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What English sounds like to non-English speakers
Posted on 2/23/21 at 10:05 pm
Posted on 2/23/21 at 10:05 pm
YouTube 4 minute short film
For native and fluent english speakers, we can understand a lot of words in this but everything is so out of place that it sounds like gibberish from Sims.
I've often wondered what english sounds like from the point of view of a foreigner who does not understand english.
I've read a lot about how, to foreigners, english is a very difficult language to learn because it's so contradictory and words have multiple meanings used in different contexts.
What a neat little video that drives a point home.
For native and fluent english speakers, we can understand a lot of words in this but everything is so out of place that it sounds like gibberish from Sims.
I've often wondered what english sounds like from the point of view of a foreigner who does not understand english.
I've read a lot about how, to foreigners, english is a very difficult language to learn because it's so contradictory and words have multiple meanings used in different contexts.
What a neat little video that drives a point home.
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Posted on 2/23/21 at 10:12 pm to Sentrius
Interesting indeed! I found the girl to be quite sexy as well. 
Posted on 2/23/21 at 10:13 pm to Yewkindewit
I chuckled at the "Meglaon my shite" line.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 10:15 pm to Sentrius
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I've often wondered what english sounds like from the point of view of a foreigner who does not understand english.
Really? You have often wondered that?
It sounds exactly the same as when you hear someone speaking a language you don't know. Go ahead, though, file for a gubment grant to study it.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 10:19 pm to LegendInMyMind
I can tell what language people are speaking most of the time even if I don’t understand a word. Russian and German are particularly distinctive and I can’t speak either in the slightest.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 10:21 pm to Sentrius
Who TF speaks English? I speak American.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 10:21 pm to Sentrius
I asked some Japanese guys when I was over there to imitate Americans speaking.
They all went "blah, blah, blah" in a monotone voice.
They all went "blah, blah, blah" in a monotone voice.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 10:22 pm to Yewkindewit
Fiona Pepper
Posted on 2/23/21 at 10:24 pm to Sentrius
quote:It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though
english is a very difficult language to learn because it's so contradictory and words have multiple meanings used in different contexts.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 10:25 pm to Sentrius
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everything is so out of place that it sounds like gibberish from Sims.
quote:
What a neat little video that drives a point home.
Suckswang OP andwith big swallowdong.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 10:27 pm to TheWalrus
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I can tell what language people are speaking most of the time even if I don’t understand a word. Russian and German are particularly distinctive and I can’t speak either in the slightest.
French seems the most distinctive to me. Dutch sounds like German. There are other Slavic languages that can be hard to distinguish from
Russian. Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese can sound alike. Nothing else sounds like French.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 10:28 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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Nothing else sounds like French.
Catalan
Posted on 2/23/21 at 10:32 pm to Sentrius
American English is no piece of cake cuz to go the whole nine yards you must learn the idioms.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 10:46 pm to Sentrius
Of course she gets mad at him for no reason
Posted on 2/23/21 at 10:46 pm to Sentrius
Posted on 2/23/21 at 10:47 pm to Sentrius
I once told a bunch of Brits that I wanted to hear their best American impressions. Most did okay, then one really posh guy who wore an ascot and sounded like Prince Charles started talking about like Uncle Jessie from The Dukes of Hazzard. Had me in tears.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 10:52 pm to Sentrius
I always thought that we sounded like them and they sounded like us
Posted on 2/23/21 at 10:56 pm to Sentrius
this girl's use of a chef knife needs work
Posted on 2/23/21 at 10:59 pm to FLTech
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I always thought that we sounded like them and they sounded like us
Posted on 2/23/21 at 10:59 pm to Sentrius
Italian singer Adriano Celentano released a song in the 70s with nonsense lyrics meant to sound like American English, apparently to prove Italians would like any English song.
Adriano Celentano - fake english
Adriano Celentano - fake english
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