Just seeing this now.. I love learning through music.. Actually last year when i just started learning Greek, i sang a song with a taxi driver in Rhodos. I had listened to this song for many years (and sang along with all the wrong words of course lolol) and before i started learning the language i didn't know what the song was about at all.. we sang it together and then i got honest with him, saying that i didn't know half of what the song actually meant. Even now i've translated it,. without his explanation it would have been difficult as some of it was just the way Greeks expres themself so a word for word translation would not have told me what the actual meaning of it was. I loved it and he did too.. The song was ti simera ti avrio ti tora by Marika Ninou.. Love her and traditional Greek music as a whole. Thank you for this interview both of you !! Sweet greetings xxx Juliette from Holland...(ooo and i am so sorry your teacher gave you such a bad song as there are some good ones around haha) Going to Corfu in September jihaaaa... o yes by myself for the first time in my life at 47.. wish me luck lol oke byieee
5 месяцев назад
Since I began learning languages, instinctively I started to make playlists in those target languages. Knowing songs in russian and arabic have been great conversation starters with new people I've met recently.
I don't use songs to learn a language, but I am a musician, and the trained ear of musicians can help them to grasp the "music of languages", to grasp the sounds (the pronunciation) particular to any language. This helped me at least learning seven languages so far (and I'm learning my eighth and ninth).
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this was so wonderful, I love her perspective. Also, the first time I've heard of someone learning Lingala, very exciting!
Just seeing this now.. I love learning through music.. Actually last year when i just started learning Greek, i sang a song with a taxi driver in Rhodos. I had listened to this song for many years (and sang along with all the wrong words of course lolol) and before i started learning the language i didn't know what the song was about at all.. we sang it together and then i got honest with him, saying that i didn't know half of what the song actually meant. Even now i've translated it,. without his explanation it would have been difficult as some of it was just the way Greeks expres themself so a word for word translation would not have told me what the actual meaning of it was. I loved it and he did too.. The song was ti simera ti avrio ti tora by Marika Ninou.. Love her and traditional Greek music as a whole. Thank you for this interview both of you !! Sweet greetings xxx Juliette from Holland...(ooo and i am so sorry your teacher gave you such a bad song as there are some good ones around haha) Going to Corfu in September jihaaaa... o yes by myself for the first time in my life at 47.. wish me luck lol oke byieee
Since I began learning languages, instinctively I started to make playlists in those target languages.
Knowing songs in russian and arabic have been great conversation starters with new people I've met recently.
I don't use songs to learn a language, but I am a musician, and the trained ear of musicians can help them to grasp the "music of languages", to grasp the sounds (the pronunciation) particular to any language. This helped me at least learning seven languages so far (and I'm learning my eighth and ninth).