Rap und Hip-Hop sind beim Erlernen von Fremdsprachen mit Musik meiner Meinung nach das schwierigste zeitgenössische Genre. Viel Text, meistens schnell vorgetragen und in der Regel nicht die allerüblichsten Wörter, damit die Reime besser klingen. Deshalb überspringen wir bei Sanjaj Sad von Jacques Houdek in diesem Artikel einmal die Strophen und achten nur auf den Chorus.

In seiner Broschüre What do you need to know to learn a foreign language? gibt Paul Nation einige Beispiele für Übungen beim Lernen von Fremdsprachen.

I’ve now scanned all pages of my Spanish edition of Harry Potter (y la piedra filosofal). This allows me to check which vocabulary I should know to read it comfortably and which of the currently unknown vocabulary I should add to Anki. Words that only occur once in the book (and might also be rare in general Spanish) are not worth being learnt right now.

I’m currently reading Harry Potter in Spanish. Reading a book in a foreign language that you’ve already read in your native language before is quite relaxing, because even if you do not understand everything you still know what it’s all about.

I started to learn Finnish in 2024 and wanted to combine this with some programming ideas for foreign language studies. One of these ideas is searching for specific grammatical constructions in song lyrics. I’m trying this for Finnish at first, because it’s probably easiest when done together with a text book for extremely simple grammar.