Itzhak Perlman plays Klezmer

Itzhak Perlman plays Klezmer - YouTube

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Do you know what klezmer is?
Perlman calls it the soul of Jewish society.

Well, give it a listen!

Man, can that guy play the violin!

What kind of music do you guys like to listen to? I mean something that not everyone knows...

If people sing in English, do you make an effort to understand the lyrics?

Here's a post a wrote a while back  about a cool site for working with lyrics that is a lot of fun. Give it a try!

http://bestofcyberopps.blogspot.co.at/2011/03/lyrics-training.html

Yabla

Yabla is a pretty cool site.
It provides "supported" video clips in English French or Spanish. You can see the text in the original-language and English captions while listening to the audio. You can also easily replay any segment and control the playback speed (normal or slow). In addition, clicking on any word in the captions provides dictionary definitions in English.

One interesting experiment to start with might be to watch the same content delivered by three different women in three different languages and make a few comparisons.

First in English. Click on "Try Yabla for free"!

Then try the same information presented by Julieta from Argentina here. Remember you can always slow it down or pause and get a definition.

Finally it's time for French. Remember you can always slow it down or pause and get a definition.

So what do you think? Is Yabla an interesting kind of website for language learners?

Lyrics wiki

Get lyrics without having to put up with all the annoying ads and banners. Multilingual.

For example lyrics to a recent hit by one of my favorite artists, Weird Al.

Watch the music video and sing along!

Learn English thru Lyrics

This site has LOTS of lyrics that will scroll by themselves. Good reading practice even if you choose lyrics that don't exactly qualify as poetry.