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| g.polskov Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 5243 days ago 37 posts - 50 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Portuguese | Message 9 of 24 05 January 2011 at 12:49am | IP Logged | ||
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I find it very helpful for vocabulary acquiring. Words stick to your memory a lot more easily when you associate them to a song. It's good for accent/pronounciation as well I think.
Anyway I find it extremely useful (and enjoyable!) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| janababe Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5505 days ago 102 posts - 115 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English, German | Message 10 of 24 06 January 2011 at 5:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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Music and karaoke, that's why I wanna be spot on with the accent. I *love* songs and that's the biggest inspiration for me to learn a language.
Sure music is effective. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Impiegato Triglot Senior Member Sweden bsntranslation. Joined 5424 days ago 100 posts - 145 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, Italian Studies: Spanish, French, Russian | Message 11 of 24 06 January 2011 at 7:16pm | IP Logged | ||
At least, it should be good for one's listening comprehension. Sometimes it can be hard to hear what they sing, beacuse they stress the words differently and the vocals and instruments may altogether make the song blurry. If you like the melody, listening to that tune might also be a good means of automatically learning new words. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| drsleep8 Newbie United States Joined 5108 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Studies: English* | Message 12 of 24 08 January 2011 at 4:23am | IP Logged | ||
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Listening to Mariachi music helped me with my accent in Spanish, especially the contaria of Mexico. Also the association with music did help some vocabulary, although I have much better methods for learning vocabulary.
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| languagewarrior Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 5104 days ago 5 posts - 28 votes Speaks: English, Spanish | Message 13 of 24 08 January 2011 at 5:25am | IP Logged | ||
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I believe that the mere fact that you are listening to music in your target language even
if you do not understand every single word or idiomatic phrase is helpful and you are staying connected to the language and this keeps you focused on learning the unknown words while finding some wonderful artists who get little or no exposure in the Engish world. Have fun!! Edited by languagewarrior on 08 January 2011 at 5:35am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| aabram Pentaglot Senior Member Estonia Joined 5524 days ago 138 posts - 263 votes Speaks: Estonian*, English, Spanish, Russian, Finnish Studies: Mandarin, French | Message 14 of 24 08 January 2011 at 9:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have never really understood how people can learn from songs. At times I cannot even
make heads or tails of songs in my native language, let alone in foreign. I can read any level English texts with reasonable comprehension but I'll be damned if I can make any sense from modern pop music. Sure, Beatles, ABBA or Tom Jones actually have lyrics, I'll give you that, but it's rare nowadays. Or maybe I'm just getting old. Hrrmph, grrmmph. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| wenevy Bilingual Pentaglot Newbie China Joined 5068 days ago 28 posts - 36 votes Speaks: Spanish, Mandarin*, Cantonese*, Catalan, EnglishC1 Studies: French, Italian | Message 15 of 24 09 January 2011 at 12:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think listening to music is not very effective.
Especially if your are already in a intermediate level. Songs in English are everywhere, many people hear English songs every day. But I have never seen anybody improve their English by listening songs. However, it doesn´t mean that is usefuless. We can always learn some new vocaburaries form them. And maybe it´s a good way to start learning a new language. Because it´s funny. If we find the language boring since the first day, we will give up it soon. In addition, listening to songs helps us to be more familiar with the pronunciation of the language. Edited by wenevy on 09 January 2011 at 1:02pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Seren Newbie United States Joined 5522 days ago 9 posts - 10 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Esperanto | Message 16 of 24 25 January 2011 at 6:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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In the past two years that I've been studying French, music has always been helpful to me. After all, it was music that first got me to start learning the language in the first place, because I wanted to understand the lyrics of my favorite singers. But by looking up the lyrics, even if I don't understand them right away, they stick with me. For instance, way back in the beginning, I was having trouble remembering all the conjugations for the verb "être" (to be). But there was a song I remembered listening to called "Nous sommes ce que nous sommes," which means "We are what we are." It was that song that helped me remember that the conjugation for "être" when it came to "nous" was "nous sommes." Even something small and seemingly insignificant like that can be helpful.
Not only the lyrics being a good source for vocabulary, but having music in your target language makes learning it a lot more fun, I think. It's so much less tedious when you have something you can do that you genuinely enjoy, with which you can relax but still learn at the same time. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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