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rombsix
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Joined: Jan. 11 2006
From: Beirut, Lebanon
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 RE: Paco's new DVD (in reply to Ricardo)
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Don't mean to be rude, but you are learning about an art form that is not from your own culture, so trying to pick up on the language might be important. I mean, if I decide to devote time to learing arabic music and then become a guy teaching arabic music to people on line, don't you think it would behoove me to at least learn some freeking arabic???? Or for gods sake if I refuse to learn some arabic, at least not complain about some important arabic musicians talking about their own arabic music....in ARABIC without the subtitles.
Thank you for the input, Ricardo.
I already speak Arabic, English, and French. However, I found it was just a tiny bit challenging to learn Spanish while being a premedical student preparing for the Medical College Admission Test and simultaneously working on 15 credits of coursework in an atmosphere of continuous competition while trying to keep up with practicing flamenco guitar in a part of the world with no formal teachers then going through medical school, four of the United States Medical Licensing Exams, and traveling to the USA for clinical experience, not to mention a master's degree in basic neuroscience with 30 credits of coursework and thesis preparation plus endless hours of lab work (while also still laboring to keep flamenco guitar practice going).
But who says that the above takes time, and that the human brain requires a couple of hours of sleep every now and then?
Also - if Mark who has been living in Andalucia for many years expresses preference for subtitles despite him being fluent in Spanish (not to mention being surrounded by the Southern Spanish accent), then I think my complaints are just a WEE bit justified. Still I'm not much of an intellectual, so I don't think I'm allowed to have any input on this matter...
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Date Dec. 13 2011 13:07:09
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rogeliocan
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From: Canada
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RE: Paco's new DVD (in reply to tk)
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I don't think anybody will mind for this video to be up on Youtube as it's all promo for the CD. At times, I have a hard time understanding Paco, he does not pronounce much (for me, being non Spanish) and the fact there is always music in the background.
The beginning talks about when he met this group when they were in their 30s, playing rumba and introduced solea, bulerias...
So I guess these are the same guys that he has been touring with because in the end of the movie it's clear that the CD is ab out his last concert.
I'm not really sure if that he is talking about with the old band, if somebody could tell me.
But at each concert, in every city, all instruments were recorded on separate tracks, and it is Paco that listened to each of them to select the best ones, the best solos, from all concerts, to cut the CD..... and promo about it's Paco who selected, Paco who this, Paco who that... So in the end they end up with a live but edited CD and Paco liked the idea.
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Date Dec. 14 2011 0:01:18
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Richard Jernigan
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Joined: Jan. 20 2004
From: Austin, Texas USA
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RE: Paco's new DVD (in reply to Guest)
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ORIGINAL: rumbaking
Ramzi,
My friend...I know what you need....a hot blooded hispanic girlfriend.....hahaha
Ah, yes, the always reliable "bedtime dictionary". But in Spain I have been told once or twice that it sounds like I learned Spanish in Central America.
"Central America?" I asked. "Where in Central America?"
"Pues...este, en realidad, en México."
In fact I spent as much time as a child and youth in the house of the ranch foreman in South Texas, educated Mexican American people, as I did in my grandparents' house. Their son, two days younger than I, who earned a Masters Degree from Texas A&M, now retired from being the foreman himself, was my best friend during the summers I spent on the ranch. Of the twenty-two families who lived on the ranch, mine was the only one who spoke English at home.
When we were driving from Jerez to Granada a couple of years ago, Larisa had the radio on in the car. We were in Madrid for a few days before heading to Andalucia. I had navigated the tourist stuff OK in Spanish, but it had been 20-odd years since I had heard Spanish on a regular basis. I couldn't understand a word the guy said on the radio.
"Well, I've finally lost it," I thought.
Then, click! like a switch being thrown, everything was suddenly perfectly clear.
When we got to Granada, I carried on a conversation with the nice university student who was working part time at the little nine-room hotel when we arrived.
When we got to the room, Larisa said, with a smile, "You really can speak Spanish!" as though she may have had her doubts about it.
She doesn't speak Spanish, but she's fluent in Italian, Russian, German and English. With her Italian she can often follow a Spanish conversation fairly well.
I still have trouble sometimes with Andaluz. But to my admittedly rusty ear, on the Paco DVD, everyone speaks fairly clearly, in standard Castilian. None of them bite on their consonants like a Madrid TV announcer, but they don't speak impenetrable Andaluz like a lot of flamencos.
RNJ
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The sound is much better on the original though. 
