Sarah Jones: One woman, eight hilarious characters
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www.ted.com In this hilariously lively performance, actress Sarah Jones channels an opinionated elderly Jewish woman, a fast-talking Dominican college student and more, giving TED2009 just a sample of her spectacular character range.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http
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i can distinguish indian accent so easily, because many many of my lecturers talk like that…
amazing ..I love it !!!
Love the french and indian accent actually the chinese one thats good 2
hmmm, there is no such thing called British accent, it is either English accent, Scottish accent, Welsh accent or so.
hmmm, there is no such thing called British accent, it is either English accent, Scottish accent, Welsh accent or so.
@benaparis yes.i agree with u. actually most of the chinese now pronounce better than before.
Place: T.E.D
Speaker: Sarah Jones
I should tell you when i was asked to be here. and i thought to myself .what.wow.it’s ted ,and it’s tedters, you know, as innocent as that name sounds.
These are the ??? artist,scientist, who shape a world . What i can possibly have to say that we distinguish enough,to justify my participation or something like that .so I thought perhaps a really civilized sound in british accent might help things bear(?).
her chinese accent to me is like a chinese from hongkong or canton.
The last one is hilarious.
Queens, New York
her chinese accent is like… a well educated chinese-american accent lol most immigrants sound worse lol
I am a Chinese and I can only completely understand her with Chinese accent. That means her Chinese accent is great!
the second last is not a typical Chinese accent, Hongkong accent maybe
The German accent is not that good
wow amazing
WOW.
nailed the chinese accent, i don’t know what people are saying
Get bent, Ted.
Sarah Jones is amazing. I had to look her up again after listening to The Moth podcast.
hilarious
I find it dissapointing that TED has had a slime like Clinton speaking there.
Most accents were excellent, but German accent wasn’t close at all; she just made the “th” into “z” and the “r” into a throat sound. There is a bit more to the German accent than that…
Chinese accent also wasn’t very good – grammar was too perfect, and words that were usually cut short were not.
needs to be more tight and shorter and confident with better dialogue etc.
Sarah is a genius. Felt like so many people were there! All of them were great. If you like this, you should hear her poetry — “Blood” & “This Revolution”
Pretty good overall, some of them were a little bit off, for e.g. the German one. But the English one was amazing, normally Americans doing English accent is a disaster. She is doing a typical English accent, I’d like to see her do a Geordie accent or a London or Liverpudlian or something.