What does English sound like to non-English speakers?
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I've always wanted to know. Because you know how languages all have their own way of sounding to someone who doesn't understand it.
Like Chinese is obvious. It sounds like "wing ching yay wong yo ee shay mo." or something like that.
And Spanish is like "estass esto bon esty sallo so cinco." You know what I mean?
Does anyone have any clue what I'm talking about or am I just a complete idiot? I'm just curious what English sounds like to someone who doesn't speak it. You know?
I'm not sure how you expect an answer to this, no one who can answer it will understand anything you're saying.
[QUOTE=Chubbles;41976062]or am I just a complete idiot?[/QUOTE]
yes
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;41976101]I'm not sure how you expect an answer to this, no one who can answer it will understand anything you're saying.[/QUOTE]
No I realize the paradox I'm in. That's why I don't know how to find the answer to this.
well going by your super racist examples it's probably something like
HOWDY GUNS FIREWORKS MCDONALDS WAR
Well to answer you one has to be an english speaker in the first place.
Probably the same as Spanish sounds to you.
[video=youtube;BZXcRqFmFa8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZXcRqFmFa8[/video]
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[video=youtube;Vt4Dfa4fOEY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY[/video]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMoK0focAFE[/media]
This is a good one.
edit: Damnit
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;41976169]well going by your super racist examples it's probably something like
HOWDY GUNS FIREWORKS MCDONALDS WAR[/QUOTE]
it's not racist at all.... it's just how it sounds.
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[QUOTE=Splash Attack;41976210][video=youtube;BZXcRqFmFa8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZXcRqFmFa8[/video]
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[video=youtube;Vt4Dfa4fOEY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY[/video][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=NoMan;41976217][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMoK0focAFE[/media]
This is a good one.
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Thank you both so much.
Personally, I found it quite easy to express my emotions and puns in English, because the language is extraordinarily flexible and neologisms can be created almost effortlessly and they can be instantaneously recognized even by non-natives.
How does English sound? Smashing.
How does English sound to non-english speakers? I think we need to consider all different accents when thinking about this question.
The variation in England alone is crazy.
Sounds great to me
e'fjkephreipgvehnrpnecfpjmpkgvbrtfmn
fdasphngprngvpin
like that.
talk to yourself for a bit and thats it.
just imagine that each word had no meaning to you.
I think this is one of those questions you can't find out the answer to unless you suddenly become native to a country not English
It's sorta like asking what a Spanish person speaking German sounds like to a German
[QUOTE=Oizen;41976485]e'fjkephreipgvehnrpnecfpjmpkgvbrtfmn
fdasphngprngvpin
like that.[/QUOTE]
Welsh?
it's not Welsh there aren't enough L's
and too many vowels
When you hear a language you don't understand, it sounds exactly like how it should sound BUT your mind usually just starts zoning out and giving up on listening to all except the funnier sounding parts.
it's sounds like english but you don't know what the words mean, duh
Something like this:
[video=youtube;aozc8qAgHBM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aozc8qAgHBM[/video]
[video=youtube;JxQUbUyQlxs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxQUbUyQlxs[/video]
Damm, I love watching those commercials on TV.
When i hear people talking in english while i'm not in english mode (you know what i mean) it sounds like someone trying to talk with too many dicks on their mouth.
If you get cringed out by people misspelling words every 2 seconds, never ask that to someone who doesn't speaks english.
Chrysler? Nope! Xrisler.
It sounds like gibberish.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;41976461]How does English sound to non-english speakers? I think we need to consider all different accents when thinking about this question.
The variation in England alone is crazy.[/QUOTE]
I always hear Englishmen talk about things like a Sussex accent, a Yorkshire accent, a Norfolk accent, and like 12 different other kinds of accents in their country, but they all sound the same to me.
Maybe you just have to live there to get it. Like I don't know if English people can identify the different American accents, like New Yorkers, Midwesterners, Southerners, Deep Southerners, or... THE CALIFORNIANS
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX-zO_jHvPo[/media]
I remember back when I couldn't understand a word of english and I occasionally got to hear some US people talk and it sounded like a rich guy trying to talk while puking with his mouth filled with marshmallows.