Songs: The Secret Tool of Language Learning

How to have fun acquiring a new language.

Marjan Krebelj
Age of Awareness
Published in
3 min readJan 27

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Despite having eight years of formal English classes in primary and high school (as a foreign language here in Slovenia), I struggled to handle it. My grades were terrible, and I was by no means able to express myself. It was only in my late teens that my learning took off. And most of that sudden progress was due to one thing: music.

Katie Melua. Photo by author.

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Marjan Krebelj
Age of Awareness

Once an architect, now a freelance photographer/filmmaker with passion for words.