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For the language lovers, can we have a foreign language Christmas song challenge?

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Hellokittymania · 21/12/2023 19:17

How many Christmas songs in other languages can we come up with? And how many languages can we cover? The other night, I learned a song in Albanian, I don’t speak Albanian, but I have learned a few Christmas words at least.

JA NA ERDHI VITI I RI! Kenge per femije ne shqip!

https://youtu.be/cbhk2rmmPPE?feature=shared

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LizzieBennetsBonnet · 21/12/2023 19:40

That's a nice one - I like the melody. I will offer Felix Navidad and also Silent Night in German (Stilles Nacht?)

HarrumphryBogart · 21/12/2023 20:13

Oh Tannenbaum

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Mojolostforever · 21/12/2023 20:16

Il est né le divin enfant.

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 21/12/2023 20:17

I like Feliz Navidad too.
In French I like Noël Nouvelet
And in Latin Personent Hodie

PollyannaWhittier · 21/12/2023 20:31

My foreign language Christmas playlist on Spotify (yes, I'm that sad !) has:
Petit papa noël
O Tannenbaum - a version by Andrea Bocelli with verses in about four languages
Feliz Navidad
Il est né le divin enfant
Gaudete (does Latin count as a foreign language ?)
Adeste Fidelis (as above !)
Dominique (which isn't actually a Christmas song but DM insists it is because it's religious and was in the charts at Christmas, so she made me put it on there Hmm)
Adieu des bergères

Hellokittymania · 22/12/2023 16:54

I love languages, I didn’t even realize they had songs in Latin for Christmas. At least not around anymore. Thank you for sharing those. Here is another one in Romanian, I live in Greece, and there are several that I really like, but I don’t know the names of them… So I will have to search.

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