What English sounds like to foreigners

Studying English at elementary school has some benefits because the speech muscles of children are more flexible and still easier to get new words.
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Well firstly, it’s American English, which is very different to British English and the way we speak..I managed to understand a few words…I thought it was the American accent I wasn’t understanding…

Isn’t it funny that even though they the actors are mostly just speaking gibberish they still sound so completely American! There’s no hiding those accents.
As an Australian living in California I quite often wonder what I must sound like to other people. My accent is hardly ever recognised as Australian as I don’t sound like the Crocodile Hunter – note to Hollywood: hardly any Australians actually sound like that so please, please stop with the over the top accents Australian characters are given!
I have always wondered if non-English speakers can hear the difference in our accents and work out where we’re from. Even though I get asked where I’m from almost on a daily basis, it’s very rarely people who speak English as their second language asking me. Maybe they don’t pick up the tiny nuances that make our accents sound so different to other English speakers. A Spanish friend here has told me that she can’t tell the difference between the way her Australian husband and I pronounce certain words and how our American friends pronounce the same words. Of course to us there is a huge difference but apparently she just can’t hear it.

My brain was trying so hard to understand the gibberish. They did throw in a few words though that were intelligible, which made it even worse, haha. When I hear non-English languages, though, I don’t feel like my brain processes their languages like this.

As a Brit, this sounds Scandinavian to me as they’re pronouncing their ‘R’s in a hard way!

I have always wondered this. Might have to post this on my blog too, enlighten a few other English speakers!

Thanks for posting, very funny and interesting too!

Amelia @ UGLY DUCKLING
http://iwasanuglyduckling.blogspot.com

I had to pause this a couple of times because I was laughing so hard! I like how you can still kind of figure out what they are talking about because they are acting it out so well. I think she wants to have a baby and he thinks it will ruin their lives.