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ExaltedElegance
United States81 Posts
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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Physician
United States4146 Posts
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CaucasianAsian
Korea (South)11586 Posts
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hiroxx
Ireland115 Posts
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funkie
Venezuela9376 Posts
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 | ||
Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
I agree that it's quite an interesting topic tho  | ||
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AdamBanks
Canada996 Posts
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
United States160 Posts
This is a guy who had a similar question. The video responses have fake english of varying quality. | ||
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Falcynn
United States3597 Posts
On January 01 2009 05:54 PiSan wrote: heh, this one was pretty good (skip to 1:02)*snip* This is a guy who had a similar question. The video responses have fake english of varying quality. edit: put wrong video on accident. | ||
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Nitrogen
United States5345 Posts
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HamerD
United Kingdom1922 Posts
. 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
United States4725 Posts
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PanoRaMa
United States5069 Posts
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ieatkids5
United States4628 Posts
On January 01 2009 05:51 AdamBanks wrote: +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. | ||
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Mastermind
Canada7096 Posts
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. | ||
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Mascherano
Argentina1726 Posts
"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
Canada996 Posts
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
United States3597 Posts
On January 01 2009 06:36 Mascherano wrote: 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.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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DragoonPK
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fusionsdf
Canada15390 Posts
On January 01 2009 06:39 AdamBanks wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m-y-qAbpL0 who would understand that without subtitles? wow I understood that PERFECTLY  | ||
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