http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/17/gibbe...-rock-song.html

"In this remarkable and fully rockin' video, an Italian singer performs a rock piece whose lyrics are gibberish intended to sound like English. Entitled "What English Sounds Like to Foreigners," the video is meant to illustrate which English phonemes and syllables carry into the foreign ear, but I tell you what, it sounded like English to me, too, though like English as sung in such a way as to make it hard to decipher."

There are hundreds of rap singers I can't understand a word of, not sure if they're from US, UK, east Timor or Burkina Faso.

Maybe it reflects my idle mind, but I have often wondered about this.

(And yes, the video really did sound like English to me.)

I once saw a Singaporean entertainer teasing a Filipina on stage by pretending to speak Tagalog......it was a very good impression, and the poor girl looked so confused ! Very staccato : "Tukateeonaporewanufitosenajor"

I think that an English version would have lots of hard, Anglo-Saxon-like consonants.

Sounded like gibberish to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfpBEHWxwhw