AAVE Basics // Zero Copula //Basics Of African American Vernacular Episode 1
I’m revisiting the basics of AAVE in this video and reviewing how we don’t use a copula in the present tense. That’s a fancy way of saying we don’t use “is” or “are” but there are some exceptions. I covered this in my first episode about AAVE but I felt like that video had a bit too much information packed into it and I wanted to give this principle of the language an episode of its own to be able to better explain it with new examples. I hope you enjoy it
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Welcome to What’s Good English! On this channel we explore the slang, common phrases, idioms, and AAVE. My goal is to help English learners learn the meanings behind some of our harder to understand vocabular and phrases that are in our common speech in context. I try demonstrate as much as I can acted out in humorous (ok well sometimes humorous) sketches so they can be learned with real context because that helps us remember far better than a simple explanation. I’m a language learner myself and occasionally I upload a bonus episode about language learning tips and things I learned through my trials and errors trying to learn languages. If you like what you’ve read, please subscribe and share my videos around. My goal really is to help as many people as I can understand these fun curiosities of the English Language.
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A great book about AAVE:
Talking Back Talking Black by John McWhorter
Comprehensible input books that helped me learn Spanish:
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