🍿 Music, TV & Films in Your Favourite Languages

The Fluent Show

Get ready for spring and summer with our big pop culture episode featuring recommendations for music, TV and films to enjoy in over 22 languages. Lindsay introduces a helpful framework for getting the most out of pop culture in another language:

  • Discover
  • Consume
  • Create

We hope you enjoy our recommendations!

Timestamps

Lindsay’s faves

MUSIC

  • Rosalia - MOTOMAMI (Spanish with some Catalan and English and Japanese influence)
  • Stromae - Multitude (French)
  • Daddy Yankee - Legendaddy (Spanish)
  • Tierra Adentro - Aguije (Spanish and Guarani)
  • Dead Blonde - Propaganda (Russian)
  • Monetochka - Raskpaski dla Vzrosluh (Russian)
  • Toot Ard - Migrant Birds (Arabic)
  • Waiata Reo Maori: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX9Ca1SohktgM
  • Raices Indigenas: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX1aLJoYoaZnK
  • Mosaic: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXd9vfK9DV3I6
  • Organica: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX2pprEpa9URZ
  • Borderless: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWZJmo7mlltU6
  • Global X: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWUxHPh2rEiHr
  • Folk Fabrique: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX62XscWX9t6h
  • The Sounds of Spotify/Every Noise

FILMS

  • La Famille Belier - CODA remade from this concept (French)
  • Jiro Dreams of Sushi - he really really really likes sushi (Japanese)
  • The Skin I Live In - phew! Banderas is on fire! (Spanish)
  • Downstream to Kinshasa - moving. Loved seeing a different place. (Lingala, Swahili)
  • Bad Lucky Goat - take me here too please sunshine (islander Creole English)
  • Cairo Station - it’s OG Manic Pixie Dream Girl (Arabic)
  • Song Without a Name - heartbreaking, real, honest, tonne of bricks (Spanish with Quechua)
  • 5 Broken Cameras - life in Palestine looks tough as (Arabic, Hebrew)
  • The Prince of Nothingwood - wanna watch all his films please (English and Arabic)
  • Sweat - never connected to this lead before (Polish)

  • TV: El Casa del Papel (Money Heist), How to Sell Drugs Online Fast

Kerstin’s faves

MUSIC
Indie, alternative, punk, rock music:

  • Tocotronic, Kraftklub, Die Ärzte 🇩🇪
  • Candelas, Swnami 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Dancehall, caribbean feel, afrobeat type of music:

  • Mandi Classic 🇨🇩 (Swahili), Jamaican artists like Sean Paul and Spice, and Seeed 🇩🇪

BOOKS AND TV
Mysteries & Thrillers
Books: Arnaldur Indri∂asson’s Erlendur series 🇮🇸

On TV: The Bridge 🇩🇰🇸🇪 , Salamander 🇧🇪, The Killing 🇩🇰, Trapped 🇮🇸, Craith/Hidden 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, Dark 🇩🇪

FILM

  • Patagonia (Welsh, Spanish, English)

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