"Let's beat up the Germans" thread in 3... 2... 1...

this is how good the english are at foreign languages

Do you have a room?

Oops, the first one was an edited clip. This is the original.

Third time is a charm?

I hate it when glocals doesn't work.

I'd ask for "cola" in Korea.... thats for sure.

Now I know why people find me aggressive

Wir Deutsche im Ausland :-)

Sorry, couldn't add the youtube clip, didn't work well...

Let me try once again for the video...

How Germans really sound

Why everybody uploads videos and me I can't???

It's not fair!!!

I don't see how anyone could prefer "ambulance" over the excellent "Krankenwagen".

The German language also gives us the very agreeable:

Gummistiefel (Wellington boots)

Waschbaer (raccoon)

Wuestenrennmaus (gerbil).

It's also interesting to note that English has no word for "Schadenfreude" and German has no word for "Fair Play".

I want to go to Korea and set up a street stall with a vaguely worded sign like "English Soft Drinks" just so they have to come and ask for it.

Aplogogies for this one in advance.  I'm sure this sort of thing happens a lot.

For the Scandanavians (it's in english too). 

Skit! I am just going to link it. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk

It doesn't matter cause Italian is the most beautiful language in the world 

Hilarious!  But slight correction:  "How English sounds to non-American English speakers".....

Correction not necessary, unless you don't get the point. Be it American, Queen's English, Canada, Australian, or otherwise......the clip is not accent dependent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz0IT4Uk2xQ

Ali G learning Welsh 

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

Swedish for beginners 

Eh, les francophones! - Pour la prononciation anglaise parfaite, ben, c'est très simple! Vous le dites tout simplement en français. Bien entendue. Allons-y:

Ail ou radis ? Are you ready ?  > Êtes-vous prêt?

*Ahmed a le goût de tripes - I made a good trip > J'ai fait un bon voyage 

Since we've had the Happy Shopper Clouseau (Steve Martin), it's only fair that the real one has his say:

I believe Post #9 above is the same clip.....

Another Classic

I wish I could say it was finger trouble, but it was actually my sub-functional brain.

I blame it on the state of <insert favourite gripe about Geneva; e.g. laundry, high prices, apartment hunting> in Geneva.

To make up for it here's a clip from the brilliant, but often ignored, Big Train.

My favourite language is body language... in this video, the host of the show, who is quite serious at the beginning, gets carried away. 

Were you expecting a burm?

I don't want to do the taste test, I'll just say Pepsi.

Love Loriot.

Let's face it, English isn't that easy to understand even for the English.

Eh? What? Video isn't posting.

Oh FFS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaGpaj2nHIo

remove the s in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaGpaj2nHIo

Oh man, Charlie! Because of you I read "cunnilingus" every time I receive a reply of this thread in my mailbox! 

Is that why you spend so much time here? ;)

LOL, I had just switched off but someone keeps posting replies! 

Freudian

It's a cunning stunt from Charlie, to keep up your interest.....

Now what sort of wicked person would do that?

Oh.

You should take your mind off it with some food from this charming snack bar:

That smells a bit fishy...

There was a young man on glocals
who questioned linguistical vocals
some sounds are sublime
there are others that rhyme
and quite a large number that don't

On a totally different note, and because more people read daft forums like this than read the classifieds, please go to 

http://www.glocals.com/classifieds/professional-services/&search_reset=1

If you are/know a professional plumber/tiler for a small job.

Back to the fun:

English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in Englandor French fries in France. Sweet meats are candies while sweet breads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted.

But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?

If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?

Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all  That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

And why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"?

Crazy indeed, but that’s why English has so many aficionados.

And thanks for reminding us of this classic.

R.

We used to send telexes to each other in Slakan when we did not want the Soviet authorities to understand the gist of our messages. (See Malcolm Bradbury - Rates of Exchange and the related phrase book)

Sign language, anyone.....?? 

Huh.... ?? Dude. Broken! My Glocals is broken!!!

Bon, bref. Here goes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=N5bg1No_RSE

Dude.........

too much?

Just a tad.... Euh! And here I was just about to take you up on that drinks-offer. Oh wait, was that another thread..... ??

Which one?  I used to know a few words and the letters in British Sign, but America has its own sign language, Germany has its own, and so on.  Seems bizarre to me.  There was a good opportunity there for an international language.

How come no one has picked SWISS GERMAN as their favourite??? 

Ah,those dulcet guttural sounds,the gentle,soothing rhythm ,so soothing and musical to the ear.So sensual.

Especially when the speaker has a loud voice.Mmmmmm

Each dialect a gem of linguistic delight 

I could go on and on........

I thought you were in the French speaking part?

Hey, what color do smurfs turn when you choke 'em?

Mr Lart U......Swiss German speakers are allowed to travel freely in Suisse Roamande and thus we are allowed to hear their dulcet tones and the gentle cadence of their beautiful dialects fairly frequently.

And it makes a refreshing change from all the franglais that distorts both languages, to say nothing of our hearts and hearing.

R.

I never knew that.  Do they need vaccination certificates or anything?

Someone told me they had to have a shot in the tongue.  Sounds awful.

That must harm their cunning linguistic style...

Dunno.  B'ain't bin payin' much attenshun like, 'cos very bizzie tryin'er figure out wot's wif all them there erudity forum freds.

Why do these words sound so nasty.....?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzwGfP98vGM

Ok, so would somebody plese tell me why this never works for me.................???

Yeah,ok so giving up now. T'was a good one though and trust me... :o)

Bon weekend tous le monde!

If singing the names of sexual acts to people while riding a horse is your usual  way of trying to attract people, you might be limiting your chances.

It would work on me, but then I'm a bt of a tart.

My kind of guy

Which kind?l

Which kind of tart?

Yes, please.  I tend to be picky that way.