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Originally Posted by ArcheM
Well, from my understanding, in music the brain travels down well-worn phrasal passages, so to say, and it's also a source of innate satisfaction for our brain, so it's no wonder... But with foreign languages, the remembering is the worst with completely strange words and rules... Which is why I put so much emphasis on finding familiar context (familiar in the sense that I should mostly know all the other words)... And of course, the sound, because the part of the brain that we've trained to recognize squiggles on the page has been doing it for a very short time, evolutionarily speaking, whereas the vocal language region is possibly 100,000s years old... I actually feel that hearing the sounds of a foreign language I'm studying is innately satisfying, kind of like with music.
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I think listening to the songs I listen too in German and then looking up the translations of the lyrics, or finding videos with German speaking and English subtitles, maybe that will help with learning words, and maybe it'll help my brain learn these words faster as I also practice reading words as well. I'm just thinking of ways of making myself memorize and retain things easier. I know the best way to learn a language is to speak it, but also I'd like to learn grammar rules and.how to make sentences and such.