is siok siok cheap cheap not the same in singlish? when i hear this with just hokkien and english knowledge without malay knowledge, they are all cheap cheap to me
That’s the funny thing about Singapore, English speakers can’t understand their singlish, but most mandarin speakers can’t understand their Mandarin either.
Singlish wasn't meant for English speakers to understand. It was a way for our ancestors and early settlers to communicate with one another because they lack a common language. The only way Malay, Chinese, Indians could communicate was through a pidgin that developed into a creole language. Don't worry, we don't expect you to know Singlish, it's cringe when others try to imitate it as well. For the Mandarin, I'm pretty sure my Taiwanese and Malaysians have no problem understanding me. That's the same as how Singaporeans don't understand how some Northern Chinese speak as well.
U saw that 1990s mrt video? Anyway those English speakers were probably the wealthy upper middle class singaporeans from the colonial times pre 1960s that could afford a formal British education in private schools or something.....those newscasters that u saw on TV in the 1980s Majority of the local population the peasantry 90 percent learnt English from local teachers from the public education system hence they speak English with a heavy local sinkie accent...... And is usually not as posh or refined or elegant as the native English speakers from Britain or wherever.......
Singaporeans in 1980's speak Chinese, Malay etc and that's when we are the fastest growing economy. now youngster like speak english but working attitude cannot make it. jialat
I'm a Singaporean, and i grew with this HUMOUR! I can relate to the reality of how spontaneous and innocent this was part of the Culture It's a blessing growing up with my Chinese neighbors and I've happy memories and the best days of my life. Now it's portrayed as a comedy.
Asean have so many languages mix together, malay,arabic,mandarin,english, and many more. Probably because of the ancient trade routes of malacca strait connecting far east and west.
Most probably drunk or SICK in the HEAD. Loser from some foreign land trying to tune into Singapore. Probably can't make it in his homeland, WHAT A LOSER!!! LOL LOL LOL LOL
These guys are simply the best of the best in the planet. Their comic timing, dialogue delivery is just out of this world. Discovered these legends in the 80s, still fangirling them as an auntie (i am in my 40s)
The countries close around Malaysia and Singapore can understand this kind of English and I feel nothing but pride that we understand eachother's English like this
0:01 Who else felt nostalgic when you see people enter a PC store during the 90s and early 2000s, and seeing all these hardwares and gadgets of that time?
$1999 for a 64MB Ram config computer, back then the manufacturers were based in Singapore. Now with the production in China and a mature technology 8GB ram computer cost like S1000 only. Maybe a little higher in this COVID-19 pandemic.
@@jaekheory6006 There are Best Denki in Singapore. If it was film there most likely a popular place Singaporean get their electronic from during that period. 🤣 You are using UA-cam it's isn't that hard to search it on the internet you know
@@mimiace9361 that was a RESPONSE OKAY? you said this was filmed in japan, which i replied that it was from singapore. by reading it as an actual question, it wouldn't make sense for me to comment.
Honestly, I appreciate Singaporeans who embrace Singlish rather than those who deny it exists and brag about how 'perfect' Singapore is. Singlish could be the one single thing that is uniquely Singaporean instead of the 'European Country in the East' that some Singaporeans dream of. Beauty is in the imperfection, my friends.
This English isn't that hard to understand once you get used to the accent. I am from the North West of England and once when I was a teenager I had to go to Newcastle, a city in the North East, for an interview. The dialect there is called Geordie. With younger people it's more of a sing-song accent, but with old people, especially back then, it was practically like a foreign language when you heard it. I stopped an old man for directions and after asking him to repeat himself twice, I gave up, thanked him politely and decided I'd just have to hope for the best. Maybe I'd find my destination by accident.
I find the Geordie accent easier to understand compared to the Northern Irish or Glaswegian accents. In Asia where Man Utd is one of the most popular clubs, they often had to subtitle Sir Alex Ferguson's interviews even in English-language media.
As a Malaysia , need to translate this English accent to malay in my head first ,then figure it out in English back to understand it, Singlish= "My friend said ah , this price ah, smelly-smelly can get 2 computer" Malay= " kawan saya cakap , harga macam ni busuk-busuk pon beli 2 computer" English=" my friend tell me, that he can get 2 computer for the same price"
I went to ask a direction in Singapore, had the same confussion as when I asked direction in Scotland. I was living in London at that time so I'm not that too unfamiliar with strong accented english, but boy, I could only understand the direction from the gesture they made.
As a Filipino, I don’t fully understand this but the way they switch to English and other languages is how I talk to other people in my regional language
this is somewhat how chinese filipinos in the philippines talk like too. my family today can still codeswitch between hokkien, tagalog, english, and sometimes even mandarin. like kungyari, gua e-hiau (我會曉) din pero not everyone marunong magkong-ue (mag-講話) like this. ming bai ma? (明白吗?)
Stop explo iting under age boy n dity during circum Phi, shame on Phi feminist for pretend they don't know. Also obrun unfair always young male been objectified full frontal at institute (the reverse even just tanktop can be gender issues at institute, let alone bikini, let alone half nkd top less female). Funny seeing Filipinos ladies upset over lingerie yet next day defend nak d men hypocrite.
In Singapore several months ago, many people spoke English with like that dialect, so sometimes I did not recognize what they means. To avoid miscommunication, I try to spoke in Malay language awesome they could be also. I am from Indonesia. Peace for all✌
@@ttytty6940 might be, but it could also be becuz they pick up the language when talking/dealing with Malay neighbors or customers, they pick up the language via the many conversations 👍👍
@@ttytty6940 They are, if you don't already know. Even the Pinoy working here knows how to distinguish. Once I was standing infront of Kallang MRT, this Pinoy lady walked up to me and asked, "Sir, are you Japanese?" LOL Hawkeye lady
well maybe you're used to hearing people pronounce English words incorrectly. I'm from the U.S and I'd say I picked up 40% of it. Had it not been for the subtitles I probably would understand less to be honest.
What does he say at 1:21? To me it sounds like he says "My friend go outside smelly-smelly can buy 2 computer at this price." but that makes no sense 😕 Why did she call him Uncle? What does "He beautiful beautiful give you" mean?
@@Needsmoreflash I’m Assuming what he tried to interpret is like for the price of the current computer they show in the clip, he could’ve bought 2 computers in a store of much worser condition lmao. Reminder: I only get around like 70 percent of what he says so ye.
Wait a sec? Ik singlish is considered weird but as an Indonesian and part of the SEA gang, I always thought everyone who speaks english would definitely understand it because the concept is simple 😂
Their accent plus their pronunciation and lack of knowledge of how to make a proper sentence is what makes it difficult to understand, I'm not that great with english either since it's not my first language but I'm more used to listen the accent from USA and european countries
Trust me, we can understand lol. At least Americans probably can because even our own English is so broken and full of words from other languages we can pretty much pick up any accent/dialect/etc out there lol. Not to mention the very large amount of immigrants. You can honestly get by pretty well here with even basic English.
I'm a native English speaker from South Africa and understood nearly all they were saying, except for the few slang/loan words here and there. Probably helps that many people here have a very strong accent when speaking English too, so I'm more used to different pronunciation, and we also have tons of loan words from other languages. Funnily enough, I found this easier to understand than some British accent videos I watched lol, some of those are impossible, not to mention that Irish farmer, I've watched that video like 5 times and still barely have a clue what he is even saying (and he's speaking English!)
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@@patricktjia I can't speak Hokkien before I learned Hokkien by myself when I was 15. Now I'm 18, I can speak and write Hokkien in fluent. In addition, I'm the only Hokkien speaker in my class.
Combination of Chinese, Hokkien (or taiyu) and english is the best language. I use to remember my mom telling us the story when in the 90s most Singaporean speaks hokkien and its easy for her who only fluent in hokkien to travel there.
@@cw8 Even Singlish is starting to just become English with Chinese/Malay syntax. A lot of the slang borrowed from Hokkien, Malay, Tamil are disappearing.
@@cw8 There has been some trend on the rise of Eurasian, ThaiSin and the 4SeaChineseWaifu, alot sgrean seem to prefer marry people from outside thus globalization effect. I think in few years time singlish will be very different maybe rojak with some thai words like "mao moi" and "jing jing"
I speak English and Chinese and I could understand most of it. (American English native speaker) It’s like mainly broken English with mandarin which I speak.
lol i am chinese filipino from philippines and i could comprehend about maybe 80% of whats being said without subtitles. its just hokkien and english spoken fast with a strange grammar
@@eloisanzara237 QC, or maybe these days the gov wants to now call itself as Kyusi lol. the original name of the city itself has hokkien roots as a surname, albeit hispanicized cuz of that president's father who worked for the spaniards before and married a spanish mestiza, even taught spanish and died with the spaniards in some church in baler. up to today, there's not really any real census data too to know how many chinese filipinos are in ph, especially many are mixed and others are old colonial-era assimilated families complicating things. im mostly still pure tho with no living relatives having any citizenship elsewhere but ph. the hokkien they use in the video is mostly the same as what my parents and grandparents use. the few mandarin they used i also recognize from what was taught in the filchi school im from before. the only thing strange about them is their english accent and when they talk about vegetable head or horse running which makes no sense in the hokkien of ph. i know tho that singaporean hokkien also has malay mixed in, which of course we have no idea of, but philippine hokkien also has a few spanish and tagalog loanwords, cuz siguro they spoke spanish before rin like we do with english now, and tagalog particles are very implicit lang talaga.
Singlish, in and of itself, isn't beautiful. Really, it isn't. What it is, is that it's a product of its environment. Efficient, straightforward, not always polite and a hodge-podge of culture. And it definitely isn't a language. It being a language implies that it can be learnt. I don't think it's that simple. Singlish is a way of life. You can only learn the lingo by immersing yourself in the culture, and therein lies the beauty. Every Malay knows Jialat. Every Chinese knows Goondu. Every Indian knows suka-suka. Even with less-than-stellar English skills, all 3 can understand each other.
Hi to all those that have difficulty understanding, it's really alright. Majority of what they are saying are a mix of Hokkien(Chinese dialect, not exactly Mandarin/Chinese) and English. Hence, it's difficult for even native mandarin/Chinese speakers to understand
that's Strange, the last time my family member visited there in 2016 and even that my grandmother could understand it.. I'll have to asked them later. The only people my grandmother ever complained are the chinese in san francisco chinatown this happened in 1980 and she said "they're quite arrogant, i spoke to them in chinese they answered us in Cantonese so they got shut up by my father speaking teochew dialect who knew one of the worker could speak both and began to lecturing the worker "
Singlish is an English dialect with Southbanvetian 閩南語 aka Hokkien, Cantonese, Teoswanese 潮汕語 aka Teochew, Mandarin, Malay, Tamil influenced (in vocabularies, grammar and accent).
Back to the future. After WW3 that is. When America goes to war with China and Russia, only India is left after the war. So start learning Indian language coz it will be all in Indian NET. My Gosh, Mediacorp manage to hire people from the future.
64MB ram, those were certainly the times.....
and now we have 64GB of Ram as an option
Lim Ming Quan also This Movie is in 1999 so 128/256 are more likely to be common sometimes can go extreme as 512MB PC133 Ram.
Very fast already in these days!!😂😂😂
@@alpzepta in the future we'll get 5TB of ram as the cheapest option for *laptops*
$1999 in 1999 was indeed the market rate... rem I got a 128MB ram pc in 2001 is $2000 plus.
Not only funny as heck. But anyone else appreciate and noticed, that the entire scene was done in one continuous take!
Lies again? Driver Chauffeur USD SGD
"How many dollars?"
"Cheap-cheap"
These lines really made me realize how different our languages are from English.
Oh hi mark
is siok siok cheap cheap not the same in singlish? when i hear this with just hokkien and english knowledge without malay knowledge, they are all cheap cheap to me
Definitely it is different since it is a English-based creole just like Jamaican patois
It's same, somehow unique hahaa
They’re poorly educated man😒
That’s the funny thing about Singapore, English speakers can’t understand their singlish, but most mandarin speakers can’t understand their Mandarin either.
Not even the Fujian and Hokkian people can understand their Hokkian
but they are not saying Mandarin.
I mean this was pretty easy to understand
Singlish wasn't meant for English speakers to understand. It was a way for our ancestors and early settlers to communicate with one another because they lack a common language. The only way Malay, Chinese, Indians could communicate was through a pidgin that developed into a creole language. Don't worry, we don't expect you to know Singlish, it's cringe when others try to imitate it as well.
For the Mandarin, I'm pretty sure my Taiwanese and Malaysians have no problem understanding me. That's the same as how Singaporeans don't understand how some Northern Chinese speak as well.
@@MixSonaProductions Hokkien*
Singaporeans in The 1980's: _speaks a very beautiful english_
Singaporeans Now: I Like your Accent Lah
Yeah lots of maglish or english rojak
excuse me! ???
this one from the 90s
U saw that 1990s mrt video?
Anyway those English speakers were probably the wealthy upper middle class singaporeans from the colonial times pre 1960s that could afford a formal British education in private schools or something.....those newscasters that u saw on TV in the 1980s
Majority of the local population the peasantry 90 percent learnt English from local teachers from the public education system hence they speak English with a heavy local sinkie accent......
And is usually not as posh or refined or elegant as the native English speakers from Britain or wherever.......
Singaporeans in 1980's speak Chinese, Malay etc and that's when we are the fastest growing economy.
now youngster like speak english but working attitude cannot make it. jialat
Only Indonesians, Singaporeans, Malaysians, and Brunei's could understands this kind of language 😄
🤣
We are uh…four of a kind
[Sentence]-lah
We are same same, no reason to be confused lah 😂
@@arquitensproduction8001 I agree with u lah...
I'm a Singaporean, and i grew with this HUMOUR!
I can relate to the reality of how spontaneous and innocent this was part of the Culture
It's a blessing growing up with my Chinese neighbors and I've happy memories and the best days of my life.
Now it's portrayed as a comedy.
We are very multi-cultural
We speak about 47 different languages in a sentence with 68 dialects
There was that time when I speak in 6 languages in a single meeting of 4 people.
Each communicate in different languages between each other.
Asean have so many languages mix together, malay,arabic,mandarin,english, and many more. Probably because of the ancient trade routes of malacca strait connecting far east and west.
"Computer very fast, 64mb ram"
Meanwhile me complaining about my 4gb ram laptop, oh how time changes
You should consider buying an SSD
@@yoovanshubajaj6125 Agreed, my laptop 5 times faster after installing SSD
That's because you use WIndows 10, already run out of RAM when opening Chrome with a few tabs.....Windows 95 ran smoothly with 64MB RAM
The crappy operating system changed, Linux
"how many money?"
"Your English is so bad.. I say is better"
Also him: "how many dollar?"
💀😂
@@Jon-os7qr okay then? I'm just doing a meme lol what a spoiler
@@Jon-os7qr if that's not a meme then it is a meme
How many dollars is okay
How many dollars do you have in your pocket?
Nope, that's not what he said. Stop pulling "memes" from your ass.
@@mammontustado9680 no one asked Lmao-
Somehow as malaysian, i can understand the way his talk😂
As indonesian, Me either
smelly smelly xD
also as a Chinese
rojak english
Busuk busuk
as a malaysian i understood every word he said, the “how many dollar?" *"tiks"* is the most chinese/malay thing a chinese/malay could say.
you guys all look the same
@@mrkslva4231 ok and? how does that relate to this lol
@@mrkslva4231 damn I wish I could look like asian pop stars
@@sunhopii8534 thats gay
Don’t forget “eat medicine” and “open the lights”
- Do you speak ENGLISH?
- Of course lah! SINGLISH also caaan
Patryk Kruk lol XD My Singapore and Malay friends for some reason always add that “lah” at the end of sentence
@SinisterÆnigmA Woi this comment years ago sial, no need to reply lah, months ok, kau tak need no more reply yes
@@ghostchua69 bruh let him be laaa ,bukan tambah beras kau pun klau kesah psl dia
Most probably drunk or SICK in the HEAD. Loser from some foreign land trying to tune into Singapore. Probably can't make it in his homeland, WHAT A LOSER!!! LOL LOL LOL LOL
@@hiroshiyamashita2090 Who were you referring to...
These guys are simply the best of the best in the planet. Their comic timing, dialogue delivery is just out of this world. Discovered these legends in the 80s, still fangirling them as an auntie (i am in my 40s)
When Media Corp hadn't morphed yet into Media Corpse 💀
What are their names?
Yes, what is this show called, I want to watch more of it!
@@mrsocks8white shirt = henry thia
checkered shirt = mark lee
they’re still acting today!
I love this accent. Its fun to listen to when you're at the shops.
This is very funny, and all I wanted to see was just an example of Sanglish. The two of them are a perfect pair.
It's singlish. This is real singlish. Not those "uneducated" youngsters that think hokkien vulgarity = singlish.
@@RonLarhz ya lor
@@APersonOnUA-camX Your translation (prior to the youtube update) says "Cookie2Buckus8FskJungwa or Lore". This is definitely Singlish.
@@joskethegreat4154 LMAO
@@joskethegreat4154walao eh you only like that then know meh
As a malaysian,i can understand this 100%
Me too
As an Indonesian, I can understand it too
As a Singaporean I can understand this as well
As a Hong Konger, I can understand 50%
@@muhammadbagussetiawanatmaj4905 Bukan cina indonesia fasih Bahasa Indonesia ke?
The countries close around Malaysia and Singapore can understand this kind of English and I feel nothing but pride that we understand eachother's English like this
How low then..
Only be proud if you're a complete multiracial multilingual living around the world all alone since childhood like me.
"Indian-net"
Me and the boys: "Indians, assemble!"
🤣🤣🤣
Assemble!
0:01 Who else felt nostalgic when you see people enter a PC store during the 90s and early 2000s, and seeing all these hardwares and gadgets of that time?
yes
I like this video... so original n genuine speaking in singlish ...remind me of my gd old school days... hope these guys will do more video clips.
$1999 for a 64MB Ram config computer, back then the manufacturers were based in Singapore. Now with the production in China and a mature technology 8GB ram computer cost like S1000 only. Maybe a little higher in this COVID-19 pandemic.
Don't forget to factor in inflation and Sing Dollar value during that time.
😅 It's at Best ( you can see in the background)= Japan
@@mimiace9361 but best denki is in singapore?
@@jaekheory6006 There are Best Denki in Singapore. If it was film there most likely a popular place Singaporean get their electronic from during that period. 🤣
You are using UA-cam it's isn't that hard to search it on the internet you know
@@mimiace9361 that was a RESPONSE OKAY? you said this was filmed in japan, which i replied that it was from singapore. by reading it as an actual question, it wouldn't make sense for me to comment.
Honestly, I appreciate Singaporeans who embrace Singlish rather than those who deny it exists and brag about how 'perfect' Singapore is.
Singlish could be the one single thing that is uniquely Singaporean instead of the 'European Country in the East' that some Singaporeans dream of. Beauty is in the imperfection, my friends.
This English isn't that hard to understand once you get used to the accent. I am from the North West of England and once when I was a teenager I had to go to Newcastle, a city in the North East, for an interview. The dialect there is called Geordie. With younger people it's more of a sing-song accent, but with old people, especially back then, it was practically like a foreign language when you heard it. I stopped an old man for directions and after asking him to repeat himself twice, I gave up, thanked him politely and decided I'd just have to hope for the best. Maybe I'd find my destination by accident.
I find the Geordie accent easier to understand compared to the Northern Irish or Glaswegian accents. In Asia where Man Utd is one of the most popular clubs, they often had to subtitle Sir Alex Ferguson's interviews even in English-language media.
As a Malaysia , need to translate this English accent to malay in my head first ,then figure it out in English back to understand it,
Singlish= "My friend said ah , this price ah, smelly-smelly can get 2 computer"
Malay= " kawan saya cakap , harga macam ni busuk-busuk pon beli 2 computer"
English=" my friend tell me, that he can get 2 computer for the same price"
Thank you for explaining that line!
Really lost the essence of the sentences in your translations...
I went to ask a direction in Singapore, had the same confussion as when I asked direction in Scotland. I was living in London at that time so I'm not that too unfamiliar with strong accented english, but boy, I could only understand the direction from the gesture they made.
7
Jack Neo Chee Keong , the director of this movie
How long ago was it when you visited? Im sure that most of us here can speak proper english if we want to
@@ze5627 what is the title of this movie
"I went to ask a direction in Singapore..." London? R.I.P. English. We're just as confused as you are.
Indian net. I'm dead 😂😂😂😂
笑死我了好笑internet say India net😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
some chinese people or etc dont know how pronouns english are sometimes dont understand and i am also mandarin but i still understand english
Lol
@@FelixGotGamefr chinese or mandarin people? I think it should be chinese or chinese people(maybe)
@@ce3027 Chinese
i remember watching this 10 years ago, how time flies..
I think this is even older early 2000s
@@Honeymagmangospoofolder than that, in the 90s
That's the cutest conversation i've ever 'seen'.
Really ?
@@foxhound9396 Naah not really 😂 but it was hilarious.
@@lordgaimon8040 agree 🤣
After so many years, still funny as hell
What name is this video
@@ShadeMoon-zk6bp ua-cam.com/video/dC66QuNPuEk/v-deo.html
As a Filipino, I don’t fully understand this but the way they switch to English and other languages is how I talk to other people in my regional language
this is somewhat how chinese filipinos in the philippines talk like too. my family today can still codeswitch between hokkien, tagalog, english, and sometimes even mandarin. like kungyari, gua e-hiau (我會曉) din pero not everyone marunong magkong-ue (mag-講話) like this. ming bai ma? (明白吗?)
@@xXxSkyViperxXx yeesss
Stop explo iting under age boy n dity during circum Phi, shame on Phi feminist for pretend they don't know. Also obrun unfair always young male been objectified full frontal at institute (the reverse even just tanktop can be gender issues at institute, let alone bikini, let alone half nkd top less female). Funny seeing Filipinos ladies upset over lingerie yet next day defend nak d men hypocrite.
@@xXxSkyViperxXx 原來菲律賓的福建人猶會寫閩南文。😁
@@samgyeopsal569 是啊，在馬尼拉義山有咱人字讀來是閩南話。高甲戲對泉州來菲律宾講福建話用漢文字，但是咱人學堂讀國語合國音合拼音。
Very cheap=cheap² 🤣 genius👏👏
This is so classic! They're so young!
"Indian net" , how many money! is this Sin-glish ??. wow! haha....
As someone who’s half Singaporean, I can understand everything they said
As someone from New Zealand, I can understand most of what they said
@@rachelcookie321 Nani ???
I'm high af and this scene makes total sense. Oscars winning acting
Weed or ice?
Overdosed Junkie
Hahaha 420 vibes
wake and bake fellas
In singapore you can go to jail for a long time for that 🤣🤣🤣
In Singapore several months ago, many people spoke English with like that dialect, so sometimes I did not recognize what they means. To avoid miscommunication, I try to spoke in Malay language awesome they could be also. I am from Indonesia. Peace for all✌
can you actually communicate with them using malay/indonesian?
😂 they must be Malaysian Chinese uncle working in Singapore
@@ttytty6940 might be, but it could also be becuz they pick up the language when talking/dealing with Malay neighbors or customers, they pick up the language via the many conversations 👍👍
@@ttytty6940 They are, if you don't already know. Even the Pinoy working here knows how to distinguish. Once I was standing infront of Kallang MRT, this Pinoy lady walked up to me and asked, "Sir, are you Japanese?" LOL Hawkeye lady
@@hiroshiyamashita2090 what a great story
64MB ram
ah, those were the days
Computers were that expensive during those times with such poor specs😱We really come a long way😮
@@weeyangtoh6049 Absolutely, jesus.
What does the future have in store for the average consumer? :o
Go to the future
Buy old computer
Go back to past
@@weeyangtoh6049 now 64 gb
My computer have 6gb internal storage.
Do people actually find it difficult to understand his English? I’m Indian and I understand like 70 percent of what he says..
well maybe you're used to hearing people pronounce English words incorrectly. I'm from the U.S and I'd say I picked up 40% of it. Had it not been for the subtitles I probably would understand less to be honest.
What does he say at 1:21? To me it sounds like he says "My friend go outside smelly-smelly can buy 2 computer at this price." but that makes no sense 😕 Why did she call him Uncle? What does "He beautiful beautiful give you" mean?
@@Needsmoreflash I’m Assuming what he tried to interpret is like for the price of the current computer they show in the clip, he could’ve bought 2 computers in a store of much worser condition lmao. Reminder: I only get around like 70 percent of what he says so ye.
@@Needsmoreflash I’m from New Zealand and I understood like 70% of it too.
@@rachelcookie321 not surprising, which of us is closer to Singapore
Living in SEA is like living in a country within a country. You go to a different street and you cannot understand what people are talking about.
Back in year 1995-2000 OEM computers comes with 32Mb - 128MB RAM. Later with RAM configurations of 256MB to 512MB we were so excited.
Wait a sec? Ik singlish is considered weird but as an Indonesian and part of the SEA gang, I always thought everyone who speaks english would definitely understand it because the concept is simple 😂
Their accent plus their pronunciation and lack of knowledge of how to make a proper sentence is what makes it difficult to understand, I'm not that great with english either since it's not my first language but I'm more used to listen the accent from USA and european countries
Trust me, we can understand lol. At least Americans probably can because even our own English is so broken and full of words from other languages we can pretty much pick up any accent/dialect/etc out there lol. Not to mention the very large amount of immigrants. You can honestly get by pretty well here with even basic English.
I’m from New Zealand and I can understand about 70% of it. It’s not too hard but not as easy as English from other countries.
I'm a native English speaker from South Africa and understood nearly all they were saying, except for the few slang/loan words here and there. Probably helps that many people here have a very strong accent when speaking English too, so I'm more used to different pronunciation, and we also have tons of loan words from other languages. Funnily enough, I found this easier to understand than some British accent videos I watched lol, some of those are impossible, not to mention that Irish farmer, I've watched that video like 5 times and still barely have a clue what he is even saying (and he's speaking English!)
With subtitles sure... irl they're speaking very fast with a thick accent. It would be very hard to pick up in real time.
"Uncle, this is market price. Every place is the same" a phrase that i stumbled into often when bargaining at thr market with my mom
Until now I'll still say smelly smelly in texts to my friends 😂😂
I almost spat my drink and burst into roaring laughter when he said "chop vegetable head" 🤣😂
Chop vegetables head = Potong Kepala Sayur ( Malay)
Good video! Thanks to the author for his good work! I'd like to recommend Yuriy Ivantsiv's practice book Polyglot Notes: Practical Tips for Learning Foreign Language. This book has many useful methods for learning a foreign language, how to develop your memory, how to memorize words, learn grammar, quickly learn to speak, read and write. All recommend this excellent book! Good luck to everyone in learning a foreign language!
If that approach you’re recommending is closer to traditional methods than to input heavy methods like Refold/AJATT, that may not be worth a read.
As a Taiwanese hokkien speaker, i can understand 100% of this video.😂
btw do young people in Taiwan still speak Hokkien?
@@patricktjia Most young people can't speak Hokkien in Taiwan now, especially in north Taiwan.
@@patricktjia I can't speak Hokkien before I learned Hokkien by myself when I was 15.
Now I'm 18, I can speak and write Hokkien in fluent.
In addition, I'm the only Hokkien speaker in my class.
I bet you read the subtitles. 😂
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That's why, I'm proud to be an Asian
“Indian Net”, “How many money” and “How many dollars”! 😆😆😆😆😆
Thank you. I use this video to explain to niece why we need to learn Kenyon and Knott as a non-native speaker.
Im straight up dying laughing 🤣🤣🤣
how ironic is it that I got a Grammarly ad before the video starts 😂
This video made my day better! Uncle is such a player!
Combination of Chinese, Hokkien (or taiyu) and english is the best language. I use to remember my mom telling us the story when in the 90s most Singaporean speaks hokkien and its easy for her who only fluent in hokkien to travel there.
Sadly now the new generation mostly won't know dialect.
@@cw8 Even Singlish is starting to just become English with Chinese/Malay syntax. A lot of the slang borrowed from Hokkien, Malay, Tamil are disappearing.
@@cloroxbleach9222 Yup very sadly. Think SG will become a very different country in 10 years time.
@@cw8 There has been some trend on the rise of Eurasian, ThaiSin and the 4SeaChineseWaifu, alot sgrean seem to prefer marry people from outside thus globalization effect. I think in few years time singlish will be very different maybe rojak with some thai words like "mao moi" and "jing jing"
I speak English and Chinese and I could understand most of it. (American English native speaker) It’s like mainly broken English with mandarin which I speak.
This is legit how me and my friends talk after our trip to singapore
lol i am chinese filipino from philippines and i could comprehend about maybe 80% of whats being said without subtitles. its just hokkien and english spoken fast with a strange grammar
It is teochew accent, not hokkien lah.
@@anameidonthave7957 no this is hokkien. It is exactly the same words as my parents say and they do not speak teochew
@@anameidonthave7957 i can speak hokkien and understand teochew so i am pretty sure this is hokkien
Precisely, that's how Singapore becomes Sink Kar Poh. Hokkien pronunciation for Singapore.LOL LKY
in philippine hokkien, singapore is sing-ka-po. no need these extra british-style final letters la
Back when Singapore TV shows were worth watching
Its so satisfying to hear this kind ko accent lah😂😂.
as a filipino, i probably understood like 90% of their conversation haha
The English part?
@@eloisanzara237 no. for chinese filipinos like me, the hokkien here is almost completely the same hokkien in the philippines...
@@xXxSkyViperxXx oh fr? I forgot how many Chinese lived in the Philippines for a moment haha
@@eloisanzara237 QC, or maybe these days the gov wants to now call itself as Kyusi lol. the original name of the city itself has hokkien roots as a surname, albeit hispanicized cuz of that president's father who worked for the spaniards before and married a spanish mestiza, even taught spanish and died with the spaniards in some church in baler.
up to today, there's not really any real census data too to know how many chinese filipinos are in ph, especially many are mixed and others are old colonial-era assimilated families complicating things.
im mostly still pure tho with no living relatives having any citizenship elsewhere but ph. the hokkien they use in the video is mostly the same as what my parents and grandparents use. the few mandarin they used i also recognize from what was taught in the filchi school im from before. the only thing strange about them is their english accent and when they talk about vegetable head or horse running which makes no sense in the hokkien of ph. i know tho that singaporean hokkien also has malay mixed in, which of course we have no idea of, but philippine hokkien also has a few spanish and tagalog loanwords, cuz siguro they spoke spanish before rin like we do with english now, and tagalog particles are very implicit lang talaga.
64MB RAM was fast, cost you up to 1000 plus. Imagine having 16GB RAM in that year, how much would it cost?
Maybe S$5000 to S$10k plus?
I don't think that existed back then
In that era 16gb ram didn't exist
Your whole life
8GB ram is the super computer in 1998.first time computer could defeat a world chess Champion.
很期待辉哥有更多喜劇的新作品。
Singlish is a beautiful language, vey down to earth and easy to learn
Singlish, in and of itself, isn't beautiful. Really, it isn't. What it is, is that it's a product of its environment. Efficient, straightforward, not always polite and a hodge-podge of culture.
And it definitely isn't a language. It being a language implies that it can be learnt. I don't think it's that simple. Singlish is a way of life. You can only learn the lingo by immersing yourself in the culture, and therein lies the beauty. Every Malay knows Jialat. Every Chinese knows Goondu. Every Indian knows suka-suka. Even with less-than-stellar English skills, all 3 can understand each other.
You mean broken English?
@@codepizza5077 so is american english tbh
"vegetable head"
this is so funny to watch
I can't stop smiling and laughing watching this really old video
As a Filipino living in Malaysia, I can totally understand the conversation.
Hi to all those that have difficulty understanding, it's really alright.
Majority of what they are saying are a mix of Hokkien(Chinese dialect, not exactly Mandarin/Chinese) and English. Hence, it's difficult for even native mandarin/Chinese speakers to understand
Heck, of course its difficult for mandarin speakers to understand. Its a whole different language.
OMG, i miss singapore and KL alot 😭
I speak Spanish and I understand the vid perfectly XD Greetings from Argentina😎👌
Same for me but that I speak German haha
笑死了哈哈 希望多出这样的电影
She's sooo cuteeee
I never missed watching old mark lee's movie that appears in my yt recommnd😂👍❤️
I have been living in Malaysia, and the Singlish was very easy for me to understand LA.
Haiiya because singlish and manglish almost same
No surprise there, Malaysia and Singapore literally neighbors lo
I remember when I went to Singapore, I speak mandarin and English myself, but could not understand neither the mandarin nor English in Singapore.
that's Strange, the last time my family member visited there in 2016 and even that my grandmother could understand it.. I'll have to asked them later. The only people my grandmother ever complained are the chinese in san francisco chinatown this happened in 1980 and she said "they're quite arrogant, i spoke to them in chinese they answered us in Cantonese so they got shut up by my father speaking teochew dialect who knew one of the worker could speak both and began to lecturing the worker "
Woah, $1999 for computer with 64MB ram. Computer really expensive back then.
Lmao I always sent this to overseas friend it's so funny
That tucked in shirt, the watch, phone holster and pager!?! Mans is lao ban all the way
ah yes, i remember the "light sabers" in BEST at IMM. haha
Lies again? Hello SC
Surely very happy times😁 in these days... down memory lane...😅😘
that girl is cute when she smile .haha
I'm a Nigerian and i can understand singlish 99%
Watching from Manipur, Northeast India.
The accent is identical to the tribals' English here.
Indian nets
"you want to chop his vegetable head" 🤣🤣
as someone who just visited Singapore, I can confirm that I freaked out and used full brain power to understand what they said at first
Ouhh ok..you from which country?
@@Emsyaz I’m half Vietnamnese/Japanese tho but i think my English is not that bad
Best ad for Best Denki
Reminds me of Taro in Mind your Language. 😂😂😂
Same.
The shorter one is in Jian Hao tan channel while the other one is a singaporean actor now
Very fast…64 mb RAM. Those were the days…
Hahaha I love this. I talk like this with my Malaysian dad even though I was born in the states. He raised me to be very Malaysian 😆
Singlish is an English dialect with Southbanvetian 閩南語 aka Hokkien, Cantonese, Teoswanese 潮汕語 aka Teochew, Mandarin, Malay, Tamil influenced (in vocabularies, grammar and accent).
It is a English-based creole, not English dialect
“How many money ah?” IM DYING LOL
64 mb computer ? no one need more than 640KB memory..
Bill Gates!
I'm from Malaysia, and we sometimes also speaks like that.
Everyone in Singapore should understand this hahaha.
hahhaha how many money aa😂
indian net 我笑死了😂😂😂😂😂
when you got scammed, you must've went to Indian net
Back to the future. After WW3 that is. When America goes to war with China and Russia, only India is left after the war. So start learning Indian language coz it will be all in Indian NET. My Gosh, Mediacorp manage to hire people from the future.
这真的很有趣😂😂😜😜
印度net 还是 印度鸟 lol
As a Taiwanese, I understand both the Hokkien and Singlish part of the conversation.
I mean Singaporean and Taiwanese talk in much of the same way.
Very good England!
I went to Singapore and the girls were speaking English in a very cute accent, I didn't have a chance to talk to someone who spoke like this.
HAHA!! Vegetable HEAD!!!
Here we call them SWINE head or dickie. The British called them Pariah cina Malayan (Malaysia was formed much later, after WW2. LOL
As a Malaysian, i understand every word coming out of his mouth