Can someone who inst a native english speaker, please describe to me how english sounds to someone who dosent understand english?
in other words, tell me what english sounds like to a foreigners ears.
2006-09-29 19:05:06 · 10 answers · asked by WDJD 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
in further need for explanation.....
spanish sounds like bs and rollingR's. hindi sounds lke (dirka dirka dirka) japanese (chin chang chou) I have heard that english sounds like rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrerrrrrerrrreerr. but Im not sure, because im a native speaker. i need serious answeres, if your hear to be a jerk, I will report you.
2006-09-29 19:21:06 · update #1
I always wanted to ask the same question about Russian ( Russian is my native language), but never got the answer.
I remember that 10 years ago English sounded like a noise to me, but now I'm starting to forget how exaclty it sounded. Something like: Wa-we-ow-wow-waw-waw-wrrew-wrrow-tkprow... I wish you asked me back then... You can ask some foreigners who don't speak English about it - just ask someone to interprete for you. You may want to ask speakers of different languages because it may sound different from speaker to speaker. It must be interesting.
2006-09-29 19:23:27 · answer #1 · answered by nygirl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard this from someone else (well I read it on a translated blog of a Japnaese actor) , but it sounds like it's all one word when you say it, and it sounds choppy. I speak Chinese and English and really all i got is it sounds sort of like when you're 16 you can sound like you're 25 or the other way around because the way you say it.
2006-09-30 02:07:33 · answer #2 · answered by Jamie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends. For instance British speakers. They pretend they can't say "r". There is such a neurosis. Perhaps they have followed any VIP with such a neurosis? Paris has used normal (Italian) "r" up to 17-th century (not the dorsal "r", as nowadays).
American speakers use Swedish-like "r".
And London-based speakers sound like Arabs to me.
2006-09-30 03:04:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For me (I'm Polish) English is "soft" and "wide" (I can't find any better word for that), especially when sounds like long a or ae are concerned. When Polish people want to sound like Americans, they pretend they have spaghetti in their mouth while speaking.
2006-09-30 06:11:48 · answer #4 · answered by ~ B ~ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English sounds foreign to a foreigner!
2006-09-30 02:13:51 · answer #5 · answered by expatriot1000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many ppl uses english to comunicate. All languages are different. Like Chinese language, they dont use grammers like English. English is quite tough for a forigner. I'm I helping u?
2006-09-30 02:34:19 · answer #6 · answered by ♥♥Pro♥♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
like this : jaskdjlakjlkajsdlfjusodifkcvnhkxjcvhlkhdgosiudljf sdflksjdfoasu lsdjfosiuadfls flsa osiudflskjflkjsd oiusfojsdlfkjdsofhgaosdufl...... or how u hear languages when you don't understand them.. gibberish. sldkfjosjdf
2006-09-30 02:07:39 · answer #7 · answered by i_eated_ur_cookie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my friend says that when we speak all she hears is a lot of ay ay ay ay ays
2006-09-30 03:42:22 · answer #8 · answered by webby 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think they can understand us but the burden is us to undertand them
2006-09-30 02:12:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
anyone who can answer this can't read it.
2006-09-30 02:18:26 · answer #10 · answered by freedd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋