English sounds like... Dutch?

[Grant A.]

Is this really how English sounds before you learn it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou9vd8EfLaY

If so, I think that sounds pretty cool.


Btw, for all you language buffs out there, this is an interesting piece in Old English:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wl-OZ3breE

Although, I think this more Scandinavian sounding one sounds a bit cooler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP2FyVbymTg

That great vowel shift seriously changed the language, didn't it?

[Mateo]

i don't get it.

[Grant A.]

i don't get it.

I may have not been exactly too clear in my original post. What I mean is: Do the sounds that he calls, "fake English" sound like what English sounds like before you understand/learn it? You know, like how another language sounds like gibberish and a bunch of sounds before you learn it?

[-grubby]

Well that's... awesome?

[chucky chuckaluck]

try reading "finnegan's wake" out loud and you'll have it covered.

[mechro]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2iD-oNqD_I

[Mateo]

I may have not been exactly too clear in my original post. What I mean is: Do the sounds that he calls, "fake English" sound like what English sounds like before you understand/learn it? You know, like how another language sounds like gibberish and a bunch of sounds before you learn it?

i got that part, but what is his fake english? is it english with bad pronounciations?

[Grant A.]

i got that part, but what is his fake english? is it english with bad pronounciations?

No, it's a bunch of random English sounds jumbled up together. It's supposed to give the same effect as hearing a language that you don't know.

Basically, it's supposed to simulate to a native English speaker what English would sound like to a non-native speaker, who doesn't have a knowledge of how to speak it.

[Marlonsm]

i got that part, but what is his fake english? is it english with bad pronounciations?

Actually not, it seems to be something that makes no sense if you know English, but for people who don't know, it'll look like English.

[Mateo]

oh, i understand then. yeah, i guess that is interesting. id really like to learn dutch.