Kilo Lingo

Ch 10 · Lesson 29

Song: Gaudeamus igitur

Play it, read along word by word, then answer the questions. Every word is at your level - the song page teaches the few that are new.

Play the song and read along - tap any word you don't know. Then answer the questions underneath and the lesson completes itself.

Gaudeamus igitur

So Let Us Rejoice

The choir sings its own selection and ordering of Kindleben's seven stanzas, as every university does - we print the customary three (1, 4 and 7); read along where the Latin meets.

Lyrics

Versus 1

,

,

iucundam iuventutem,

molestam senectutem,

.

Versus 4

Academia,

Professores,

,

,

!

Versus 7

Pereat tristitia,

Pereant osores,

Pereat diabolus,

Quivis Antiburschius,

irrisores.

Comprehension drill

4 questions on what you just read. Get one wrong and the story will show you where it says otherwise.

Standard text fixed by Christian Wilhelm Kindleben in his Studentenlieder (Halle, 1781), reworking older material (two of its stanzas resemble verses in a medieval manuscript in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, usually dated 1287); the melody is 18th-century traditional, in print by the 1780s. Stanza 1 follows the standard text with its "Post iucundam iuventutem" line, which some transcriptions collapse into a repeat sign. Author dead 240 years, melody anonymous. We print stanzas 1, 4 and 7 of Kindleben's seven - the selection universities customarily sing. Source text. Translation ours.

Open the full song page for the background to the song.

Lesson 29 of 36 in this chapter

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