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| orion Senior Member United States Joined 7023 days ago 622 posts - 678 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 1 of 21 31 July 2007 at 12:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have always wondered what English sounded like to a person that can't speak it. This guy came up with a brilliant way to answer that question. His question is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C5EZmyJ9ik The reply from a native German speaker is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAA_qbiOQ5k I would love to know what our non-native English speaking forum members think of this. In the first example, the questioner's example of Italian, Mandarin sounds pretty spot on to me. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Felixelus Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6840 days ago 237 posts - 244 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 21 31 July 2007 at 1:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thats fantastic! His fake Italian, Spanish and Russian sounded really good! His fake Japanese and French made me flinch though...probably because I know these languages better.
The reply from the German guy is fasinating...sounds like a mix of English, German and the Scandinavian languages. Not necessarily in that order! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| MeshGearFox Senior Member United States Joined 6697 days ago 316 posts - 344 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 3 of 21 31 July 2007 at 8:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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I thought it sounded like how Dutch sounds to me -- a lot like american english, only sort of alien.
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| LilleOSC Senior Member United States lille.theoffside.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6693 days ago 545 posts - 546 votes 4 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: French, Arabic (Written) | Message 4 of 21 31 July 2007 at 9:06pm | IP Logged | ||
Yeah, it sounded a lot like Dutch to me as well. I hope non-native English speakers can tell us what they think. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Eiliana Diglot Newbie Netherlands Joined 6574 days ago 13 posts - 13 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: German, Japanese | Message 5 of 21 01 August 2007 at 11:10am | IP Logged | ||
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I liked the Chinese and Russian ones...
And the fake English didn't sound anything like Dutch to me (well, that's normal I guess). It's really weird to think you'll never be able to hear your native language like it sounds to someone not knowing it... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| el topo Diglot Groupie Belgium Joined 6762 days ago 66 posts - 71 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Dutch | Message 6 of 21 01 August 2007 at 11:23am | IP Logged | ||
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"Russian" sounded more like Polish to me. :-)
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| burntgorilla Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6446 days ago 202 posts - 206 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Danish | Message 7 of 21 01 August 2007 at 12:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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I found another video of the first guy reading fake English (sorry, don't have the link), and it made me realise how English is related to German. To a native English speaker German sounds utterly foreign and unrelated to English, but English does actually sound like it belongs in that family. I suppose I really shouldn't find that surprising, but there you go.
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| tenseconds Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6371 days ago 18 posts - 18 votes Speaks: English, Spanish* Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 8 of 21 01 August 2007 at 12:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't know if any Spanish speaker has responded to that question, but I've
heard many times that English sounds like "guachiguachiguachi". 1 person has voted this message useful |
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