Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3I've got a Big Girls Are Best CD Promo that was last seen on eBay for something like $100, felt pretty cool to have bought it for only $10.
For those who don't speak very good English or have a limited vocabulary, when listening to music written in English do you learn the words and the translations or do you learn the sounds?
For example, I don't speak Italian (apart from a few basic phrases) yet I could probably speak (sing if forced) most of my favourite Andrea Bocelli songs. For example, just been listening to Con te partirò and after hearing it so many times, I know how it goes and could pronounce most of it whilst I'd have no idea how to transcribe it or translate most of it. Same would go for a few songs of that genre, Caruso, Finiculi, Finucula, 'O Sole Mio etc Also Pavarotti's section in Miss Sarajevo.
So when you first heard U2/whatever was it a case of learning the pronounciation of the lyrics or the actual words? Olof might know where I'm coming from as he's a Russell Watson fan.