Any languages you'd like to learn so you can listen to music in that language?

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Joshua277456, Jan 28, 2015.

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  1. Frittenköter

    Frittenköter Forum Resident

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    Schlager?
    surely you must be joking.

    I better hope you mean Udo Jürgens, Reinhard Mey and contemporaries.
     
  2. Izozeles

    Izozeles Pushing my limits

    French all the way. It´s such a loss not to understand what Serge, Jacques and Francois were saying. Having Hispanic roots, I can easily understand what Brazilean artists say, but the Portuguese accent is almost impossible for me. I´m missing a lot of Amalia lyrics because of her accent.
     
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  3. Pizza

    Pizza With extra pepperoni

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    . . .I really think so.
     
  4. Joshua277456

    Joshua277456 Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    Yes, Schlager. Isn't that what it's called? Music about love and emotions

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlager_music
     
  5. The Pinhead

    The Pinhead KING OF BOOM AND SIZZLE IN HELL

    Qiubo cabro !! I lived in Viña Del Mar for 5 years. Wonderful place ! Marche un Barros Luco con harto queso !!
     
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  6. on7green

    on7green Senior Patron

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    Klignon. So I could understand Star Trek w/o subtitles.
     
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  7. BlueGangsta

    BlueGangsta Forum Resident

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    Japanese. Without question.
     
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  8. parisisburning

    parisisburning Well-Known Member

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    I'm American and my girlfriend is French. We live in Paris. Anyway she always tells me that in music in English is just about the music and the lyrics are garbage. Which is often true especially for music from the 60's (good melody, cheesy romantic lyrics). Actually she speaks English fluently and doesn't even attempt to listen to the lyrics.

    While in French, the lyrics are really important, at least for the guys/gals that were popular back in the day (Brel, Brassens, etc), and the musical aspect is normally less important. As for Gainsbourg, later on in his days he normally just whispered (not singing at all) a bunch of nonsense, or highly charged sexual message over the music

    I think I prefer the good music side better than good lyrics (probably why I prefer Jacques Dutronc)
     
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  9. Fullbug

    Fullbug Forum Resident

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    English, so I can understand whatever it is that Jagger is mumbling.
     
  10. GlamorProfession

    GlamorProfession Forum Resident

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    you may be right about that. i was going to answer Italian so i could understand the lyrics to opera. but i might end up disappointed if i knew what the words were.
     
  11. DaveinMA

    DaveinMA Some guy

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  12. Licorice pizza

    Licorice pizza Livin’ On The Fault Line

    I end up disappointed even when they're in English, but I still listen.
     
  13. Izozeles

    Izozeles Pushing my limits

    Bacán. Nice to meet some southern cone friends here while the vast majority of the forum is on wintertime
     
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  14. Licorice pizza

    Licorice pizza Livin’ On The Fault Line

    And the fact that Spanish is the 2nd most spoken language in the world. You're correct, lotsa great music coming out of Latin America and the American southwest and NYC.
     
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  15. Frittenköter

    Frittenköter Forum Resident

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    with the exception of a few artists, schlager is what they play in the seventh circle of german hell.
     
  16. Joshua277456

    Joshua277456 Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    Really?

    But it says right on the Wikipedia page

    "Typical schlager tracks are either sweet, highly sentimental ballads with a simple, catchy melody or light pop tunes. Lyrics typically center on love, relationships and feelings. The northern variant of schlager (notably in Finland) has taken elements from Nordic and Slavic folk songs, with lyrics tending towards melancholic and elegiac themes. Musically, schlager bears similarities to styles such as easy listening music."

    Easy listening, acoustic, folksy, lovey-dovey kind of stuff
     
  17. Marc 74

    Marc 74 Senior Member

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    Italian and japanese.
     
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  18. Harvest Your Thoughts

    Harvest Your Thoughts Forum Resident

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    She's American though. Go ahead and tell your wife that you are leaving her to marry a movie star as Lucy will understand you perfectly well.
     
  19. Licorice pizza

    Licorice pizza Livin’ On The Fault Line

    I think they all finally grew up. That's my best guess?
     
  20. The Pinhead

    The Pinhead KING OF BOOM AND SIZZLE IN HELL

    She always says she'd leave me for Chris Cornell in a heartbeat if she had the chance. Can't blame her !!:laugh:
     
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  21. soundboy

    soundboy Senior Member

    But just to motivate Waxfreak....she does speak Mandarin Chinese.
     
  22. Harvest Your Thoughts

    Harvest Your Thoughts Forum Resident

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    ...and she does so with a strong American accent!

    Perhaps a few other cultural assumptions based on ethnicity could be thrown in to really impress her. :cool:
     
  23. The Pinhead

    The Pinhead KING OF BOOM AND SIZZLE IN HELL

    Thanx, I know. Her parents came from China so she is a pure chinese girl despite her being born in the USA. She's single and has no kids at 46. Seems like she doesn't want to either. A girl after my own heart.
     
  24. George Blair

    George Blair Senior Member

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    Music is a universal language.
     
  25. John B Good

    John B Good Forum Hall Of Fame

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    I had been taking it to mean "Hit" records. 50s and 60s pop for example.

    I wish I could find cds of Olivia Molina, a record I bought in Germany in the 1970s.
     
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