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1 - Choose the song you like
There is no need to go further to choose what music to listen to. The advice is to start with the songs you already listen. Then find the lyrics you love. We hear a dozen times a day our favorite songs, but maybe we do not pay enough attention to their content and meaning of their words. I think you now know that repetition is one of the most important factors in learning a foreign language.
2 - Try to sing or hum without looking
If you want to improve your pronunciation, it is important to try to sing in trying to have the best possible pronunciation without reading the lyrics. Indeed, when one tries to sing reading the lyrics, our bad pronunciation habits will resume. It does not matter if you do not understand the meaning of what you sing, most in this step is to properly pronounce. An additional step would be to try to write the lyrics by listening. This is a very good exercise (you must however have an intermediate level).
3 - Look for words
Then you can find the lyrics on the internet. To do this, just search in google "lytics Name Of The Song". And if you need translation, just search "translation NomDeLaChanson lytics" to get what you need in a few clicks. Personally, I prefer sites that have both the original text and the translation into your language on the same page... If you use iTunes, you can install a small program that plays your music library and automatically records the words in the MP3 file. I recommend the “LyricsFetcher” PC software or MAC “Get Lyrical”. They allow you a few clicks to have the lyrics right on your iPhone or iPod at the same time as the music. So even when you're on the go, you can, if you wish, listen to your favorite music while reading his words.
4 - Listen to the song while reading the text
It's time to listen to music with lyrics, you'll be surprised to find words and phrases you already know without being aware of it. In fact, it is not always easy to understand by yourself the words of a song in a foreign language. Focus on phrases of interest or maybe just the chorus. If you already know the chorus of your favorite songs, this is sufficient for you to learn hundreds of words and phrases in foreign languages.
For English: the title and the chorus of "We Can Work It Out" Beatles teaches us the term "work out" which means "solve".
Sting's voice "I Hope that someone gets my Message in a bottle," you will learn, without much effort, a complete sentence.
For Italian: there is a very beautiful song by Charles Aznavour: "La Mamma". Indeed, Aznavour also beautifully interprets the song in Italian.
After that, everyone's tastes, the key is to choose the songs you love!
5 - Listen again and start singing
Now that you know the lyrics and understood the general sense, then you can continue to listen to it while singing it. Once you have chosen your favorite song, you'll definitely want to sing it while doing other activities like, for example, driving a car, in the shower… After a while, you will eventually memorize the song! Repetition is one of the fundamentals of memorization. If you follow the those 5 steps, I guarantee you that you will improve in a meaningful way, and all without any effort, and in a pleasant way.
- FAQ Author: vincentJanuary 2015
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