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| IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6439 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 1 of 20 16 November 2009 at 7:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sorry if this is a repost here.
I thought this was cool. Languages definitely have "distinct" sounds and even though I only know like 4 words in Russian, I can still speak "fake Russian" and have people identify it as "oh, that sounds like Russian." I've also always wondered what English sounds like to non-English speakers. This vid (I saw it posted on another non-language forum) has a French guy's approximation of fake English and then also some other languages including Finnish, Cantonese, and Romanian. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRR_gKFT6ds edit - can we embed youtube vids here? [y]WRR_gKFT6ds[/y] edit 2 - guess not. Edited by IronFist on 16 November 2009 at 7:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7378 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 20 16 November 2009 at 7:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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This is really fun and intriguing! I'll see how we could embed youtube videos here.
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| Yukamina Senior Member Canada Joined 6266 days ago 281 posts - 332 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean, French | Message 3 of 20 16 November 2009 at 9:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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This topic came up a while ago, I think. I though this one was pretty good for fake English(at least, I think this is the one I saw before...).
/watch?v=yAA_qbiOQ5k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAA_qbiO Q5k[/URL] 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5840 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 4 of 20 16 November 2009 at 9:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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A friend and I once "faked" Finnish without realising that a person who overheard us was Finnish. I will never do it again...
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6911 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 20 17 November 2009 at 1:59am | IP Logged | ||
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Speaking seven languages
Fake English So-so related: Translating 7 languages 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6439 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 6 of 20 17 November 2009 at 9:28pm | IP Logged | ||
That sounds like a funny story :D Do tell!!! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Halie Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6112 days ago 80 posts - 106 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 7 of 20 20 November 2009 at 5:50am | IP Logged | ||
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I find this odd because when I was little my friends and I liked the sound of languages like Chinese and Spanish so we would try and imitate them but we were told off for being disrespectful. And it is pretty disrespectful.
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| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6867 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 8 of 20 20 November 2009 at 2:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you play the game "The Sims", apparently that is what non-English speakers say they think English sounds like to them.
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