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[Q] What does English sound like to foreigners?

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ExaltedElegance
Profile Joined December 2008
United States81 Posts
December 31 2008 20:41 GMT
#1
Hi, I'm kinda new to TeamLiquid, but I thought this would be a perfect place to ask this question:

I always wondered - what does English sound like to someone who has little to no knowledge of English? English-speakers generally have stereotypes for other languages (eg: German sounding angry, the whole 'l' vs. 'r' thing of Asian languages, etc.)

TeamLiquid has a very nice multinational userbase, so I thought it might be appropriate to ask it here.
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Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States4146 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-31 20:45:46
December 31 2008 20:43 GMT
#2
[uachumachumacalit] repeat with pauses; that what it sounded to me when I didn't speak language of Inca-la-Perra.
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CaucasianAsian
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
Korea (South)11583 Posts
December 31 2008 20:44 GMT
#3
since there are so many different dialects and accents of english, i would assume that there is no one single way the language would sound, instead it would sound vastly different depending on where you heard it.
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hiroxx
Profile Joined July 2008
Ireland115 Posts
December 31 2008 20:47 GMT
#4
im also interested
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funkie
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Venezuela9376 Posts
December 31 2008 20:50 GMT
#5
It depends on whether you dominate or not the language. Also, dominate is kind of a miss placed word there, since you don't have to "dominate it" just get a grasp of it, and understand.

A lot of my friends understand when I talk to them in English, but they have hard time speaking/writing it. And well..at the beginning it sounded like a lot of wishy washy and stuff for me. :p
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Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33719 Posts
December 31 2008 20:50 GMT
#6
The problem is that almost everyone here speaks english at least decently :/ I don't really remember what I thought before I could speak it, seeing as how I was like 5 at the time..

I agree that it's quite an interesting topic tho
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AdamBanks
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada996 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-31 20:51:58
December 31 2008 20:51 GMT
#7
On January 01 2009 05:44 CaucasianAsian wrote:
since there are so many different dialects and accents of english, i would assume that there is no one single way the language would sound, instead it would sound vastly different depending on where you heard it.



+1, i hear chinese (mand? cant?) can be like this to with 3412341341 dialects, I myself am irish so i speak very rapidly, this is best juxtaposed with an american or a canadian from central or west as they speak soooooo slow you often wanna just go ahead and finish their sentence for them (eg. "How... boot... those... maple... leaf's... eh")

This works both ways, people from those places have great difficulty understanding the tones and nuances and of a Newfoundland dialect.
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PiSan
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States160 Posts
December 31 2008 20:54 GMT
#8


This is a guy who had a similar question. The video responses have fake english of varying quality.
Falcynn
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States3597 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-31 21:01:40
December 31 2008 21:01 GMT
#9
On January 01 2009 05:54 PiSan wrote:
*snip*

This is a guy who had a similar question. The video responses have fake english of varying quality.
heh, this one was pretty good (skip to 1:02)

edit: put wrong video on accident.
Nitrogen
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States5345 Posts
December 31 2008 21:07 GMT
#10
here's a girl that doesn't speak any english at all.

UNFUCK YOURSELF
HamerD
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom1922 Posts
December 31 2008 21:08 GMT
#11
This is such a fucking cool question . To me english always looks and sounds really neutral when I compare it to other languages, but of course that's just my language orientation ^^.
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Dead9
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States4725 Posts
December 31 2008 21:20 GMT
#12
I don't think this person speaks english either:
PanoRaMa
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
United States5069 Posts
December 31 2008 21:24 GMT
#13
always wondered what british and australians thought about the various american accents, if they're as funny to them as their respective accents are to us
ieatkids5
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United States4628 Posts
December 31 2008 21:25 GMT
#14
On January 01 2009 05:51 AdamBanks wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 01 2009 05:44 CaucasianAsian wrote:
since there are so many different dialects and accents of english, i would assume that there is no one single way the language would sound, instead it would sound vastly different depending on where you heard it.



+1, i hear chinese (mand? cant?) can be like this to with 3412341341 dialects, I myself am irish so i speak very rapidly, this is best juxtaposed with an american or a canadian from central or west as they speak soooooo slow you often wanna just go ahead and finish their sentence for them (eg. "How... boot... those... maple... leaf's... eh")

This works both ways, people from those places have great difficulty understanding the tones and nuances and of a Newfoundland dialect.


Chinese dialects are so different from one another, it would be impossible for two Chinese to speak to each other if they do not know a common dialect. You'd be able to pick out a couple words that sound similar, but not enough to understand. Good thing most Chinese know Mandarin in addition to whatever their local dialect is, if any. It's not difficult to understand someone who speaks English with a different accent than you do.
Mastermind
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada7096 Posts
December 31 2008 21:28 GMT
#15
On January 01 2009 06:24 PanoRaMa wrote:
always wondered what british and australians thought about the various american accents, if they're as funny to them as their respective accents are to us

I have always wondered this too, because sometimes I just start laughing when I hear them talk.
Mascherano
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Argentina1726 Posts
December 31 2008 21:36 GMT
#16
According to the 1st video this is what the guys are trying to say in spanish:

"Los jungames pala muenos. Copa del jumos pi zampistas: pi querames, pi pleyames, pey gustarañes. !Pi taballyama, pi codo¡"

I speak spanish and I have absolutely no idea what that even is. Maybe it's one of spains older nations dialects or something like from Catalonia but that is definitely not spanish.
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AdamBanks
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada996 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-31 21:41:31
December 31 2008 21:39 GMT
#17


Chinese dialects are so different from one another, it would be impossible for two Chinese to speak to each other if they do not know a common dialect. You'd be able to pick out a couple words that sound similar, but not enough to understand. Good thing most Chinese know Mandarin in addition to whatever their local dialect is, if any. It's not difficult to understand someone who speaks English with a different accent than you do.





who would understand that without subtitles?
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Falcynn
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States3597 Posts
December 31 2008 21:39 GMT
#18
On January 01 2009 06:36 Mascherano wrote:
According to the 1st video this is what the guys are trying to say in spanish:

"Los jungames pala muenos. Copa del jumos pi zampistas: pi querames, pi pleyames, pey gustarañes. !Pi taballyama, pi codo¡"

I speak spanish and I have absolutely no idea what that even is. Maybe it's one of spains older nations dialects or something like from Catalonia but that is definitely not spanish.
eh? If you're talking about Pisan's video, that guy isn't trying to speak spanish at all. He's merely trying to imitate what spanish sounds like to someone who doesn't understand the language.
DragoonPK
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
3259 Posts
December 31 2008 21:42 GMT
#19
Although I am Arabic, I grew up learning both English and Arabic at the same time so I dunno what English sounds like to an Arabic person LOL!
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
December 31 2008 21:43 GMT
#20
On January 01 2009 06:39 AdamBanks wrote:
Show nested quote +


Chinese dialects are so different from one another, it would be impossible for two Chinese to speak to each other if they do not know a common dialect. You'd be able to pick out a couple words that sound similar, but not enough to understand. Good thing most Chinese know Mandarin in addition to whatever their local dialect is, if any. It's not difficult to understand someone who speaks English with a different accent than you do.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m-y-qAbpL0

who would understand that without subtitles?


wow

I understood that PERFECTLY
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