Learning a language with music

Sound, rythym, pitch, tone, these are all words connected with music right? Not only. More and more evidence is showing the relationship between language learning. How do you learn a language fast? With music.

In Daniel Levitin’s new book “This is your brain on Music” Levitin writes: “The appreciation we have for music is intimately related to our ability to learn the underlying structure of the music we like—the equivalent to grammar in spoken or signed languages—and to be able to make predictions about what will come next.” Further…”The close proximity of music and speech processing in the frontal and temporal lobes, and their partial overlap, suggests that those neural circuits that become recruited for music and language may start out life undifferentiated. Experience and normal development then differentiate the functions of what began as very similar neuronal populations. ” This is one of the reasons I started created the program Music and language learning Learning languages with music is not only effective but fun.

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