apparently pirates have been speaking the most proper english of all

innocent viewer in the beginning: "why are there captions?" same viewer at the end: "oh..."

I'm Finnish and I get told that my language is super hard to learn. While I don't disagree, phonetic consistency is a major alleviating factor that I don't think we appreciate enough.

I’m not only impressed by the research and editing of the video, but the absolute dedication to record the script progressively more phonetically consistent one vowel at a time is CRAZY impressive. I know this video is old now but awesome job on this and the follow up!! :)

When he started speaking in sim I felt that

"What If English Were Phonetically Consistent?" **cries in Old English**

I can never make it through this video without crying with laughter. It is BRILLIANTLY funny!

The dedication and practice this guy must’ve done in order to be able to mispronounce these words so well is impressive

Somewhere between the sounds of Danish, French and a stroke.

Can we just appreciate the fact that this guy had to unlearn english to make this video?

As a native Spanish speaker, this would save us years of learning English, since we always pronounce the vowels the same way. It's amazing to see how easy it sounds and how easily it's understood at first glance - at least for me - the final part.

I was really really really hoping this video was going to take a certain path, and it ABSOLUTELY DID. I can only imagine each vowel took exponentially more takes :D

This is how google sounds trying to pronounce foreign names

1:55 he Englished so hard he started speaking French.

In Czech Republic we also pronounce everything with phonetic consistency. When you see a word written on a paper you automatically know how to pronounce it. It is so natural to me, that at the end it was very easy for me to follow the Shakespeare's Hamlet and predict in my head how you'll say it just from the text. Funny how brain works.

That was an outstanding effort to read that with only five vowel sounds! I'm inclined to point out that other languages have more vowel sounds, but denote them using accents (and I'm studying Hungarian, which is ruthlessly phonetic by comparison), but English seems to be allergic to those. Last year I had a go at developing an accent system for English... it got quite messy.

This sounds like a combination of Chinese and German spoken by a pirate.

Straight into it after “A”: “CombinAHtion sounds” Me: wait wut

At one point, it actually began to sound like a very ancient language; very interesting.

Damn! No wonder some of my co-workers and students I knew in school had such a hard time learning English. Growing up in Canada and having English as my first language I never thought about this. For someone who moves to a country like Canada (or the US, or any other nation that speaks English) it would seem difficult due to all the inconsistencies in the rules, the "more often than nots" and "in most cases except for..." such as "I before E, except after C". Even just the different between British English and American English such as "color" vs "colour" or "center" vs "centre". I've often wondered things like why the plural for "goose" is "geese" but the plural for "moose" isn't "meese". Or "mouse" is singular and "mice" is plural, but "house" is singular but the plural isn't "hice". Interesting and informative! Thanks for posting this! 👍

I think most of us native english speakers just memorized the pronunciations of words instead of the letters lol

Impressive he managed to keep on talking for 4 whole minutes while having a stroke.

rhyming calamity with life was so freaking dope

i used to think accent marks were simply added confusion to languages, especially w so many like in french, but now i realize how much theyre actually helping us by literally LETTING US KNOW what sound to make!!!!

It sounds like he has the strongest accent on the world.

When learning english remember these rules: Their our know rules

This is reminiscent of the phonemes from the TRS-80 voice synthesizer introduced in 1979. I spent hours at the keyboard creating combinations of letters that made the pronunciations correct.

I didn’t realize until “I” that he was applying the consistency and it scared me

I wasn’t really paying attention and when he started phonetically pronouncing the words I thought it was his accent

At a certain point you just sounded like you were giving the dragonborn a quest.

I don’t know if anyone mentioned this already, but the soundtrack and audio quality greatly enhance this video. I didn’t expect to laugh this much. Brilliant!

That was a great choice of musical accompaniment. It really made the video better.

U just accidentally summoned a dragon with that Shakespeare's quote

Guyss relax... he's just teaching us the language of Sims.

this is now my favourite video on the internet 😂 loved how the pronunciations got progressively consistent HAHA great video!

You speak with a touch of destiny... It's like when you listened to calypso's way of speaking from the pirates of the Caribbean and decided to make that your own.

so basically... the sims had a perfect consistent phonetic english all this time

Phonetically consistent English sounds a lot more like Old English.

I like how the english sounds with consistent sounds! Its sounds like Irish,Italian, and french all together

I just clicked on a random video to listen to while I was organizing my booth. Thought I was having a stroke for a few seconds.

I’m surprised that he didn’t accidentally summon a demon while making this.

Ironically, this sounds almost exactly like Middle English.

Oh my! Thank you for learning this spoken language for us! I am amazed at your fluency.

I was trippin for a while watching this until I realized my brain wasn't melting but you were changing your speach

This sounds like sim characters talking to themselves

This sounds so sophisticated and so dumb at the same time

This video helped me realize that the inconsistence is in general related to the vowels. Also, enjoyed how you applied the rules right after you set them😊 Thank you a lot, it is an amazing content in which time is used efficiently.

The sound of the end is beautiful

This man seriously just started having the slowest stroke in history

There's a Scott, a German and a Frenchman. Who do you want to be? Aaron: *YES*

What I found interesting is there I was able to pick out tons of different accents that I hear in my day to day. Interesting that what I perceive as a weird accent, is actually them doing english properly more than I am

Seeing this 5 years later. It was a lot cooler than I was expecting. Like a lot a lot. Enough to subscribe even.

"Tobby, or not Tobby, that ais the queestaion" - Shakeespeeairee

It sounds like a French person trying to imitate Irish accent

PLEASE follow this up with charts and graphs to show rankings and performance of modern languages to see how earnest and honest they are, in terms of clear directions+ rules; and even better how clearly and efficiently they can convey ideas.

Man, you're a genius, I loved this video

What impresses me the most is how he said all the lines from that piece so seriously.

Moral of the story: Jamaicans speak the most phonetically consistent English.

Bahasa (at least from the one i learned, the Malaysian variant) is one such language with very consistent (only a few variables) phonic. It isn't weird if the language develop naturally in this way.

Wow, this is amazing to listen to! It sounds like a weird mix of spanish, french, german and swedish/norwegian... or possibly like english spoken by someone from one of those countries (in the earlier stages of learning)!

He sounds like a Scandinavian Irish German Jamaican Frenchman living in Scotland

This sounds like an irishman who speaks French trying to learn German

From valley girl to Icelandic to French to Italian to Esperanto.

It took me a second, but I started to pick up what he was putting down... Clever and well done 👏🏻 👍🏼.

When he first started using the consistent "a" sounds it just sounded like a heavy Irish or Scottish accent Then it sounded Scandinavian with "e" added, though it got tough to understand From then on, it just sounded like a robot trying to say words from fragments of syllables and vowel sounds

“Pro-non-see-awe-shuns”. Also this hurts my brain. I feel like something broke

I didn't knew i needed this... Thank you 😂😮

just love this!!!

Now I understand why it's so hard to make computer voices sound real.

i refuse to believe this man recorded the audio with a straight face

Every couple of months I get recommended this, and every time I have to watch it again.

English is my first and only language. I am all for reforming English to this.

1:39 "combainashayan" is the most hilarious one.

Suddenly a lot of non-native speakers' accents make _so much_ sense

*_He makes it seem easy but this guy put MUCH MORE WORK into this than it may seem._* 😮👋🙌🏆

Bro, This is too good!

And just think: that’s only the vowels. Imagine if he’d evened out ALL pronunciation inconsistencies!

Sounds like a German, Scottish and Irish Viking trying to speak french

Fantastic! I taught very basic origins of English to 7 and 8th graders. They were surprisingly interested. I wish I'd had this in the classroom.

I was so sleepy and almost dozed off and those pronunciations shook me awake 😅

I like how he gets progressively more Irish and French at the same time

i'm Brazilian, and phonetically consistent english sounds like my dad trying to speak english

Well put.

I love the way it sounds like it came straight out of a Twin Peaks episode.

Welcome to Finland - our language is phonetically consistent. However, we compensate the easiness of pronouncing by having a totally irrational and random grammar.

He went from German to Jamaican to French accent real quick. And ended with Welsh or Scottish.

Brilliant! Well done 👏🏼 I bet that took some practice 🙌🏼

I am impressed at your ability to remember how to pronounce each word. You can see how people speak with accents based on rules relating to their pronunciation in their language.

Its just three languages in a trench coat that hangs out in dark alleys. Hits other languages with a lead pipe. Then digs in their pockets for loose grammer.

Okay but I'm impressed that this guy was even able to talk like he was on the verge of a stroke so perfectly

For me in my country who are not english speaker: E has two pronunciation in word, it is "air" sound and "a"(that word of "a" for one) sound. C pronounce sound in word is K sound. For example, Computer but it sound Kompiuter. For english speaker, A pronounce go to side but for me who are asian and not english speaker, A pronounce go to up. For english speaker, they pronounce "life" but i hear it sound "laif".

at first i thought it sounded like Old English, but then as the video went on it ended up sounding more like Latin! i took latin as my second language in high school, and language does fascinate me so this was cool. (plus english's inconsistencies can be so frustrating)

When your Mom is Half German and French and your Dad is half Finnish and Thai. And you were raised up in Saudi Arabia for 10 years until you moved to Mexico for 2 years and then you tried to study english

Everyone is gangsta until the word "combination" comes up

I vaguely remember being taught to reach Chaucer in olde English via these principles in an attempt to know how English was vocally spoken back then.

This really is fascinating ❤

English: What are those stupid dots and hats on top of literally every other language's vowels? English is way more simple than that. Also english:

As a non-native speaker this is mostly what I was hearing in my head when writing in English for the first 6-8 years of learning.

i love how this guy changed the ways he talked the vowels right after he define the changes

I think it is a great idea and the stress rules should be made consistent as well.