Posts by roleypoley2

roleypoley2

10 Mar 2011

Life / Essential Polish Media [14]

Hello everyone,

Can you all help me with this scenario. A friend of mine studying English (American) really wants to know about our media (music, movies, and children's songs & stories/lullabies/etc.). She asked me to tell her what are best five singers in American English music history and their best album and the best five movies as well.

I immediately told her "No problem!". There are a lot of good singers in the English language within the many genres of music in traditional music and the more modern music but if I had to choose only five songs that just about every native American English speakers knows, then I would recommend:

1. Micheal Jackson (best album: History: Past, Present and Future)
2. Bob Marley (best album: Legend - The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers)
3. James Brown (best album: 20 All-Time Greatest Hits!)
4. Frank Sinatra (best album: Very Best of)
5. Elvis (best album: Elv1s 30 #1 Hits)

And for movies, I would say:

1. The Godfather I & II
2. Forrest Gump
3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
4. Disney’s Peter Pan & The Lion King (the original versions)
5. Star Wars

This got me to thinking,
1. what would be the definitive equivalent for the above two lists for the Polish language?? For the music, preferably traditional music since it is very hard to prove modern music is truly a classic if it has yet to prove it's worthiness over time.

roleypoley2

10 Mar 2011

Life / Essential Polish Media [14]

but not that with Johnny Depp?

I was referring to the original, of course. Lol!

@puella - Excellent reply!! Thank you very much for your detailed response! What I am doing right now is searching on Google for the best "greatest hits" albums of the five music artists you mentioned above. I hope I choose the right one since most of the best artists have multiple "greatest hits" albums.

to name a few but I could add many more song performers and writers

Oh please list maybe 3 or 4 more if you don't mind! But only the best that everyone loves! I hope to one day sing Polish karaoke with my friends and to impress them with classic songs from their language. I think it would really make them happy!

I am going to purchase all of the movies you mentioned on DVD so I can chat with my friends about it.

Does Henryk Wars also have a "greatest hits" album that I can memorize and translate all Polish lullabies/children's songs from? Also, what about the "greatest hits" album of Jan Brzechwa?

I will pass on the novels for now since I am but only a beginner in the Polish language. I will never get to the poetry though since I am not a fan of it even in English. :P

Again, thank you very much, puella!! This is just what I was looking for and it should keep me busy until I translate/memorize all of the lyrics of each of the songs. :D

roleypoley2

11 Mar 2011

Life / Essential Polish Media [14]

What do you like more? Comedies or dramas?

I do not like comedies unless they are in my native language, English. So between comedies and dramas, then I prefer drama by far. But the movies I enjoy the most are epics and suspense dramas/thrillers. Maybe you asked about comedies and drama since those are the only movie genres that ALL Polish know and love collectively...?

I'm not sure which movies I should buy since you posted that most of them are comedies... :( Foreign language comedies are not good for foreigners since comedies use almost only slang. Even after I learn Polish, comedies are the one area that will still be difficult to understand.

By the way, I am searching for the "greatest hits" album of the artists you wrote above but my Google searches are giving me much. How do I say "greatest hits" in the Polish language? For instance -> "Dżem - Greatest hits" ?

roleypoley2

12 Mar 2011

Life / Essential Polish Media [14]

That's funny that "greatest hits" translates to "the best of" in Polish. lol!

Thank you for all the assistance, I have plenty to keep me busy translating/memorizing for a while! :)