I hate this video. Other people speak normally but they yell the German for funny purposes but that doesn't demonstrate very well how the single shown Germanic language is less pretty than the others (I count English apart because 75% of it's vocabulary is Latin french and Greek at this point)
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What foreign languages sound like to people who don't speak them
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reminds me of that Catherine Tate skit
IcyBlueStrawberry
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The American English accent sounds like Simlish.
thecouncil
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im sure that was somehow racist. i just need time to figure out how.
FOR OP, her follow up vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhccAx-2KJ8
FOR OP, her follow up vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhccAx-2KJ8
Arjen
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I'll gladly teach her some Dutch.
They should use such gibberish for foreign characters in movies, it would be less offensive than the usually badly spoken lines.
eh, I dunno know. I think you'd end up with a lot of "ching chong ching chong" which is super offensive to a lot of people. It's funny when South Park does it because they do such a good job of getting the sound right, but I don't trust Hollywood to be able to pull it off. Also, it comes across as funny, and I don't think you could do it easily for a serious film.
Oh c'mon. English is a proper Germanic language. The verbs are mostly Germanic. And anyway it's the grammar that makes the language not the vocabulary. Maybe English is just its own thing at this point though.
I do agree it's bad but I'm agreeing with Яaw in the case of continental portuguese it does sound like gibberish to me
John Rabbit
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her Japanese was too heavily accented with...something....
There are a hell of a lot of people who understand a language who apparently somehow completely miss the point of the video, even though it's in the title. Yes, she's getting them wrong and you would know that if you speak the language she's impersonating. This is entirely irrelevant to "What foreign languages sound like to people who don't speak them"
Her Japanese sounded fine for being a gibberish youtube video
I wonder if she took linguistics courses
South Park does poor impressions; the humor is more in its shock value than anything else (which I am a fan of)
I wonder if she took linguistics courses
South Park does poor impressions; the humor is more in its shock value than anything else (which I am a fan of)
You could make a video response with
house - haus
mouse - maus
bed - bett
etc.
German and english are a lot closer than one would think
Not even close. Mika Hakkinen is the epitome of Finglish.
I know it is but in the video they are grouped by sounds and not whether italic or germanic. Nowadays English is like 25% words of germanic origin, like 31% latin, 28% french, 15% greek and 1% everything else.
Yeah I can definitely hear some similar words here and there but 3 out hundreds of thousands? I dunnoYou could make a video response with
house - haus
mouse - maus
bed - bett
etc.
German and english are a lot closer than one would think
TangoAlphaLima
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Yeah, that's what makes it funny.
I'm a native English speaker, but majored in German in college. This is how most non-German speakers view the language. It's not just the stilted, guttural sounds, it's also the ridiculously long names caused in German by commonly throwing words together (i.e. Kugelschreiber rather than pen). The video is overly dramatized, but again, that's what makes it funny.
Her Japanese is sooooooo way off, even in the follow up video.
It's too fast, has too many hard stops, too many rolling R's
Sounds like Japanese-Spanish mixed into one language.
Compare it normal speech here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daQ1d44lQwE
It's too fast, has too many hard stops, too many rolling R's
Sounds like Japanese-Spanish mixed into one language.
Compare it normal speech here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daQ1d44lQwE
Perfect Cha0s
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I thought a lot of her mock-ups sounded very Spanish, honestly.
I don't mean there good as in actually realistic. I'm mean they're good in that they've clearly listened to the language to get the feel of it. They're bad, but good at the same time - if you know what I mean. Personally, I think they do a good job with fake-Mandarin. They get all the 'shi' (as in 是 - shr - not xi - shee) sounds in. Their fake Japanese is pretty good too.
I see what you mean, and I did like the Princess Kenny board meeting scene.
Angelus Errare
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Megalosaro
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Isnt one of the creators of south park fluent in japanese? Ive heard lines in the show that are actually correct. Theyre just voiced intentionally shitty
Rentahamster
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lol at her Japanese impression.
South Park doesn't do impressions. When the characters are speaking Japanese, that's Trey Parker (it sounds like his voice usually, and he does have a degree in Japanese too), they are speaking actual Japanese. It's really bad Japanese, of course, but it's intentional that's what makes it funny.
In the Royal Pudding episode, the Native Canadian characters were speaking an Athabaskan and Plains dialect.
http://newspaperrock.bluecorncomics.com/2011/06/native-canadians-in-south-park.html
South Park doesn't do impressions. When the characters are speaking Japanese, that's Trey Parker (it sounds like his voice usually, and he does have a degree in Japanese too), they are speaking actual Japanese. It's really bad Japanese, of course, but it's intentional that's what makes it funny.
In the Royal Pudding episode, the Native Canadian characters were speaking an Athabaskan and Plains dialect.
http://newspaperrock.bluecorncomics.com/2011/06/native-canadians-in-south-park.html
Man does lips.
SecretMoblin
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Her being Finnish, I find it really tough to believe she doesn't have extensive experience with several of those languages -- namely Swedish and English.
Regardless, it's always a cute exercise. Americans, even from different parts of the country, will do very similar impersonations of what French or German or Russian sounds like to them.
Regardless, it's always a cute exercise. Americans, even from different parts of the country, will do very similar impersonations of what French or German or Russian sounds like to them.
vas_a_morir
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Trey Parker, of course.
RoyalLaFlame
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That portuguese is sooooo bad but I get the point of the video.
Oh and she's so cute.
Oh and she's so cute.
Goddamn she sure is fine.
And lol i was hoping for Dutch as i am Dutch speaking. But apparantly its cancer.
She does have experience with both. That's why the mock swedish and english sound good.
Er, for Japanese I just mean they do a good (as in good/bad) job of the accent. Their Chinese is straight up gibberish though.
Spring-Loaded
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neat. I really hate it when people do this though
Misterinenja
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I can do a lot better Japanese.
John Kowalski
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lol @ scottish "we own a tiny female"
what is up with italian portuguese tho
what is up with italian portuguese tho
vas_a_morir
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Yeah, but what GAF needs to understand is not everybody has studied abroad in Tokyo and played Ni no Kuni for 100 hours in the native language. Considering she probably doesn't know 4 words in Japanese and probably doesn't hear the language spoken fluently but a few times a year, she did an okay job showing how it sounds to her.
EDIT: Yeah, well... the follow up video was a lot more daring and worse, I admit. In fact, everything sounded East European.
I bet. Her Japanese wasn't moe at all!
Misterinenja
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Who is this GAF you're talking about?
ЯAW;103271012 said:
I'm more specialized in Kurosawa-esque grunting.
She needs to work on her East Asian...the accents and tones in the countries in east Asia are as drastically different as the various languages in the countries of Europe...the fact that she tried to do various languages from European countries, and just grouped "east Asia" into one language shows how far off the "east Asian" one sounded that it didn't even sound like any of the countries she was trying to emulate
Gentleman Jack
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vas_a_morir
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