Languages - sing it to learn it

Is this true Brenna!? :side:

Singing, rather than saying phrases in a new language has been proven to make it easier to remember the new language according to a new study.

@ University of Edinburgh, Dr Karen M Ludke

The study published in the Memory and Cognition journal found that adults learning phrases in Hungarian were better able to match the words with their English counterparts when they learned the phrase by singing it.

Lead author and linguist from the University of Edinburgh, Dr Karen M Ludke, became interested in whether singing could help in learning a language when she was teaching English as a second language in New York.

"I started using a lot of song and music in my lessons, so they could practise when I wasn't around," she said.

"Then I started to doubt myself a little bit. I thought, 'Is this scientific?, Is this actually beneficial to use song to teach?'"

Dr Ludke used Google Scholar to determine how much relevant research existed and found evidence from teachers that it was a proven strategy in teaching second languages.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-15/singing-helps-language-acquisition/4889844

Yeah, I've been told so, and saw the result myself.

It was hard to conjugate French verbs at first, then our teacher told us some songs, and I never forgot them since then

I definitely think its true. The only thing i struggle with when speaking another language is that I often stress the syllables incorrectly because Ive learned the flow of the word according to a musical phrase rather than the way its actually pronounced.

Yeah, this makes sense. Singing activates a different area of the brain than just normal speech.

Case in point: scott adams, the creator of dilbert, had a rare neurological/psychological disorder a few years ago where he llost the ability to speak normally. He would try and nothing would happen, or he woulld only whisper. This went on for months. Finally he noticed he could 'speak' to people, but only in song. So he sang to people for a while, but gradually learned to think of his normal soeaking voice as song as well.

It was a fascinating case study that he blogged about on his blog. I'm on my phone or I would link it.

found a comp. heres the link to dilbert blog.

http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/spasmodic_dysphonia_update/

and a wiki page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spasmodic_dysphonia

Oh yes that reminds of those singers who speak with a stutter, but sing without a stutter. Very interesting, thanks.