

However, in the Japanese versions of the original game ( Animal Forest, Animal Forest+, and Animal Forest e+), Animalese consisted of more natural-sounding voices for each character of Kana and Kanji (in Animal Forest e+) is spoken than in English. In the original international release of Animal Crossing, the Animalese was changed to a series of computer-generated voices that could be downloaded on Mac computers as a text-to-speech voice. However, much of Animalese is completely unintelligible unless slowed down.

Laughing and similar sounds are also discernible. The name of the player and the name of the town can be clearly discerned as well, although they may also be mispronounced depending on the way each letter of the word is said in Animalese. When villagers say numbers, they will talk rather clearly, like when the player is typing a letter. "Animal Crossing" would be pronounced "Ah-ni-ma ku-ro-si-n-gu), along with more direct substitutions that don't correspond to spelling. In most cases, each word spelled is approximated using the closest-sounding Japanese syllable (i.e. Animalese is the default spoken language of villagers and other characters in the Animal Crossing series.
