This video (How English sounds to non-English speakers) also told me how I spoke Japanese in the way it sounds to non-Japanese speakers when I was really overwhelmed

I watched this video via an article in Psychology today http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/here-there-and-everywhere/201403/dreaming-in-language-you-dont-know

I'm a non-native English speaker and it really sounded like English, but listening for a few times, it looked like making any sense as English. This is how English sounds to me like.

The events which happened in this video gave me think about another issue.
I'm a native Japanese speaker. I sometimes speak "Japanese" just as the man in the video speaks "English". When I'm really stressed, overwhelmed, and panicked, I occasionally make a speech which may sound something like Japanese, but doesn't really make any sense. This video gives me the idea of what impact my speech gives on others who hear the speech.

When I do this, probably I want them to know something wrong is happening in my internal process and just want to tell that I'm too confused to give a regular intelligible speech, and the reaction of those who hear such a speech from me seem to be more angry, in spite I intended to tell an SOS. Maybe this is the worst kind of SOS which I may want to avoid as much as possible, and acquire more appropriate and intelligible way to tell an SOS.

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