Hey all! Another YouTube video for this week. Part of me is experimenting, the other…~well it just makes sense to do a vid for an auditory topic 🙂
You might need to bump up the audio for this one since turns out I was still quiet while recording.
Video Transcript Below
[Music]hey guys
how’s it going today i’m going to be
talking about accents
and if you are one of those people who
are ashamed
or you know a little bit cautious and
insecure about your accent i
say don’t i mean
first don’t try to get rid of it don’t
try to delete it
maybe add to it sure you know in order
to learn a new one but not not
get rid of it right i have um i have
three ideas
on why you should keep it
you know or at the very least don’t be
ashamed of it don’t be insecure but
i know it’s easier said than done all
right the very first reason
for you know wanting to or
not having to care about your accent is
the very first point that i have on my
list i have three
um the very first point is that the
greater world
does not care about your accent and you
know
let me clarify this i’m using the word
greater world
um but that is um you know if i’ve had
this
i’ve had this experience when i was in
you know grade school high school
where i would try to speak in english
you know
taking into consideration i was born and
living in the philippines by then
um and then you know i would try to
speak it and also i would try to speak
at the which
you know code and coach correct accent
right
like either just an english accent north
american accent
and you know just in my head it’s just
kind of practical you know it is the
english language there is an english
accent you know there are different
accents for the english language
actually there’s british
australian you know north american
things like this
but um you know i’m trying to pronounce
it and enunciate things as
how it’s supposed to be or what i would
consider what how it’s supposed to be
and um my
peers would be we would be kind of not
really making fun but they would take
jabs sometimes it’s you know it’s
something you can easily brush off
sometimes
it kind of gets to you but that’s very
rare in my you know
my experience but the point is uh
you’ll have that sort of experience
where
you know you think you’re you think
you’re doing something wrong
not necessarily wrong i’m trying to find
this word here you think you’re doing
something wrong or you think
okay sometimes my you know my my friends
would be juggling i was like oh
you’re you’re trying too hard
you’re trying too hard you’re you’re
trying to fake it you know
things like that but i know in my head
at least you know based on
you know based on western media for
example
you know that is how they would say it
and so that’s how i would say it
it is the english language there is an
english accent
same concept for other languages if you
say
french for hello you say bonjour right
you don’t say bonjour
you know when you say dania in russia
it’s there’s that accent
right there’s you don’t say those with
dania or somebody it just sounds
weird you know uh
yeah so anyways going back i’m getting
lost
so my experience with that is that you
know with my small circle in my school
you would get you would get some teasers
some jabs you know things like those and
you’d think you’re
kind of doing it wrong or you’d be
affected by
those opinions or reactions but in
reality
it’s it’s once you get out of that small
bubble or small environment that you
were in
the greater world that’s what i’m trying
to say especially when you travel
they don’t really care you know um
take for example whichever country that
you live in once you start traveling
once you hop on to a different airport
actually even
before you get to the other airport like
your airport alone
you know people start to talk
differently you know a little bit more
english i guess depending on the region
part of the world you’re in and uh yeah
they’re more accepting they don’t really
care about your accent as long as you’re
what you’re saying or what you want to
do or what you want to convey is
actually what’s coming across with your
mouth and
that’s why i don’t really care about the
accent uh
yeah and the second part is that accents
you know as i mentioned with regards to
the french and the russian example
accents are part of the um it’s part of
language you know
different countries have different
languages and in different languages
have different accents that’s fine
and yeah there’s there’s this one to one
each language have their own accent and
then especially when you’re trying to
learn a different uh
new one rather than you know other than
the one that you know
sometimes your natural accent will kind
of cling on when
you try haha when you’re trying to
speak the other language and that’s fine
that’s normal it’s because like that’s
how your brain is where right obviously
if you say things in a certain way
and if you try to say things in a
different they say
you know other language other words by
default you
you get from your experience how you say
things
you know that’s totally fine it’s great
if you’re trying to
you know it’s great if you’re trying to
learn the other accent as well
because obviously as i said there’s
corresponding access to correspond
corresponding languages i had a filipino
slip there
you’d want to learn the accent but as
you’re learning that’s that’s i guess
what i’m trying to point out here
as you’re learning don’t don’t feel
insecure about it
don’t feel ashamed about it you’re not
doing anything wrong
to be honest and you know it’s part of
the learning process it’s
you even me you know learning my third
language is the same
which is french it’s like you don’t know
how to say
things and that’s totally fine you’re
learning you’re starting from scratch
and that’s that’s just how it is you
know
and it’s great especially if you’re you
know trying to add
the accent maybe in the first few tries
the first few years of trying to learn a
language
don’t worry about the accent focus focus
on the messaging focus on the you know
what is it what it is that you’re trying
to say
and focus on the you know i’m feeling
that accent is a little bit secondary
compared to the actual content of the
message
focus on that first but it’s great
because like eventually you’ll realize
that sometimes you know accents make a
difference
where where you know for example in
french when you say busave which is
you know you is different i’m sorry
busave and are different you know
there’s just that slight difference the
s and the z sound
but there are two different things one
says uh you you know
and the other one says you have um
that’s that’s kind of where it kind of
you know plays a role not just in french
other languages too and uh
yeah that goes later that goes secondary
last but not the least
the last but not the least the the
reason why i think
you shouldn’t worry about accents at all
is that
it’s it’s part of your personality you
know
it’s part of your personality it’s part
of your character
on two levels one it’s part of the
personality of
whichever nationality or citizen that
you are in
and the other one is it’s part of you as
an individual
right so you know the first one is given
obviously if you
are of i don’t know
if if you’re from a spanish-speaking
country
and then you start speaking or
you know start to learn and speak
english you might have that spanish
accent
it’s totally fine i’ve known lots of
people i have friends
who who still carry those and for me
personally
with the last point which is you know it
gives you character and personality i
personally
like it when when people have their
accents on and they’re trying to speak
different
languages you know primarily english
right
because because for me it’s just
something new it’s something different
it is um
it kind of gives you a flavor like an
auditory flavor
to how things are inside uh there’s
nothing wrong with it
there’s nothing wrong with having an
accent and there’s nothing wrong with
you know carrying it over again so long
as
so long as you’re actually
the message is getting across that’s the
most important part
and yeah
anyways those are my um top three
reasons
or why i think um you should keep
your accent or at least don’t be ashamed
don’t be insecure
about it um
yeah pardon the different um
formats this time i’m a little bit
experimenting
uh i figured that you know let’s give
video a shot again
at the same time i’m talking about you
know accents it’s not really something
you can
convey or type
you know you can’t you can convey
accents on type
uh by typing and yeah let me know if
this works
you know if you think this works
press like button if not let me know in
the comments
and uh yeah come back for more visit
my blog site dan cedric.com
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