Re: Listening as the key to pronunciation-a practical example
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2019 9:43 am
Being able to sing a song in a totally foreign language with a reasonable good pronunciation isn't a bad thing to be able to do. It may just be mimicry, but you need to do a lot of mimicking to learn a language, and if you are able both to absorb the foreign sound system AND reproduce it (i.e. mimick) then you obviously have an advantage .. but only if coupled to an excellent memory (short, mid and long term). If you can remember a whole song when you have heard it six times then you must have a good memory - but you might still be unable to reproduce the sounds correctly because your brain didn't really analyze the sound system.
By the way .. do foreign opera singers really sing Rusalka in Czech?? I know that those guys often sing in Italian and German and French and English, but would they sing in Czech at Covent Garden or the Met or la Scala? Or at the Большой, for that matter?
By the way .. do foreign opera singers really sing Rusalka in Czech?? I know that those guys often sing in Italian and German and French and English, but would they sing in Czech at Covent Garden or the Met or la Scala? Or at the Большой, for that matter?