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!! :)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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! 👍

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

This man seriously just started having the slowest stroke in history

When your mum's Scottish, your dad's German, you were born in France, and you're learning English

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.

rhyming calamity with life was so freaking dope

When a Russian and an Irishman get wasted together and try to mock each other's accents while speaking English.

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:

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.

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!

When he started speaking in sim I felt that

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

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

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

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

Guy; _speaks English in a phonetically consistent dialect_ His mouth; _so you have chosen _*_Europe_*

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

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

Ironically, this sounds almost exactly like Middle English.

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.

That must have taken so much time to work out and get all the words right. Kudos for an entertaining and educational video

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

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

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

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.

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.

This sounds so sophisticated and so dumb at the same time

Phonetically consistent English sounds a lot more like Old English.

The sound of the end is beautiful

Well put.

He sounds like he's doing every European accent, at once, *in cursive*

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

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

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

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

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

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)!

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

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

Nobody is talking about how hard this must have been to say.

This consistent sound... sounds a lot like Catalan

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

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

As someone who was raised with spanish as a first language, this sounds like someone who has no idea how to speak English is trying to pronunciate the words... With a French accent.

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.

just love this!!!

This is how google sounds trying to pronounce foreign names

This sounds like sim characters talking to themselves

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.

I actually really love how this sounds and part of me wants to learn to just talk like this because it would be a fun party trick. Too bad I don’t go to parties, though.

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

A Frenchman, a German, and a Scott walk into a bar.... *THIS GUY IS BORN*

ohh myy goddd, awesome awesome awesome!!!! GREAT video man!!!!

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.

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

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

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

Bro, This is too good!

It sounds like an Irish person who once lived in France for five years trying to speak German.

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

How is it that THIS is finally what makes accents finally make sense to me?

This really is fascinating ❤

English is like the linguistic embodiment of the “well yes but actaully no” meme

and in one video, you've learned why so many foreign speakers struggle with English. It's not the words, it's the phonetics.

Thank god for captions 😅 At the end it sounded like one of those English/Welsh/Scottish dialects.

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

Why does he sound like he’s casting a curse over the world Edit: I know people think this is kinda scummy but I’ve never had this many likes before thanks so much

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

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

I now understand what non-native speakers who don't know or speak the language hear when we speak English.

It’s sounds like a Viking who’s trying to learn French, but gave up half way through because he thought English was easier, but kept the french Viking accent Then somehow mixed up England and Germany and tried learning English from a German who barely understands it

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

Reminded me of run for the cube

Me: *scared of english's phonetic inconsistency* Also me: *scared of English with phonetic consistency* I think the lesson here is I'm afraid of my native language 😂

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

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

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

Irish, Swedish, and Jamaican accents have a horrifying child

Sounds like he’s talking old English in an Irish accent.

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

The irony and perfection of this pun is astounding

when you realize that phonetically correct english is just a mixture of french, german, and runforthecube