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"Don't Lose Your Accent / Learning Accents" - TREVOR NOAH (Pay Back The Funny) - YouTube
Channel: Trevor Noah
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The newspapers say that, heâs famous.
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So now people treat you like youâre
famous, they say the weirdest things to you.
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Strangest thing people would say to me, âTrevor! Trevor!â
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âWell-done on everything hey. Congrats! Congrats!â
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âBut, even though you are going to Americaâ
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âDonât forget us alright? Donât you forget us.â
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Like, âI donât even know who you are.â
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People would say the weirdest things to me. You
know the number one thing people have said to me?
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Itâs not good luck. Itâs âHey Trevorâ
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âGood luck over there, but whatever you do.â
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âDonât forget your accent, alright?â
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âYes please. Donât pull a Charlize on us, okay?â
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âYou keep your accent, make us proud.â
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Everyone said that. âTreva bro!â Treva Noah!â
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Hey, momâs child. You are making us proud.â
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âYou do us proud, but can I ask you a favor?â
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âDonât lose your accent, okay? Donât lose your accent.â
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âYes. When you come back from the States,
you mustnât come back talking funny.â
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âPlease Brother. If you lose
your accent, donât come back.â
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âDid you just threaten me?â
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What does that mean? If you lose your accent?
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How do you lose your accent? People make it sound
like youâre going to be walking down the street
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And then just out of the blue, you'll be like,
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*Searching his pockets*
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âMy accent!â
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âI lost my accent!â
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âWhere the hell is my⊠Oh!â
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âOh, Hello. No! Thatâs
not my accent!â
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How are you going to lose your accent?
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I was stressed now.
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Because I donât want South Africans
to think I am not South African.
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I donât want them to think I have
forgotten something, this is my home.
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Now I am stressed coming home.
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I am in the plane, flying back to Johannesburg.
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And the whole time I'm just thinking, âdonât lose
you accent Trevor, donât lose your accentâ
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âAc-accent, Accent, Ac-accentâ
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âIs that how I say accent? Accent, accent, excent, excentâ
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âaxe end, ecsent, accent.â
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âaccent, ac-accent.â
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By the time I landed at O.R Tambo I was losing my mind.
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I like walked into arrivals, the
woman was there at customs.
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âWelcome back to South Africa Sir.â
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I was like, âYes, Iâm back!â
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âSame old Treva!â
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âNothing changed.â
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People are crazy.
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Cause I love accents. I really love accents.
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I love learning languages and so
obviously accents or byproduct of that
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Iâve learned over time
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That even you can't learn a
language, an accent is a great
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way to communicate with
somebody in your own language
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whilst trying to bridge the gap
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you learned somebody's accent, you communicate more effectively
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the thing is though, you have to
learn the accents on the right way
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if you are going to speak to someone in
the accent and you do in the wrong way
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you might come across as racist
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you have to be very careful about this.
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White people in South Africa often fall into this trap.
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It happens at petrol stations quite a bit.
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you see people driving in with their
friends, talking normally in the car.
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âSo, I mean. If we get all the numbers together... marketing should be behind this
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â it should be a breeze, HR has
stepped up and it's going to be."
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"It's going to be a great year and look we
try and make sure. Oh, sorry. Hold on."
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*electric window winding down*
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"Hello Baba!"
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"Hey, shap, shap man!"
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"Please fill up the tank, hey?"
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"95, Unleaded. Yea!"
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"Also check ama tires, Hey?"
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"Pressure. Pumpy, pumpy! Not to much hey?"
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"two point two, okay?"
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"Yea, good jobie. Shap , shap."
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"Dankie boss."
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Don't do that.
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He is a grown man, he has been
pumping petrol his entire life.
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He knows what you need.
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Just talk to him like a normal human being.
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That's the thing people don't understand
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Speak to him like a normal human being.
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I used to get so angry whenever I see
white people changing their accent
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when they talk to black people.
I get so angry.
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I was like,"are all white people racist? is
that what it is? Are all of them racist?"
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and then I leaned. Life taught me not to be so quick to judge.
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I learned a valuable lesson. I was
driving to Gold Reef City one day.
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Into the backstage area.
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and the security guard came out
to the boom, and he was like,
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"Hi, how are you. Is
your name on the list?"
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I said, "Yes, how are you Baba?
My name is Trevor."
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He's like, "Okay. Trebal, Trebal, Trebal."
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I said, "No, no. Trevor."
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He's like, " Oh, sorry. Cheval, Cheval, Cheval, Cheval."
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I said, "No, Trevor."
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"Cheva."
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"Trevor."
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"Chelva"
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"Trevor"
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"Chelva"
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"Trevor"
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"Chelval"
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"Trevor"
"Chelva"
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"Trevor" "Cavel, Cav, Chavil,
Chavel,Chalvin, Chavel"
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"Trevor"
"Chalvil, Chalvil"
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"Trevor"
"Calvil, Chalvil"
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and now my friend who is just
irritated leans over and his like,
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"Hey, Papa. His Treva!"
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He was like, "Oh, Treva!"
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"Why you don't talk properly?"
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And then I understood, I finally understood.
What white people have been trying to do.
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I see you are trying to communicate more
effectively, you are trying to engage somebody.
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But understand this, understand this.
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When speaking to someone in an accent,
the number one rule to understand is
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an accent is not a
measurement of intelligence.
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An accent is just somebody speaking your
language, with the rules of theirs.
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That is all an accent is.
So don't speak
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down to them, donât patronize them.
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Speak to them the way you would speak to yourself.
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Just try and learn their accent,
that's all it is. Just an accent.
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and I learn them. I spend all
my time learning accents. I try.
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I try, I love it.
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I learn in restaurants,
that's a safe place to start.
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You learn, you read of the menu. You
try to pronounce the words correctly.
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I was inspired by French restaurants.
Funny enough.
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Whenever I go to a French
restaurant I am always fascinated.
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By the fact that people ordered food in an
French accent. I never understood why.
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Because they donât do it in any other restaurants,
only in French restaurants do people walk in.
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and then change their
accent when they order.
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They come in talking normally. "you know it's
a wonderful, you really going to enjoy this."
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"It's so beautiful, stunning. You have to have
the desert. Oh, good evening, how are you Sir?"
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"Yes, we will have a bottle of
water for the table please and a"
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"Let's start of with a, can we
get the Savegnon Blanc please?"
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"and we definitely for mains
gonna have the Filet minion."
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"and for dessert we gonna
go with the creme brule."
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"Thank you very much. Oh, you gonna love it."
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Like, why are you doing that? I
never understood. I was like why?
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Because it's not like the French
are going to return the favour.
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There's no French people sitting in our restaurants
in South Africa looking at the menu like,
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"Uh, so for the table we can order"
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"some starter portion, we
share something. Okay?"
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"Uh, could we please have, uh"
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"one serving of the boerewors."
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that's not gonna happen.
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