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"PopuLLar is a European Union, funded, innovative, education project designed to harness music, the primary social interest of secondary school students, in to their language learning. There is a huge need to motivate secondary school students, in particular, to learn languages, focus digital competencies and be creative; and music is the key. The project will ask students to write their own lyrics to songs of their choice. They will then translate their songs in to the target language they are learning, The students will then record their song (audio or video) and share it with students all over Europe. Students will be able to combine their love of music, with creativity, literacy, digital competencies, group collaboration and, most importantly, use LWULT languages. PopuLLar is a project that is 'Owned' by the students, they work autonomously and collaboratively, teachers are guides to the project process."

Platform for free music. Free music downloads for private use - Royalty free music licenses for commercial purposes. More than 55,000 albums by independent artists. Great for student work!

Folk music in many European languages http://folkdc.eu/ The Digital Children's Folksongs for Language and Cultural Learning (Folk DC) project is a European Union project designed to motivate young language learners to engage with language learning through using Folk songs, and activities around the songs. The songs are in 10 European languages (Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish). The project will be producing a complete package for schools (Autonomous Teacher Training Tool kit - ATTT) so that schools all over Europe can take part in the project. The project culminates in a simultaneous, live concert in 5 countries, streamed over the Internet to audiences all over Europe. School choirs will sing folk songs in non-native languages that will be streamed to the other concert venues and also made available to an Internet audience. Schools can take part in this project by: Using the resources produced by the project Suggesting your own language, culture and music activities, inspired by the project Watching the live concert (at the venue or online) - see how you can join Adding folk songs of your language - see the project Wiki You can ask more information about how you can take part here. The project will introduce an understanding of the number, richness and culture of other languages when children start to learn a foreign language and begin to understand the meaning of additional languages. It will engage children in fascinating and engaging activities that will resonate in to the future and answer the need for materials that can directly engage and motivate children to enjoy their learning.

"Music video by Shakira performing Sale El Sol. (C) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment (Holland) B.V."

Great resource for "something more like an actual conversation - speech taking place in real time that is continually new, that conveys information that we are interested in...a listing of online news radio, talk, information programs, and music programs featuring music in the native language to practice your understanding of foreign languages. "

Store your Entire Music Library in the Cloud, Unlimited access from Any Computer or Device from Anywhere in the World.

An excellent source of German music clips and online interactive quizzes in English about Germany.

Today i am introducing to you a set of the best music sharing web tools. All these tools are free and easy to use. They can allow you to listen and share music with your friends through a real time listening. Educators can use these tools to educationally share and study songs with their students as well.

Thank you, very usefull link.

This is an awesome YouTube channel by Sylvia Duckworth. I would use her Chansons au Powerpoint to pre-teach vocabulary and then reinforce the learning with the music/PowerPoint combination.  Other videos offer a plethora of topics that can be used in your classroom.  Her use of GoAnimate inspires me to have my students create similar projects to tell stories.   

This page shows all the previous activities.\n * Play Games and Improve Your Vocabulary\n * Write a Music Video Review\n * Improving Your IT Skills and Vocabulary\n * 1 Minute Listening Activity\n * Learn a Song in English\n * Try a TOEFL Reading Test\n * Listen and Write the News\n * Improve Your Vocabulary and Make Friends\n * Exercise Your Ears With Authentic Film Clips\n * Record Yourself Reading a Poem\n * Using a Word Cloud to Remember Words and Texts\n * Take a Quiz Adventure Journey\n * Create an Online CV in English

"Lyrics Training is an easy and fun method to learn and improve your foreign languages skills like english through the music and lyrics of the songs."

"Another swedish traditional folksong; "När som jag var på mitt adertonde år" (As I was on my eighteenth year) (YT description) Swedish lyrics with English translation used here: http://marcelgomessweden.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/swedish-traditional-folksong-nar-som-jag-var-pa-mitt-adertonde-ar/ music captioning wiki page: http://musiccaptioning.wikispaces.com/N%C3%A4r+som+jag+var+p%C3%A5+mitt+adertonde+%C3%A5r Also on http://folkdc.wikispaces.com/Danish+Folk+Songs"

Added to the http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/teams/musiccaptioning team/project.

"Mickey Mouse and Company: The Band Concert "The Band Concert is an animated short film produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions and released to theaters on February 23, 1935 by United Artists w/ a running time of 9 minutes. (...) The Band Concert was directed by Wilfred Jackson and featured adapted music by Leigh Harline. " From the description in http://fan.tcm.com/_Mickey-Mouse-38-Company-The-Band-Concert-1935/video/1640275/66470.html"

Hilarious and wordless except for Donald who says a few hardly understandable words: so there are no real subtitles, and the cartoon could be used for retelling activities in various languages.

"Traditional song from the Ionian Islands (Adriatica). Here, one stanza has been skipped: see http://kanellatou.gr/en/music-archive/lyrics/item/202-kefalonia-gialo-gialo.html (the transcript I used) and http://www.allthelyrics.com/forum/greek-lyrics-translation/72431-translation-from-greek-to-english.html for a bilingual version"