I have a lifelong passion for languages, pronunciation, accents - you name it. The purpose of this channel is to share that passion in a fun, entertaining and informative way. I would love for more people to know how truly amazing human languages are and encourage people to learn them and learn more about them. I love to promote languages with fewer speakers, especially those that have been oppressed. I hate to hear that people were told not to speak their language and that it doesn't have value.
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Just this morning I called round to see a close friend of mine who lived in Portsmouth for 53 years born and bred. On seeing her I asked "Wot ya bin on wi"? she looked at me blank, so I repeated "Wot ya bin on wi"? She hadn't got a clue what I was talking about and she's lived up here for 20 years.
Im looking for my toefl preparation , hahahha, really love your videos, are very didactis from humor . Saludos desde Peru compañero.
Gracias!
bruh im dutch but i dont know dutch
OMG 😅 I have never seen a foreigner pronouncing Sinhala that good. Such a great flexible tongue you have. 😅
FDR sounds like he's saying "They gaint make dehrms with the peable." It sounds like he's holding his nose, lol. I don't sound like American people that are two states away, good grief. We don't even use the same terms for things. Also, RP is wonderful, ya'll are crazy for letting it die out. Also, also- I think many of the comments you highlighted are just people being sarcastic. We have sarcasm here, too. Despite what you all might think.
You used Yankee correctly-Alabama native. :D
A lot of these British singers are not even copying a standard American accent...but a black American accent, which is quite popular.
Indeed.
Yeah thats true, Korean and Chinese singers often still have their accents...
I think if people view Scots as a patois, it is more positively received than if it is considered "pidgin" or "merely slang developed in different areas". Even though it developed and became a language in its own right, until the "English Suppression" started. I'm glad it survived and is gaining traction as the amazing language it is!
On the changing the language after the US war of independence: since the poster clearly thought that *_cars_* existed back in 1776, he probably thought the Brits simply used the *_internet_* to send out tweets to everyone in England to tell them speak differently and they all tweeted back saying "LOL, let's do it!". Or maybe they did it through the British Empire subreddit or Discord...
This is excellent, subscribed on the strength of this vid alone. Love your command of accents and how you can slip from one to another. It certainly illustrates the stupidity of the shit people from both the USA and the UK say about what is the "correct, original English". Came to this just after watching a Simon Roper video on the evolution of the "posh" British accent over the years and how it sounded, in its earlier years, like something we associate with rustic rural Irish or West Country accents today - and the rural and regional accents of the earlier times would be even more diverse. I look at New Zealand English and see how much of it comes from Working Class slang and accents from all over the British Isles. All of the former colonies of the "British Empire" accents that began in a melting-pot of different accents and all have changed over the years.
Instructive and fun. As a Bostonian my fellow countrymen think I am pretentious be cause I do have a strong working class Boston accent. Hardly fancy pants talk around here “
Thanks so much for a fascinating video about a truly beautiful country, both culturally and naturally. And I will now use "proungoablers" in my daily vocabulary!
My huge pleasure. Who knows, it might be next year’s OED word of the year.
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The difference between the accents spoken in the newly minted USA and the English hierarchy was a choice. The rebels so hated and disliked King George and his government that they consciously chose to model spoken "American" after the Irish, who were only slightly tolerated by their English masters. Our Hard R was chosen specifically to set "real Americans" apart from the snobby British!. Most of the Founding Fathers sounded like the King's minions when they spoke, but their children refused that dialect and engineered a new way of speaking.
So the people are still called the Turks and the language is Turkish?
I’m an American who has spent some time in London and who follows the premier league and associated content (Talksport, etc.) religiously, so I have an ear for distinguishing Scouse, Geordie, and RP, but I have difficulty distinguishing Brummy, Manchester, Yorkshire, Cornwall, and Welsh, etc. Most Americans recognize a British accent but can’t distinguish regional dialect. I wonder if it is the same for Brits trying to distinguish American regional dialects such as Deep South, southern plains, southwest, Midwest, and the many varieties of northeastern accents.
11:11 Can anyone say the name of the song please
Living in America probably has a gradual effect as well. Rihanna is from Barbados, her accent also disappears when singing, but also more recent clips of her speaking show her accent has become more subtle.
Cumbrian? It's distinctive but few seem aware of it. I travel around the UK a lot and I've noticed the spread of the hideous estuary accent along with the use of rising tone at the end of statements, particularly among young women.
kediler bana iyi geliyor... guess the structure is similiar with turkish...athabashkan means the father,ancestor of the leader or chief...most probably around 20.000 years ago a common primitive protouniversal language was spoken,agglunitative,with ancient turkish words in siberia,and the structure even spread to europe...
Fascinating!
Forgive me for saying this but I believe the zh is in Chinese word Zhongwén, you are absolutely right it is not "the word Beijing (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit. 'Han language' or 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages[e] spoken natively by the ethnic
The closest thing to ʒ is the sound represented by <r> in Pinyin. /ʐ/. zh as in 中文 is pronounced /ʈʂ/ which is closest to English /j/
Interesting
Glad you like it.
How nice. Learnt lot of about my own country and dialect from you sir…❤
So glad to have helped.
So basically make the instagram duck lips and like you’re about to kiss and talk. 😂
That’s a start.
Early 1981 was the last time i visited SL, And was closely following it since leaving after 4weeks in end of Jan1981 onward to mid 1980s & it was 1983 when all the Jaffna& Colombo, etc riots& burning of Library, businesses etc took place, not 1981 or 1982 but 1983 (to 2009-2010 or so)
The library was definitely burnt on June 1 1981. You are right that the civil was was later.
@@DaveHuxtableLanguages I stand corrected, i checked too & you're absolutely correct its June1 1981, it was so well known yet the hand full of army killing & the ensuing All out communal riots was so Horrendous its meddle destruction as one big.., that riots not only killed, but it destroyed many Businesses, homes, lives & went on for yrs, ( sadly I been to that library & all around that area too)
You seem to suggest that it's strange that Americans refer to their adult dogs as "puppies" or cats as "kitties," but you likely also say "bird," which originally referred to a fledgling fowl, and "pig," which orginally referred to a young swine.
Interesting, I wasn’t aware of those etymologies. Language change in progress, I guess. Will dog and cat soon sound archaic?
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Lots of Sinhala languages words have their roots from SANSKRIT. Many regional languages in India (Hindi, Malayalam etc.) have words with roots from SAMSKRIT. 0:43
Yes, it’s a bit like Latin and Greek in Europe or Classical Chinese in East Asia. Learned words are brought in from a prestigious classical language.
You Sir have done justice to my wonderful native language. I have discussions with my colleagues (I live in Canada now) about Sri Lanka and I can give them this video which gives a great understanding about Sinhala. Not to mention the choice of background music is absolutely impeccable.
Excellent! Thanks for your kind comment.
Hello Dave: I know Afrikaans is not a native African language but hoe different is it from Dutch?
Please correct your mistake at the very beginning of introducing Sri Lankan.we are Sri Lankan and not migrants from India. You insulted both people in Sri Lanka and India. Lord Buddha has visited to Sri Lanka and you can find real historical evidence of Sri Lanka. During that visit there were people and they are human real Sri Lankan people were living here. So please don’t make our peoples as migrants from another country. Only Tamil people migrated to Sri Lanka. Even though your rest of video appreciated by others who watched in this comment has little knowledge about Sri Lanka and people in Sri Lanka.People who knows about Sri Lanka and Sri Lankan people around the world know how we started as a nation and who are real migrants to Sri Lanka. Some people found your video is the first thing they ever heard about Sri Lanka and Sri Lankan. If you want to talk about our history of Sinhala language please go to the museum at Polonnaruwa and it was run by Canadian or Netherland government at the time I visited long time ago. I request if any Sri Lankan worried about knowing our history of language please go and visit the Polonnaruwa museum and you can see on your own eyes with evidence of Sri Lankan history of language. At last , please don’t make any videos about any countries about the culture language and people with little knowledge and experience. This is just everyone to understand before talking and giving comments about something you’re not much aware of and we have had 30 years conflict in between Sri Lankan Tamil and Sinhala people having misleading information like this. It’s time you to correct and apologise people in Sri Lanka.
Not a mistake - generally accepted scientific consensus. Humans evolved in Africa and we all migrated from there. To avoid offense I have deleted that section of the video.
Damn, that Aussie accent at the start was ripper. I love accents and I used to think I was pretty adept at them; until about 11 minutes ago in fact. That was when I started to watch this video and realised that I'm a rank amateur. Subscribed.
Good to have you on board!
Dave just educated all of us sri lankans about our language than our own government education system and education ministry within few minutes 😂❤
Sadly education about language is lacking all over the world.
@@DaveHuxtableLanguages Highly agreed. I truly appreciate this video and your findings and also mainly for sharing it with us sir. When I was going to school, personally for me the teacher who taught the language made most of the students to hate it rather than love it.
45 percent spoke tamil ? You are misleading the masses my friend.
I corrected that on screen and in the subtitles.
Sinhalese is related to an ancient language called magadhi.. which was the language of the buddha.. who was born in the ancient sri lanka.. you are mislead by your own so calle experts.. lol
Gautama Buddha was born in Lumbini, Nepal. Magadhi was spoken in Eastern India, Bangladesh and Nepal. You would seem to be mislead by people who twist facts and faith for political ends.
Completely wrong.. Sinhalese are indeginous.. tamils came from tamilnadu... sinhalese are the most ancient human race of earth..
super video thank you
So glad you think so.
There was no Sinhalese in Sri Lanka, it was Hela people who were the natives. India had nothing to do with Sinhalese or Hela people but the Tamil people were brought by the English to work in their plantations. Our history is totally changed and manipulated by Indians and British for their political games.
i acctuly think they all use auto tune
I learned 2 French words in the 1980's and everyone thought I was French. First I ate Frogs, Snails, dishes served with tons of butter and said " Depeche Mode". They said "Ooo la la you Fwench", I replied "Wee, Me Fwench". " Bone Jour, Bone Appetite, Bone Soup".
Very Good Documentry, Fact finding, Reserch and Music selection was great. actually better than Net Geo, Discovery or BBC documentary... Hatts Off..
Wow, thank you. I am honoured.
Serendib comes from sinhaladeep , arabs made that name . Cheras (modern day Kerala state) have nothing to do with it
Thank u sir.sri lanka history is very old.7000 year old or more.we not held from vijaya.we come from ravana generation.that s the true.gowtham Budda was born in Sri Lanka.look our culture and technic.we are not held from Indian.
love your video mate. very informative.
Much appreciated!
What an excellent video regarding Sri Lanka and our languages. Very well produced.
So nice of you
man= minisa/ohu(he in english) woman = gahaniya/kaanthawa/ issthriya/ aya(she) in sinhala srilanka (pearl in the indian ocean)
Thanks for the clarification.
Interesting investigation, thanks for the effort , appreciate it
My pleasure.
Hi, Thank you for the video. But Sinhalese are not migrated from India. We are the world's very first civilization according to ancient resources. If you could find accounts written on Sri Lanka before the colonial era, even in English books in the early periods of the colonial era, you will see how much Sri Lanka's actual history has been changed. If anybody wants to find actual history of Sri Lanka, they will definitely revealed the world's biggest distortion of historical facts.
Wonderful video !!! Appreciate your efforts to make such a beautiful video with factual information. However I disagree with your description about the origin of the nation . There are evidence that ancient island People called “ hela “ which later gave the name “ Sihala “ (not Sinhala) were in the island dating back to many thousands years. Respected Scholars like Prof: Raj Somadeva argues ancient hela people were the descendants of Island’s prehistoric man ( 38,000 BCE) .