Re:Ask HN: How have you learned a speaking language?
by Vivtek on Saturday August 14, 2010 @07:26PM
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My German pronunciation was horrible until I sang for a year or two in an oratory choir in Stuttgart. Singing is the best way I know to get pronunciation right - my guess is it's engaging different parts of your brain in order to trick the left brain into not paying attention while you're learning the less verbal stuff.
Learning a language by first learning to mimic songs is a great way to build pronunciation skills, and also get to know common words and how they go together. You then also have a tune to associate with different constructs, and it's much easier to memorise a tune than it is to memorise words.