I want follow up on making mistakes. "Mistakes" are part of any learing process and our attutude to them is crucial in the learning just about anything. I always try to use the phrase 'learning opportunity' when talking about errors. Every time a mistake comes up, that's a chance to learn something new. Not an excuse for beating yourself up about how useless you are. However, I still struggle sometimes in deciding how to balance accuracy and fluency. I don't want a learner to produce tons of badly thought out nonsense, but likewise I don't want severely inhibited speakers and writers either. I'd welcome your, or anyone's thoughts on striking the right balance.

Air dash ? I never heard this word

No...this Indian guy's pronunciation is different from other indiands

Well english is not the "parent" language for southern indian languages

Indian English spoken by an Indian Woman is the most beautiful sound ever!!!!

Like, yo, y'all no dat English is like, the best, right? Like, peopl shud learn to speak it if they wanna life hear. Like, wazzup wit dat?

I found this discussion quite engaging and informative. I appreciate your efforts in facilitating this exchange.

Idiot.

Funny you say, beer is a french and not a germanic word. From Middle English bere, from Old English bēor (“beer”) (Oxford OED notes: "rare, except in poetry"), from Proto-West Germanic *beuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *beuzą (“beer”) (putatively from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeusóm), meaning “brewer's yeast”.

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Hi guys, as a South Indian, this is my theory of the origin behind "good name". I have observed from the few North Indians that I've had the pleasure of interacting with - they tend to have a "pet name" or a name of endearment which is used by their close friends and family. And then unrelated to the pet name, they have their legal name - in Hindi it is also known as "shubh naam" or "good name". Ex- a woman may be called "Twinkle" by those close to her but her real name might be "Aaradhana" or something. So for professional and business scenarios and introductions, "aapka shubh naam?" Becomes "your good name?" P.S. - this is my logical rationalisation of it , I have no evidence. Kindly adjust.

The map shows Dublin on the coast which I had never realised before . When did this happen ?

What about Hindu English?

Load shedding 😂😂😂

Very interesting! And I really appreciate the fact that you are trying to create awareness that there is more than one form of English! I would recommend that you do a similar video comparing Pakistani English. Despite the similarities there are still several differences in how we Pakistanis speak English and pronounce certain words. In fact it is quite easy to identify a Pakistani from an Indian with the way we speak English even though we may look quite alike!

You quoted the wrong character. It should be 茶 instead of 荼. The pronunciation of 茶 in Min-Nan dialect in Fujian province is "De" ([dɛ]in KK or [te] in IPA) which is similar to the English pronunciation of "Tea" before the Great vowel shift period.

You're Turkish what language do you speak? Pynjabi😂😂

The east end wasn't even in London

Back in the day when someone said about cockneys are people born within the sound of the bow bells places like Stratford and west ham weren't even in London they were villages in Essex

Most of these Indianisms occur as a direct translation of the local language. That’s where grammatically dubious uses of ‘also’ ‘only’ ‘yesterday night’ good name’ come from. Another interesting thing I have noticed is that while such phrases are used very frequently while conversing with someone casually, they often almost disappear in formal written version of the language.

I love this guy 💙

Hi Gideon, if I'm not mistaken, Ajay looks like he has learned English as a second language. Hence his pronunciation is a tad dodgy. I think you should get an Indian who is more familiar with spoken English than is Ajay.

The following comment applies mainly to Irish English in TV shows and movies that are available in the US. As an American, sometimes I find Irish English to be easier to understand than British English. Of course, I understand that there is not a single "Irish English" accent and not an single "British English" accent. I wonder why that is.

Probably the best English accent to ever exist.

Franco propaganda

It is amazing.❤ Thank you.

Gideon, you are the best teacher in You Tube! Thanks so very much for your videos and lessons ❤

English is a CRUDE lingo! It's a primitive cavemen tongue.

Funny that Indian English accent is like Polish English of people who cant speak English.

I am French and "double entendre" is never used. We say instead "double sens" when something as two meanings

I don’t have enough words to express how awesome you are. Thank you, Gideon, for all that you have done and are doing now.

I am French from Paris and I appreciate you a lot, Gideon. Your videos are very interesting on the history of the English language. Plus, you bring a sensitive human dimension. It does us good in this world of violence. Thank you again, Gideon. Keep going.

To be honest, Indian English is quite close to Hungarian English (Hunglish). The o and r sounds are almost the same. T is very different though.

River is a mother like Ganga Maiya.

Very correct...I find many English abbreviations belonging to French..Say RSVP on invitation cards is french...ETC is also french...Many many English words are actually FRENCH WORDS...THE LIST IS LONG

This is no Indian English, it is English spoken incorrectly by Indians

A very useful and interesting video, I liked it very much!

In line with my own learning and teaching experience, it helps a lot to have clear notions on how the language "works". "Our" Indoeuropean languages have a lot in common: basic aspects such as modal verbs require a infinitive structures, simple verb forms are used to express facts, general states and habits, the countable and uncountable concept, etc. A number of basic mistakes are often illogical, mistakes that you wouldn't make in your own language. The better the awareness on these, the faster advance my students in terms of correctness in grammar and structures. In terms of vocabulary expansion I consider a range of basic adverbs, adjectives and verbs of crucial importance. Reading and listening practice helps a lot.

2:12 is it correct to say “A Celtic language “? You can only say THE Celtic/English (and so on) language,don’t you?

I am German, and I lived in Australia for a while. It is a very stongly metricated country. There are 4 imperial hangovers/influences that I encountered. - Despite using ml, and not even knowing how much liquid there is in a pint, people order beer in pints and half pints (often with 285ml and 570ml written on the glass). - People give height in ft and in. Yet, when I asked them if they knew how long a foot or inch was, they said they don't know, but just knew they were e.g. 6'1". - On grindr guys only use inches for penis size. Due to the influence of American porn. - In speech, large properties are measured in acres but, in writing only in hectares.

Most of the South Indian friends would pronounce "Only" as "Onely"

There is NO such thing as "Indian" English. Simply because NOBODY from India speaks ANY form of English as a NATIVE language. Thats like saying Russian, Chinese, Spanish accent (and mistakes) in English is "Russian, Chinese etc" English.

I wish I could show this video to everyone in Sweden who struggles to understand my accent.

I think his Indian English sounds more like Canadian english than British English.

India, 🇮🇳, China 🇨🇳, Japan 🇯🇵 : Cha Uk 🇬🇧- Tea Meanwhile The Great aMEricans🇺🇸: Chai-tea latte All in a sip 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

India 🇮🇳 , UK 🇬🇧, China 🇨🇳 & Japan 🇯🇵 is obsessed with tea/ Cha.😂

‘Devanagari’ is not a language, but a script.

I also want to mention Gideon that the reason Indians do not aspirate P, T, K is because, we have both aspirated and non aspirated letters in most Indian languages. P and Ph, or T and Th or K and Kh are separate letters in our native language.

Hindu language? 🤔

I would like to add the reason that I think we say " good name". This is to differentiate from your nick name. Nick names are generally for families and friends and "good name" is for people we just met or for official purposes. Like in school I will be called by my "good name" and not my nickname.