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.
) 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.
Nevertheless I still do that with the fewer non-English-nor-Spanish music I listen to, like the rare German or French music I often come across. Originally posted by LikeASong:I know what you mean. I used to do that back in the day when I actually didn't speak English very much (7, 9, 11 years old). I have learnt most of my English by listening/reading/singing along to Achtung Baby (the first pressed AB vinyl here in Spain had all the lyrics fully translated into Spanish), so I really owe most of my knowledge to that album. But yeah I remember when I didn't speak or understand English that well, I did a lot of 'phonetical singing'. That days are happily gone
I'm pretty good at Geboren Um Zu Leben though 