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revassez said:
A German exchange student once told me that, to Germans, English sounded mumbled, like we had a mouth full of marbles. It probably varies a bit depending on the speaker’s native language.
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imthor said:
er idk if english is legitimately my 2nd lang since i cant talk comfortably in my 1st lang but english just sounds like english? nothing particularly beautiful or exotic. the r’s are really rolled tho… at least from the viewpoint of an east asian.
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curse-you said:
English is actually my third language ^.^ It sounds a lot more concise. I don’t know if something can sound concise, but it’s the first thing I thought of when you asked.
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inkgeek said:
Presumably something like this: youtube.com/watch?v…
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muirin007 posted this
Question for those who learned English as a second language
For those of you who learned English as a second language, I’m curious: What does English sound like? Being a native speaker, it’s difficult to separate myself from how the language actually sounds. I’ve been able to do it a bit since I’ve been learning French. French is my second language, and I think it sounds so smooth and beautiful and throaty and poetic. Speaking French, for me, at least, is quite a contrast from speaking English, which can be smooth but has a much rounder sound, if that makes any sense. From what I can gather, English can be very harsh and slightly guttural. At least in comparison to French.
So I’m curious: what does English sound like? And please be completely honest—I genuinely want to know. I won’t be offended in the slightest, seriously. Linguistics fascinates me.
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