Lyrics training: learn with your favourite songs
Lyrics training.com is a great website for teachers and students. If students want to learn the lyrics of songs, then this is an ideal website.Learn songs in many different languages. A great online education tool that encourages student autonomy and allows students to learn on their own or in the class. There is material in a range of languages including English, French, Spanish, German and many more.
Lyrics Training is a website which includes YouTube music videos of popular songs to provide language learners with a fun way to practice language skills. Users can choose from 6 languages (English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Dutch but no Chinese!!) and videos are categorized into three levels of difficulty (easy, medium and hard).
Even though six languages are given in the language menu, it is important to note that the vast majority of videos available are in English. In fact, the final choice on the menu, Dutch, only contains several videos at this time. The difficult of the song is decided by the speed of the song and there are three levels of difficulty, easy, medium and hard.
Advantages
LyricsTraining helps you train your ear to dramatically improve your capacity to recognize sounds and words of a foreign language in a very short time, training your brain almost unconsciously, whether you know the meaning of all the words or not.
In addition, Lyrics Training makes it easy for learners to adjust content to their ability level. This is due to the categorization of music videos into three difficulty levels.
Music is a fun way to learn and listening to different accents and pronunciations allows greater flexibility to test to your ability to recognize the different sound patterns of another language. This is very different from the typical listening exercises in language classes, where the pronunciation is too perfect, which is not entirely practical in a real environment.
Finally, feedback is provided to users immediately since they must correctly fill in the missing word for the game to progress.
Disadvantages
Lyrics Training has provided language learners with a superb resource but has only used these materials for a single purpose (gap-fill exercises). It might be beneficial if students could be given additional ways to use the materials on the site.
Another drawback is that the content is thin and weak, it is difficult to connect the class aims with the lyrics training.
In summary, Lyrics Training can be a fun way for students of different abilities and target languages to practice listening skills. It is a perfect way to learn and improve your skills with other languages. It helps you to learn new vocabulary and expressions, and reinforce grammar concepts through continuous exercise of writing the missing words.Video and text support make it simple for students to vary the difficulty of the listening tasks. However, these features will become available as Lyrics Training becomes increasingly popular with both teachers and students of foreign/second languages
Hey Jerry!
ReplyDeleteI personally prefer learning language through music and songs! they're just so great and make you develop really fast!
I personally support the idea that developing listening skills and learning pronunciation can be enhanced best through repetition. When you hear things so many times, it become automatic and your brain more easily decodes the sounds and analyses how it should be pronounced as well. Moreover, lyricstraining is great because learners can use it autonomously and therefore they can choose their favourite songs and style of music. When learners do something that they are excited about they excel!
Yousef