What do foreign languages sound like to you?

[Silicon Waffle]

I think it's Madarin.

 

[Choppy]

Whenever I don't understand the language, I always hope that the other person will speak louder and slower...
(see about 8:25)

 

[Rx7man]

I think it's Madarin.

My best friend moved to Taiwan and learned Mandarin.. He's actually the guy who showed me that video about 10 years ago, before he started learning it... I'll have to send it to him again and see if he can translate now :)

 

[Psinter]

Whenever I don't understand the language, I always hope that the other person will speak louder and slower...

This is so oh true.

 

[Tosh5457]

German seems angry all the time, and French sounds snob Nordic countries languages I find odd and interesting. Russian sounds oddly like European Portuguese, if I'm distracted I could mistake someone on a public transport speaking Russian as speaking Portuguese, since the sounds are very similar. On the other hand, Spanish is a very similar language to Portuguese, in vocabulary, but sounds totally different (sounds more similar to Brazilian Portuguese).