A Frenchman in Seville sings Englishman in New York
Oct 28, 2009
A brief post to let you know that life isn’t all sad news and HTML code at the moment.
Last night, for example, I headed out for some tapas and musica (see, this learning Spanish thing should be easy with words like that around, right?)
Tonight’s unusual journey involved a group of young men who design aeroplanes by day and play jazz by night.
Working in English, living in Spain, singing in French…no, hang on, singing in French, English and Spanish…Oh, I give up.
Talented and hard-working at languages – and yet putting together an easy-going, entertaining night out at El Perro Andaluz. This is Buscando a Jazz.
I think this melting pot was best summarized by the Frenchman singing Englishman in New York. In Seville.
How funny! I am always amazed how multicultural people are in Europe. It’s easy for Americans to only speak English, but in Europe, all of the countries are so close together and people are always coming and going throughout them. They are exposed to many more cultures and languages, and are far more prone to learn and use those languages. I get so envious sometimes. I studied Italian for two full years in college in Texas, but I didn’t have an opportunity to really use it in the US. By the time I finally went to Italy a few years later, I could barely speak it!
Yes – and each country often has several languages within its borders as well.
Although it feels great when you finally ‘crack’ a language, sometimes I wish we all spoke the same one. Doesn’t have to be English – but just think how many more people you could meet and really get to know if we could all understand each other!