How Does English Sound?

[Learning_Genetics]

How does English sound to non-English speakers? I have heard some say it is like Dutch or maybe even Swedish.

Is it true it sounds effeminate or "gay"?

[Methmatician]

Spoiler!

[Iloko]

I thought it sounded like Non-melodic Swedish with Dutch vibes.

[kkk77]

I almost forgot how it sounded before understanding.

And we have to keep in mind that we're exposed to it everyday in tv movies and serials.

Maybe for that reason it never sounded strange to me. Other languages usually have a noticeable intonation and weird sounds, while English always sounded neutral and soft.

The most noticeable feature of English is the way the R is pronounced, which is softer than ours.

[StormBringer]

I don't know, grown so used to it that it doesn't sound weird to me unless it's being spoken by Scots, that pronunciation just sounds wrong to me...

[Comte Arnau]

To non-English speakers who haven't had much contact with it, it sounds like a sort of wachy wachy kay, wachy wachy yeishon..., all said with a Donald Duck's voice.

[tngz]

American English is very bad i think, it sounds like robotic especially "r" sounds. England English more melodic and good i think. My English is not very good but for example i watch Richard Dawkins video on youtube i can understand %90 but if i watch American English, i can understand %30 shut up Americans! English belongs to English

[Instinct]

None of any Germanic language. It doesn't sound like anything else.

[Rædwald]

It's an amalgamation of several Celtic/Germanic languages and is also influenced heavily by Latin.

[NSXD60]

The French used to say that to them it sounded like the meowing of cats.