Reply To: Other music… *gasp*
that’s a neat concept for learning a foreign language, though. what better way to begin to grasp its unique idiom and character than by looking at song lyrics or poetry?
I think I listen to more French-language songs than most native speakers. 🙂 I find that after I’ve listened to a song enough times, I remember not just the gist of what’s said (as I would with prose) but the exact words, pronunciation, and (if not obscured by the tune) intonation. So if I ever find myself wondering what the gender of a certain noun is, or how to conjugate a verb in a particular way, I have a bank of sound clips in my head to refer to.
So to get on topic, my favourite French-language singer is J