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I am forced to go off a bit here. Please bear with me.
Having more or less been raised in churches that taught the practice of speaking in tongues, I can tell you that that pretty much is it. Everyone sounds a little different. That guy does sound more like a real, still in use language then anyone I've ever heard. Arabic.. maybe but if I had to guess I'd say maybe more Hebrew.
Speaking in tongues isn't always done in a "trance." Anyone that claims they do it can do it at anytime; but it is most often done during worship services when the person does appear to be in a trance like state. Usually the intent is for one person to end up giving out a "prophecy" type message, in tongues, to the whole congregation and then another person (or the same person, I've seen that too) will give a "tongues interpretation" so that everyone else can understand. Obviously this leads to the whole question of whether or not the person giving the interpretation is giving an accurate one from God or simply one from the "flesh" as I've also heard more then one interpretation given for one "prophecy."
The tongues outburst is believed to be from God and is a message to the church which is then interpreted by another person, the interpretation also believed to be from God. In my experience it's almost always along the lines of "believe in me" blah blah blah.
There's a lot of controversy surrounding the whole speaking in tongues doctrine esp when most churches that do it a lot (charismatic churches) tend to make it the main focus of their believe system, despite that I think there is only book in the New Testament that even mentions speaking in tongues. That book being 1 Corinthians and the part in question chapter 14, verses 2-28; roughly. The book of Corinthians being the first letter Paul wrote to the church of God in Corinth.
So obviously, one book of the bible written by Paul to a church is enough to base an entire doctrine around. Please ignore that Jesus doesn't say shit about the subject. Also, if you read the fucking verse it's clearly not supposed to be the focus (bold for emphasis):
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I used to have a bunch of bookmarks about this shit. And tithing. The teaching that you are supposed to tithe 10% of your income to the church is completely un-scriptural. It's almost entirely based in Old Testament scripture which doesn't apply anymore thanks to Jesus and the New Testament.
If you want to get a great look at what it's like in these types of churches, I highly recommend watching a documentary called
Jesus Camp. It took me about 2 years to make it all the way through because I kept getting pissed off and turning it off.