GarageBand for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch on the iTunes App Store. Singing in a Foreign Language Helps You Learn It. There’s a new study by the University of Edinburgh Reid School of Music that shows singing in a foreign language is a better way to learn it than simply repeating phrases. One test even showed that people who sang foreign phrases performed twice as well as their non-singing counterparts. Everyone sing along with me now: Zut alors! The study was done by having three groups of twenty adults take part in five tests in which they repeated short Hungarian phrases. The subjects either first learned the phrases through simple spoken repetition or through singing, and on four out of the five tests, the singing groups performed better.
Karen M. Ludke led the study as part of her research for a PhD in Music in Human and Social Development at the university. Ludke said: This study provides the first experimental evidence that a listen-and-repeat singing method can support foreign language learning, and opens the door for future research in this area. (via Eureka Alert, image via Krystal Pritchett) PrometheanPlanet. In Haiti, 'video has not killed the radio star'
Paolo Woods recently photographed radio stations and their listeners around his home in Les Cayes, Haiti. Here he explains why so many Haitians use radio as their main source of news and entertainment: More than 50 percent of Haitians are illiterate, and only 25 percent have regular access to electricity. That means most Haitians do not read the country’s only daily newspaper, regularly watch television, or while away the hours surfing the Internet. But they can listen to the radio. And Haitians do listen, all the time. Paolo Woods / INSTITUTE RTMS 97.3 FM. Since the introduction of battery-operated transistor receivers in the 1960s, radio has been the main media in Haiti. When Baby Doc fled in 1986, finally ending the Duvalier era, independent radio stations flowered and have been a fixture in Haitian daily life ever since.
Haitians are not passive listeners, either. Radio Lumiere 90.9 FM. Radio has a crucial importance in the daily life of Haitians. Radio Men Kontre 95.5 FM. iBand HD | Amazing! 24 Piece iPad Performance In School | #SVMiPad.