Why this Singaporean Chinese feels so happy in India
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Meet Andy Lim, a Singaporean entrepreneur who moved to India 18 years ago to work in electronics manufacturing. Andy shared the most comfortable cities in India for expats, how foreigners can better understand India, and the challenges of dealing with the Indian accent. Enjoy!
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This is one of the most realistic take on India ever by a guest in the channel
Disagree. The pronunciation difference is not correct. It might be specific people he encountered. His experience is only based on south India.
@@MyNewAgehow old are you again?
His analysis about south and north India is extremely correct
lund correct ye bahut bada jhol hai chutiye dekho kaise ye bhed creat kar rahe ,diversity ke aad me or log chutiye hai bhi bharat ke diverse hai to different culture autometicaaly alag kar dega rhi baat iske south me confort ki to waha hi inki daal gal sakti north do char lafare laga chahet dege isliye ye south ko jyada target karte well its new problem for us actually south east north west all are direction its nor any specific diversity the all is come only couse the place called india but they bna rahe bhed
15 yrs is no joke
18 years actually@@Etendard1708
Except that he said Orissa as a part of South India.
@@KiriAatam some user in india open own pant in front of foreigner even they believe thye are more knowlwdgbe eventually if you go in his country no would get you paw
This gentleman has such a nuanced understanding of India, much better than any of the guests on your show.
I love the fact that he recognised us "Northeast" because we're not that much represented in media
What's the reason for that?
Neither are us northern Himalayan (Himachal, ladakh, uttrakhand) ...with an exception of Jammu and kashmir which is in news for all the wrong and sad reasons.
For represented u need to own film industry , and show ur stories , need own PR , states which has film industry are popular like Punjab South
Do something recognisable our government and all parties are shitty can't be helped.
Northern indians are dominent in army as well in agriculture which is very basic n popular thing ig we could make north east as beauty travelling site much better like dehradoon
Partly reason for that could be as not many migrant and interact with the local population. As the person said movies show some of the popular culture from the specific state. If we have more videos on different cultures from Manipur, Assam, ladhak, Manipur, Darjeeling , Sikkim, Kashmiri..I see most popular is Punjab, Rajasthan, Delhi, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala (for it's scenic views not for its culture ) Bangalore is not so popular not for its culture either, but for IT, Call centers , Dosas, Idli n Vadas, Andrapradhesh is known for its Spicy food but we don't really know much about the culture.
Bro been in India so long, his head shakes accordingly
This guy knows more about India and it's geography than the average 'educated' Indian.
Average educated Indian now currently would be applying visa to settle overseas, it might include you as well.
@@shiningstone6771 I don't have that capacity as an average Indian. You might be those who are offended easily when a foreigner can tell more about your country
Indians are No 1 in underestimating and looking down on themselves
Thank you, Andy Lim, for sharing your life experience in India with us. Fascinating and exciting at the same time.
Correction Bangalore, not 1000feet, is around 1000mt above sea level..
Its actually around 3000 ft or 920 m
*m, not "mt" (millitonnes, which amounts to kilograms).
Your honest opinion is great..
I think the details which he has given about India is so very precise and perfect. He genuinely knows india from inside. Loved watching it. Most insightful details from almost all of your videos Sir.
You should also introduce the guests and give info about what they do etc.
During Raja Raja Chola era..
He ruled most of Malaya peninsula, Singapore, many parts of Indonesia
(Indirectly)
That's why many cultural similarities are there between these places
Yes , too much looking back can lead to tripping on stone in front of you
Chola didn't bring multiculturalism. South East Asia has been a multicultural region because of the sea trade.
The fact that he called himself Tamil and spreading Tamil culture. Sadly now it's been a part of India.
This was great to watch. I enjoyed your previous interview with Andy and his perspectives about the North and South are on-pointe. His insights are very interesting and come from having actual experience of having lived in the country and interacted with the people. Great to hear from him again, Thanks for sharing.
this guy is dead spot on! And he know how to avoid unnecessary controvery ans still say what he wants to !
Very very interesting i have a feeling for India greetings from the Netherlands
i like this kind of content. its very informative. thank you.
I am an Indian and I have never heard an Indian saying swimming phool??
Its is quite Often in Tier 3 cities of India some people sound like F in place of P its depends on their local language habit.
Also like for example it happens with letter "S" also replaced with letter "A and S" combined, like instead of saying SPEED some people tend to say ESPEED.
If you interact with Tier 1 city youths that not the case usally.
Depends on where you are.
Fr 💀
Normally in western accent it’s called as Swimming “Phool”’ as Indians while trying to imitate them make it Swimming “Fool”normal Indian accent is “Pool”. Similarly have seen westerners not able to understand Indian accent “Party” so to make them understand Indians try to change it to “Pharty” but ultimately says “Farty”. 😂
Ya I noticed he's very low -level.
"domestic immigration is very common" - in fact this happens in all non-city states. Singapore being one is therefore a very rare exception in this world. The city-state that she is affords her citizens to be born, schooled, work and retire in the same place. Singapore coincidentally would also be a first-tier city in non-city states, and in fact, a regional and arguably international first-tier city too.
Thank you speaking honestly about our/My Country
Im from india. Plz understand that everyone in india knows hindi. Even i dont know hindi.
So no need of hindi subtittles. Hindi is just one of the language of north india. So need to follow the stereotypes.
What a guy!
This gentlemen seems to be very smart and sober in his judgements.
I hope Max is going to interview Alfonso and Jessica as well on his channel. Finger crossed.
Nice interview, he is great person 😂
I love Bahrat, want to stay there sometime.
SINGAPOREAN chinese.
You can do both ways
@@MaxChernov
No.
Different meaning.
Come so long still don't know.
Well done both of you guys... Very genuine & honest interview.
He's well versed with the nitty gritty of Indian Market😅
Even though India is not perfect in English fluency ,most Indian writers wrote extraordinary poetry,dramas,novels, short stories, marvellous genre in English...keep it in urs memory pls...❤
Is it a second interview with same person?
I'm in hospitality field, really wishing on moving to India (preferably Chennai, TN). What are the opportunities that available and what are the requirements?
Btw I am half Tamil from Malaysia.
Small correction. Bengaluru is around 920 meters above sea level which is ~3020 feet [not 1000 feet :)]
Small correction: it's metres, not "meters".
He's referring to the lower social classes in India. The upper social classes here speak great English and most speak English at home.
No, they don't. They still have bad pronunciation, and almost nobody can seem to get basic grammar or vocabulary right, such as for counting. So-called upper class Indians still say stuff like "5 lakhs" or "5 crores", which has made it into movies and TV shows as well. Also, misusing words like "dialogue", "mutton", "personality", etc.
@@tstcikhthys You don't know a thing about the upper social classes in India especially those from the elite areas of South Mumbai educated at fine public schools in India and some of the best universities abroad. Their grammar, syntax, vocabulary are envious and often better than the Americans or Brits. And yes English is their first language.
@@systemic384 Lol no, it isn't. And I know them very well; I'm friends with some of them. "Better than the Brits" haha, good joke. Better than the Americans? Sure, I believe that. The Americans are horrible at English anyway, so it's not even a high bar.
Have you seen how the upper social classes of BJP politicians speak?
@@cnachopchopnewsagency I'm not talking about politicians. Among Indian politicians only Shashi Tharoor fits the bill of upper social class and he speaks so well.
So good of him recognising the Northeast.
GDP per employed person in Singapore is $180k in PPP to US. And its $22k in India, $35k in China, $140k in USA. Even after adjusting relative prices, Indians and Chinese earn less and work more. And when Singaporeans earn the highest in the world, prospectively Chinese, Brazilians earn peanuts.
China and India are developing nations, can't expect more from them
Lah and ah is strong but good insight for sure.
20:28
spot on
I've met Kashmiri Indians who look white.
You will find white in every Indian tribe funny how gines function even north south,east,west..Indian even with green,blue eyes..
Indians obsessed with white because they hate being mistaken for blacks or Australian original natives. Especially the south Indians. Dravidian, Tamils, etc.
You can find white people everywhere in India..
@@jacku8304 Indian comes under different skin colour even tamil people can have light skin and not only India Chinese people are also obsessed with white skin same as Indian and call indians you are white for an Indian , how can you be Indian and white , you must be rich 🤑 they will become polite to white Indian then dark india because of skin colour,and Chinese guys are also obsessed with light skin they say I can date north Indians because they are light skin.
India is a country and Indians are the citizen of this country, not a ethnic
There are more than 100 ethnic groups in this country.
China is a country, and the Chinese are the citizen of this country, not a ethnic. China has Fujianese, Cantonese, Shanghainese, Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongolians, etc.
We were Solanki in Gujrat then establish baghel dynasty in 1300 we moved to region of current days eastern mp and founded baghelkhand region, what is my ethnicity.
@@dramaworld5987 normally
People are divided according to their mother tongue
We know more about indian, we like to undestand him
Isnt this a repeat? And also the previous one?
Mny of his views are incorrect.
1. People comes to cities to work. Mostly engineers ans mostly IT. This is the same thinh in ny country. Ppl in singapore will cme to singapore city n so will be in US or ny othet country. Regional places always have limited work comparatively.
However, being myself in abroad, opportunities in India even in regional cities are far more compared to any abroad country US,singapore or Au.
2. Regarding salary. I think only India has upper kiddle class and middle class families. On an average these middle class ppl have cars ,maids , cooks and most of the domestic help, can go to retuarants as often as almost as 3-4 days a week n weekend ,going to restuarabts is a norm. Medicare is so good that ppl can afford the best doctors. We dont go to normal mbbs at all. Even for the smalkest scratch,we go to specialists. For simple fever,we find the best pediatricians n the facilities are very affordable. Also, mny companies provide medical insurance to the entire family and we dont pay a penny.These ppl also go for trips which is very very common. Booking hotels n hving a relaxed time visiting places is pretty affordable.
So basically with the salaries that we earn,we can have pretty much a very luxurious life. This is impossible in abroad anywhere. The standard of living is pretty low in abroad. We can hardly afford for good doctors and weekend retuarants itself is soo expensive. The salary to cost ratio in abroad is terrible. It almost feels like poverty in abroad. Forget bout luxury.
3 its also easy to buy houses in India as we get 100% loan , if not 90% for sure. The thing in which he said 30% is false. We dont pay nything in cash. Everything must be documented n documents needs to be checked too as one can get easily cheated in India.
We can nvr think of buying a house in abroad and its a lifetime struggle.
4. Education is worse in abroad. In India its expensive but we can afford it as the salary is high. We can get best private schools for our children tutions n extra curricullars like music,karate n its everydatly. Not once a week. Imagine wat will nyone learn praticing once a week.
In abroaf, the cost is beyind affordable n yet the classes r only once a week. No one cares to teach nnprivate schoolsn tutions r out of our reach.
I can go on n on. Basically life is far more luxurious, very convenient and comfortable in India.
Dont compare dolar to INR conversion. Compare the quality of life and how affordable it is in India. Yes ppl go to abroad to make quick.money due to conversion n cme back n settle. It doesnt mean abroad is better.
You must be living in an India of another dimension, because that's not the India that exists on Earth in the dimension that the rest of us are in.
@@tstcikhthysyes..most ppl are blind in their brains. Cant chnge them..they themselves r in different dimension. The one i m talking bout is the real India n i myself m living in it with mny others. Tourists will only hve tourist perspective. Not the real India.
Do a video about south vs north India. South is less populated and more civilised than the North
India like SG is very influence by the Queen's English...need to speak properly not 'champo' as in Singlish
Very intelligent high iq man.
hw know more that indian politicians ..!!
15 years of living in india and still don't know hindi and usage of english ( alien language) to communicate is like sonia gandhi (italian woman who struggle to speak hindi despite living and married to indian for35-40 years)speaks a volume about person thinking. First thing you do when you move abroad is that learn local or connecting language. Saying north Indian doesn't speak hindi ( taxi auto labour) why would they .... you came to india .... there work is doing on perfectly
He stayed in South India most, he might know Tamil or Kannada language but since this channel focuses with Hindi subtitles, he cannot show his other language skills
Lol as if people in India know how to communicate in Hindi. So-called native speakers can't go one sentence without shoving in English words. People in India should learn their own languages first before expecting foreigners to learn them.
@@tstcikhthys people india are of Caucasian race they have no much ego they don't speak a word other than english and german ...
❤ she is jessica 😂
First time when herd "Canot canot " I felt it was very rude , then got used to it
“The person you talk to lar” why two words? 😅
I'm from Pune, my most relatives worked in Bengaluru ( high salary jobs ), even after that they left Bengaluru and settled back to Pune. Reasons are
1. Water crisis
2. Expensive compared to Pune
3. City management is bad. Bus service is best but I have seen traffic jam of 1 km. In Bengaluru .
4. South Indian communist mentality, if they came to Pune, Mumbai for job , they will bring 10 more South Indians with them . (Same for U.P. , Bihar ) but if 1 Maharashtrian working in Bengaluru then he face more challenges.
Tamil people are good , open minded compared to kerala, karnataka, Andhra originated people. Keralites are worst.
I lived with kannadigas who owns restaurants in Pune . In their restaurants, from cleaner to owner is from South India. They never offer jobs to any Maharashtrian.
Near my home Adi Shankaracharya temple exists, we Maharashtrians are not allowed to go there to celebrate Hindu festivals. Keralites gather there and celebrate there. Communist Keralites.
Bharat is 🧡Fab
tips in india when speak must shake hands. use fingers..
there is 2 d one is like (the) other is like (dog)
Noida City is one of most modern city in India.
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waterrrrrrrrrrrr
.....But...His accent doesn't have similarity with a native speaker's pronunciation. In this case Indian accent is better than the sound he is making.
There is nothing wrong with his accent. Even Indian accent sounds funny and strange or illegible sound to non native speakers of English. His accent has similarities with the English spoken in Nagaland
he is just saying how Indian speaker sounds like, he didn't say his accent is close to how native english speaker would speak. Singaporeans have a different accent altogether.
@@nikhilkay1 he said Indian accent is "better". Better is comparative and always subjective. Everyone thinks their language and accent is superior. The same Indian accent is made fun of in the United States. So before making fun of someone else's accent one should have more empathy since they themselves might be victims someday.
Also what do you mean by an Indian speaker? There isn't one single Indian accent. The English of a Punjabi sounds different to that of a tamilian. The English of a maharashtrian sounds different to that of a native Nagamese speaker. Similarly Bengali accent is different from someone speaking in gujarati. There isn't one single Indian accent
@@Ozukovsky yes, but for American punjabi speaking english and bengali speaking english sounds similar to them in tonality, gesture while north eastern have a very different tone when speaking english. An average villager from India won't be able to distinguish between american, irish, british, scottish, australian accent. for them it would be the same. When I came to US all the english from every region of US sounded same, after 15 years or so now I can distinguish when a new yorker speaks english and when a texan or californian speak english. At first it sounded all same.
@@nikhilkay1 But you get the idea how accents are varied be it Noth India, South India or North-East India while within the same country. But coming back to my original point I don't see what he says as "India accent" maybe he means a north Indian accent is better. On what parameters do you judge one accent to be better than the other?
Regarding US accents you can still distinguish a thick southern accent from say an accent of someone from New York. Even in England there are so many accents
India is a difficult place to do business for foreigners.
India is a difficult place for Indians to do business. Nehru set-up one of the worst and stupid bureaucracies in the world
Even for Indians
2 men speaking in pidgeon English about the eccentricities of another people who speak pidgeon English.
😂
Indian who move abroad firstly it was common among millennium but gen z not so ... they have different mindset. They see india differently. Plus alot of stuff that is happening in the world is in asia particularly india. Yes they might go to study abroad but beyond a certain period of time as i realised you can do work and enjoy in the west but to settle No. Vibe of india is not there ... plus no digitization, too much rules.
Lol yeah right. India just had a record wave of citizenship renunciations this year and last year. If given the chance, people would fall over each other to go to the West, and they do. So many people I know personally who do 2, 3 masters degrees (not really learning anything) just to stay in the US and other countries if they don't end up getting a work visa, spending thousands of dollars. This is not to mention unemployment is like 45% in India, which is just bonkers. And no digitalization? What are you on about?
@@tstcikhthys I have said what I have to based on my experience... you are entitled to have your own ...
@@HIMANSHU79879 Sure, but you said "no digitalization", which is a claim about facts. So I don't know what you mean there, because it's very much the opposite.
@@tstcikhthys digitalization it's not in that scale which is in india.... be it Germany Poland Croatia. Whether it's govt offices or any flee market or roadside small vendor
@@HIMANSHU79879 But you don't compare the UK or Estonia? India doesn't compare to that level of digitalization. It depends on which examples you cherry-pick.
Hmmm Bro, you're totally wrong. What about the Punjabis, Sindhis, Gujaratis & Malayaless? They've been in Singapore for almost a 150 years and are non-Tamil Indians. They were just a minority within the early Indian populations, making up the other 40% non-Tamils. Singaporean Indians have always been a mixture with a dominant ethnic Tamil component. LHL just celebrated the 100 year anniversary of the Sindhi community association in Singapore just a few years ago, for instance. There are also six Sikh temples in Singapore serving the Punjabi Sikh community and have an old history. Malayaless are the second largest group, and have a long history in Singapore.
tamil people strugle for singapore indepanance , before there lived in malaysia for 100 more years , so tamil is singapore national language , go away man
Tamils are around 9% in Singapore as a citizen . But there is more non resident Tamils than resident Tamils . For them india means Tamil
@@pradeepc2584 INDIANS* are around 9% of the SG population, of which a majority are Tamils. You lack basic facts and knowledge. Out of this 9%, 40% are non-Tamil Indians like Malayalees, Sindhis etc.
@@Magnatec_tank no , all are Tamil people
@@kimjong-un9729 Nope, majority are but not all. Pritam Singh, Kishore Mahbubani, Choor Singh, Chief Justice Menon, Mustafa etc are all examples. All non-Tamil Indian generational Singaporeans.
He is Chinese and so he has Chinese accent.
It’s a wrong information that you have to pay cash for buying a house. Bank offer up to 90% loan in India legally and 10% to 20% buyer pay cash legally which is not black but in legal way. Builders never force to pay illegal money. If some individual willing to pay black money in cash then different story but it’s not regular practice
are you really in india? Almost all states of india majority builder would hind or deman for some portion in black. Speciall low and mid level builders.Know you country better bro.
To be fair this was extremely common 10ish years ago. Its far less cash dependent now.
@@Blazikentube I am very much in India and bought a house without any black money.
@@Navaneel208 I am also in India. I am not saying it's impossible to buy without black money. I'm saying it was a lot more common 10 years ago than it is now.
It took my 2+ years to sell land, not a house, purely because people wanted to pay parts in cash.
Let's not forget that India is impossibly huge. No way we can set one thing for the whole.
Most investors pay in cash, those take loan for own stay pay through proper channels... without cash paying investors real-estate developers can't move their projects
(South India) State of Kerala🌴😍☺️ must visit places:
-Aleppy backwaters ('Venice of the East')
-Vagamon ('Scotland of Kerala')
-Munnar hill station ('Kashmir of South India') home to tea plantations, spice garden, tasty homemade chocolates and different wildlife
-Varkala Beach and Kovalam Lighthouse beach
-Fort Kochi attractions with Jewish synagogue, Dutch Palace and Portuguese church alongwith the European influenced streets
-world's first water metro also try the land metro
-Kerala is a major football hub and has got featured in FIFA channel
-Athirapally waterfalls ('Niagara falls of South India')
- Lulu International Mall (largest malls of South India in Trivandrum and Kochi)
-Jatayu largest Bird Sculpture
-Do interact with the locals they are really sweet and helpful
-This state has the highest literacy rate
-Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews etc.. all live in peace and harmony♥️
-It is also the home of Ayurvedic medicine
-The Kerala cuisine consists of non-veg including beef and pork and seafood.Also try the traditional meal served on banana leaf 😍
Putting Hindi subtitles in the video is a waste of time, India is not a one language one policy country like China, Brazil or Japan. Indians speak tons of languages, our link language is English, Obviously you know it and still being ignorant and adding hindi subtitles can make the whole India understand.
English subtitles is more than enough for us.
...no, it isn't. Only about 2% of India (being very generous) is actually fluent in English. 5% of it can operate in written English with fluency (with an accent for oral), and only about 10% of India even remotely knows a thing or two about English. The remaining 90% know not a lick of English. Hindi, on the other hand, is known by 300+ million native speakers, and about 646M speakers including non-native speakers. That's basically half the population. Why would he not unlock his content to such a large population base if he could?
It’s amazing living for so long and never pick up the language. If live in France he probably could converse in French. Looked down on Indian accent
Are you dumb ? He didn't pick up the local language because English is widely spoken in the south of India whereas in France , English is not widely used.
Singa- pura lion city. Somehow end up being singapore as pour .... english has really messed up whole lot of names
0:23 @alfonsoandjessica that's your video.
Corruption...
Not so swimming pool is not pronounced as fool, Indians never that but they always pronounced "swimming pool.
Xinjiang part of Pakistan
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Pakistan part of Xinjiang.
India not on my bucket list for now
Literally no one asked harold
English is not an Indian language.
Bro is using India to milk views 😂
What is this a geography lesson? Irrelevant interview
I think he should re-comeback to North, specially U.P it has changed. Why didn't he go to Gujrat and Maharashtra? These places are also good interms of business.
Chinese singaporian hakka noodles commenting on indian accent , hahahahaha
Most Malaysians who speak English like me will easily put him to shame.
Huh? Malaysians who attended Chinese schools speak worse English than Singaporeans. A lot of them say Sing-GA-POR. 😂.
Is it? Show us. Empty vessel made the most noise.
Wow, you speak the Queen's English is it ?
@@sayapunbumiputera367 what Queen ? It's the King's language.
@@sayapunbumiputera367 bumiputra semua masuk neraka
As a Sporean his English is very average. What a shame.
At least his speak English. he doesn't have to talk perfect English like a westerner from the USA or England.
@@lactusgalacto1174 I like the words at least.
I don't think so. He speaks good English. Why don't you show us how well you speak. At least he got the guts to express himself.
Speaking with his head shaking uncontrollably left and right like those Indians 🤣
What is so ashame? That is not his mother tongue