Sing to learn the foreign!

Learning foreign language has never been as easy as we thought. When we’re talking about foreign language, first thing that came into our mind is how hard, boring, and time consuming it can be for someone to learn. Some people are gifted with the talent to learn languages easily, and some are bound to the challenges of being stuck at pronouncing, understanding, etc. Researchers at University Putra Malaysia have come up with technology or innovation that can aid the learning process of a certain foreign language. Animated Karaoke Assisted Vocabulary Learning (Japanese) and Spanish Songs with Animation Video (Spanish) is a sing-along multimedia screen page in form of CD – compact disk – that consist of many technical features such as; synchronized animation, text lyrics for foreign language learners, and transliteration – an idea of how to pronounced a word by putting in a familiar alphabet. Both of these innovations share the same goal which is to make learning languages easy, fun, and ...