I like this very much, especially about the songs. When I first learned Swedish the teacher told us that Americans don't move their mouths very much when they speak and Swedish people move them much more, even to the point it seems exaggerated. He had us exaggerate our facial movements on every sound that we made in Swedish, sticking out our lips as far as we could and then he told us to squeeze our cheeks with our hands while still sticking our lips out to make the next sound. It was funny, but it taught me to overenunciate when speaking Swedish because it won't seem like an exaggeration to a Swedish person.
RE: You can't speak "whale", with your "english-speaking" face"