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Singing can facilitate foreign language learning . This study presents the first experimental evidence that singing can facilitate short-term paired-associate phrase learning in an unfamiliar language ( Hungarian ) . Sixty adult participants were randomly assigned to one of three " listen-and-repeat " learning conditions : speaking , rhythmic speaking , or singing . Participants in the singing condition showed superior overall performance on a collection of Hungarian language tests after a 15-min learning period , as compared with participants in the speaking and rhythmic speaking conditions . This superior performance was statistically significant ( p < .05 ) for the two tests that required participants to recall and produce spoken Hungarian phrases . The differences in performance were not explained by potentially influencing factors such as age , gender , mood , phonological working memory ability , or musical ability and training . These results suggest that a " listen-and-sing " learning method can facilitate verbatim memory for spoken foreign language phrases .
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singing
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speaking , rhythmic speaking
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singing .
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rhythmic speaking conditions .
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" listen-and-sing " learning method