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  • #23478
    acoustica1
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    Hi everyone
    My friend Claire doesn’t speak english but we have fun everytime i see her =>
    http://accoustic91.free.fr/OLDBLUES.mp3.mp3

    Just wondering if anyone else has any songs in their bag in a language they don’t actually speak?

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    • #74370
      1bassleft
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      Pity Acoustica is here, and we have strict rules about swearing on this site (presumably applying to non-English language, too) or I’d say something like

      “Fiche ma paix, Lee. Un rigalo? Mon cul” :mrgreen:

    • #74391
      lee_UK
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      Isnt there another Forum you can take this to? please dont subject us all to your ‘Un kilo de pomme’ schoolboy french Mr 1bassleft….. πŸ˜†

    • #74372
      1bassleft
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      Merci, acoustica, tu es tres gentille. I didn’t need the help of Mrs Bass (just as well, she’s asleep again) but apols for the lack of accent. This is an English keyboard. Worse for my Spanish chums; I can’t get a squiggly “n”. When I type “prospero ano nuevo” on 1st January, I know I’m wishing them a Happy New Anus.

    • #74340
      acoustica1
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      [quote]Mrs Bass is a French teacher[/quote]
      Really?
      Passe lui le bonjour et bonne journée à ta petite famille.A très bientot. πŸ˜‰

    • #74387
      1bassleft
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      I’m fine, thanks Acoustica. Mrs Bass is a French teacher so she got very excited about the song. She never listens to lyrics in English, never mind French, but I did hear her spouting stuff like having a tongue like a wolf or cats. I’m a chemist, so I recognized the “methylene blue” and, frankly, wondered what she was on about πŸ™‚

    • #74368
      acoustica1
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      Hi 1bassleft
      How are you doing?
      I agree => if you want to sing a french song : choose another one!!
      The girl singing “lolita” is very pretty but the lyrics of her song so stupid…
      if i had to translate what she sings ” it’s not my fault if everybody is looking at me…me Lolita”……….

    • #74356
      1bassleft
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      I was once in Torremolinos market listening to some uberfast Flamenco-stylee guitar. Sounded vaguely familiar, but couldn’t make out the lyrics until the chorus:

      “welcomer to the HhhhotEL Cayifornya. Eez a luverly plaice…”

      I really should have bought it. In a strange way, it was wonderful. I’ve tried to sing Alizee’s “Moi, Lolita” but not very successfully. Partly because my French is not so hot and partly because it doesn’t sound good from an overweight 40ish bloke. Partly because the lyrics are so silly (is there any other song in the world with methylene blue in the lyric?)

    • #74390
      mrblanche
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      [quote=”lee_UK”]Didnt know about the original of that song, thought it was Spanish, So Mexican-Spanish is kinda like US-English? a kind of bastardised form of the pure original language? Jamaican english being the same?[/quote]

      I would say Mexican Spanish is farther than what is spoken in Spain than Quebecois French is from Parisien French or Texas English is from the Queen’s English. Most Mexicans in the U.S. are illiterate in two languages.

    • #74392
      lee_UK
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      Didnt know about the original of that song, thought it was Spanish, So Mexican-Spanish is kinda like US-English? a kind of bastardised form of the pure original language? Jamaican english being the same?

    • #74334
      mrblanche
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      [quote=”lee_UK”]Once heard a band in Spain playing pop covers, they had a captive audience as most of us were there on holiday and were waiting for the ‘Kids’ disco to start, so we could make ourselves look stupid doing the kids dances.
      Anyway, they sang ‘phoneically’ like accoustica says, and some lines sounded clear (usually the chorus) and other lines were very blurred, but has anyone tried to sing La Bamba? imagine how that sounds to a Spainiard?[/quote]

      I’m guessing that a “Spaniard” might have quite a bit of trouble with the original version, since it was by a CalMex singer. Just as something sung in Quebec would sound mighty strange to someone from Paris.

      As far as phonetic singing is concerned, have you never heard the Beatles in German?

      Or, for that matter, anything by ABBA?

    • #74362
      lee_UK
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      Once heard a band in Spain playing pop covers, they had a captive audience as most of us were there on holiday and were waiting for the ‘Kids’ disco to start, so we could make ourselves look stupid doing the kids dances.
      Anyway, they sang ‘phoneically’ like accoustica says, and some lines sounded clear (usually the chorus) and other lines were very blurred, but has anyone tried to sing La Bamba? imagine how that sounds to a Spainiard?

    • #74404
      BopsAlot
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      [quote=”lee_UK”][quote=”acoustica1″]Hi lee_UK…..you again!!
      How are you doing?

      I’m sure that you understand the word “blues” πŸ˜€

      In fact i found this kind of thread on a u.s forum.Really crazy to listen to american people singing in chinese or hawaian => they just learned the lyrics “phonetically”.[/quote]

      Ever heard a drunk Irishman singing in gealic with no teeth and a strong Kilburn (London) accent? Asheerrn me gurrn dist misten shore, and arrrgh e stern mishsherrrt. De blood ran currd ernd bloody english town.
      etc etc. ah diddly diddly diddly day.[/quote]

      πŸ˜† πŸ˜† πŸ˜†
      I have a couple Mexican pop songs by “Juanes” that I learned. I don’t know what the Spanish lyrics say, but they sure sound sappy. The guitar playing and especially the songwriting of this band is surprisingly good given that they are Mexican rockers. (any Mexican rockers present in this forum excluded, of course) πŸ˜‰

    • #74401
      lee_UK
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      [quote=”acoustica1″]Hi lee_UK…..you again!!
      How are you doing?

      I’m sure that you understand the word “blues” πŸ˜€

      In fact i found this kind of thread on a u.s forum.Really crazy to listen to american people singing in chinese or hawaian => they just learned the lyrics “phonetically”.[/quote]

      Ever heard a drunk Irishman singing in gealic with no teeth and a strong Kilburn (London) accent? Asheerrn me gurrn dist misten shore, and arrrgh e stern mishsherrrt. De blood ran currd ernd bloody english town.
      etc etc. ah diddly diddly diddly day.

    • #74360
      Gordy Smiff
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      [quote=”lee_UK”]Anything by ‘The Pogues’, cant understand a word.[/quote]

      Funniest post eVar! πŸ˜† πŸ˜† πŸ˜†

    • #74396
      acoustica1
      Participant

      Hi lee_UK…..you again!!
      How are you doing?

      I’m sure that you understand the word “blues” πŸ˜€

      In fact i found this kind of thread on a u.s forum.Really crazy to listen to american people singing in chinese or hawaian => they just learned the lyrics “phonetically”.

    • #74398
      lee_UK
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      Anything by ‘The Pogues’, cant understand a word.

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