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Learning languages through songs

Every person, and it doesn't matter where he or she(we'll often say this in the US) comes from, remembers a familiar song from his/her childhood. For instance, the 'happy birthday' song.(This isn't a full sentence-you need a verb) Have you ever asked yourself why do you remember this a song so simply well that you can sing it even in bed at 2 o'clock a.m. after dreaming about Angelina Julie (as a part of your language learning process off course)? Well, there must be some several reasons.

I find learning through songs to be as an enjoyable and effective process to study languages. This kind of method contains of a few properties a few parts that will make your entire learning process being more efficient and easy. In addition, implementation of this method opens a door to your target language's culture. (to the culture of your target language sounds a little better, both are technically correct) The properties parts of this method are as follows:

1. Repeating effect
2. Combines both: active & passive learning
3. It is FUN!

I can elaborate on every property each part for at least one book-chapter but then you won't check my post for corrections. Therefore, I will give you, my wise readers, the honor to explore and experience the all three properties parts written above during study by studying the Happy birthday song, holidays songs, the national anthem and some familiar children songs from your childhood of your target language country.

This post is related to my previous posts (link: http://www.italki.com/entry/524475 )

Comments and Corrections will be  are welcomed !

Studying as an enjoyable process VS Mmemorizing as a boring method

*This post is the continuance continuation of my last post (link: http://www.italki.com/entry/522407)

How are you doing so far? Up till now, you should know 70 new words (I uploaded my last post a week ago).
Studying 10 words per day (or averagely 10 words per day) seems as like an easy task but actually, it is a tricky one. The most important principle is to Sstudy. There is a big difference between studying and memorizing, which I believe most of us do.

For me, the whole process of studying (Ggenerally anything new, and particularly languages) should be FUN! Otherwise, probably I probably won't remember anything, moreover in real time I won't be able to use it in real time (just sounds a bit more natural- both are right) (which is finally the Issue probably a better way to say this is "which is the bigger issue"). In my humble opinion, memorizing is the opposite of fun, and is a boring method. In Hebrew there is a nickname for someone who memorizinges material, he is called a Tuki – which means Bird (Toucan is the type of bird you're talking about!). The reason for this nickname is that a tuki he memorizes a huge amount of material for weeks and after he is finished using it (for instance vomiting regurgitating  all the material during an exam), he forgets all everything he had has memorized (usually after a few seconds) as if he had a brain of a Tuki.*
Therefore, I would like to share one of my favorite ways of studying languages with you:
1. Learning trough songs
Why this way and its benefits and How it relates to my last post will be published next week.. I will publish the method and benefits of this method next week (and also how it relates to my previous post!) Until then .. Have FUN!

*This would be better off in 2 sentences. Here's how I would re-write it, definitely not the only way though: The reason for this nickname is that a Toucan memorizes a huge amount of material for weeks. After he is finished using it (for instance, regurgitating all the material during an exam,) he forgets everything he has memorized instantly, like a Toucan.

**(In the US we wouldn't say vomiting, but we would say regurgitating for test material, which means the same thing- this does give it a very negative connotation though, which I think you want)

This is very interesting, and gets me more excited for my Spanish adventure right now (and Hebrew of course!) Here are some corrections.

Here is an easy-mathematical way to study vocabulary - I promise simple calculations.

I would like to share an interesting simple-mathematical thought about learning vocabulary with you.

You have probably you heard the claim (or fact) that knowing 2500 words covers more than 85% of your target language vocabulary. This Which (Which works, but this is better here) means that with the proper order you will be able to speak the language fluently enough (in this case it is about English, Chris Lonsdale explain this idea better than I do on Ted).
Therefore, I took that this fact and thought to play a little check math.  "play with the numbers" sounds good here. you could also say: I took this fact and thought to do a little math. Check and math sound redundant together.

In one year there are 365 days. If I study one word per day, then after one year I already know 365. Moreover, with a simple calculation after 7 years I would probably know the whole words all 2500 words except if some words will decide to take a little journey in the darkest places in my head and lost for a while. (This is something i've never really heard in English- i've heard people say things like "get lost in my head") I get it though.
However, let me be more realistic... when we study a language even in during our first day we are able to remember at list least 10 words with no problem PER DAY! This is not an hard task even for my 6-year-old little cousin.
Now let us play with math… 10 multipled by 365 days per year should be 3650 words per year. More than you actually need. In order to achieve your goal (2500 words) you will need only 250 days, which is that are approximately 8 months.

The ball is in your hand now, decide what to do... good luck!

Commons and corrections will gladly be accepted !