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| Adrean TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member France adrean83.wordpress.c Joined 6157 days ago 348 posts - 411 votes  Speaks: FrenchC1 | Message 1 of 86 01 July 2010 at 10:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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I just remembered an old song that has a tinsy bit of a linguist element to it. It's quite a funny song. Do you know any songs that use a number of languages in the one song?
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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5556 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 2 of 86 01 July 2010 at 11:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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日華 - 大丈夫 (Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, English)
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6459 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 3 of 86 01 July 2010 at 11:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't know, I like music that's in various languages, or particularly if it's a
combination of elements from several ethnic music styles. "Desert Rose" is a good example of that, the way the Arabic interacts with the English at some points. Sting & Cheb Mami - Desert Rose (English & Arabic) Sting & Pix Lax & I Muvrini - Terre d'oru (English & Greek & Corsican) Sting & Dalaras - Trelos yia sena (English & Greek) Wir sind Helden - The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth (German & English; actually very little in English but arguably the most important part of the song) Spliff - Carbonara (German & Italian) Rammstein - Moskau (German & Russian) Florent Vollant - Miam Maikan (Loup Blanc (French & Montagnais) - Montagnais is a native American language spoken in Quebec. Florent Vollant was one part of Kashtin, a band that used to sing songs entirely in Montagnais and without translation. I much prefer those rather than this mixed song. Khaled - Aicha (French & Arabic) Les Colocs - Tassez vous de d'la (French & Wolof, English subtitles) Alan Stivell & Youssou N'Dour (Breton & Wolof; has to be the most exotic combination ever tried) Also, Andrea Boccelli sang "Vivo per lei" as a duet with various international singers, always Italian + another language. There are also many Chinese songs, particularly Chinese translations of Western songs, that still involve a lot of English. I like Faye Wong's interpretation of "Superwoman", it's called 多得他 (unfortunately in Cantonese) and more passionate than the original. Finally, the Lion King's "Circle of Life" song wasn't originally multilingual but a lot of people have edited it to be so; and I've also seen two live renditions of the multilingual song at Esperanto events. Edited by Sprachprofi on 01 July 2010 at 11:40pm 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Danac Diglot Senior Member Denmark Joined 5337 days ago 162 posts - 257 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: German, Serbo-Croatian, French, Russian, Esperanto | Message 4 of 86 01 July 2010 at 11:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I was recently introduced to a hiphop project called Diversidad that used a series of languages.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmMUnkur3J0 English, Bosnian, Croatian, German, French, Portuguese, Swedish, Spanish. (There was a guy from Italy, but I really didn't get it - maybe it was some sort of dialect?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6IcjrKEX2g&feature=related English, German, French, Portuguese and Spanish. 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ladanoise Groupie United States Joined 5282 days ago 45 posts - 46 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Danish | Message 5 of 86 01 July 2010 at 11:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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There is an old Girl Scout song called "The More We Get together" which has verses in English, Danish, French, Swedish and some others.
I used to know a song in Danish that starts Hallo, Hallo, James - it's about the master calling home to see how things are (and things are NOT good!) - each servant speaks a different language and tells a little more of the story. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tracker465 Senior Member United States Joined 5341 days ago 355 posts - 496 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 6 of 86 02 July 2010 at 1:29am | IP Logged | ||
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Oh yes, this is the sort of thing that I am very much interested in. When I write songs on my guitar, I often do something bilingual, to add interest to my songs. Plus I was inspired by a musician named Nevio.
Nevio sings in German, English and Italian. Many of his songs cross languages several times. A quick search on Youtube should yield many results for him. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Saif Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5601 days ago 122 posts - 208 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Levantine)*, French | Message 7 of 86 02 July 2010 at 1:44am | IP Logged | ||
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Nice thread! A few more.
Khaled Feat. Melissa - Benti (French and Arabic) Arash (Persian and English) Jewish-Arab Peace Song (Hebrew and Arabic) Edited by Saif on 02 July 2010 at 2:08am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5545 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 8 of 86 02 July 2010 at 1:51am | IP Logged | ||
Nice link, Danac! I've been listening to a lot of German and Russian or Turkish mixes recently, and am a long-time fan of French hip-hop, but this is even better. Lots of familiar faces too... :) Edited by Teango on 02 July 2010 at 1:57am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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