{"id":5481,"date":"2021-07-01T09:14:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T16:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5481"},"modified":"2021-07-08T16:36:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T23:36:29","slug":"what-does-english-sound-like-to-foreigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5481","title":{"rendered":"What does english sound like to foreigners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-VsmF9m_Nt8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Prisencolinensinainciusol&#8221; is a song composed by the Italian singer&nbsp;Adriano Celentano, released as a single in 1972.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song is intended to sound to its Italian audience as if it is sung in English &#8211; English with a &#8220;Bob Dylan-esque&#8221;&nbsp;American accent. The lyrics, however, are deliberately unintelligible&nbsp;gibberish&nbsp;with the exception of the words &#8220;all right&#8221;.&nbsp;Celentano&#8217;s intention with the song was not to create a humorous novelty song but to explore communication barriers. &#8220;Ever since I started singing, I was very influenced by&nbsp;American music&nbsp;and everything Americans did. So at a certain point, because I like American slang\u2014which, for a singer, is much easier to sing than Italian\u2014I thought that I would write a song which would only have as its theme the inability to communicate. And to do this, I had to write a song where the lyrics didn&#8217;t mean anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s 2 more examples of what American English sounds like to foreigners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vt4Dfa4fOEY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yU2wkD-gbzI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Prisencolinensinainciusol&#8221; is a song composed by the Italian singer&nbsp;Adriano Celentano, released as a single in 1972. The song is intended to sound to its Italian audience as if it is sung in English &#8211; English with a &#8220;Bob Dylan-esque&#8221;&nbsp;American accent. The lyrics, however, are deliberately unintelligible&nbsp;gibberish&nbsp;with the exception of the words &#8220;all right&#8221;.&nbsp;Celentano&#8217;s intention with the song was not to create a humorous novelty song but to explore communication barriers. &#8220;Ever since I started singing, I was very influenced by&nbsp;American&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5481\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-1qp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5481"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5496,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5481\/revisions\/5496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}