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Das ist echt cool und sehr hilfreich. Vielen Dank Emanuel!
Youglish is simply unbelievable! Thanks for the tip. What a rabbit hole….
Voyce has a good voice, but if I’m not mistaken, the lyrics are COMPLETELY changed from the original, which makes it less useful for German learning for me. I listened to “Hallelujah”, which has a classic first verse “I heard there was a secret chord…”, and was trying to understand how the German words matched up, and eventually concluded they didn’t… https://youtu.be/rOpeW6DObQI
I don’t know the original, so I couldn’t really tell.
To be honest, I don’t ever pay any attention to lyrics anyway. I grew up with Techno and House, so music for me is purely about music, and I don’t care about messages or stories in it.
It’s almost impossible to fit the rhyme pattern and meter and flow of the song if it’s a direct translation so I’m not super surprised it doesn’t match up.
The biggest problem i had was actually hearing what’s being sung. For some reason singing seems to be way harder to understand than normal talking for me.
I can relate. This version seems to have little to do with The Bible or God except for the title :)
Ich kannte Youglish nicht . Ich finde es sehr interessant für die Fortschritte deutschlerner, weil der Redner sehr schnell spricht . Ich habe den Video dreimal langsamer gesehen ( 0.75, mit Knüpfe unten am rechts ) . Ich fand die Verschmolzene Wörter schwer zu verstehen. Zumbeispiel:” aber wenn’s nen geil Ministern in Aussicht gibt ” .
Zudem die englische Wörtern wie Comeback, Glamour , Feedback mit einen kurste “a”
Laut ausgesprochen wird .
Bis Morgen .
Oh, ja 0,75 klingt zu künstlich, das kann ich auch nicht mehr gut gucken/hören.
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Pierre-Jean
You too :)
Hello!
Typoish:
“really only a tool of you’re unsure” (really only a tool if you’re unsure)
“take a pop song and the sing it” (take a pop song and the sing it – surplus the)
“pull of the singing part” (pull off the singing part)
The Ed Sheeran song was hilarious!
Another thing I find useful is to watch actual German songs with lyrics, there are videos with lyrics and also songs on spotify with lyrics.
Bis morgen!
There’s also a website where you can have annotated translation of song lyrics, but I can’t think of the name. Someone brought it up somewhere in the comment in an old calendar, but it’s too much to dig through :).
I’ve never had ads on Youglish btw. Not in the videos anyway. Only in the sidebar, and that’s less obtrusive on mobile (or if you have ad block). Just be prepared for Swiss German videos to pop up without warning.
The Ed Sheeran one was fun. He’s got the right voice for it and it’s sweet that his wedding photo is in the background.
It’s funny though, I tried listening to a couple songs I love (Nothing Else Matters, In the End) and all the feelings and memories I normally have were just gone. Like listening to a brand new song. That’s never happened to me with books or movies. Maybe the brain just has a special connection to music.
“all the feelings and memories I normally have were just gone.”
That’s interesting, but I can relate. It’s a bit like seeing a making of of a movie. The magic just disappears.
You Tube videos not helpful for a beginner, or if you are not into pop music.
I love Schlager myself being much older than you. I had nachos and cheese during the halftime show
Some younger people also like Schlager ;)
And there are even Schlager bands formed by really young singers (e.g. Feuerherz), some of their songs appear on spotify with lyrics :)
Ja wirklich, dass ist wahr
Oh yeah, the genre is super big. Young people listen to it when they’re partying, either on Mallorca or in a ski resort.
A giant industry I know nothing about, except that it exists.
And they’re going with the times… there’s a lesbian or non binary (I honestly don’t remember) singer star regularly performing at ZDF fernsehgarten (a show for the older demographic) and I like that this makes them open to these things.
You mean Kerstin Ott?
Yup!! Did you know her, or did you look it up?
I know her :)
What’s your favorite Schlager artist?
And do you know the really old German schlager from the 20s? They’re actually quite good!
No, not from the 20’s. The farthest back I know are Marianne Rosenberg and Roland Kaiser ;)
My favourites are Feuerherz, but I also like Bernhard Brink and Helene Fischer (amongst many others) :)
Thumbs up to Feuerherz!
So viele, aber Helene Fisher ist der Megastar. 2015 haben wir Andrea Berg bei Waldbühne in Berlin gesehen. Mag Hertel, Egli, Jung, Albrecht, Brink, Rossi, Die Flippers, usv
Wow, du kennst dich echt gut aus :)!