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tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4667 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 73 of 86 10 July 2014 at 6:20pm | IP Logged |
The Call of the Mountains
Eluveitie, a Swiss folk metal band, have released a multilingual mix of a track off their
upcoming album. (Don't worry, it's actually almost a pop song, quite catchy). The song
has an English-language version on the standard album I think, but will also be released
in Swiss-German (!), French, (!) , Italian (!) and Romansch (!!!!!!!!!!).
(The band have recorded songs in Old Gaulish before).
I particularly like that the entire song will have a Romansch version. That is such a
rare language.
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6430 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese
| Message 74 of 86 10 July 2014 at 7:45pm | IP Logged |
Don't forget Richard Simcott (forum member torbyrne) singing "Let it Go" in 25 languages:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GlfRzNr8TQ
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| Lanterninabox Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 3715 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish
| Message 75 of 86 15 August 2014 at 2:19pm | IP Logged |
Complices, a popular Spanish duo released this song in 1991 entitled "Verdad que seria estupendo"
The song's meaning is quite interesting. It contrasts war and peace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTqf9L8X8JM
Edited by Lanterninabox on 15 August 2014 at 2:19pm
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| doodoofan Tetraglot Newbie Vietnam japanesetest4you.com Joined 4675 days ago 19 posts - 25 votes Speaks: Vietnamese*, English, Mandarin, Japanese Studies: Korean, Spanish
| Message 76 of 86 13 September 2014 at 1:34pm | IP Logged |
Endless love, one of my favorite song, is in Chinese-Korean. It's the theme song of The Myth movie. Even
though I've never seen the movie, I love this song.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mtY8E_7eF1o
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| AlexTG Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 4598 days ago 178 posts - 354 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, German, Spanish, Japanese
| Message 77 of 86 25 February 2015 at 9:18am | IP Logged |
The German version of the classic French/English song 'For Me Formidable' is excellent.
Edited by AlexTG on 25 February 2015 at 9:35am
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| abr Groupie Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5440 days ago 40 posts - 62 votes Speaks: Russian* Studies: English, Spanish
| Message 78 of 86 09 May 2015 at 7:55am | IP Logged |
Spanish and probably Arabic:
Ana Tijoux - Somos Sur (Feat. Shadia
Mansour)
Maltese and Spanish:
TroffaHamra y los
Mechones - Donde estás tú
Edited by abr on 09 May 2015 at 8:06am
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| Anya Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 5753 days ago 636 posts - 708 votes Speaks: Russian*, FrenchC1, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: German, Japanese, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin Studies: Ancient Greek, Hindi
| Message 79 of 86 09 May 2015 at 9:37pm | IP Logged |
"Let it go" Multilingual:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS0T8Cd4UhA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk7zrK8e0Es&list=PLGSSXZMRMZ 01TMPEa9qsNikkQrSB_9Iog&index=2
Edited by Anya on 09 May 2015 at 9:48pm
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| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4732 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish
| Message 80 of 86 20 May 2015 at 5:56pm | IP Logged |
The Let It Go multilingual covers reminded me of this performance of Do You Hear The People Sing from the 25th anniversary of the musical Les Misérables: 17 Valjeans singing in 12 languages.
Now here's a few more songs I've discovered since the last time I posted here:
Zumerchas - La Familia: Turkmen, French, Russian. Not sure if pronouncing "psycho-" as "pyscho-" is legit French slang or the singer's idiosyncratic mispronunciation.
Cajsa Stina Åkerström & Finn Kalvik - Tröstevise/Trøstevise: Swedish, Norwegian. It's kinda fun to listen to them singing the chorus in unison and picking out the bits where Swedish and Norwegian don't quite match up.
Rimi Natsukawa - 時の流れに身をまかせ/我只在乎你: Japanese, Mandarin. The song was originally released by the Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng in Japanese and later translated into Mandarin. Unfortunately, I haven't found a video of her singing it in both languages, but there is a cover of it by the Okinawan singer Rimi Natsukawa.
Rimi Natsukawa - エイサーの夜: Japanese, Okinawan. The latter is often viewed as a particularly impenetrable dialect inside Japan, but most linguists recognize it as a separate language.
Oki Dub Ainu Band - Osoro Omap: Ainu, Japanese, English. It's more of an instrumental than a vocal piece, and the version here is a bit longer than the one on the album, but there are bits in all three of the languages.
moumoon - BF: English, Japanese; while there are plenty of J-pop songs with lyrics predominately in English, this one's notable for how good the singer's pronunciation is. Although it does feel like the lyrics weren't written by a native English speaker.
Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas - Let Me Hear: English, Japanese; notable for the exact opposite reason as the above song. Seriously, I had heard it like ten times before I realized that about 90% of it is in English.
Anastasia Prikhodko - Мамо: Russian, Ukrainian. To think that just six years ago a Ukrainian singer represented Russia in the Eurovision with a song whose chorus is in Ukrainian...
Edited by vonPeterhof on 20 May 2015 at 11:28pm
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