Last night was my first official Slovenian concert. We went to Linhartova Dvorana (our beautiful local performance hall) to see the very great Vlado Kreslin, who I would describe as a Slovenian Bruce Springsteen. He was described to me as a Slovenian Bob Dylan, but I don't really care for Dylan much so I vote Springsteen.
Vlado sings
Anyway, apparently he wrote a book about his life and touring, so the concert featured him singing songs and interspersing them with humorous excerpts from the book.Sadly, between the fact that I only have basic level comprehension and the fact that he was speaking in a strong northeastern accent*, I could barely understood anything. Nonetheless, it was nice to be there and Vlado was fantastic. He played without a band, but was so gripping that it was more than enough.
Vlado reads
Here is a video of him doing one of his songs: Nocoj Igramo za Vas (Tonight, We Play For You)
*Oy vey! Remind me to tell you about all the drama with accents and dialects here. For such a small country, it is a big headache!
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Vlado Kreslin ...Live!
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Mine is similar to Vlado's ... The dialect, that is. But since he lives some 10 km away from my birthplace they use different words for some basic things there... I still understand him, of course.
I wouldn't really recommend dabbling with Slovenian dialects and accents :-) I started speaking "Slovenian" as soon as I moved to Ljubljana, where every body put my accent (resulting from the pretension of speaking Slovenian) somewhere around Maribor :-D
10km = totally different words? Oh dear! Alas as much as I'd love to steer clear of dialects I live in Radovljica and spend time with a bunch of hardcore Gorenjska speakers so it rubs off on my impressionable mind. I plan to take a class at Center za Slovenščina soon so they can get me back on the path to speaking true Slovene.
I think Gorenjska dialect is quite posh, so maybe you needn't worry if it rubs off a bit...
But I've been told several times the classes at CzS are nice, possibly because one gets to meet people from everywhere...
I have a feeling you'll learn "enough" Slovenian soon :-)
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