Indonesian Farmer With British Accent
Summary
TLDRIn this interview, RJ, also known as Mr. Kaming, discusses his impressive journey of mastering a British accent despite being born and raised in East Java, Indonesia. RJ reveals that his time as a taxi driver in Sydney allowed him to interact with British passengers, helping him perfect the accent. He also talks about his background in farming, his English teaching career, and his collaborations with Netflix. Throughout the conversation, RJ showcases his ability to mimic various accents, including Indian, and shares insights into his language teaching methods and unique experiences.
Takeaways
- đ ADI Harant, also known as Mr. Kingis, is from Southeast Java and has a passion for teaching English.
- đ Despite never visiting the UK, ADI developed a British accent after living in Australia for several years and interacting with British people.
- đ He worked as a taxi driver in Sydney, where he met many British passengers and learned their accent through conversations.
- đ©âđ« ADI is an English teacher and started gaining attention through viral videos on platforms like Instagram and TikTok.
- đ He comes from a farming background, as his father was a farmer, and he has incorporated farming as part of his platform.
- đĄ ADI teaches online and helps students, including those from Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore, learn British accents and phonetics.
- đ He also studies the Quran while balancing his farming and teaching responsibilities, with a strong focus on time management.
- đ„ ADI collaborated with Netflix on a promotional campaign for the show *Bridgerton*, an experience he found both challenging and rewarding.
- đ€ He is also known for his voiceover skills, drawing comparisons to National Geographic narrators in some of his videos.
- đ ADI enjoys mimicking accents from different regions and cultures, such as Indian and Thai, and has a talent for performing them convincingly.
Q & A
Who is the main subject of the interview, and what is his profession?
-The main subject is ADI Harant, also known as Mr. Kingis. He is an English teacher, a farmer, and also teaches the Quran.
How did ADI Harant acquire his British accent despite never visiting the UK?
-ADI Harant picked up the British accent while living in Australia. He was a taxi driver in Sydney and interacted with many British passengers, which helped him mimic their accent.
How long did ADI live in Australia, and how did that influence his language skills?
-ADI lived in Australia for about four or five years, where he interacted with British individuals, helping him develop a British accent despite the Australian influence.
Why does ADI Harant say he struggled to learn the Australian accent?
-ADI Harant found the Australian accent difficult due to the numerous slang terms, which made it harder for him to pick up compared to the British accent.
What role does farming play in ADI Harant's life and platform?
-Farming is a significant part of ADI Harant's life because his father was a farmer, and he continues to grow organic fruits in his backyard. Farming also became a niche for his platform, as he believes in recognizing and thanking farmers for their work in providing food.
What is ADI Harantâs approach to teaching English and pronunciation to his students?
-ADI Harant focuses on phonetics, especially for students struggling with their accents. He provides tips on pronunciation and uses British videos from social media to help his students improve their British accents.
What kinds of students does ADI teach, and where are they from?
-ADI Harant teaches a variety of students, including university students and lecturers from countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Many of his students seek help in improving their British accents.
How does ADI Harant manage to balance farming, teaching English, and studying the Quran?
-ADI Harant manages his time by having different shifts for farming, teaching English, and attending Quran classes. He admits it can be tiring but tries to keep up with his schedules.
What was ADI Harant's experience collaborating with Netflix for a Bridgerton promotional campaign?
-ADI Harant initially thought the Netflix collaboration offer was a scam. However, after confirmation, he participated in a lengthy 10-hour shoot, which resulted in a two-minute video. He was surprised by the professionalism of the crew.
What other accents can ADI Harant mimic, and which ones does he find most challenging?
-Besides his British accent, ADI Harant can mimic Indian and Thai accents. He finds the Australian accent challenging due to its slang and prefers mimicking British accents.
Outlines
đ€ The British Accent Revelation
The paragraph introduces RJ, also known as Mr. Kaming, who discusses his impressive British accent despite never having visited the UK. Born and raised in Bangi, Southeast Java, RJ's connection to farming and teaching English led to the creation of his Instagram platform, Mr. Kingis. His time in Australia as a taxi driver in Sydney's Eastern suburbs, where he interacted with British expatriates, played a significant role in him picking up the accent. He shares how these interactions, often filled with humor and camaraderie, helped him develop his British accent.
đ Cultural Confusion and Teaching Style
RJ initially found it challenging to adapt to the Australian accent due to its slang, humorously recounting his confusion with the term 'mate.' He clarifies that his British accent was not a result of living in the UK but from his time in Australia. The conversation shifts to his career as an English teacher, where RJ emphasizes the importance of phonetics in mastering the British accent. He shares his teaching approach, which involves working with students to improve their pronunciation and confidence, often using videos from his social media platforms.
đ Balancing Farming, Teaching, and Quran Studies
RJ discusses his diverse roles as a farmer, English teacher, and Quran teacher. He explains how he manages his time to juggle these responsibilities, highlighting the importance of farming and food security. He also touches on his experience teaching the Quran in English, a request from his followers who are eager to learn. Additionally, RJ shares his exciting collaboration with Netflix for the promotional campaign of the show 'Bridgerton,' detailing the process and his initial skepticism, which turned out to be a rewarding experience.
đŹ Netflix Experience and Accent Demonstration
The final paragraph recounts RJ's experience working with Netflix, where he found the process of creating a two-minute video to be quite lengthy and nerve-wracking. He also humorously addresses the similarity of his voice to that of the National Geographic Channel's narrator. The interview concludes with RJ demonstrating his ability to do various accents, including Indian and American, showcasing his talent for mimicking different English dialects. The conversation ends on a light note, with RJ looking forward to sharing more of his linguistic skills.
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Keywords
đĄBritish accent
đĄAustralia
đĄFarming
đĄEnglish teaching
đĄAccents
đĄPhonetics
đĄConfidence in English
đĄCultural exchange
đĄSocial media platform
đĄNetflix collaboration
Highlights
RJ, also known as Mr. Kaming, shares his background growing up in Southeast Java, where his father was a farmer and his mother a teacher.
RJ's surprising mastery of the British accent despite never visiting the UK, attributing his skill to interacting with British passengers while driving a taxi in Sydney.
RJ reveals that he lived in Australia for four to five years, where he encountered many British expats, which helped him learn the accent.
He discusses his experience mimicking different accents, including British, Australian, and Indian, while interacting with diverse communities in Sydney.
RJ humorously recalls his initial confusion with Australian slang, particularly the term 'mate,' when he first arrived in Australia.
Despite picking up a British accent, RJ admits that learning the Australian accent was challenging due to the heavy use of slang.
RJ talks about his passion for farming, growing various fruits like bananas, papayas, mangoes, and dragon fruit on his familyâs land.
He emphasizes the importance of appreciating farmers, as they play a crucial role in providing food, which is often overlooked.
RJ shares that his teaching platform focuses on both English and farming, combining his love for both subjects.
He explains that his teaching style emphasizes phonetics and pronunciation, helping students gain confidence in speaking English.
RJ describes his work with students from various countries, including Thailand and Singapore, helping them improve their English pronunciation.
He highlights how students, especially from Thailand, struggle with phonetics due to their strong accents and work to improve their British English.
RJ talks about his role as a Quran teacher, managing both farming and teaching while still learning himself.
He shares his experience collaborating with Netflix for a promotional campaign related to the show Bridgerton, which he initially thought was a scam.
RJ demonstrates his talent for voice acting by imitating National Geographic and Bollywood-style accents, delighting the interviewers with his range.
Transcripts
all right now how does he speak British
accent that well and we have to find out
then to find the answer we are not
connected with him ADI harant or more
famously known as Mr kingis in
banga hello
hello shall we call you or Mr
ate not saying it correctly I'm all
right how are you we are good we are
great can't wait to talk yes can you
tell
tell us a little bit about yourself
before you start mbling in with your
perfect English accent
there all right thank you um delighted
to be here and thank you for having me
so my name is RJ or you can call me Mr
kaming and um I was born and raised in
the Southeast Java region named bangi if
you have heard of it and yes this is one
of the um song or
yeah love it so um yeah I
was have a connection with the um
farming because my father was a farmer
and my mom was a
teacher also English is my passion so
you can tell like teaching fing English
so those three are the reason behind the
um platform Mr kingis on Instagram
right on I I find it really really hard
to believe that you were born and raised
in Indonesia East Java to be exact I
mean um tell us more about your
background I mean it can't be like that
I mean you must have lived abroad or
something or at least you've been to uh
other countries that uh speaks English
mhm tell us more about it so um I
started inaya then I continue to um
Australia so I lived in Australia for a
couple of years and it was funny because
I learned these accents the briest
accents from Australia and fun fact I've
never been to the UK so you have never
been to the UK but you lived in
Australia yeah for how many
years um um like four or five years
that we got you yeah but that's it's
true what he said I mean he's got a
British accent right but he lived in
Australia never been to the UK where did
you pick up that accent were you like a
roommate with Harry Potter for some time
in your life I mean we we're trying to
guess we're trying to guess where' you
get it try to get yeah so um there's an
Eastern suburbs in Sydney the place
where I lived and the the home of the
brids community i' say and they always
go to the beach um every Sunday on the
weekends I was a taxi driver at that
time
so I've got chance to meet different
types of people from different
backgrounds including the the Brits on
UK and that's how I pick up the accents
so they're really funny and they talk in
a nice way like oh I think this is a
nice accent this is what I called a
bridge accent so I was going to start um
asking them like if they are from London
or it's part of the UK because um wanted
to to Lear this accents and they start
talking they share the ideas they share
the experiences and that was so funny
and they were teaching me in a nice way
of the British accents because we were
dancing in the car we were swimming I
mean singing in the car and we have some
sort of a connection because of this
accent yeah yeah well I mean so so what
your accent is a British accent accent
is it because you know that you have
Welsh you have sort of like the more on
the Scottish side um different parts of
UK they have all different accents right
right yeah so yours is British this is
British right British yeah okay yeah so
that's how I mimic the accents because I
enjoy mimicking accents from my
passengers so the UK um they live in the
Eastern suburbs of Sydney and Saturday
and Sunday and the holly day so because
I study on the weekday I drive on the
weekends and all of my passengers like
all of them mostly i' say 90% of them a
Londoner lond W lond it's so impressive
listening to your story I mean only 5
years in Australia that is not a long
time for someone to pick up that accent
but I think he chose the right way to be
friends with those londoners instead of
finding some Indonesian friends know
what I mean yes now at one point were
you ever confused whether you're going
to do Australian or British or Scottish
accent sure you did to be honest yeah um
I think um first Australian of course
because I stayed in Australia
and um I find it's a bit hard for me to
learn Australian accents because there
lot of slangs in Australia and first day
I came to Australia there was a guy came
to me saying hey good day mate how's it
going I'm sorry my name's not mate is it
hey M I'm sorry my name's not mate yeah
keep saying M and M mate I keep telling
them my name is not mate my name is AD
and I came to know that mate it's a bro
yeah it's a bro thing right yeah you
felt so dodgy right at the very first
very first occasion when you were in
Australia you felt very dodgy all right
so very interesting indeed so you are a
farmer you are a Quran teacher you an
English teacher did is this thing what
are the things that you dreamt of you
know to
be um yes because like my father was a
farmer and um been farming for
generations and um I've got huge farms
in the in the backyard so bananas
papayas mangoes orange Dron fruit and
you know all of those organic fruits
that we grow from the
backyard and um I chose farming as a
niche of my platform
because because we need food right
because food is our future okay and
because we go to the markers every day
for the
groceries and we go to fancy wrestling
for dinner we gave them a nice BL view
nine out of 10 10 out of 10 but we
forget to say thank you farm the food
right so that brought me
to um have an idea become an idea to
bring farming as a niche for my
platform interesting so
and now I I really want to know more
about you as an English teacher because
I guess you are one in a million meaning
that not everyone can pick up those
accent like really spot onot without
like years like say more than 10 years
of experience living in that country
that speaks that accent no you didn't
have that experience but yet you
succeeded now how is it when you're
teaching how do you treat your students
do you ask them to hey you have to get
the pronunciation correctly like like
the way I pronounce it or what's your
teaching
style right um again it started from the
videos right after gaining millions of
views I received thousands of DMS from
um viewers and
interestingly not only Indonesians but
also Malaysians singaporeans and why
they daming me and asking me and
requesting me if I can ditch them with
the brsh absent and funny thing was I've
got um TI student they were funny
because they said um that they don't
feel confidence with their accents
because they've got thick th accents and
they want me to change it I like Hello
no I can't change you you can change it
yourself so what I'm going to do I'm
going to going to give you some tips
okay the first is the phonetics that's
the the key to the British accents so
these Ty students are struggling with
the funatics because they um they
thought a thick tight accents you know
like um please you cannot give me this
one yeah so
this my time that tight English would be
good for
around an
idea yeah so I start with the vowel and
the drilling and the phonetics and SW
and yeah the consonant so and I show
them the videos of um British um videos
from my Instagram and Tik Tok and and
also that's another Singapore I think
it's a Singapore there's an old man um
asking me if I can change
his daughters English to be British
right very
challenging that's a challenge again
again they don't feel confidence they
feel insecure with this English I'm like
no I that's English you know so my
second accent was um I wish it was
English the the first is said UK of
course and IEX English then what's the
next one Indian I like Indian and got
Indian friends and also they
want some tips for me to be more sounds
like a British than so ad these these
students that you mentioned that you're
talking about um are they are they still
around and and are they uh your online
students or how do you teach them do you
teach them online yes online okay all
right and you still have you still have
them around at the
moment um yes oh work progress
yeah um the progress is good yeah um of
course it is taking time because
learning always takes time it doesn't
happen in a night so always encourage
them like you need to practice and
practice and practice because practice
is the key right so um most of them are
students University students oh and
lecturers they wanted to continue the um
s
s like um so the UK most them are um
planning for their next study to the UK
and I told them hey you know what I've
never been to the
UK no
way nobody would believe that nobody
believe not for a single bit now we also
know that you aside from farming and
aside from teaching English you also
teach the Quran yeah now can you tell us
a little bit about that and do you teach
it in English that's actually the
biggest question that we want to find
out from you now
yeah because I'm still learning because
I'm student
in so um I do farming during the day and
I learn the T and the Quran and you know
those um
PAB in the evening so I managed to do
both I know it's a bit hard but yeah
sometimes I skip the class because I was
so tired teaching English and do the
farming then on again but um yeah I try
to manage sht with um slots so I've got
morning shift then afternoon shift then
evening shift 8 to 9 I I try to attend
the reciting class in the B of the S
okay and um everyone came to know that
are you Mr King you Mr King you Mr
King okay please teach me D me me this
me okay well um they they want to teach
because they saw the videos so no no no
I don't want you to teach me in
Indonesian please teach me in English
Okay English struggle
so well life's full struggles but we
noticed as well that you collaborated
with um Netflix as the one of the fans
of Bridgeton um as far as I want as to
know how would what that story ended
with Lady whistled down finally
revealing herself um you were part of
the Bridgeton sort of like um I don't
know promotional campaign yeah
promotional campaign and Netflix finally
recognized to you were so tell us more
about
that um I thought first time to be
honest with you I thought it was
scammers because there was an email I
receiving an email and it was to the spa
folder so um I was trying to open it and
it says um Netflix blah blah blah blah
blah because I've never been on the ti
show before so I think it was a
scam then um on the other day the next
day someone texted me hello my name is
blah blah blah we're from this um
company agency Netflix show we like to
you know collaborate with you with the
Bridgeton oh Bridgeton think I watched
Bridgeton okay why not why not okay go
then next week I got an an accident so I
could walk so luy that there um crew
members so um professional and they they
don't want me to walk on the on the
field to to do the farming wanted to do
the you know um to hold this the baby
cow a baby maybe um a boat then um I
didn't expect there would be over 30
professional camera person including the
members of this Netflix group and it
looks like more than 10 hours a day to
get this two minute video so I was like
no way I think it's because I was so
nervous because it was the first time I
was appearing on a Netflix commercial so
again they um they took another segmen
they moved to the front of the house
then they moved it to um the kitchen
then they brought me to the um the shed
then they brought me again to this um
plays but again because I couldn't walk
so I was like slowly walking slowly
walking finally after 10 hours got his
video results that was fantastic wow we
did another
process right process yeah now um we
know that many people mentioned that
your voice sounds also similar to the
National Geographic Channel um vs is
that you ever yeah I know you heard of
that can you can you uh can you show us
can you uh let us hear that right it's
on my
videos so I think the first one was when
I upload the the grazing with the um
Alexander ponman so I did the voice
over like he sced people in this country
charming and friendly that's the the
first video the second one was from
Netflix like the line was dear viewers
readers besties in your might seen there
are five reasons why I'm the most
eligible Bachelor hospial of the dond of
the
Season wow wow wow amazing got another
one okay to close the discussion we
would like you to do another accent not
British oh here we go maybe you can do
American or Australian I'm or Indian or
Indian oh oh we we we've heard Tai ear
so pick another two maybe I think
because I grew up with Bollywood I was
going all right do it fair enough let's
have
it
um Samir are you cra you need to go down
until you finish your project I told you
is time for breakfast
wow amazing
welc what a
performance give it up
for thank you very much say hi to your
goats and the Patty field this is
actually a dream come true for me
because every day I watch your videos on
Tik Tok it's always there on my fyp so
thank you so much yeah looking forward
to more Indian accents though yes yeah
that sounds thank youie all right thank
pleasure talk bye bye bye bye hi what a
fun interview fun I mean it's uh what
how many accents can you do just one
just one just one I don't think this is
an accent this is not an accent I I I
don't even know what accent is this
because this is our accent this is our
accent right this not like English UK
but my friends like uh native speaker
native English speaker say that I have
American accent but that is maybe
because I first learned English from my
mother who also have that American
accent you sound a little bit Australian
British well I was in Australia for some
time so that right right so you and me I
think we're yes 100 close very close no
we don't have anything else other than
that right we got nothing Mayan like
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah okay or
Singlish Singlish when you stage too
long in Singapore you will develop that
accent all right um it's been fun
talking about um English accent but
we're going to have to take a little
break and for the next uh segment or
after the break we will uh deliver more
information just for you what is it a
game we have games too and related to
what day is it today oh really something
it has something so please do not go
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