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First TL song to get stuck in your head

Postby tastyonions » Wed Sep 12, 2018 11:35 am

I don't generally make a big effort to look for music in my TLs but eventually I come across some songs that really stick in my brain. For Dutch the first happened to be this one:



What was the first song that really stuck in your head for your TLs?
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Re: First TL song to get stuck in your head

Postby Asarena » Wed Sep 12, 2018 2:22 pm

I liked a few Korean songs already before I heard this one, but I think it was the first one to get really stuck in my head. Thanks to this song and another song of theirs, SHINee eventually became the first Kpop group I became a fan of and led to me becoming a Kpop fan.
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Re: First TL song to get stuck in your head

Postby rfnsoares » Wed Sep 12, 2018 2:49 pm



I haven't watched the movie yet...
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Re: First TL song to get stuck in your head

Postby Chung » Wed Sep 12, 2018 3:21 pm



This is my first earworm in a target language dating from when I embarked on learning Hungarian when Usenet and CDs ruled the Earth, Napster didn't exist, and I fantasized about getting FSI Hungarian Basic for Christmas.
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Re: First TL song to get stuck in your head

Postby Axon » Wed Sep 12, 2018 3:30 pm

I went to a tiny French immersion preschool in Northern California where we met once a week to sing songs. Frère Jacques got stuck in my head for years, along with a song "Avec ma baguette magique" that I think was made up by the teacher. After those few months of classes I grew up monolingual but I still know those songs, or parts of them at least.

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Re: First TL song to get stuck in your head

Postby Stefan » Wed Sep 12, 2018 3:37 pm

Does these count?



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Re: First TL song to get stuck in your head

Postby eido » Wed Sep 12, 2018 3:54 pm

After all these years I still don't know many songs in Spanish, but this is definitely a favorite, embarrassingly...
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