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A Danish friend came to visit Bangor this week. He makes the ActualFluency podcast<\/a>, and is one of the people behind such courses as Italian Uncovered<\/a>.<\/p>\n We talked a lot about websites and marketing, particularly email marketing, which I haven’t done before, but am going to try.<\/p>\n As well as Danish and English, he also speaks Russian and Hungarian, and has studied other languages. He doesn’t know any Welsh though, and I was curious to find out what Welsh sounded like to him. As I speak and understand Welsh, I can’t get an outsider’s perspective on it. To him it sounded very foreign – something like “blah blah blah blah English word blah blah blah blah”.<\/p>\n When I listen to languages I don’t know, they may sound like that to me. Mostly mysterious sounds with occasional recognisable words. The recognisable words are borrowed from English, or from another language I know, or are the names of places or people.<\/p>\n When listening to languages related to ones I know, I can usually understand more, or at least recognise more words.<\/p>\n What do unknown languages sound like to you?<\/p>\n