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Don't Fear the Earworm

July 31, 2006 at 9:04 AM | 0 Comments

Traveling in a foreign country when you can't even say hello, or thank you, is stressful, but learning new phrases for each destination isn't too easy, either. Some clever folks at a lil' company called Earworms reckon they've come up with a solution to implant handy words and phrases in your brain before you travel.

Their theory sounds logical. Think about the thousands of lines of song lyrics you've got saved in your head. With the Earworms Musical Brain Trainer, they've put language tapes to music, in a funky kind of way. So far they've covered Spanish, French, Italian, Greek, German, Mandarin, and Japanese, with Arabic and Portuguese coming soon. Coincidentally, many of these countries produce the bad house music which greatly resembles many of the language lessons.

You can check out the demos yourself on their website, and see what you think. We're not sure if it's learning made cool or music made really appalling, but if the tapes work, and you can ask that friendly Japanese guy the way to the train station without having to make "choo-choo" noises, we'd consider it a success.

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