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Language(Dutch) Imitation: Funny Video

RootsAir From Costa Rica, joined Feb 2005, 4179 posts, RR: 45
Posted (6 years 1 month 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1778 times:

I have always wondered how people imitate French , English or Spanish when they don't know how to speak the language. I used to imitate Arabic, chinese ,russian just on the way it sounded like to me .
I have found this video of a French comedian (very popular) called Gad Elmaleh... he appears as a dutch guy and imitates Dutch..its sounds very dutch to me though I know my fellow dutch a.netters will find that ridiculous and by no means think it sounds like Dutch. It could also sound like Swiss German
It would be nice if you could share with us any video you have found where people try to imitate a language... would love to see how for eample they imitate french,

No offense however to my fellow dutch A.netters

Cheers

BM

[Edited 2007-04-19 22:53:38]

A man without the knowledge of his past history,culture and origins is like a tree without roots

28 replies: All unread, showing first 25:

Avt007 From Canada, joined Jul 2000, 2131 posts, RR: 5
Reply 1, posted (6 years 1 month 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 1767 times:

Sounds like the Swedish Chef from the Muppets!

RobertNL070 From Netherlands, joined Sep 2003, 4506 posts, RR: 10
Reply 2, posted (6 years 1 month 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 1758 times:

Belachelijk

Robert bouncy

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JRadier From Netherlands, joined Sep 2004, 4597 posts, RR: 51
Reply 3, posted (6 years 1 month 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 1753 times:

It's more swedish or something like that then dutch...

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TurkishWings From Turkey, joined May 2006, 1407 posts, RR: 9
Reply 4, posted (6 years 1 month 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 1744 times:

It sounded like Swiss German to me too...

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ShyFlyer From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 5, posted (6 years 1 month 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 1736 times:

Sounded like a mix of Dutch and Klingon to me.

Paneuropean From Netherlands, joined Sep 2006, 876 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (6 years 1 month 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 1734 times:

Does not sound like Dutch.To me it sounds like Swedish, French and Hebrew combined.

British767 From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2005, 284 posts, RR: 23
Reply 7, posted (6 years 1 month 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 1728 times:

Does indeed sound like Dutch (minus the French)!

JRadier From Netherlands, joined Sep 2004, 4597 posts, RR: 51
Reply 8, posted (6 years 1 month 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 1719 times:

Quoting RobertNL070 (Reply 2):
Belachelijk

couldn't have said it better :P

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LH423 From Canada, joined Jul 1999, 6501 posts, RR: 56
Reply 9, posted (6 years 1 month 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 1708 times:

Sounds Swedish to me.

As for the "comedian", there's a reason the French didn't have a word for "humour" until the English gave them ours. I see no reason why the French need to try and start being funny now.

LH423

[Edited 2007-04-20 00:09:33]

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AMSMAN From Ireland, joined Jan 2002, 1016 posts, RR: 7
Reply 10, posted (6 years 1 month 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 1681 times:

Having spent 3 years in AMS...have to say...souds NOTHING like Dutch...or Nederlands as they call it in The Netherlands! French and German maybe but not Dutch!

Aer Lingus, Proud to be Irish.

Lfutia From Netherlands, joined Dec 2002, 3195 posts, RR: 31
Reply 11, posted (6 years 1 month 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 1665 times:

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heel belachelijk.

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Andaman From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 12, posted (6 years 1 month 1 day ago) and read 1648 times:

Quoting LH423 (Reply 9):
Sounds Swedish to me.

Nowhere close Wink

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Oli80 From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2006, 685 posts, RR: 0
Reply 13, posted (6 years 1 month 23 hours ago) and read 1641 times:

Definitely not Dutch. Swedish was the first thing that popped in to my head.

MauriceB From Netherlands, joined Aug 2004, 2477 posts, RR: 28
Reply 14, posted (6 years 1 month 23 hours ago) and read 1640 times:

This guy better find another job...

It doesn't sound anyway near Dutch...

More like swedisch or Norwich..

Solnabo From Sweden, joined Jan 2008, 785 posts, RR: 2
Reply 15, posted (6 years 1 month 23 hours ago) and read 1629 times:

Nowhere near Swedish, more dutch-ish, flamish, german-ish to me.

Btw, the swede chef in Muppets was saying scurrbi duurbii nuurbii wich I dont understand a word of...

Micke//

[Edited 2007-04-20 10:53:33]

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British767 From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2005, 284 posts, RR: 23
Reply 16, posted (6 years 1 month 21 hours ago) and read 1598 times:

Quoting RootsAir (Thread starter):
I have always wondered how people imitate French , English or Spanish when they don't know how to speak the language.

LO231 From Belgium, joined Sep 2004, 2299 posts, RR: 26
Reply 17, posted (6 years 1 month 20 hours ago) and read 1580 times:

Nederlands??? Naah... More like some Scandinavian language.

Regards,
LO231

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Solnabo From Sweden, joined Jan 2008, 785 posts, RR: 2
Reply 18, posted (6 years 1 month 19 hours ago) and read 1576 times:

@ British767

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Love her, she´s very popular here (cant remember her name though) ´specilly when she´s playing old lady, cracks me up!

Micke// Big grin

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RootsAir From Costa Rica, joined Feb 2005, 4179 posts, RR: 45
Reply 19, posted (6 years 1 month 19 hours ago) and read 1561 times:

Quoting LH423 (Reply 9):
. I see no reason why the French need to try and start being funny now.

Well to be honest I find more French comedians funny than english speaking comedians

Quoting Solnabo (Reply 18):
@ British767

Very funny video indeed,
though
French doesn't sound like that though the imitation is still funny
The Spanish with the ththth was well done though we Latin american's don't speak that same way
The Swedish was funny
The Italian and Chinese was hilarious

A man without the knowledge of his past history,culture and origins is like a tree without roots

Aero145 From Iceland, joined Jan 2005, 3070 posts, RR: 23
Reply 20, posted (6 years 1 month 17 hours ago) and read 1542 times:

Quoting RootsAir (Thread starter):
Language(Dutch) Imitation: Funny Video

Sounds more like "Charles Chaplin - Adenoid Hynkel" -German from the film "The Great Dictator" from 1940.

Wink

LH423 From Canada, joined Jul 1999, 6501 posts, RR: 56
Reply 21, posted (6 years 1 month 16 hours ago) and read 1535 times:

Quoting RootsAir (Reply 19):
Well to be honest I find more French comedians funny than english speaking comedians

To each his own Wink

There are some Québécois humourists that I've seen that are pretty funny. But the thing about humour is that it's often a cultural thing. I'd say that humour, more than most aspects of speech, more apt to get lost in translation. Something that just doesn't get across the cultural gap. I know some of my Québécois friends don't find English humour very funny. So, it's definitely something that goes both ways.

LH423

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RobertNL070 From Netherlands, joined Sep 2003, 4506 posts, RR: 10
Reply 22, posted (6 years 1 month 16 hours ago) and read 1531 times:

Quoting RootsAir (Reply 19):
I find more French comedians funny than english speaking comedians

Maybe that says more about you than about the English comedians Wink

Robert

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RootsAir From Costa Rica, joined Feb 2005, 4179 posts, RR: 45
Reply 23, posted (6 years 1 month 14 hours ago) and read 1503 times:

Quoting RobertNL070 (Reply 22):
Maybe that says more about you than about the English comedians

First understand French and then we'll see who's funnier. honestly French comedies are just amazing an honestly cannot be translated into english since French love playing with words .And there are many classics in French cinema like La Grande Vadrouille, Rabbi Jakob, le dîner de cons.... there again its hard to translate into English and I tink that's why people don't find it funny, but honestly its just AMAZING

Quoting LH423 (Reply 21):

There are some Québécois humourists that I've seen that are pretty funny.

like courtemanche airplane

A man without the knowledge of his past history,culture and origins is like a tree without roots

RootsAir From Costa Rica, joined Feb 2005, 4179 posts, RR: 45
Reply 24, posted (6 years 1 month 14 hours ago) and read 1503 times:

Quoting RobertNL070 (Reply 22):
Maybe that says more about you than about the English comedians

First understand French and then we'll see who's funnier. honestly French comedies are just amazing and cannot be translated into English since French love playing with words which is very hard to translate .And there are many classics in French cinema like La Grande Vadrouille, Rabbi Jakob, le Dîner de cons, l'affaire Cléopatre .... there again its hard to translate into English and I think that's why people don't find it funny, but honestly its just AMAZING

Quoting LH423 (Reply 21):

There are some Québécois humourists that I've seen that are pretty funny.

like courtemanche airplane

A man without the knowledge of his past history,culture and origins is like a tree without roots

Bwest: It indeed sounds more like a Scandinavian language then Dutch. But most Dutch do have a terrible accent in French. They're a bit better in English, ju

26 Kingsford: I am exposed and understand humour from the walloons, the flemish, the dutch, the british, the australians, the americans, the french, the french-cana

27 Paneuropean: Well, Good for you !

28 Cedars747: Totally agree ! Definitely not Scandinavian ! more like German Alex!!!

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