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How to Learn Italian with Music

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Italian is one of the most beautiful languages in the world, so it’s understandable that their music is also beautiful. Languages are always learned fastest by hearing them spoken and using them too. So, music is an ideal way to do the hearing part. While most lyrics in the English language are difficult for even native speakers to understand, Italian singers often speak clearly and concisely. You also have the benefit of hearing Italian without the distortions of one of Italy’s strong, regional accents.

1. Listen to Andrea Bocelli. Most Americans know who he is — a famous Italian opera singer. Also, he often sings slowly and clearly. Also listen to (for pleasure and also for learning purposes) Laura Pausini, Elisa, Ligabue, Jovanotti, Negramaro, Adriano Celentano, Gianluca Grignani, Gianna Nannini, Tiziano Ferro, Gemelli Diversi, and Fabri Fibra. Classics, such as Pavarotti, often sing in dialect which can be extremely frustrating to translate to an unknowing beginner.

2. Begin to translate, painstakingly, word by word. Keep a grammar book with you and a book with many verbs and their conjugations. Learn the grammar as you learn the songs and their meanings. The music will make little sense at first, but as you progress it will become clearer.

3. Many Italian singers sing in different languages, as well as their own. They sing in their local dialect, as stated above, or more often in Spanish, English or French. Make sure the song is actually an Italian version before you drive yourself crazy trying to translate it.

4. Online translators can be extremely helpful in this case. Not sentence translators—those almost never work. Single word translators, however, can be useful. Wordreference.com is a great website that also has forums on some slang and obscure words not found in regular dictionaries.

5. Finally, don’t be too literal when translating. If you are finding that your translation doesn’t seem to make sense, first search the internet to see if the phrase is an Italian idiom, and then think about the possible metaphorical meaning of the phrase. Music doesn’t always make sense.


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