What English Sounds like to Non-English Speakers

[ashbeeigh]

It's not a Youtube so I couldn't embed it..but it's funny nonetheless. If you can embed it feel free to. I found myself squinting trying to figure out what he was saying...but he's not saying anything...it just sounds like English. Is that what people think we sound like?

http://music.todaysbigthing.com/2009/11/03

[Sense]

as a kid i used to say "wachumara wachumara"

[Slomo]

Yep!

Here's a more recent example:

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[lefty]

That chick is hot (not the contestant)

[whottt]

It didn't make any sense to me other than the alright part, but it did sound like American English...very little accent or inflection to my ears compared to just about every other language including British and Australian English. I can definitely see how it sounds like American English.

So it sounded fairly unnuanced to me, does it sound the same way to non-English speakers as well? Compared to other languages I mean? It seems like American English is just a very staight language without much nuance to it, or emphasis on accent to my ears...the tongue also isn't asked to do much that is complicated or needs to be trained.

Oh and it sounded like was channeling Sonny Bono in the Beat Goes On vocally.

I also want to know if he can speak English and if he can do it without an accent as well as he did his made up English. Because I sensed pretty much no trace of Italian accenting in his singing.

[ashbeeigh]

Oh dear.

[whottt]

Yep!

Here's a more recent example:

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That doesn't sound the same to me at all. I can definitely sense an accent in her gibberish. Mariah Carey is also a bad one to emulate because she definitely has stylized vocals with lots of inflection, compared to just about every other singer other than Beyonce. That's pretty much all she does is inflection....she'll get multiple syllables out of words like "the" and "a".

[Slomo]

...
I also want to know if he can speak English and if he can do it without an accent as well as he did his made up English. Because I sensed pretty much no trace of Italian accenting in his singing.

He can't.

It's easy to produce sounds that emulate the melody of a language (there's a comedian over here that does it perfectly in "chinese") and quite difficult to pronounce real words without an accent.

[jack sommerset]

Oh and it sounded like was channeling Sonny Bono in the Beat Goes On vocally.

Bono was ambushed on the ski slopes by hired hitmen, who beat him to death and then they staged the tree accident. Bono was going after the big boys in the drug war. His true death always should be mentioned.

I thought it was a shitty song but sounded like an american accent.

[TDMVPDPOY]

this one is funny, tryin to count in english

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm9p4v_xJYk

[whottt]

He can't.

It's easy to produce sounds that emulate the melody of a language (there's a comedian over here that does it perfectly in "chinese") and quite difficult to pronounce real words without an accent.

Amazing how it works that way isn't it? Melody is an interesting choice of word also. I've noticed that singers usually can get rid of their accents when they sing. Like the Beatles or Led Zeppelin...just listening to their singing there's nothing to indicate they are British really, at least not when compared to someone like Julie Andrews or someone like that. Klaus Meine of the Scorpions can also lose his German accent when singing English...Abba too.


What I would really like to understand is what an American accent speaking another language sounds like...


For instance:

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That's Jeanette who is an American who became a pop star in Spain. Is her Spanish idiomatic to Madrid or does she have an American accent to her Spanish? From what I know of Spanish she appears to have none. Then again, she's singing...

[ashbeeigh]

For instance:

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That's Jeanette who is an American who became a pop star in Spain. Is her Spanish idiomatic to Madrid or does she have an American accent to her Spanish? From what I know of Spanish she appears to have none. Then again, she's singing...

I;m kind of at a loss as to how she became famous..if this song is consistent to the rest of her stuff. It's very basic and not hard to understand (coming from me...who learned Spanish at school and speaks Spanglish). It doesn't sound like she has a Spanish accent, it's much more of an English Spanish accent. I'd be interested to hear her speak Spanish, if she does speak it.

[whottt]

I;m kind of at a loss as to how she became famous..if this song is consistent to the rest of her stuff.
That's actually her big hit. I guess that sound was popular in places like Spain and France in the mid 70's. She was never any kind of a star outside of Spain really...



It's very basic and not hard to understand (coming from me...who learned Spanish at school and speaks Spanglish). It doesn't sound like she has a Spanish accent, it's much more of an English Spanish accent. I'd be interested to hear her speak Spanish, if she does speak it.


She definitely speaks Spanish, but I've never heard her speak it. She still lives in Spain and never moved back to the states after moving there. That's kind of the reason I used her as an example...because she was raised in America speaking English and had to learn Spanish after moving to Spain, yet she managed to become a singing star in Spain, singing another language. That's really uncommon for American English speakers. That's why I wonder if she was really good at singing without an American accent or if they just liked that song and her voice.

[Ignignokt]

Hey TDMDPVPOY,

This is a cool pic!http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/2681/34g53iu.jpg

That's some good photoshop skills.

You managed to put the same girl in different poses, and outfits, in the picture without differentiation in light shades.

good work!

[TDMVPDPOY]

Hey TDMDPVPOY,

This is a cool pic!http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/2681/34g53iu.jpg

That's some good photoshop skills.

You managed to put the same girl in different poses, and outfits, in the picture without differentiation in light shades.

good work!

no, they might look the same cause of hairstyle and that bs puffy eyes and lips out bs that u see alot of ppl do these days while taking a photo....

http://i38.tinypic.com/8x7ty8.jpg
http://i37.tinypic.com/2niaanq.jpg

[peewee's lovechild]

This is a cool pic!http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/2681/34g53iu.jpg





http://i38.tinypic.com/8x7ty8.jpg
http://i37.tinypic.com/2niaanq.jpg



I swear, these pics came straight out of one of my most massive wet dreams!

I love me some Asian chicks.

[RGMCSE]

There is something very hypnotizing about this chic. It may be the drug induced stares with the slow eye movements. Add the weird 70's style cheesy music and you have a classic 70's demonic feel to it.


Rob

[whottt]

There is something very hypnotizing about this chic. It may be the drug induced stares with the slow eye movements. Add the weird 70's style cheesy music and you have a classic 70's demonic feel to it.


Rob

Are you talking about Jeanette? It definitely sound like it. That song was in a movie too...pretty freaky movie. I think she's good looking though.

[RGMCSE]

Yes I was talking about Jeanette. I'm glad I wasn't the only one that felt that way about the creepy aspect. She is/was good looking though. I'm not surprised that song was played in a scary movie in the 70's. There is something about it that is evil.


Rob

[DisAsTerBot]

It's not a Youtube so I couldn't embed it..but it's funny nonetheless. If you can embed it feel free to. I found myself squinting trying to figure out what he was saying...but he's not saying anything...it just sounds like English. Is that what people think we sound like?

http://music.todaysbigthing.com/2009/11/03

that song rocks!

[whottt]

Yes I was talking about Jeanette. I'm glad I wasn't the only one that felt that way about the creepy aspect. She is/was good looking though. I'm not surprised that song was played in a scary movie in the 70's. There is something about it that is evil.


Rob


:lmao it's definitely haunting. It sticks your head for some reason, or at least it does mine, and not really because it's a great song. Anyway yeah she a nice looking girl(or was then) I think it's mainly that look she gets in her eyes.

[Sense]

Is her Spanish idiomatic to Madrid or does she have an American accent to her Spanish? From what I know of Spanish she appears to have none. Then again, she's singing...


She fooled me.

[Spursfan092120]

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[Rapper]

Asian dominites

[Rapper]

My accent's like him

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[DarkReign]

Sooo, we American-English speakers sound tribal?

Thats kind of cool.