{"id":1025,"date":"2010-02-09T12:02:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T17:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2023-12-20T16:25:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T21:25:17","slug":"ive-always-wanted-to-know-this-what-english-sounds-like-to-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/2010\/02\/09\/ive-always-wanted-to-know-this-what-english-sounds-like-to-others\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Always Wanted to Know This:  What English Sounds Like to Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I meet a non-native English speaker, I invariably ask them the same question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I make fun of other languages all the time.\u00a0 I can spout out gibberish that sounds like Russian, Chinese, French, etc.\u00a0 What happens when someone who speaks a different language tries to spout out English gibberish?\u00a0 <em>What does English gibberish sound like?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, I guess I&#8217;m not the only one who is curious about it.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/amog.com\/offbeat\/english-sounds-nonenglish-speakers\/\">Here&#8217;s what English possibly sounds like to people from other countries.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one might be my favourite &#8211; 14 seconds in:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FcUi6UEQh00&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;#t=0m14s\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 I can spout out gibberish that sounds like Russian, Chinese, French, etc.\u00a0 What happens when someone who speaks a different language tries to spout out English gibberish?\u00a0 What does English gibberish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[168,110,6],"tags":[607,606],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy-personal","category-musings","category-personal","tag-english","tag-gibberish"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prmTy-gx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3194,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/3194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}