What language sounds the funniest to you when babies and todlers speak it?
September 8, 2025
My baby is not German, but she started yelling "nein bein NEIN!" and it got me thinking.
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I was so confused when I heard a toddler speak English….until I realized that it’s quite normal for a Canadian.
I think Standard FRG-German speaking toddlers don’t sound very cute. Italian, however, extremely. They sound so eloquent!
Little kids that speak British English, especially the more posh accents. It’s hilarious. They sound like little adults.
Taking my children who default to Polish to an English playground was interesting. We had some funny looks as my toddler yelled “Die fucker, die fucker” (daj foka, daj foka) [give [me the] seal]
It’s probably German though as it’s such a serious sounding language. Italian feels very natural for childrent to speak.
Posh British accent in children’s mouths is hilarious in my opinion.
I learned Italian as a foreign language in high school.
Italian speaking babies blew my mind.
Hungarian toddlers.
Makes me go “wow they really worked on their grammar and suffixes, it’s so impressive”
British English, there’s no other language that sounds as goofy
Not a language but an accent, Scottish toddlers imho. Look up the “sausages for the caravan” toddler for example
Italian, especially when they are already familiar with the hand gestures
“Nein bein nein” sounds like she’s telling you to get a mole checked out
I don’t know what Czech toddlers sound like but hearing how adults speak Czech, it must be hilarious
I was in grade school and this mother with her two kids were at our bus stop from the next neighborhood over. They might have been 7-8 years old but New Zealand doesn’t sound real. If they stayed in the US, the accent fades very quick in kids.
Not funny but I met an estonian family and their baby was in the phase of mimicking adults, making up baby words and she sounded exactly like a hungarian baby. At first i thought they were hungarian.
it was mindblowing to hear. The proto finno-ugric in me was crying in joy
Specifically, Scouse (from Liverpool) toddlers. I’ve lived in and around Liverpool for a few years now, and I still sometimes require a translation for some words from the littlest speakers.
I don’t particularly find toddler speak cute or funny (I don’t hate kids or anything, I just don’t have much of a parental instinct I guess) but my French friend’s toddler really makes me wonder how French parents even understand their kids…
Written Dutch sounds like a little kid speaking American English. Just take a look at the “We Hebben Een Serieus Probleem” Memes.
(Disappointed) Romanian children sound really adorable
Brits. Whether it’s tiny babies with a posh accent or the strongest Scottish accent known to man. They’re hilarious and fucking adorable
Hearing kids speaking English is obviously normal to me but kids with little northern accents crack me up 😭
There’s a little boy in daycare who’s half Londoner by mother. He’s a little posh royal baby
Norwegian adults sound like kids when they talk, let alone toddlers. It’s a fairytale language.
Swedish is a more gay and happy German, and Norwegian is a more gay and happy Swedish.
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I was so confused when I heard a toddler speak English….until I realized that it’s quite normal for a Canadian.
I think Standard FRG-German speaking toddlers don’t sound very cute. Italian, however, extremely. They sound so eloquent!
Little kids that speak British English, especially the more posh accents. It’s hilarious. They sound like little adults.
Taking my children who default to Polish to an English playground was interesting. We had some funny looks as my toddler yelled “Die fucker, die fucker” (daj foka, daj foka) [give [me the] seal]
It’s probably German though as it’s such a serious sounding language. Italian feels very natural for childrent to speak.
Posh British accent in children’s mouths is hilarious in my opinion.
I learned Italian as a foreign language in high school.
Italian speaking babies blew my mind.
Hungarian toddlers.
Makes me go “wow they really worked on their grammar and suffixes, it’s so impressive”
British English, there’s no other language that sounds as goofy
Not a language but an accent, Scottish toddlers imho. Look up the “sausages for the caravan” toddler for example
Italian, especially when they are already familiar with the hand gestures
[Dutch](https://clickhole.com/dumbass-this-child-just-wasted-his-critical-period-of-language-acquisition-on-dutch/) :p
“Nein bein nein” sounds like she’s telling you to get a mole checked out
I don’t know what Czech toddlers sound like but hearing how adults speak Czech, it must be hilarious
I was in grade school and this mother with her two kids were at our bus stop from the next neighborhood over. They might have been 7-8 years old but New Zealand doesn’t sound real. If they stayed in the US, the accent fades very quick in kids.
Not funny but I met an estonian family and their baby was in the phase of mimicking adults, making up baby words and she sounded exactly like a hungarian baby. At first i thought they were hungarian.
it was mindblowing to hear. The proto finno-ugric in me was crying in joy
Specifically, Scouse (from Liverpool) toddlers. I’ve lived in and around Liverpool for a few years now, and I still sometimes require a translation for some words from the littlest speakers.
I don’t particularly find toddler speak cute or funny (I don’t hate kids or anything, I just don’t have much of a parental instinct I guess) but my French friend’s toddler really makes me wonder how French parents even understand their kids…
Written Dutch sounds like a little kid speaking American English. Just take a look at the “We Hebben Een Serieus Probleem” Memes.
(Disappointed) Romanian children sound really adorable
Brits. Whether it’s tiny babies with a posh accent or the strongest Scottish accent known to man. They’re hilarious and fucking adorable
Hearing kids speaking English is obviously normal to me but kids with little northern accents crack me up 😭
There’s a little boy in daycare who’s half Londoner by mother. He’s a little posh royal baby
Norwegian adults sound like kids when they talk, let alone toddlers. It’s a fairytale language.
Swedish is a more gay and happy German, and Norwegian is a more gay and happy Swedish.
That’s easy, [it’s French](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=381bv0_Gpo8) no doubt about it. Like how she says the names of different animals, crocodile and hippopotamus.