What does the English language sound like to people who don't speak it as there native language?
What does it sound most similar to?
How hard is it to learn?
Does it sound nice or does it sound like cancer to the ears?
How long did it take you to learn it?
What's your opinion of the language all together?
It sounds like simlish.
I’ve often wondered this. Bump.
>What does it sound most similar to?
I don't know anymore.
It sounded like a generic foreign language when I was 6 or 7, but ever since then, I can't really compare it to other languages that are unintelligible to me
I guess you can guess that it's Germanic-ish, but a very eccentric and mutt sort of Germanic
There was a jewtube video on this where this man and woman were talking to eachother and it was supposed to be what english sounded like to non-english speakers. I don't know how they did it, but it sounded pretty fucking weird.
I asked a Chinese friend this once and she said they think Americans sound high pitched and nasal like "Err airr err" but English people are guttural and we go "Duh wuh uh buh"
>Duh wuh uh buh
I mean you're not wrong
I think this is the one
The impression she did folded me, she had the cadence down perfectly but replaced every word with a dumb grunting noise. I finally knew how I sounded to foreigners
As a non native speaker, can vouch for this video:
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Yes, that's the one
I think i caught the dumb
It sounds nothing special.
t. self-taught
This actually blows my mind
1- It's a bit similar to german but not that much.
2- It's not hard to learn, though some people really struggle with it.
3- It sounds quite nice, very pleasant, though it kinda depends on the accent, indian accent for example doesn't sound nice, ebonics also doesn't sound very nice, but that's just my opinion.
4- I dunno really, i taught myself so i never counted the time i spent learning english, but probably 2 years.
5- It's quite a nice language when spoken properly, sounds cool and it's not difficult to learn.
any germanic/romance language
easy vocabulary, but unfamiliar grammar
only certain accents, indian especially
2 years watching cartoons as a kid
meh, but it could be much worse
also,
Easy as fuck. It's simpler than French and has a much more expansive vocabulary so you're never stuck mid-sentence. It's also great that most English-speaker can write it correctly. Most French speakers write like 10 year olds.
It sounds nice depending on the person and accent. Irish, Scottish, posh, some Southern, and continental American accents sound great, the rest not so much.
Took me 2-3 years to understand it perfectly (obviously I don't get to use it that much so my accent is pretty wonky), but I didn't rely on school for that.
by properly do you mean American (if so what accent) or British (if so what accent)
wow that's fucking accurate
I think he meant without saying "like" 3 times per sentence
I remember in high school i had the choice of learning either spanish or french, and i went with french at first because i fucking hate mexicans, but french was a bit harder to learn. I went with spanish in the end.
I'm a native speaker so I can't really say, but I always suspected British English sounded a bit like Dutch, Irish English even moreso.
RP, Cockney, Scottish English, Brummie sound nice lovely and familiar. When I hear the American English it sounds hostile and degenerate to me.
so English sounds good when used by a person with an IQ over 10?
that's true. American English and English English are two very different things.
English is a weird mix of languages so it can't be easy
Like this:
that's rare these days
I've heard from East Asians that it has a lot of build-ups and break-downs, compared with their more even-sounding languages.
>very eccentric and mutt sort of Germanic
Probably the Brittonic influence as English has some similarities to Cornish and Welsh that set it apart from the rest of the Germanic languages in terms of phonemes and grammar. The history is that the Anglo-Saxons took over a large chunk of Britain, but most of the people were Britons who eventually learned the conquerors' language. tl;dr English is a Celt-ized Germanic language.
It's not that hard to lean
Although, some people don't understand what "Their" and "They're" means
English is Germanic-Latin-French (Norman)-Celt-Norse. English is basically just western European
Yeah, that kind of shit rustles my jimmies.
If you meant that they can't see the difference between those similar looking words.
desu I've always thought people speaking welsh but with a really soft accent would be close.
Celt-ized Germanic foundation; a ton of imported Latin and French words. Interestingly, similar to Thai: Khmer-ized Tai foundation; a ton of imported Sanskrit and Pali words.
>Brummie sound nice lovely and familiar
its rare to find a brummie accent that isn't camp.
Learn to write you illiterate dumb cunt.
Now here's a question: why are English spellings so dysfunctional?
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Yeah its definitely the most hated accent in the country. Poor bastards
it seems pretty similar to Swedish to be fair, I can see why you'd say that. pic related
two different countries that grew apart but still have the same langue
many many words pulled almost directly from other langues (french and latin in particular)
was(and still is) evolving and was not really standardized until the 19th century anyways
mostly it stems from adoption of french words into english during the norman conquest/rule of england
Most native speakers have trouble with their there and theyre, for some reason. English has the most extensive vocabulary in the world and is by far the most descriptive language in the world but most people here never develop their English skills beyond a 6th grade level
Sounds like Frisian
English people don't speak proper English.
Is this not the most unironically beautiful language there is?
>What does it sound most similar to?
Like a frenchman trying to speak german,
>How hard is it to learn?
How long did it take you to learn it?
Incredibly easy, I learned it as a kid without much effort from playing vidya and watching english CN.
>Does it sound nice or does it sound like cancer to the ears?
>What's your opinion of the language all together?
its a dogshit language. Sounds like absolute cancer, works like absolute cancer Its such a low-prestige language. It has no poetry,or literature beyond childish shit scribbles, cannot be used to discuss anything in depth and it carries no culture, as anyone who speaks english as a first language comes from a cultureless, identityless, multicultural shithole. Sure, it works as an international auxiliary language exactly because of that, but it otherwise it would be insulting to address anyone in english.
They also teach us in schools the things we already know about.
Link?
>Irish accents sound great,
oh?
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So what would be the features that English lacks of?
Most don't need to, and what I hate more than gramatic errors is autists who correct everyone all the time thinking it makes them look clever - and not at all like a ratty shitdick.
Most lowly educated people will write there or even ther most the time but everyoine knows whgat they mean so it doesn't matter. You don't need a scalpul to butter your toast.
Is all of that in English, or is some Irish mixed in?
>features
Language does not work that way. Try compare it to any other language and see how it compares, like a five year olds shitscribbles to actual writing.
its all in english except for the 2 commands he gives to the sheep dog
Where's Hungary?
>English English
We speak English.
I had a Polish bird and met her crazy old grandmother who said (via translation) that English sounds like 'howww howww howww howww' kind of like a cow or donkey. I think it sounds different according to what language you speak.
I kinda agree with you because people would grammatically correct my Swedish almost everyday and I just want to get my point across without being interrupted by a simple mistake I made to defeat me.
I made the same mistake, and my school had it set up so where you had to take 4 years of a language to graduate
Is French just stupid to a point where most people (even natives) have trouble writing coherent sentences? Unless I rehearse a sentence a few times in my head I always stutter mid sentence.
You will never be able to hear it from that perspective. It's impossible to describe how it sounds. In terms of which other languages it sounds the most similar to, I would say it's Frisian, Dutch and Germanic languages in general (especially West Germanic languages).
I can't say how long it took to learn it, but as a native Swedish speaker it was pretty easy to learn, since Swedish is also a Germanic language and since I was exposed to it all the time because of the current Anglo-American cultural dominance. English grammar is very simple compared to all other languages that I know. The "harder" thing about English I would say is spelling vs pronunciation. English is really weird in this regard, compared to Swedish it's very common that similar spellings are pronounced differently and that the spelling is nothing like the pronunciation.
Well both of them, actually. By properly i mean speaking without saying "like", "so" every 5 seconds or "dem niggaz wuz" kind of stuff.
Gay.
I expect it sounds like what Dutch sounds to us. Similar but bizarre.
I think they're using English words but jumbled up in sentences that don't make sense, so in a way they are speaking English, but not really.
Nah, the best language in Middle Earth is Elvish.
>It's also great that most English-speaker can write it correctly
About that...
>188646444
No... that would be scouse .
This question is akin to wondering what your nose smells like.
> It has no poetry,or literature beyond childish shit scribbles, cannot be used to discuss anything in depth and it carries no culture, as anyone who speaks english as a first language comes from a cultureless, identityless, multicultural shithole
> founded the modern world
> invented all sport worth knowing
> conquered all countries worth conquering
> world's finest physicist ever
> world's finest playwright
> still unsurpassed in popular music
> never bent over since 1066
> whole world forced to learn our language
> not bummed hard by Russia for 50+ years
>never bent over since 1066
>Seriously replying to the paprikanigger
He's either baiting or just salty because his country is synonymous with being famished.
Reminds me of my grandpa...
>my jimmies
very melodic
American English sounds like this (apparently):
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I'm sick of this gay video, we don't live in the 50s anymore.
Didn't expect that from a Slav, I imagined it sounds flat and boring, especially a standard American accent.
I think Slavic languages sound melodious.
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Have a potato
I actually have a good resource for this. It's an Italian song, designed to sound like English from the point of view of a non-native speaker. It's complete nonsense gibberish, but it sounds a lot like fragments of English at times.
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90% of all languages at this point use mostly English words only spelled different
Are you seriously going to try and be defensive with pop culture cancer now? Whats next, bragging about Harry Potter?
> world's finest playwright
I assume you are trying lionize Shakespeare, the guy who translated ancient greek farce to the London proles. I dont know whats worse, your lack of knowledge of your own "culture" or bringing up that as something worthy.
Its just your regular thin-skinned anglo defensiveness, exactly what youre doing. Instantly lashing out with insults, thinking it as "bantz" instead of trying to accept it.
English is way too diverse, there is almost nothing in common between British posh and commoners, Irish, Australian, ...
Only the posh English sounds distinguished. Otherwise we always say that English speaking people speak with a hot potato in their mouth.
>30 seconds in and no talking
did not finish
Sounds weak to me.I recognized the german the people speak today got similar weak. We used to speak more powerful. The "R" got his balls cut off.
That's not an attempt at bants, you retarded Turk rape-baby. Why give a serious reply to your butthurt whining? Take your stupid shit back to plebbit.
Any French with education can write perfectly. Niggers and shitskins have immense trouble with it though, and white trash struggle too.
that's exactly what we want. easy, stupid, has no specific culture.
English can take the form of anyone's culture if thy please.
but I find it funny you say you can't talk about anything in depth when most scientific literature is spoken in english. but maybe you mean we need to expand further to accommodate your presentations which is a never-ending task really but worth while every once in a while.
I want to learn Chinese for this reason.
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weird
If the English language was a person, it would be morbidly obese.
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I just want to say in this video: the original accent he had on it sounded ten times better. fuck the hot potato shit that ruins it.
Imagine listening to an old man who is constantly inebriated shouting in your ear about incomprehensible garbage, with a brief pause between each sentence to ask if you’re following with what he’s saying. A mixture of alcohol, bad breath and frays of saliva in between and you’ve got the King’s English.
>what I hate more than gramatic errors is autists who correct everyone all the time thinking it makes them look clever - and not at all like a ratty shitdick.
Look, if we don't correct people to protect the sanctity of our language, then soon enough we will have to deal with shit like "literal" being an accepted synonym of "figurative". I'm not willing to put up with this sort of thinking.
"Wada wala wata baaoo
Tanamaoo, wakadaooo"
Basically
änglisch is a scandinavian dialect, a white dialect. if you have problems with it you are not white, there is no myster here OP you fucking nigger
cor blimey