In this video we look at how to speak Indian with Ajay from Solapur, in Maharashtra state in India. We’ll compare Ajay’s Indian accent to Standard Southern British English SSBE and we’ll also look at Indian, grammar and expressions and how they differ to other forms of English.
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0:00 Namaskar Ajay
1:04 India: Its languages and the use of English
3:19 Pronunciation
14:49 Grammar
19:05 Expressions
29:19 Let’s speak Indian English.
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Credits
Thank you to everybody at Alt-Chiang Mai in Thailand where this video was recorded.
Language map of india
By Filpro - Own work, based on the ’Report of the Commissioner for linguistic minorities’, Govt. of India,(July 2012 to June 2013)- NCLM-50th report pdf archive copy at the Wayback Machine, CC BY-SA 4.0,