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mk · 4420 days ago · link · · parent · post: How English sounds to non-English speakers -- a short film in fake English
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A German friend of mine once told me what Midwestern English speakers sound like to her. It was basically: "wee ta wi ri a we". I told her that German sounds something like "bloff grush liben" to us. My wife is Chinese, and I work with a lot of Mandarin speakers. I recall when I first heard Mandarin, I couldn't tell where one word stopped and the next one began. It's weird, but my brain hears it completely differently now. Even though I only understand a small amount of Mandarin, my brain breaks up the sounds into words somewhat automatically.