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What American English sounds like to non-English speakers

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a parody by Adriano Celentano for the Italian TV programme Mileluci is sung entirely in gibberish designed to sound like American English.

I thought it was well done :lol:

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:lol: :lol: :lol:

Advooooooooooo! I saw this before, I believe. Yeah it was well done. I need to take it to a non-english speaking mass, they'll probably learn it and think their speaking English. Lol
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Language is an amazing acquisition and phonetics plays a key role in it all. Our brain is the most remarkable gift Allah could've bestowed us with.

I'm always reminded by this whenever I come across these things, good stuff.
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:lol: I swear i should be understanding it but I have no meaning. It's like when I listen to afmaay maay it just sounds like something I should understand. :lol:
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Warsan :rose:

I know I was amazed at how the nonsense sounded so much like English, Im gonna do the Somali version of it.

I know a cadaan racist once said their language sounded like "habra, habra, habra" etc.
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I just love the girl in the beginning, here is the subtitles :lol:
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Re: What American English sounds like to non-English speaker

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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: What American English sounds like to non-English speaker

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Honestly, when I was like 14-15 around that age, I used to listen to Shimaali Ahmed Shimaali, and he sings in maay sometimes and other times in somali, so I used to think it was Somali throughout :lol: I always used to wonder why I would understand the somali more! :lol:

Advo,

I was told Somali sounded like Arabic or something close to the that. lol
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
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