I want to share with you the formula on how you have to work with our songs.
- You listen to the song watching a video clip that I found in YouTube for you.
- You read the text of the song. (Yes, I remember that you can not read Russian well enough). You have to look at the text while listening to the song for the second time.
- You read translation, compare words, get the main meaning of the song.
- You listen to this song for the last time, but this time you’ll sing with the singers.
Later I’ll share with you the information on WHY you have to sing and why you have to listen to MANY Russian songs during our course.
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Now – please find the text and the translation of your first Russian song «Апельсиновый рай» – Orange Paradise
НА МОНЕТЫ ЗВЕЗД
Я КУПЛЮ БИЛЕТЫ В ЛЕТО
В СКАЗКУ ГДЕ ВСЕ ЕСТЬ
ВСЕ ЧТО ТОЛЬКО ХОЧЕШЬ.
Using coins made of starsI’ll buy the tickets to summer,to a fairy tale where there is everything,everything you want
ТАМ ЦВЕТУТ ЦВЕТЫ И СЛАДКИЕ НОЧИ
ТАМ МОИ, ТВОИ, ЛЮБЫЕ МЕЧТЫ
There are blooming flowers and sweet night
There are my dreams, your dreams, any dreams…
БАНАНЫ, КОКОСЫ
АПЕЛЬСИНОВЫЙ РАЙ
СТОИТ ТОЛЬКО ЗАХОТЕТЬ
МОЖНО И ЗВЕЗДЫ
СТОИТ ТОЛЬКО ЗАХОТЕТЬ
С НЕБА СОБРАТЬ
Bananas, coconuts,Orange Paradise
If you want,you may collect the stars
from the sky.If you only want…
НА МОНЕТЫ ЗВЕЗД
ТЫ КУПИ БИЛЕТЫ В СКАЗКУ
ГДЕ ЦВЕТНЫЕ ДНИ
И СОЧНЫЕ КРАСКИ
Using coins made of stars
buy the tickets to this fairy tale,Where days are bright
and colours and rich
ВСЕ ТВОИ МЕЧТЫ НА ОСТРОВЕ ЭТОМ,
МОЖЕТ БЫТЬ ЕГО ТЫ ТОЖЕ НАЙДЕШЬ
All your dreams become true on this island,
Maybe you’ll find him (your love) there…
5 reasons to learn a language through music
1. Music stimulates memory.
Like Homer told Lisa on The Simpsons: “You know, Lisa, music helps daddy think”. Joking aside, the songs you listened to in your childhood helped you memorize things that you still remember today. If you listen to a song in a foreign language over and over again, you will end up learning it by heart.
2. Singing in a foreign language improves pronunciation.
When we sing, we tend to mimic the sounds and the tone. This makes our accent less obvious than when we speak a foreign language. But it takes some effort at the beginning!
3. It increases your vocabulary and your idiom knowledge.
Most songs use colloquial words and expressions that one usually doesn’t learn when studying a language. If you’re curious enough, you can download the lyrics of a song and their translation. Get ready to be surprised!
4. Practice anytime, anywhere.
Nowadays, you can carry music around. Listen to your favourite tunes while you take shower, while you exercise or driving a car.
5. It’s a window to other cultures.
Music connects cultures and breaks barriers: Andalusian (Spanish) flamenco, Argentinian tango, Jamaican reggae, British punk, American jazz… the list goes on. We’ll learn the Russian culture through music.
Я ЛЮБЛЮ (…)
add words in plural:
ЦВЕТЫ
БАНАНЫ
КОКОСЫ
БИЛЕТЫ
ЗВЁЗДЫ