This advice really helped me in school. I was learning German and changed all the music on my phone to German in my last year of study, and this made a significant improvement in my grades, and even the teacher noticed!
Lately, I have been learning Spanish, and after a few years of listening to Latin music, I am able to have conversations with natives on italki and at language exchange meetups, although not yet perfectly of course.
The best part about this method is that this doesn't feel like extra work. It's fun, includes learning about the culture, while increasing the number of hours that you practice your target language! But it does ideally require some effort like translating the songs, and slowly trying to understand more and more of it. And it does ideally require some more formal learning alongside.
After doing this for many years, here is a review of some of the main resources to help with learning languages with music:
- LyricFluent mobile app & website - Includes full lyric translations that are high quality. However, mostly Spanish songs, and only a couple of Portuguese, French, and Italian songs. It has many exercises to keep the learning engaging and repeat the songs in various learning modes. It has a few days free trial and then requires a subscription.
- LyricsTraining mobile app & website - Much more choice of songs and languages, but no full lyric translations by default. Less exercises - mostly fill in the gap exercise. Can translate some words with Microsoft machine translation. But great for music discovery. A few songs a day available for free and then it requires a subscriptions.
- Sounter mobile app & website - Mostly a copy of lyricstraining, but more songs available for free, but with more ads.
- Lirica app - Fewer songs, and limited exercises, but has some custom grammar lessons based on songs. Some free songs and then requires a subscription.
- LyricsTranslate website - Many translations contributed by the community. So many more song translations, but it's less engaging as they are only plain text translations. The quality varies widely. All free though, ad supported.
- Other: If you google a translation of a song, you might also find Genius Translations - usually high quality. Or a translation on musixmatch, often only has translations of parts of the song, as lines are being translated individually by the community. Other websites are usually less reliable.
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