It sounded really wierd to me ... I hardly ever could repeat when i heard something in english

for example "hunderd" did i always said like "hendrik"

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I really don't remember. My mom taught me some basics when I hadn't even started school yet so I have known some English for quite a while.

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don't know, can't remember. i started speaking english with 8 and well, frankly said i guess before that i didn't even think about how a language sounds like or whatever

I guess it sounded quite normal from the start since I heard English often on the television and in music anyway.

And also,Dutch uses quite a lot of English words.

To be honest, it used to sound like shit.

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thanks murat this is my native tongue we're talking about here! mind you in certain regions in the UK english sounds bloody awful.

I cant remember it either. I just remember when i was a kid and heard english songs on the radio (and tried to sing along without knowing what the words meant) i wondered what it was. I didnt know that finnish wasnt the only language in the world. I was just confused about the whole thing. :roll:

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To me English has always sounded like a song, both before and after I learnt to speak it. It sounds comfortable and easy. Almost all the other languages I've ever heard spoken sound more or less stiff and awkward, but not English. I love it!

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It was so long time ago, I even can't remember. I guess it sounded like a normal language I just didn't understand.

My mom started to teach me English when I was 6, so I can't really remember. But I guess that for some years I tended to link the English language to the lyrics of the songs I used to listen to. Damn MTV....

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It never souded strange to me, almost everything we watched on tv was in english because the movies were never dubbed... So I guess I didnt like english so much at first because I hated not to understand when they talked on tv! My dad got a little annoyed, he had to translate if we watched a film and that can be quite tough to do for about 2 hours

It's like badly pronounced Dutch. Like when trying to speak Dutch with a whole hot potato in your head. But then sometimes they don't only use Dutch words, but also some French, again with a hot potato and without r or è or é and all that.

Daar is de lente, daar is de zon
bijna, maar ik denk dat ze weldra zal komen.
De fallus impudicus staat al in bloei
En de blaadjes krijgen bomen.
M'n vrouw en m'n kat zijn allebei krols
en de klokken vertrekken naar Rome

I can hardly remember my pre-English life.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? --Woody Allen

I didn't have a feeling then... when I was just 3.

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It has always sounded wonderful! As I recall, I was listening to some radio where I could hear the natives speak and soon got overwhelmed by strong wish to start learning this beautiful language myself.
The way it sounded had made the greatest impact on me, it's difficult to say what English sounds like, but it is really marvelous.

Buh, that is indeed long time ago and I can't really remember, but at least I can say it was something new and exciting.

Depends on if you speak American or British English.

Common AE sounds for Germans a little bit like if someone would try to speak with a hot potato in his/her mouth (funny explanation so don´t get angry, please).

The BE we have to learn sounds a little overblown. Ordinary BE sounds quite down-to-earth.

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Korean, my first language, doesn't have any 'z', 'th' or 'f' sound so that was the most interesting part, and I always used to listen to the English radio or the tapes so basically I found it like a lullaby.

Well, my first english contact was listening to songs on the radio. I always tried to sing it, but the words sounded so funny, so I translated them into german. As I didn't know what the whole thing meant before, I didn't care about my words having no meaning at all... My mum laughed about it, so I thought it was okay!
But as I started to learn english at school, I was pretty shocked by the voices on the CD. They all sounded so unsympathetic and snobbishly...
At least I enjoyed finally knowing what the songs I sung were about!

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we had lots of american soldiers at our place. I was always interested in what they did and most of them were very friendly to us kids. So I liked their language (may be because I liked them) and was eager to learn it. It sounded good for me.

Wow! Its really interesting to read what you all are saying!! Since English is my first language I had no idea what it would sound like to others! Funny thing is that hearing different people speak it from different (English speaking) countries can be like hearing a totally different lang all together! I have a bit of trouble understanding British and Australian people sometimes, tons of trouble understanding people from Carribean islands like Jamaica and even some trouble with Americans! If you knew how we talk in Bermuda, you would know why! LOL

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