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| Delodephius Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 5388 days ago 342 posts - 501 votes  Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishC1, Czech Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 1 of 13 16 February 2012 at 1:40pm | IP Logged |
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Simple question. Do you listen to music when learning a language? What kind/genre? (I'm
quite interested in knowing what sort of music most language learners listen to). Do you have something playing in the background when listening to TL? I listen to all sorts of music. Experimental, electronic, post-rock, indie-folk, alternative rock, indie rock, classical rock, classical music, world music, folk music, etc. I don't like pop, very few songs that I like from that, and they're all mostly very similar to the genres I do listen to. I noticed that I listen to equal amount of instrumental music as I do one with vocals. I usually have something lighter playing while I'm writing or reading, but I turn it of when I'm listening to TL. But I like to set a mood, so when I'm practising writing Japanese I have traditional Japanese music playing, or modern with traditional instruments or melodies. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4692 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 2 of 13 16 February 2012 at 1:56pm | IP Logged |
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No, it's distracting for me - as much as I love music I keep it separate from studying
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6688 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 13 16 February 2012 at 2:02pm | IP Logged |
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I can listen to both speech and music if I work with my better languages. With the lousy ones I can still listen to instrumental music, whereas speech is more liable to be disruptive.
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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5832 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 13 16 February 2012 at 2:13pm | IP Logged |
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I am a listener of melodious soft pop music and to this kind of music I can listen while studying my target language. But I couldn't listen to aggressive music because this would disrupt my concentration. Somtimes I use music as a background stimulator and sometimes I study without any music, so this depends on my mood.
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| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5019 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 5 of 13 16 February 2012 at 5:14pm | IP Logged |
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I like listening to music in my target languages. I find it especially helpful now, as I am doing the 6WC for French. All the true meanings of the lyrics of art songs I know are coming back to me.
I tend not to listen to music while I am studying or reading, though. That I find distracting. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Tenebrarum Groupie United States Joined 5391 days ago 84 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi | Message 6 of 13 16 February 2012 at 8:02pm | IP Logged |
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Generally speaking I need complete silence to truly concentrate on my studies (even in my
native language), but when studying my TL I'm usually listening to music. This is mainly because I will start experiencing withdrawal symptoms if I go too long without music XD. But when reading in my TL I try to listen to something more instrumental in nature, or something where the vocals won't be too distracting. Lately I've been really into Goa/Psy Trance - otherwise, Black Metal will fit the bill. I also listen to music in my TL very often. These are only a few of my favorite genres, but the most common during my studies. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5813 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 7 of 13 17 February 2012 at 2:45am | IP Logged |
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For me it depends on the task. I like to listen to something uplifting that makes me feel like getting things done
when I do tasks like kanji writing practice or entering new words to Anki. If I have to pay closer attention to the grammar or parse longer sentences, however, I need the music to be either instrumental, or in a language that I don't understand, otherwise it distracts me. In this case I often just don't bother with music. I do sometimes use music for studying in and of itself. I like to memorize lyrics in my TL and look up their meanings, and will often put on songs that I've been working on and sing along to relax myself. Oh, and I listen to about the same range of music you do. I especially tend to go after indie rock and electronica in my TL, but I listen to a much wider range outside my TL. I have a LOT of celtic and african music. Edited by Luai_lashire on 17 February 2012 at 2:47am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fiziwig Senior Member United States Joined 4850 days ago 297 posts - 618 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 8 of 13 18 February 2012 at 7:21am | IP Logged |
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I love music too much to let study distract me from listening.
I love studying Spanish too much to let music distract me from my books. "When you sit, just sit. When you walk, just walk. Above all, do not wobble." -- The Buddha 1 person has voted this message useful |
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