{"id":8067,"date":"2026-09-28T23:07:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T23:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/singing-in-a-foreign-language\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T01:08:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:08:48","slug":"singing-in-a-foreign-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/singing-in-a-foreign-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing in a Foreign Language: Italian, German and French"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"height:0;overflow:hidden;\"><script data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-no-defer=\"1\" data-no-delay=\"1\">(function(){function fix(){var m=document.querySelector(\"meta[name='twitter:data2']\");if(!m)return;var t=m.getAttribute(\"content\");if(!t)return;var el=document.querySelector(\".blog-single__meta-1 li\");if(!el)return;var target=t.toUpperCase().replace(\"MINUTES\",\"MIN READ\").replace(\"MINUTE\",\"MIN READ\");if(el.textContent!==target)el.textContent=target;}fix();window.addEventListener(\"load\",fix);})();<\/script><\/div>\n<div style=\"max-width:800px;margin:0 auto;padding:24px 24px 64px;font-family:'Source Sans Pro','Source Sans 3',-apple-system,Segoe UI,sans-serif;color:#19394C;font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;\">\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Classical singers spend much of their lives singing in languages they do not speak. A first aria is usually in Italian, a first art song is often in German, and French arrives soon after. The words have to sound like the language, and they have to mean something to the person singing them, even when that person could not order lunch in it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Neither of those starts at the piano. They start with the text spoken aloud, in a language chosen because it helps the voice, and with a translation done more than once.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tunelark.com\/teachers\/isabel\" style=\"color:#026D81;\">Isabel S.<\/a> teaches voice at Tunelark. She is an American-German soprano with a master of music in voice from the Mannes School of Music, and she has sung opera and recitals across the United States, Europe and the Middle East. We asked her where she starts a singer who is new to a language, what Italian, German and French each ask of an English speaker, and how a student sings with real meaning in words they cannot understand on sight.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:0 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">Speak the text before you sing it<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Isabel&#8217;s first step comes before any singing at all. &#8220;I assist with pronunciation by sharing basic rules for each language and working with my students on speaking the text to ensure correct pronunciation before singing,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Speaking first separates two jobs. When a singer meets new words and a new melody at the same time, attention goes to the pitches and the breath, and the vowels drift back toward English. Spoken slowly, the text can be fixed one sound at a time with nothing else competing for attention. Once the words come out right when spoken, the singer is only adding pitch and rhythm to something already learned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">The &#8220;basic rules&#8221; are how each language maps its spelling to its sounds. Italian is close to one sound per letter. French spells many sounds it does not pronounce. German is regular once a handful of rules are known. Many classical singers write the sounds above the words using the International Phonetic Alphabet, a set of symbols with one symbol for each sound, so a vowel that has been corrected once stays corrected on the page. Our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/how-to-learn-a-song-singing\/\" style=\"color:#026D81;\">learning a song the way singers do<\/a> covers where speaking the lyrics fits among the other steps.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">Why Italian comes first<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Asked which language a beginner should start with, Isabel does not hesitate. &#8220;Italian is the best foreign language to start singing in,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Even in speech, Italian sounds like it is being sung. The purity of the vowels and consonants make it the easiest language to build a solid technique.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">A pure vowel holds one shape from start to finish. English speakers glide inside many of their vowels without hearing it: &#8220;day&#8221; moves from an &#8220;eh&#8221; toward an &#8220;ee&#8221;, and &#8220;go&#8221; moves from &#8220;oh&#8221; toward &#8220;oo&#8221;. Italian vowels do not move. The &#8220;e&#8221; in &#8220;bene&#8221; stays one sound for as long as the note lasts. That is exactly what a sustained note needs, since a vowel that shifts partway through changes the resonance of the note while it is being sung.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Italian also has a small set of vowels, seven in all: a single &#8220;a&#8221;, &#8220;i&#8221; and &#8220;u&#8221;, and an open and a closed version each of &#8220;e&#8221; and &#8220;o&#8221;. Its double consonants are held a moment longer than single ones, which gives a singer a clear rhythmic job rather than a vague one. Most words end in a vowel, so the voice keeps flowing from one word into the next.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">This is one reason so much beginning classical repertoire is Italian, and why the classical training described in our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/benefits-of-classical-vocal-training\/\" style=\"color:#026D81;\">the benefits of classical vocal training<\/a> usually starts there. Both of the performances Isabel has shared with us are Italian arias. Here she is in performance, singing Rossini&#8217;s &#8220;Bel raggio lusinghier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div data-sage-video=\"sAvE26P58D0\" style=\"margin:26px 0;\">\n<p style=\"font-size:12.5px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#026D81;margin:0 0 8px;\">Performance &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; Bel raggio lusinghier<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;border-radius:8px;background:#000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sAvE26P58D0\" onclick=\"var w=this.parentNode,f=document.createElement('iframe');f.src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sAvE26P58D0?autoplay=1&#038;rel=0';f.title='Bel raggio lusinghier';f.setAttribute('allow','autoplay; fullscreen');f.setAttribute('allowfullscreen','');f.setAttribute('data-no-lazy','1');f.style.cssText='position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0';w.replaceChild(f,this);return false;\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;display:block;\" aria-label=\"Play video: Bel raggio lusinghier\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/poster-bel-raggio-lusinghier-isabel.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;display:block;\" loading=\"lazy\"><span style=\"position:absolute;left:50%;top:50%;width:68px;height:48px;margin:-24px 0 0 -34px;background:rgba(2,109,129,.92);border-radius:12px;\"><\/span><span style=\"position:absolute;left:50%;top:50%;width:0;height:0;margin:-11px 0 0 -8px;border-style:solid;border-width:11px 0 11px 20px;border-color:transparent transparent transparent #fff;\"><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size:15px;line-height:1.5;color:#4a6572;margin:10px 0 0;\">Isabel teaches voice on Tunelark. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/teachers\/isabel\" style=\"color:#026D81;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">View Isabel&rsquo;s profile<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">What German asks of an English speaker<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">German moves the work to the consonants. &#8220;German challenges consonant use,&#8221; Isabel says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">German words often end on consonants, and many syllables stack several of them together. Those consonants are pronounced crisply and completely, including at the ends of words where an English speaker would let them fade. German also has sounds English lacks: two different &#8220;ch&#8221; sounds, a softer one after front vowels as in &#8220;ich&#8221; and a throatier one after back vowels as in &#8220;Bach&#8221;, and the rounded vowels written with an umlaut, &#8220;\u00fc&#8221; and &#8220;\u00f6&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">The singer&#8217;s task is to deliver all of those consonants cleanly without letting them eat into the vowel, which is where the sound lives. A consonant that is too slow or too heavy takes time and breath away from the note. Learning to place a consonant quickly and exactly, then return to an open vowel, is technique that carries over into every other language.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">What French asks of an English speaker<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">French brings vowels an English speaker has never made. &#8220;French adds the complexity of unfamiliar vowels,&#8221; Isabel says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">The best known are the nasal vowels, where some of the sound passes through the nose, as in &#8220;bon&#8221; and &#8220;vin&#8221;. French also has rounded front vowels: the vowel in &#8220;tu&#8221; is made with the tongue in position for &#8220;ee&#8221; and the lips rounded for &#8220;oo&#8221;, a combination English does not use. Many letters are written but not pronounced, and some silent final consonants are sounded when the next word begins with a vowel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Sung French also adds a rule that spoken French ignores. The mute &#8220;e&#8221; at the end of a word, often dropped in conversation, frequently gets its own note in a song and has to be sung as a soft, neutral vowel. A singer who speaks the text exactly as a French speaker would has to learn where the music asks for something different, which is another reason Isabel&#8217;s students speak the text with the rules in hand before they sing it.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">English is a foreign language too<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Native English speakers tend to assume their own language will be the easy one. Isabel does not. &#8220;Singing in English has its own complexities, even for native speakers,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Our speech patterns often hinder the vowel-focussed nature of singing, forcing us to approach English in singing almost as a new language.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">The problems are the ones the other languages expose. English is full of the gliding vowels Italian avoids, and many English syllables end in consonants that close the vowel early. On a long note, a singer has to decide how long to stay on the first part of the vowel in a word like &#8220;day&#8221; before moving to the second, and to arrive at the final consonant only at the last moment. Singers who have worked through Italian often find their English cleaner afterward, because they have learned to hear the vowel they are actually holding.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">Knowing what you are singing about<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">A singer can pronounce a text perfectly and still sing it blank. Isabel makes translation part of learning every piece. &#8220;I always encourage my students to translate their pieces as knowing what you are singing about is essential for interpretation,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Her translation has three stages. &#8220;Translation begins with going word for word. Then make it poetic, as often the word order in foreign languages is different from in English. The following step is key: write out the meaning in your own words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Each stage does something the others cannot. The word-for-word version tells the singer which word falls on which note, so the word a phrase is built around is sung knowing that it is. The poetic version sorts out the grammar and makes the sentence readable in English. The version in the singer&#8217;s own words is the one that tells them what they mean when they sing it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Here is how the three stages look on the opening of &#8220;Caro mio ben,&#8221; an old Italian song that is often among the first a classical beginner learns. The Italian is &#8220;Caro mio ben, credimi almen, senza di te languisce il cor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-left:24px;margin:0 0 24px;\">\n<li style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin-bottom:8px;\"><strong>Word for word:<\/strong> dear my beloved \/ believe-me at-least \/ without of-you languishes the heart.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin-bottom:8px;\"><strong>Poetic:<\/strong> My dear beloved, at least believe me: without you my heart languishes.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin-bottom:8px;\"><strong>In your own words:<\/strong> I know you doubt me, but believe this much. I am wasting away without you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">The word-for-word line shows that &#8220;ben&#8221;, beloved, sits at the end of the first phrase, and &#8220;cor&#8221;, heart, at the end of the last. The own-words line gives the singer a reason to sing the phrase to someone, which is what turns a correctly pronounced line into a sung one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Isabel does not reserve this for foreign languages. &#8220;Even when singing in a native language, it is imperative to do this so as to really understand the meaning of the text,&#8221; she says. A song in English can be sung for years on the sound of its words without the singer ever working out what the second verse says.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">Singing as a character, even in a song<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">The last part of Isabel&#8217;s process asks who is singing. &#8220;If you are singing a part of a character, reflect and research who you are,&#8221; she says. &#8220;If you are singing poetry, maybe you are still singing as a character.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">An operatic aria has an obvious character: a named person in a story, singing at a particular moment in the plot. An art song usually does not. It is a poem set to music. But the poem still has a speaker, someone in love, someone grieving, someone watching the sea, and deciding who that speaker is gives the singer choices about color, pace and emphasis that the notes alone do not settle. Our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/how-to-sing-musical-theater\/\" style=\"color:#026D81;\">singing musical theater<\/a> looks at the same work of telling a story through a song from the theater side.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Then everything goes back to the voice. &#8220;Speaking the text out loud in all of these variations helps immensely with finding clarity in the interpretation in both your mind and body,&#8221; Isabel says. A singer who speaks the word-for-word line, then the poetic line, then their own version, then the original again, hears the meaning land on specific words. Those are the words the singing can lean on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">This is also work that splits in a particular way between teachers. Our guide to the difference between a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/vocal-coach-vs-voice-teacher\/\" style=\"color:#026D81;\">vocal coach and a voice teacher<\/a> covers who usually handles diction and interpretation and who handles the voice itself. Isabel works on both in her lessons.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">About Isabel<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Isabel is an American-German soprano and voice educator with a master of music in voice from the Mannes School of Music and a bachelor of music in voice from the University of Michigan. She has performed in standard and world-premiere operas, recitals, musicals and choral projects across the United States, Europe and the Middle East, including a featured soloist engagement at Carnegie Hall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">She grew up on musical theater and pop songs before opera took hold, and what drew her to it was everything it combines: the musicianship she learned at the piano, the whole body as the instrument, and the interpretation of language, character and poetry. At Tunelark she teaches singers from age five up across classical, musical theater and contemporary styles, and she brings principles of the Alexander Technique into her lessons, which she described to us for our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/posture-for-singing-alexander-technique\/\" style=\"color:#026D81;\">posture for singing and the Alexander Technique<\/a>. Here she is in performance, singing &#8220;Zeffiretti lusinghieri,&#8221; an aria from Mozart&#8217;s <em>Idomeneo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div data-sage-video=\"Ug8K-PrIw_g\" style=\"margin:26px 0;\">\n<p style=\"font-size:12.5px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#026D81;margin:0 0 8px;\">Performance &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; Zeffiretti lusinghieri<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;border-radius:8px;background:#000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ug8K-PrIw_g\" onclick=\"var w=this.parentNode,f=document.createElement('iframe');f.src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ug8K-PrIw_g?autoplay=1&#038;rel=0';f.title='Zeffiretti lusinghieri';f.setAttribute('allow','autoplay; fullscreen');f.setAttribute('allowfullscreen','');f.setAttribute('data-no-lazy','1');f.style.cssText='position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0';w.replaceChild(f,this);return false;\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;display:block;\" aria-label=\"Play video: Zeffiretti lusinghieri\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/poster-zeffiretti-lusinghieri-isabel.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;display:block;\" loading=\"lazy\"><span style=\"position:absolute;left:50%;top:50%;width:68px;height:48px;margin:-24px 0 0 -34px;background:rgba(2,109,129,.92);border-radius:12px;\"><\/span><span style=\"position:absolute;left:50%;top:50%;width:0;height:0;margin:-11px 0 0 -8px;border-style:solid;border-width:11px 0 11px 20px;border-color:transparent transparent transparent #fff;\"><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size:15px;line-height:1.5;color:#4a6572;margin:10px 0 0;\">Isabel teaches voice on Tunelark. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/teachers\/isabel\" style=\"color:#026D81;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">View Isabel&rsquo;s profile<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">Ready to sing in a language you do not speak?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tunelark.com\/teachers\/isabel\" style=\"color:#026D81;\">Isabel is accepting new voice students at Tunelark<\/a>, and a piece you have been assigned in Italian, German or French is a good thing to bring to a first lesson, along with your own translation if you have started one. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/tunelark.com\/find-a-teacher\" style=\"color:#026D81;\">find a teacher<\/a> for another instrument across the rest of the roster.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<p><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What is the easiest language to sing in?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"For most classical beginners, Italian. 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Once the text is right when spoken, adding the melody does not pull the vowels back toward English.\"}}]}<\/script><\/p>\n<details style=\"margin:12px 0;border:1px solid #e0e0e0;border-radius:6px;padding:12px 16px;\">\n<summary style=\"font-family:'Source Sans Pro','Source Sans 3',-apple-system,Segoe UI,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-weight:700;cursor:pointer;color:#064B72;line-height:1.4;\">What is the easiest language to sing in?<\/summary>\n<p style=\"font-family:'Source Sans Pro','Source Sans 3',-apple-system,Segoe UI,sans-serif;font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:8px 0 0;\">For most classical beginners, Italian. Its vowels hold one steady shape, most words end in a vowel, and its spelling is close to one sound per letter, so a singer can concentrate on the voice rather than the pronunciation.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"margin:12px 0;border:1px solid #e0e0e0;border-radius:6px;padding:12px 16px;\">\n<summary style=\"font-family:'Source Sans Pro','Source Sans 3',-apple-system,Segoe UI,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-weight:700;cursor:pointer;color:#064B72;line-height:1.4;\">Do I need to speak Italian, German or French to sing in it?<\/summary>\n<p style=\"font-family:'Source Sans Pro','Source Sans 3',-apple-system,Segoe UI,sans-serif;font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:8px 0 0;\">No. Singers learn the pronunciation rules for each language and a word-by-word translation of each piece they sing. 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