The other day I found an interesting article about how people from other countries hear English. There is a video from Family Guy where Peter speak fake Italian by making a bunch of sounds with an Italian accent. For German, we might just take a strong German accent and just say words that end with "stein" and "den". I hear similiar things when people speak fake Spanish by saying the same words repeatedly or just adding "o" to English words. However, I never thought how non-English speakers would here English. So I found these videos from amog.com very interesting. The first two videos, "Prisencolinensinainciusol" and "English as interpreted by a 9-year old Japanese boy", are the best ones. The first one specifically is from the 70's and is about miscommunication in the modern age. I found this topic to be relevant with the course's study of language.
Here is a link to the original blog: amog.com
These are awesome, Diego!! How on earth did you find these? I could watch that music video forever, it's brilliant.
ReplyDeleteSo appropriate to the course though. I'm really glad you're thinking like this. Great stuff.