fake english

ever wonder what english sounds like to someone who can't speak it? well, wonder no more!

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[diane6723]

He's hot :) I've always wondered what English sounds like to peole who don't speak Engish. Great video.

[MrZeus6699]

This sounds exactly like english......after 11 shots and 6 beers,

[AlimeProductions]

@Oricelis To us they aren't unusual, but compared to French, Spanish or other Latin languages they are pronounced different. If you listen to foreigners who barely hear English imitate it it always comes out like "Racima roy kacirar semies larayori" for example. I talked to some foreigners about it and they say most dialects sound like that but each have a different rhythm. They usually like the Southern accent for some reason. I can't pick up Chinese accents well, like the Beijing.

[Oricelis]

Russian is the worst sounding to me. Too many nasaly e and i sounds like я,е,и,й,н. Interesting that foreigners say that its centered around the r. Where I live we drop the r. (Typical of southern dialects). Another distinctive thing is that we have trouble with the "ng" sound. For example I have trouble with Lancaster, PA, which is pronounced LANG-kister, but I say LAN-kastuh. I definitely agree on the unusual vowels and focus on l's and e's though.

[AlimeProductions]

@Oricelis I like the sound of Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. The harsh sounding ones to me are Russian, German and Vietnamese. Most other languages are neutral to me like French, Swedish, Norwegian or Korean. Mandarin Chinese is becoming my second language, and I noticed it sounds better in singing and when spoken slowly. Foreigners say that American English is centered around the "r", "I" and "E" and sounds smooth but nasal and exotic sounding vowels.

[Oricelis]

Really? I think Mandarin to sounds awful. German sounds very nice in western Germany, but horrible in eastern Germany. I'm a big fan of Spanish and Hungarian and Hawai'ian. Arabic sounds good too. In English, I think most American accents sound much more relaxed and smooth when speaking, and most British accents sound strained and forced.

As for the vid, thats how midwesterners sound to me.

[AlimeProductions]

@briskii1020yea As much as Northern states dislike the Southern accent, foreigners seem to like it and think it sounds really hilarious. They say it has a flowing rhythm but it just sounds really funny. The most pleasant sounding foreign language to me is Mandarin Chinese, but the least is probably German.

[AlimeProductions]

@Oricelis Americans from the North dislike the Southern accent, but some foreigners think it's either hilarious or has some type of rhythm. I don't know, maybe to some countries it's like that but to others it isn't.

[AlimeProductions]

@Oricelis No, I wouldn't really call it boring but I did hear that American accents are really ugly sounding with the exception of the Southern accent. I heard it sounds hilarious but it has rhythm. But I hear British English is more pleasant. That's just the opinion of foreigners. To us, our accents have no affect on us because we've heard them many times.

[Oricelis]

@AlimeProductions English is a mash up of german and french with a little celtic, norse, latin, and greek thrown in. I have what is called a "tidewater accent", an American accent. Look it up here. I don't think it sounds boring or unpleasant at all.

[Oricelis]

@AlimeProductions Actually, most American dialects are more similar to the older forms of English. The English language in the UK is nothing like it was spoken back when the colonies were formed. American English sounds fine, I really don't understand how it is unpleasant in any way. The accent many people seem to hate is the Southern Accent, which interestingly is the American accent most similar to UK dialects.