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| alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7221 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 1 of 25 20 March 2014 at 7:04pm | IP Logged |
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I remember a man on You tube back in 2007, making videos about Fake English and other languages. Well recently now in 2014 a girl from Finland made similar type of videos and I think her impressions are very good. What I thought initially, is she has some musical training background. In an interview on Finnish t.v. she stated just that. Here is her video 6 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2 of 25 20 March 2014 at 9:18pm | IP Logged |
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Her Portuguese is based on the stereotype that it's something similar to Spanish but she clearly hasn't heard enough to imitate it properly.
I liked the rest. Especially Finnish :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4715 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 3 of 25 20 March 2014 at 9:52pm | IP Logged |
My first thought after watching it:
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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4844 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 4 of 25 20 March 2014 at 10:00pm | IP Logged |
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Her Japanese sounds like Finnish to me, but definitely not like Japanese...
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 DavidStyles Octoglot Pro Member United Kingdom Joined 3941 days ago 82 posts - 179 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Latin, French, Portuguese, Norwegian Studies: Mandarin, Russian, Swedish, Danish, Serbian, Arabic (Egyptian) Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 25 20 March 2014 at 10:24pm | IP Logged |
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Her Italian (or rather, "Pizza", as she labels it) accent is also truly terrible. And yes, Portuguese is really missing the nasal twang, and yes, we could go on with most of the others too.
Actually I'm not too impressed with this video, because in many cases she's just taken "word salad", chopped it about a bit, and served it up. Far, far, better is this brilliantly crafted video in which it looks like a statistical analysis of English phonology has been conducted before re-assembling a lot of phonemes back together in a pattern consistent with English phonology and speech patterns, but without actually reproducing more than a few incidental English words: How English sounds to non-English speakers Edited by DavidStyles on 20 March 2014 at 10:26pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| AlOlaf Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5148 days ago 491 posts - 617 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC2 Studies: Danish | Message 6 of 25 20 March 2014 at 11:13pm | IP Logged |
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That is brilliant.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 7 of 25 20 March 2014 at 11:30pm | IP Logged |
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She made one more video. I'm endlessly impressed with her Russian, it COULD totally be Russian if only it meant something. There's a new attempt at Portuguese and it sounds much better.
She's at her best when she imitates a specific language she's actually had exposure to. When she deviates from that, things get kinda problematic... As for Italian/pizza, to me the only minus point here is that it consisted like 100% of existing words. Not enough sauce for the awesomeness. Edited by Serpent on 20 March 2014 at 11:33pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6061 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 8 of 25 20 March 2014 at 11:38pm | IP Logged |
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There are many real words in many of the languages (the ones I know, at least).
Of course, she's pretty enough to make that completely irrelevant. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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