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Good question – What does English sound like to foreigners?

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I was watching this video, and it is in a foreign language so I cannot understand what the speaker is saying. It made me ask a question:

The question: When a person from China listens to someone speaking in English, what does the gibberish sound like to them? Google brought this answer to the question, and now you can answer the question yourself by listening to this gibberish english song:

The song actually is gibberish using English phonemes, so it helps you to hear English as a non-english-speaker would.

More information on the song and singer can be found on this page:

Prisencolinensinainciusol: Grammelot?

Prisencolinensinainciusol, which was released internationally as a single – see Billboard – imitates very accurately the sound of the Afro-American influenced English of US pop songs of the era. Despite the weirdness, it’s being acclaimed as proto-rap, having come out several years before rap as a genre became formally known with the 1979 release of the Sugar Hill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight (itself the phonetic origin of the refrain of the Ketchup Song.

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