Singing helps students tune into a foreign language

Study provides the first experimental evidence that a listen-and-repeat singing method can support foreign language learning

Singing in a foreign language can significantly improve learning how to speak it, according to a new study published in Springer's journal Memory & Cognition.

Adults who listened to short Hungarian phrases and then sang them back performed better than those who spoke the phrases, researchers at the University of Edinburgh's Reid School of Music found.

People who sang the phrases back also fared better than those who repeated the phrases by speaking them rhythmically.

Kirtland Peterson

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