What country do you think has the worst English accent?

10 102
Avatar for Danika
Written by
2 years ago

Salut friends,

One of the major differences between the different races of world is language diversity and the pronounciation of certain words in the most spoken language, English language. But truth of the matter is you can only be as good as you can in your own field not another person's. While it is quite easy for some countries to pronounce these words, it is something else in other countries especially where their native language is commonly spoken and learn to speak English is by going to school. Countries like Netherlands, USA, UK, and other northen and southern America and it environs will have very little problem pronouncing almost all words in English language simply because it is their native language and they are brought up speaking that language, but this doesn't mean they don't have difficulty in pronouncing some words.

Do you know that an average American pronounces the word 'Ruined' as 'Ronned'?

Do you also know that some average Americans can't spell some English words. And also some terrible in their tenses?

So, I guess they are not excluded because they are natively English, right?

But some races and tribes just have a terrible English so strong that when someone from that part of the world speak, you can easily detect that he is from that country.

Countries with the worst English accents.

Please note that this is my own opinion and not a statistical fact. Hence, any document provided here is for entertainment and flexing only and not to be used as a solid or educational proof! You do so at your own discretion and risk.

In my own opinion, countries that have the worst English accent are ranked below πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡

  1. India

I think of all the countries with the weirdest English language, India ranks the number one. I guess this is because their tongue has been professional twisted by the angel that manufactures to accurately adapt to only their language but successfully fail at others. Do you watch zeeworld? Then you should know what I am taking about 😁 but this doesn't mean that some of them (though extremely minute part of indians) can flawlessly speak fluent English without the usual twist.

There was one day I was watching a program on TV and an Indian guy was being interviewed, I could hardly hear a word, I had to extra strain my ears and listen with the utmost attention. But all in all, Indians are great,they are one of the very strong and determined people on Earth. One thing I love about indians is their love for their mother's nation and the ability to preserve their culture in all totality unlike we African. Looking at this from another angle, I think speaking Hindu will be very hard especially for an Englishman or me.

INDIA FOR LIFEπŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Check out this vid;

  1. CHINA

Though most Chinese now speak very fluent English but in time past, their English accent is as good as not speaking it cos you would think they are speaking Chinese. I guess they have evolved, abi?πŸ˜…

  1. THE YORUBA TRIBE OF NIGERIA

This is my tribe. Though most Yorubas are learned or atleast understands and can speak English, but our yoruba accent still reflects in our English. Where the Indian suffers from tongue twisting, he is still able o speak the correct version of the English language, Yoruba own is not like that. Infact we speak what we ourselves call Yoruba English πŸ€£πŸ˜… cos speak English language with a Yoruba meaning and our yoruba must reflect in that English

For example; instead of "will you go there tomorrow?" We would say "shey you will go there tomorrow?"

Another contributing factor to this is a our alphabet and phonetic sounds. We don't have c, v, ch and z. So instead of saying 'children' you are mostly likely to hear us say 'shildren'. πŸ˜… Another thing is our intonation. Omo, we dey kill English on a steady with that intonation. But God is our strength.

Mind you most of the learned ones can speak very smooth and fluent English language that you would think they are brought up in the US.

Funfact; Yourba culture Is the only culture in the world where total respect for elders is COMPULSORY! 😁

Also, most of the best musical artist in African are Yorubas and according to research; The Yoruba are among the most urbanized people in Africa because centuries before the arrival of the British colonial administration, most Yoruba already lived in well structured urban centers organized around powerful city-states (Ìlú) centered around the residence of the Oba.

Lastly they are among the most influential tribes in Nigeria.

  1. IGBO TRIBE OF NIGERIA

When we talk killing a language, Igbo put in more efforts, literally πŸ€£πŸ˜‚ atleast others would kill the language quietly but in the Igbo case, they usually do it with energy and mostly shouting. You will see them gesturing as they continue to speak their accents. If you want get an Igbo man to speak his original accent, get him angry over money issue, then you will get the full gist.

Funfact; Igbo are among one the most wealthiest and innovative tribes both in Nigeria and the whole of African.

So much more...

I still have other tribes and countries like the hausa tribe of Nigeria (those ones dey 'pipfty' everything πŸ˜…πŸ’”), the Ghanaians, Uganda (My God!), The cubian, the Russians, the Frenchman (I should put this one as number 2 cos their 'ffuance' and 'duvu' is top notch πŸ˜‚πŸ€£) and the Koreans (debatable anyways).

Anyways, all accents are beautiful and special. English is only the native language of British, even the American speak America language not actually English, so no one should be blamed for not been able to speak English fluently. I bet the Englishman will have extreme difficulty if he tries to learn an African language especially languages like hausa, Igbo or french. So enjoy your accent, it shows you belong somewhere. God bless us all, Amen. Feel free to drop your comments in the comment box😊

Thanks for reading this article, hope you found it interesting and educative in some ways. Give a πŸ‘ Love you guys

8
$ 0.87
$ 0.82 from @TheRandomRewarder
$ 0.03 from @Aimure
$ 0.02 from @Cogamedia
Sponsors of Danika
empty
empty
empty
Avatar for Danika
Written by
2 years ago

Comments

I can live with English from indians but each time I hear a Korean speak English, it's just so weird and dosent go down well

$ 0.01
2 years ago

πŸ˜…πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ I was just imagining them speaking English right now in my mindπŸ˜…πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ Dang! English hard oooo. But nor be their fault Sha, since English no be their mother's language

$ 0.00
2 years ago

πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ Brings back memories of a time I just started working with Indians and then Chinese. Usually difficult to understand them at first, but with time, you get used to it.

$ 0.01
2 years ago

It's true it's difficult to understand them o, especially when they are angryπŸ˜…

Was it when you were working at the factory that you worked with them?

$ 0.00
2 years ago

Yeah, it was then.

$ 0.00
2 years ago

Oh okay!

$ 0.00
2 years ago

You forgot to mention the calabars, they have this tongue that you can easily detect them ones they speak English, here in Benin, most Benin people that are well educated do like missing English with their language while speaking and it’s not just ordinary English but big big grammar, especially when they want to prove a point or insult someone πŸ˜…

$ 0.00
2 years ago

Eeiii! Nor be lie ooo. No worries I go put them as number two in my next postπŸ˜…πŸ€£πŸ€£

$ 0.00
2 years ago

I agree with you that Indian accent is not so good because native language is not similar and it not contain the phones which are there in English. By the way I am from Pakistan and I think the exchange of Pakistani people is good and it is more like native because the native language of Pakistan which is Urdu contain all the languages world and people are adaptable

$ 0.01
2 years ago

Is that so? I'd love to hear you speak it 😊 Anyways, all languages are beautiful ✌️

$ 0.00
2 years ago