😂😂😂😂😂

As a Dutch woman, i agree with the both of you. Spot on 👌😂😂😂

Hilarious and a Spanish friend of mine said English to their ears is a plethora of ‘S’ sounds which makes there ears bleed. Yess, suss, diss, soss, shuss, liss etc…

Their

I love this.

Exactly - so we miss how the Italian was trying to sound.

What exactly is the difference between english and american?

​@@slake9727Well, if you look at English and American together, it can be seen that all they have in common are the letters "i" and "e".. Hope this helps.

@@longjonwhite and N

@@witherblaze haha! How the hell did I miss that?!

Sul Sul! 👋

@@NoorAnomaly challenge everything *ea noise*

A rubede snad. Comon snala?

I always found simlish sounded like italian in an american accent.

Simlish kinda sounds like Japanese with a heavy Californian accent.

You must understand everything he says.

Hahaha! Noted.

That's because the chef does not have a dick in his mouth.

A lot of the humour relies on the 'ish' part of Swedish. Ish being sort of, similar to, a crude example of. So he's a Swede...ish chef, rather than a Swedish chef.

To a swede he sounds more like a norwegian. They are known for their cuisine 😅.

It's still a hit! It seems to come back around every so often.

Still is popular in eastern Europe, the main difference being EDM with dodgy English pronunciation sung by some random Russian woman

🤯

To be fair tho, it is a massive bop

People don't really care for lyrics in pop music - they just want a good danceable funk

Well, I'm never going to be able to sing it the right way again.

Is there video of this it sounds hilarious

These are the lyrics now.

@@JordanDeeb28 I couldn't find her whole audition or the judges' reaction, sadly. But in this mash-up she's the first one :) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eNKclLyp3dTciYE.html

I think Young Americans by David Bowie has the greatest number of unintelligible lyrics Ive ever heard in my life. 'Her bread went and begs off the bathroom floor we, liquid justice these 20 years just to have to die for the 50 mohair' (and so many more!)

Standard friendly pub conversation, in my experience. 😂

Glossolalia it’s called.

Cherry cola

Also Lisa Gerrard

Was thinking the same thing. 😉

And Sigur Ros

yeah no is English too bud 😂

@@Darkside-origin Nah, yeah!

Not to mention the dozen inflections of "mate"

@@TheAlps36 InfLections. Infections you get from mates are a totally different thing. ;)

@@boges11 sorry - autocorrect. Of course I meant inflections

The blonde dancer just passed away earlier this year.

@@dutchreagan3676 Oh, that's so sad.

Maybe they didn't get permission to show the video?

Also they missed out the best ever gibberish performance. It was from from Paul Whitehouse doing the 'I was very, very drunk at the time' sketch, which he did brilliantly for several seasons of the Fast show.

Link to the video plz

Yeah, nah.

It's almost perfect. Not quite, but as close as I have ever heard

It took me several reads of your comment to get it punctuated correctly, I hope. I kept concluding the you were telling us the (very weird) name of your deity. If you're asking 'is Stephen's Aussie accent perfect?', the short answer is 'no'. The long answer is 'perfect for which part of Aus?'. And still the answer is 'no'. It's close, even fair to good, as long as he doesn't say much. The more he says, the worse it becomes. It might pass outside Aus, for non-Aussie listeners. But ANYwhere within Aus it would be immediately spotted as fake.

@@trueaussie9230 Yes. The Australian accent is very difficult to duplicate, particularly if it's done for any length of time. Off the top of my head I can't think of any non-Australian who's managed it.

@@trueaussie9230 Chippy much ?

It's funny when people online insist that they've figured out the words.

Good ole Salvatore. *_Penitenziagite!_*

I'm only proficient in two languages and my brain freezes every time I need to switch between the two, especially when I'm not expecting to have to switch. Think of a beginner driver trying to shift gears and almost stalling...

You know they recently did a tv series adaptation of that that was very good. John Turturro played William of Baskerville. He was great.

I think if you NOT speak a language, it's easier to imitate anything you want. As soon as you have knowledge on pronounciation you start to add it, to your speaking.

Good old Salvatore

Good moaning! that is an absolutely fantastic show

Which reminds me of The Flight of the Conchords 'French song', Fou du fa fa (or somesuch).

It was very clever how they all spoke English, but still managed to convey what their native language was and what language they were supposed to be speaking at the time.

He spoke French so badly, but did it so easily. It was like a “piss of pee” to him. (Piece of pie)

@@kjamison5951 That's not the original British expression :).

I think we all just assumed that the Aussie accent developed over drinks.

When he did the heartburn thing I totally got reminded of Clive James! Man, I miss him, he was a funny dude!

You honour us with your knowledge oh Supreme Leader!

Praise Jeepers

As a Malaysian, I can attest to this. However, we did have a Ken Lee singing contest here in Malaysia almost a decade ago when the Bulgarian singer's version went viral. That's probably why people thought it was a Malaysian thing when it actually wasn't.

Ken Leeeee when dibba dibba douchyou. KEN LEE!! KEN LEE ENN EEMO!

There’s a fry and Laurie sketch they do which is based on Aussie soaps and it’s hilarious xD

@@Alonetogether13 just watched it now and I totally agree, felt like I was watching old soapies in the arvo with my grandma XD

Same. I'm technically not hearing impaired, but I often have much difficulty understanding people without seeing their lips too. Made the pandemic difficult with everyone wearing masks 😂

I've learned English as a second language and I first heard the song AFTER doing so. I can understand English almost perfectly, except in song lyrics; I genuinely thought it actually was English until I looked up the text.

Not hearing impaired but ADHD and it's kind of what it sounds like when I zone out while someone's talking

@@twentyeight602 I have strong reason to suspect I'm ADHD, and as far as I know I don't have Auditory Processing Disorder, but I did look it up for a writing project and man, does it sound close to instances I've encountered in life many times. Those times where the person has just spoken gibberish at you, and you're aware that it's gibberish, and then your brain turns it around a bit and realizes, belatedly, exactly what was said, or at least enough of it to get the right gist and to divide the words the right way. Now that you've mentioned ADHD, I'm going to be wondering if that's my ADHD brain at work. (In Auditory Processing Disorder, it's a little like dyslexia but for audio, not being able to easily parse it and figure out how the incoming sounds map to words to concepts to phrases and sentences and such. In my fic, both Clint Barton and Bucky Barnes have it, but Bucky didn't realize (until talking with Clint) that it's an actual brain problem and not just him being dumb, inattentive, or the like, which is what he was always told growing up -- the condition was discovered a little *after* the war ended, so Bucky never had the benefit of the medical community recognizing that it existed.)

@@Arkylie Pardon me for butting in, but is your fic on AO3? Sounds like I'd like to read it 🤓

I’ve listened to that song about 1000 times at parties, and then at uni, and then again in my sad adult life, and I’ve only just noticed that. I wrote my uni diss on Spanish popular music and I still didn’t know 😂😂😂

That's awesome

I'm 27. I've only just learned this. I've spent the past 15 minutes going over this and blowing my mind every single time...

Wow! I've never seen this. I'm skid of the 90s, a obviously an idiot! 😄

Bro you’ve just blew my mind with this information

English speaking kids do this anyway (and probably other kids in other cultures). Your vocab isn't fully developed AND (in many cases as a child) you don't understand the concepts being discussed so you just substitute the words you do know and come up with an entirely different meaning eg. the way kids misinterpret many Christmas carols

Yes! The people in the video were clearly Europeans. How could he mistake them as Malaysians. 🙄

@@imhalida Well, if it had happened in somewhere in Western Europe or the States, he would definitely remember it correctly but because it's Eastern Europe, it might as well have happened in Eastern Asia.

Ken Lee is the greatest song ever written... Lyrics so moving

warm greetings from Malaysia..!

I don't understand what the point of those is

He probably did, it just didn't make the edit. it might have been in the XL version though.

I had a couple of academic acquaintances (American / anglophone Canadian) who were able to communicate with a Scotsman better in French than in English

@@geoffroi-le-Hook I went to Montreal once with a friend, neither of us knowing any French, having a waitress who barely knew English... we actually managed to communicate with her using high school *Spanish.*

I once had the experience of spending some time with a couple of people from somewhere in rural New Zealand, and it took me some time to be able to parse just about anything they said, mainly because they were speaking a dialect that mixed up just about all of the vowel sounds (e.g. "friend" was pronounced "freend").

@@balok63a40 many Kiwis substitute "i" for 'u" e.g Fish n chips becomes Fush n Chups.

Yes, but do you know who Ian Botham is ?

@@hb1338 If he had also made movies with Edwige Fenech or Carole Bouquet, I certainly would have known.

He was extremely popular in the USSR, and some of his songs are still in rotation on oldies radio stations in the region.

In general England tends to culturally isolate itself, especially when it comes to music. For example on national radio u will only ever hear English or American songs, unlike other European countries where they play songs from all over Europe.

No idea if you have ever seen it, but there is a bar in Antalya, with pictures on the wall of famous Turkish film stars, who all look, *almost* like famous Hollywood stars from previous decades. There's "Charlie Chaplin", "Yul Brynner", "Sophia Loren", "Elizabeth Taylor", "Clark Gable" and dozens of others.

Did he also insinuate that Mariah Carey had written the song Without You? If so, Badfinger are turning in their grave. Actually I’m not sure if they’re dead but the song is supposedly cursed.

@@borismuller86 It would appear so. Even when Harry Nilsson took it to the top of the charts, it was known to be a cover version.

I mean, I'd never heard of it before.

@@borismuller86 Tragically most of Badfinger is dead. The two writers of "Without You" died due to that song specifically.

@@andrew66862 wait, what?

Oh my god. I had completely forgotten about her! I'm sure l saw her on that show too. Off to search YT now.

Frisian sounds a lot like English, but it is a far less widely spoken language than Hungarian.

It's a little like that with Norwegian vs Dutch. And can I say I love this "we are the world" feel here. Love to all.❤️ And don't do the thing, Putin. The world is to good of a thing.

I find the same thing with Welsh as an Englishman. It almost sounds like English that I can't comprehend until I realise its Welsh.

Apparently the Finnish and Hungarian languages have the same roots - unlike the people !

@@mariannerognerud Putin won't do anything stupid, but his generals might.

Princce Bel-Aire

Just because you're below the Carrà line of good sex

I think the Adriano thing might also be because rolled R's don't really exist like that in English, so it's easier to say after a vowel rather than a D.

I think it's honestly harder when you know the language. It's easier to speak gibberish in another language to me because I know English too well.

It sounds the same, just with a British accent. Lol

It was a good song tho

Good times. Yeah. You were a kid, and adults ran the world. Those were fun times.

@@waynemarvin5661 I was a young adult and old adults ran the world 😂

Excellent spot - the original is fantastic (first time I've heard it).

Yeah, if a song sounded like that in 1973, it wouldn't just be "ahead of its time", but probably a result of some time-travel shenanigans. The fact that none on the panel can spot this couldn't *possibly* be from the 70'e is a bit worrying.

That is almost certainly something to do with "rights issues" i.e the law of copyright. The BBC is one of very few organisations that pays proper heed to such things.

@@hb1338 or one of the QI elves just picked out the first version they found…