Is there any videos of people who can't speak a word of English doing an impression?
Not a racist thing, I'm just very curious to hear what sounds come out. Maybe slightly racist if you want to get technical and militant, but I promise only in the name of fun and discovery.
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Just listen to the Sims speaking, it's pretty close.
Search for "fake English" and you will find a bunch of what you are looking for.
Ken Leeeeeeee
this video of a pakistani pretending to talk english
Damn, we're never going to outlive the rhotic r, are we?
Hell yes thank you this is exactly the sort of stuff I was after!
Damn he's good
I'm guessing he used sports announcers as reference.
News correspondents talking in their typical Transatlantic accent.
I know there's a video floating around of an Italian (Maybe?) that wrote a song that sounds like English, but it's actually just gibberish.
Found it!
Here's the same link without the tracking token..
https://youtu.be/RObuKTeHoxo
Ironicly, this was a protest song by an Italian artist who was annoyed that the Italian charts were being flooded with English language songs. He wrote it to point out that English songs sounded like gibberish to Italian speakers. It ended up being a huge hit.
That's awesome. I'm guessing most people didn't know the song was making a statement?
Love this song, it's an actual bop.
This just reminds me of the style of music my dad listens too. Never understood that either.
Not exactly what you are looking for, but the song is too fun not to post when even remotely relevant: Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol
A song made to sound like you can't understand English.
every speech by Trump
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There are many such videos, but I am not sure how many of them were made by people genuinely not speaking the language. Search on YouTube for terms like: what English sounds like to non speakers, or more generally: what languages sound like to non speakers.