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| COF Senior Member United States Joined 5609 days ago 262 posts - 354 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 45 04 April 2012 at 2:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Which languages would you say are the best for singing in terms of flow, rhyming ability and just generally sounding good in that form? And which language would you say is the worst for singing?
I would say: Best: Italian Worst: Spanish Spanish may be an unusual choice, but I just don't like the sound of it when it is being sung. Particularly in rock music, it just doesn't work. It can work for some pop music, but Spanish rock music is a big no-no. On the other hand, rock music in Italian sounds quite good, which is suprising considering both are Romance languages and have a similar sound system. Edited by COF on 04 April 2012 at 2:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 4834 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 2 of 45 04 April 2012 at 2:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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tonal languages are the worst because they loose their tones. languages without stress,
phonemic length and tone are the best. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kyle Corrie Senior Member United States Joined 4607 days ago 175 posts - 464 votes | Message 3 of 45 04 April 2012 at 2:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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German is not a language that was meant to be sung.
The word order just ruins the flow. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6375 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 4 of 45 04 April 2012 at 2:48pm | IP Logged | ||
OP, that's so surprising for me! I love rock in Spanish. Heroes del silencio, Mago de Oz, Juanes (some songs are too pop though). On the other hand in Italian I only know Ligabue. For me music is such a huge part of language learning (god bless lyricstraining.com) that if I like a language I also like music in it, and if there's no music I like, this doesn't let me truly love the language (aw with Esperanto). There's even one song in French that I like, despite not liking the language. Edited by Serpent on 04 April 2012 at 2:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4485 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 5 of 45 04 April 2012 at 2:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't know about rock sung in Italian, but Italian bands singing in English is usually a huge fail.
English and French are the best for my money. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| atama warui Triglot Senior Member Japan Joined 4479 days ago 594 posts - 985 votes Speaks: German*, English, Japanese | Message 6 of 45 04 April 2012 at 4:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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I like Japanese songs.
Too bad lyricstraining.com doesn't support that language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| COF Senior Member United States Joined 5609 days ago 262 posts - 354 votes Speaks: English* | Message 7 of 45 04 April 2012 at 4:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would agree that the tones of Mandarin don't exactly make it an easy language to sing in, but I think a well-crafted Mandarin song actually sounds pretty good, it's a hard language to sing in compared to some other languages, but certainly not impossible. Edited by COF on 04 April 2012 at 4:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6360 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 8 of 45 04 April 2012 at 4:58pm | IP Logged | ||
Cantonese keeps its tonal distinctions when sung. Tonal languages != Mandarin. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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