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Could you give an example of soft-speaking romantic german language? Like a video or something.
by wingerlang 9y ago
Could you give an example of soft-speaking romantic german language? Like a video or something.
- omer_balyali 9y agoAve Maria by Schubert (Barbara Bonney) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM0W98t9KSU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM0W98t9KSU
- wingerlang 9y agoSorry, but any normal speaking? Opera like this sounds exactly the same to me regardless of language so it is harder to compare.
- superplussed 9y agoI'm an American that has lived in Berlin for over 3 years now, so I'm very used to the language (if not exactly fluent). And one of the early surprises for me was how soft and beautiful it can sound when spoken by a woman. An example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEJDJnnfRc8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEJDJnnfRc8 And this is more of a joke video, but it shows how most of the reputation of German being harsh comes more from its typical usage in movies than anything fundamentally harsh about the language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLvL7a8Y0pI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLvL7a8Y0pI
- cafard 9y agoMy father said that when he heard a record of Lotte Lenya's, he couldn't believe that German could sound like that. Such German as he then knew, he had learned in the Army and then at an all-male college.
- lvkleist 9y agoGerman here. This is a recording of "Willkommen und Abschied" by Goethe. It's a beautiful poem and I find that this recording does it justice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgd0JYKu14Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgd0JYKu14Q