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Postby Boes » 2008-09-23, 16:36

I'm just wondering, how do you imitate languages you don't speak at all? Which characteristics do you use?

I recently saw fragment of a German comedian (Hape Kerkeling) who made a number of pretty funny accents, and fake languages. Though full of grammatical mistakes, or just plain nonsense, he makes you feel liken you're hearing the actual language. I know of a Dutch 'equivalent' (not nearly as good, it was made with a different intention) given below,

Vlieg met me mee naar de regenboog

# "Official" fake Eurovision Songfestival trilingual intro.
# 1:00 - 1: 10 = mock Scandinavian (It all sounds the same to us :wink: )
# 1:10 - 1:21 = mock Hebrew (notice 'Jerusalem', 'Kibbutz' , 'Shalom' and 'Shawarma' and 'PLO' )
# 1:57 - 2:06 = mock French
# 2:06 - 2:12 = mock English (American English, to be exact)
# 2:12 - 2:18 = mock Italian
# 2:18 - 2:25 = mock German (complete with different tune :wink: )
# 4:30 - end = fake/mock Hebrew English accent.


But I wonder do you have more of these examples, or just give your personal strategy on how you would imitate/emulate certain languages. :D

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Re: Mock languages

Postby Aleco » 2008-09-23, 16:43

We already have this topic already I think :)

Man, that Scandinavian was weird :lol: I think I heard Göran in there somewhere :P But the Hebrew was kinda cool xD Except that it was more Arabic to me.
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Re: Mock languages

Postby Qrczak » 2008-09-23, 18:51

From Hoodwinked, mocking German a bit: in English and in Polish. The Polish mocking is heavier.

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Re: Mock languages

Postby pittmirg » 2008-09-23, 19:20

Mumio (a Polish comedian group):

- mocking English, Czech, Hungarian, German and Japanese in their sketch "Skąd się wziął blues" (Where has blues come from?): http://rasid.wrzuta.pl/film/qI9pdJLIv6/mumio_-_skad_sie_wzial_blues

- featuring a very peculiar and singular kind of Spanish in the sketch "Inkasent gazowy" ("Gas (measurement) collector" - that is, a person employed to check the consumption of gas in people's apartments): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Qibiz9rZY

- Hungarian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQUGZBsh1GY

The quality of the videos may be rather shitty, but it's not my fault. :P

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Re: Mock languages

Postby ''' » 2008-09-23, 19:33

I think if someoen wanted to imitate German they'd turn all their DH's TH's S's to Z's, W's with V's, add a lock to ch (harsh one) , heavy SH and K sounds, add -en to all verbs, adjectives, nouns, and adverbs, replace "the" with "das" or "zee" and "a" with "ein"

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Postby ''' » 2008-09-23, 19:36

pittmirg wrote:Mumio (a Polish comedian group):
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- Hungarian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQUGZBsh1GY

not bad...for a pole
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Postby Formiko » 2008-09-23, 19:38

For YEARS this sign was seen in every computer lab across the US

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IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS.

ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.
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Re: Mock languages

Postby yabba » 2008-09-23, 19:51

pittmirg wrote:Mumio (a Polish comedian group):

- mocking English, Czech, Hungarian, German and Japanese in their sketch "Skąd się wziął blues" (Where has blues come from?): http://rasid.wrzuta.pl/film/qI9pdJLIv6/mumio_-_skad_sie_wzial_blues

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Formiko wrote:For YEARS this sign was seen in every computer lab across the US

ACHTUNG!

ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS!

DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKSEN.

IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS.

ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.



HAHAHA, hilarious
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Re: Mock languages

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Re: Mock languages

Postby loqu » 2008-09-24, 9:06

Aleco wrote:We already have this topic already I think :)


Yes, we have.
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Re: Mock languages

Postby SImon Gray » 2008-09-25, 19:25

Boes wrote:I recently saw fragment of a German comedian (Hape Kerkeling) who made a number of pretty funny accents, and fake languages. Though full of grammatical mistakes, or just plain nonsense, he makes you feel liken you're hearing the actual language. I know of a Dutch 'equivalent' (not nearly as good, it was made with a different intention) given below,


The Danish bit is hilarious.

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Re: Mock languages

Postby Levo » 2008-09-25, 23:07


Kurva jó! ("Very good") :D
And at the same time surprising :shock: Do we really speak like that? This is the first time I hear mocking ourselves normally.
Yeah, it does sound a bit similar to Finnish, but just the impression of the whole. Is it like that?

And he could pronounce "a" totally correctly.
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Re: Mock languages

Postby proycon » 2008-09-26, 7:21

Oh, that Hape Kerkeling fragment is hilarious! :)

It made me immediately think about the Catherine Tate fragment too, which I see is already posted :)
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Re: Mock languages

Postby pittmirg » 2008-09-26, 12:31

Levo wrote:Yeah, it does sound a bit similar to Finnish, but just the impression of the whole. Is it like that?


As for me, Finnish would need more [ɑ(:)] and [ht] and geminates and stuff.

And he could pronounce "a" totally correctly.


Yep, "a" is important since I consider [ɒ] to be one of the trademarks of Hungarian, together with [c ɟ] and the abundance of front rounded vowels (and if you just use all those sounds in a made up word, probably it'll sound vaguely Hungarian to me; :P in particular if you stick [et] to the end or something).

Very good to see such a video. I want more. :)


Well, nobody has anything good with Polish? :| Maybe it's just not funny, heh

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Re: Mock languages

Postby Qrczak » 2008-09-26, 14:01

I haven’t had many opportunities to listen to Hungarian, but I think it contains a lot of -ʃ, -k, -t, especially at word endings, especially after -e-, and has many consonants in general.

It is very unlike Finnish which has a lot of vowels, diphthongs, liquids, and geminated consonants.

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Re: Mock languages

Postby BezierCurve » 2008-09-26, 16:29

Hape Kerkeling rocks. I wonder how much time it took him to achieve that good level of mocking languages.
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Re: Mock languages

Postby Levo » 2008-09-26, 20:52

I hope hreru's watching this:
Czech: :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tiua0tniWU

And here only the song in a clearer version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLGCe4rj ... re=related


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