The sound of Romance

[Arthur Scharrenhans]

Agreed. Corsican sounds alien to French ears, but it doesn't really sound Italian either.

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Thanks a lot for this video, it's the first time I get a chance to hear spoken Corsican - all too often all you can find are songs.

In fact it's more comprehensible than I thought. The intonation - very impressionistically described - is a mix of Sardinian, Tuscan, and Siculo-Calabrian (I suppose the latter is a chance resemblance...).

[Tel Errant]

Thanks a lot for this video, it's the first time I get a chance to hear spoken Corsican - all too often all you can find are songs.

In fact it's more comprehensible than I thought. The intonation - very impressionistically described - is a mix of Sardinian, Tuscan, and Siculo-Calabrian (I suppose the latter is a chance resemblance...).

It's relatively easy to find spoken Corsican on YT, nationalists like YT and Dailymotion. Unfortunatelly and ironically most of them sound like that:
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And when they make a bit of an effort you obtain this:
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But it's still not the real thing. Then you have peoples like the one posted by Mesrine but you can still hear some French influence.

But the guy who enter slaming the door here has it perfectly:
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Same video in Languedocian:
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and in Picard:
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[Comte Arnau]

Same video in Languedocian:
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Phew. Languedocian may be the closest language to Catalan, but it'd be real hard to catch it all without the subs.

[Meerkat.86]

Agreed. Corsican sounds alien to French ears, but it doesn't really sound Italian either.

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It sounds like Genoese dialect.

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[Tel Errant]

When you recite a text or a poem you automatically adapt your intonations and whichever the language you speak the rythm is similar, some ressemblances can be just that.

[Sikelos]

Sicilian language
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It's a weekly newscast. Journalists speak literary sicilian.

[Comte Arnau]

Great version of a lullaby in Asturian: Agora non, mío neñu (Not now, my child).

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[aimar]

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[MM81]

Write sentences in your romance language - it can be your national language either your dialect, it doesn't matter - and let the other latin users from other countries/areas try to translate them Let's see how many words and sentences we can mutually understand...

Italian brief poetry by Giuseppe Ungaretti

Soldati
Si sta come
d'autunno
sugli alberi
le foglie

[Jerreiche]

Recuerde el alma dormida,
avive el seso y despierte
contemplando
cómo se pasa la vida,
cómo se viene la muerte
tan callando,
cuán presto se va el placer,
cómo, después de acordado,
da dolor;
cómo, a nuestro parecer,
cualquiera tiempo pasado
fue mejor.


I share a surname with the man who wrote this