I was thinking about how German sounds like grunting, French like a girl sighing over a crush, and Japanese sounding like someone having an orgasm (hehe.)
So what does English sound like to someone who doesn't speak it natively? It's been bugging me!
Thanks for taking the time to answer.
2007-08-04 14:29:51 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
haha. You guys make me laugh.
I'm not sure WHY Japanese people sound that way to me but it must be from watching Cardcaptor Sakura with my wapanese cousins.
2007-08-04 14:38:23 · update #1
When I just started learning English (it was in my 5th grade of a typical Russian school), it sounded to me as a language of...
...frogs:
kwak-kwak-kwak.
I already was familiar with German at that time which reminded me the dogs barking.
I preferred frogspeak, however.
It was fun asking:
- Tell me your rank, battalion, brigade?
- Who is your commander?
- Where are your launchpads (airfields, headquarters, barracks)?
2007-08-04 14:34:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My two Japanese friends said that English (American English, anyway) sounds like pebbles falling into shallow water.... with all the different sounds and inflections.
2007-08-04 14:33:57 · answer #2 · answered by scruffycat 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
British English sounds elegant, maybe snobby with their tototo-pronunciation. But we always said Americans speak bubble gum English.
2007-08-05 01:38:36 · answer #3 · answered by bigfoot19gabby 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
An event
2016-05-18 02:22:18 · answer #4 · answered by debora 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like rlrrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlralrlrlrllr kind of...
and Japanese just sounds like a kitty learning how to talk for me.... It doesn't even matter what kind of voice they had. o_O
2007-08-04 14:36:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It always sounded to me, like they have to spit out that chewing gum and finally start to pronounce all the sounds clearly...
2007-08-04 16:38:28 · answer #6 · answered by russiancatsima 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I suppose that English would sound just about the same to other non-english speakers...as their language sounds to us. It's hard to tell what we sound like to someone else. We wouldn't be able to ask....
2007-08-04 14:35:07 · answer #7 · answered by Pixie Dust 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
a breaking down blender, a small motor cycle that needs a tuneup
2007-08-04 15:03:59 · answer #8 · answered by OldGringo 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Sounds eloquent unless spoken in Amerika.
In that case it sounds like, 'Get your *** down
mother ******!'
And if spoken in Afghanistan it sounds like,
'your dead infidel!'
2007-08-04 14:36:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
maybe like someone mumbling and going uh between pauses
2007-08-04 14:33:33 · answer #10 · answered by ragnarok 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋