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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7159 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes  20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 1 of 45 18 June 2012 at 12:14am | IP Logged | ||
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This is a bit of a variation of this thread about music where if one had to try to "sell" one's target language(s) sound to the average but indifferent outsider using a song, which would it be? To keep this from overlapping with the other thread, I strongly suggest that there be only one song per target language. I got to thinking about this reading the comments on YouTube for various clips of songs where people get fired up about wanting to start learning the song's language because it impresses them so deeply.
I'll start: Finnish: Erämaan Viimeinen (Nightwish) Hungarian: Hej Dunáról (NOX) Northern Saami: Ii Iđit vel (SomBy) Polish: Świdryga i Midryga (Żywiołak) Slovak: Pelikán (Jana Kirschner) You can see that I'm rather biased toward folk or folk-like music. On the other hand I like these for the purpose of demonstrating what the language sounds like since in some songs, it can become quite difficult to discern the sounds even for native speakers. Nevertheless this was tough since I could have come up with other choices for these languages. Unfortunately I'm not yet well-acquainted with Latvian and Ukrainian music and am unable to come up with a song in each of those languages for "demonstration purposes". I'm curious what others' choice would be for their target languages. I'm sure that Serpent could offer something different for Finnish, for example... ;-) 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5054 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani | Message 2 of 45 18 June 2012 at 2:04am | IP Logged | ||
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Ukrainian: Ой у гаю при Дунаю (Тріо Мареничів)
Romanian: Lume, lume (Maria Tănase) Azerbaijani: Tez gəl (Şövkət Ələkbərova) Persian: Yare Shirin (یار شیرین) (Leila Forouhar) Edited by espejismo on 18 June 2012 at 3:07am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4862 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 3 of 45 18 June 2012 at 11:53am | IP Logged | ||
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Okay, this will be a long list, but let's get it started:
German: Silbermond - Unendlich - because it shows German from the perspective still unbelievable for most of people - ROMANTIC French: Lââm - Petite sœur - something typical for French music yet several years ago - even if commercial, something sounded different. But now everything is already the same (crap) Italian: Cesare Cremonini - Vieni a vedere perchè - reminiscenting the times, when Italian music didn't bore me... Russian: Zемфира - Итоги (The second choice would be t.A.T.u. Latin: John Paul II - Pater noster Well... Passing over the 'performer', it's probably the most famous Latin 'song' Bulgarian: Пепа - Евтини мераци Even if sometimes shameful, it IS a part of modern Bulgarian culture Macedonian: Каролина Гочева - Мојот свет Slovene: Alya - Občutek - it was one of the first two songs that I've really liked. Later has come much more of them, but this still seems to be something like my Slovene anthem. Persian: سپیده - به هم میرسیمMy favourite Persian song - here in a slightly different version because of live instruments Dutch: Marco Borsato - RoodSong-legend. Already. Mandarin: 周杰伦 - 牛仔很忙 - proving that in China there IS a world outside the ballads :P Czech: Traband - O malém rytíři Hmm, here I had enormous doubts what to show, but eventually I've chosen this one. Swedish: Linda Begtzing - Alla flickor - Please don't kill me, but I love Swedish schlagers! 
English: Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life/Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit - here I HAD to choose 2 different songs since they show two different faces of current music industry - which is overwhelmed by English language culture. It looks like I almost entirely listen to pop music, but believe me, my last.fm can prove it's not true :D 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4831 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 4 of 45 19 June 2012 at 2:44am | IP Logged | ||
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Almost anything by Udo Lindenberg, but Die Klavierlehrerin because it's such fun, clever, and a bit naughty. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| morinkhuur Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 4680 days ago 79 posts - 157 votes Speaks: German*, Latin, English Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Maghribi) | Message 5 of 45 19 June 2012 at 11:11am | IP Logged | ||
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As for Arabic I think some of religious anashiid sound amazing and really show the beauty of the language, like
for example this one or this one. Also the prayer call can sound very beautiful. For Spanish my favourites are Paloma Negra (Mexican) from the original soundtrack of the movie "Frida" and El Carretero by Buena Vista Social Club (Cuban). I usually like Japanese better in the spoken form, so I don't really listen to Japanese songs a lot, but I kind of liked Fukai Mori by Do As Infinity. There aren't any modern songs in Latin, much less any ones that show the sound of the language, but Carl Orff's O Fortuna is of course the most epic song of all time. Also there are Gregorian chants but i couldn't find any good ones. Edited by morinkhuur on 19 June 2012 at 11:14am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Globe-trotter Triglot Newbie Netherlands Joined 4600 days ago 29 posts - 44 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German Studies: Thai | Message 6 of 45 19 June 2012 at 2:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Swiss German: Sina - Wänn Nit Jetzt Wänn
Dä Edited by Globe-trotter on 19 June 2012 at 2:38pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Umin Triglot Newbie Germany despairedreading.worRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4550 days ago 37 posts - 52 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Japanese Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 7 of 45 30 June 2012 at 6:42am | IP Logged | ||
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Japanese: Soil and Pimp Sessions x Shiina Ringo - Karisome
Otome (http://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=Oa10G1ttkWY) Edited by Umin on 30 June 2012 at 6:42am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5467 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 8 of 45 30 June 2012 at 9:23am | IP Logged | ||
Fantastic to find another Shiina Ringo fan! My favourite isn't in Japanese so I guess it's no good for this thread, but anyway, find it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=- GqdfFKSw80&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLD329FFF34D 7D2774 Edited by TixhiiDon on 30 June 2012 at 9:23am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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