What do non-native speakers think English really sounds like? I imagine it must be a bit like Dutch, which isn't particularly attractive to me. Does it sound nice? Is it a pleasure to speak? Or is it a bit of a chore?
What do non-native speakers think English really sounds like? I imagine it must be a bit like Dutch...
Sebastian Bell
Elijah Collins
It has to many schwas, which make it sound unclear and lame.
Oliver Robinson
>What do non-native speakers think English really sounds like?
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Brandon Cook
>I imagine it must be a bit like Dutch
Then you're a fucking retarded for never realizing that dutch sounds like diarrhea.
Thomas Lopez
It sounds whiny and weak, compared to German and Slavic languages
Joshua Morales
I notice that my jaw is a bit stiff after speaking English, but not as stiff as when I try speaking Dutch.
Xavier Price
Well it's the closest thing to English to our ears, French is too wishy washy and German is too ordnung
Not as bad as I assumed then
Austin Hughes
My throat becomes sore when I try to speak french
Adrian Nelson
British: drunk gibberish
American: "Yeehaaw, we gon git em good bois"
Australian/NZ: "Ooga booga wer da wite wimmin at"
South African: "Ooga booga wer da wite wimmin at"
Canada: "Wing ching pong, wanga langa ping song"
Jose Price
At this point it has become another primary language. It just sounds natural to me.
Caleb Miller
>Caring about other people opinion
Andrew Brown
based
Ayden Jackson
For me English is just a simplified way of speaking with simplified grammar.
Aaron Scott
btw pls come to I want to see your flag there
Robert Moore
Though it took me 3 years to fully understand it since I began properly learning it
Caleb Parker
Can you write anything in your main language? Just for curiosity... With your alphabet pls.
Mason Lee
sad and bored
Jonathan Thompson
Malay used to use this for writing his language before transitioning to alphabets.
Hunter Cooper
I think this song of Celentano pretty much nails it:
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Jack Brooks
Skip to the frisian guy at 5:00
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Thats the closest you can get following your logic.
Matthew Gonzalez
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Sounds very much like Old English desu
Oliver Sanchez
That clip of old english is full of proverbs and words which translate better to dutch than english. quite interesting... I could probably read 40 % of it without help.
Dylan Harris
I live in a place with. Lot of English speaking tourists so English is pretty normal sounding to me at this point.
Kayden Bell
Only Egyptian Arabic and English sound normal to me at this point. I studied English when I was really young, around 8, and I stopped thinking in Arabic completely a loooong time ago desu.
Ayden Nelson
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this is how english used to sound for me
Logan Allen
For me it's sounds like Gaelic.