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| Jadoo1989 Diglot Groupie Joined 5624 days ago 51 posts - 60 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Irish, French | Message 1 of 14 28 January 2011 at 8:21pm | IP Logged |
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In your opinion what language, other than English, has the best media across the board? (i.e: TV, radio, newspapers, film, literature, etc.) I've been thinking about it lately and there's such a wide breadth of English media available. I'm wondering who our closest competitor is in this regard.
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| The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5640 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 2 of 14 28 January 2011 at 8:30pm | IP Logged |
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You can make a case for a lot of countries. I personally prefer Asian (Northeast) cinema and TV (dramas, variety, etc.)
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| Sanghee Groupie United States Joined 5059 days ago 60 posts - 98 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Korean | Message 3 of 14 28 January 2011 at 9:42pm | IP Logged |
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I enjoy Korean media the most (mainly the music, dramas, and variety shows) and it seems quite popular in many Asian countries. I've listened to Korean music almost exclusively for much longer than I've been seriously studying Korean.
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| translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6910 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English* | Message 4 of 14 28 January 2011 at 9:59pm | IP Logged |
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German
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| Segata Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 5162 days ago 64 posts - 125 votes Speaks: German*, Japanese, English Studies: Korean, Esperanto | Message 5 of 14 28 January 2011 at 10:35pm | IP Logged |
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Japanese. No contest. Especially now that I've learned (some ;) ) classical Japanese I've come to know how rich Japanese literature really is. Anyone who achieved an advanced level should learn how to read the classics!
Also, movies, comics, great newspapers.. count me in! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5253 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 6 of 14 29 January 2011 at 12:56am | IP Logged |
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Portuguese! João Gilberto, Caetano Veloso, Daniela Mercury, Jobim, Sergio Mendes, Roberto Menescal, Chico Buarque, Newton Mendoça, Baden Powell, Cris Delanno, Bebel Gilberto, Flora Purim, Liza Da Costa,Elis Regina, Leila Pinheiro, Suba, Caesaria Evoria- Fado, Bossa Nova, Axé, Foro, Samba.
If you love music, Portuguese is an inexhaustible fount of great music. João Gilberto, an hour of great music Edited by iguanamon on 29 January 2011 at 2:26am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| NichtGut Groupie United States the-daily-treasure.bRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6323 days ago 65 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 7 of 14 30 January 2011 at 6:55am | IP Logged |
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As far as cinema I have heard that "Bollywood" is bigger than "Hollywood". Music ohhh that is tough, I thought of this very question a few days ago and my thoughts are: Protuguese, French, and Spanish. These three languages seem to have it covered from the smooth sweet voices to the anthem club bangers. Music is really important to me when it comes to language learning and some languages are strong in one area, but lack horribly in another. Dutch rap is very good and has a balance of underground style, party beats, and old school feel to it, without sounding well extremely corny. Italian has lovely classical music, however, current music in the Italian language seems to fall in the genre of "adult contemporary". French has artists across the board: indie style like coeur de pirate, la patere rose, quirky rap TTC, etc. Spanish has a lot of dance music from traditional to club hits, same with Portuguese...just a few small examples. I realize in all languages there are hidden gems when it comes to music but that is the thing a lot seem to be hidden. Maybe some generalizations were made here, but I think you get my drift.
Please feel free to correct me here if I am wrong, especially with Italian because I am struggling to find stuff. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 6041 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 8 of 14 30 January 2011 at 7:26am | IP Logged |
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How's the Arabic media world?
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