Being that my wife is not a native-english speaker (Afrikaans) I found it quite amusing when she told me that, as kids, her sister and her used to pretend to speak English to each other, bascially making up gibberish that sounded like English. Much the same way Americans love to imitate the unusual sounds of Chinese or German.
You can imagine my surprise and pleasure then when I came across this song written by an Italian in gibberish to sound like English.
If you ever wonder what English sounds like to foreigners, here you go:
Hat tip: Marginal Revolution and Eric Barker
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That was very good and I can personally relate to your anecdote. My former girlfriend, a German, would do the same exact thing with her sister when they were little kids.
This video is hilarious!
This is so funny…..we have a friend from Iran who tries to inflect his English with what he thinks is the perfect accent when he is immitating someone else and he sounds just like this video (kind of a twanged-out texas slang).
“teacher, why have you wrote a strange song full of meanless words? ”
great Adriano Celentato! great singer and showman…