The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[eggyk]

You are right that, for the experiment to be more applicable, the text should be dictated one word at a time, or, better, one syllable at a time.  I will try to prepare such a sample...

I have 2 main notes:

1) European languages are not monosyllabic, so will be quite different to phonetically transcribe compared to asian languages. Knowing where words begin and end is (demonstrably) difficult if you are not reasonably confident in a language. 

2) It's likely that if I were to try the same thing with a german clip, its likely that I would get a LOT closer. I can speak a couple of very basic sentences, and can guess the meaning of some written text, due to speaking english and dutch and living in reasonably close proximity to the german border. So the exact familiarity with the language is a critical factor here.

In fact, i'll do the same thing in german, partly to see how it goes, partly as it may give insight, and partly because it's quite fun.

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home im deutchen at home eigenlich zwei voorvetsung um zu wisht de vershteer und zwa kamen aber sagen home-us in de freundlish bin zu hausen, was eigenlich nawbedoyted ich bin gradada, woysht zu sein wohne, um vielesen gan zo sehr dat mit connected was ich ider worden, en dat gibt uns einer homes in de vorm, um, ich gehr naar haus to min eten oder...

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'Home'? Im Deutschen hat 'Home' eigentlich zwei Übersetzungen, so wie ich das verstehe. Und zwar kann man ein mal sagen: 'Home' im Sinne von 'Ich bin Zuhause', was eigentlich nur bedeutet: 'Ich bin gerade da, wo ich zur Zeit wohne.' Viele sind gar nicht so sehr damit connected, wo sie gerade wohnen. Und dann gibt es aber noch 'Home' im Sinne von: 'ich gehe nach Hause zu meinen Eltern', oder

Needless to say, i got a LOT more correct, but with some embarrassing and interestingly bad mistakes.