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| lindseylbb Bilingual Triglot Groupie ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4930 days ago 92 posts - 126 votes  Speaks: Mandarin*, Cantonese*, English Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 33 of 45 09 April 2012 at 2:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5054 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 34 of 45 09 April 2012 at 2:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
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| lindseylbb Bilingual Triglot Groupie ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4930 days ago 92 posts - 126 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, Cantonese*, English Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 35 of 45 10 April 2012 at 6:12am | IP Logged | |||||
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multiple mistakes,in a single sentence, shame on me.
I guess the pronunciation of Russian in songs sounds fun to me, they just jump around like naughty child, so delightful and playful. But Russian speech is a different issue anyway. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Lichtkleid Newbie United States Joined 4666 days ago 6 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 36 of 45 11 April 2012 at 1:29am | IP Logged | |||||
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I think Icelandic and Faroese sound beautiful when sung. They give a nice airy tone to a song.
I think genre also has to be considered when determining which languages sound good in songs. -German is great for metal (Well I think it sounds amazing in any song but that's me being biased) -French is good for folk-ish songs and of course it's stereotypically, but accurately, suited for love songs -I think Finnish fits industrial well because it's kinda "choppy" and goes well with the hard, frequent beats Although I'll listen to music in any language and I listen to a lot of metal where you don't have a clue what they're singing half the time. I don't really think there are languages not suited for song so maybe I'm not so helpful. :p 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 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 37 of 45 11 April 2012 at 2:37am | IP Logged | |||||
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Ohhh I love Turmion Kätilöt! And their live shows! Check out Ruoska too <3
BTW I think the feature you're describing is being syllable-timed. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| koba Heptaglot Senior Member AustriaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5866 days ago 118 posts - 201 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, French | Message 38 of 45 13 April 2012 at 3:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I think a lot of songs sound unpleasant when we don't understand them and yet, a lot of
songs turn ugly when we do understand them, it goes both ways. There are songs in foreign languages that are more appealing at first hearing even when you don't know the language, but that can also change. I have had experiences in which I used to love a song in a foreign language but then after understanding it I thought it was so silly and didn't care about it anymore. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| cod2 Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4552 days ago 48 posts - 69 votes | Message 39 of 45 12 March 2015 at 5:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Curious nobody mentioned Hindi - which has thousands upon thousands of most
beautiful film songs, very popular across large parts of world - not just with people of Indian origin. In general most Indian languages have strong musical heritage. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| robarb Nonaglot Senior Member United States languagenpluson Joined 5057 days ago 361 posts - 921 votes Speaks: Portuguese, English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, French Studies: Mandarin, Danish, Russian, Norwegian, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Greek, Latin, Nepali, Modern Hebrew | Message 40 of 45 12 March 2015 at 6:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Admittedly obscure cas, but I imagine it would be really difficult to sing music as I know it in a language like Nuxalk
(western Canada), which has words like t͡sʰkʰtʰskʷʰt͡sʰ "he arrived." I wonder what the traditional music of thier culture is like. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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