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31 Comments
plastiquemonkeysays...from his comments:
"Here's the fake dialogue that I wrote for each language. Any similarities to real words are purely coincidental:
Chinese:
Wo jiao piang xie? Da tian jiang ger pang ma! Xie ming ma chen ge la. Ne fan de shun weng she.
French:
La maricot de la francheuse est la botonnaisse et la botteneuse. Tot pa plattannie? To pa plattonisme. Hein? Noreune les oides terrianal.
Italian
Della ma groppoforma di papaligia. E fangelli ma trima, costo mosso: agalla mosto. Pi trima, pa trima.
Russian:
Yuvesh boytnik, graznik -- bohpamoshet badnya. Zet yon a yevleskou groynik. Lepni zet bevchenkski.
Spanish:
Los jungames pala muenos. Copa del jumos pi zampistas: pi querames, pi pleyames, pey gustarañes. !Pi taballyama, pi codo¡
German
Das grumfph ist peine keirschminte, peine greutzenschtepp. Greutzenschtepp ist peine schweirmarke.
Japanese
Gore no ho kakkamatsu, gun makahashimu jo. Kotero unitasu hanashi ma? Kaitu moroka. Hun."
plastiquemonkeysays...he's very talented at accents. and great body language! they all sound good to me except the japanese, because i speak japanese.
maybe other people have the same impression for other languages they can speak?
mauz15says...Yes I share your impression. His Spanish does not even come close. And The Japanese is also way off.
plastiquemonkeysays...the best part of the japanese is the "hun" sound at the end.
the most realistic-sounding to me are:
1. french
2. russian
3. italian
relnsays...I thought his hebrew was pretty good.
Farhad2000says...Russian is terrible, sounds like serbian, but still easy to call out.
LadyBugsays...i think accents are great! he does a really good job with his! even after being with my brit hubby for years, i still can't pull off an english accent!
rembarsays...French was pretty good, the Chinese was pretty bad.
Although one would think a person would be better served by spending that time actually learning a language....
gorillamansays...I love the idea behind this. It'd be great to hear a non-English speaker talking in fake English.
westysays...yah french one was realy good he evan acidentaly sead some french words although with french iv always found if you dont know the word in frinch then say it in english,latin, ore spanish with a french acent and 90% of the time its the word u wanted
KJay489says...is that matt damon? lol he learned so much from harvard! *sarcasm*
lebuitragosays...Why does your Spanish sound like Pig Latin?! I don't get it. I speak Spanish and I don't understand why you have so many 'pi's in there? There just seems to be so many (5 times!), in what seems to be the time span of only ONE SENTENCE.
messengersays...This guy is gifted. He has a great ear for language sounds, and he can also accurately produce the sounds, along with the style. They all sounded authentic to me, even the French and German, which I speak. All except the Chinese, which sucked except for the sounds themselves. I thought the Japanese speaking style was the best, though the words themselves weren't quite right.
I'm really keen to hear how English sounds to people from different countries, sorta like how we used to go, "Ching chong ching chong chong" to sound like we're speaking Chinese in grade 3.
deputydogsays...Good impression Westy.
conansays...hehehe of course the German sounds weird. but i think he quite got the stuff non-Germans think of first. all the rolling "rrrrr" and the quite 'hard' pronounciation. he uses a lot of our beloved t, k, p which make German sound really un-soft (i miss the words..)
But he just couldn´t get the "sch", but in my experience that´s the hardest thing for english speaking people. just like many Germans have problems with the "th" in english.
Speaking a bit french myself i think his french pronounciation is quite good too.
conansays...oh here´s a good example of what i just said about germans and their problems with "th" ;-)
http://www.videosift.com/video/Homer-sings-99-luftballons-to-snotty-German-hostel-kids
Sarzysays...*dead
siftbotsays...This published video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by Sarzy.
siftbotsays...Awarding mauz15 with one Power Point for fixing this video's dead embed code.
GoodAttorneysays...I hereby retract my original comment for being too harsh.
lucky760says...*quality
This is great and there a couple of decent responses from other YouTubers:
http://www.youtube.com/video_response_view_all?v=6C5EZmyJ9ik
It seems very hard to create fake English because you can't help adding real words like "is" and "the."
siftbotsays...Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by lucky760.
Xaielaosays...Yea I gotta say I've often wondered what english sounds like to non-english speakers. I mean every language clearly has a flow and a certain tone to it. I'd love to hear what english sounds like from someone who's never spoke it.
gwiz665says...All of the ones I didn't understand sounded real to me. Only german really sounded fake to me. Well done.
gwiz665says...*talks
siftbotsays...Adding video to channels (Talks) - requested by gwiz665.
fjulessays...Chinese is pretty easy. Even I can do it - ching chong nimp nong ping pong!
Hastursays...Here's the best example I've seen of what English sounds like to non-native speakers:
http://www.videosift
.com/video/Prisencolinensinainciusol
Also: catchy!
residuesays...I thought they were pretty good except for the Spanish and Japanese.
ulysses1904says...The Spanish would have been passable if he had used "ni" (nor) instead of "pi" (don't think it's a word). But overall I thought this was entertaining.
syncronsays...Yeah the Chinese was pretty bad, sounds nothing like Mandarin, but it might pass off as Cantonese. Then again, I don't speak Cantonese.
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