Listening to songs in your TL when you start learning a new language is far better than watching movies

Watching TV series/movies is often recommended as a great tool to get familiar with the sound/tone/rhythm of TL. But listening to songs is something that you should start with.

When you watch a movie, there are lots of background noise that doesn't let you focus on the language, often you just can't hear what's being said.

Songs, on the other hand, allow you to learn informal phrases, you'll get used to different paces of somebody's speech. They're relatively easy to learn by heart and you'll find yourself using larger portions of lyrics in your everyday conversations. When you sing along to a song, you improve your pronunciation (holds especially true for upbeat songs). You can even print the lyrics and work with your dictionary to find the words you don't know, but many sites attach translations in your native language.

EDIT: of course, you should watch movies/TV series - what I meant was that it's easier to start with songs and then move on to audiovisual materials ;))

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