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YouTube + Disney = language learning gold

YouTube + Disney = language learning gold

Looks like the holidays mean lots of video-trolling here on LLU … This evening while browsing YouTube, I stumbled across a veritable treasure trove of Disney videos in other languages, and the vast majority of them are TV themes or scenes from movie musicals that anyone born in the appropriate era can probably sing by(…)

Complaint Choirs

Complaint Choirs

‘Tis the season for choir sings and choral sings (and acapella sing offs, whee, that was fun). Thanks to Ryan sending me the link to Larry Ferlazzo’s blog I discovered the Helsinki Complaint Choir and got a good giggle. A quick google search discovered many more language and culture specific Complaint Choirs. (who knew so(…)

What English sounds like to non-English speakers

[Snaps and thanks to Ryan and his RSS feeds for finding this gem.] Explanation: It’s a 1972 song written by the Italian Adriano Celentano called “Prisencolinensinainciusol.” According to the Wikipedia gods, “The lyrics are pure gibberish, intended to sound like American English as heard by a non English-speaker.” An article in the New Yorker describes(…)

The joys of multilingual translation, brought to you by "I Love Lucy"

A colleague of ours, Joe Dale, from the Isle of Wight, posted this video clip to his blog, and it has been making its rounds throughout the language-learning related blogosphere. As we here in the US savor what for some is the last weekend of summer and calm before the fall semester frenzy begins (*sigh*),(…)