Using music to learn languages can be a fun and effective method to help you memorize phrases and expressions. It will also help your pronunciation and listening comprehension. We previously reviewed how to learn a language with music, but the question now is if there are reliable resources to find lyrics and other information about your songs? Here’s a little list of what we think are the best websites for learning a language with music.

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The Best Websites for Learning a Language with Music

Lyrics Training

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We highly recommend this site for learning languages with song lyrics. What you do is choose a video and then try to guess the missing word. Once you get it, you can move onto the next part of the song. If you don’t get the correct answer in time, then the music pauses. This method makes a game out of learning lyrics and gives you motivation with the time limit, all while enjoying music you like (and maybe singing along).

Lyrics Training offers many videos in French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Dutch. All languages have 4 different difficulty levels: beginner, intermediate, advanced, and expert. After a free registration, you can accumulate points by completing exercises and climb up the member ranking boards. This healthy competition is yet another method the site uses to keep its users motivated.

Lyrics Gaps

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This website uses a similar method to Lyrics Training: you fill in the blanks while watching your chosen video. On easy mode, you’re given the chance to choose the correct word out a list of alternatives, while on medium and hard modes, the difficulty is much higher, and you have to produce the right answer by yourself.

The music continues even if you haven’t completed the exercise, which makes the activity a little less competitive. The integration of Google tools allows you to look up the definition of a word when you click on it. Unfortunately, some translations (French and English being one example) are incorrect. However, it can still be helpful overall, even though we think Lyrics Training has better exercises.

Lyrics.com

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Lyrics.com is helpful in that it plays the music and allows you to read the lyrics at the same time. It’s a useful exercise, but not very interactive. The main goal of this site isn’t to help you learn languages, but it can definitely be used that way.

At the moment, most songs are in English, but there are a few in other languages, mostly French and Spanish.

 

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In conclusion, we highly recommend Lyrics Training to help you learn foreign languages, but check out the other websites as well and let us know what you think. And as always, if you have any other recommendations, let us know in the comments below.

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