Can You Guess the Nationality of Asian English Speaking Countries by Their English Accent?

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Do you know that some Asian countries speak English for native language?

Can you guess their nationality by their English Accent?

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[Fuzzy_Llama]

Putting a Singaporean and a Malaysian together definitely made it tricky.

[lourishbonete]

Finally a good representative of the philippines. She has the most common filipino english accent

[henri]

The lady of US did a good job guessing most of them, even when she got "wrong" Malaysia 🇲🇾 when they lady said she lived in Singapore as well, excellent Brooke 😂

[thelostoracle]

For the longest time I’ve always seen Americans as bad at languages because most of them have a monolingual background. It’s refreshing to see someone who’s actually aware of languages and geography. And considering she is monolingual she actually did a good job distinguishing those accents so good job very smart lady

[nickgoh]

Indians & Filipinos' English accents are quite distinct for the world's English speakers, as these two countries are the main source of overseas Call Centres Support. Many people around the English speaking world would have had "familiar" with their accents, from the 1990 - 2023.

[IOADESTOYER]

Philippines and Indian accent has their very distinctive sound sound she really did not have a hard time with those two. Still the way she was able guess Hong Kong was extremely impressive for a westerner. Most people dont know even the existence of Cantonese.
Also, did anyone else thought the Singapore one sounded like Japanese speaker on the first line?

[ilovesecondhandsmoke]

Friendly, knowledgeable, and with a wide vocabulary. Keep Brooke!!

[JediJean]

I can see why she didn't exactly get Singapore and Malaysia right, because both countries used to be one country called Malaya under the British at one time, the cultures and language spoken is very very close. Even the way English is spoken and the accents would have been challenging to tell apart. The 2 countries are very close in proximity, the land crossing between Singapore and Malaysia is one of the busiest in the world, and Singaporeans and Malaysians often have family in either country. So Singapore and Malaysia would have been a huge challenge, and even more so when you consider that both countries have multi-cultural Chinese, Malay and Indian populations as citizens, among other ethnicities. So yes, BIG challenge there! The other 3 English accents from the Philippines, Hongkong and India are definitely more distinct. I'm from Singapore, and sometimes it's hard for me to tell Singapore and Malaysia accents apart when both are speaking English. It's like how it's sometimes hard to tell a Canadian from an American, 'cos the accents sound quite close.

[gustinex]

I'm a malaysian and I instantly recognized my fellow accent. Also indian and philippines is easy as well since their accent is stronger. Was thinking 3 was japanese or taiwanese until the part where she talks about her favourite color, the singlish just went wild haha

[pensadorzamboangeno]

Good presentation of the Philippines, the accent is spot on! India and Philippines are the most distinct!

[Noah_ol]

Fish time of someone from Hong Kong 🇭🇰 on World Friends, cool, but i think the best part of the video is the new US member, what a smart and lovely lady, she guessed right way more than she could thought 😊

[Patroclus]

I’m singaporean.
And I wouldn’t have guessed #3 was singapore.

Not to invalidate her. It was a possible accent. But in my circles, it’s not a common accent.

Singapore may be small, but there are very distinct accents (along a continuum) especially between socio-ethnic groups

[DrDre]

The thing with Singaporean is they have two different accents when speaking casually and formally. I can tell the singaporean girl try so hard to speak formally, if she try speak like she speak to her friend im sure everybody can guess it.

[lucva]

i feel with singapore and malaysia, you'll need to have them talk longer to be able to discern their accents. putting those two next to each other was definitely a challenge. it wasn't until jing talked about her favourite colour that i could tell she was SG. while the accents are _similar_ the slang they use, the arrangement of the words, their intonation and etc are different from MY. this was a really cool video tho, US guest was really good at guessing and describing accents. linguist perhaps?

[sow_scout]

A good tricky one would be a korean person who learned fluent english the philippines. A lot of the times, you cant distinguish them from a filipino. That could make it a fun twist for these kinds of video.

[caloy]

I live in Singapore for 25 yrs...and I cannot guess the number 3. Shes probably from Mainland China and migrated to Singapore. The common accent for Singaporean is actually number 2.

[DaveChuaa]

I think Philippines is very easy to guess. It's neutral, but distinct.

[sunnygal]

The singaporean doesn't sound singaporean and i'm from singapore 😅 She was likely borned in China and then migrated here thus the hint of china accent that everyone is talking about in the comment section.

[kokliangchew]

As a Malaysian who went through public school and university in England, and practised as a London Barrister, I think my English language proficiency is up to UK standard. Unfortunately, when I was applying to Georgia Tech for a Masters degree, they said that their regulations stated that only graduates from American universities or citizens from a small set number of countries like UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand were deemed to be able to satisfy their English language entry requirements. When I politely and sarcastically wrote back to them questioning their logic, they insisted that because I was not a British citizen, I still had to do the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) to prove my English language proficiency!

[TakaluKevin]

If that Indian was from NorthEastern states, it would have been much more difficult to guess her out, by speak or by looks. Not everyone speaks Hindi in India.