Japanese Songs
These Japanese songs are so cute. The English translations have good rhymes Know and crow and sparrow.
Plus everyday creatures which small children know, the kitten and the dog. Everyday problems. Getting lost.
Concepts which children have mastered. Knowing your name. Making them superior to animals.
Feeling kindly and helpful to stray animals.
I've been looking for nursery rhymes in other languages to make it easy to learn.
English Songs
In English we teach from these classic rhymes in nursery rhymes and folk songs.
Numbers
Ten green bottles. Teaches numbers one to ten.
Also teaches plurals. One green bottle, but two up to ten bottles, adding the letter S.
Modern English Songs and Rhymes.
The Wheels on the bus go round and round. This is the favourite of my grand-daughter, aged three.
There is hardly any rhyming. Just repetition.
I am learning Italian on Duolingo. It includes short humrorus stories with twist endings. But no songs.
Twice a month on Sundays most months when not travelling or entertaining, I run a language workshop online as subsidiary meeting of a Singapore Toastmasters International club which meets in person in Singapore. My online club includes greetings in all the participants languages. We went through and A to Z of languages. Japanese popped up in the speeches about Chinese Mandarin and Cantonese because Chinese uses pictures, like our European no smoking sign of a cigarette with a cross through it to mean no smoking.
If you can read the word exit in Chinese you can read it in Japanese, and if you can read it in Japanese you can read it in Chinese. Learn to read two languages for the price of one. But to speak it, videos such as the one above, with subtitles in English, are amusing and helpful.
Useful Websites
duolingo.com
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