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What does English sound like to foreign ears?
We’ve all heard examples of fake Chinese or German from speakers who lack familiarity with either language. While typically cringe-worthy, these examples do raise interesting questions regarding our own language. What does English sound like to non-English speakers? After more than 40 years, Adriano Celentano’s “Prisencolinensinainciusol” remains one of the most illuminating examples.
The entire song is nonsense verse, neither English nor Italian, but the sounds are meant to resemble English. Linguist Mark Liberman wrote an interesting post about this sort of thing over at Language Log discussing yaourter, the French word for an attempt to speak or sing in a foreign language that one doesn’t know all that well. This often involves trying to sing a foreign song with nonsense or random words filling in the blanks. Liberman shares this wonderful quote from a random Internet user:
Just for the story, in France, when we don’t speak English and we want to imitate the sound, we call it “yaourter”(to yoghourt), the imitation sounds like a very nasal language, kind of like a baby crying. It mostly imitates the “cowboy” accent.
I love this, I didn’t realize it until I saw the video that we sounded so awesome
also be aware that this is also an american sounding accent and british english would sound as different as it does to them as it does to us
This is amazing…I’ve always wondered what English would sound like!
Very interesting.
song full of swagger
This is so fascinating!
song itself is banging
my mother has been through a lot in the past few years, including a motorcycle accident that took her months to heal through, and juggling work with being a full time mother while also studying to get a degree in teaching - not to mention family problems and health problems i’d rather not get into. somehow, all through that, she stayed strong. my mother is an incredible mother, and i really want to give her back something.
to attempt this - i entered her in a competition on facebook. kinda lame, i know, but it’s a search for “Australia’s Sweetest Mum”, and i honestly think mine deserves that title. the major prize is something like $5000 worth of goods, and it would be incredible if i could give her this. i’m insanely poor what with being a uni student and i could never afford to give her ANYTHING like this prize offers. it would honestly make a huge difference to her and my family’s life. it’s all kitchenware and electronic goods, and mum’s been wanting to do up the kitchen for ages!
if you’d like to help me, go HERE (you may have to like the page, but its cake. who doesn’t like cake) , click “view/vote entries” and search for “bolton”. if you see the same picture, you’ve found me! if you’d like to help even more, just reblog this so i can get a little more help. every vote means a lot to me <3
entries close on the 31st so im hoping to get as many votes as i can between now and thursday! thank you so much to everyone who has already voted, anyone who has reblogged this, and anyone even vaguely considering helping, this means a lot to me
have i also mentioned my housemate vowed to dress as 50 cent and record herself performing ayo technology if i won cause i think thats added incentive
