Polyglot Recites Gibberish in Multiple Languages to Show How People Hear Languages They Don’t Speak

Diego Rivas, a polyglot and dental student in Houston, Texas demonstrated how people hear languages they don’t speak by reciting gibberish in a variety of different languages. Rivera deliberately employed nonsensical sentence structure to drive the point home even to those who spoke at least one of the languages.

How people hear languages they don’t speak.

via Born in Space

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