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Topic	Trying to imagine what English must sound like to a non-English speaker
RescueBC 12/20/19 9:47:01 PM #1:	When listening to a movie or something. It's strange...like they hear the same words but don't know what they mean. Wonder if it sounds kind of like Dutch... Then I think about how weird it is that Russian, for instance, sounds incomprehensible to me but when I listen to Japanese I at least understand the phonetics and my brain at least makes an attempt at parsing out the words and sentences, even though I usually don't understand, since I've studied the language some and get the basics. Language is weird...and cool... --- If this signature appears blue, you need to consider not doing whatever it is you're doing. <cite>RescueBC posted [p:931864703] in Trying to ... [t:78270832]...</cite> <quote>When listening to a movie or something. It's strange...like they hear the same words but don't know what they mean. Wonder if it sounds kind of like Dutch... Then I think about how weird it is that Russian, for instance, sounds incomprehensible to me but when I listen to Japanese I at least understand the phonetics and my brain at least makes an attempt at parsing out the words and sentences, even though I usually don't understand, since I've studied the language some and get the basics. Language is weird...and cool... --- If this signature appears blue, you need to consider not doing whatever it is you're doing.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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