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| oziohume Bilingual Hexaglot Newbie Belgium Joined 4738 days ago 30 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, Catalan, Italian, French, German Studies: Dutch | Message 17 of 26 10 December 2011 at 1:04am | IP Logged | |||||
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In Spain almost every song about Christmas is in Spanish. We still have a lot of
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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5130 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes  Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 18 of 26 10 December 2011 at 1:27am | IP Logged | |||||
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From my time in both Mexico and Spain, most of the Christmas songs were Spanish traditional songs that I remember.
Thinking back to my childhood here in the US, even though a lot of protestant carols came from Victorian England, the music seems to be written by German composers, if the attributions given in hymnals are any indication. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| NickJS Senior Member United Kingdom flickr.com/photos/sg Joined 4959 days ago 264 posts - 334 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 19 of 26 10 December 2011 at 3:28am | IP Logged | |||||
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As you expect in England, everything is in English - however I for one really dislike any
sort of Christmas carol, well wouldn't anyone after hearing them a million times on numerous adverts haha! I can just imagine some Chinese ones right now! Edited by NickJS on 10 December 2011 at 3:28am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Darya0Khoshki Triglot Groupie United States Joined 5068 days ago 71 posts - 91 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Iraqi) Studies: Persian | Message 20 of 26 10 December 2011 at 3:50am | IP Logged | |||||
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English Christmas songs use some Latin here and there.
In the Arabic countries, all the Christmas songs are in Arabic, and you have the more traditional Eastern Orthodox chant kind and the English songs translated into Arabic (not necessarily the same words). They've translated the classic ones like Jingle Bells, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, O Come All Ye Faithful, etc., plus written some of their own. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6620 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 21 of 26 10 December 2011 at 9:05am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hey Iguanamon!
Thank you so much for those great Christmas songs! I was feeling a little blue, but I felt so much better after listening to them. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4909 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 22 of 26 10 December 2011 at 1:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
What I find interesting about chart is that none of those songs are religious. So it also charts the period when Christmas became the huge secular holiday it is? I know the secular parts of Christmas are a lot older, but once the pop songs took over, the game was up. EDIT: Looking at the list again, I suppose Little Drummer Boy is religious (sort of). I'm sure some of the others have bits and pieces of Christian symbolism as well. And of course, Christmas trees have non-Christian religious origins. Edited by Jeffers on 10 December 2011 at 1:23pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4909 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 23 of 26 10 December 2011 at 1:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
There is no "higher" on this list. It shows what decades currently popular Christmas songs were originally released. That's it. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5847 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 24 of 26 10 December 2011 at 7:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Christmas carols are all in German here in Germany! For my private Christmas celebration I will play the guitar and sing some Christmas carols - with some of the carols I have the possiblity to sing the texts either in German or Dutch, if I like. And perhaps I will play my Celine Dion Christmas CD as every year - and she sings her Christmas carols in English.
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