Use Evanescence and Phil Collins to learn English!

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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 16:04 (twenty-three years ago)

damn, at least when i learnt german i got to listen to 99 red balloons over and over again.

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 16:10 (twenty-three years ago)

hahaha!

disappointingly it doesn't actually explain what 'evanescence' means. nor does it suggest the circs in which you might actually use the phrase "the nothing i've become" IRL. so, dud.

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 16:14 (twenty-three years ago)

i learned my english from plastic bertrand.

― nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

wow this is great ned!

Do you like fast-paced music? Are you ready to take in some really intense sound full of drum, bass and musical breaks? If the answer is - yes, then today's music genre, simply called 'Drum and Bass', is for you!

But what exactly is the story behind the name? Why has Drum and Bass become so popular in Britain? And what sort of language do people use to talk about it? Find out here with the help of our expert guest, some fans and Katrina Leskanich, best known as the front person of the Eurovision Song Contest winning act Katrina and The Waves.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Dear god, I missed THAT factor.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 17:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Listen to Katrina and three fans of Indie. See if you can spot the words they use to describe Indie music.

HA!

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

wonder if they take the piss out of jim o'rourke...

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)

it's the universal language.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)

whats "fat soulless fuck" in spanish?

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 20:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I am really beginning to lose count of the number of times I've wished that other news services and such had similarly informative lessons on language. Trying to learn an Asian language on the internet is nearly futile. But English, of course, is given away for free nearly everywhere you go.

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Luftballoon does not mean red balloon.

That is all.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 20:27 (twenty-three years ago)

You don't understand, Ally - Bob thinks we are all speaking German right now.

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 20:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I liked this bit about Phil Collins:

"When his first wife left him, he wrote several songs about how he felt."

Yes, we know.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 22:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Millar, if I had my way, we would be. Also, we would be robots. In fact, everything would be exactly how it is in The Man Machine.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 01:18 (twenty-three years ago)

i think everyone should learn to read braille. that way you could (in theory) read 2 things at once. it's brilliant.

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 06:03 (twenty-three years ago)

if you play classical piano you have to read two things at once. it's a matter of training.

― joan vich (joan vich), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 07:12 (twenty-three years ago)

whats "fat soulless fuck" in spanish?

puto gordo esaborío

'esaborío' is a bit of a local slang word from andalucia, but i totally love this word since i read it in an asterix comic book when i was a kid.

― joan vich (joan vich), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 07:16 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/music/musicdirectory/index.shtml

Colin Babb looks exactly like Lawrence Fishburne.

― wr, Wednesday, 25 June 2003 10:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Coming from the Caribbean I learned English from Jim Morrison and The Beatles, no, as corny as it sounds I am not kidding. That and The Playboy Channel, but that´s another story.When I first heard Phil Collins..the hell that spawned cry babys like Limp Bizkit...only nastier, I thought all english people in the 80´s sucked. Yeah he's an Adult Contemporary, the real posmodern man. At least The Evanescence chick is kinda cute and has a good voice...well yeah...that´s pretty much it..maybe she should like just talk..not sing. She would be a nice person to listen before and as you sleep.

― Siñor N.K. Loveless (Siñor N.K. Loveless), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 12:28 (twenty-three years ago)

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