Mike Conley's Blog » gibberish http://mikeconley.ca/blog The personal blog of a Toronto based software developer, musician, sound designer, and theatre enthusiast. Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:58:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 I’ve Always Wanted to Know This: What English Sounds Like to Others http://mikeconley.ca/blog/2010/02/09/ive-always-wanted-to-know-this-what-english-sounds-like-to-others/ http://mikeconley.ca/blog/2010/02/09/ive-always-wanted-to-know-this-what-english-sounds-like-to-others/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:57 +0000 Mike http://mikeconley.ca/blog/?p=1025 Every time I meet a non-native English speaker, I invariably ask them the same question:

I make fun of other languages all the time.  I can spout out gibberish that sounds like Russian, Chinese, French, etc.  What happens when someone who speaks a different language tries to spout out English gibberish?  What does English gibberish sound like?

Well, I guess I’m not the only one who is curious about it.  Here’s what English possibly sounds like to people from other countries.

This one might be my favourite – 14 seconds in:

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