Lyrics Training > where listening becomes more alive

Listening skill is one of the important features that is a must for language learners to have a complete understanding of the target language. This is why I would like to reccomend  this site called the LYRICS TRAINING that makes listening activities one step ahead of traditional learning full with fun and excitement.
It is an easy and fun method to learn and improve your foreign languages skills through  music videos and lyrics of your favorite songs.

So basically, lyrics training is a website that allows us to listen to thousands of songs along with the lyrics available in the internet as a way to improve our listening skills. In simple, the listeners need to complete the lyrics as they are listening to the songs. Although it may sounds and look as normal as what the teachers normally used with the students in class, Lyrics Training is more to a modern way of practising listening skills with some extra new features that excites people in doing it. Furthermore, the best part of this activity is that it is specially made to accomodate  different level of learners in terms of listening abilities where learners could choose wheather they want it to be suitable for beginners, intermediate or even expert. The more advance level you choose the more complicated it will get.

It is an easy tool where we could start practising our listening skills by just picking on one song and the level that we wish to test ourselves. Amazingly, the most cool part in this website is that the music will stop from one line to the other one as we type in the missing words. We could also listen to the same line again and again if we missed any part of it.  Moreover, the most interesting thing in this activity is that you will get a score at the end of the song depending on the time you get to finish with the task and you could even compare yourselves with users from different countries. How great is that!!!

**Some things that I like about this site are:

• It's free, so we could use it as many times as we want.
• Full with up to date songs to choose from where it could boost up the students interest to keep on testing their listening abilities using songs that they like.
• Fun and motivate learners to learn by themselves at home without any teacher guidelines.
• It also provides score in the end as a type of feedback for the learners to keep challeging themselves and improve thier current ability.
• This activity does not only concern about the learners listening ability but also thier spelling capabilities of writing the correct words.
• Students will also get to learn new vocabularies and  how to pronounce words correctly as it should.

**Some things that I don't like about this site are:

•  Some of the videoclips may not be suitable to be shown in class as it might offend certain people.
• Students might be out of control and choose inappropriate songs unsuitable for their age.
• The learners might not be able to predict words that they have never heard before such as slangs or dialects that the singers used.
• Certain schools might have limited computers and internet acces. 

That's all I have to say for this site but personally, I would like everyone to try it for yourself by clicking HERE and experience this new form of excitement of making learning language more fun and alive!!!