Can music improve language abilities?

 


You have probably heard that one great way to learn a language is to listen to music. There’s no doubt that most people in the world like to listen to music. This seems like a no-brainer right? So, how does music related to language? Songs can help you become familiar with the sound of the language, the tone, rhythm even the rhymes. Popular rock songs or even pop songs or love songs are great for you to have some idea of sentence structures, vocabulary, repetitive words and many more elements.

Songs are great tools for learning a new language because of repetition. When you listen the refrain over and over in a music, it reinforces the language to your brain. It’s way easier to grasp and understand a language especially when it is in spoken language to a beat repetitively.

Songs or music are great way to grasp cultural slangs or expressions. As slangs are more often being used in songs, it is great way to understand cultural expressions of specific countries.



When you are singing along to a song, you will improve your pronunciation since it gets stuck in your head.

Songs also bring a lot of emotions. Languages become easier to learn when you link to emotions which help you remember and make personal connections. As music is very emotional, it plays an important role evoking many moods or memories that will help you memorize certain words.

Music is universal across all around the world and it is said to be a critical part of the core functioning of our brains and our language abilities. Many researches have provided the fact that music has the ability to boost vocabulary and verbal IQ.



Therapists often said that music helps healing patients with impairments, or patients suffering language impairments. Music indeed involves all the skills required for verbal communication including listening, reading comprehension, vocabulary, slangs, and pronunciation. Music is catchy, fun and universal where anybody can sing along so implementing music as a tool for language learning works.

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