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RockLinguist teaches languages through songs, with guitar players as teachers

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StartupRealities No 22 RockLinguist Limited is a group of foreign-language teaching schools which use guitar players as language teachers and all language learning occurs through foreign language songs and lyrics. SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATION A series of research papers (the most recent from McGill University published on February 27 , 2020) show that there is a connection between music and speech in the human brain. This explains why it is much easier to remember a sentence that has a tune attached to it: "I want to hold your hand" is easy-peasy when you sing it like the Beatles. INTERVIEW WITH THE CEO "When you sign up for a RockLinguist course in English, you are virtually joining a rock band. Seriously!" said company founder and CEO Rochelle Lingers. "Our language teachers play the guitar to their students for half of the duration of the class. They all sit in a circle, teacher and students, and there is a lot of group singing and sometimes even dancing....