Comments on: Find music you acutally like in the language you are learning

By: Bruno

Bruno — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:24:11 +0000

I think your search should be ‘Rock en Espanol’ since Spanish Music sounds like music from the country: Spain. The same for ‘Spanish metal’. It should be ‘Metal en Español’ or ‘Metal en castellano’ or ‘Metal Argento’, otherwise it looks for Metal from Spain.

By: Pelagio Pavez

Pelagio Pavez — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:36:27 +0000

This guys http://www.voxound.com are trying to solve this problem with a player that lets users tag music with languages and other stuff…

By: Jonathan Mahoney

Jonathan Mahoney — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:25:35 +0000

Awesome post. Not necessarily new info to me, but a good reminder. I motivated me to do a search and find some great new tunes.

I have also really been enjoying the P2P program Soulseek recently. Transfers are only one on one with the ability to browse users files and send them a message. It’s amazing how much you can learn about somebody just by looking at their files then you can talk to people with similar interests. I like to search for language programs and talk to other linguists. But once you find one good artist you can search for them there and then talk to somebody who has some of their music and ask what else they would recommend. It’s proven quite effective for me. :-)

By: The Arabic Student

The Arabic Student — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:39:36 +0000

@thomas Yeah they are pretty repetitive. Habibi, dawabni (melted me), albi (my heart), and roohi (my soul) are in pretty much every Arabic song lol.

By: thomas

thomas — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:06:56 +0000

@The Arabic Student: My wife does bellydancing so I get to listen to a lot of Arabian pop music whether I want to or not :). It’s grown on me a bit, so I like some of the songs now, but I get so tired of hearing the word “habibi”. :)

By: The Arabic Student

The Arabic Student — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:33:21 +0000

I’m trying to learn more of the Arabic dialects (Egyptian, Iraqi, Levantine). To me the sound of Arabic music is pretty much the same. In the beginning I didn’t really like the music that much, but I kept at it because I felt I was learning new words and phrases. After a while I started to actually like the music a lot! Now I even play it in my car driving down the road in the Southern US (not sure how safe that is lol).

By: GeoffB

GeoffB — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:53:26 +0000

It’s a dicier bet, but sometimes you can find some fairly good stuff on YouTube. (I actually wound up studying Uzbek because I liked the videos linked by registan.net.) If the language is a bit uncommon, you can come up with a fair amount of stuff by searching for “singer,” “music” or even everyday words in your target language. And once you’ve found one, there will usually be more in the “related videos” category.

By: Aidan

Aidan — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:59:51 +0000

I find that watching music television ststions from the target country helps you to find music you like. We have loads of satellite channels and I love watching music channels in German and Italian.
As my wife is Polish I get to heara a lot of Polish music whether I like it or not. Over time I have become a big fan of some Polish artists, especially Doda, and I regularly listen to her stuff at work or on my MP3 player.

By: peter

peter — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:30:48 +0000

@Khalid: That could work, but sometimes popular music in the target country isn’t the type of music you like. Amazon.com often sells DRM-free mp3 files, it’s worth looking there too.

@Carlie: I have that problem with Spanish metal sometimes. It’s hard to find stuff that doesn’t sound like it’s from the 80s but thankfully I’ve had some luck finding more modern material. Good luck in your search!

By: Mairo Vergara

Mairo Vergara — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:25:23 +0000

When I was studying French I had a hard time looking for French music. I ended up thinking that there was no good french music! LastFM sounds very nice, I’ll take a look at it.