Hey everybody's permission boss did you know that English is a very widely spoken language in India, in fact, whenever we do the street interviews, you're always wonder that why people are answering in English, and not in Hindi. So what do Indians, think about this, are they actually aware of how their sound sounds such hit the streets of Mumbai to find out if you have to take a guess what percentage of a new population can speak fluent English
40% Maybe to go into any colleges or school law expects in India at all.
That's everything needed English it's also, I think that 70 to 80% might know English. English is,
I think far more important than Hindi right now
for Indians. So yeah,
I think 40 to 45% around people speak fluent English,
I guess around 75% of Indian people can speak English fluently. Most of them are from South India because they are, like, they are much more educated than the people living in North India. That's my opinion and my, I am myself. And so,
by the way, in English does have a particular accent you agree with that. Yeah,
I think it does
exactly proper English. So it's not accent, it's, it's proper English, simple.
Yes, pretty much,
but it has nothing that any problem with Indian people are such because that is the baby talk. For
you are not normal, right, you're Yes, as long as an Indian person, were you aware that foreigners, often make fun of the Indian accent.
Yeah,
it is actually, like, when I have not personally encountered the situation. But, like I have cousins who live in the US that, you know us, absolute English, but like a judge, like this person looks Indian, and
people I don't know why.
Basically racism and it's just senseless to me
basically.
Yes I was. But after I went to night state I thought this whole room we saw made fun of their English which doesn't make any difference.
I think our accent is better than theirs because they I think they are like, not that good, looks like there's nothing, sorry, sorry not offensive, it looks like just spitting. And I think our accent is,
no, no. I think
they need to learn English from us. It is like when we are then we find it funny.
It's lame I don't really care what they think like I can speak English and I can, like you know, make other people understand what I want to say that I don't really care what the
Indian characters like apart from The Simpsons have perpetuated stereotype in Western culture that Indians sound funny when they speak English. How does that make you feel.
I don't know I think it's, If you watch it, I think it's funny at times but then it really annoys you are really key like you know you're stereotyping us a little too much to take a little too far. Like we don't really sound like that
at all
times, but okay.
That is funny. Do you guys do the foreigners, and it's not funny to anybody in India, because that is the way we talk, so and people understand that's the main thing. Sometimes I feel offended but the they exaggerated more,
I think, you know,
we don't speak like that. Firstly, but yeah I feel offended sometimes very offended.
To be honest,
I mean, it's funny for some time and like, dude, no,
we do not speak like that
stop doing that,
then show you which English accent sounds funny or weird.
Oh, I think, the way Russians speak. I mean the people, those who have been languages Russian or French. Those are the English speaking people around, seriously.
My brother has been in Australia and his accent is literally funny for me, Australian accent is, I really don't understand any of it. Literally, I just don't understand, not because of the accent maybe because of the long grammatical
use I find Chinese English quite funny, it is.
They don't use the proper, you know grammatical things, Chinese,
I must say Chinese so they language different exactly they even don't pronounce it very well the lips even don't open for that.
So why does everybody speak English, as opposed to the native Indian languages in
India, I guess, speaking English is a trend, maybe
it is like show for some things I think if you know English, you have lots of friends. And, well, you're cool. You're the cool guy.
I'll say parents because they want the kids to speak English so that when they go to the school, they don't feel ashamed
that how every child is taught from an early young age, I
cannot say about other times, but my father, he insisted. At my home I should speak my own native language and he pays good peace for my school, so it's school's responsibility to teach me English so everyone works, because that's how I was brought up
some people feel actually most of the people's people feel that when they are educated in English, they will have higher job opportunities, and then they dream about going to other countries for jobs, and that's the basic reason for them no English, otherwise they would not even
if you speak fluent English, no people treat you better.
