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How English sounds to non-English speakers

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by Sanctuary, Mar 30, 2016.

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  1. Sanctuary

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    Found this video a while ago, and it's a semi-interesting one.
    Not much to say about it, the video explains itself.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY
     
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    Haha I love this video.

    I can see how this could be like what we sound to foreigners. Recognizing a few words, but not all of them.
     
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    Wow that's really cool! Language is really interesting. It's so interesting how there's so many different ways of communicating and how with just enough exposure, you can get a feel of what someone is talking about.
     
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    Indeed. This video reminds me of a certain day in my 9th grade English class.
    This was in Brazil, so nobody really understood English that well except me and the teacher himself. The class lesson was for us to watch an entire Family Guy episode in English, to see if you could understand the episode with just the visuals and no subtitles.
    Of course, I had already seen the episode and also understand English more than Portuguese, so I just sat back and enjoyed. But I could tell that some of my classmates only understood some parts and not the entire episode, but they understood just enough to know what was happening in the situation.

    For those who have watched Family Guy and are curious as to which episode it was, it was the one with Quagmire, his sister, and her abusive boyfriend.
     
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    This is totally true! I really have trouble keeping up with listening to conversations between two English people (just listening to them from a distance, it's not like I'm talking to them). I know my understanding of English is really good, but I can't even keep up with those T_T
     
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