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A long shot - song in Ladino. Native Spanish speakers?

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Bloodybridget · 22/03/2021 13:54

I wonder if anyone can help me with this - I'm preparing a very basic presentation on Sephardic songs for my choir; I want to include lyrics in Ladino and English for the songs I play, but it's hard to find all the right lyrics for the tracks I'll be using (there are lots of different versions for most of the songs); I speak some Spanish, but not well enough to decipher all the words I can hear.

I think a native or very good Spanish speaker would be able to understand them. If anyone's willing to try, and I can manage to share the recordings I have, I'd be really grateful.

There are three songs I want help with; one I'm only missing one 4-line verse; the others I haven't got much.

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Bloodybridget · 04/04/2021 01:17

Just on the offchance anyone reads this, I remembered I have friends in Spain and they have been very helpful!

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TheBikiniExpert · 23/08/2022 14:42

I thought Ladino was spoken in Italy?

Bloodybridget · 24/08/2022 20:25

@TheBikiniExpert no, Ladino is a form of mediaeval Spanish that Jewish communities expelled from Spain brought to the countries where they settled after that.

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LaSavoie · 24/08/2022 20:33

@TheBikiniExpert actually you are not wrong! Ladino is the Italian word for Ladin, which is another language of the Romance family and is spoken in Northern Italy.

It’s very confusing because it has the same name as the Judeo-Spanish language of Ladino that the OP is talking about.

TheBikiniExpert · 24/08/2022 21:47

Thanks. I'd only ever heard it in relation to the language spoken in the mountains in Northern Italy. You learn something new every day!

Bloodybridget · 25/08/2022 11:49

Ah, thanks for info @LaSavoie , in fact I think I had heard about that before but it had dropped off the hard drive . .

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CatherinedeBourgh · 25/08/2022 11:51

Can you post it? I'll have a go

LaMadrilena · 25/08/2022 11:51

I'll have a go if you need help! I'm native-level bilingual in Spanish, and enjoy modern ladino music - Mor Karbasi, Yasmín Levi etc.

CatherinedeBourgh · 25/08/2022 11:52

Unless it's sorted by now of course!

Bloodybridget · 25/08/2022 22:10

Thanks very much @CatherinedeBourgh and@LaMadrilena , my OP was last year and with help from friends in Spain, I did manage to get transllati

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