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  • vunderba 2 hours ago

    Nice job!

    > The mechanism seems to be melody acting as a retrieval cue.

    My concern is that one of the significant reasons that the melody aids as a retrieval cue is because that motif is familiar to you.

    Take for example the Latin America cover of Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" - Total Eclipse del Amor by Lissette.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3_snyvNNNk

    I used it when I was studying Spanish because I grew up on rock ballads.

    Ordinarily I would suggest "anchoring" foreign language generated lyrics to known melodies - but this would might run you pretty quickly into copyright issues.

    • gursu8 an hour ago

      Thank you for the feedback!