Songs with repetition are great for learning languages.
You can also use translategoogle to translate the words of any rhyme.
In English:
Days of the week - Nursery rhymes, lullabies and songs in English
It was on a Monday morning
Monday\s child is fair of face
Numbers - Nursery rhymes and lullabies
Ten Green Bottles
Everyday Objects
Transport:
The wheels on the bus go round and round
Body parts:
Simple Simon says, touch your toes, touch your nose
The hokey cokey: You put your right hand in
Sung by Black Lace:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMCthi3pFEQ
Animals
Incey Wincy Spider
Time
From Hymns I like the cheerful:
All things bright and beautiful
Cheerful Weather Songs
Singing in the rain
If that is too dull, try a grim twist ending
Jack and Jill went up the hill - and Jill came tumbling after, or
A cautionary tale
Animals - any Noah's Ark song
the animals came in two by two
Many songs are very simple with lots of repetition
See how A Hunting We Will Go is constructed. It is very simple. It has great cartoons of all the animals. It is politically correct, that the animals are caught and then released.
The words are simple, one syllable, the cat in the hat, the fox in the box, the bear in the chair.
You can find rhymes with a rhyming dictionary. I find it most useful with European romance languages such as Italian or French or Spanish or German. However some foreign languages have similar sounding words for the numbers.
Number Rhymes
For example in English, you can rhyme
number 13 fourteen (up to 19),
Twenty thirty
The days of the week rhymes
Sunday Monday.
Try typing in numbers or rhymes and the language you want.
Or pick old favourites For example:
French
Frere Jacques
Sur le pont d'Avignon
In Japan I learned to say sayonara for goodbye from a song about goodbye.
Happy singing
Now I have set myself a task, to teach Asian speakers English sentence structure by creating a simple rhyme with the past, present and future, plurals, a and the.
Grammar Rhymes
by Angela Lansbury
Yesterday, I did a little jump
I fell over a hump
I got a little bump
Yesterday
My mother said, "I told you so.
At your age, you should know ..."
She always says, "I told you so."
She should not say, "I told you so."!
Each day, I remember how much I have learned,
I don't touch a kettle in case I get burned
I don't jump in rivers so I cannot drown
I walk beside mother when we're in the town.
I'm such a good person, as you can see
Nobody else is as good as me.
Mother corrects me, and we both sigh
It should be no-one's as good as I.
'Do you have a sister?
Do you have a brother
She says ...' - my Mum says,
Who's 'she' - the cat's mother!
Every day I forget
Many things I have not learned yet
But one phrase I say correctly
I am, aren't I, and we are , aren't we
It is, isn't it, you'll learn shortly
And will and won't and do and don't.
So long as you say one is and two are
In grammar lessons you'll go far.
So now I know.
I always knew
What I ought to do
But I never did
what should be done.
My mother says, 'You are a one!'
Today I like to skip
I am careful not to trip
I don't like falling one bit
No way, no way, not today
Tomorrow I shall dance
Maybe I'll go to France
Today I have a dream
A plan and a scheme.
You won't. I will
Well, if you insist
But if you do
You won't be missed.
Darling I miss you
I want to kiss you.
I always get kissed
Unless I resist.
And then I wonder
What I missed.
Yesterday, today and tomorrow
Let's forget yesterday's sorrow
I can forget
If you can forget
If he forgets
And she forgets
And it forgets
They are taking bets
That we will forget.
If I were you and you were me
I'm not sure how happy we would be
So let's be glad, whatever you say
You can't have more fun than today.
Everyone says I should go on a diet
I sometimes wish they would all be quiet.
Useful websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-Hunting_We_Will_Go
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farmer_in_the_Dell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Song_stubs
About the Author
Angela Lansbury is a travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. teacher of English, French and other languages. Learner of 12 languages on Duolingo. Member of the Facebook polyglots group. You can link to Angela on LinkedIn or Facebook. (Also intermittently on Instagram and Twitter. Regularly at Toastmasters online meetings such as Braddell Heights Advanced toastmasters speakers' training, on Learnool.sg and Singapore Online International Dynamic on Zoom on Fridays 9 pm to 12 Singapore time.
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