How does English sound to someone who doesnt speak it?

[dxkj]

Most people can identify/group languages by how it sounds to them... ie I could identify spanish and french and german and chinese, etc... but maybe not differentiate them from close sounding languages.

What does english sound like to someone who doesnt speak it... does it sound like other languages?

 

[xtknight]

You can sort of tell if you tell your brain to stop interpreting words. It's weird.

 

[Ayah]

Like a foreign language.
Dunno, I've had engrish since I was young.

 

[Shawn]

like german mixed with french?

 

[BW86]

lol, thats wierd to think about.

xtknight, how do you stop interpreting words?

 

[Rubycon]

DC motor running on AC.

 

[Azndude2190]

Like English?

...LOL IDK

 

[2Xtreme21]

Originally posted by: BW86
lol, thats wierd to think about.

xtknight, how do you stop interpreting words?

Zone out? It's probably easier if you zone out and your mind is thinking in another language, honestly.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21

Originally posted by: BW86
lol, thats wierd to think about.

xtknight, how do you stop interpreting words?

Zone out? It's probably easier if you zone out and your mind is thinking in another language, honestly.

I happen to be listening to Steel Pulse (reggae)... so I tried it. It's easy when you can't understand what they are saying because they are using an extreme patois!

 

[rival]

trying to imagine that is about the same as looking at text and not reading it

 

[SoftwareEng]

All I saw in my hebrew-compliant browser was

?????? ?????????????????? ?????? ????????????????? ????????

 

[tomywishbone]

My friends from China say we sound like this:

Ya-Ya-Ya-Ya-Ya-Ya...... Ya-Ya-Ya-Ya-Ya-Ya... repeat

When they speak like that and mimic me, it does sound sort of close... in a totally silly way.

 

[shortylickens]

I once knew a russian fellow that said it sounded like "myaa myaa myaa mwaa myaa".

 

[ChaoZ]

Go listen to some rap, it's like that.

 

[Atif]

^ It's audible? What exactly are you inferring?

Peace

 

[TheRyuu]

It probably sounds the same as you listening to a language you don't speak/read/know.
Just with different words and sentence structure.

 

[aplefka]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21

Originally posted by: BW86
lol, thats wierd to think about.

xtknight, how do you stop interpreting words?

Zone out? It's probably easier if you zone out and your mind is thinking in another language, honestly.

I happen to be listening to Steel Pulse (reggae)... so I tried it. It's easy when you can't understand what they are saying because they are using an extreme patois!

:thumbsup: for Steel Pulse! I liked Handsworth Revolution.

 

[clamum]

My friend is from Morocco and like shortylickens and tomywishbone said, he said it kinda sounds like "ya ya ya ya".

 

[Triumph]

There are people who don't speak English? How do they watch TV or movies?

 

[lyssword]

I used to not understand English ~8 years ago. So when I was in elementary school it sounded like they talked faster (than Russian) and "they" love prolonging the O sound as in "love" and the R is much softer, almost like a W. The sentence structure, tone sounded familiar, I could tell if the teacher was asking a question or was giving some information, or what was more important. I was bored like hell though, and I had a dictionary book and try to interpret random words that were written on the board, and just coloring some stuff with a pen to pass time.

 

[ponyo]

It sounds fast. Just like any other language you might not understand.

 

[lyssword]

Originally posted by: Naustica
It sounds fast. Just like any other language you might not understand.

actually to me it sounded quite distinct, we passed airport in Paris and I could at that point distinguish between french and english without any trouble.

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: Triumph
There are people who don't speak English? How do they watch TV or movies?

They cry "racism" and threaten to sue companies until they get subtitles and dubbing in spanish.

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: clamum
My friend is from Morocco and like shortylickens and tomywishbone said, he said it kinda sounds like "ya ya ya ya".

Same with the Iraqis I work with.

"Ya ya ya ya ya ya ya?"
"Ya, ya ya ya ya ya ya ya"

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Naustica
It sounds fast. Just like any other language you might not understand.

Actually English is considered a slow and lazy language. You should try Spanish. It takes like 10 syllables for every 1 of English.