Ukulele & Languages

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one common language... the ukulele.

Posts Tagged ‘Poland’

If you’ve been trying to make sense of my posting schedule lately, chances are you didn’t have much luck. I haven’t been completely quiet though and you might have read my interview on Jim D’Ville‘s Play Ukulele by Ear blog.

Jim came up with really interesting questions on the similarities between language learning and ukulele learning and I must say I really enjoyed reflecting on the subject. You can read the interview here. I also discuss my ukulele learning process, the difficulties I encountered and the reason why I started this blog.

Now, let’s get back to our World Tour business. Today I saw a rat outside the window at work and this reminded me that I had seen a few ukulele videos featuring or mentioning rats lately. So we’re on for a Ukulele & Rats World Tour.

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Close your eyes, spin a globe and point your finger anywhere on the globe…

… and today’s winner is … Poland.

Poland where we get to watch another ukulele taking shape,  destined to be a present for the ukulele maker’s dad according to the title of the video.

The video is well laid out so we get to see all the steps needed to come up with a beautiful looking ukulele.

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Today I found out that the Polish video in my post on had been removed by the user.

I therefore looked for other Polish ukulele videos and found this original instrumental piece

That very same Polish ukulele player has also uploaded a video where we can see how he is building a ukulele, a very fascinating process :

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The focus today will be on Eastern Europe with 2 new ukulele videos coming from Poland and Ukraine.

The first one is a nice cover of a Polish song called Jak anioła głos by Feel.

Lyrics can be found here.

Update of the 17th of september 2009 : sadly, the user has removed this video.

The second song is by Ukrainian Веселі Біоритми (Funny Biorythms) called Робот (Robot).

My guess from the few words I can…

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Today the focus on ukulele and languages is shifting eastward. The songs have been quite tricky to find as some YouTubers have a cunning way to tag their videos so you don’t find them. Searching for videos in languages you don’t speak is quite challenging but it also brings me the satisfaction to find out a little bit about different cultures.

28. Ukrainian –  Веселі Біоритми – Любов! (Funny biorhythms – love !)
This guy is having great fun singing and has gone to great lengths to match his shirt, ukulele and kazoo !

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