Comments on: Book Review: Language is Music

By: Miguel Vargas-Caba

Miguel Vargas-Caba — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:49:44 +0000

To Joanna Young: I also tried without success to get Gaelic into my head, until I started singing Clannad’s songs. Later on I added other Irish singers and then it became easier. Yes, Language is Music. Try both the book and the tips in it. Singing to those tunes now makes it easy for me to ask: “Ó bhean an tí, cén bhuairt sin ort?”

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By: Catherine Wentworth

Catherine Wentworth — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:32:37 +0000

‘Thai must be like the Black Sabbath played on 78 rpm’ lol! You are so right. Yesterday I flipped through channel after channel looking for something I could stick with. I think I’m going to do what Susanna advised in her book – tape a program and watch it until you know everything that they are saying. Write it down too. Sounds good to me.

By: Talen

Talen — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:09:08 +0000

If language is like music then Thai must be like the Black Sabbath played on 78 rpm lol.

Some good tips and yet more reason for me to hang out in Thai karoke joints…although I tend to drink a bit much when there. There is still my Thai soaps to help out though!

By: Catherine Wentworth

Catherine Wentworth — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:37:32 +0000

Joanna, I believe you would get a lot out of Susanna’s book. After spending this past year reading everything I could find about how to learn languages, I thought that there were no new tips left. I was wrong.

Gaelic must be extremely difficult to study. For me, if I can’t read Thai, I can’t get it into my head. It is like I need to own every bit before it sticks.

(Please excuse any wonky sentences either in my post or these comments. My sleep this week is awful so my words are not coming out right)

By: Joanna Young

Joanna Young — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:26:49 +0000

Cat, thanks so much for sharing this. I have been struggling for years learning Gaelic, which is an oral not written language, and very melodic… Just recently thought about trying to boost my learning by singing some of the wonderful songs and helping to get the rhythm flowing (and less my inhibitions and perfectionism…)

So this comes at a good time for me, and sounds like a good resource for me to try