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That is a wonderful video. The gibberish she speaks in Each language sounds pretty convincing, although I noticed my relationship with each language affected h

by laurieg 10y ago

That is a wonderful video. The gibberish she speaks in Each language sounds pretty convincing, although I noticed my relationship with each language affected how it sounded a lot. French and Spanish: I've heard them around but never spoken them. She sounded perfect. Swedish: I used to be able to speak it but have forgotten. She sounded even more convincing than in French. Japanese: I speak it now but not natively. She sounded pretty rough and not all that Japanese to me. English: My native language. My brain tried so hard to make sense of it and pulled out snippets of words but there was no grammar there.

flojito 10y ago
Spanish native here: the Spanish that speaks in this video is like an American Spanish with and scent of Italian accent :-) But a very fluent one.
- kobeya 10y ago
  Do you mean Mexican Spanish? Genuine question as there are MANY Spanish dialects in the Americas.
  - jaimebuelta 10y ago
    No. She goes for a Spain Spanish (specially the last sentence), it doesn't sound Mexican (or any other discernible Latin American accent) at all. It still sounds a little bit Italian...
    - jfroma 10y ago
      She goes for Spain Spanish, you can notice this because most S sound like Z and she says something like "pues" (which is commonly used in spain). The last sentence she says something like "a huevo cabron" with spain accent but the expression itself is very mexican.
      - narag 10y ago
        Spanish s doesn't sound like z except in my hometown area.
    - kobeya 10y ago
      It sounded Castilian to me too. I just had no idea what was meant by "American Spanish".
  - gaastonsr 10y ago
    No, she goes for Spain Spanish. I'm a native Mexican and I had trouble understanding what she said. Funny thing: at the end she said "a huevo cabron" which is a Mexican expression but she was using a different accent.
sundvor 10y ago
As a Norwegian, who grew up with a plethora region specific accents in my own country, then moved to Australia, I love this. In her next video, she completely nailed the (female version of the) Australian English. Really had to laugh out loud at how she captured that essence. Genius. Edit: It's certainly not the only one, all Australian females don't sound like this; it's just that she got this particular version of the Australian ones so right. I'm actually somewhat confused as to how to place it; back home you'd have the geographical regions and that's it. So I wonder if this Australian one is more of a "sociolect". If anyone has any info / pointers I'd love to learn more.
- GuiA 10y ago
  > So I wonder if this Australian one is more of a "sociolect". If anyone has any info / pointers I'd love to learn more. Similar maybe to the "valley girl" American accent. Once perhaps a California only thing, now something you hear from teenage girls/women in their 20s all around the US (probably due to Hollywood, in part).
  - sundvor 10y ago
    Yep, that sounds right - looked up some videos depicting this, and there's a similar pattern to them both. Cheers.
  - icebraining 10y ago
    Inadvertently helped to spread by the Zappas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM
- jpatokal 10y ago
  You're likely referring to the "bogan" accent, and yes, it's absolutely a sociolect: bogans are the Australian equivalent to US rednecks, except that bogans are essentially a poor suburban phenomenon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation_in_Australian_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation_in_Australian_Englis... #Sociocultural_variation
tricolon 10y ago
Finnish: (my first, heritage language) Had the right set of phonemes and the right pace of speech, but no discernible meaning. It confounded me and would have irritated me had it been longer. English: (my second, dominant language) See above. And for languages with which I only have a passing familiarity... Swedish, Estonian, French: Pretty convincing. Portuguese: A bit off the mark. Sounded almost like Italian. Japanese: Only sort-of convincing. Spanish (Castilian): Her stress placement seemed a little off but most of the vowels were good. Sort of an Americanized version.
- kobeya 10y ago
  > Had the right set of phonemes and the right pace of speech, but no discernible meaning... That was the point.
  - tricolon 10y ago
    I am aware. I thought explaining my experience might be helpful.
wingerlang 10y ago
I'm Swedish and it is very convincing, some sentences are pretty much all real words (I might be finding words where she didn't actually say them though) but the meaning is not there. For fun I tried to transcribe it. ---- Asså de e ju man svarta man handlar jua Filen man råd ostaglig kämpare Me de sju mat trämpar me alla pluva som fan Dessa fjortare plådar oss mot en botande mas hemma ---
- ptaipale 10y ago
  I think Saara (her real name is Saara Forsberg) is actually quite fluent in Swedish, and Finnish is her mother tongue. The video is intentionally gibberish. It's indeed a talent that she can sound so real without saying anything that makes any sense at all. In a somewhat related sort of humour, as a Swedish-speaker you might enjoy this piece of gibberish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5DCnSlWOc8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5DCnSlWOc8 (It's the genuine Soviet anthem in Russian, with Swedish subtitles that will sound similar when you sing them out, and the hallucinatory Swedish sentences are then demonstrated in video. I just love it, though I don't know the guy who did this.)
  - wingerlang 10y ago
    She definitely speaks Swedish, probably why it was so convincing. Wikipedia says her father is Swedish. And yeah I know it is gibberish. But she used so many real words I wanted to write the sentences down as well as I could. The video I've seen before loads of times, and yeah it's pretty funny how it works out.
- mhomde 10y ago
  ...and let us not forget or weird cousins. Danish = Swedish with a severe throat infection. Norwegian = Swedish as told by an happy retarded person.
wtbob 10y ago
> English: My native language. My brain tried so hard to make sense of it and pulled out snippets of words but there was no grammar there. As an English speaker with a bit of German, that's how Dutch sounds to me: it sounds like English, only wrong somehow. I feel that if I just focused a bit harder, or they'd enunciate more clearly, I'd understand it. Hooray for languages!

by laurieg 10y ago

flojito 10y ago

Spanish native here: the Spanish that speaks in this video is like an American Spanish with and scent of Italian accent :-) But a very fluent one.

kobeya 10y ago
Do you mean Mexican Spanish? Genuine question as there are MANY Spanish dialects in the Americas.
- jaimebuelta 10y ago
  No. She goes for a Spain Spanish (specially the last sentence), it doesn't sound Mexican (or any other discernible Latin American accent) at all. It still sounds a little bit Italian...
  - jfroma 10y ago
    She goes for Spain Spanish, you can notice this because most S sound like Z and she says something like "pues" (which is commonly used in spain). The last sentence she says something like "a huevo cabron" with spain accent but the expression itself is very mexican.
    - narag 10y ago
      Spanish s doesn't sound like z except in my hometown area.
  - kobeya 10y ago
    It sounded Castilian to me too. I just had no idea what was meant by "American Spanish".
- gaastonsr 10y ago
  No, she goes for Spain Spanish. I'm a native Mexican and I had trouble understanding what she said. Funny thing: at the end she said "a huevo cabron" which is a Mexican expression but she was using a different accent.

sundvor 10y ago

As a Norwegian, who grew up with a plethora region specific accents in my own country, then moved to Australia, I love this. In her next video, she completely nailed the (female version of the) Australian English. Really had to laugh out loud at how she captured that essence. Genius. Edit: It's certainly not the only one, all Australian females don't sound like this; it's just that she got this particular version of the Australian ones so right. I'm actually somewhat confused as to how to place it; back home you'd have the geographical regions and that's it. So I wonder if this Australian one is more of a "sociolect". If anyone has any info / pointers I'd love to learn more.

GuiA 10y ago
> So I wonder if this Australian one is more of a "sociolect". If anyone has any info / pointers I'd love to learn more. Similar maybe to the "valley girl" American accent. Once perhaps a California only thing, now something you hear from teenage girls/women in their 20s all around the US (probably due to Hollywood, in part).
- sundvor 10y ago
  Yep, that sounds right - looked up some videos depicting this, and there's a similar pattern to them both. Cheers.
- icebraining 10y ago
  Inadvertently helped to spread by the Zappas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM
jpatokal 10y ago
You're likely referring to the "bogan" accent, and yes, it's absolutely a sociolect: bogans are the Australian equivalent to US rednecks, except that bogans are essentially a poor suburban phenomenon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation_in_Australian_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation_in_Australian_Englis... #Sociocultural_variation

tricolon 10y ago

Finnish: (my first, heritage language) Had the right set of phonemes and the right pace of speech, but no discernible meaning. It confounded me and would have irritated me had it been longer. English: (my second, dominant language) See above. And for languages with which I only have a passing familiarity... Swedish, Estonian, French: Pretty convincing. Portuguese: A bit off the mark. Sounded almost like Italian. Japanese: Only sort-of convincing. Spanish (Castilian): Her stress placement seemed a little off but most of the vowels were good. Sort of an Americanized version.

kobeya 10y ago
> Had the right set of phonemes and the right pace of speech, but no discernible meaning... That was the point.
- tricolon 10y ago
  I am aware. I thought explaining my experience might be helpful.

wingerlang 10y ago

I'm Swedish and it is very convincing, some sentences are pretty much all real words (I might be finding words where she didn't actually say them though) but the meaning is not there. For fun I tried to transcribe it. ---- Asså de e ju man svarta man handlar jua Filen man råd ostaglig kämpare Me de sju mat trämpar me alla pluva som fan Dessa fjortare plådar oss mot en botande mas hemma ---

ptaipale 10y ago
I think Saara (her real name is Saara Forsberg) is actually quite fluent in Swedish, and Finnish is her mother tongue. The video is intentionally gibberish. It's indeed a talent that she can sound so real without saying anything that makes any sense at all. In a somewhat related sort of humour, as a Swedish-speaker you might enjoy this piece of gibberish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5DCnSlWOc8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5DCnSlWOc8 (It's the genuine Soviet anthem in Russian, with Swedish subtitles that will sound similar when you sing them out, and the hallucinatory Swedish sentences are then demonstrated in video. I just love it, though I don't know the guy who did this.)
- wingerlang 10y ago
  She definitely speaks Swedish, probably why it was so convincing. Wikipedia says her father is Swedish. And yeah I know it is gibberish. But she used so many real words I wanted to write the sentences down as well as I could. The video I've seen before loads of times, and yeah it's pretty funny how it works out.
mhomde 10y ago
...and let us not forget or weird cousins. Danish = Swedish with a severe throat infection. Norwegian = Swedish as told by an happy retarded person.

wtbob 10y ago

> English: My native language. My brain tried so hard to make sense of it and pulled out snippets of words but there was no grammar there. As an English speaker with a bit of German, that's how Dutch sounds to me: it sounds like English, only wrong somehow. I feel that if I just focused a bit harder, or they'd enunciate more clearly, I'd understand it. Hooray for languages!