Slowing Down Animalese to see if it’s English

Characters in Animal Crossing have always spoke in their own language, known as "Animalese." Today I want to see if there's actually some English hiding in this odd language.

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[lawliet]

Animalese is just every letter pronounced, like if you said “game” it would say guh ay mmm ee! I noticed this from the chat feature whenever you type something it makes the sound

[SniperOnSunday]

It works a lot better in Japanese, being that each character in the Japanese language has a single pronunciation, so in the Japanese version, they're just speaking Japanese very fast.

[alaytheaherr]

tbh i always thought animalese was squeaky english but using japanese pronunciation of vowels

[charliemayfilms]

It’s pretty known by this point that they’re just pronouncing every letter sound individually really fast

[pseudohippie]

1:34 is just how Tom Nook sounds when you're late on your payments.

[requiem]

We have literally known for ages how it works. All it is is saying each individual letter very quickly. You can hear how each letter is said in animalise by using an in game keyboard and it says each letter out loud

[msthecommentator]

Fun fact: when Robot Chicken did an Animal Crossing parody, they used the same tactic as Nintendo (spelling out the words rapidly) to create proper Animalese.

[cmyk]

In AC:City Folk (Wii), it was just spelling out the words very quickly, so “yes” sounds like “w- ee- es”
In AC:New Horizons, it’s (seemingly) assigning an “average sound” for every letter and stringing them together, so “yes” sounds like “yuh- eh- ss”

[AuriPlayzz]

Okay, here’s the real answer:
Essentially, each letter has its own sound snippet assigned to it that’s typically very sped up and some what muffled. This means that a word like Mountain wouldn’t be said as Mountain, but as Mow-an-tin.

[okurej]

2:49 "a thousand thousand" haha

[thegoldenblob]

Animalese is whatever language you have set with Japanese phonetic translation. So, if you slowed down the PAL version of an Animal Crossing game, it will sound like the language but with strange pronunciation. Each version of Animalese is different because the phonetic pronunciation of every letter is structured differently depending on the language chosen. Listen to Japanese Animalese, and it'll sound completely different

[Metahunt]

As a kid I definitely heard words before at the end of the sentences, and I even pointed it out to my sister and she said “I hear it too!”

[Annie.s_Galaxy_]

the fact that they pronounce my name in the game perfectly but too fast

[Rayne_of_Sunshine]

This is why I love hearing Hamlet say "Hammie" because he pronounces it as "hammy-e". There's that extra e sound that is just so cute. I think it might be my favorite catchphrase. XD

[Suntaile]

I always thought it was a version of Japanese and English in a Japanese accent mixed with nonsense.

[wintrygarden]

THIS IS SO WELL TIMED. I just restarted my ACNH island (again...) and could SWEAR that I understood the Animalese while I was listening to it. i'm NOT INSANE ty for the validation, boss

[coolguycomedy]

Originally, Taro Bando wanted them to actually speak. This is easy in Japanese, but English is weird because the letters don’t always sound the same. So they use the Japanese sounds on English words, and speed it up

[joking_oregon]

fun fact animalese sounds different in japan. I think over there its just sped up japanese, it sounds so different here to us because (May be wrong check me on this if I am) it uses the japanese voice synthesizer across the other languages including english thats why the yes sounded different from the way a native english speaker would say it

[jimmyju]

this is old news, Nintendo confirmed it long ago. they're enunciating the letters

[LordRaccoonKINDAdraws]

1:55 Tom nook starts sounding really creepy