Wednesday, October 19, 2011

What does English sound like?

Want to know what English sounds like? I think this (rather strange) video does an excellent job with their fake English...all the right sounds, plenty of real words, nonsensical word order. What do you think?

5 comments:

Katherine Griffin said...

gasp! Now I know! Awesome post, I have always wondered what English sounds like to people who do not speak it.

Collin said...

An older example that I've seen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZXcRqFmFa8

There's also a whole series of youtube videos about people faking English and other languages, apparently sparked by this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C5EZmyJ9ik

ixoj said...

Collin, those were great! Thanks!

Anonymous said...

Fautie says:
Ah finally! I have always wondered. But still I did not get the feel for what the accent sounds like because it was still American accents.

Marlo said...

Wow. That was awesome and strange all rolled into one. Very interesting.