What does English sound like to non native speakers? Everyone stereotypes Chinese as ching chong ping pow pang...

What does English sound like to non native speakers? Everyone stereotypes Chinese as ching chong ping pow pang, but what does English sound like? What's the English equivalent for"ching ching ping pow pang"?

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What a stupid (and pointless) video. They spoke random English for most of the video, anyway.

This is a Dutch parody of what we see when you put on English tv.

youtube.com/watch?v=E_6d3JBBo4s

English sounds a bit high pitched. And round and slurry.

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And with perfect correct english, I mean what the fuck.

>round

This somehow seems accurate.

It just sounds gay and with weird vowels sounds. But at the same time it sounds modern.

kek

It sounds like how Americans think German sounds. But make it more high pitched and feminine.

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you only interprete chinese as ching chong ping pong because you don't understand it, so your question should be asked to people who doesn't speak english.

The funny thing is when Anglos get mad they start talking in a higher pitch.

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can we nuke england yet?

stereotypical american accent - dog barking
stereotypical british accent - faggot speaking

Other languages don't do this?

Yep. Trump and Clinton sound like your average American this year.

It sounds like that
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this

no

but who's a good dog, right? we're a good dog, right?

English has tonal components it is a musical language like chinese only not as pronounced.

English has something similar to every single unique linguistical characteristic of every language on earth. This is why it is the best language, and why anglos rule the world.

>English
>tonal language
so this is what autism looks like

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To a much lesser extend. We speak from deeper in the throat I think.

The difference between a statement and a question is which direction you modulate the pitch.

at least in Latino countries, it's something like "aweishon neishon reishon" with a lot of emphasis on ridiculing the accent

I had this funny experience when i was 19 when i woke up and i had a tv on in my room and i could clearly hear people speaking but i had lost the ability to understand what they were saying for about 30-40 seconds.

it was something like this but faster, and i couldn't make out any individual words

>You DIDN'T know.
>You didn't KNOW?
That's not pitch (although a question sometimes goes "up" at the end), but rather stress.

Consider:
>recórd (verb)
>récord (noun)
The difference is not in tone, but in where the stress lies.

washa washa washa

I do
Because higher frequencies are more penetrating

also this:
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English must be doing something right if the music of the UK and America have been so successful for decades tbqh.

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Isn't like that in every language?

I has this happen a few times in my life. I notice it now that I am 80% to fluency in spanish. If I stop paying attention it turns into just sounds.

damn, you beat me to it but this. This is american though.

here's more parody
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No. Those are two different words. Stress is not indicated by tonal shifts like a question is. The difference between those two words is how much time and breath is spent pronouncing the vowels, it just shifts from the e to the o or the other way around.

English also has the contextual word mix-uppery that greek can do, its just only commonly found in poetry.

English does everything except mouth clicks.

I can't think of an equivalent. If anything, I find it a really cold language, except maybe in some pop songs. I have big troubles expressing sentiments and feelings in English, when they come naturally in French, and most of the time it isn't a vocabulary problem.

I think it also depends on your native accent. I mean, Moroccans do it as well when they speak Dutch. And when they do their high pitched shit everyone gets annoyed.

In here its more like projecting voice and speaking quicker, not necessarily at an higher pitch

Yes. This American is being a burger.

Like the farmer in Hot Fuzz:

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posts like these are exactly why I usually filter Americlap posts

Americans see English sports like this too

Well, french is a very passional language. It's a meme, but a true one.

English sounds a bit robotic to me too. It belongs to modern brands of electronics and cool action movie names.

It's called being the lingua franca and dominant world power + Colonization.

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netherlands actually beat us at cricket recently

English is not a tonal language. You're an idiot for thinking so.

Well yeah that too, but if the music didn't at least sound nice while singing then it wouldn't had been as successful.

It's passionate, but also pretty "bureaucratic", I think. I like French because you can play with nasalisation/southern "singing" pitch to convey different expressions. Spanish and Italian are what sounds passionate to me tbqh.

I've read that having trouble expressing emotions in something common in all secondary languages, though.

>The difference between those two words is how much time and breath is spent pronouncing the vowels
All you're arguing is *how* stress is done in English, not whether it's there.

>Stress plays an important role in English. Certain syllables are stressed, while others are unstressed. Stress is a combination of duration, intensity, vowel quality, and sometimes changes in pitch. Stressed syllables are pronounced longer and louder than unstressed syllables, and vowels in unstressed syllables are frequently reduced while vowels in stressed syllables are not.[143] Some words, primarily short function words but also some modal verbs such as can, have weak and strong forms depending on whether they occur in stressed or non-stressed position within a sentence.
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>All you're arguing is *how* stress is done in English

Exactly, its done that way and not by changing pitch. The entire argument started when someone insisted that stress was the same kind of thing as changing pitch. Im pointing out they are totaly different things and thus the initial argument is invalid.


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>Spanish and Italian are what sounds passionate to me tbqh.

That's exoticism playing, to be honest. If you ask me all latin languages (maybe except romanian) are pretty passionate. Of course the foreign ones will sound more.

I could call spanish passionate and give it other adjectives too since I see it from a different perspective. In my opinion, for example, is more rough and less flowing than the other latin languages.

The meanings of words themselves in tonal languages change depending on the tone though - this doesn't happen in English. There aren't any tonal languages in Europe, although a few European languages (like Swedish and Lithuanian) have pitch accent components to them.

For me, English is a little bit like a computer language and the same goes for every language that have prepositions. We have 14 different cases that make the words very long and it sounds more fluid, not that chopped. That's why Estonian (and probably Finnish, Hungarian) is not translated well using online translators. Genders in language is weird, even for pronouns. I don't mean anything bad though.
There was a stereotype in the 90s where English was spoken with that potato in the mouth accent and all Americans or British were pictured as rich and kind of stupid consumers but it doesn't exist any more because kids nowadays grow up with English movies and internet because our own language space is too small.

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>The entire argument started when someone insisted that stress was the same kind of thing as changing pitch.
I thought I was the one arguing against English being tonal. Are you , , and ?

Cant answer this as i listen to english for 10+ years

Yes. Let me give a rundown of the order of events

1. I claim it has tonal components and provide an example
2. Someone (you i guess) insists that thats just stress
3. I explain what stress is in english (showing that it has nothing to do with tone) in order to dismiss the argument

4. You apparently get confused :^)

>rich and kind of stupid consumers
Wouldn't that just be more because Estonia just stopped being a soviet state than anything? A kind of moral superiority embedded in the people of the time so they didn't feel so shitty about living in the state they did, which carried over to kids born in the 80s-90s at least for a time.

Pretty much. You have experienced your native languages in countless more situations than the foreign ones, so you think it has more nuances.

I'd think French sounds robotic to foreign ears. After all, we're one of the rare languages to not have a stress, at all. (every syllable has the same intensity.)

Funny, Russian and German have very long words to me and to me it's really hard to get the flow.
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Here is an example of what very fluid French sounds like. It's very hard to sing, though.

Hot dog didgellidang skaberibap doo

They're Goo Goo Dolls lyrics. This is made by Clickhole, a satirical website owned by The Onion, another satirical website.

Here is a video where they get some of the phrases:

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Yanks sound awful

There's no such thing as "sounding nice".

I kid my brit colleague by always saying buh'a instead of butter

or overly pretentious king's english or whatever it's called

shit like "I do say mist'uh bla bla"

Because English has an absolutely gigantic vocabulary it makes rhyming easier.

Plus it helps with making great literature and also movies somewhat.

Shame it's been watered down since it became a global language and every nignog under the sun learned simple English. It's dragged it down incredibly in the past 100 years.

Singing in certain languages doesn't sound nice to you?

>british accent
No such thing. It's just how the words sound when pronounced correctly.

Music quality is subjective and people can perceive things to sound nice. There's no such thing as "objectively nice" but there is a such thing as "sounding nice" in a pleasing way.

Let me rephrase what I said,

There's no such thing as a language sounding objectively "nice" or "bad".
It's completely subjective.

To me Japanese, Chinese, and French sound great when sung. Not German or Korean or Arabic.
But that's completely subjective. It's influenced by factors outside what is objective.

So with modern mass media some languages have become stereotyped as sounding good or bad, but originally there was no such stereotype attached to them.

It's pronounced butt'uh. I never got the Brits don't pronounce their Ts meme

I clarifiedAlmost every language has an absolutely gigantic vocabulary. Actually, there is conceivably a word for every concept imaginable.

No rolling "R" and no soft consonants make you sound like you've had some sort of an accident involving drinking petrol and occasionally setting yourself on fire.

>It is believed that the monolingual Dutch dictionary Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal is the largest monolingual dictionary available. It took 134 years to finish, starting in 1864 and finishing only in 1998. Initially published in 40 volumes
And our language has developed a lot since.

>An English dictionary by David Bryce is considered to be one of the smallest dictionaries in the world. The size is about 27×18 mm and needs to be read with a magnifying glass.
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The English dictionary is so little you have to read it with a magnifying glass. Ayyy lmao.

Pop music is pop music because it touches on attributes of music that the vast majority of people find appealing, the same can be said of popular books, movies, games, whatever. You could construe the word nice to mean "inoffensive" instead of just pleasant (and I'm the guy who posted ). I would even say that's what niceness is, especially in people.

>Almost every language has an absolutely gigantic vocabulary.

Some of them imports a lot of vocabulary from others. Also, Sami people have actually a fuckton of words for reindeer (and not in the "Eskimo have 100 words for snow" kind) that we need phrases to explain. They however have fewer words for cow and such.

It's called a glottal stop and the Brits aren't the only ones who do it.

Nice "source" you got there

English is generally accepted to have the largest vocabulary with over a million words. This is partly due to word borrowing but not entirely caused by this, it's also the flexibility of English that allows it.

>Almost every language has an absolutely gigantic vocabulary.

The english vocabulary is way bigger than the next largest one. Its the way english works, its not as complex a language structurally, the complexity comes from the vocabulary and the interpretation of context.

>The English dictionary is so little you have to read it with a magnifying glass.
At least we don't need magnifying glasses to find our tiny beers

There's no such thing as objective " mass appeal niceness". It's all stereotypes and memes created by mass media and cultural prejudice.

We french have a fuckton of homonyms though.

Yeah it has a lot to do with Soviet Union. People who grew up before the 90s watch commercials like the truth. They literally believe them because they are on TV. Only thing that they were critical of was political propaganda because that happened in Soviet times too. But everything else was literally true, if there were ads, then very literal ones (like USSR produces great onions). They believed in soap operas and other trash that even toddlers in the 90s didn't take literally but the older generation did.
The other problem was that because shelves in Soviet times were literally empty, they thought that everyone who had shops full of stuff was rich.
But other than that there are not many stereotypes, just language differences.

>English is generally accepted to have the largest vocabulary with over a million words

(Citation needed)

Unlike in English, you can say many things in Dutch in a Dutch, English, French or German way.

Although Dutch tends to overlap with either English or German, but not always.

>The english vocabulary is way bigger than the next largest one.

But is it the largest?

All of you pseudo-linguists are just shitposting without sources.

Trying to pronounce ы fucking kills me

>The other problem was that because shelves in Soviet times were literally empty,

Maybe in 1989.

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i've also wondered this

oxforddictionaries.com/us/words/does-english-have-most-words

>English was originally a Germanic language, related to Dutch and German, and it shares much of its grammar and basic vocabulary with those languages. However, after the Norman Conquest in 1066 it was hugely influenced by Norman French, which became the language of the ruling class for a considerable period, and by Latin, which was the language of scholarship and of the Church. Very large numbers of French and Latin words entered the language. Consequently, English has a much larger vocabulary than either the Germanic languages or the members of the Romance language family to which French belongs.

>English is also very ready to accommodate foreign words, and as it has become an international language, it has absorbed vocabulary from a large number of other sources. This does, of course, assume that you ignore 'agglutinative' languages such as Finnish, in which words can be stuck together in long strings of indefinite length, and which therefore have an almost infinite number of 'words'.

if I'm not mistaken, they count as different words

I spent 30 seconds on google to find this, a more educated user can probably find a better source
> 500,000 according to the number of words in the Oxford English Dictionary. There are supposedly another 500,000 uncataloged technical and scientific terms. By comparison, most estimates indicate that German has a vocabulary of about 185,000 words and French and Spanish have fewer than 100,000 words.
this is a rough guide, there is not peer reviewed scientific study that says "English has the largest vocabulary" because it is actually incredibly hard to measure. For example, in German and Finnish, you can mash words together, so technically the vocabulary is infinite.

However, it is generally agreed that English has the largest vocabulary of a major world language. If your autism can't accept this without 100% certainty, then you will never be satisfied. Google it.

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