There’s a gibberish song created for an old Italian variety show made to sound like an English language Bob Dylan song. It ended up being released as a single. It’s not bad and you listen to it and think that you can almost understand it, but you can’t.
Fun fact: The word “barbarians” is originally Greek and is mocking the gibberish sounds made by the horrible barbaric northerners (ie. ba ba bar bar). Presumably thats mocking germanic languages.
And we see something similar in this video. If going for sounds as well as cadence the single standout feature these people imitate is the “ah”/”ar” sound. German and English use it a disproportionate amount and others find it a weird sound it seems.
I know they cherry-picked the best ones, but some of these are really good. The woman who nailed the American English, “Oh my gawwd,” has a good ear. Those diphthongs can be killer.
I actually find myself laughing pretty hard at these both because some are good and some are just off the rails. I think making fun of speech mannerisms shouldn’t be as taboo at all times if this is all it really is. It’s just pattern recognition.
Something interesting kind of related to this. Japanese sounds very fast and chaotic to English speakers and English seems slower to the Japanese. You can tell when they imitate it often seems exaggerated slow and enunciated whereas when they speak their native language normally they rattle through a lot sounds quickly.
Aaah. Yeah. That’s about right.
I do be doin’ that, tho
My German mother-in-law, who doesn’t speak English, makes fun of it by saying “R rr rrr Rr Rrrr” or saying “oh my Gawd”.
They all nailed the cadences pretty good.
It’s interesting the amount of hand gestures a lot of them use.
BATTLE PLEASE
There’s a gibberish song created for an old Italian variety show made to sound like an English language Bob Dylan song. It ended up being released as a single. It’s not bad and you listen to it and think that you can almost understand it, but you can’t.
[Prisencolinensinainciusol](https://youtu.be/7Yj_N5_P5qI)
Reminds me when Hank Hill meets his Japanese half-brother. “This is not Texas. Shoot off guns, pow-pow-pow, Rambo, John Wayne.”
The girl at 3:30 sounds like a sim lol
octopus!
Fun fact: The word “barbarians” is originally Greek and is mocking the gibberish sounds made by the horrible barbaric northerners (ie. ba ba bar bar). Presumably thats mocking germanic languages.
And we see something similar in this video. If going for sounds as well as cadence the single standout feature these people imitate is the “ah”/”ar” sound. German and English use it a disproportionate amount and others find it a weird sound it seems.
[Hey Bobby, look look, I’m American.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtTQS4a821A)
Did That old lady at 1:50 say YEET
Do you have any non-dairy creamer?
I’ll use my credit card.
When I was in Switzerland, they said we talk like we have a potato in our mouth…seems accurate.
I know they cherry-picked the best ones, but some of these are really good. The woman who nailed the American English, “Oh my gawwd,” has a good ear. Those diphthongs can be killer.
the guy at :20 has watched too much Jar Jar Binks
Bar bar bar bar
Barbarians?
This is what I thought of. https://youtu.be/nlgzxBKAah8
I’ll use my credit card.
I actually find myself laughing pretty hard at these both because some are good and some are just off the rails. I think making fun of speech mannerisms shouldn’t be as taboo at all times if this is all it really is. It’s just pattern recognition.
I swear this is basically my last MS Teams meeting
Bro this dude in the red coat talks to foreigners
I love when the one guy just starts clapping
“People often mistake me for a comedian, but I’m actually a hairdresser right over there.”
Something interesting kind of related to this. Japanese sounds very fast and chaotic to English speakers and English seems slower to the Japanese. You can tell when they imitate it often seems exaggerated slow and enunciated whereas when they speak their native language normally they rattle through a lot sounds quickly.
What’s interesting though is that the amount of information conveyed on average is the same for literally every language. A fluent speaker of any language speaking at a “normal” speed for that language always transfers data at about [39 bits per second.](https://www.capstan.be/study-suggests-that-no-matter-how-fast-or-slow-people-speak-in-different-languages-the-rate-of-information-transfer-is-the-same/) Japanese and English sound very fast and slow relative to each other, but in reality neither is really saying any more or less than the other in the same amount of time.
Clapping from the guy in red was fucking brilliant
So… basically Americans sound like SouthPark Timmy
octopus shadow bee
ONE TWO OCTOPUS!
Yeah, suck it England! They were doing American English!
The number of hand motions that many of them employ is fascinating.