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Originally Posted by OctobersBlackRose
Right now I'm trying to immerse myself in as much to listening tonthe language as possible to hear what words sound like, right now I'm only listening to music in German (some of it is too fast to make out words, ballads are easier to understand). I have a playlist of around 610 songs on Spotify. I don't know if you can get Spotify in your county, but it's free (but Insubscribe for $10 a month), and you can find a lot of songs in foreign languages on it, especially German. It's a good app, I like it.
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Well, I'm already subscribed to Google Play Music, so... there's probably enough music if I tried to find it.
Well, I've (re)discovered some music in Spanish... And for some light German music apparently the word Schlager is useful. It's so weird... Because it, again, exists, in Russian, but in a different, but similar sense.
On that note, the other day I was absolutely stunned by a German word. It's Maßstab, and in Russian it sounds exactly the same and means the same thing... Except in German it has an etymology that makes sense (Maß - measure, Stab - staff), but in Russian it's... a combination of sounds for that particular thing (it means "the scale of a map").
...Oh, and before I got distracted: I suppose I'm not enough of a music fan, but it kind of doesn't count towards something that makes a considerable difference. Sure, I basically need music to function, but it can be even entirely instrumental, not to mention any language...
It may sound bizarre, but at this point I'd settle for a foreign-language friend. But it's one of many things I haven't managed to figure out in almost 30 years.