In our preschool, we teach many Christmas songs.Although Im a buddist, I have to admit....
I love Christmas.
Of course all the presents and decorated trees and lights and stuff... butEspecially Christmas songs...
Santa Claus is coming to Town
Silent Night
All I want for Christmas is You!
Jingle Bells
Let it Snow!
Oh Christmas Tree
Joy to the world
Deck the Halls
I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus
there are so many... just I cant write everything here...
And there is one famous Christmas song called
"Rudolf the red nosed reindeer"
And for the first time this year, I realized something interesting...
Here is the lyrics for this song.
You know Dasher and DancerAnd Prancer and Vixen,
Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen,
But do you recall,
The most Famous reindeer of all?
Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer
had a very shiny nose.
And, if you ever saw it,
you would even say it glows.
All of the other reindeer
used to laugh and call him names.
They never let poor Rudolph
join in any reindeer games.
Then one foggy Christmas,
Santa came to say:
"Rudolph, with your nose so bright,
won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"
Then how the reindeer loved him,
as they shouted out with glee:
"Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer,
you'll go down in history.
As you can see, this song begins with introduction of all the names of reindeers, which there are 9
of them.I grew up in Japan and we sang this song at home and in school for Christmas but you know what,
WE NEVER LEARNED THE FIRST PART OF THIS SONG!!!Japanese version of this song starts with "Makka na ohana no Tonakai san wa itsumo min na no waraimono" which means One reindeer who had a red nose was always made fun of by everyone.... which is the translation of
"Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose."In Japanese lyrics they don't even mention about his name, Rudolf, they just say
"Mr. Reindeer"awwwww..
This was the most surprising news of the year for me.
The fact that I have been singing this song for 25 years and noone ever told me that this song was about
of reindeers.So now i know when I have my kids, I will sing them both versions to see which one they like. haha
クリスマスソングってたくさんあって、楽しい！
私が特に好きなのは
let it snow とか
All I want for christmas is you はやっぱり好き。
毎日、スクールでも歌ってるしＣＤもかけてるし。
で、有名な曲の
「真っ赤なお鼻のトナカイ」のうたの歌詞できづいたことがあって,
まさに大発見。
あの歌詞は、まっかなおはなの トナカイさんはー
ってはじまってるけど
もともとの英語の歌詞は
You know Dasher and DancerAnd Prancer and Vixen,
Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen,
But do you recall,
The most Famous reindeer of all?
ダッシャー
ダンサー
プレンさー ビクサン
コメット
キューピッド
ドナー ブリゼン
でも、覚えてる？ 一番有名なあのトナカイさんは誰か？って始まってるの！
小さい頃からこの曲をうたってたけど
一度も、誰も、トナカイは9頭
いたはなししてくれなかったんだけど。そのなかで、ひとり、はみごにされてたのが ルドーフ
っていうトナカイで、日本語の歌詞ではただの「トナカイさん」ってなってる。名前あるのにね！？
すごいストーリーがあるのにもかかわらずやっぱりメロディーの日本語をあわせるのに必死ですべてがはいらなかったんだって思う。
あぁでも、わかってよかった。
9頭のなかでいちばん変なお鼻だったけど、逆にそれがサンタさんの助けになったんですよ
ひかってたんでね
の日でよくみえなかったサンタさんもまえがよくみえた。。。と。
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=klO0uaaEqIs&feature=related
↑ 一番最初のパートに注目。
9頭の名前でてきてます。Destiny's child のバージョンなので かなりHip Hopですが
Lovely です。
Therefore it is more difficult to find good materials for a Spanish Study....
However...
websites are hard to understand, newspapers are too hard, and I thought, oh, what about 
またいいお店の紹介です。
私の大好きな曲ばかりで。
