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Anyone done worship songs in different languages?
Started by mat on 29 October 2008 - 7:57pm
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Was just wondering wether anyone had done songs in different languages. e.e I could sing of your love for ever in spanish. At our church we have done the chorus for how great is our god in welsh, which works very well, although it was helped by the fact that there are quite a few welsh speakers in our church (including my self), we've also done the occaisional calon lan. |
I have done when I'm in different counties! Did Blessed Be Your Name in Romanian, that was a special time!
We don't really have need to. Though we do have an international carol service which is fun!
No :)
(I've been in services and not known a lick of what is being said/sung and it's still cool though)
Hi,
I've led worship in France a lot and I've done quite a bit of english to french translation.
I think, however, that non-english speaking songwritters should work on improving what's hapening in their language, because language is more than words : it embodies a culture, a unique way of worshipping, that english-based words and music doesnt necessarly convey.
Not really in our church (except for that bit in 'We are marching...')... but i have been to a Chinese church in NYC (the pastor's a friend of my dad). We had someone translate the service for us and stuff, n it was reli cool cos pretty much all the songs were in chinese (would've had a go at singin them but i didn't reli understand what they said lol) so yeh, i've attempted to sing Chinese worship songs xD
We've done songs in Swahili/other African languages (can't remember which ones exactly, sorry) and that's been quite fun. Always great to get some good tribal drumming going!
I attend part time the BGG church in Stuttgart which is hosting the Worship Central Germany in January 2009. Some songs work really well in German - Wunderbar, so Wunderbar and Licht unser Welt translate very well, but others are more of a problem. I was leading worship in German and tried to translate 'In Christ alone' - the first line worked well 'In Christ allein', but then we got to 'My hope is fund' which ends up as 'Meine Hoffnug ist gefunden' going from 4 sylables to 8 is a bit of a mouthful. I decided to stop at this point and we sang the song in English. The accents may have been strange, but the song was well received. Thankfully most Germans are more fluent in English than most English are in German.
Anyone got any good translations of songs into German?
Gerard
Our Habitat for Humanity team had a great time in Ghana a few years ago and we were taught a song in their tribal Twi language about God's goodness. I can still remember it word for word a few years later....phonetically at least!
Da na se, da na aseh
Da unya me na se....
Irish sometimes creeps into our hymns, but the fluency isn't there in our choir yet to do it convincingly - maybe for St Patrick's day we'll give Christ a 100,000 welcomes (Cead Mile Failte Romhait)
Oh and good ol' Latin!! Love Taize chants for times of reflection....
http://uk.myspace.com/lorenzotunes
John 3.16 --> 1 Jn 3.16 Here is love.
I grew up in Brasil and have done portuguese versions of "It's rising up" and "Lord you have my heart" in my home church in Brasil (Although I probably should technically have got copyright permission to translate them into portuguese...) This was long before the spanish delirious album, and I was only 17 at the time, so hopefully Mr Redman and Mr Smith will let me off!
Haven't really done it here as I'm never too sure as to how helpful worshiping in a different language is (apart from tongues) as, unless a large contingency of the church is from said country or speaks said language, then no one really knows what they are singing and trying to teach the church to essentially make noises that mean nothing to them distracts from worshiping God. I'm a strong believer in the fact that worship should be simple enough to not get between God and worshiper!
Those are just my thoughts though...