kaini Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcUi6UEQh00 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essines Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 love it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Babar Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 to me english sounds like speaking with some hot potatoe in the mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kaini Posted December 18, 2009 Author Share Posted December 18, 2009 to me english sounds like speaking with some hot potatoe in the mouth. omgz a foreigner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubba69 Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essines Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 depends what part of america you are talking about. i want this song on my ipod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted December 18, 2009 Author Share Posted December 18, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest IRARI Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essines Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nene multiple assgasms Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 to me english sounds like speaking with some hot potatoe in the mouth. portuguese is just spanish spoken with a mouth full of marbles. 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted December 18, 2009 Author Share Posted December 18, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
takeshi Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nene multiple assgasms Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 ken leeeeeeeee! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RgL2MKfWTo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essines Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 ahahahahahah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted December 18, 2009 Author Share Posted December 18, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Babar Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 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 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manmower Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 That's Adriano Celentano, I have the 7" (it was my father's). Great song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Z_B_Z Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 i posted this in the youtube thread but nobody noticed, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KY Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted December 20, 2009 Author Share Posted December 20, 2009 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, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ivan Lennovitz Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 Can’t watch this, since I’m in Germany it seems. Scheiße Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted December 20, 2009 Author Share Posted December 20, 2009 i want this song on my ipod. Your browser does not support the HTML5 audio tag http://humphreyplugg.kaen.org/music/adriano_celentano_-_prisencolinensinainciusol.mp3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvatorin Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 ken leeeeeeeee! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RgL2MKfWTo HAAHA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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