The hidden meaning behind the Animal Crossing language 

Wait, really? I didn't know about that change

@@Random-oy7vk Yeah. You use the phone in the highest room and can change it there, at least in the first game - I can't remember how it was done in the following games, but I think it was the same. One of the wikis say it was in Wild World and City Folk/Let's Go to the City.

In french, i think the animalese language was called "yoghurt"

@@TBaker-xu5is I can confirm that it's the same in Wild world.

Yeah I remember you can do that in Wild World and City Folk (the Wii one)

I definitely worried about offending villagers when I was younger, and though I’ve never connected the two before (i think I was just raised right mostly) I strive to be a polite and sensitive adult. That said I almost always loved it when they got angry with me. I was only ever guilty about *upsetting* them

Yeah, in New Horizons the English version is actually so articulate that you can make out actual words.

yeah, if you slow down a clip of an animal crossing character speaking, you’ll kind of be able to understand what they’re saying. i was really surprised when i first did it

​@@hexagonal69I can attest to this. I can actually hear Tom Nook saying "Hello Hello!" and Blathers saying "Jolly Good!" when I speak to them.

@@hexagonal69I can kind of hear “Happy Birthday” during my birthday

That dedication is actually insane tho

Nobody asked

same i thought everyone knew this

​@@AbbeyKitty1013 nobody asked for your opinion

The most I've noticed it is in the first game when Tom Nook says "thorny".

They can all say my name pretty clearly

actually, Midna has English lines, that were then cut and rearranged...you can find the "original" samples on youtube, where she says things like 'want me to use my power?' (that said, there Could be some Japanese as well, i just know that its not ALL Japanese :-P)

@@rtyuik7 Interesting. Wouldn't surprise me though.

It also reminded me of the Chu's voice from the wind waker, how it's just two japanese guys fighting

I’m pretty sure it’s the case Just sequentially voicing each letter

Slave labour much?

Ha ha ha!!!

Nice

Yeah, I think you're right. Information on how the English synthesis works is very limited, and I think my explanation was not completely correct. Since the rest of the video was (in my opinion) well researched and backed up, but that one English bit was not great, I've trimmed it out the video.

Man Voices

man voice thomas voice

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Agreed.. 😌

Bebebese is just "pop pop pop" though

Bebebese?

@@Random-oy7vk it's a format that animals sometimes speak, normally the sounds of characters thinking or system menus. Notably, in Animal Crossing Wild World, you can disable Animalese and make all animals speak Bebebese. That's as much as I know about it, which is why I wanted some more from the video lol.

the phoenix wright dialogue sounds

According to someone else, they have made sure the letter-names are different per language, and since Spanish is more phonetically written, it will therefore sound more correct. Still, a word like "holla" would be "hache-o-ele-ele-a" since they are using letter-names and not letter-sounds. I guess it might sound close enough in fast speech.

@@Liggliluff Actually pretty sure they do pronounce letter sounds, I remember back in New Leaf Isabelle would say "Todo listo, pásala bien" each time you booted up the game and it was so clear that the text-to-speech was saying that, also in New Horizons smug villagers would often say "No-lo-pue-do-cre-er" when you gift them something and, again, it sounded just like how you'd pronounce phonetically

@@Liggliluff Also the fact that spanish is really similar phonetically to japanese, they probably used the same recordings as the japanese version

To me it sounds like it in English

@@Liggliluff what’s a holla? Lmaoo cus thats definitely not a Spanish word. You’re either saying Joya or OLLA.

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@@ceru1ean_f1n1ty bucket

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@@thatrandominternetgeek 🪣?

I play the games in German and the letters are changed to sound like the German names for them (numbers too!). This is also why the way the characters speak sound different depending on the language.

@@jule4639 That's really neat! They really put that extra effort into it. But do they still have Japanese accents to it? I think "3" might be the easiest to tell, it's unique for German so not reused from English, and the question is if it sounds more like (using Japanese) "drai" or "durai", or "8" might also be interesting for that "ch" sound.

@@Liggliluff It does sound like there's still an accent, especially for 3. Some letters also tend to sound a bit weird, especially y (since it is pronounced ypsilon so... not an easy sound to make) and ä/ö/ü but you can definitely make out the letters!

Yeah I played Animal Crossing literally every day for 3 or 4 months after it came out, and I had a lot of fun during that time! But I don't think I'd want to get back into it, at least not to that extent, right now. Not until the next game comes out at least, haha!

Im once again obsessed with animal crossing new horizons 😂 helpp

I hope you enjoyed it!!

he literally uploaded 6 days ago

It was six days ago

There isn't a more overused comment than this one...

@@AlanTGP1 lol

Yeah, this has been the case since the first game. I've heard actual words here and there even back then, so that's how they've always done it and still do (which since this video is about the original, it would make sense to mention it here, but I guess Thomas wanted to just cover the JP version?).

I do find it weird that they didn't consider having two sounds for each letter; the letter name (when typing on the keyboard) and the letter sound when they speak (ignoring double-letters). So hello would use the sounds (using IPA): /h/, /ɛ/, /l/, /oʊ/ getting the word /hɛloʊ/, which is accurate. But a word like "hour" would be /hoʊ.ʌr/ (how-ur). Of course, they could add some clusters and exceptions, like "sh" for /ʃ/ (sh) and "su" for /ʃʌ/ (shu). They could still speak fast, but they would speak a little slower since they're no longer saying "haichellellow" but just "hellow".

The Animalese in English is still synthesized using Japanese syllables. They take the English strings and convert them to kana. It is not known for certain exactly the way in which this is done, but the following sentence was a possible example given to me by a dataminer. (If you know Japanese kana, note how this is a lot closer to the English pronunciation of the whole sentence than the usual Japanese approximations of foreign words, allowing them to blend together, as well as having sounds that don't normally exist in Japanese.) > Please note that I can only move players who currently own a house on this island. becomes > ぷりーずのうとぅざらいかのうんりーむーぶ ぷれいあーずふーかーあんとぅりーおうなはうすあんずぃさいらんどぅ。 Romanized this is literally: > _purīzu nōtu zarai kanounrī mūbu pureiāzu fū kāanturī ouna hausu an zisairandu_ As I said this is different than how those English words would be read in Japanese which would be something like > プリーズ・ノート・ザット・アイ・カン・オンリー・ムーブ・プレーヤーズ・フー・カーレントリー・オーン・ア・ハウス・オン・ジス・アイランド or > _purīzu nōto zatto ai kan onrī mūbu purēyāzu fū kārentorī ōn a hausu on jisu airando_

@@leaflenster7340 animalise using some english words is more prononced in Animal Crossing New Horizons, the Villagers and NPC actually feel they are speaking a true launguage to you, with change in tone depeding on the villager personality( like a more high picthed voice for peppy vilagers and a low baritone tone for cranky villagers), even specials NPC like Broosters and Tom Nook has specials tone in his voice.

I really want the rudeness back

@@fletchqc9900 But the tricky part is that some wants a version matching the Japanese-version as closely as possible, and then there are some wanting it changed. It's hard to satisfy both.

@@Liggliluff it isn't hard to satisfy both, actually. Normal, lazy and jock villagers are meant to be very nice to the player, just like the japanese version. Peppy is a weird case because they're neither nice nor mean, just sort of airheaded. And snooty and cranky villagers are supposed to be the meanest of the bunch. In the older games, jock and normal villagers especially were very nice and almost never mean to the player.

I want the Rude language dlc please. XD

*radio plays down in ohio*

@@mgrvr*DOWN IN OHIO SWAG LIKE OHIO*

Ohaiyou おはよう

Yes, and i’m pretty sure this is the case in New Leaf. It’s pretty much just tts, definitely NOT just saying the letters in order.

That's the case in the Gamecube version as well.

@Heruru Meruru The original GCN version and New Horizons are the only ones I've played. It's been way too long since I played the original though, I can't remember exactly how they sounded.

From what I remember, they pronounce the sound every letter they're saying makes (instead of saying each letter's name). It's usually easier to make out short words.

I always link my sources in the description, including the patent! It's in Japanese, but as far as I can tell it only describes a method of synthesising Japanese speech so I think you're probably fine! I believe the patent more describes the "correct" synthesis Taro Bando came up with earlier on, not the fact it's sped up! :)

The patent expired in 2020, so you're good

@@ThomasGameDocs Thank you, that reply was exactly what I suspected. Then I'll use that in my game.

@@TheIncredibleJounan yeah you’ll be fine. Plus Nintendo is actually pretty lenient with their patents despite the reputation here in the west. They only patent stuff to defend not attack from my experience

jsyk it's きゃ きょ きゅ not かゃ かょ かゅ

yeah, when I put on screen "this is a simplification", I was referring to the double letter sounds of Japanese. I didn't think that it was in the scope of video to explain, but it is worth pointing out! Obviously, Japanese synthesis isn't exactly easy, but compared to English it's a lot more achievable. コメントをありがとう!

@@tibethatguy This

​@@tibethatguy I agree, that's the right way, was just making the point there.

​@@ThomasGameDocs yeah, for the context of the video it made sense to keep it simple, but it is nice that you accepted the feedback!

That's what I thought too!