaking cocnkey rymhing slang where words are replaced with words from ryhmes so for example in this little speech he's you see Rubba dub. Meaning bath or tub And appels meaning stairs because it ryhmes with appels and pairs Of course I don't know word for word because nobody I know really speaks like this except for older people because cockney is slowly being chased out but ... I forgot what it's called but it's like a blend between English and foreign languages brought by immigrant I think Again I'm by no means a languagest but I do dabble hear and there

@williamswonderland3636

Ай бұрын

Oh my gosh I'm over the that this meny people have liked my comment I was worried it was going to be incoherent or told that I made some horrible mistake on accident thank you all for this

@KarraMeansSpicy

Ай бұрын

I...am so massively impressed that you gleaned anything at all from what he was saying LMAOOOO

@williamswonderland3636

Ай бұрын

@@KarraMeansSpicy oh well thank you very much 😁

As a desi girl I can attest to how dear this show is to mine and so many families here 😭😭💖💖 It was just iconic! And I did wonder how it managed to be so inoffensive compared to so many bad desi portrayals of today. Tysm for answering my question and providing more insight in such a great video!

I love Mind Your Language 😂 and yes British comedy cannot be replicated. The reason it's so good is because the show is a double-edged sword; it makes fun of foreigners but at the SAME time, it's a satire of the English language itself. That's why I think no one (or at least a good majority) got offended. The show _What a Country!_ missed that point and it's probably why people barely remember it. Great video and I just subscribed 😊

I'm Malaysian and I grew up watching Oh My English, an adaption of Mind your language. it sets in high school and the cast are the Malaysian students and a British teacher Mr Henry Middleton. because it aimed towards a younger demographic, it's more like an educational show. for example, in each intermission of an episode, an animated Mr Middleton would talk to the viewers telling us how the characters got an english word wrong and then teaches us how to say it correctly and use it properly in a sentence. and also other basic english lessons like grammar, verbs and nouns

Given that the UK is currently on fire and has completely lost their empire, I think it'd be funny to do a remake of the show with some other nationality at the helm, and with a few of the students being Brits and Americans. Apparently, there's a Malay remake called "Oh, My English!" and an Indian remake called "Talk With Care" about a Hindi teacher.

@KarraMeansSpicy

Ай бұрын

Mind Your Language 2: The Reckoning can't wait to see it

I adore this show. Watched it when it was on tv around 2010 and found it on KZread a few months ago. Still hilarious, and it makes fun of everyone relatively equally

This definitely was interesting!! I’d love more videos like this!! :3 so glad ur getting more recognition

I grew up watching this and I enjoyed it because the jokes were hilarious. As an Asian in a almost all white school in England I didn’t feel embarrassed by this comedy unlike some other comedies. This comedy made fun of EVERYONE so everyone laughed together! The show reflected the combined humanity of everyone and how they all got along together and underneath it all wanted the same things in life. Throughout the comedy you see how the students try to help each other out and are actually very supportive of each other.

pink looks so good on you

@dinosaysrawr

Ай бұрын

With the eye shadow, too!

In my opinion top 3 comedies of all time.💯

I love the Hindi-Urdu they speak on this show it makes it so real man

i'd love to see more like this. there must be so many problematic gems among britcoms from the 60s - 80s.

when this channel is up there with other greats of “”breadtube”” (still wonder if i know what that word even is) we’ll all get to be like, yeah. we were there

@KarraMeansSpicy

15 күн бұрын

Ok shut the he*ck up, this is the nicest comment ever 🥺

Your embroidery in the profile pic is amazing

@KarraMeansSpicy

Ай бұрын

OMG thank you, you're the first person to notice the change :DDD

I hope you make more videos about mind your language. This was excellent!

a show centering a group of adults in language class centering around how none of them speak the same language and they all come from differing cultures: YAYYYY it's racist to the core: naurrrr

This was a nice deep dive!

loved this video, love all your videos, you give a lot of good insight on these topics, keep up the good work

This beautiful woman deserves more and more credits keep up the great work.

Me and my mother loved this show bruv. The only thing I hate is the amount of white people who complain about ‘’the woke mob would never let this show run nowadays!’’ which as an honourary member of the woke mob, is just not true.

Ok but that makeup is giving theaux......💅🏻 I love it, it suits you very well, xoxo. 🩷🩷✌🏻

Do some stuff on Monty python!

Loved this now i need to watch the show. But your take made me think of Kal Penn's Sunnyside. I don't remember if he mentioned "mind your language" when discussing the show in his nook but it would be interesting to look more into the similarities and differences.

I never heard of the show till now but it seems so funny. like you said tho it really just wouldn't work in todays era. I would love too see more deep dives' like this from you this was really fun and a blast to watch.

Simply put Cockney rhyming slang works by taking a common word and using a rhyming phrase of two or three words to replace it. bull and cow = row trouble and strife = wife dustbin lids = kids, although sid is not supposed to have any kids, except for the one he gave up for adoption frog and toad = road rub a dub = pub china plate = mate uncle dick = sick jack the dandy = brandy vera lynn = gin Brahms and Liszt = pissed dicky dirt = shirt daisy roots =boots apples and pears = chairs Well I went home, I had a bull and a cow with the trouble and strife. lt was all over the dustbin lids! So, I went down the frog and toad into the rub-a-dub and I met an old china plate. He looked a bit Uncle Dick so I get him a Jack the Dandy and I had a Vera Lynn One thing led to another and we both got Brahms and Liszt So I staggered home, took off me Dickie dirt and me daisy roots And fell back on the apples and pears. Well I went home, I had a row with the wife. lt was all over the kids! So, I went down the road into the pub and I met an old mate. He looked a bit sick so I get him a brandy and I had a gin One thing led to another and we both got pissed So I staggered home, took off me shirt and me boots And fell back on the chairs

@KarraMeansSpicy

Ай бұрын

not the line-to-line translation LOLLL thank you for this

@vartuvart8369

Ай бұрын

​@@KarraMeansSpicy my pleasure

@williamswonderland3636

Ай бұрын

🎉

My headmistress in England was exactly like Miss Courtney. This was back in the 80s …. And yes we were scared of her!

11:08 I remember this scene as being "1 to hold the bucket" I don't know if they changed it or I remember wrong

@KarraMeansSpicy

28 күн бұрын

If one holds the bucket and the other pulls the goat up and down, then who will hold the teats? 🤔

Karra, ninna ee video nange tumba ishta aayuthu. Plus ninna ear rings masth

@sleepyemployee92

Ай бұрын

😊 Yellaru ee comment noddubattu annkonthare: “Yavvu bashe iddu? Ee bloody foreigners yennu halethaydare?” Loooooool

@KarraMeansSpicy

Ай бұрын

YOU GUYS BETTER NOT BE TALKING SMACK ABOUT ME

I forgot about this show😂😂

It may be just me but I am wondering if thus show was acting like a parody. While portraying these stereotypes, I wonder if they were making fun of them as well. I don’t know.

@Exoixx

19 күн бұрын

Agreed. The English teacher himself is a stereotype and there’s a satirical element to it with the fact he gets so exasperated and condescending to these foreigners that ‘can’t speak English’ but he himself can’t speak a word of another language. He kind of acts like a magnifying glass to British culture and it’s classist, racist flaws. honestly think this is actually great satire.

If you like mind your language I recommend two other shows, as time goes by and new tricks. If you do watch new tricks start from season 1 as the writing quality gets worse in the final few seasons and cast members leave, it unfortunately died a long and painful death.

you're so beautiful karra

Please watch Goodness Gracious Me... its an old UK Asian comedy series, and you'll see how far society had changed. Also in the 70s and 80s there were massive race riots in the UK. There's a 3 part documentary on Channel 4 about it. Nice Channel...

okie kockie.

Theres one show I feel borders on offensive and still has heart is Outsourced. I'd love to know your take of it. I used to love that show, but i wonder how I'd feel about it now, all these years later. I wonder how much of it was us starving for representation, and just taking anything we could get.

@KarraMeansSpicy

Ай бұрын

Believe it or not, I've never seen Outsourced before! I heard so many mixed things, I'm honestly avoiding it because I don't wanna cringe into the next dimension LOL

snazzy channel intro?? ok?? 💅

@KarraMeansSpicy

29 күн бұрын

you know I had to do it to em 😤😤😤 it was put together by endtheworldfx (I linked them in the bio) :)))

I think that one can do a racial joke, they just gotta be clever about it. this show I gotta see ; the clips are sending me

@KarraMeansSpicy

Ай бұрын

it's definitely worth a watch! All the episodes are available on KZread (for now lol)

Random, but I like your earrings also ya some shows REALLY didnt age well, not cool

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@KarraMeansSpicy

Ай бұрын

the fastest fingers in the west! ⭐