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Indian English isn't always a foreign accent
Play videoThis video describes how despite Indian-accented English is often understood by people in the Global North as an imperfect acquisition of English, it is essentially as much a legitimate variant of English as Australian English is to British English, and goes into the history of how English came into India and what phonetic rules apply.
Conan O'Brien Welcomes the Oscars' International Audience
Play videoA clip from the Oscars 2025, where host Conan O'Brien greets the Spanish-speaking audience, wishes the Indian audience an enjoyable breakfast, and then begs the Chinese audience to hire him and help him out of his financial debt (I think... between myself and three native speakers we could not figure out what exactly he's trying to say).
Code-switching in the song "Exotic"
Play videoThis artifact is the song “Exotic” by Priyanka Chopra ft. Pitbull, and this is an example of code-switching because they sing in Hindi and English, which is because of Priyanka Chopra and her Indian roots and her attempt to add some of her culture and language to this song. The song also mentions various cities/countries around the world. Thus, the song’s use of Hindi and English expresses code-switching and shows her reaching out to a larger and more diverse audience.