Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
I had been learning Italian for years. I always loved Latin, but Italian is a living language; I'm writing in it now as well as reading it. It is so interesting delving further into language.
I think music is another language.
I speak English, Portuguese, and French. One day I'd love to learn Italian.
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible.
I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.
German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.
French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety.
I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by far the most words in it of any other language. Our money might not be worth anything anymore, but the language is.
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