英語の歌から日本語を習い方！

[lrsimpson]

"Frou Frou" と言うグループを知っていますか。
...英語でもいいですか。(This is hard to explain in Japanese!)

If you've heard of the song "Let Go" by Frou Frou, the lyrics go:

Can't you see that all that stuff's a sideshow?
Such boundless pleasure
We've no time for later now

Anyways... I was learning the word for "sideshow" today:
余興
よきょう

I started substituting よきょう into the song...
"Can't you see that all that stuff's a yokyou"
haha. silly

Now, get this, The kanji for yokyou is 余興.
余 - boundless (or "too much")
興 - pleasure (or "entertain")
just like the actual song lyrics!

Can't you see that all that stuff's a yokyou
Such boundless pleasure

So, if you happen know that song, it's really easy to remember the word for sideshow, and what its kanjis mean. If I have a song to help me remember something, I never forget it.

Anyone else substitute Japanese words into songs you know?

[mhykx]

Hi Irsimpson,

I, on the other hand, learn Japanese by listening Japanese song. Like for example the song of Yamene, "Get Along Together". I can't get enough of this song, you know. Let me write some of the lines from my memory

思えばただ傷つけ (Omoeba tada kizutsuke)
泣かせた夜もあったね。(Nakaseta yoru mo atta ne)

I'm not a native english speaker so pardon my own translation of the above lyrics.

Literally it goes..
"If (you're / I'm) going to think of it, it is always pain
"There was even a night that I made you cry

Well, I'm not a song writer or even a lyricist so I just don't know how to make the words flow with the song, hehehe.

[louis89]

This is a really nice idea, thanks.