Listening to songs is an excellent way to learn a foreign language, it's fun and we acquire lots of new words. Something we struggle with as foreign language learners is understand the lyrics of songs. It is hard because even in our own language we also have difficulties comprehending certain words or phrases, that happens to me when I listen to Shakira, for example. The way the words are said, the music that overlaps, the speed...
Listen to the next example. I'm sure you have listened to this song, Faded, several times but, did you know exactly what it said?
Check that we translate ideas not just words.
Today we will translate songs. I've chosen two sung in English and one of Shakira's song La Despedida, sung in Spanish, you will have to choose one of the English songs and the Spanish to try both types of translation , Eng-Sp and Sp-Eng.
1. Translate this song into Spanish in your notebook.
2. Listen to the song several times, understand the overall message and translate to English in your notebook:
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