Mixtapes Forums Lyrics Artists add Journals.Īrtists - A. Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. Log in now to tell us what you think this song means. And, for me, after nearly 500 days of trying to learn Spanish I do most of the words but can’t follow the song without my visual guide, so my audible skills are way inferior to my reading skills, but other than recordings I do zero conversation in Spanish which is pretty critical to ever developing verbal skills.Lyrics submitted by MorningStar. So if you try to play the YouTube (it’s short and very nice song, IMHO) here are some lyrcis to go along with it and you can try to follow the words. But, alas, I can’t find any meaning for the title, so it just must be words the writer chose. I then figured this was some kind of expression like “chickens have come home to roost” in English or Hablando del rey de Roma (speak of the devil).
I could translate all but sapos and didn’t believe it when almost the only choice (in multiple dictionaries) was ‘toads’, so When the Toads Dance Flamenco. The song itself was titled: Cuando los sapos bailen flamenco. At first I was confused thinking Ella Baila Sola was part of the song title but I later learned this was a very popular female duet from Spain. And they gave several links and that’s how I discovered this song which I really like. Later I found another “advice on learning” source that suggested listening to music on radio or YouTube. So that was fun but just background for this post. Unfortunately, take away my visual cues and I don’t hear so much, which is an interesting lesson in itself. The first time, with the visual guide, I heard almost every word and after a few more tries I could completely follow the song.
Cancion del mariachi translation plus#
I merged these lyrics, plus the Google Translate (embedded at end of this post) and then re-watched the video. Doing a variety of searches I found the lyrics, in Spanish, and various English translations (some pretty bad, a few amusingly not very literal). A bit of searching led to discovering the song he’s singing is Cancion del Mariachi and there is a video on YouTube of this opening scene. Watching the version on a Spanish channel was amusing seeing it dubbed into Spanish and with closed captions, given it takes place in Mexico with Spanish speaking actors.īut the part that really got my attention was the opening scene with Banderas singing (if it was him). Despite its heavy dose of violence I’ve watched the English version several times.
Cancion del mariachi translation movie#
While almost all the actors have Spanish has their first language the movie was actually made in English. The first time I tried to listen to a song was a consequence of stumbling on a Spanish audio version of the movie Desperado with Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek on cable. While words are not so clear in songs, however, one advantage is that the speed is much slower than listening to spoken Spanish, especially news programs. Now actually I often can’t hear the lyrics in English language songs so this is especially challenging for me. But perhaps the most challenging listening assignments is trying to hear the vocals of Spanish language songs. And one, of course, is listening to videos, in Spanish.įortunately here on our cable, plus with Netflix and Amazon Prime there are a many programs, some originally in English, that are in Spanish, sometimes with closed captions (more literal than subtitles). In my attempt to actually learn Spanish many sources suggest using a variety of techniques, not just a single method of learning. Every now and then I do a digression from my main blog topic of translating menus in Spain to something else, in this case some music from Spain.
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