Music is called the universal language for good reason. Favorite music shared from one person to another can be the starting point for a friendly conversation. You can let music be your beginning to learn Spanish. Here is a musician’s guide to learning Spanish online with music.
The first thing you’ll want to do is familiarize yourself with the many Spanish song sites. A recent internet search resulted in 22,000 online sites for learning songs, song lyrics and various types of music products in Spanish. Because there are so many options, you’ll need to think in terms of music categories to focus on what you’d most like to learn. Take a look at the categories below, choose one, and then enjoy!
Popular Spanish Children’s Songs Famous
Children’s folk songs are one of the best ways to learn Spanish vocabulary for beginners. You can know that these songs have stood the test of time and have become famous because children, generation after generation, have enjoyed singing them. Vocabulary will be basic, sentences short and memorable, and melodies often universally recognized around the world.
Educational songs for teaching the components of the Spanish language
These are songs that are created to teach specific things about the Spanish language. For example, you will find songs that teach the alphabet, colors, numbers, animals, or things like everyday activities. These songs may use famous tunes that are not subject to copyright laws, or newly composed tunes created just for the specific teaching song. Sometimes current popular recording artists who have children or enjoy singing with children create this type of educational song show.
Songs of Spanish Popular Culture
These songs include those that are currently being performed by popular singer-songwriters, and can include pop, jazz, rock, and whatever. The advantage of hearing what you enjoy is that eventually you will hear it enough to memorize the words and their meanings.
Spanish Christmas songs
Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or any of the world’s many religions, there is a Spanish holiday song appropriate for your faith. In fact, you can find Spanish song websites dedicated to teaching faith songs in Spanish. It takes a few minutes of searching online, but you will find what you need. You will have plenty of vacations to enjoy singing the songs once you get to know them. The best thing about learning to sing holiday favorites in Spanish is that it is a powerful way to bring families together by singing the message-filled words of these songs.
Spanish Classical Songs
Written for the concert stage, these songs are by classical composers. You can find websites dedicated to selling CDs with a wide variety of great songs composed by Spanish-speaking musicians from many historical eras. These are art songs and will be enjoyed by highly skilled musicians. But, their quality is such that even the casual listener will enjoy listening to the beauty, excellent diction and pronunciation of these songs.