I am highly entertained by the fact that French Canadian is a distinct language from just plain old French.
It's neat how the song still works, but I do wonder how much sense it makes in other languages. Did they have to twist things around to make the words fit the melody?
(I have seen Frozen twice. This song gets stuck in my head at random times, even though I don't remember most of the lyrics.)
I will point out (but only because the guy on the radio did, otherwise I wouldn't have noticed) that it is Canadian French that's it's own dialect, not French Canadian. Which makes sense if you think about it.
I'm not entirely convinced that a lot of songs make sense in English.
I was noticing that the movements of her mouth generally seemed to synch up with the sounds she was making. It seems like the whole thing must be really hard ... and generally under-appreciated.
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It's neat how the song still works, but I do wonder how much sense it makes in other languages. Did they have to twist things around to make the words fit the melody?
(I have seen Frozen twice. This song gets stuck in my head at random times, even though I don't remember most of the lyrics.)
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I'm not entirely convinced that a lot of songs make sense in English.
I was noticing that the movements of her mouth generally seemed to synch up with the sounds she was making. It seems like the whole thing must be really hard ... and generally under-appreciated.
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And, guy on the radio?
I'm not entirely convinced that a lot of songs make sense in English.
True enough.
I wonder if the other languages just happened to match the English syllables enough that it's generally sync'ed, or if they edited it to fit.
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You can hear it here:
http://www.npr.org/2014/02/24/282081061/let-it-go-a-global-hit-in-any-language
I really have no idea how they do it. And I'm not bilingual enough to figure it out just by listening to any two languages.
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