I was thinking of starting a YouTube channel in the education niche specifically targetting USA.
I’m a Second year Computer science student so it would probably involve 1st or 2nd year Cs subjects.
Indian teachers are really famous for their Youtube lectures. I’m pretty good at English but I wanna be certain if you guys are open to watching Lectures with Indian accents.
Please let me know your honest thoughts I don’t want to hear just the good stuff bring me the dirty part.
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if you’re understandable people won’t care about the accent that much. It’s hard to judge without actually hearing you, but it can’t hurt to try. If you put captions on, then it really shouldn’t be a problem either way.
Add captions to your channel and it’ll be all good. (I need captions for even American English shows sometimes!)
Some people struggle more than others (especially if they don’t have experience talking to people with that type of accent). If there’s someone making similar content who has an American accent, people might default to that because it might be easier for them to understand/require less work or thought to understand. Thick accents can usually be understood, but it’s almost always easier to understand someone with the same accent as you.
That depends on the individual speaker. Some folks speak amazing English, while others are more difficult to understand.
Honestly, though, I think having lots of competition is probably a bigger hurdle than your accent.
It can be, there’s a famous video of an Indian university teacher having a hard time pronouncing “one unmarketable tomato“ clearly.
It definitely depends. I worked in a hospital and now for a large biotech company can do fine with accents…after a minute. 😂 My brain has to do a little hop skip and jump to suss out each one, but I always adjust. Other people who are not used to a lot of accents might have a harder time.
I won’t sugar coat it. If I open a video and the speaker has an Indian accent I generally will leave very quickly. The only time I don’t is if it’s literally the only video on the subject I am looking for.
I was born in India to American parents. I know both Indian and American accents.
Indians are confident in their accent talking English to one another, as they should be, because English is commonly spoken in India.
When I was in college here in the USA, there was a teacher’s assistant who talked in a strong Indian accent, but very fast too. Even I had a hard time understanding him, though I grew up in India.
My first suggestion is don’t talk too fast. If we have a little more time to process an Indian accent, it helps a lot. You don’t have to talk slow, just not too fast.
My microeconomic theory professor pronounced developing –as in developing a model–as “devil upping”. Took me a class or two to adjust to the variations in syllabic emphasis, but it wasn’t a big deal, and he was a great lecturer.
It depends on how heavy it is tbh. I can understand most but I have heard a few with accents too thick for me to understand. As long as you have captions it will work either way.
Depends on the accent. I know many people from India and the accents in English range from being very understandable and me having no issue to being pretty hard to understand everything. Most of the time if the accent isn’t too thick there’s not a significant issue understanding what’s being said.
I unfortunately struggle with Indian accents. The cadence at which it’s generally spoken and the extra “beats” put into words makes it difficult for me. It’s not so bad with people who have been in America for a while, but I generally have to ask those still in India to slow down and/or repeat things when I am on calls with them. I feel awful and rude but I otherwise miss what they are saying.
If I run into a YouTube video and the accent is Indian, I will often find a different video. If it looks to be the only one on the subject I am seeking, I will slow it down to 0.75x or 0.50x speed or try subtitles.
Just to be clear: this is my personal experience only. I wouldn’t say it’s indicative of Americans as a whole and my recommendation would be to upload a video or two and see how it goes. You never know what the feedback will be until you do it!
Accents vary in the amount they can be understood.
Sendhil Ramamurthy, for example, is pretty easy to understand but has an obvious accent.