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| Melissaki Diglot Newbie Greece Joined 4619 days ago 19 posts - 34 votes Speaks: Greek*, English Studies: Swedish, Turkish, Finnish | Message 25 of 45 05 April 2012 at 12:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
It does, and it's not only the "harsh" language Rammstein-stereotype. Here's an example of how it can sound melodic and soft. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRcXJSey7_o 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 26 of 45 05 April 2012 at 12:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
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This is harsher than Rammstein :P (I mean only the vocals)
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| Chevalier Diglot Groupie Brazil Joined 4708 days ago 53 posts - 104 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English | Message 27 of 45 05 April 2012 at 3:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Best: English
Worst: Mandarin 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5179 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 28 of 45 05 April 2012 at 4:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Why not post some songs to show the music abilities?
你的微笑 A song in Mandarin, I like this group a lot. I think it depends on a song, rather than on a language. A language can sound ugly or beautiful, depending on the skill. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Melissaki Diglot Newbie Greece Joined 4619 days ago 19 posts - 34 votes Speaks: Greek*, English Studies: Swedish, Turkish, Finnish | Message 29 of 45 05 April 2012 at 5:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks for reminding me this band...here's a song I like a lot :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fTrPL5b4Lg Here's how Japanese can sound great in a song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQEABn3sLNY Here's how Mongolian can sound great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr1jUq3BemU I don't understand a word of the above languages, I just love the music :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jellyfish Triglot Groupie Japan Joined 4786 days ago 50 posts - 70 votes Speaks: English, German*, Japanese Studies: Thai, Persian, Russian | Message 30 of 45 06 April 2012 at 5:41am | IP Logged | |||||
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Don't know about the best one, I like music in many different languages. Depends on the genre, too. Xhosa/Zulu hip-hop and kwaito is great fun. :D
Worst one has to be Japanese for me though, I find Japanese music of any genre atrocious, and believe me I've tried finding Japanese songs I like. Japanese reggae isn't too bad, but not fantastic either. I don't know why; I do like the language. Edited by jellyfish on 06 April 2012 at 5:45am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4773 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 31 of 45 06 April 2012 at 9:33am | IP Logged | |||||
Songs in deliberately broken Russian do sound nicer ;)
This song is actually in something called Gøtudansk, essentially Danish prononunced with a Faroese accent and some Faroese vocabulary. Here's another Týr song in that form of Danish. As for Danish proper, it is widely considered the ugliest of the North Germanic languages. I think this perception can actually work to some songs' advantage - I don't think this song would sound quite as angry if it were sung in Norwegian. But Danish can also sound quite gentle, like here or here. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| lindseylbb Bilingual Triglot Groupie ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4933 days ago 92 posts - 126 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, Cantonese*, English Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 32 of 45 09 April 2012 at 2:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I always wander if manderin and any other tonal languages can work that well with songs (no comprehension problems ), why do they need tones at all ？Does IT prove that tones are not necessary ？
And in Chinese ancient songs , the tones rhymes as well as vowels . our ancestors put some great efforts to make tones neat, by rules and patterns. I am not familiar with this but I guess in this case tones dont bother. And when we lost the music in the River of history with ONLY lyrics remained, we call them poems. I can assure you those poems can have beautiful music stream for its tonal nature even without real music. PS Russian songs have a gift to make me laugh no matter what type the songs are. They just sound funny. Edited by lindseylbb on 10 April 2012 at 4:55am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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