I have a business idea

[Sethomas]

Granted, I won't be able to commit time to this for years to come, but I feel like I should write it down and share so that I might have some compulsion to actually do it. I learned a great deal of German by going on a summer vacation one year with my family and just listening to Rammstein on repeat. Years later I augmented my vocabulary with Die Toten Hosen, and by now while my German vocabulary is pretty humble my command of the grammar is really strong considering how little formal education I've had in it. I did the same thing with a French band I discovered, and although I haven't invested much time in them I still find that they really help my vocabulary. I recently bought some cds by an Italian punk band because I want to learn Italian (and I'm going to be studying Catalan in the Fall, so any Romance vocabulary helps). I've been listening to them constantly for like the past ten days, and I'm amazed at how the words just stick in my mind.

So, I'm thinking a good business model for THE ULTIMATE LANGUAGE LEARNING EXPERIENCE would be to get rights for different foreign artists and make compilation cds of good examplar songs and publish them alongside a book with split-column bilingual lyrics and extensive grammatical/vocabulary notes to accompany each song.

I don't think it's any secret that music helps build foreign vocabulary like nothing else, I've had two French teachers that were huge on it. I'm just surprised that I've never seen it strongly marketed. Yeah, there's Berlitz cds that sell like wildfire, but they suck. If I'm going to work in the humanities, I may as well find some way to feed myself. What do you guys think?