{"id":22609,"date":"2015-11-06T18:09:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T17:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=22609"},"modified":"2017-10-24T13:43:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T11:43:33","slug":"learning-through-music-calogeros-pomme-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/learning-through-music-calogeros-pomme-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning through Music – Calogero’s “Pomme C”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Music is a fun and stress-free way of learning a foreign language. You expose yourself to new genres and voices. You learn new phrases, hear new accents, discover plays on words, and learn vocabulary that you’ll never forget<\/a>. And it makes sense – you can still remember all the words to the music you listened to while you were growing up, so if you can find even one artist you like in a foreign language, it can increase your listening and spoken comprehension in ways that a textbook cannot.<\/p>\n

Learning through songs is also a way to spark discussions in class. Applying a song to a student’s current situation will make him focus more on what’s being said. Belgian artist Stromae’s song “Carmen”<\/a> is a catchy little number that discusses the current preoccupation with smart phones and Twitter. It’s a very modern song in that aspect, but it’s also possible to use a more dated song to discuss certain themes – after all, la condition humaine est intemporelle<\/strong> (the human condition is timeless).<\/p>\n

The song I’ve chosen for today is called Pomme C<\/strong> (Apple C\u00a0 – which comes from the idea that pressing the apple button and the letter C on an Apple keyboard will copy whatever is selected so it can be pasted later. The PC equivalent is Control C). In the song, Calogero sings of a woman he’s met virtually, and for class discussions, this could just as easily be updated to more modern methods such as Tinder and other similar applications.<\/p>\n

Below I’ve included the text and a translation. At the bottom, I’ve offered some ideas on how this song can be interpreted into a class.<\/p>\n

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