Register  Login  Active Topics  Maps  

Funny-sounding languages

  Tags: Hit List | Joke
 Language Learning Forum : General discussion Post Reply
54 messages over 7 pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7  Next >>
Ashiro
Groupie
United Kingdom
learnxlanguage.com/
Joined 5804 days ago
89 posts - 101 votes 
Studies: Spanish

 
 Message 41 of 54
27 May 2009 at 10:22pm | IP Logged 
Spanish. I'm learning it at the moment and currently listening to TVE Radio Nacional coverage of the Man U vs. Barcelona match. It reminds me of the UK Fast Show sketch Channel 9 News: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctaszjeaDK0

The commentator gets VERY excitable. I love it!
1 person has voted this message useful



Halie
Diglot
Groupie
United States
Joined 6112 days ago
80 posts - 106 votes 
Speaks: English*, French

 
 Message 42 of 54
28 May 2009 at 2:28am | IP Logged 
Generally, I find English pretty funny.

See here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv8yEMRDe_w
1 person has voted this message useful



TheMonster
Newbie
United States
Joined 5730 days ago
20 posts - 20 votes
Speaks: English*
Studies: German

 
 Message 43 of 54
28 May 2009 at 4:35pm | IP Logged 
Oh my god, that Paula Dean video was so funny Halie. Lol. Southern accents always sound funny. My grandma is from the south and I still can't get used to how they sound.
1 person has voted this message useful



miguelsantiago
Diglot
Newbie
United States
Joined 5682 days ago
36 posts - 36 votes
Speaks: English*, Spanish
Studies: Portuguese

 
 Message 44 of 54
01 June 2009 at 7:30pm | IP Logged 
klusek wrote:
Hearing my native language in foreign movies is quite entertaining. For example:
- "The Fugitive" - Harrison Ford rents a room from Polish-Americans. When the police enter the house, the owner's wife sais in Polish "Who are these men, who are they? What are they doing here?" She says it very stiffly and stutters, it's incredibly funny.
- "Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht" - a scene in which the main character goes to bed in an inn. An owner's wife (again!) aproaches him and gives him a book saying (it took place in Romania so I don't know why) in Polish "Good book, good book. Take it, read it please. Good book, interesting book, read, read." It's so crazy and childish that I always laugh when I see it.

As a Polish speaker I'd say Russian is funny as well - false friends are outstanding e.g. PL "zapomnieć" to forget = RU "zapomniet'" to remember :)


You know come to think of I saw a German movie where these 3 people moved to the states in the 70's. The whole movie was pretty much in German but sometimes this American would talk very excitedly and somewhat vulgar. I swear at times he just mixed in gibberish with what he was saying. He would be like "YEEA BOY!! I TOOK THAT GIRL AND REEM-A-JAM-A WOW!" All said in a utter southern accent.
1 person has voted this message useful



Lizzern
Diglot
Senior Member
Norway
Joined 5911 days ago
791 posts - 1053 votes 
Speaks: Norwegian*, English
Studies: Japanese

 
 Message 45 of 54
01 June 2009 at 8:17pm | IP Logged 
miguelsantiago wrote:
You know come to think of I saw a German movie where these 3 people moved to the states in the 70's. The whole movie was pretty much in German but sometimes this American would talk very excitedly and somewhat vulgar. I swear at times he just mixed in gibberish with what he was saying. He would be like "YEEA BOY!! I TOOK THAT GIRL AND REEM-A-JAM-A WOW!" All said in a utter southern accent.


They did something like that on Lost too, in one of the first seasons - Jin (who I believe is Korean) was listening to one of the other guys speak English, just gibberish but I imagine it must sound pretty weird to people who don't understand it :-)
1 person has voted this message useful



yobar
Diglot
Groupie
United States
Joined 7034 days ago
52 posts - 54 votes 
Speaks: English*, Russian
Studies: German, Spanish, Irish

 
 Message 46 of 54
02 June 2009 at 3:42am | IP Logged 
miguelsantiago wrote:


You know come to think of I saw a German movie where these 3 people moved to the states in the 70's. The whole movie was pretty much in German but sometimes this American would talk very excitedly and somewhat vulgar. I swear at times he just mixed in gibberish with what he was saying. He would be like "YEEA BOY!! I TOOK THAT GIRL AND REEM-A-JAM-A WOW!" All said in a utter southern accent.


Think of "Yeea boy!" as an intensifier and "Reem-a-jam-a-wow" as an emphatic euphemism. :)
1 person has voted this message useful



miguelsantiago
Diglot
Newbie
United States
Joined 5682 days ago
36 posts - 36 votes
Speaks: English*, Spanish
Studies: Portuguese

 
 Message 47 of 54
02 June 2009 at 10:08pm | IP Logged 
Lizzern wrote:

They did something like that on Lost too, in one of the first seasons - Jin (who I believe is Korean) was listening to one of the other guys speak English, just gibberish but I imagine it must sound pretty weird to people who don't understand it :-)



Oh yea I remember that. I felt like they were showing us his point of view. It was interesting.
1 person has voted this message useful



jbbar
Senior Member
Belgium
Joined 5802 days ago
192 posts - 210 votes 
Speaks: English

 
 Message 48 of 54
03 June 2009 at 1:45am | IP Logged 
Rafa v. 2.0 wrote:
Do you find any languages inherently funny when you hear them


Tagalog and other languages spoken in South East Asia. They either annoy the hell out of me or make me laugh. Sometimes they make me laugh out of annoyance. Ditto for some African languages I've heard. I have no idea what those languages were though.

By the way, no offense toward the speakers. I have nothing against them. Well, apart from how their languages sound. ;)

Norwegian and Swedish also sound rather funny to me because of their melodic accent. I prefer the 'harshness' of German.

British speaking in an extremely formal, archaic or exaggerated Queen's English are also often made fun of in Flanders. Same goes for some Dutch accents used in the Netherlands. Often when a Dutchman starts talking in a room full of Flemish people, you'll see people trying to hold their laughter and keep a straight face. ;)

jbbar


1 person has voted this message useful



This discussion contains 54 messages over 7 pages: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7  Next >>


Post ReplyPost New Topic Printable version Printable version

You cannot post new topics in this forum - You cannot reply to topics in this forum - You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum - You cannot create polls in this forum - You cannot vote in polls in this forum


This page was generated in 1.0000 seconds.


DHTML Menu By Milonic JavaScript
Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved
No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization.