silhouette Newbie Canada Joined 5325 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French
| Message 9 of 19 18 April 2010 at 2:12am | IP Logged |
Yes, I have loads of songs in languages that I don't understand and languages that I am learning. There's music in French, German, Russian, Japanese, and some more that I can't find right now.
My poor brain must be so confused D:
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dolly Senior Member United States Joined 5781 days ago 191 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin
| Message 10 of 19 18 April 2010 at 2:31am | IP Logged |
I'm a big fan of Azam Ali, formerly of the group Vas and more recently singing with Niyaz, a wonderful Iranian group whose music is deeply rooted in tradition, yet they make it sound so modern.
Edited by dolly on 18 April 2010 at 2:34am
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ThisIsGina Groupie United Kingdom languageblogbygina.w Joined 5309 days ago 56 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Romanian, Catalan, Greek, German, French
| Message 11 of 19 13 May 2010 at 7:51pm | IP Logged |
I have music in lots and lots of languages, some of which I understand, some of which I don't. A lot is in Spanish, which I understand, but I also have some in languages I don't know a word of (Turkish, Greek, Finnish...).
I've just looked at my iTunes playlists (separated by language), and these are all the languages I have songs in, with the number of songs in brackets: English (41), Spanish (38), Russian (22), Italian (16), Finnish (9), Greek (6), Romanian (6), Swedish (6), German (5), Portuguese (5), Dutch (3), French (2), Danish (2), Bulgarian (2), Turkish (1). (I'm surprised how much English music I have, I rarely listen to songs in my native language, but it turns out I still have a lot in my iTunes library.)
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Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5819 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French
| Message 12 of 19 14 May 2010 at 4:49am | IP Logged |
I was raised on Irish, African, and South American music as well as US folk music. I have memorized lyrics in a few
songs in Gaelic, Spanish, and some African languages (unfortunately many of the CDs we have do not explicitly
state what languages are being sung in, just the country of the musician's origin). I also memorized a few anime
theme songs in Japanese long before I started studying the language.
I love trying to detangle the mishmash of unfamiliar sounds in these songs, but we have to be careful not to just
equate them to the nearest English sound, or this could happen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=ZA1NoOOoaNw&feature=related
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horshod Pentaglot Groupie India Joined 5761 days ago 74 posts - 107 votes Speaks: Hindi, Marathi*, Bengali, Gujarati, English Studies: German, Spanish, Turkish
| Message 13 of 19 14 May 2010 at 5:14am | IP Logged |
I listen to Malayalam and Tamil songs and know some by heart...although I don't understand a word of most of these.
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Irchard Tetraglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5240 days ago 9 posts - 16 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Dutch, French
| Message 14 of 19 19 July 2010 at 9:58pm | IP Logged |
I ken lee without singing in an unknown language from time to time.
For what it's worth, I initially learnt Dutch by learning the lyrics to songs that I liked and then comparing them to an English translation and working out exactly what role each word plays in each line/sentence. I did this more out of curiosity and wanting to know what the songs were about than wanting to learn to speak Dutch (I didn't want to learn it at the time, but was living there and constantly hearing it). I think it gave me a pretty good headstart when I decided to actually learn the language properly.
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mrhenrik Triglot Moderator Norway Joined 6070 days ago 482 posts - 658 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, French Personal Language Map
| Message 15 of 19 20 July 2010 at 1:01am | IP Logged |
I remember, in one of the first years in primary school, our teacher taught us "Father
Jacob" (I believe it was called?) in Norwegian, English, Sami (native Norwegian) and
French. We could pick out words from the English version but didn't understand anything
of the two latter.
Edited by mrhenrik on 20 July 2010 at 1:02am
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