Kids Learning Spanish Through Music

There are many different ways to teach children how to speak and understand Spanish. Each way is a fun and effective way for getting the language across.

Bilingual Introduction to Spanish

Children love singing simple songs. Children love singing silly songs, too. An example of a classic bilingual children's song begins:

Pollito, chicken
Gallina, hen
Lapiz, pencil
y
pluma, pen....

This type of learning helps children ease from English to Spanish in a repetitious, familiar way.

ABC Song

When you learn your ABC's, you not only learn the rote of each letter's position but you learn the song that goes with the alphabet. The instrumental of the song, which was composed by Mozart, helps young children learn their ABC's and stays with each child throughout his entire life. Such it is when learning a language through music. The repetition of singing the words to music helps one remember the words.

ABC's Different in Spanish

You can sing the Spanish ABC's to the same tune as the English version. But you must inform the child that the Spanish alphabet really has 30 letters instead of just 26 letters.

Singing Games

There are some songs that are for jumping rope or counting. For example, "Brinca La Tablita" is a rhyming song that requires children to multiply the two's table in math while jumping rope. It begins, "Dos y dos son cuatro, cuatro y dos son seis....," meaning, "two and two are four, four and two are eight."

Church Songs

Some songs are religious in nature and can be read with a child slowly from a hymnbook or sung to a child repetitiously as long as it takes the child to remember the words. Here's an example:

Yo tengo un amigo que me ama....me ama.....me ama
Yo tengo un amigo que me ama
Su nombre es Jesùs

References

• Musical Spanish