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Trevor's Many Accents

2021-09-06

Trevor explains how the people in his life inspired him to mimic a variety of accents, what went wrong when he learned to speak German and the downside of his limited Spanish vocabulary.

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He d come slash smart for details. How do I do to the actions of the honest with you I did like? I never thought I was good at its or anything, but I think it's because I grew up like that either family like everyone in my family has a different accent in also my dad, my dad's, Emily my mom, my Mama's family, everyone has acted like a hybrid cars, have moved around a lot. So whenever you go to a different house, it's just easier. speak to them in their accents. Then try. Nor could it was weird as well, because I went to a private school like myself, and my cousins would like you to go to deck at the time to call democracy schools in South Africa, so it was like the first generation of black. white kids at the same schools? So we have different access to our parents and then, like a pair were happy to send you that that was the funny thing is like your parents would be like. You must go to that's all and you must learn to speak would English. And then you go to school and you'd learn the English and then you come home and then, like your parents, would be
with them, watching tv or something, and then like Europe, Europe, your dad would be like put volume, put volume and you'll be, like you mean, increase. The volume below increase or decrease your life. Don't much would volume gonna come here with that English and I guess that's what you told so then it became easier to just like speak then, you, Norman speaking the accent of the people. It changes that you might find you do the same. Do you live in New York or do you live in Haiti or you live in Ok, if you live in yield enough of the french Romania who do like in New York, they sound like half Haiti, half New York, and then when they go to Haiti? I can't understand a word that they saying like, unlike if they are faced summit, my views in Haiti, one is in New York and will again you know. You know when I hear a little bit of Haiti and then when he is in Haiti and I'll say some of the monopoly. Kilowatts events. Are you doing about? Why? Why why, when you say that, like everyone, everyone's, I think that's where I got it from I just you know just having mixed people, you just speak too.
when the x it becomes easier. Otherwise, you know, like my grandmother, I'm not going to repeat the same thing six times. I just want to speak my grand in her actions, and this is just like you and then my grand. I think that's why I'm actually my grandmother's favoured grandchild. Although the grand could speak to her in like the actions, they learn that and then with me. She just like whatever he's, never forgotten. What is my favorite accented? It depends on the day, it depends on the day, sometimes altruism, action for the day from on vacation. Genuine This work on a knowledge just be on vacation sundays like like I'll, just be like almost trailing for the day, and I ll just walk around here,
You know the great thing about restrained and accent. Is that you son happy because always doesn't matter what it is, but always goes up and look really sorting, and I think what do you live in a straight line. Gave you bad news. Louis sounds good like high Might Yemen's did. This is one of my favorite things to do, though, is sometimes because I don't really personal general actions. I personally people, so the austrian that I do is a friend of mine from Austria and then like the like. If I do like a nigerian accent is a friend of mine from Nigerian, because I can't cause people all have different actions. Do not mean side. What an indian action is. I know what my India friend sounds like charges, impersonate his axe and then like Trinidad. I just know my friend from Trinidad. This is his axe answers. I just do his accent and there are many one day, the trinity accent and then people from Trinidad there. What I d, like? That's, not how people twenty two hour and then I was ideal. You talk to him
that's how he sounds and then they shut on here, because the he's on like Instagram and sovereignly like do what haven't you acts and why you talking to lose a guys. I haven't lived in America, Latin America for a long time and like it's not my fault, I didn't try to change my acts like you lead in terminal wrong, you're, not speaking a whereas others do people, whilst, lest we have from what yes, each It's all very nice s, cool coolant exotic how things going over there. just blink of its goods and blinked twice. If it's bad, I won't say your name. I will put your camera, you can go back, your president doesn't have to know you were here. Things are good in Egypt. Ah
when you, when you watch Donald Trump, does mind your little bits of egyptian leaders yeah a lot like just without the Arabic she's like second there, also what all the offerings yeah yeah is considered. because, if we look at me, like trouble, be exactly the same, even if you spoke arabic and we would like the same thing will lower than that. I should allow the silk road map, by law. I try to start learning German, my dad s wrist right, and so I want to learn. Language can never learned of growing up and then someone living like wanted to learn Swiss, and then I heard Susan like now, rather learn German and so
learn German could happen. It would bring us closer together. I'd lost contact, my death like ten years, and so they, when I met him against the coroner, german and impressive, more, never met him and then, like us, start speaking to him in German, and he was whether what are you doing. I am speaking german He'S- ignores better. We speak English and now this is because, as you know but if you dont speak German at all, it's fine, but now I could speak a bit of German, so excited to go to Germany. Is that in practice it didn't know that a lot of fun until I found out that might the way I spoke German sounded a little bit Hitler, yet which Non told me on this are the workers? We don't know how he really spoke or anything, but I would be in Germany and apparently the way I would hit certain inflections would freak people out and if I think of it, like Barack Obama's voice like if someone learned English in America and they got here- and they would like- I just want to have you'd, be like you do in the baroque Obama thing maybe like. What are you talking about
so I would do that, like I'm, going places like order food and like them Are we then to be like wouldn ta us rationally? Heaven and then I'll be like in July? A kind word you haven't said: The same can and do the people like people give me and then, when we left my friend was like like. Why would they looked? Did I say like wrong wrong. Why should like? No, you sound like like here yeah she's lichens of people are really frightened about that and you know and as actual spoil their day- and she was like you, you did. You know like worlds. That brings me a lot of schadenfreude. The deletion Trevor Noah, is supported by expensive fi expensive money moving more than ten million people around
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like seven words of spanish but those seven words. A flawless which doesn't help me in like so I'd start conversations with people like in the morning, some old seaman, maybe like all nothing like all outcome, is thus and let me like a movie any do and I'll be like gonna get more and more than one way yet, and if you like, this is cool, you know and meet people be logical. Amazon. Let me like I'm a number s unhappy. Like all gone the area, you know I'm gettin, survive and I'll be with the people. Are we asking people? Staff will be giving direction and then I just run out, because I only learn as much second learn what you don't know when you're gonna run out. You did you give him saying so so I would be like arbiter, nonetheless piling up that out and then the people are like all look at the door and then I would be argued. I cannot give direction than someone who asked me was the cathedral than I know how to stop the directions and I'll be like or industry interests, metro city about the nature and then people I cool and then the person goes much further than the city I see, and then I'm like
sorry, no no I've laugh mean me no no oblast and then the worst thing is that, even though I M saying Colombian, ignore Norman Oblast when you're novelist, my on which is weak because you should say minnow outlined the worst, where you can, we realise cause, I should have I only know oblong spun body cells. I only Nobbler monopolised when you're a novelist which is basically like the equivalent of meeting like someone and they came up zoo and then I am sure I stay just beginning English. I apologize, I speaking English whatsoever. I must apologise, not a word of English, I'm so sorry. I hear somebody with a french person who has had a fiance that very cool, my congratulations life. It was with a gazelle and listening to you and when you speaking allows like it's weird could feel safe, french
because I know this sounds we, but in my head you said you Know- and this is my fiance and then, as I was afraid, fiance is Where do you live in English? You have to say some french words. Every now and again right because, like there s a thing like we do, that will be like would be like fiance on clip anew but think about. We do they like to shape. We just say that for each other in conversation is people someone would say something as they say, but you have to stay but, like I don't think french people. Do you guys do that with English phrase we will just hanging out with each other as they did about when you see the buffaloes you or do you touch me, you don't write with its totally read to me. Would you other languages in our language, really strange as exciting than so Sagan french fries on offer.
so the repression and french Fries downloads life forever. I have to tell you all of these secrets: the present not flesh, but do you eat them in France? That's what you guys. Also where are these first rest, rob this. Therefore phronsie jumpy all these years. No, they are not. We share your Fresno they're, not the fragile difference. This is therefore a risk, but not represent. That's what made you move from France, what you, seventeen years you ve lived in Detroit. What made you move? Second Atlantis oriented Manta. What You just walked. How should work out
your arts and could not walk all that goddamn wow, that's what kind of a journey My friend, just like one day I was working. I was working by. Therefore tat were- and I say that I have seen this before- I see no this before, but the work is deferred there, and then I want that. I worked and I worked for more than a few years that there are like Atlanta and I was tired sauce day. There's no reason to go back while that's why and then you fell in love with a lantern. You stay what happened all was bad? you gotTa Atlanta, the recession happened.
so now you stuck in a level that is so. Don't you think I should make a tv show about your man is like a funny story. It's like I the Vienna loved, and now this is my life. How did you make money? I became a rubber Etienne. I became the only french trap wrapper, so the middle within a world power elements, one of its dynamism, talking, zip punkin, unimaginable weighing us from other from where orchard, not until bagel, like I said it or Trinidad and Tobago. You know what it's like a level one people in Trinity like as the like the singsong via when you speak. You got that. I told you the other day like icon picture. Anyone from that being a mean person, just like you can't
like you can go to war people from Trinidad? You can't normanby afraid of you. You know we're going to end your country. All of you are about to feel the pain like it just doesn't work as an accident like if you can only be an island, the country, because of that, like a lion, it was from China that you wouldn't have gotten like liberalising we're on the phone and be able particular sets of skills. I don't think you understand right now. If you don't bring back my dog, why you're laughing stopped laughing while I'm talking to you stopped laughing, I was thinking like I think part of the problem in America is that nine one one people think of nine when one is being instant response and like one growing up in South Africa. One of my favorite tv shows I watched my mom was a local rescue, nine one, one bright with William Shatner.
and it was like a show where they gonna nine, when one given emergency and we like lime in my house as though they well and then like none, would get. Then I went with even when we were watching that we would like wild men. One word and those in Africa, we like no one one, and we know sort of our numbers because they started they try to things. However, you pulled ten triple one: could they China will again I've got a thing. People like tangible Y know, and could they try to go that feeling, but we never thought of. It is instant response because, if you would call our like call centres, it wouldn't be as efficient and so like in Amerika. I think people are used to the fact that some people get done now so saying what you should do is just like. Go it for a bit. You should, the south african operators here just so that people stop thinking. None when one is like an instant solution because extravagant like they'll, ask your question like an American he's, got some Getting rather like we're on our way, like I heard with one on one, even if you call them and then hang up they'll come to check what happened, which, I mean I get it, but I would also like that's crazy, whereas in South Africa like, if you like, if they called it here
we can operate as doing nine one one like you'd call. Even a kilo does a man at the park in the village cut up. Can I help you yeah there's a man at the bark and we like and but I guess you kill us really suspicious, but I'm ok go talk to him, asking what he's doing ask him his name. What he's doing that? I'm scared, I'm talking to you, but I'm ok, walk away! Then why don't you go like people here? Like the cops, I don't know cause I'm not coming for everything You can call man alone. Could your cat isn't a tree? There are some crazy. I should never that uses. We, like you, been economic cats in the true that bit of all you don't need what would live like a second issue that bill. I guess
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a slash home office, Slash yoga studio there is smart. Hp plus learn or about smart printing at hp. Dotcom slash smart ownership, little story with you, I am. I got into a little bit of trouble with the french government. I know the french government So what what happened was? Let's start at the beginning, France, one the World CUP, so, and so on, the show I we, we celebrated that, and I have this joke where I said I said Africa won the World CUP yeah and I was shocked at how angry a lot of french people got.
Like genuine lot of french people were angry and they were like our trouble. How can you say these? Where we see these things? This is horrible and others like. Ok, I get it like little. Not everyone likes every joke that you tell and I get that, but this was interesting. I got a letter from the ambassador. The ambassador of France, and and Our reaction was, it was about that joke and he says I'll try reading how I hope he wrote it. Which was there, sir. I watched with great attention In your July, seventeen show when you spoke of the victory of the french team at the twenty eighteen FIFA World CUP, Russia Final, which took place last Sunday. I heard your words about an african victory. Not It could be less true that, first of all, I think it could have been less. I could have said Scandinavian that would have been less true now have been less true says. As many of the players have already,
data themselves. Their parents may have come from another country, but the great majority of them all, but two out of twenty three were born in France. They were educated in France. They learn to play soccer in France, there, french citizens their power of their country. France, the rich and various backgrounds of these players is a reflection of funds. Is diversity. Friends is indeed now that line, though interesting? The rich and various backgrounds of these plants is a reflection of France's diversity. Now I'm not trying to be an asshole, but I think it's more reflection of France's. colonialism, because it's not like it's just like random play like they all have something in common like one those plans. If you trace they lineage, you like. How did you guys become French, like all of you and your family stopped speaking French, all ok, we'll say here he's a frenzy
neither cosmopolitan country, but every citizen is part of the french identity and together they belong to the National France, unlike in the United States of America. France does not refer to its citizens based on their race, religion or a regime. To us there is no hyphenated identity routes are an identity. you roots errand individual reality by calling them an african team seems your denying their frankness? This even in jest legitimizes the ideology which claims whiteness as the only definition of being French. So now here's the thing. First things. First, I understand what you saying, because I read up on this afterwards right. I take criticism listen to what somebody says to me. You know I genuinely believe you should and what what it turns out is in France, a lot of like nazis in that country use the fact that these players of Africa,
descend to shit on their frankness. You know so they go you're, not french you're from Africa go back to where you came from you're, not french. They use that as, as you know, is a line of attack. Now. My thing is, my opinion is coming South Africa coming from Africa and even watching the World CUP in the United States of America, black people, all over the world were celebrating the African. This of the french play is not an end its way, but rather in a positive way, going look at these Africans who can become french you Norman It's a celebration of that achievements and so mean what I say: I find, and in these arguments as the people go there, not african their French, then, unlike, why can't they be, why? Why is that dual?
She only afforded to a select group of people. Why can they not be african? So what? What? What their arguing here is? In order to be french, you have to erase everything that is african. What are they? What do they mean when they say that our culture, our this over this like so so you cannot be french and african. At the same time, which I vehemently disagree with, I go if you ve seen a play, I love them, pull bugbear Google County, I watch all of them like I love those players and I love how african they are and how french they also take their french us away. but also something you need to take their african. This you, you know, and that's. That is what I love about. America, not perfect, perfect country. I love about this place is that people can still celebrate their identity in their americans. You can go to Saint Patrick Day Parade in America, celebrating that you all Irish, you can go to port or weaken day parade in America still celebrating thank you, put the region and American. At the same time, you can celebrate June teens as a black person.
We, like you, I'm African American, which is the duality of the two worlds, but here they going. No, you are only french and kissed his wide. Vexed me. To be honest, this is what I find interesting is like when I read stories from Africa and when I watch what politicians say, especially in France, about african migrants when they are unemployed when they may commit a crime, but when they are consumed unsavory, it's the african immigrants when the children go on to provide a world CUP victory for France? We should only refer to them as France, and we even saw it with that african men hook. I'm the building to rescue the baby. You remember that we watched him climb, the building he rescued the child and then they gave in french citizenship. They said you are now french
So now I'm going so is he now no longer Africa? Is that what you're saying when he was on the ground. He was african and then he climbed up and an affinity rescued the baby now these wrench. So if he dropped the baby, the Africans Maybe I don't believe that you need them together. Like I say again with respect, I understand what the ambassadors thing I'm adjoining the attack and I know don't get me wrong. I know there's the village you know we live in a world where, like new wants, is something that is in short supply, and so you will find You know in America, for instance, the Ultra right saying that's what we ve been saying: they're, not french and we're saying, is like, but if Trevor says it, it's not racist, but if we set a resolute, yeah yeah, I'll see. You know why, because I believe context has everything. There are certain things you
say that somebody that, like when I say to my friends what's goin on Monday and if a white person came in said the same thing, yeah there's a big difference when I'm saying that African I'm not seeing it as a way to exclude them from their french nest, but I'm rather using it to include them. In my african this, I'm saying I see you my french brother of african descent. Do you know them saying that's what I'm trying to say when somebody else of the other way you can use the same line in different ways. People like show its different, yet it's different, it can be different. It's like somebody saying all show if you play with your naked childs but if what I do it, I'm a pedophile, yeah, there's a big difference is a huge difference, so I will continue to praise them for being African, because I believe that they are of Africa. Their parents are from Africa and they can be french at the same time and a french people are saying they cannot be bold. and I think they have a problem and not me
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