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Ehyeah two posts in a row. What can I say; I'm enthusiastic.
I've just started having a small infatuation with the German language. I blame it on MUSIC! My TA played a song by Herbert Grönemeyer in class last week and naturally I had to go track it down on the internet because there is a giant polar bear suit in the music video I liked the way it sounded. I ended up buying the mp3 plus some other German music. It looks like iTunes is slowly building up its foreign music collection. (Frickin' no way...They are even starting to sell Utada Hikaru and Ayumi Hamasaki by now! Where have I been??)
Highlight: Juli ('July')
Juli is pop-leaning rock with a lovely female vocalist. To me, they sort of fit in with the Jimmy Eat World/Paramore canon.
"Zerrissen" ('Torn')
I love that skirt, want her outfit...!
I bought a whole album of Juli. <3 (I kind of think iTunes ripped me off though, because they sold me a 128kbps encoding. >_>)
Here is the polar bear video. I kind of don't get it, since it's a very serious song. He wrote it after losing his wife and his brother to cancer. D:
"Mensch" ('Mankind')
I don't understand why everyone always says German is an "ugly-sounding" language. I think it's lovely. In fact, I like it much better than French! I'm glad I told myself I needed to study a little bit of each of these two languages in order to support my studies of Linguistics. Beyond just "how it sounds," I like that German belongs to the same language family as English...which presents more "interesting" similarities. Really, the only thing English and French have in common is the massive chunk of vocabulary that English-speakers swiped from French and Latin a long time ago! Yawn. Also, for the first time, I am studying a language that is somewhat a piece of my heritage -- I actually have some German ancestry on my mother's side.
LISTEN TO JULI; THEY ARE CATCHY and uh someday maybe I'll be able to understand all the lyrics
I've just started having a small infatuation with the German language. I blame it on MUSIC! My TA played a song by Herbert Grönemeyer in class last week and naturally I had to go track it down on the internet because there is a giant polar bear suit in the music video I liked the way it sounded. I ended up buying the mp3 plus some other German music. It looks like iTunes is slowly building up its foreign music collection. (Frickin' no way...They are even starting to sell Utada Hikaru and Ayumi Hamasaki by now! Where have I been??)
Highlight: Juli ('July')
Juli is pop-leaning rock with a lovely female vocalist. To me, they sort of fit in with the Jimmy Eat World/Paramore canon.
"Zerrissen" ('Torn')
Click to viewI love that skirt, want her outfit...!
I bought a whole album of Juli. <3 (I kind of think iTunes ripped me off though, because they sold me a 128kbps encoding. >_>)
Here is the polar bear video. I kind of don't get it, since it's a very serious song. He wrote it after losing his wife and his brother to cancer. D:
"Mensch" ('Mankind')
I don't understand why everyone always says German is an "ugly-sounding" language. I think it's lovely. In fact, I like it much better than French! I'm glad I told myself I needed to study a little bit of each of these two languages in order to support my studies of Linguistics. Beyond just "how it sounds," I like that German belongs to the same language family as English...which presents more "interesting" similarities. Really, the only thing English and French have in common is the massive chunk of vocabulary that English-speakers swiped from French and Latin a long time ago! Yawn. Also, for the first time, I am studying a language that is somewhat a piece of my heritage -- I actually have some German ancestry on my mother's side.
LISTEN TO JULI; THEY ARE CATCHY and uh someday maybe I'll be able to understand all the lyrics