How English sounds to non-English speakers

Read the script for 'Skwerl' here: brianandkarl.tumblr.com/post/1...
'Skwerl'. A short film in fake English. As seen on QI.
A film by Brian & Karl: www.brianandkarl.com
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Screenplay: Karl Eccleston and Brian Fairbairn
Directed by Brian Fairbairn
Starring: Karl Eccleston and Fiona Pepper
Sound and lighting: Thomas Jordan
Brian Fairbairn and Karl Eccleston are a London-based filmmaking duo.
Made for Kino Sydney #47.
June 2011

[@j.s.ospina9861]

The little singular words like "today", "good", and "sure" are enough to gaslight me into thinking this is actual english

[@yaasupreme8080]

Lol and “I mean” bc really , I mean I thought I understood 😂😂😂

[@johnnyversaci7091]

“Chads a long way from the rainbow seasonal”really hit me

[@rawcoustic1718]

​@@johnnyversaci7091lmao i heard that too

[@verdun16]

And yeah

[@iscavish]

EXACTLY I WAS TRYING WO HARD TO UNDERSTAND I was like "dude I thought I was fluent WHYYYYYY youtube showed this to meeee"

[@Travigameis]

This fucking video I swear. Every time I watch it I can feel my brain going "Whats happening? I feel like I should understand this but I don't. I don't like it."

[@AnimationBoss1]

+Travalon LITERALLY ME

[@TheMusicUser]

+Travalon Otherwise known as "How people sound when they mumble."

[@ThyHoneyNut]

Dude this is weird that you said this. I was about to say the exact same thing. It feels like my brain is telling me I should know this but I dont

[@paramyrrh9475]

+Travalon Exactly!

[@phils-p5656]

+ThyHoneyNut LOL

[@lemonofcake]

This is like when someone’s having a conversation in another room and you’re not really tuning into it but still hearing their words

[@romystumpy1197]

Yes exactly

[@Sammie551]

Underrated comment

[@AggahYahahha]

Fr

[@fzzx_4061]

"Sure" "Sounds good" "How whats your day today"

[@AlexanderBulatoff]

"Here is Lays"

[@HarvestMoonHowl]

"Pipe wrench?" "Yes, lettuce." "Good last week." "Not in gas tank."

[@PersonWhoAsked]

one of the clearest lines i heard: "you F***ing *sshole

[@catngaum]

The script might be so messed up 😂

[@christina3307]

this is how math sounds to my brain

[@enriquecortes9171]

Unfortunately I Agree with you 100%, I don't know what with me and numbers.

[@skuba16]

chrischris018 same XD

[@ZenithGamingVideos]

Yes, this is how math sounds to me haha

[@beehn7566]

chrischris018 tbh

[@sunnypisces6899]

chrischris018 sameee

[@Tivers]

I know what english sounds like to non speakers. I've played the sims.

[@skarletsroze]

I'm dead XD

[@xf_art_]

Lol XD

[@DaydreamAllday]

This totally reminds me of the sims

[@DarkAgeDan]

+Tivers Jaba doo

[@kristupassileikis1195]

You made my day :D

[@isntitrich000]

This is how it feels like when you turn off subtitles even on english shows

[@academicpresentations6062]

I used to watch X factor USA with subtitles on back in 2013.

[@xyz91210]

This

[@AnonamemusHacker-yk2dh]

I usually just see this on pirated movies without subtitles I can't hear anything up unless I go to the cinema then I hear everything perfectly

[@FranzineMaickha]

Ril

[@space_in_space]

​@@AnonamemusHacker-yk2dhsi soy

[@vaunniethayer1484]

I am a retired speech therapist. I have listened to more gibberish than most people. Listening to this was fun for me. My analytical side kicks in and I start to dissect. “What’s going on here? What sounds am I hearing? What sounds might be missing? What is the context of the conversation and what can intonation tell me?” The first thing I noticed was the lack of consonants. I worked for many years with children from 3 years to 10. Listening to this reminded me of a three year old who spoke only in vowels, but all the intonation was there, for example, having them the sing the ABC song. I knew what they were saying because of the context, which only highlighted what was missing. Another thing I noticed was how slurred the words sounded, words sliding into one another without definite boundaries. I love listening to other languages that I don’t know. You can sense the rhythms, some sound very staccato and others like waves lightly going up and down.

[@Artisticstranger]

there's so many words in this comment that it sounds like the video

[@MayArif-hv1cg]

literacy is dead for this gen​@@Artisticstranger

[@javacrow_]

Bro cant even read a paragraph

[@yublydubly]

Yayaya

[@TikkyTakMoo]

I actually enjoyed that analysis.. thanks

[@nostalgicnightingale647]

So basically we almost sound like Sims to Non english speakers😂

[@juanmaguijo1106]

Nostalgic Nightingale actually... yes

[@astralvcid]

As a non-english speaker I can confirm it

[@Ella-sf7pf]

omg am i a sim now

[@autreUS4]

Zoobla Fay wing dore

[@kelly2856]

Omg i was about to comment this lmao

[@TtheWriter]

Wow, the graphics for "The Sims 5" look freaking AMAZING. :O

[@polly5229]

hah yeah

[@xNiinasw33t]

Haha nice one

[@Angelsoul_777]

Hahahaha made my day

[@missnorcal]

Best comment ever.

[@euphoria2299]

😂😂

[@_.Magpi3.F00d]

"i bought you like- five marrazis for cordiniation." love that

[@Tae96]

"Hand's good"

[@melissamorris1241]

"Magalove my shit"

[@ClassicalPan]

@@melissamorris1241MAGA*

[@frankierosario6981]

i love how the swears are clear as day 🤣

[@Jaymo00]

Hahaha i noticed that too! Interestingly, swears are usually some the first things people learn in a new language.

[@renkoay1266]

@@Jaymo00 I am not surprised, one of my friend asked me to teach him swear words in my mother tongue.

[@olliesworld4474]

huge respect for them not dying of laughter while arguing in gibberish 💀

[@binxbolling]

If they did, it wouldn't be in the final video.

[@DanielMemeSmith]

​@@binxbollingthat's how bloopers work bruh 💀

[@Rodri1er]

I thought they spoke actual English and then did something with the audio

[@rajay.gaming]

@@Rodri1ersame

[@lilwoodiewood3457]

what their actors if they couldnt do that then they wouldnt be respectable this is neutral

[@isntitrich000]

As a non native English speaker, this brings me back to childhood when I would cry over movies even though I have no idea what’s happening

[@SandMakesGlass1]

Aw, me too

[@maikigr9560]

Or sing something thinking im singing the english text but im just making up words most of the time.😂

[@XProductions92]

I had my dad translating everything.. When something gross was said he just told me "it was not important".

[@turtle-ot2qc]

​@@XProductions92 That's really cool

[@Trainrhys]

I understand this somehow

[@linndylau]

As a non native english speaker, I can confirm this is how english sounded to me when I wasn't fluent

[@letsfindabetteryou5971]

It's should be criminal to not have subtitles in a video like this

[@TheUniverso_sky]

In real life we don't have that

[@ClassicalPan]

They weren't actually saying anything.

[@PandamicBen]

That moment when your sims couple starts showing negative bubbles

[@harasxo]

Gi Jose that's how I imagine English to sound like in Sims

[@doubleh5126]

Gi Jose your KZbin name is from family guy I'm dying

[@PandamicBen]

TheParanormalGamer//TPG finally someone gets me

[@nicolemarie6653]

Gi Jose LMAO

[@coolguy2051]

Gi Jose LMAO! Same tho.😂

[@ellie2381]

So we sound like Sims?? LMAO

[@monicaant.1422]

hahaha true

[@des8891]

+monica antuna so true that was the first thing that came to my head hahaha

[@OuiOui..]

wahahahaa yed you do

[@CoralineLTB]

haha no you do not, but this video also remind me of sims xD

[@jeromios]

+ebonynoods Yes, actually

[@DarthTingleBinks]

It's the way they speak it that makes it sound like English. The cadence, and the tone, the emotion. Everything. Helps that they put real words in there occasionally, or write gibberish that sounds like real words when said quickly.

[@ClassicalPan]

Specifically, English spoken by an American.

[@giganerd896]

I love how "you fucking asshole" and "shut up" were clear as day

[@readyrabb1t854]

Damn, Sims really stepped up their fucking graphics.

[@KaySouldier7]

Ready Rabb1t good one 😂

[@MakeLuvWorldWide]

Ready Rabb1t omg

[@allyzhang669]

Chibi Alien then how did u comment? 😂😂jk

[@kateharrison7554]

Ready Rabb1t HAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHA

[@killermadrid123]

I swear you need a reward if you were the first person that wrote this joke 😂😂😂

[@eradicablelogo3285]

I feel like I can understand what they're saying but I just can't. Help

[@Sommaa]

Eradicable logo that's the trick lmao

[@unexpected2324]

Me too

[@kaiortiz2735]

Eradicable logo omfg samee

[@Indrijid]

They're basically doing what you might do to 'sound' like you're talking in another language, but it's just gibberish. You might get some words in there, but not in any way that makes sense.

[@andysixxlover1369]

same

[@Ellajade07]

The fake arguments that happen in my head when I don’t Listen to music while cleaning up:

[@Tarnished-bn5gq]

This is so well made. You can almost make out what they’re saying but there’s also just enough of a dissonance for you not to know what they’re saying.

[@benjamincarver2515]

“No, crustacean is trap. Why request soldier for the Magdalene nation?” Why. Why indeed...

[@Lizonndo]

Benjamin Carver Magdalene might shit?

[@eugenechoi9146]

1:20 😂😂 “...Magdalene my shit!”

[@Wasserkaktus]

This sounds like some sort of science fiction story where a race of arthropod people are at war with humans and use a crustacean as a trap, and there is a request for military support for some sort of theocracy based around Mary Magdalene.

[@anaceautistic9447]

Ah, the great mysteries of life...

[@apu_apustaja]

@@Wasserkaktus You have no idea how close to the truth you are getting...

[@eliwatson7936]

“Are you having a stroke? No? Would you like to?”

[@roy1605]

Yes

[@yeaaaaaaaaaaahff]

yeah sure would totally like to, down for some brain damage

[@imjusthere1688]

This has me cracking up😭😭

[@imjusthere1688]

@@yeaaaaaaaaaaahff 😂😂

[@llamagames6803]

🤣🤣

[@GhostKingDeAngelo]

I am a native English speaker. It feels like I should be able to understand the video, but I am just tired and zoning out. I go a few seconds passively listening before realizing I couldn’t remember what they were just talking about and try to zone back in. There are some words they say in actual English which just adds to the feeling that I should be able to understand but I just can’t.

[@welsh.truth.dragon3914]

Yeah me too

[@BIackhole]

As a Turkish, this was the language that i was using when i was prentending like "I'm singing an english song" when i was a child.

[@mustafaefegergin786]

karsim cok iyisin

[@_letstartariot]

@@mustafaefegergin786yes. They are a good wife.

[@Ziaheart]

I could figure out what was happening based on the tone and their actions... until the pineapple came out. And then it was like... WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING?!? WHAT WAS EVEN HAPPENING BEFORE?!?

[@Ziaheart]

+wishywish I would have thought that if it was a cake... but it was a pineapple! is that a thing in a culture somewhere? birthday pineapple?

[@TheMasterOfWishes]

+Ziaheart Well, I honestly have no idea about that. It's not just a plain pineapple though, it appears to have some kind of cream on it, which led me to assume that it was a cake.

[@dana4957]

+Ziaheart Maybe she's mad because it was their anniversary or something and made a cake. She was asking him questions testing him.

[@Ziaheart]

+Dana Robinson my guess was that he made a plan or something on their anniversary or something. I get that she's mad and stuff. I'm confused about the pineapple. it's just so random.

[@laurenlittle8733]

+Ziaheart Maybe she quickly pieced together a pineapple instead of the actual cake because she was angry?

[@paulj.umstead2613]

I feel like I'm listening to a conversation from the next room over or something.

[@greeblothegoblin]

Same

[@ProfitXD]

thought i was losing my hearing lol

[@robertgraham1049]

i thought i was losing my mind.

[@garyl6561]

I can still hear words like “today”, “agree”, “sure”, “I mean”. So yea this is still English

[@kathleenking47]

I've heard a twilight zone like this The words he was hearing, were jumbled up He woke up and his neighbor had puppies but he'd say Steels And the word DOG was WEDNESDAY

[@patrickolah]

Wonder how many people have KZbin auto playing on their tv and they just walk into the room listening to this and think they’re having a stroke

[@axellecourtois5690]

I speak French and this is definitely what English sounds like when I don’t concentrate

[@ABAlphaBeta]

Ça frappe dur

[@legrandluan]

Pareil

[@spacesailor8701]

Vrai !

[@atomicfart6830]

Same but I speak Tagalog instead of Français

[@neekyboo77]

I speak spanish also. If i dont turn on the Spanish antenna in my head, I hear gibberish!

[@monet4057]

How the TV sounds when you’re falling asleep

[@ultravioletpisces3666]

Lmao yes

[@marisabrady1003]

Yes yes yesss

[@squidouk1455]

Deadass haha

[@jonahs.757]

Or when a fan is on.

[@Lilhajxjk274]

21

[@robjohnsonmusicandgaming]

having read the script, this version is definitely superior

[@M3xican_k1d_009]

This is literally how I heard english as a little kid 😢 Such nostalgia

[@DascooleSchaf]

True

[@jessieg9854]

SO WE HAVE SOUNDED LIKE THE SIMS TO NON-ENGLISH SPEAKERS THIS WHOLE TIME? .... my life is a lie

[@17MrLeon]

yes when I playe sims as a kid I actually thought they actually speka english :-D

[@elsao.4409]

Same as a kid😂

[@kadenpacker2111]

IM LAUGHING SO HARD

[@Ro7947]

AHAHAH yes, i'm italian. When i play at the sims i always think that it is similar to english.

[@fanmad-hg4nf]

😂 this is gold

[@supernova_g]

Imagine an english teacher putting this as a listening final test...

[@NikkusNam]

Haha, pure evil, that would be hilarious

[@Potatoes38]

YEEEESS

[@Kookaburra-Gaming]

Wait, they didn't?

[@pxolqopt3597]

The practice: "Hi, my name is Bob and I like potatoes" The test:

[@jsmith1811]

I'm an English teacher and you have given me a pretty damn good idea.

[@johannan.w1621]

This feels so nostalgic. For a non native english speaker this reminds me of childhood when your parents watched a film in the other room But you just focused on playing and heard words you didnt understand in the other room.

[@AB-on-YT]

When you turn off the captions on a movie

[@justvibin1087]

My two brain cells when I'm talking to my crush

[@UnforgivingDemon]

Will Rogers he is lucky because I only have one.

[@straangeette8534]

Lmfaoo

[@neenak4848]

SamE

[@adolfhitmaker8639]

You're gonna make it, bro

[@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917]

Just relax, take time to know what you want to say in the moment and say it. Sometimes just slowing down is the best way. You’re still gunna be nervous, but you can learn to channel that nervousness into an optimal (good) stress.

[@tripp2432]

Why is this strangely unsettling like a parallel dimension

[@kingsammy1105]

Tripp - music cause you understand the words but cant process what they’re saying

[@trisle2764]

I got the same feeling, it's really weird to not be able to understand your own language

[@winstonthespartan5593]

Damn we sound like sims?!..

[@envysaturn1439]

My stomach sunk

[@firecat275]

im feeling strange

[@antkiller7537]

This makes me really anxious for some reason

[@leo_19998]

Moving my phone closer to my ears and then realising it won’t make a difference because I have earphones in… 💀

[@selfraisingsugar898]

I HAVE NO IDEA WHATS GOING ON OH MY GOD

[@raeparise4632]

ME EITHER

[@turtletots4160]

JESUS THIS WAS DRAMATIC. AND I DIDN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY WERE SAYING.

[@stormiestarz]

saME aaa

[@jonatanseniquel9101]

guys I figured it all, I think she makes the dinner to surprise his partner with a big announcement, and when she brings the idea of having children (a word that's clearly understandable) he continues to say how bad it would be and how it could ruin his life, she then brings that shorta cake to announce that she's pregnant (

[@naadirahismail5797]

howw.

[@Szu.z]

They sound like Sims 😂

[@ajaylahcopeland3384]

Right I was thinking the same thing lol 😂😂😂

[@nateo200]

Lmfao this!

[@kristi5511]

i was thinking that XD

[@kristi5511]

i was thinking that XD

[@hallyuniverse]

It's because the emphasis they're placing on words give it a different tone than English, making it sound butchered - like Simlish.

[@THEONLYBUNBUN]

Perfect vibe guys! Amazing

[@mohammedmia7343]

This is torture. It’s like I’m just barely able to understand what they’re saying 😂

[@BentangAlam]

Before learning English, I legit thought the Sims were talking in English.

[@quantonian_gamer8468]

When i got sims 3 when i was younger, my parents thought it was a foreign copy and didn't realize that the language they were speaking was Simoleon

[@Pvydrow]

@@quantonian_gamer8468 LMAO SIMOLEON IS THE CURRENCY, they actually speak Simlish.

[@quantonian_gamer8468]

@@Pvydrow That was it, thank you

[@OnlyMichaelJackson]

LMAO

[@lill208]

LMFAO!!

[@thehippie3610]

The fact that I catch one or two words and don't get the rest really bothers me.

[@ariues]

+Zach Mask that's how it is when you hear French or Spanish I'm sure. think about it.

[@MiguelAbd]

+Zach Mask That's how I used to "understand" English before actually learning the language. And as a Brazilian, portuguese and english are veeery different languages

[@thehippie3610]

Miguel Almeida I bet. I attempted to learn French once...didn't go so well. Had a better time with Italian, slightly, but didn't have anyone to practice with.

[@MiguelAbd]

+Zach Mask My mother speaks French sometimes so I can't understand what she's saying just because I help my father to learn English by speaking the language with him hahahaha

[@puppylover9873]

+Zach Mask welcome to my world,dont get me wrong, 10 years ago i didnt know shit and i can say that this is exactly how it is

[@xjcrossx]

This is very interesting. Well done

[@mossy_brickens]

This is exactly what I've heard in childhood, when watched pirated movies from 90-s in 00-s on video cassettes or CDs, with one voice overlayed translation, so I had to listen to original voices to understand who's speaking and started remembering some words because of that. It's my memories. Wow.

[@mfadhillahbasyar9320]

Teacher: *The listening test is not that difficult* The listening test:

[@honeysdreamanimations]

Spanish class be like

[@SweetAngelPinay06]

@@honeysdreamanimations haha yes! I’m in intermediate Spanish... I suck with the listening portion of the test... 😓

[@kaledoublescope]

@@SweetAngelPinay06 it’s the worst. I hav a test coming up too

[@SweetAngelPinay06]

@@kaledoublescope You got this!

[@amanhasfallenintotheriver4660]

Lmao

[@dot4464]

didn't expect this to be so dramatic

[@MrGlendale111]

+katraylor I don't understand any of this. What is the point of this foolishness?

[@danymannucci3929]

+brazil5657 I thought it was actually a really interesting experiment! I recognised exactly myself during my first 3months in the UK. you understand only part of the conversations people talk, you pick up only certain words you're familiar with, and you ALWAYS pick up the bad ones as ,for some reason, they're always the first you learn in every language. I think this is quite an interesting awareness video to show how difficult and baffling could be for foreign learners to persevere even when you understand very little to start with!

[@sarahelliott2046]

Same lol

[@fsk648]

+brazil5657 To show how english sounds to non-english speakers? Did you read the title?

[@seanmadson8524]

+Danny Manny It might be because I learned English and Italian at the same time when I was a baby, but even though I stopped speaking Italian at around 3 I still have a lot of trouble understanding some people speak English, particularly when they have a strong accent/dialect. This video feels a lot like a day in the life of me (not the drama, just the difficulty in deciphering speech) when I attempt to understand someone who doesn't talk like a news reporter or a posh brit

[@bigbuzzxperience3802]

Brilliant, the acting is superb, and the gibberish feels exactly as when I didn’t understand English,this video is incredibly well done!

[@MathAdam]

The little bit of Ukrainian I learned from hearing my dad and his mother talking years ago. My dad would insert it constantly into their otherwise unintelligible conversations. "Знаєте... знаєте... знаєте." ("You know")

[@AngelBeeps]

The Sims 5 is looking pretty intense.

[@kiwikiwi2483]

LMFAO FACTS

[@g0nzal0id]

underrated comment

[@mr.toucan1706]

Lmfao

[@hailthehales]

Lmfao! I was just thinking it sounded simlish.

[@frog3262]

Yes

[@connorleemacfarlane6477]

This is what advertisement sounds like before you fall asleep

[@MKRex]

Lol, no lies detected

[@anubis4791]

What any thing sounds like before I fall asleep or I’m just not paying attention

[@user-xm8uz3qg5g]

Omg yes...

[@aelingalathynius4594]

ITS WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE FALLING ASLEEP IN FROMT OF THE TV

[@corbiculacc6079]

Or all the time to adhd people lol

[@erichodge567]

This is such a great video.

[@Shimeih]

Sounds like Every time I try to listen in on the neighbors fighting 😂😂

[@LLM1235H]

Yeah

[@squanchy5496]

They're speaking doctors hand writing

[@5446isnotmynumber]

Theyre speaking [REDACTED]

[@DTAM-Aviationshorts290]

Yas

[@AYAAYA-kl7hk]

Yas

[@blackpearl5031]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@TenNineD]

That’s good lmao

[@hannahkinton3279]

Why do we sound like sims

[@snoeterfatt939]

when i was playing sims before i was able to understand english i actually thought sims were speaking english

[@quillynx499]

Hannah Kinton Because you do sound like sims. xD

[@fairymir8644]

~•Exactly I was thinking the same thing•~

[@danoqamyasharahla6544]

lmao we do, and I wonder how many non-English speakers think that Sims are speaking English? lol

[@theworst2218]

Because Sims were made to sound like us.

[@hak5424]

12 years later this video is still so real

[@triggereddemoman4178]

The quality of this video is so good that I was shocked that this came out 12 years ago

[@handsnanitizer]

this is messing with my brain

[@mopizzaa]

Your profile picture is the greatest

[@MaggieHowlter]

Corisaurus Rex I LOVE YOU

[@MaggieHowlter]

єяяbσdy iи тнє clυb gєттiиg тiρรy hi (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ

[@richardzarken248]

Corisaurus Rex Add the automatic subtitles. Even more exciting for the brain and hilarious.

[@peacelord]

Corisaurus Rex Magalon my shit! Ha ha ha ha!

[@Reflox1]

"Magalon my shit" A quote to be remembered for millenias.

[@bueryaquett7519]

Yup, exactly what I heard.

[@freyja9468]

I heard "Lego my shit." X)

[@Reflox1]

***** k

[@CrasherTxT]

My lego my shit

[@jennaeneria5132]

***** LMAO

[@danimarie1279]

This is a trip. I really sounds like i should know what they are saying but im having a stroke.

[@str11pes]

wow this is so amazing

[@rubyrose3790]

This is what the zoom meeting sounds like when I’m not listening.

[@anotherorturedpoet]

That’s what they sound like even when I’m listening 💀

[@Jiiimmyneutronn]

KON 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@mattnelson8407]

KON is that a little monster I see? We stan! 💗⚔️

[@dendiepie1547]

Whaatt so english speaker feel this too (?)

[@lordmegatronthefifhtlordme3527]

KON same!! I don’t know how to get over that!

[@iamspongebobdestroyerofevi5055]

It feels like I can understand it, but I can't.

[@robertyeah2259]

I know right? I feel like I understand what they're trying to say, but I can't quite decipher it.....

[@muzza_r]

Yes - just like watching any American film!

[@TheBoringOne]

+I AM SPONGEBOB, DESTROYER OF EVIL It's confusing to understand, yet I still feel more than I would in a really sad movie...

[@acetum_]

I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE

[@Kekkitan]

+I AM SPONGEBOB, DESTROYER OF EVIL I really want to like your comment but it's at 666 and that just contradicts your name too well for me to ruin it.

[@heitorhertz5083]

Changing the subject, the video quality is excellent

[@neonpancake4720]

This is what I hear when someone tries to talk to me in the morning

[@jh2519]

It sounds like a movie that isn't quite loud enough to hear. You know they're speaking English but can't quite tell what they're saying.

[@mshcsh]

wow this is exactly what I was thinking haha. i kept subconsciously trying to listen harder and turn the volume up 😅

[@breannaallen308]

I keep turning it up louder trying to hear it. I’m convinced my neighbors can hear.

[@mybuttsmellslikebutterbut207]

They are actually speaking real Shakespearean English.

[@daedrielsmith]

Yeah exactly 😮

[@Cxnvict]

Fr tho

[@Santi-ev4ky]

These actors should win an oscar, imagine memorizing all that gibberish lines and yet not laughing their asses off.

[@TmoneyBagz1]

They probably did laugh their asses off many times lol they probably just didn’t show it 🤷‍♂️

[@FairyCRat]

​@@beholdtheman3161that would actually be Scots or Frisian

[@MsEgwene]

​@@beholdtheman3161I can't tell if you're joking, but just in case you aren't: no, this is not Dutch, nor any other language I speak. It also doesn't sound like Dutch, it sounds like English with an American accent, except most of the words are gibberish.

[@irlandesderio4]

​@@beholdtheman3161no, it's. Not. It's just a fake language to understand what non-english speakers hear ...

[@PlusVK22]

I mean there are a lot of cuts so they definitely laughed 😂

[@kalvon]

My A2 ass proficiency would think that they're a having a full fledge, meaningful conversation right now if no context was given.

[@yessirBR]

You're writing well-made comments like this when you're A2? It's either true that you're underestimating yourself or I am overestimating myself by thinking my proficiency level was B2

[@kalvon]

@@yessirBR I think that my level is somewhere around B1 to B2, but this score is a self valuation since the official one is asking me to pay for the "authentic" valuation. Literally wasted below an hour answering one of those CEFR questions. Anyway, thank you for the compliment tho' lol.. I've been on the internet for so long that I thought a person like you doesn't exist anymore

[@user-yn1ke3wr4k]

Fantastic. You nailed it!😅

[@WhoCares-lv6lv]

sims 5 is looking good

[@JamJellyGamer]

Who Cares first rEpLy

[@leximichelle6022]

Who Cares this comment had me dead 😂

[@zimora4422]

LMAO😭

[@morgipi]

HAHAHAHAHA

[@Lukarbonite]

RTX ON!

[@JustForFunST]

The crazy thing is that it sounds like gibberish, but it sounds like English too!

[@shutthefluffup]

And we shall call it Gigilish

[@beejface282]

That's how I feel when I listen to Alesana for some reason.

[@bossunicorn1476]

shutthefluffup giberlish

[@griffindavis7972]

JustForFunST like if you not paying attention it sounds like English but if you pay attention it's so weird

[@dru4670]

Hence the title 😂. That's what we literally hear.

[@StrawberriesAndWeed_420]

The acting skills tho

[@archmaiden]

I thought this was a clip from an actual movie, and I was over here trying to look it up to watch 😂

[@afishinablob5467]

At the end of the video when the screen goes black I saw my reflection like 'what the fuck even is life anymore'

[@xJustBeingRealx]

Thirdblogger black mirror

[@user-hf9rq9xr2o]

Thirdblogger Its worse when you're on the toilet.

[@zombiezombie632]

Thirdblogger what did you reflect :3

[@Egir53]

dude, u made my day...and it's 9 am

[@saaman11]

Are you being racist towards yourself? Is that even a thing?

[@stephaniefowler5926]

This is exactly what it's like when two people are talking and you aren't paying attention for their whole conversation until they talk to you directly

[@SnowyBeans]

or when you don't have your hearing aids on/ too many people talking at once.

[@milboxr9772]

Stephanie Fowler holy crap very accurate

[@TheDarnook]

Similiar thing with music on radio. Until you really start paying attention, you might assume it's foreign language while it's your native language.

[@geoff7936]

Stephanie Fowler flipping yes! As a person who prefers one on one conversations over group chatter I take such issue with this. Like, I don't even care that I'm temporarily left out of the conversation, I just wanna know why I have suddenly lost the ability to comprehend my native tongue!

[@RodrigoLima-tv7id]

Stephanie Fowler lol...yeah and when people are arguing about something and you're thinking about something random and not paying attention...and suddenly they turn to you and say "Am I right?"

[@daughteroftiaran]

My brain feels like I SHOULD be able to understand this!

[@TurningJapanese72]

This works because the actors are using English sounds and phonotactics, but few actual English words. This is the same principle behind Simlish, by the way!

[@benpeterson4998]

Jacob Réllez ?? It's mostly gibberish mate, a combination of phonetic letters that you find in the english language with an american accent

[@haleykimbrough2373]

Or maybe english wasn't their first language so they know what it sounded like to them before they learned it, and then they learned it and could make the sounds that it sounded like before they learned it. make sense?

[@jacobrellez9872]

Ben Peterson mostly english words, some gibberish. read their script

[@siriusblack9999]

actually if you turn on closed captions, it sounds like they're using english words, and with english speech patterns but no actual meaning ("laura stay you burn for that", "Oh the raging battle nash marine, tougher when you agreed that region")

[@brannon8498]

It sounds like that language Stanley Unwin created

[@deadboii6x636]

This makes my eye twitch just trying to understand. I can name out parts but, this has answered a lifelong question for me.

[@25penguin25]

The fact there is no captions is amazing 😂

[@eshaalemad9570]

this sounds exactly like English but I can’t understand ANYTHING they sound like they’re ACTUALLY SPEAKING SENTENCES THAT MAKE SENSE.

[@meluhhhnee]

EXACTLY LIKE I FEEL LIKE I KNOW THE GIST OF IT.... but not exactly

[@bigdoggetom6549]

@Sylis TM not quite the case. It's common English sounds, which is why you hear actual words, but it's not just random words. It's actually very carefully scripted Except when she says "you fucking ass hole"

[@changedgalaxyuniverse3200]

I KNOW IT'S CREEPY AS FUCK

[@sharmintareque]

IT’S ME IT’S ME IT’S MEIT’S ME IT’S ME IT’S MEIT’S ME IT’S ME IT’S MEIT’S ME IT’S ME IT’S MEIT’S ME IT’S ME IT’S MEIT’S ME IT’S ME IT’S MEIT’S ME IT’S ME IT’S MEIT’S ME IT’S ME IT’S MEIT’S ME IT’S ME IT’S MEIT’S ME IT’S ME IT’S MEIT’S ME IT’S ME IT’S MEIT’S ME IT’S ME IT’S MEIT’S ME IT’S ME IT’S ME

[@nutella300]

IKR

[@limp6129]

This is the audio equivalent of not being able to punch properly in dreams

[@samgyeopsal569]

I died yesterday in my dream because I got in a fight but was punching like a toddler and I felt so uncomfortable and powerless

[@bigbirdmusic8199]

i always feel like im fighting underwater and the dude im fighting is flash fuckin gordon

[@leemsvg]

Mf this how I punch in real life

[@yazmurata.4311]

@@samgyeopsal569 hate when that happens, but one time I don't know how I was able to punch properly after many weak attempts

[@synecabaker7480]

That or not being able to run properly in dreams

[@thxt0nekid291]

this is when you play a movie without subtitles

[@littledancingfawn]

Great actors!❤

[@julymyers3314]

My brain is so confused... it's like it can _almost_ understand but not quite and it doesn't know what to do.

[@PistolFx]

July Myers use captions

[@sofiaromero177]

July Myers SAME

[@edithengman9668]

that's exactly how it feels for us who don't speak english when we hear it.

[@pradeekshadoor4012]

+Edith Engman but you are speaking in english

[@edithengman9668]

+Pradeeksh Adoor haha I know, but I mean how it feels in the beginning when you know just a few words...

[@blindsniper4517]

This is definitely how they should have English speakers in movies when the protagonist is a non English speaker so the audience is just as clueless as the protagonist

[@nimmernomma8830]

Thats a great idea

[@EffortLevelZeroProductions]

Apartiperdact?

[@nunyafukinbizness2984]

@@EffortLevelZeroProductions apartipredact scavern! Kishmergaa!

[@daerdevvyl4314]

Blind Sniper There was an old British sitcom called _’Allo ‘Allo!_ It was set in France and there was one character that could speak French but badly. The way they portrayed that in English was by having him say things like “Gadd mahrneeng!” I thought it was an interesting way of showing (to English speakers) how badly spoken French would sound to a French speaker.

[@jirahjashmiermacalino7556]

Blind Sniper actually a good idea...huh

[@DeEmperor1]

First time i watched this i kept increasing my volume. I thought i was the one not listening in well

[@kenyaouko7388]

This is how it sounds when you're in a club and you're only getting bits and pieces of the conversation, because the music is way too loud...😂

[@joep8772]

as a Dutch person with a reasonable understanding of the English language, this is fucking with my head. it sounds like English but when you try to listen to words or grammar nothing fits it's so weird

[@floriz8067]

Joep Edelmann haha same i speak fluently english and im dutch

[@kanra3962]

Joep Edelmann I have exactly the same thoughts and I am Dutch too

[@QCLagstone]

why did you make a grammatical error then? All of you Dutch people are so stuck up about your English skills, fact of the matter is that 90% of all Dutch people that claim to be good at English are actually complete failures at it, as you've just demonstrated.

[@floriz8067]

Inkjet Printer haha i said *speak* 🙂 my typing skills are shit, matter the fact all the brittish poeple i speak to are supprised that im.dutch they think im from (london) and that its amazing that i speak like that. i dont have to go to english lessons anymore because i scored 100/100 at the hardest test. writing is shit for me try speaking to me irl 😘

[@Julia-zh4us]

Ikr, ik ben zo verward

[@quickmaff9349]

This what people sound like when I take my glasses off

[@reaganb6013]

i-

[@bvaldes3703]

Underrated comment

[@tycoco9571]

😂 same

[@manz007]

same.

[@biditamajumdar5810]

LMAO WHAT

[@NameNik223]

As a non-native English speaker, this is what American movies and series sound to me like without subtitles

[@Prothika]

This is awesome I wondered about this

[@AdamToner]

*They be speaking fluent Doctors Handwriting*

[@Michael_McMaster]

Adam Toner hahahahahaha

[@sophaipilla]

I cant read my moms handwriting at all

[@stingerjohnny9951]

Sophie • I can barely read my own XD

[@rustyshackelford3590]

Stinger Johnny and you’ll make a great doctor

[@youngmeetro_2555]

nah its just welsh

[@Eldomibori]

This is what English sounds like to me when someone’s talking but I’m not paying attention

[@Eldomibori]

JAYĐEN Warren Yurrrr

[@Arismoonlight]

The truth 😂

[@BulletsAndBloomers]

Hehe nice

[@alectricalexia]

Exactly

[@Ch4rmanderrr]

And then you listen in on that one word that gets your attention and it’s really weird😂