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| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5427 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 10 02 February 2010 at 10:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/she-can-speak-in-rev erse-17919871
This may not be the right forum, if so I'm sorry and feel free to move it. This is amazing...I wonder if she were to learn a foreign language could she do this as easily? Oh yeah, if you're wondering, the title says "Speaking backwards" but it's spelled backwards. Clever isn't it? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6016 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 2 of 10 02 February 2010 at 11:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm not going to do any close study of this, but if she is genuinely speaking backwards -- ie pronouncing the correct phonemes in the correct order (well, not "correct", but you know what I mean!) -- then it shows a far stronger level of phonemic awareness than most people have.
I imagine it would probably help when it comes to learning the sounds of a new language, at least... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| qklilx Moderator United States Joined 6191 days ago 459 posts - 477 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 10 03 February 2010 at 10:01am | IP Logged | ||
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I've read that it's a skill most people can learn. How long it takes to acquire... no idea. Impressive though. Sounds like an entirely different language. I wonder if she can understand the backwards speech just as comfortably?
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| Choscura Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5553 days ago 61 posts - 82 votes Speaks: English*, Thai | Message 4 of 10 08 February 2010 at 6:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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I really wonder if there aren't at least a few people here who couldn't learn to do this in a day or two. I played with this at a friends house ten years ago- at the end of half an hour we were able to fluently swear backwards at each other. We'd record it onto his computer and play it backwards if we couldn't figure out.
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| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5427 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 5 of 10 09 February 2010 at 4:37am | IP Logged | ||
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| gobbledigook Diglot Groupie Mexico Joined 5973 days ago 80 posts - 83 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Italian, Portuguese, French | Message 6 of 10 12 February 2010 at 5:26am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi. I can do this with my mother tongue, which is Spanish, as well. I did not "learn it". It actually is a funny story:
When I was in high school, my Spanish teacher, after talking about how we are so used to our language, that we never take time to properly study our mother tongue, asked the class: "For instance take the alphabet, you can say it from A to Z, but can you say it backwards?" In my mind I quickly tried, and I could! I raised my hand and told him (in a quiet shy voice): "I think I can". So I just did it. Went from Z to A without any trouble whatsoever. Of course everyone thought I had practiced it before, as they couldn't even go from Z to X, hahah. After that class I found out I can basically say anything backwards. I've even had some conversations where people speark normally and I reply backwards (although I have to then "translate" what I said, haha!). After studying foregin languages I've found out I can do it, although not as fast, with my other languages (Portuguese, French, Italian and English). Sorry for the long story, I just wanted to let you guys know that in my experience this was not something I "learned". 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5427 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 7 of 10 14 February 2010 at 5:51am | IP Logged | ||
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That's pretty cool gobbledigook. I had a 7th grade teacher who could say the alphabet backwards, but I don't know if she could speak backwards.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6708 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 10 14 February 2010 at 8:57am | IP Logged | ||
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No wonder that your name here is "gobbledigook"
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