What does the English language sound like to non-native speakers? Does it sound similar to any other languages? What did it sound like before you learnt it?
English language
Leo Martin
Alexander Adams
Sounds like this
Logan Gray
Before I learnt it, it was like full of "sh" and words ending in "-ation".
After I learn't it, I can't stop noticing the soft r's
Carson Moore
>mfw it sounds ugly
Wyatt Roberts
german≧french≧italian>(english)≧spanish>>>russian>>>chinese
cool sound
Bentley Robinson
Cool, thanks
Hudson Brooks
That... sounds kinda cool actually
Sounds like a nordic-celtic blend. I like it
Daniel Ramirez
Can non-natives hear a difference between accents?
American accents in general sound goofy to me, like people are trying deliberately to speak as though they are disabled.
Chase Evans
My foreign coworkers can't distinguish them very well but they think Americans sound very nasal
Brandon Myers
>Can non-natives hear a difference between accents?
i think that RP is the easiest accent to listen to japanese.
Christian Scott
whats a soft r m8
Juan Walker
Which types of American accents?
Alexander Hall
>American accents sound disabled
T-thanks mate
Colton Jenkins
i want to fug a south american dixie slut
Jason Sanchez
Basically every R in English is soft (or mute). Compare it to French, Spanish, Czech, Japanese, etc., which have various different types of R - nasal, rolled, etc.. The Rs in Mandarin are pretty similar but it isn't necessarily identified as an R.
Liam Johnson
I bet Australia bantered.
Ayden Peterson
Somewhere in between french and german
Yes, it's much easier to understand americans than scottish or british
James Bell
Cool.
So why is this a bad thing?
Sebastian Long
Most of them I suppose. I can't really think of any exceptions although some might exist.
Obviously it's just my perception. I'm sure foreigners think interesting things about our accents over here.
Jackson Hill
it doesn't sound french
Noah Peterson
I don't think he was saying it's a problem. It's just unfamiliar for native Hispanophones because they're accustomed to a different sound.
Eli Sanchez
Don't know about them but my favourite of all American accents are upper class southerners
Luke Collins
fake english changes upon who uses it and how
youtube.com
Kevin Thompson
cool language would learn
Logan Perry
As a northerner my brain automatically subtracts 10 iq points from anyone I hear speak with a southern accent
Caleb Harris
>flag
>wanting to fuck the product of incest
Sounds about right
Grayson Sanchez
My penis is ready.
Liam Morris
I saw Filth yesterday and they pronunce R like Russian and others, not like english speakers and this is sounds ugly
american english sounds good
Aiden Hughes
>What does the English language sound like to non-native speakers?
Backward malay in terms of sentence body position, schwa and "the" "sh" sounds (-tion)
>Does it sound similar to any other languages?
afaik within this place, no.
>What did it sound like before you learnt it?
The soft TH sounds like the faggot version of "tsa" of the Jawi letters. Foreign since lots of schwa and the written sounds is totally different from the spoken ones. (flour = flower =/= fleur) and so on.
Joseph Hall
Bentley Flores
We will outbreed the yankee scum and drive you into the burrows where you belong
Ethan Phillips
AR AR ARSHUN FUCK
Jayden Hill
What does Sup Forums think about Maya Lin's accent? I have no idea why, but the way she speaks melts me. What the fuck even is it?
Luis Robinson
When I was little I always thought about English as an "-ization" version of Romanian, as, paradoxically, we have some words in common. Which is why I guess English never sounded too foreign to me. Obviously, growing up, the gap was furthering more and more between the two. What struck me as odd in English was your "th"s. Fricative sounds are a chore and no one knows how to make them save for those with plenty of time actively invested in English. So it really sounded like you blew air out of your mouths all the thime with those sounths. Weirth.
Having learnt it, it just sounds like poor-man's german interbred with some French paupers's language just to sound high-brow. So, good job at that I guess.
Isaiah Parker
Like dutch but much much much much much more nasaly
Elijah Bell
>like dutch
Im insulted, monsieur grenouille
Matthew Scott
It's a really good language, intuitive and cool sounding.
Asher Smith
Thanks hombre. I wish I could say the same for Spanish. The dialect here (mexican) is grating to the ears at the best of times and downright disgusting most of the time.
Granted the American dialect is not the most pleasant to the ears either...
Blake Phillips
english is a very nice and simple language.
for me english accent is beautiful
american is like some lazy girl who has a hangover trying to say something she doesn't understand much
australian is just like english but only with a bad part of it
Thomas Martinez
(He's being sarcastic) (you)
Jose Rivera
If you remove the weird speech impediment it is familiar youtube.com
Thomas Jackson
>australian is just like english but only with a bad part of it
>bad part of it
Quoi? Explain to me.... Jean Pierre...
Gracias (tu)
Beautiful women with a terribly disgusting language
Perso je préfère le français :-)
Gavin Lopez
>UK
>Not already inbred