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| hombre gordo Triglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5574 days ago 184 posts - 247 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Portuguese, Korean | Message 1 of 19 19 January 2010 at 3:33pm | IP Logged |
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I am sure that many people on this forum listen to music in languages which they do not understand yet but might study some time in the future. Some people may just have curiousity about how certain lesser know languages sound. Others may find the languages music itself beautiful.
Most of the music I listen to is in Japanese, my strongest foreign language. I ocassionally listen to Spanish language music because there is so much good music in the hispanosphere. I personally think Spanish language music is way better that English language music, especially the most recent modern trash (music went downhill ever since the 80s came to a close). However, when I am concentrating on reading a difficult text I prefer to listen to music in languages in dont understand so that my reading isnt impeded by the lyrics. When reading Japanese, I ocassionally listen to Chinese, Turkish or Hungarian music. However, does anyone actually sing in a language that they dont yet understand? I understand that some professional singers practice an unknown language song paying attention to the phonetics but not paying much attemtion to the meaning of the lyrics. I have daringly learned some songs in Hungarian and Italian for Karaoke paying specific attention to the sounds/pronunciation, but not really bothering about learning the meaning of the lyrics. I dont speak Hungarian or Italian. Maybe if I do this more often, it will lay down a foundation for studying these languages in the future. Maybe it will serves to get hold of the pronunciation even before I start to study the languages. I intend to study Hungarian in the future. I dont have interest in learning Italian but there are some songs I like in that language. Also Italian songs are really easy to learn because I already know Spanish. Does anyone else enjoy/ dont mind singing songs in languages they dont yet understand? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5838 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 19 20 January 2010 at 9:18pm | IP Logged |
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No, I am a guitar player and I sing hobbywise, but only in the languages I speak. It wouldn't make much sense to me to sing in languages I am not related with.
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 Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6427 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 19 20 January 2010 at 9:33pm | IP Logged |
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I had to sing in Latin, Sinhala, Italian and Spanish for the choir, without understanding the languages themselves. It doesn't make a big difference really. Just like singing in languages I already know.
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| Yukamina Senior Member Canada Joined 6255 days ago 281 posts - 332 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean, French | Message 4 of 19 20 January 2010 at 9:36pm | IP Logged |
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I found some Finnish music I really liked one time. I don't plan to learn Finnish, but I just enjoy listening to the music and the sound of the language. I've also come across some miscellaneous songs in languages I don't know while listening to last.fm.
I mostly listen to Japanese or English music. There was a period of time where I pretty much only liked Japanese music, but I thankfully grew out of that and broadened my horizons. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| B.Haack Triglot Newbie Brazil Joined 5532 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Russian, Greek | Message 5 of 19 09 February 2010 at 12:56am | IP Logged |
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i really love to hear songs and try to sing in languages i don't understand. I think that's great because i'm having an idea of the spelling and the phonetics of that language and i usually go to the dictionary to have a clue of what it's talking about. And i also practice my spelling, since i'm trying to pronounce sounds that may not exist in portuguese, my mother language.
Here is a very good greek song, a rap, i'm working on singing it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuFfj5bqpiw 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| elysandler Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5395 days ago 22 posts - 25 votes Speaks: Modern Hebrew, English*, French Studies: Latin, Spanish, Russian | Message 6 of 19 17 February 2010 at 6:02pm | IP Logged |
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I doubt that it'll help much with future language learning - usually, and I don't think that I'm unique, song lyrics
just sort of turn into a mesh of sounds, even in my native language (English), but espically in other languages, which I can understand perfectly from native speakers face-to-face. Just my thoughts. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5915 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 7 of 19 19 February 2010 at 10:24pm | IP Logged |
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I could sing in Afrikaans, Swedish and Finnish before I could write or speak at all in those languages. I don't speak Hungarian but I can sing this song and I have listened to Saami songs though I can't sing them.
I do listen to music as a way of learning pronunciation in languages I am studying. Listening to music must be attentive listening, especially at first, otherwise the words do become a mishmash of sounds. Edited by mick33 on 19 February 2010 at 10:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| nadia Triglot Groupie Russian Federation Joined 5505 days ago 50 posts - 98 votes Speaks: Russian*, English, French Studies: Hindi | Message 8 of 19 23 February 2010 at 2:26pm | IP Logged |
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I love listening to songs in languages I don't understand -- to Hindi songs from Bollywood movies, to Natalia Oreiro (Spanish sounds very beautiful in her songs and def. makes me wanna learn the language), to Italian songs by Al Bano and Romina Power, etc. I've a feeling that any language sounds better in a good song than when it's just spoken. I think a lot of people start learning the language because they like some singer.
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