Tokio Hotel's "Freunde bleiben" cover with original track and all background vocal tracks

[IloveNetherlends]

Richtig gute stimme ;) gefällt MIr ;)

[MelyssaAKASkittlez]

@IloveNetherlends Viele dank! Das glücklich mich machen. Ich echt mag singen. Entschuldigung! Meine Deutsche Grammatik ist sehr schlecht. Ich gelernt Deutsch für nur ein Jahr. I have no one to practice speaking it with, so it's been sitting in my brain for over 6 months! I am terrible at it now. >,<

[IloveNetherlends]

@MelyssaAKASkittlez  is doch nich so schlimm dafür is mein Englisch nicht so gut ;)

[MelyssaAKASkittlez]

@IloveNetherlends Danke. Viele Amerikaner sprechen schlechter englisch als dich, ich bin sicher. Kannst du lesen englisch? Ich lese deutsch besser als ich es sprechen und schreiben. Ich hoffe du dass verstehen!

[NaddlundNina]

very good ! ((: and I'm german (;

[MelyssaAKASkittlez]

@NaddlundNina Thanks! I'm much better now. I took German for two semesters in my college. Word order still confuses me, though. And I can read and write it better than speaking. I don't know anyone to practice speaking with.

[ZeroSuper21]

ganz ehrlich:das is echt gut geworden!



[MelyssaAKASkittlez]

@ZeroSuper21 Viele dank! Ich hatte nicht gesprochen Deutsch dann wie gut als jetzt. Heute ich wirklich viel besser sprache. Yeah, I know that will not translate properly and my word order is wrong, but I only took one year of German! Good grammar and exact verb usage still confuse me.

[TheAlejandraaaa]

Hahah why?

[MelyssaAKASkittlez]

@TheAlejandraaaa Because I'm 23, turning 24 in June!!

[TheAlejandraaaa]

@MelyssaAKASkittlez Woah! Really? o: dang haha

[TheAlejandraaaa]

I love this and I love your story! It's almost my story! But I take german in highschool, the only thing I absolutely hate is the friggin teacher!! (:

[MelyssaAKASkittlez]

@TheAlejandraaaa Thanks. I really do appreciate the fact that you read all the text in the slideshow thing. I wanted people to know that my love for Tokio Hotel's music is not an, "OMG, they are so hot!" kind of thing. And I'm sorry you don't like your teacher. I am taking German II now and am learning a lot more. Sadly, there is no German III in my college. Are you at least learning as much as you should be, despite the fact that you do not like the teacher?

[TheAlejandraaaa]

@MelyssaAKASkittlez Haha yes I understand your love for them. (: And yes actually I am learning. It's great haha Well I'm in highschool. There is German 3-4. But I don't have room in my schedule for net year. ha But it's great. I'm glad I'm learning. Because idk when I'm going to Germany. But I'll have to someday! haha (:

[MelyssaAKASkittlez]

@TheAlejandraaaa I'm glad you are learning so much. I don't know if what we are learning is the same. I had 4 years of Italian in elementary school and didn't learn that much. And I took Spanish for 2 years in high school. What I got out of those were simple phrases and some vocab, but I never picked up how to have actual conversations. But that may also be because I really had no interest in Spanish, haha. I find that my German classes are more structured than my Spanish in high school.

[MelyssaAKASkittlez]

@TheAlejandraaaa Also, since German and English are both germanic languages, as you have learned by seeing so many similarities, it is far easier for us to pick up German since we know English already. Using modal verbs with separable prefix verbs was tricky at first, since I kept forgetting when not to separate them! Was there anything that gave you trouble at first?

[TheAlejandraaaa]

@MelyssaAKASkittlez Oh true, but not really haha I've got it covered. I just don't practice or go over the verbs and sentences like I should. But I still manage to pass my tests haha. We're barely learning the colors and the clothes. Oh and I do know Spanish. (:

[MelyssaAKASkittlez]

@TheAlejandraaaa We learned colors and clothes last semester. I love that Rock is skirt, haha. Have you learned verb conjugation, yet? That can be tricky to get used to. And the difference between wissen and kennen (just learned that two weeks ago.) Both mean 'to know' but are used differently depending on what is known, haha. Will you take German in college, as well? And Spanish is great to know in America today!

[TheAlejandraaaa]

@MelyssaAKASkittlez Oh yeah! like "ich weiss" and "ich kenne" We've gone over that already oh god yes haha i love the skirt! (: And idk I was hoping to be famous one day hahaha I know.. I dream big /: but maybe if I go to like an arts college and if they have German I'll take it for sure! Oh yeah you got that right. I'm kinda Mexican, so I have to know. How many languages do you speak?

[MelyssaAKASkittlez]

@TheAlejandraaaa The irregular verbs can be tricky,but once you memorize them,they're kinda hard to forget! I remember very little Italian,a tiny bit of Spanish, and I know a few random words in a few other languages (like saying hello or a curse word.) I am focusing on becoming relatively fluent in German. But I should learn Russian,because that is what the majority of my customers at my job speak! I work at a grocery store. I have a German slang dictionary that has hilarious slang terms in it.

[TheAlejandraaaa]

@MelyssaAKASkittlez True true very true haha. Well I know French, some Italian, Portuguese, and some Russian. It's really hard though. haha I bet you don't know what they're saying. Well I don't work since I go to school, but I do knit and make scarves and such since I'm not 16 yet I can't get a job. I really wanna work at Toys R Us though. I love toys hahaha. I still don't have a German dictionary, but I did get the old German book in school for free. Since they got new ones in. So I'm happy

[MelyssaAKASkittlez]

@TheAlejandraaaa Wow, I feel old now, haha.

[SAINTPANAX]

Goood ;) you and me in a Song ;) *dreaming*

[MelyssaAKASkittlez]

@SAINTPANAX Thank you. You sing, too? That is so cool.

[SAINTPANAX]

@MelyssaAKASkittlez

yes ;) have you icq? or msn?

[MelyssaAKASkittlez]

@SAINTPANAX No, not anymore.

[CheckYesJuliet7]

your pronounciation is great! :D (i'm german^^)

[MelyssaAKASkittlez]

@CheckYesJuliet7 Thank you so much! It would be even better if I made the recording now since I am taking German in college. I love learning German! Lowest grade I got all semester was a 95. Not sure how grading is done in college in Germany, but the highest you can get here is 100, 60 being a failure. So 95/100 is good. I can't wait to take German II. Class starts next week.

[Yadindfernyy]

Holy mother Jesus.

Your amazing. :)

You should really make a download link for this because I would love to download it & put it on my iPod. :D

[MelyssaAKASkittlez]

@Yadindfernyy Wow, thank you SO much. I do not know how to make a download link. Would that be violating any copyrights to the song since I am using the original track as the backbone of my own cover? Honestly, without the original track, it does not sound as impressive, haha.

[HijaDelMar6]

Can I say 'Finally a cover worth listening to!'? ;)

I think you're singing is more than decent... and I love how you managed to sound almost as braty as Bill. ;) And about your German, I'm not a native speaker, but having French as my first language, the first thing I notice when English-speakers sing in German is how wrong their 'r's sound... ;) But not you! It's hard to tell you're American really. Maybe that 'Ah' in 'Ahnung' at the beginning was a bit too open, but other than that... Wow.

[MelyssaAKASkittlez]

@HijaDelMar6 Thanks a lot. I truly love learning the German language. I took a semester of German (and will take German II after next semester,)so I know even more about correct pronunciation now. I only knew from listening when I did my covers here. Surely I could do better now...if only I had a good micrphone.

[elleofisa]

hella great man C=

great job

[MelyssaAKASkittlez]

@elleofisa Thank you so much. I really love singing.

[LIVingDreams1984]

Yeah... school ...and guys, I'm afraid. ;) ... Hard to believe huh, since we have pretty great German boys, as you know. lol No need to search in different countries actually.

Gonna listen to your other songs then as well then. :)

[MelyssaAKASkittlez]

Oh, I have not posted any more of me singing. the other Tokio Hotel things I uploaded are the German and English songs overlapped (which I find sounds interesting.) I still want to practice more before uploading more singing videos.

I wish I could find a decent guy here in America, but the ones I find are either perfect as just friends, too crazy about me that it's creepy, or too damn shallow.

[LIVingDreams1984]

Oh okay. ... But you should upload those then later... coz the one you did was pretty good. :)

About the guy thing I'd go for "too crazy about you" then. Sounds like the best alternative. ;)

No good guys in America? (Actually that sounds like an album title.) ... Well, you got the Jonas Brothers. lol

[MelyssaAKASkittlez]

Oh, I will. I just want them to be the best I can make them. I'm such a perfectionist. That's why it takes me so long to finish my artwork; I'm constantly eracing!

You're right! It does sound like an album title! Oh, the Jonas brothers. I'm not a big fan of theirs, but I salute them for playing in below freezing weather on New Year's at midnight in New York a couple years ago. No gloves and they still played nicely.

[LIVingDreams1984]

Your German is great!! lol ... Really good!

[MelyssaAKASkittlez]

Thank you so much! I do still have improvements to make, but I'm so glad I'm a perfectionist. Though I bet any German-speaker can tell I'm American if they heard this, haha.

[LIVingDreams1984]

Well, I am German. ... And I must say your pronunciation is really good. :) ... That you're American I couldn't tell. That you're not a native speaker one can hear a bit.... But it's really good. (Why did you choose that song, though?! lol I think it's the only TH song I don't really like.)

[MelyssaAKASkittlez]

Oh, wow, I am so flattered. I pay special attention to the pronunciation because I find it difficult to understand the immigrants that have moved here if they do not pronounce the English sounds correctly at my work, so I know how important it is to say a language's sounds properly.

[MelyssaAKASkittlez]

I chose this song because making all the background tracks was really fun, and I wanted to demonstarte how I recorded all of them. I have also recorded Der Letzte Tag, Durch den Monsun, Rette Mich, Ich Bin Nich Ich, and Wo Sind Eure Hände. Now that my semester is over, I can devote more time to practicing.

When did you learn English? I bet it was in school, right?