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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcUi6UEQh00

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In this remarkable and fully rockin' video, an Italian singer performs a rock piece whose lyrics are gibberish intended to sound like English. Entitled "What English Sounds Like to Foreigners," the video is meant to illustrate which English phonemes and syllables carry into the foreign ear, but I tell you what, it sounded like English to me, too, though like English as sung in such a way as to make it hard to decipher.

this is strangely great

love it

to me english sounds like speaking with some hot potatoe in the mouth.

  On 12/18/2009 at 10:15 PM, Babar said:

to me english sounds like speaking with some hot potatoe in the mouth.

omgz a foreigner

i've always wondered what it sounded like to foreigner's. also what an american accent is because it doesn't seem like an accent at all to me, sounds normal.

depends what part of america you are talking about.

i want this song on my ipod.

a comment on boingboing that i found very interesting was that this was what speech must sound like to someone with aphasia

this seems very true to me, even though i don't have aphasia

someone else said they remember music with lyrics sounding like this when they were a small child

i definitely remember that being the case for me, too

  On 12/18/2009 at 10:35 PM, kaini said:

someone else said they remember music with lyrics sounding like this when they were a small child

i definitely remember that being the case for me, too

english always made sense to me, but i did cut my linguistic teeth on the doctorest of seusses

and it's so damn catchy.

this is what the radio sounded like when i was young because i didn't quite realise that the people on the radio were actually saying/singing things. i thought it was just supposed to sound good.

  On 12/18/2009 at 10:15 PM, Babar said:

to me english sounds like speaking with some hot potatoe in the mouth.

portuguese is just spanish spoken with a mouth full of marbles.

  On 12/18/2009 at 10:37 PM, essines said:

this is what the radio sounded like when i was young because i didn't quite realise that the people on the radio were actually saying/singing things. i thought it was just supposed to sound good.

that's awesome.

yeah i remember singing frankie's two tribes as 'wan tootribes one-a-saur, one us all that toucan sco' when i was a kid

thank fuck i didn't hear louie louie at a tender age

  On 12/18/2009 at 10:56 PM, nene multiple assgasms said:

  On 12/18/2009 at 10:15 PM, Babar said:

to me english sounds like speaking with some hot potatoe in the mouth.

 

portuguese is just spanish spoken with a mouth full of marbles.

I've compared it to speaking Spanish with a little bit of water in your mouth that you're trying not to spit out.

I dig that song, too. Reminds me of mixtapes I would get from penpals around the world and how I'd learn the song phonetically, not really knowing what the words were.

ken leeeeeeeee!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RgL2MKfWTo

ahahahahahah

  On 12/18/2009 at 11:21 PM, takeshi said:

I dig that song, too. Reminds me of mixtapes I would get from penpals around the world and how I'd learn the song phonetically, not really knowing what the words were.

yup yup, definitely mixtape material

this is another mixtape favourite of mine, although the flangey youtube thing is muck

portuguese is just spanish spoken with a mouth full of marbles.

that's awesome.

i'm supposed to learn Portuguese this year(i like boobs and i want to go to brazil). It's really hard to understand spoken portuguese (from portugal), they just swallow half the words. Anyway i suck at speaking/understanding language (even french). I always have to make my interlocutors repeat what they said or have to repeat what I mumble. My ears are flawless so i guess i might be neurologically deaf in some way.

Also I prefer the British accent rather than the American accent. Sounds soft and less nosy. harder to catch tho. I think there's quite a lot of different accents in the UK, but i know i love EDMX's accent. Where does it originate from ?

what "English" phonemes? People from the part of the USA called New England pronounce thing very differently from people in Toronto, or Vancouver or Cornwall or elsewhere.

I'd have to say for, a musician, his listening skills suck balls.

Catchy tune though.

That's Adriano Celentano, I have the 7" (it was my father's). Great song.

i posted this in the youtube thread but nobody noticed, of course.

  On 12/19/2009 at 1:41 AM, manmower said:

That's Adriano Celentano, I have the 7" (it was my father's). Great song.

you lucky son of a bitch! for everybody else: http://www.mediafire.com/?z1gxmyujlwk

the way the teacher starts leering and grooving at the start blows my mind

also, that's a very sample-able drum loop, fuck yes,

Can’t watch this, since I’m in Germany it seems. Scheiße

  On 12/18/2009 at 10:32 PM, essines said:

i want this song on my ipod.

  On 12/18/2009 at 11:24 PM, nene multiple assgasms said:

ken leeeeeeeee!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RgL2MKfWTo

HAAHA