No, I have no "legitimate" reason to study Hebrew; it's just my linguistic curiosity and admiration. I can only hope this doesn't end just as badly as my adventures with other foreign languages of no practical use to me.

It started with some joke in my Russian-speaking Facebook company about how somebody should start singing Hava Nagila to freak ( Read more... )

Another unexpected music discovery - at least for me, who has never lived in the English-speaking world. :P And wow, it even has a Wiki pageThis version, which was "arranged on GarageBand," sounds a little too "synthetic" to me (I can't think of a better word), but I like it better than any performance in D major I've heard so far. Yes, it sounds ( Read more... )

File under "unexpected music discoveries": a Ukrainian version of Jingle Bells, which I find very cute. With bonus puppies in the video. But you can't have a puppy because they all got adopted. :)

I think the lead singer's whistling at about 1:10 is supposed to represent the sound of the wind in the chimney. LOL

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( Lyrics in Ukrainian )

.. and don't forget that unperturbed cat at about 3:24. LOL

Bellieve it or not, the original of this song is Bulgarian "pop-folk" (if my research is correct) and is sometimes referred to as the oldest chalga song, although I won't be surprised if the music was taken from some Gupsy/Romani folk song (or just instrumental piece). What we have in the ( Read more... )

"A song that offers some peace in what is a very messed up world," said, the friend who send me the link to this video.

I don't know if it's odd to find this particular song comforting, , but we both did last night, in the middle of all the madness on Facebook after the terrorist atacks in France, with people quarelling unfriending each other over ( Read more... )

Special thanks to villlka :)

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A hauntingly beautiful if somewhat creepy song and video, which I only discovered yesterday because somebody I know (a fellow Bulgarian, and younger than me!) posted it on Facebook ( Read more... )

For my sister in arms Eleanor plantmom. This song reminded me of you as soon as I heard it for the first time.

Lyrics here.

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The new Google Doodle for Bulgaria featuring the end of the Mayan Calendar. I guess it will come to your time zones too. :)
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I'm looking for a good translation of these song lyrics from German into English. I've only found this version so far, but there is a t least one obvious mistake in the transcript of the original that had lead to a mistake in the translation, and... I'm not sure of anything.

I already feel tempted to use the Russian subtitles of this video (and ( Read more... )