Europeans talking fast as f#$%?

"Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh" (andymcbradleigh) 01/23/2015 at 13:42 • Filed to: None

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Just had a chat with my sister, her boyfriend is American and he's living with her now (In Trysil Norway). He's learning Norwegian, but said that he could not understand a word we said due to our fast-paced jibber jabber.

Do we really talk that fast?

StoneCold > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh 01/23/2015 at 13:47

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Tequila is clearly the way to slow down someone's speech XD

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > StoneCold 01/23/2015 at 13:49

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Yup, in fact, the whole video was slowed down ;)

KnowsAboutCars > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh 01/23/2015 at 13:56

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You're not talking that fast, at least compared to Spaniards. :P

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > KnowsAboutCars 01/23/2015 at 13:57

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True, but people in spain never talk, they sing.. really fast at that :P It's always a race in Spain.

Mattbob > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh 01/23/2015 at 14:02

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Besides not speaking the language, it doesn't seem that fast.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Mattbob 01/23/2015 at 14:06

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They are from Bergen, so they talk rather slow in fact. It was a joke on my part, but I've come to realise that we talk rather fast were I live. I'll see if I can be bothered to upload a video of me speaking Norwegian :P

Little Black Coupe Turned Silver > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh 01/23/2015 at 14:11

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I know that when I was an American in Germany (with a very limited grasp on German) I understood about 30 words the entire week I was there... I remember that one of the phrases I knew was "Can you repeat that slower?" because it's easier to understand and process things when they are coming at you slower. Especially when the sentence structure can be very different; if you only are understanding 10% of the words you can guess at the rest and somewhat figure it out.

Tripped on an Orange > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh 01/23/2015 at 14:20

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Nope, doesn't sound fast to me.

However, I noticed that is normal with almost any language you attempt to learn later in life. Japanese, Korean, German, all sounded fast to me when I was learning, or attempting to learn them. Italian, not so much, but that was because I was taught Spanish in elementary school.

Above is not just from my experience, but from people taking the language class at the same time with me. Everything sounded fast at the beginning, but after several weeks, wasn't so bad.

Last note though, Japanese is about the only language I remember much of though. Forgot basically everything for all the other languages.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Little Black Coupe Turned Silver 01/23/2015 at 14:26

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Germans have a VERY strange sentence structure though, somewhat similar to Dutch.

They say stuff like "I will the rubbish away-throw" and that'd be "I will throw away the rubbish" in English.

We've got something like that in Norwegian as well.. like "He speaks not Norwegian now".

Combine that with a language you don't know, and speed it up the how the natives talk and you're in hell.. :P

Cé hé sin > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh 01/23/2015 at 14:26

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I'm told (by a Norwegian) that Norwegian is a doddle compared to Danish.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Cé hé sin 01/23/2015 at 14:27

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Yeah, but that's more due to the fact that the danes shove a potato down their throath before they say anything :P

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Tripped on an Orange 01/23/2015 at 14:29

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I should have said that this was meant as a joke :) You're grey for some reason, no approval on Oppo?

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh 01/23/2015 at 17:25

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Nei!