Listening in Foreign Languages

I like listening to foreign music too, I mostly listen to Asian Music, like Korean, Japanese, and Chinese music... And i enjoy them sometimes. I have listened to German bands too and I like it.. But I mostly listen to English songs, since I can understand them.

I do sometimes listen to music sung in Spanish. I like IL Divo especially.

I have heard some songs sang in a foreign language but it was not a choice of mine to do it. The song was played on the radio and I just listened to it without changing the channel. Some of it is alright.

German but thats cause I was raised in Germany

I think every language has its own beauty when it is performed in the best way. I mostly listen to songs in English. It happens that I listen to German, French, Italian and Japanese songs. I'm open to listen to beautiful songs in any foreign language. As long as the content has a respect for human beings and all living creature.

Besides English songs, I love Japanese and Chinese songs.. It sounds so good so those are the ones I listen to. And I have tried listening to French songs too, man they sound so sexy LOL

All the time! Right now im listening to Crostian music on CKWR.com and in a few hours I'm going to listen to their Serbian program. They also have a nice German show you might like on Subdays from noon-1pm EST. I prefer music in foreign languages over English, any day.

This is a very interesting thread... English cannot be defined by one type of music (speaking of US music [and UK as well to a certain degree]). As for: German Music: in spite of German being a very 'hard' language, the music is usually very melodic. There is hard-core, hip-hop, metal, operatic. But when I think about traditional German music I think about Baroque and Romantic music... not two words I would use about the language itself. Remember though that dances such as the waltz came from Bavaria/Germany. Arabic Music: Rhythmic and stringed music is what I think about with Arabic music. Add the almost hypnotic singing to the mix and you have a recipe that is found nowhere else in the world and the music has for the most part remained the same for centuries. Spanish Music: Sexy, upbeat, danceable music. Think of all the dances that come from either Spanish or Portuguese culture... flamingo, fandango, salsa, merenge, lambada, tango and many more. Of course all regions of the world have their own style... clogging to the North is one that comes to mind right away. The ability to appreciate 'good' music and 'poor' music means for a lot of people stepping out of what they regularly hear on the radio and listen to things they have never heard before and make a judgement about it. I used to listen to classical music and heavy metal when I was younger... I used to explain to people classical music cleansed my palette from the 'noise' that I started to hear from hard rock/metal bands... when there is no distinction from one song to another, it is time to listen to something else. Thanks, Zelo

I do listen to music in other languages. I listen to a lot of musical soundtracks in other languages and some pop music in songs other than English. Of my non-English music, a majority of it is French. I also have some German, Japanese, Spanish, Icelandic, and Czech. I adore the French langauge-I'm a bit of a francophile- and I was excited to recently learn that my mother's mother's family originally came from France.

mhmm.. i'd say japanese songs(they can be really fun) and some german rock ^~ though they get a bit boring ( i dont understand them) xD