How English sounds to non-English speakers

'Skwerl'. A short film in fake English. Made for Kino Sydney #47.

Brian Fairbairn has directed a number of stage shows, including a production of 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Karl Eccleston is a writer and language enthusiast.
Fiona Pepper is a Sydney based actor and graduate of WAAPA. She has appeared in short films and plays.
Thom Jordan is a Sydney based actor and filmmaker who regularly works on both sides of the camera.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• accent
• fake language
• foreigner
• how americans sound
• ESL
• EFL
• American English
• British
• people
• American
• US
• UK
• sounds
• People
• language

[enabledaaron]

1:26 - "Maggalon my shit" hahahahhahah wtf lol.

[AdamBMorris]

So yeah, Sims 4 has pretty good graphics

[LessThanProfessional]

It sounds like they used an online translation service to translate English text to another language (I suppose any would do), but then used that text to translate back to English. The reason it sounds so off, yet we understand certain words/phrases, is because no language is parallel to another. While there will be overlap from an exact translation to a grammatically-correct translation, the degree of overlap will vary depending on the languages you choose.

[nofreedomofspeech]

The words are not completely random, that would be better to describe what english sounds like to non speakers.

[jflpretense]

1:10 "did you flat by the lump lack call??"

[jossujb]

Exactly what English sounds to me when i'm not paying enough attention. Familiar word here and there, no freaking idea of the context.

[noidealeftbehind]

"chad a long way from the rainbow seasonal" dude i know!!!

[beany1945]

this doesn't sound like english, it sounds like american.

[kylem1112]

that damn magbaleen nation. and elton jhon.

[eiyjafjallajokull]

Some of the things i heard:

rachachismol, rainbow seasonal, Elton John, magalon my shit, you fucking arsehole, we rapacate reptiles.....