what American English sounds like

[darkoshi]

How English sounds to non-English speakers
Posted by: Brian and Karl
Description: 'Skwerl'. A short film in fake English


And that reminded me of this fab video my dad linked me to a while back:

"Adriano Celentano Raffaella Carrà Prisencolinensinainciusol" (Watch on YouTube)

Video title: Adriano Celentano Raffaella Carrà Prisencolinensinainciusol
Posted by: MrXXXDIDOXXX
URL: https://www.youtube.com/embed/xfSJEWNTvo4
Description: Italian music video / song in fake English

Comments

[charcoalfeathers]

The Adriano Celentano video has been one of my favourite things to send to people, re: English sounds :)

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

There was a video going around about a year ago, featuring a woman who spoke gibberish in various languages, so you could hear what the tonal quality and vowel/consonant relationships were like. She did like fifteen languages, and it was thoroughly interesting, although it was hard for me to tell the difference between a lot of them.

Sigur Ros does a lot of stuff in Hopelandic, that sounds like Icelandic but isn't.