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| HMS Senior Member England Joined 5105 days ago 143 posts - 256 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 11 26 May 2013 at 3:11am | IP Logged | ||
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I found this link and found it fascinating.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcUi6UEQh00 Apologies if it's been posted already. 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Chav Diglot Groupie United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4487 days ago 43 posts - 45 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English* Studies: Dutch, Polish | Message 2 of 11 26 May 2013 at 4:33am | IP Logged | ||
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That's amazing. My brain gets confused by it, like it *should* make sense yet it doesn't, which I suppose proves that it does indeed sound like English.
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| Romanzo Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4302 days ago 15 posts - 23 votes Speaks: Italian, English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, French | Message 3 of 11 26 May 2013 at 4:55am | IP Logged | ||
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Here's another video like that. Not a song but normal conversation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7219 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 4 of 11 26 May 2013 at 8:03am | IP Logged | ||
No real need to apologize. It was posted a couple years back, but unlikely many of the new members even realized about it. The singer is this person. He was suppose to be good in hearing sounds, as he is a musician. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5691 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 5 of 11 26 May 2013 at 3:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm a big fan of Adriano Celentano! He said in an interview once that this song is about the impossibility of communication in a relationship. I love that. :)
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| LearnerChaotic Newbie United States Joined 4102 days ago 4 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 6 of 11 30 August 2013 at 9:40am | IP Logged | ||
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Now I am beginning to see why English is classed as a Germanic language. The music video
sounded particularly German to my ear. In the conversation video, I was hearing sounds that reminded me of various Germanic languages. Quite an eye opener! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| FELlX Diglot Groupie France Joined 4768 days ago 94 posts - 149 votes Speaks: French*, English | Message 7 of 11 30 August 2013 at 6:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Same type of video, probably already posted somewhere here:
"Fake Languages!" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWGBhdn5kBg Edited by FELlX on 30 August 2013 at 6:24pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| I'm With Stupid Senior Member Vietnam Joined 4171 days ago 165 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Vietnamese | Message 8 of 11 30 August 2013 at 6:29pm | IP Logged | ||
Obviously from New Orleans. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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