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ancistrus

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Can native english speakers understand this?
« on: August 07, 2016, 06:57:54 am »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7-9eAal_x4

Sorry for making you listen to music, I hate it when people do that to me. But I am curious.
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Re: Can native english speakers understand this?
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2016, 07:25:02 am »
Yes. Or at least I can.
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Re: Can native english speakers understand this?
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2016, 07:34:05 am »
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Re: Can native english speakers understand this?
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2016, 07:36:02 am »
For the most part, I can't. Don't know why, but I have never been very good with understanding vocals.
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Re: Can native english speakers understand this?
« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2016, 07:36:34 am »
Yeah, I can understand this fairly well.
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Re: Can native english speakers understand this?
« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2016, 08:14:24 am »
Only about one word in three.  Not enough to really follow the plot.  I've always been a bit bad at hearing lyrics, though.
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Re: Can native english speakers understand this?
« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2016, 08:34:57 am »
I can understand the words if I concentrate. But (as in normal for lyrics for me.) it's hard for me to make them coherent.
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Re: Can native english speakers understand this?
« Reply #7 on: August 07, 2016, 10:42:19 am »
It's difficult whenever Mercury's singing in falsetto, or in harmony with someone else. Otherwise not too hard. It might be a different story if I'd heard the song before. Why do you ask?

Based on the title, I was really expecting something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
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Re: Can native english speakers understand this?
« Reply #8 on: August 07, 2016, 11:15:30 am »
Probably ~60% if I'm not paying close attention. Definitely not the easiest of his performances to understand. Compare it to... pretty much anything from Ziggy Stardust.
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Re: Can native english speakers understand this?
« Reply #9 on: August 07, 2016, 11:20:16 am »
Quote from: Oneir on August 07, 2016, 10:42:19 am
Based on the title, I was really expecting something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
Based on you commenting on the title, I was expecting something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY
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Re: Can native english speakers understand this?
« Reply #10 on: August 07, 2016, 11:40:03 am »
Quote from: Oneir on August 07, 2016, 10:42:19 am
It's difficult whenever Mercury's singing in falsetto, or in harmony with someone else. Otherwise not too hard. It might be a different story if I'd heard the song before. Why do you ask?


Well, I am trying to figure out how good my english is.
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Re: Can native english speakers understand this?
« Reply #11 on: August 07, 2016, 12:48:47 pm »
Yes but it's not the easiest, the lyrics flow takes president over being easy to understand.
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Re: Can native english speakers understand this?
« Reply #12 on: August 07, 2016, 04:56:40 pm »
I caught maybe one word out of every couple lines. Very difficult to understand, but I think that might be the potato sound quality.
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Re: Can native english speakers understand this?
« Reply #13 on: August 07, 2016, 05:17:30 pm »
This non-native speaker caught a lot of it in the beginning but less and less as it went on. I agree with previous posters that it's the hardest to hear when he sings in falsetto, or when he switches from it to normallo singing.
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Re: Can native english speakers understand this?
« Reply #14 on: August 07, 2016, 05:20:01 pm »
Quote from: itisnotlogical on August 07, 2016, 04:56:40 pm
I caught maybe one word out of every couple lines. Very difficult to understand, but I think that might be the potato sound quality.

Well... It isn't like they aren't mumbling their lines, have thick accents, are using outdated/foreign jargon.

It took me a while to catch onto what they were saying because mostly what they were saying made little sense to me at first... until I caught onto the theme.

But I am not sure this song would exactly be the test to see if you learned English well enough.
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