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Adrean TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member France adrean83.wordpress.c Joined 6153 days ago 348 posts - 411 votes Speaks: FrenchC1
| Message 1 of 86 01 July 2010 at 10:15pm | IP Logged |
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?
Paul Kelly - Every f*@cking city
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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5552 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 |
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 6455 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 |
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
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| Danac Diglot Senior Member Denmark Joined 5333 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 |
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.
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| ladanoise Groupie United States Joined 5278 days ago 45 posts - 46 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Danish
| Message 5 of 86 01 July 2010 at 11:59pm | IP Logged |
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.
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| tracker465 Senior Member United States Joined 5337 days ago 355 posts - 496 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch
| Message 6 of 86 02 July 2010 at 1:29am | IP Logged |
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.
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| Saif Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5597 days ago 122 posts - 208 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Levantine)*, French
| Message 7 of 86 02 July 2010 at 1:44am | IP Logged |
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
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5541 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 |
Danac wrote:
Well, I was recently introduced to a hiphop project called Diversidad that used a series of languages.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmMUnkur3J0 |
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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
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