Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Learn Italian in Song: First Me, Second Me

February 2, 2010

This song is an interesting challenge. It was pointed out to me by Rocco Tanica, songwriter and keyboardist with Elio e le Storie Tese, as “a song we wrote to make a joke about Italians pretending to speak English (just like me) with a literal translation of the Italian words (example, quanti anni hai? = [...]

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Learn Italian in Song: Guarda Come Dondolo

February 2, 2010

Look How I Swing Another evergeen hit from the early 60′s for Edoardo Vianello. Hasn’t got much in the way of lyrics and the video is lame (he’s dancing and we can’t see his feet!), but it’s catchy.     Guarda come dondolo,   Look how I swing   guarda come dondolo con il twist, [...]

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