Des chansons québecois encore
Sep. 23rd, 2017 01:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinI've been alternating between Radio-Canada and seeing what YouTube autoplays when I look up songs I hear on there. Here are a few of my favourites ... and I think I have found a new beloved band in Les Cowboys Fringants. They have an album called L'Expédition, for crying out loud.
English
How much this helps me learn the language is anyone's guess. My comprehension even of sung English is pretty pathetic; I've been listening to non-English songs as long as I can remember, enjoying them for their musicality without the pressure of processing the words, so they're in one ear and out the other. And while learning to sing songs in another language might be a good practice generally, whoever suggests that has little experience with how many syllables a French Canadian can cram into one line holy cow.
(On the other hand, it might give a genetic excuse for my speech being excessively fast and inarticulate? Can't help it, I've got 400 years of Joual to overcome ...)
English
How much this helps me learn the language is anyone's guess. My comprehension even of sung English is pretty pathetic; I've been listening to non-English songs as long as I can remember, enjoying them for their musicality without the pressure of processing the words, so they're in one ear and out the other. And while learning to sing songs in another language might be a good practice generally, whoever suggests that has little experience with how many syllables a French Canadian can cram into one line holy cow.
(On the other hand, it might give a genetic excuse for my speech being excessively fast and inarticulate? Can't help it, I've got 400 years of Joual to overcome ...)
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Date: 2017-09-25 05:05 am (UTC)People have been telling me the same thing since childhood (along with 'AND you're too loud' so often that I'm wondering if the 'too fast/hard to understand' thing is something that girls get more often as well?)
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Date: 2017-09-25 09:39 pm (UTC)I dunno, apart from myself I think I mainly remember boys being criticised for inarticulation, if not speed; 'you're talking too fast' seems to be directed at enthusiastic people regardless of gender. 'Too loud' might be more commonly aimed at girls, but higher frequencies are perceived as louder even when actual decibel levels are the same* so they may legitimately and objectively be perceived as louder even without taking gender bias into play, especially when you bring bright American vowels into it. I certainly remember hearing high school boys asked to speak up, and more clearly.
* Just as light at the blue end of the spectrum is more energetic than red – if higher pitches were blasted at the same level as bass, in a passing car with a souped-up stereo system, we'd all go deaf.