English is doable IMO, there are so many accents already that you should be able to find one that suits you (except you must be able to say "r") if you just have to get rid of your accent.
It's Norwegian that's the funny language, in pronunciation anyways! Hoppi toppi tuudi! Can't imagine an angry Norwegian... Never thought about the butter goose though, norway says "sandwich"?! Like sand and a sorceress? Hmm not much better.
Danish is excluded from all kind of competition because it's a language from hell, I'm totally with you there.
you three.. tisk tisk* don't you see? this tribalism of differences is the real reason why the Catholics were able to divide and defeat the vikings. this is why we all need to just come together with English. and besides to my American ears you all sound just terrible
::: spoiler spoiler
(just kidding love you all)
:::
I think swedish is very easy if you just listen to it. You can pick accents there as well, just avoid the unhinged stuff like visby and youll have a pretty easy time. Everyone brings up the swedish prosody and pitch accent but its just a melody you memorize/practice for each word. The two hardest things for me were/are y and the "sj"(ɧ) thingy.
I guess you could learn which word has which pitch accent, but can you hear it?
Danes for example are deaf to it and can't hear the difference between tomten and tomten. It's the same word to them.
Hmm interesting. For me its one of my favourite parts of swedish. I dont know which dialect does what but maybe skånska has less pitch and thats why the danes cant hear it as well. But once again, just listening to the language as much as possible is the best way to get a feeling for pronounciation. Also danish is just unhinged anyways i dont care what they say about swedish, they should fix their language 💀
I don’t think it’s impossible to do, just impossible to do alone. If you’ve got enough time and a good dialect coach, you can totally get there (H>E at least, I’d suspect E>H is harder for many reasons)
There is a known phenomena among some E Asian living in America to learn English so thoroughly that they loose the accent. The problem is that their English is too good; their diction becomes the accent that gives them away.
It's almost impossible to pass as a native speaker without years of immersion in the culture.
I mean kinda cheating but im bilingual but i still fail. I have an english accent when speaking hungarian and a hungarian accent when speaking english. Also words i dont use often come out in an irish accent cause i grew up there. Language is fluid in my head rather than something concrete. At this point im even mixing swedish words into it even tho i dont speak much of it.
Ummmm, whats the context here? Also as a bilingual hungarian-english speaker i have doubts about someone being able to learn english as an adult to the level of seeming like a complete native. Tho i still dont have context, was this spoken or written? If spoken then its impossible.
This is the movie Unusual Suspects, the whole movie happens during the interrogation to one of the suspects, who, on one of the great plot-twists of movie history, happens to be the mythical crime-lord they have been talking about the whole movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CqiShbBgo
56 Comments
Lemming421@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 85d
Who told you he was Hungarian?
He did.
Can you trust that, any more than anything else he said?
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz · 35 pts · 85d
Exactly. Everytihng he said is suspect, and probably false.
Including the Keyser Soze origin story.
cuerdo@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 85d
Actually someone just mentioned that he was Turkish.
There are also other sources about the Kaiser, not only him
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id · 7 pts · 85d
I never saw Keatons body.
j4yc33@piefed.social · 36 pts · 85d
Can someone ELI5?
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip · 18 pts · 85d
This is a joke about the twist ending of a movie.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 10 pts · 85d
What movie?
TheEEEdiot@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 85d
Since there are so many joke responses: thr move is "The Usual Suspects".
PS: Don't go looking into the director of this movie. He was mentioned by name in the "Open Secret" documentary.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 85d
I have some bad news for you about the star, as well
saltesc@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 85d
Great move. I should watch it again.
closes Stremio; opens SmartTube
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 5 pts · 85d
The Hungarian Maneuver
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 85d
...
Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 85d
I thought it was the Hungarian Job?
DrBob@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 85d
The English Patient.
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id · 5 pts · 85d
That's the prequel.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 3 pts · 85d
That's the sequel.
Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 85d
Right, the 2003 remake with Mark Whalberg.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 85d
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 85d
cuerdo@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 86d
I challenge you to find even the most savant polyglot speaking a foreign language without a trace of an accent.
Extra points for two languages with such different phonetics as Hungarian and English
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 33 pts · 86d
English is doable IMO, there are so many accents already that you should be able to find one that suits you (except you must be able to say "r") if you just have to get rid of your accent.
Now try swedish. Just impossible.
Pissmidget@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 86d
Swedish is just speaking Norwegian using baby words in the tone of an upset child. Who calls their sandwiches butter goose, honestly.
Try Danish when sober. That's nigh impossible.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 86d
It's Norwegian that's the funny language, in pronunciation anyways! Hoppi toppi tuudi! Can't imagine an angry Norwegian... Never thought about the butter goose though, norway says "sandwich"?! Like sand and a sorceress? Hmm not much better.
Danish is excluded from all kind of competition because it's a language from hell, I'm totally with you there.
fartsparkles@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 86d
The upset child sound comes through in writing too 🤣
Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 85d
you three.. tisk tisk* don't you see? this tribalism of differences is the real reason why the Catholics were able to divide and defeat the vikings. this is why we all need to just come together with English. and besides to my American ears you all sound just terrible ::: spoiler spoiler (just kidding love you all) :::
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 85d
Getting together to beat the Danish, right?
Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 85d
Klear@piefed.world · 10 pts · 85d
Not even Danes can do it!
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 85d
There’s even a documentary about that
https://youtu.be/s-mOy8VUEBk
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id · 6 pts · 85d
I never get tired of this sketch.
guy@piefed.social · 6 pts · 85d
Found the Norwegian
kungen@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 85d
There's actually an interesting history about smörgås.
I think the funniest real Norwegian word would be rumpetroll, ass troll. Or pattedyr, tit animal. Or maybe even verdensrommet, the world's room...
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 85d
I think swedish is very easy if you just listen to it. You can pick accents there as well, just avoid the unhinged stuff like visby and youll have a pretty easy time. Everyone brings up the swedish prosody and pitch accent but its just a melody you memorize/practice for each word. The two hardest things for me were/are y and the "sj"(ɧ) thingy.
guy@piefed.social · 5 pts · 85d
I guess you could learn which word has which pitch accent, but can you hear it? Danes for example are deaf to it and can't hear the difference between tomten and tomten. It's the same word to them.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 85d
Hmm interesting. For me its one of my favourite parts of swedish. I dont know which dialect does what but maybe skånska has less pitch and thats why the danes cant hear it as well. But once again, just listening to the language as much as possible is the best way to get a feeling for pronounciation. Also danish is just unhinged anyways i dont care what they say about swedish, they should fix their language 💀
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 85d
I don’t think it’s impossible to do, just impossible to do alone. If you’ve got enough time and a good dialect coach, you can totally get there (H>E at least, I’d suspect E>H is harder for many reasons)
DrBob@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 85d
yesman@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 85d
There is a known phenomena among some E Asian living in America to learn English so thoroughly that they loose the accent. The problem is that their English is too good; their diction becomes the accent that gives them away.
It's almost impossible to pass as a native speaker without years of immersion in the culture.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 85d
East Asian or Eastern European? Asian to English is a hard change. I've met many Eastern Europeans that you'd never tell.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 85d
I mean kinda cheating but im bilingual but i still fail. I have an english accent when speaking hungarian and a hungarian accent when speaking english. Also words i dont use often come out in an irish accent cause i grew up there. Language is fluid in my head rather than something concrete. At this point im even mixing swedish words into it even tho i dont speak much of it.
glups@piefed.social · 1 pts · 85d
Challenge accepted. My English is flawless
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 85d
Punctuation Nazi bait.
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 85d
Cunning linguist.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 85d
Ummmm, whats the context here? Also as a bilingual hungarian-english speaker i have doubts about someone being able to learn english as an adult to the level of seeming like a complete native. Tho i still dont have context, was this spoken or written? If spoken then its impossible.
cuerdo@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 85d
This is the movie Unusual Suspects, the whole movie happens during the interrogation to one of the suspects, who, on one of the great plot-twists of movie history, happens to be the mythical crime-lord they have been talking about the whole movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CqiShbBgo
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 85d
I can't find a movie by that name? There's a TV show though
jedibob5@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 85d
I think it's The Usual Suspects
Drusas@fedia.io · 2 pts · 85d
It's really a great movie. Too bad about Kevin Spacey being such a horrible human being.
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 85d
I'm guessing, it's about this guy?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du%C5%A1ko_Popov
Do not ask me why my brain remembers shit like that...
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 85d
He was serbian. As the wiki page says, and his name indicates
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 85d
Well, yeah, but it does also say that he was born in "Austria-Hungary (present-day Serbia)".
I mean, OP did respond by now, so I guess, it isn't about that guy either way, but don't think my brain did too bad of a job. 🙃
cuerdo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 85d
it is a commendable effort, I am just to old, I thought a reference to Usual Suspects with Kevin Spacey would have been obvious.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 85d
Bojlereladó
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 85d
Nem lopott?
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 84d
Biztos úr, hát ártottam én valaha önnek? Tessék vigyen csak egy kis házi pálinkát!
blx@piefed.zip · 10 pts · 85d
I have long suspected that linguists were not people. Thank you for confirming that.
fireweed@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 85d
Why is the meme colorblind?
treesquid@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 85d
It takes place in Poland
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 85d
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