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Recs thread!

[kribban]

Ask for recs below!

Cool female dancing

[kribban]

I've fallen down the BTS rabbithole and part of what I enjoy about their live performances are the high-energy, big attitude dance routines. But it also gives me that familiar gloomy dread of why can't women be this cool?

So feel free to rec me your favorite moments of badass female dancing (YouTube clips, please.)

Re: Cool female dancing

[(Anonymous)]

I've got a lot of mixed recs but no female only ones that meet the bad ass criteria. Excited to see any recs that come about though.

Re: Cool female dancing

[(Anonymous)]

this may be obvious but aren't there a lot of female kpop groups

Comfort Fedoke!

[(Anonymous)]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nVxow046BMY

She's also an allstar on So You Think You Can Dance, and has plenty of amazing performances there too.

Re: Comfort Fedoke!

[kribban]

Oh, that's what I'm talking about. Thank you for the rec!

Re: Comfort Fedoke!

[heresmycard]

omg she is GOOD

Re: Cool female dancing

[(Anonymous)]

I know BlackPink puts up their practice videos like this one for "Kill This Love."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOwaUlXZxkI

(so you can actually see the moves better.)

Re: Cool female dancing

[kribban]

Thank you! I checked out YT and there's a whole lot of them. :-)

Re: Cool female dancing

[heresmycard]

https://youtu.be/BpUMkfzSt04 (female and male dancers)

Re: Cool female dancing

[kribban]

That is superhuman! Thanks for the rec.

Re: Cool female dancing

[(Anonymous)]

I love the various choreography videos on youtube.

https://youtu.be/3pHYxx9dY_U
My fave, set to Bishop Briggs 'River'. (First lead dancer is the choreographer!)

https://youtu.be/kTdjNbiNVmc
Sorry Not Sorry

https://youtu.be/WWMhZG6b89U
Another One Bites the Dust

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziKRSP7F0sw
Push It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSZiutoGnJM
I'm Better

Re: Cool female dancing

[kribban]

Aw, these were fun! Esp Another One Bites the Dust and Push it. It looks like the dancer are having a lot of fun.

German books please?

[malurette]

I've been meaning to learn German for a couple of years now but there's only so much German-for-Dummies books and Duolingo can do, I think I need an incentive and real practice.
Children, young adult, easy-to-digest literature? I'm not sure what genre though; maybe hold the fantasy and science fiction--I usually like them but I'm afraid the vocabulary would be tougher in these?

Re: German books please?

[(Anonymous)]

Take a look at Janosch, Michael Ende and Erich Kästner.

Janosch wrote and illustrated books for children (and grown-ups). His most famous story is Oh, wie schön ist Panama. It's not too long, beautiful and a classic. He wrote short-ish stories more than books.

Michael Ende wrote The Neverending Story, but be warned, it's really long (the movie only covers the first half of the book). His other famous works include Momo, a story about time thieves that, like Die Unendliche Geschichte, has stuff to say about society; and Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer, which I heartily recommend. It's another children's book classic, this one a fantasy story about a boy and his best friend, a train conductor, who have to leave their home because Jim is growing up, and while their tiny island nation was big enough for a boy, four grown-ups, and a locomotive, it is not big enough for five grown-ups and a locomotive. So Jim, Lukas and Lukas' locomotive Emma leave the island, and on their travels they encounter many interesting characters and geographical oddities. It's adorable and I love it. There's also a sequel called Jim Knopf und die Wilde 13, in which Jim and Lukas meet a lot of people again, and which has the most amazing plot twist ever.

Erich Kästner might be a bit harder because his most famous books were written in the 1930s and 40s, so the language might be a bit outdated, but they're still cool and I adore them. The movie The Parent Trap is based on his book Das doppelte Lottchen; Emil und die Detektive is a book about children finding and tricking a thief; and my favourite, Das fliegende Klassenzimmer, is about a school class at a boys school and the dynamics, troubles and worries of the kids there. And it's not as Enid Blyton as it might sound: Kästner was pretty political and that shines through in his books, especially in Das fliegende Klassenzimmer.

Re: German books please?

[(Anonymous)]

(Oh, and don't worry. Kästner was not a Nazi. They burned his books.)

Re: German books please?

[(Anonymous)]

Walter Moers

Re: German books please?

[(Anonymous)]

That's not an easy read at all.

Re: German books please?

[type_wild]

https://www.klett-sprachen.de/easy-readers-daf/r-1/321#reiter=titel
https://www.cornelsen.de/reihen/die-daf-bibliothek-120002440000
-->Easy Readers for DaF, A1-B2

As an anime and manga fan: Watching subs and reading manga for things I couldn't get in English was probably the most motivating *g* Another one was getting a hold of DVDs of whatever TV show (ST: Voy, for my part), where I could watch the dub while reading the subs. Watching films you've seen before, where you know the dialogue and the story, is good for catching what the same line sounds like in whatever target language you're after.

Re: German books please?

[malurette]

Ooh, thanks for the links!

I don't think I can make time to rewatch films or series, but I can hunt down manga or comics books.

Re: German books please?

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe take a look at stories by Cornelia Funke. Drachenreiter and the Tintenherz series are fantasy and might not fit your criteria but Herr der Diebe is (mostly) not fantasy.

Also maybe the children's series Burg Schreckenstein by Oliver Hassencamp. It's a series taking place in a boy's boarding school.

And a classic I love quite a lot is Die Rote Zora by Kurt Held. It's an older book but I think I remember the language not being overly complicated.

Re: German books please?

[(Anonymous)]

Drachenreiter was my favourite book for many years as a teenager, I highly recommend it. I don't think it's complicated language. It's set in our world (dragons and other beasts on are just very good at hiding), in present day. There are no medieval affectations or anything.

Re: German books please?

[malurette]

Thank you!

Re: Recs thread!

[philstar22]

Looking for new music. Not sure what I want, TBH. I've got such a wide range of tastes. Right now I'm especially partial to Celtic/Pagan/new age stuff, metal, and anyone singing in Spanish to help me practice my Spanish.

Re: Recs thread!

[(Anonymous)]

Celtic metal: Eluveitie, a fair bit of Nightwish's stuff, Fiddler's Green is more Irish jig meets metal but still works

Regular Celtic: Secret Garden, Loreena Mckennit