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What does the English language 'sound like'?

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[thelittlejennie]

Also i studied chinese (mand) and a lot of the words are in da back of da tongue & are quick. it requires da tongue to move 4m da back to da front very fast. so in essence, english sound a lil harsh and monotone. the tone goes down and not up. its really hard for me to sometimes keep an "english" rhyth i guess we could say. cuz' with spanish, da sound of words go up and down, but with english i have to always have to make sure i dont do that and just keep a mono tone to sound right(partTwo)End.

[LatumWay]

@thelittlejennie Hahaha well thanks for your honesty. 'English is horrible' - got it.

[lordabomity]

How do you think Swedish/Norwegian sounds like?

A strange thing is that for me its easier to her how my own language (Swedish) sounds than English . lol

[LatumWay]

@lordabomity The Scandanavian languages (although obviously Finnish is distinct) sound bouncy and springy. The vowels are really round and smooth and even the harshest consonants are crisp instead of heavy and gutteral. It sounds funny, but nice.

[lordabomity]

@LatumWay Hehe ok. Although, Finnish isn't a north-germanic language, it's not anything like ours. It's more of a baltic language. Finland isn't really a part of Scandinavia either =)

[LatumWay]

@lordabomity I know that Finnish isn't a germanic language. Its a Uralic language, not Baltic.

[LatumWay]

@adirm18 Strange. You are the first person I'm aware of who has prefered american english to british english.

[MrJekyllDrHyde1]

Look for the song 'Prisencolinensinainciusol' by Adriano Celentano

The lyrics are pure gibberish, often described as sounding like American English as heard by a non–English-speaker ...

[geragna]

LATUMWAY, checkout the user Laoshu505000 for help with language learning. He has great videos

[TechAndTea]

I understand English quite well, so I'm not the best person to answer your question, but.... To me, English is really funny because it has so many onomatopoeic words. It has a powerful way of communicate meaning using words that have many meaning themselves (in contrast with Italian in which you have many words that are very specific IMHO), but it doesn't have the same freedom in word order.

[hollabooiers]

@hollabooiers Also, recognize*. Stupid typos.

[hollabooiers]

@hollabooiers I honestly don't know what the hell that is about though, I mean what does that say about English then, that it's just so unbelievably generic it doesn't really sound like anything? Sure. Starting to question my own mental health here. :P

[hollabooiers]

My native language is Estonian, I'm fluent in Finnish as well and can speak reasonably good French and Russian, plus bits and pieces of other languages on an elementary-ish level. And you know what, I'm really not sure what English sounds like, in fact strangely enough, it's sort of easier for me to recongnize that about my own language, it's very melodic because of the insane amount of vowels we use combined with very little s, sh and ch sounds.

[thelittlejennie]

my 1st language s spanish. I had a hard time learning english. English is a lil harsh, not referring to tone ppl have (british, southern etc..) Majority of the english words have a lot of focus on the tip of the tongue and the front part of the palate. in contrast spanish uses da tip as well, but not as much, a lot of da words require a loose tongue, the middle part of the tongue s used more....(partONe)

[TheBananaCoin]

Now I want to know how English sounds like as well:O And I take Mandarin as my second language.How does mandarin sound like to you?I'm curious:)

[emendezm924]

Well buddy; I found this video accidentally. I have to say that your concern is quite interesting to me. My native language is Spanish. It is still hard for me to say what english sounds like; however, I would suggest you to listen to Jamaican English, or Criole English. I know it is a way too different than the English you speak, but it might give you some clues so that you can compare and see your own language from a totally new perspective.