125 Susanna Zaraysky ∙ createyourworldbook.com ∙ foreign languages My TOP 3 articles: Music and TV for homework? Really? Yes. Sí. Oui. Да The importance of female role models for female language learners Ladino: The “other” Spanish, is dying but saved a life About me: I was born in the former USSR and I have grown up in the US. My goal is to empower people to use music and the media to learn foreign languages. I am the only female on the Wikipedia page of living polyglots. I am the co‐ producer of the documentary, saved by Language, about how a Sephardic Bosnian boy saved his life in the Holocaust by speaking in Ladino, an endangered Judeo‐Spanish language. I am the author of the books, Language is Music (El idioma es música in Spanish, Idioma é música in Portuguese and Легкий способ быстро выучить иностранный язык с помощью музыки in Russian) and Travel Happy, Budget Low. I have studied eleven languages (English, Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Serbo‐Croatian, Ladino, Hebrew, Arabic, and Hungarian) and I speak eight of them (minus Hebrew, Arabic and Hungarian). My focus now is to improve both my Portuguese and Ladino. MY TIPS & TRICKS FOR: vocabulary & learning grammar Listening to music in a foreign language can significantly improve learning how to speak it and your retention of vocabulary. Music activates more parts of your brain than language does so if you listen to foreign language music, you are more likely to remember the lyrics of the song and individual words. Songs also help us remember grammatical patterns, especially the ones which are foreign to us because they don’t exist in our language. It’s important to listen to music you like and pick songs that don’t have very loud and distracting music because you need to hear the lyrics clearly. speaking Don’t be afraid to speak, even if you sound like Tarzan!
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