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| beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4403 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian | Message 1 of 7 01 January 2013 at 8:53pm | IP Logged |
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Seán Cannon of Irish folk group The Dubliners speaks five languages fluently.
http://itsthedubliners.com/sc_01.htm I suppose the life of a professional musician with the constant travelling does lend itself well to language learning. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6690 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 7 02 January 2013 at 12:19am | IP Logged |
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I read that text in the booklet of their "30 Years A' Greying" back in 1992, but it's still impressive. Didn't Ronnnie Drew speak Spanish? At least he taught English in Spain for a while. I've met a couple of Irish musicians who could manage at least one other language than English+Irish (the most recent one spoke a nearly accent-less Swedish).
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| pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5509 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 3 of 7 02 January 2013 at 10:47am | IP Logged |
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I don't know how many languages Michael Greilsammer knows but he sings in French and his native Hebrew. This SONG is in both French and Hebrew, so is THIS one. Edited by pesahson on 02 January 2013 at 10:49am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ivan1989 Triglot Newbie Ukraine Joined 4306 days ago 10 posts - 30 votes Speaks: Ukrainian*, English, Russian Studies: Polish, Spanish | Message 4 of 7 06 January 2013 at 5:46pm | IP Logged |
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Gene Simmons of Kiss is fluent in Hungarian, Hebrew and some German. He was born in
Israel and lived there until the age of 8 before emigrating to the U.S. His parents were Hungarian Jews who also were multilingual. Thus he had good background to become a polyglot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR gea2Bc6V4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhnTbJNH0Wo In fact there are many famous multilingual musicians who can even speak more than 3 languages fluently. Dalida, Charles Aznavour, Joe Dassin, Neil Sedaka come to mind first. Most of them have opportunity to travel extensively and sometimes it's important for them to learn as many languages as possible to reach out to audiences in different countries. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4403 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian | Message 5 of 7 07 January 2013 at 7:32pm | IP Logged |
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Folk singer Roger Whittaker became very popular in Germany by singing in German. He didn't actually
understand the language, he just sang phonetically. He must have learned to speak now, I would think. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Mae Trilingual Octoglot Pro Member Germany Joined 4772 days ago 299 posts - 499 votes Speaks: German*, SpanishC2*, Swiss-German*, FrenchC2, EnglishC2, ItalianB2, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Swedish Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 7 08 January 2013 at 12:14am | IP Logged |
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This is a Global Project called "Work Of Art" by Haikaa. There you'll find a video of her singing her song in about 19 languages. She speaks Portuguese, English and Japanese. Some
of you may know her from Benny's video "Skype Me Maybe". More about Haikaa and her music here. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4417 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin | Message 7 of 7 08 January 2013 at 1:07am | IP Logged |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEhutIEUq8k
He also speaks French, Spanish, and some Mandarin. In fact, he made a few French songs 1 person has voted this message useful |
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