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1:45What Languages Sound Like To Foreigners
22.6M views • 12 years ago
Sara Forsberg
Finnish YouTuber Saara improvises gibberish that mimics how various languages sound to people who do not speak them. The sentences are mostly made up, and the clip went viral.
3:40Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol
10.4M views • 13 years ago
Le Pietre Rotolanti
A 1972 song by Adriano Celentano whose lyrics are nonsense syllables designed to sound like American English to non-English speakers. It is a rock and rap-flavored novelty track with a video.
1:40Richard Feynman: "What's the name of a bird?"
48K views • 13 years ago
Yves Messer
A short clip from a 1973 NOVA episode in which Richard Feynman recalls his father teaching him that knowing the name of a bird in many languages tells you nothing about the bird.