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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5858 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 9 of 13 18 February 2012 at 9:56am | IP Logged |
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I not only listen to music while learning languages, but as part of learning languages. I often sing along to songs in the languages I am learning and it helps me with pronunciation of certain sounds, especially vowels and diphthongs. Edited by mick33 on 18 February 2012 at 10:33am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| eggcluck Senior Member China Joined 4635 days ago 168 posts - 278 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 10 of 13 18 February 2012 at 10:11am | IP Logged |
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Never, some years ago I dedcided all the new stuff just sounded like old stuff and called itself new. It got really repetive and boring, espically pop cutlure/"Gangsta" stuff.
Since then I have never listened to music. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5349 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 11 of 13 18 February 2012 at 7:10pm | IP Logged |
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^ I'm sorry to hear that...
Anyway, music was my first true passion (well, after dinosaurs, drawing, and Pokémon..), and to this day it is my primary emotional passion, whereas global studies (the umbrella term under which I'd categorize languages, geography, and history) is my primary intellectual passion. My music library consequently spans well over one hundred days' worth of music, one thousand two hundred artists, two thousand five hundred albums, eighty-seven years of recordings (to 1925), three hundred forty-five years of compositions (to 1667), three thousand two hundred thirty-seven years of musical tradition (this includes a 2000 recording of an ethnomusicologist recreation of the music of the ancient Sumerians, Egyptians, and Greeks, dating back to 1225 BC), and—naturally, with me being a language nerd and all—upwards of one hundred nations (though much of it's instrumental). That said, ever since I started playing and writing music, the "unfortunate" side effect has been that listening to music has become a thoroughly cognitively engaging activity whereby I can't help but pay attention to each element of the entire sonic soundscape. Some people like to listen to classical music to "relax", but for me, the more complex the music is, the more there inevitably is to pay attention to, meaning I'd be more relaxed listening to punk rock or heavy metal than a string quartet or a piano concerto. The one exception to that is Indonesian gamelan, the structure of which is principally rhythmic rather than melodic or harmonic, and thanks to its repetitive nature, this means I can passively listen to it and still allocate my active thought towards something else (like learning a language). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| atama warui Triglot Senior Member Japan Joined 4635 days ago 594 posts - 985 votes Speaks: German*, English, Japanese | Message 12 of 13 19 February 2012 at 9:56pm | IP Logged |
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I read somewhere that classical music is actually stimulating and helpful while learning, but I can't find it again..
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6531 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 13 of 13 20 February 2012 at 5:33am | IP Logged |
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I need instrumental music while reading in public places - stuff like Apocalyptica and intros/outros from metal CD's I like. Interestingly, the songs that are "thick" enough to block the noise tend to have titles related to water - Sade (Rain), The Golden Stream of Lapland, Kiiminkijoki (the Kiiminki river)...
Depending on whether it feels appropriate, I might also listen to music with lyrics while reading - in the respective language or in Finnish. My other forms of studying tend to involve audio, so no music. A not very interesting football match in the background is more likely :D In general, though, for me music is an essential part of language learning. My Indonesian studies have gone much better since I found some good rock music in this language<3 I also use lyricstraining.com a lot - even for Dutch, which I'm not serious about yet, just in order to get used to the correlation between the written and spoken language. Edited by Serpent on 20 February 2012 at 5:33am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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