Nov 23 2009
The Best Places To Find Lyrics On The Web
Singing songs is a great way to help English Language Learners get past their understandable reluctance to speak in a new language, and a good vocabulary-building activity. In addition, you can create clozes (fill-in-the-gaps) with the lyrics, use them to teach grammar, and have students use the real lyrics as models while they write their own.
It’s easy always been easy to find lyrics on the Internet, though often there are inaccuracies and so many lyrics sites have tons of annoying pop-up ads. I thought I’d create a “The Best…” list that shares places where there appear to be correct lyrics and no pop-ups.
You might also be interested in these other “The Best…” lists:
The Best Music Websites For Learning English
The Best Online Sites For Creating Music
The Best Online Karaoke Sites For English Language Learners
Here are my choices for The Best Places To Find Lyrics On The Web:
Lyrster is a search engine that appears to search only collections of lyrics to songs. Just type in a few words and your results show links to the complete lyrics. It performed quite well in my tests. The sites it searches include some, but I don’t believe all, of the other sites on this list.
Lyrics Fly is one of the best sites out there for finding song lyrics. You can also use it to find music audio and videos, but I’m primarily interested in the lyrics. The Make Use Of blog calls it “lyric search on steroids.”
I’d certainly be interested in hearing other suggestions, so please feel free to leave them in the comments section.
I’d certainly be interested in hearing other suggestions, so please feel free to leave them in the comments section.
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Larry,
For Korean teachers who’d like translations of Korean songs or who’d like to send their students to check out translations of their fav. pop songs, http://aheeyah.com is the place. I’ve gotten the help of the girls there and it is a full directory of many Korean songs translated into English…. Actually, with the Korean “wave”, lots of other countries now really interested in Korean artists too.
Maybe others overseas could chime in with sites of a similar vein for their own countries, with song lyrics translated into English.
David
http://eflclassroom.com
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Larry,
Here are a few more:
http://www.beatlestube.net/ (Beatles videos and songs)
http://www.poemhunter.com/lyrics/ (poems and songs)
http://www.lyricsdownload.com/
Marina
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A website for French lyrics is: http://www.lesparoles.com/
Cindy Tracy
http://www.wor.com
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