Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4362 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 153 of 168 07 February 2014 at 3:11pm | IP Logged |
I also had problems finding interesting music in Japanese. I don't really listen to modern music in
any language, so modern Japanese music didn't appear to me neither. However I found a few
older bands I like. Namely ザ・スパイダース, 憂歌団 and 美空ひばり. Just one tip, look for older
recordings, because some bands change over time, like the Rolling Stones for example.
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kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4860 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese
| Message 154 of 168 10 February 2014 at 2:36am | IP Logged |
fabriciocarraro wrote:
What kind of music do you like in general? Give us some examples of artists you enjoy =) |
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Hmmmm... I like a variety of music styles. My favorite bands and singers, in no particular order, are Bob Marley, Justin Timberlake, N.E.R.D., Nirvana, Bruno Mars, Craig David, Jamiroquai, and A Tribe Called Quest. In general, I'm really picky about pop music, but I will listen to almost any kind of reggae, jazz, samba or bossa nova.
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mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5239 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese
| Message 155 of 168 10 February 2014 at 2:51am | IP Logged |
fabriciocarraro wrote:
What kind of music do you like in general? Give us some examples of artists you enjoy =) |
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I tend to be very classical, so I won't bore you with my general music tastes. As Japanese goes, I remember I liked 修羅の花 and 怨み節 a lot when Kill Bill hit the theaters, so I'm sure there's many more songs by Meiko Kaji that I'll like... when I get the time to look them up. Might be worth a try if you remember them from Kill Bill (and you liked them) too.
I also got a very good album of traditional (or -like) music from one of my Japanese friends, but I'd have to scan the covers, because I can't read anything on it so typing it here is out of the question.
Mmmh, come to think of it, what a useless post! I've written it already, though, so... :)
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kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4860 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese
| Message 156 of 168 12 February 2014 at 5:38am | IP Logged |
Hmmm... might have to look at more classical-type music.
By the way, I was half-kidding about my "challenge proposal." I know you all have a lot to do in your lives without worrying about choosing songs I may or may not like. :P
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dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4678 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese
| Message 157 of 168 12 February 2014 at 12:11pm | IP Logged |
Pity the challenge is off. I can't get away from this one right now:
http://endlessvideo.com/watch?v=HxcHtlespbQ
I've also found that there are plenty of Japanese drum albums on youtube and I've started
to play those in the background at work lately.
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7169 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 158 of 168 26 February 2014 at 11:40pm | IP Logged |
I stumbled on a couple of online resources hosted by the University of Texas in Austin including Cultural Interviews with Japanese-Speaking Professionals which you may find handy for improving your passive abilities in business register.
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Lassus Hexaglot (formerly Josquin) Senior Member Germany Joined 3860 days ago 36 posts - 67 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Italian, Swedish, Latin Studies: Russian, Irish, Japanese
| Message 159 of 168 16 May 2014 at 12:10pm | IP Logged |
Hi guys,
it's Josquin! I was forced to create a new account, because the old one was disabled in the course of HTLAL's Crimean crisis, which took place in the team thread of Team Katyusha. As you can see, I'm a total newbie again, but I suppose I'll have to live with that. For further information on what happened, please check my log. Maybe mrwarper could also change my name in the first post of this thread. ありがとう!
Josquin
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Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4810 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian
| Message 160 of 168 16 May 2014 at 4:24pm | IP Logged |
@Josquin: I was looking for you :) Couldn't figure out what happened. Thanks for letting
us know. I have yet to visit the Russian team thread. See you there shortly!
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