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To convey the same information, Chinese probably uses the least number of syllables, on average.
I can see that. Makes sense.
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It already does I have many Cantonese friends and when they speak it, Cantonese sounds so rough and uninviting. It sounds like they're always cursing at each other
Mandarin sounds better except the "szh" and the "dszsch" sounds drive me crazy.
I think Thai sounds the prettiest out of East Asian languages
LOL Yeah it's a really short abrupt language. English must sound like complete jibberish to them. Personally, Japanese is my favorite language in that region.
as a native english speaker, the spanish language sounds like a big run on never ending sentence, very rapid, it seems like you have to use a lot of words to get your point across.
the portuguese language sounds like they use a lot of sh- words, very weird.
the mandarin language doesnt even sound like they use actual words to communicate just a bunch of sounds.
so my question is what does the english language sound like to anyone who learned it as a second language or foreigners?
please keep in mind im not talking about ACCENTS just the language itself.
Keep in mind you perception about Portuguese applies only to the European Portuguese and to the dialect spoken in Rio; this sound doesn't occur so frequently in most of the brazilian dialects or in Angola.
What I perceive as the most easily recognisable feature for the English language is the sound for /r/, completely different of all other European languages.
We migrated to Australia from Jordan when I was 7. I was a 2nd grader at that time and I did not know a single English word (well, besides 'apple' and 'girl/boy').
When they broadcast news in the English language in Jordan (not sure if it was American or British), I remember it sounding very "exotic", so to say. In my 7 year old ears, English sounded like this "asapasa lasa paraser kerser pars". Sounded sort of like Spanish to me, if I had to pick a similar language.
P.S. Despite being of the same language families and having cognates, English sounds nothing like Dutch and German to me. The latter two are way too guttural and I'd often confused them with Hebrew. I'd say, the closest sounding language to English would probably be Cornish, oddly, a Celtic language (non-Germanic):
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