What American English sounds like to foreigners

[populistdriven]

An Italian singer wrote this song with gibberish to sound like English. If you've ever wondered what other people think Americans sound like, this is it.

http://music.todaysbigthing.com/2009/11/03

[crim son]

1. That's kinda cool.

Heh.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

2. I liked the music!

:)

[Aristus]

3. Okay, that was hilarious!

:rofl:

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Really neat!

A bit of Elvis in there, uh-huh :)

Very flat and affectless...I definitely prefer French (as do the French) :rofl:

[crispini]

5. How funny. Never quite realized what a nasal language American English is! nt

[Raffi Ella]

6. Sounded cool to me.

I like that their interpretation has a bluesy rock and roll backbeat. :)

[Odin2005]

7. I asked a friend who is a native Spanish speaker to describe the sound of American English and...

...she said it was "dark"-sounding, (probably because of our velarized Rs and Ls, I'm guessing), rich in consonant clusters, has a "muffled" sound (I'd assume because of vowel reduction and lots of schwas), and VERY nasal-sounding.

[BlueJazz]

8. Sounded (to me) like Rap with a fairly decent background. Good Production!

Thanks :)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. that was fun.

and probably quite accurate. :)

[XemaSab]

10. Good times

:D

[LostInAnomie]

11. That's pretty cool.

I knew it was gibberish but my mind kept trying to pick up words.

Nice beat and dancing.