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paskatefan · 03-16-2014, 07:30 PM

I've always loved this song. I played the LP over & over to get all the French words right! Gordon does sound like an Anglo speaking French (Nous pouvons decouvrir une autre humanite - that line in particular), but I'll cut him some slack. I was a Foreign Language Education major in college (with a concentration in French & Spanish, but I'm not going to be a nitpicking language purist here). I think it's really cool that he wrote/recorded this lovely bilingual song.

03-16-2014, 07:30 PM	#16
paskatefan Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Philadelphia., PA Posts: 461	Re: Nous Vivons Ensemble, translated, sort of. I've always loved this song. I played the LP over & over to get all the French words right! Gordon does sound like an Anglo speaking French (Nous pouvons decouvrir une autre humanite - that line in particular), but I'll cut him some slack. I was a Foreign Language Education major in college (with a concentration in French & Spanish, but I'm not going to be a nitpicking language purist here). I think it's really cool that he wrote/recorded this lovely bilingual song.