Do you prefer listening to songs in your own language or in another language? Why? What makes a song popular for you, the lyrics of the song or the melody? Do you remember the lyrics of your favorite songs? Write your most favorable part.
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Watsana R.
11/29/2010 02:40:12 pm
Personally, I prefer my native language. However, I like to listen to all songs and all another language. In fact, I love English songs and Chinese songs, sine I was a child.
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Veniamin Susin
12/1/2010 08:58:24 am
I prefer to listen music in English language. Most of the time I listen to the radio and the songs that are played there. Even as a child, back in Russia I liked listening songs in English. As far as lyrics I think more touching songs are written in Russian language, as for religious songs I like Russian originals better.
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fatima hernandez
12/1/2010 09:02:01 am
For my preference I rather listen to music in my native language. I love all kind of music, but my favorite type of music is rock pop. For me the most important thing in a song is the lyric because if it doesn’t have any meaning I don’t see the point. Even thought I rather listen in my native language I also enjoy a lot listen to song in English. In Mexico is very popular listening to English music so I’m used to it. In that situation we pay more attention to the bit then the lyrics because we don’t understand a lot of the song is about. I like figure out what is the song about that’s one of the reasons I like listen to it. I have many songs that I like but there’s always one song that is always in my head. The song is called November rain by guns n roses. It goes like this… When I look into your eyes I can see a love restrained
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Veronica C
12/2/2010 09:56:19 am
I prefer to listen to different kind of music. Since I was kid my sister and other older people were introducing me different kind of music from different countries. I was listening French, Italian, English, Russian, Romanian music. I love very much to dance so mostly music I was listening to was dancing music or something rhythmic. When I was in school I was singing in a girl’s group. The music we were singing was Moldavian country music. That time I didn’t enjoy that kind of music, but today I remember many of those old songs which we were singing and I think that they are something unique.
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Tetyana Sh.
12/2/2010 11:30:20 am
I prefer listening in my language, because I understand it. Before we came to the USA, I didn't study English and I didn't understand anything in that language and other languages too. I didn't understand music in any other language, except Russian or Ukrainian. And, also, I just listened to Christian music in our country. When I was a child, my mother listened to church music, and my older sister too, and I would have liked to listen to that music too, but we could not listen to this music because our country didn't give permission to listen to that music. In the past, we had a very strong Communist regime. This regime didn't give the freedom of choice. But, some people would have liked to go to the church, and wanted to serve God more than the Communist regime. My mother went to underground Ukrainian church, and because of this, I learned Christian songs.
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Paraskoviya M.
12/2/2010 12:38:14 pm
Music is a very good and joyful thing. Almost all people in the world are listening to music. When I was younger I didn’t listen the music, because I didn’t have time for that and in those days we didn’t even have a lot of music to listen. Nowadays the world is full with music and every where you go you see an adults teenagers and even little kids who have an ipod. I didn’t like to listening music a lot, but now I enjoy listen to my favorite music “Hillsong” These days me and all my family we all listen to music , but it depends what kind. I’ve listened to a lot of music and only one group that I like is “Hillsong”. “Hillsong” is very good and Christian group and they sing Christian songs. I always listen to “Hillsong”, because I like their lyrics it gives me energy for my life. Also my kids always listen to that music. When they listen “Hillsong’s” music I’m very happy, because I know what kind of music they listen to. I have nothing to worry about what kind of words they hear in “Hillsong‘s“ group, because the words are pure and they’ll need it in future.
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Jenny M
12/3/2010 02:49:37 pm
Music is sounds infused with elements including pitch, rhythm and tempo. Music is the spiritual food for humans. There are different kinds of genres, for example: pop, rock and roll, country, and classical music and many more. Music can cheer you up or bring you down, depending on what sort of song you’re listening to. For me, I prefer listening to songs in my language.
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Lyubov H.
12/4/2010 03:54:19 am
I like to listening to music very much.I enjoy listening to Christian, soft songs,and I like to listening to Russian and Ukrainian singers.Lyrics and melody both are important to me, but lyrics attract me to songs more than melody.I prefer songs in languages I understand.I want to be able to understand what singers are saying. So, I like to listening to songs in my language more.I listen to mostly for lyrics,without which songs have no much meaning for me. However,I listen to songs that I do not understand what they are saying if I like melody very much, but I do it very seldom.Rarely,I listen to classic music without words.I listen to that music, when I need to calm down or have to do some work that is needed to be done slowly and carefully.Now,I listen to the English songs,too,because listening to them is a good way to learn English.In generally, I do not listen to songs that I do not understand lyrics.I like to listen to some songs that sings a famous Russian singer,Phillip Kirkorov.He is my favorite singer.He is great singer and I like his voice.One of my favorite songs that he sings is "Zhestokaya lyubov"(Cruel love) It is a very sad song with beautiful words.
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Alena P
12/4/2010 05:37:17 am
I prefer listen to a good and high level music on russian language or otheirs or without words.I nave a very specific taste in music.I like trance,house,electronic music.It is music I listening since i was a teenager and now I'm not a disappointed about that style.When i wasn't married I spend a lot of time on night clubs in Belarus, so now when I listen electronic music I have remember thouse time and my mood is rises.
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alex h
12/4/2010 12:25:15 pm
I like to listen to good music and good songs.I always turn on the radio when I drive my car.I like classic , traditional music and songs but I don't like music like pop, rock, or heavy metal. In my country, Ukraine,we have many popular singers like Kirckorov,Phugacheva,Valeria,and Any Lorack.They are very famous and sing good songs.I think, songs sound better in our language but I like songs in English,too.Especially when those songs have good words. This is very important point because people need to understand what they are listening to.Some songs have just more bad words than good words but people listen to them.That is why I prefer songs in my language.I understand about what that song and I understand its meaning.Also, I don't like song where words are repeated many times.That song doesn't have any meaning for me. When people listen to music or songs they want to enjoy it.Good song can make person to be happy.
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12/4/2010 01:49:20 pm
I prefer listen to songs in my own language because I understand very well lyrics. However I like listen different kinds of music and different launguage. I like their melody but I dont understand meaning their lyrics.For me is very important understand lyrics and meaning. I like lyrical songs and choral songs. Also I like folk music.When I listen good music I have very nice mood and I relax. My children took music classes . Two my daugthers play on the piano,son plays on the guitar. My daugthers sing songs in choir. All my family like music and songs.We often sing together .I engoy this songs. I like christian songs ,especially when sing big choir on holiday. Angelic choirs sang He was born ! King of Kings ! The shepherds hurried to the city To see the baby. Christmas ! A miracle happened ! Creat love of the Greator ! This holiday is known everywhere. Let us say together:God is with us !
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Valentyna Ryshkova
12/4/2010 02:21:10 pm
I like music in Russian and English. Sometimes I do not understand the words to English songs, but I enjoy the music. Ukrainian people love music, and I am no different. Many Ukrainian people play musical instruments and sing in choirs. In Ukraine, many people know the words to many old songs. I think it is the same here in America. I would like to learn some American songs to help me learn English. Sometimes the words to American songs go by very quickly. Because I come from another country, I do not hear American music very often. I try to listen as closely as I can. But I do not understand the words at first.
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Ivan R
12/4/2010 04:17:06 pm
Music is one of the essential element of today's life. It is one of the best recreational media for the human being since beginning of the human civilisation. Many people are living on music in different ways. When we work, it energise us to work for long time. When I drive my car, I normally keep the music on. It gives me energy to drive for long time.
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Lyudmyla G
12/5/2010 04:56:17 am
I think everyone likes to listen to music.But not everyone listens the same music.Someone like rock some people like classic music.I know some people listen to music but they don't hear lyric.They prefer to listen just melody.however,I like to listen to music with beautiful lyrics and melody.I prefer to listen a cristchen music because all my life I go to the church.I have a lot of discs with beautiful songs.Those songs tell us about God and his love to all people around the world.Also I have discs with wedding songs.I always listen to music in Ukraine because my English is not very well to understand every word.When I don't understand all words it is not interesting for me.Some songs were wrote with bad words and if people don't understand that words they don't know what they listen to.My favorite song is"Death of Jesus.This song is about Jesus how he died for people who don't love him.I remember it from my child age.
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Marcos.C
12/5/2010 06:44:06 am
actually I prefer to listen music in both languages. In my language
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Tatyana K.
12/5/2010 07:49:39 am
I prefer listen to songs in both languages, Russian and English. Some favorable music of my life is Brian Adams’ songs. My favorite song is Please forgive me by Brian Adams. I was pregnant with my third child when I start to listen to his songs. I met some difficulties during my pregnancy. Often I felt dizzy and nauseas, sometimes I felt unhappy and vulnerable. While I was driving the car I put on a Brian Adams CD and listened to his songs. I was imagined that my close family member was asking for forgiveness through the Please forgive me song The lyrics of his sons make his songs popular to me. Some other lyrics from Brian Adam’s songs are to love a woman, you have to understand her. Yes, I needed a little understanding at the time of my weakness. Even though Adams’ songs remind me about sad moments of my life I still like to listen to his music. These are just few examples of remarkable music, which I associate with feelings I had at the time I was listened to them. Over the years I became older, and I began to understand different styles of music. But I still have the Brian Adam’s CD in my car; I listen to his music to calm myself down. These songs remind me about happy and sad moments of my life, reminding me of my past.
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Trong H
12/5/2010 08:04:34 am
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Inderdeep G.
12/5/2010 09:54:22 am
I prefer to listen to music in my language because I like music in my language, also because I don’t understand songs in English. I like to listen to music and songs. I like to listen to classical music and religious song in Punjabi. I like the lyrics, and the melody. The lyrics make the song popular for me because I remember them. Also it’s hard to remember the melody because you can’t make the sound without the right instrument. I like the religious songs very much. I mostly listen to them. I do not like pop, jazz, rock etc. It gives me headaches. I only like classical music. I like it because it is usually peaceful. Peace of mind is very important to me. I mostly remember the lyrics, but sometimes I don’t. If I listen to the song again, then I can remember, and I am able to sing along. I usually sing along with the lyrics.
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Tim Bogveradze
12/5/2010 10:56:38 am
I like to listen to music in my language, because I love my native language I understand what they sing in my language. Music that is in my language its close to heart. I also love music that sings in different in Russian, Ukrainian, Italian, French and English. I also like listening in my language because its the best. I love my language Georgian language is one of the oldest language. For me the songs are the popular the ones that I like. I like in my language and other languages live music, rock and classic.
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Tina Sh.
12/5/2010 11:36:17 am
I like music and songs. I prefer listening to songs in my own language because I like to understand what it is about. I also like some songs in different languages but as I don’t understand words it sounds to me just like a beautiful music.
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Normita D
12/5/2010 12:02:17 pm
I love listening to music either in my native language or English song. In my native language they sang English when you listening to music it give you stress free relax your mind and inspire you. Music motivates me, and calms me. There is music for every situation, I can also relate to music like when I feel lonely or broken hearted. When I am happy and feel like dancing. When I hear music I just dance that even they see me I just feel free to do so. I feel that no one's looking at me and then just smile. It really makes me feel good. There are also times that I listen to it before I go to sleep.
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Rostislav Kh.
12/5/2010 12:58:05 pm
There are many good songs. Some of them have a good melody, others are very lyrical. I like both of them. However, I liked different songs in different time of my life. For example, when I was a kid I loved the song about animals. In school, I liked the love songs. Of course, I love to listen to songs in my native language. But there are many good songs in other languages. For example, in the end of 70 years, I loved to listen to songs of the Beatles. Then I did not even understand the meaning of these songs, but I liked the melody. At the time, in Russia, there were also popular а disco group which called Bony M . Now I do not like many modern songs. These songs do not make me a pleasant feeling as it was before. Many modern songs glorify violence and depravity. Their rhythm is very fast and it can cause aggression. Also modern songs do not have pleasant melody. For example, I do not like rap. I still prefer to listen to the song of 70-80 years.
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Yu Brown
12/5/2010 01:02:05 pm
I like to listen to most all kinds of music and I like singing and dancing to songs. Since I was young my aunt and me, listen to the radio all the time. Any way, I like Korean music, French, Japan, Mexico, English, Russian and Mong music. I love church music, worship music, dancing and clapping to music. Also, every Sunday I listen to church worship music it is very exciting. I was in a church choir group and church praise team for about ten years. Every weekend we learned a new song. I enjoyed it and was very excited. However, I like to listen to people play the piano, saxophone play and guitar too. Most songs I listen to are in English, there are so many songs that I like. I prefer to listen in my own language but many of the songs are mostly in English and not Korean, so I learned to enjoy them.
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SerhiyD.
12/5/2010 01:20:45 pm
I like to listen to music in my own language because I can understand it more and it's my native language. I like Christmas songs because they are very soothing and it's my most favorite part of the year. It's always like that when it starts to be the holidays. Its so nice because in the songs, they have some meaning to it. The lyrics of the song matter a lot to me because they are what the song is. It's very nice that Christmas is every year because then there is something to look forward to every year. Also the beat of the song. Yes I remember the words to my favorite songs. I really like the song that everyone always sings at Christmas before caroling.
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Vasylysa Moskalenko
12/5/2010 01:38:14 pm
Actually, I prefer listening to music in my language, maybe because I understand every word, or maybe because I grew up mostly on Russian songs. I like music in Russian but also I really like to listen to music in English. Yeah, maybe sometimes I do not understand every words to English songs, but I enjoy the music, or I like the singer and I’m listen to this music. I think I can learning and improve my English with listening English song, so I can be familiar listen English language and be known about the words. When I lived in Ukraine I didn’t listen English songs at all, but when we came here I started to listen to them. By listening I learning English and I enjoying the song. But most of the time I listen to music in my language, because some songs have just more bad words than good words but people listen to them. That is why I prefer songs in my language. I understand about what that song and I understand its meaning. I think words make songs good or bed. Today many songs don’t have meaning.
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snezhana shloma
12/5/2010 02:37:01 pm
I prefer to listen songs on English and Russian. Most of them are songs about God. They make sense for me.I like to listen christian music. When i listen songs on English i learn English and i enjoy it. I always listen it in the car on the radio. My favorite station is 103.9 THE FISH.I often listening songs in russian, too.At the same time i prefer to listen songs in my own language. Sometimes I listening those songs just because i like the author. At the same time i prefer to listen songs in my own language. Because i can understand the meaning of each word. Sometimes people listening that kind of songs that they don't understand. But in those songs there can be a lot of bad word's and people can just listen and don't understand what is the author talking about.I think its not right to do that.Sometimes i listening music on Youtube and if sometimes i don't understand something i listen it with lyrics because i can see the words and i know what they singing about.In addition, i really like to listen music because it makes me feel relaxed.
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Martha DLR
12/5/2010 03:17:02 pm
I prefer to listen songs in my own language, for me is important to understand the letter or message that the compositor wants to transmit, but is impossible to separate the melody because is like an unit, however there are a very good melodies and great singers with fantastic voices that make the song very good even if the song is in other language completely different than mine. I can not say that the letter is the most important thing of a song, because the classic instrumental music without a letter is simple amazing, you are able to enjoy just listening the soft instruments sounds such as the piano, flute, and violin you can realize that are pleasing to the ear, the compositors with great ingenious put together all the precise notes of the staff to create master pieces of art, in that way classic music could help the minds to relax and can be great stress reliever and can be used also as a therapy.
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Bénédicte C.
12/6/2010 08:09:19 am
I usually prefer listening to songs in English. I don’t like so much to listen to music in my own language because I think it sounds better in English, and sometimes I prefer not to understand the lyrics; because I like searching what the lyrics mean, and sometimes I am very disappointed by them. Some songs have a very good melody but very bad lyrics; so if the song is in English, I pay less attention on the lyrics and their meanings. I think that the melody makes a song popular. I remember above all the melody and not the lyrics.
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Iana N.
12/6/2010 04:04:28 pm
I like to listen music very much. Music is my life. I like different kind of music, and on different languages. I don’t know why but in my country in Ukraine I liked to listen music in English. Of curse I listened music on my native language too, but I liked more to listen on English. When I came to America I started listen more songs on my native language. I don’t know why. Maybe it is because I miss my country, or I just want to fill more like I am at home. Anyways I listen music every day on the radio or computer or my self phone. My favorite song o n this moment is “grenade” . This song singing Bruno Mars, and my favorite part is: “I would catch a grenade for you, throw my hand on a blade for you, I would jump in front of a train for you, you know I would do anything for you , I would die for you baby, but you won’t do the same” . You can see how much he lives her. I thing he shows a true love. Because in our time every one thing only about them self, but he shows that true love gives not takes. Music is a part of our life, and I can not imagine life without music. I play on piano and I like to sing. So music is really part of my life. I really don’t care on what language song is singing, as long as melody is nice I will listing this song.
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Tatyana San.
12/6/2010 05:11:50 pm
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Reyna M.
12/7/2010 06:57:46 am
Yes,if I have a choice I prefare to listen a songs in my own langauge.Six years ago I used to have satellite cable,live from my country the Philippines.I listened songs from it,but when I decided to stopped the subscription,now I listen to songs in the English language once in a while.I don't really like to listening to songs now,because of a sad event that happened in my personal life.If I listen to songs,especially love song,it makes me sad.The music/songs of my life stopped already since somebody hurt my feelings so bad.The truth is I dont like listening to songs now unless if Im sleepy when Im driving so I will stay awake.
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fatmirk
12/8/2010 04:47:57 am
I like to listen songs in every languages,but I like very much the traditionl Albanian songs.I grew up for 50 years with these songs and I never won't forget.Here in U.S. I'm far from my country and we have few contact,but in the internet I can find and listen songs from Albania.I like to remember and sing many of that.For example:Kur ma bjen kafen perpara Me ato duart o si biluri. Fol e qesh,moj to dhashte e mbara Fol e qesh moj to shtofte nuri,nuri i bukurise.In English it's difficult to translate every words from Albanian language."When you bring me cofee in front With your hands as the silver Speak and laugh to given the goodness Speak and laugh to grow the beautifulness.Folk in Albanian lanuage is powerful and colorful.For 500 years under the Otoman ocupation the folk to resist and safe the Albanian language.Folk was a flag for freedom and independence.Many songs in my language are for Love,Nation,Freedom and beautifulness.Most exiting songs are the songs for emigration and songs for the die.Many groups of folk from Albania have win awards and price in international concurse.
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