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mithridates

Here you are:

http://music.todaysbigthing.com/2009/11/03

I'm no Picasso · Joined: 28 Oct 2008

That was an all-together strange experience. Ridiculous how you find yourself straining to understand when you already know there's no point.

whome? · Joined: 13 Nov 2009

Xuanzang · Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Location: Sadang

I always thought it sounded like that Simpsons episode where Santa's Little Helper is being trained.

mithridates

English Matt · Joined: 12 Oct 2008

That's awesome....the bit where the camera is at the back of the class: I can totally imagine being one of my lower level students sitting there wondering what the hell is going on and wondering what the funny sounding white dude is actually going on about. No wonder it's difficult for some students to stay focused for 50 minutes if that is all they hear Smile

andrewchon · Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 2:04 pm Post subject:

And here's what a German thought American Rap sounded like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuXLcXn4l2k

Old Gil · Joined: 26 Sep 2009 Location: Got out! olleh!

This is great. Are there more videos like this? I saw one some Norwegians guys did about checking into a hotel, these are fantastic.

mithridates · Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:53 pm Post subject:

beercanman · Joined: 16 May 2009

kabrams · Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Location: your Dad's house

Hahaha, this is amazing! Very Happy

Brady · Joined: 25 Jul 2006 Location: Bucheon

What about when your 14-year-olds don't know the question "What will you do this weekend" when you've asked them every week for two years? Sad

rgv · Joined: 10 Oct 2008

wow, that's amazing. I def felt like i could understand everything, but absolutely nothing at the same time.

eIn07912 · Joined: 06 Dec 2008 Location: seoul

I wonder what the word for discrimination of speakers of a certain language is? Languagism? Lingualism?

Ironically, I just happen to be running into a similar situation in class right now. My students are insisting that there is not such English word as "mole" when applied to the dark round circles found some peoples face or skin. Their phone dictionaries and naver.com says the correct word is "black spot."

I kept telling them over and over, we don't use "black spot" for those. The word is "mole." "Ah teacher! Korean dictionary says 'black spot' so it is black spot." They yell. "Hello, I'm the native English speaker here. I'm the one that has been speaking English 26 years. I've never heard 'black spot' to mean 'moles'"

So I guess a Korean dictionary speaks better English than I do. Rolling Eyes

beercanman · Joined: 16 May 2009

A good English-only dictionary can put an end to that every time it happens.