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Have you ever wondered what English sounds like? This short film, Skwerl, shows you exactly that. Take a look!
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Not all people are able to use beautiful words in life, there are some people who are able to put the words of their mind into words, you are the only one of them, you have written this post in a very beautiful way.
Studying English at elementary school has some benefits because the speech muscles of children are more flexible and still easier to get new words.
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I understood a bit until I did not understand it anymore or maybe its my ears stop listing because they where talking rubbish lmao.
Well firstly, it’s American English, which is very different to British English and the way we speak..I managed to understand a few words…I thought it was the American accent I wasn’t understanding…
How did they figure out how to make this? I am FASCINATED!
Isn’t it funny that even though they the actors are mostly just speaking gibberish they still sound so completely American! There’s no hiding those accents.
As an Australian living in California I quite often wonder what I must sound like to other people. My accent is hardly ever recognised as Australian as I don’t sound like the Crocodile Hunter – note to Hollywood: hardly any Australians actually sound like that so please, please stop with the over the top accents Australian characters are given!
I have always wondered if non-English speakers can hear the difference in our accents and work out where we’re from. Even though I get asked where I’m from almost on a daily basis, it’s very rarely people who speak English as their second language asking me. Maybe they don’t pick up the tiny nuances that make our accents sound so different to other English speakers. A Spanish friend here has told me that she can’t tell the difference between the way her Australian husband and I pronounce certain words and how our American friends pronounce the same words. Of course to us there is a huge difference but apparently she just can’t hear it.
Another POV: I asked a British friend (w a straight-up posh accent) what Americans sound like to him, since he sounds completely fabulous to us. He said we all sound like movie stars!
My brain was trying so hard to understand the gibberish. They did throw in a few words though that were intelligible, which made it even worse, haha. When I hear non-English languages, though, I don’t feel like my brain processes their languages like this.
I immediately thought, “Not Americans!” because they are holding their silverware upside down. We don’t eat like that! :)
As a Brit, this sounds Scandinavian to me as they’re pronouncing their ‘R’s in a hard way!
what a great video, It always seems like other languages are spoken really fast, but this make English sound like that too.
I have always wondered this. Might have to post this on my blog too, enlighten a few other English speakers!
Thanks for posting, very funny and interesting too!
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This video made me so happy! AND it does sound sort of German/Dutch. It surprised me. I feel special, English does sound foreign after all.
I had to pause this a couple of times because I was laughing so hard! I like how you can still kind of figure out what they are talking about because they are acting it out so well. I think she wants to have a baby and he thinks it will ruin their lives.
LOL omg I’m sharing this!
ahhhh. this is a little too close to home. I’m living in Japan, but I don’t really speak japanese, I can pick up a word or two while straining to find understanding throughout the whole conversation. strange to feel that way listening to english tho.
It’s so hard to stop trying to figure out what they’re saying! This is terrific.
it sounds terrible! haha i wish i spoke french
On a related note, have you seen Kathering Tate’s language translator video? She’s hilarious.
this was throwing me off so bad.
my brain felt like I was supposed to understand.
Fascinating. I have ALWAYs wondered this…
I too kept turning up the volume and straining to understand! This is often how I feel (as an American living in Germany) when someone talks too fast and doesn’t enunciate their words – the German just sounds like gibberish and I’m left staring at them like an idiot!
Well, American. The different English, Welch, Irish, Scottish, South African, Australian, Kiwi, and other english language accents would make many other interesting movies. But yeah, this is pretty much how American sounds.
we sound so scandanavian! I thought it was norweigen or something with american accents. They kind of sing their words and that’s what it reminded me of. Also, do we really use the “sh” sound so much? Crazy.
When he was a toddler my son spoke fake English all the time. None of the words made any sense, but the cadence, rhythm, and sound was like English. It was his own little private language. He was clearly carrying on a conversation. It sounded like this.
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