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The Call of the Mountains
Eluveitie, a Swiss folk metal band, have released a multilingual mix of a track off their upcoming album. (Don't worry, it's actually almost a pop song, quite catchy). The song has an English-language version on the standard album I think, but will also be released in Swiss-German (!), French, (!) , Italian (!) and Romansch (!!!!!!!!!!). (The band have recorded songs in Old Gaulish before). I particularly like that the entire song will have a Romansch version. That is such a rare language. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
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Don't forget Richard Simcott (forum member torbyrne) singing "Let it Go" in 25 languages:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GlfRzNr8TQ 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
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Complices, a popular Spanish duo released this song in 1991 entitled "Verdad que seria estupendo"
The song's meaning is quite interesting. It contrasts war and peace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTqf9L8X8JM Edited by Lanterninabox on 15 August 2014 at 2:19pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
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Endless love, one of my favorite song, is in Chinese-Korean. It's the theme song of The Myth movie. Even
though I've never seen the movie, I love this song. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mtY8E_7eF1o 1 person has voted this message useful | |
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The German version of the classic French/English song 'For Me Formidable' is excellent. Edited by AlexTG on 25 February 2015 at 9:35am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
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Spanish and probably Arabic:
Ana Tijoux - Somos Sur (Feat. Shadia Mansour) Maltese and Spanish: TroffaHamra y los Mechones - Donde estás tú Edited by abr on 09 May 2015 at 8:06am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
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"Let it go" Multilingual:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS0T8Cd4UhA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk7zrK8e0Es&list=PLGSSXZMRMZ 01TMPEa9qsNikkQrSB_9Iog&index=2 Edited by Anya on 09 May 2015 at 9:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4764 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 80 of 86 20 May 2015 at 5:56pm | IP Logged |
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The Let It Go multilingual covers reminded me of this performance of Do You Hear The People Sing from the 25th anniversary of the musical Les Misérables: 17 Valjeans singing in 12 languages.
Now here's a few more songs I've discovered since the last time I posted here: Zumerchas - La Familia: Turkmen, French, Russian. Not sure if pronouncing "psycho-" as "pyscho-" is legit French slang or the singer's idiosyncratic mispronunciation. Cajsa Stina Åkerström & Finn Kalvik - Tröstevise/Trøstevise: Swedish, Norwegian. It's kinda fun to listen to them singing the chorus in unison and picking out the bits where Swedish and Norwegian don't quite match up. Rimi Natsukawa - 時の流れに身をまかせ/我只在乎你: Japanese, Mandarin. The song was originally released by the Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng in Japanese and later translated into Mandarin. Unfortunately, I haven't found a video of her singing it in both languages, but there is a cover of it by the Okinawan singer Rimi Natsukawa. Rimi Natsukawa - エイサーの夜: Japanese, Okinawan. The latter is often viewed as a particularly impenetrable dialect inside Japan, but most linguists recognize it as a separate language. Oki Dub Ainu Band - Osoro Omap: Ainu, Japanese, English. It's more of an instrumental than a vocal piece, and the version here is a bit longer than the one on the album, but there are bits in all three of the languages. moumoon - BF: English, Japanese; while there are plenty of J-pop songs with lyrics predominately in English, this one's notable for how good the singer's pronunciation is. Although it does feel like the lyrics weren't written by a native English speaker. Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas - Let Me Hear: English, Japanese; notable for the exact opposite reason as the above song. Seriously, I had heard it like ten times before I realized that about 90% of it is in English. Anastasia Prikhodko - Мамо: Russian, Ukrainian. To think that just six years ago a Ukrainian singer represented Russia in the Eurovision with a song whose chorus is in Ukrainian... Edited by vonPeterhof on 20 May 2015 at 11:28pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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