Humor Eurovision Song Contest 2019

[Notebook]

Before you think it was all easy...

"Sing, Little Birdie" is the title of the 1959 UK Eurovision entrant which took second place at Eurovision 1959. Performed by husband-and-wife duo Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson, "Sing, Little Birdie" was the first UK Eurovision entrant to be recorded reaching #12 UK.

Then again:

 

[4throck]

Must try singing "Du hast" more !

Enjoyed the Henry V example, I can understand about 75% of it.
Indeed English is not as easy at is seems.
If you go to the UK you will notice that right away
It's not like the movies or the BBC news at all.

 

[Notebook]

I would think, like most countries, UK has a wide variety of accents and dialects. Some hard even for native speakers to understand. When I moved from the North East of England to the London area, I realised my accent wasn't comprehensible for a lot of folk.

So I did what most do, spoke slower with fewer vowels. Sort of worked. Now I'm incomprehensible at both ends of the country.

N.

 

[Urwumpe]

I have the same problem because of my work - I cross both language barriers in Germany, Benrath and Speyer line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_German_consonant_shift

Luckily, my family covers a pretty vast geographic region with many dialects mixed into our "tribal language", so anything from Hamburg to Tyrol is still understandable here....