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| theomegamale Newbie United States Joined 4776 days ago 8 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, Danish, Thai, Greek, Hungarian | Message 1 of 13 27 December 2011 at 4:15am | IP Logged |
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I discovered a singer recently named Sertab Erener. She sings in Turkish. I really like her songs, her voice, and the way Turkish sounds in her songs. I listened to one song from another singer (I believe her name was Sila) and Turkish also sounded good there. However, I am not a huge fan of plainly spoken Turkish.
On the flip side, I study Portuguese (mainly the Brazilian dialect) and I love it when it is spoken. However, when I hear Portuguese in songs, I am underwhelmed. Has something similar ever happened to anyone else? Do you think certain languages sound better when spoken or sung? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| NickJS Senior Member United Kingdom flickr.com/photos/sg Joined 4771 days ago 264 posts - 334 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 2 of 13 27 December 2011 at 4:44am | IP Logged |
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I quite like Mandarin songs and in general I find that I am drawn to Taiwanese singers
more, as quite a few of them add a smooth flow of language their songs and it just sounds great - it's actually the main music that I relax to when I'm in bed. Some languages though I probably could not listen to - at least music wise, as they just don't sound right to me as an individual. Additionally, I also find that music in different languages has a different effect on my mood, at least in comparison to music sung in English (which I tend to find terribly boring nowadays - unless its exceptional). Edited by NickJS on 27 December 2011 at 4:51am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 5954 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 3 of 13 27 December 2011 at 5:08am | IP Logged |
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I am not a fan at all of spoken Danish, yet when it's sung I think it's beautiful.
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| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4846 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 4 of 13 27 December 2011 at 5:14am | IP Logged |
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My bachelor's degree was in music, and while I took voice lessons my teacher had me sing French art songs. I love French music. I think a lot of my understanding of French came from that period of study with texts and pronunciation for singing. It's what has now resulted (*many* years later) in me wanting to actively know French instead of just passive knowledge.
I know that's not exactly what theomegamale was asking about, but I still felt it interesting and partially related. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6394 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 5 of 13 27 December 2011 at 6:59am | IP Logged |
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Because Mandarin is a tonal language, and because most Mandarin songs don't consider the tones when matching words to the melody, I find that many Mandarin songs sound like the singers (native speakers all) have thick foreign accents, since it sounds like all of their tones are mangled. I have to some extent gotten used to it now, but in the beginning I found it very annoying.
I also find Cantonese songs sung in Mandarin with Cantonese pronunciation quite silly.sounding, but that has little to do with sound and more to do with unnatural grammar. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Camundonguinho Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4561 days ago 273 posts - 500 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish Studies: Swedish | Message 6 of 13 27 December 2011 at 9:44am | IP Logged |
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I like French, Tamil and Hindi in songs, I don't like them when spoken, they sound so rough.
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| zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5156 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 7 of 13 27 December 2011 at 11:03am | IP Logged |
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German and Russian ftw. :P
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| tzadik7 Hexaglot Newbie United States Joined 5606 days ago 10 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Dutch, Turkish, Mandarin, Arabic (classical) | Message 8 of 13 27 December 2011 at 7:39pm | IP Logged |
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I think both Swedish and Danish sound awesome when someone's singing them. But when they're spoken...well. I don't find them ugly,just less attractive.
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