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Ten Favourite Songs in a Language I Don’t Speak

Mark Holburn
5 min readAug 24, 2022

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When I first read Paul Combs great article about this below I thought there is no way I will be able to come up with a list of ten songs in this category.

Then I read some more fantastic articles on the subject: -

Alex Markham’s here, David Acaster’s here and Rodrigo S-C’s here

This then prompted me to have a peep through my current playlist and think of some foreign songs. I was somewhat surprised when I started counting them which gave me some food for thought on producing a list

I do love languages and confess I have studied Spanish for a considerable amount of time. Due to my love of the language, I still do Spanish exercises as a hobby every day. However, living in the UK, I don’t speak it on a day-to-day basis as no one would understand me. Not even the Spanish. Mind you my wife often makes no sense of my ramblings so sometimes I might as well try speaking Spanish to her or even double Dutch. Has anyone ever learned double Dutch? Dutch must be hard enough!

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Mark Holburn
Mark Holburn

Written by Mark Holburn

Lover of music, sport, animals, humour, movies and decency. A Level in Film Studies.

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