Check out this insane poem, English Pronunciation by G. Nolst Trenité. I got it from here!If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world ( Read more... )

This video made me laugh so hard! It's a facebook link to a video. It's people saying words in French, English, Italian, Spanish....and then German. They picked words that are "lovely" sounding in the first four languages, and then very harsh and gutteral sounding words in German ( Read more... )

This was fun! Here it is. In American English, I got 15/15 on tricky, 14/15 on difficult, and 5/15 on fiendish. In British English, I got 13/15 on tricky, 10/15 on difficult, and 5/15 on fiendish (lol, burrito. who doesn't know how to spell burrito?).

Inspired by Kseenaa, when she read Ronia, The Robber's Daughter in Swedish and English ( Read more... )

You know how sometimes you can unplug your headphone jack slightly and it removes the center, foreground sounds? You know, in a sound field.... the sounds in the center are usually the main vocals and effects. That's the foreground. And the other background effects are quieter and more "on the sides" and not in the center of the sound field? It's ( Read more... )

Haha! I love that he performs them too. This guy is, like, my hero... you know?

Totally like whatever, you know?by Taylor Mali ( Read more... )

So instead of doing anything productive, I watched all these instead. Ahhh, these are gems. Get ready to laugh. :D

Cia Sbam
Bill growls like a tiger
Bill's enjoyment face
DAS IST GELOGEN
Tomglish is Tom's english
Big clotheses don't are
Bill's mistake... XD
Tom saying "eh" with rising intonation multiple times
"Hrrrrrr ts ts ts ts tssss"
Tom doesn ( Read more... )

There is an ESL teacher and his/her Japanese student, and they do this project in which the student describes a random funny internet picture in a couple of sentences. Her captions are understated, brilliant, and hilarious.


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I don't like "my bad," "where's it at," "irregardless," and "I could care less." There's a list here at BBC

Most of them are hard to translate because you need the cultural context you don't get unless you were born and raised in it.