Learning Journal 10: State your learning goals for this week and how you went about accomplishing these goals
This week I was supposed to listen to Czech songs by Czech artists. I found a great playlist called Nejlepsi ceske pisnicky, which means best Czech music. Two of my favorite artists are Tereza Kerndlova and SEBASTIAN. They both sing love songs, but it was very difficult to understand the lyrics because in music, they tend to break up the diction to fit rhyming pairs. This is similar to Korean music; sometimes it is difficult to understand a sentence because the song breaks up the sentence or word structure. However, I found it very valuable and it gave me a better appreciate for music in different languages and cultural influences. One thing that made me sad was that in the past two years, American music has been at the top of Czech charts, which means Czech music has not been rising in their own countries.
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