Can Music Help Us Learn New Languages?

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Besame Mucho Festival is coming to Texas March 2. The festival is truly one of a kind, jam packed with some of Latin music’s most iconic acts from a span of genres. Los Tigres del Norte (who will soon be playing RodeoHouston) and Ramón Ayala will be there. There will be a...

) and Ramón Ayala will be there. There will be a rock stage with revered acts like Café Tacvba, Juanes and El Tri. Latin pop will be represented too, with headliners like Gloria Trevi, Reik and Alejandra Guzmán all sharing a stage.

Since I’m trying to learn Spanish, I reached out to Spanish language instructors first, kind folks willing to respond like Jose Jacobo, Ph. D., a lecturer in Spanish at Rice’scorridos “We say that language acquisition is input-driven, input being actual meaning-bearing exemplars of the language in question. Language learners, be they first- or second-language learners, must be exposed and attend to the messages encoded in that input in order to successfully develop the mental representation of the language,” said Paul B. Mandell, Ph.D.

Though she was in Los Angeles for a meeting with the Japan Foundation, Rice’s Naoko Ozaki, Ph.D took time to answer whether Joshua has a good shot at learning the language from songs in his playlist. Dr. Ozaki is a Japanese lecturer in the university’s Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication and her input is especially pertinent as she is a classical music pianist who learned at least one of the several languages she knows from her own love of music.

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