The trouble with songs!

This is a progress log summarizing what I have done along the lines of my two current project which are - Learning Finnish songs and Japanese Verbs.

Finnish Songs 

To be with, it took me some time to figure which singers I really like but thanks to a friend I had a quick start with the music scene in Finland. At the moment I definitely like Cheek, Laura Närhi, PMMP, Värttinä  and of course Samul Edelman. There are many bands which are from the 80's and 90's but right now I thought that it would be easier to find lyrics for contemporary songs.

I am focusing on 4 or 5 songs right now and after much hit and trial I have made some progress with the lyrics of << Jos sä tahdot niin >> by Samuli Edelman. Probably because it's shorter and more rhythmical than << Timantit on ikuisia >> by Cheek but the rap songs are where my heart leads inevitably. I just loved the video of the latter. I think, videos might be much more useful if we need to hook up images in a Memory Palace but then again I am trying singing-along method right now, will stick to it.

I am playing the songs on the background and learning the lyrics by reading them alongside or writing them out on a paper;P 

I had a target of 5 songs by the end of this week, I have only completed One so far. I hope my speed increases with time and once I have them down in my register (ya, good ol' fashioned ) it won't take me much time to memorize them in future.

Japanese Verbs 

Once I wrote them down on paper and made up some approximate sounds ( in English ) it has become easier to come up with relationships between the Verb-Meaning-Approximate triad.

Initially, I tried to memorize these verbs in the exact order but then I realized that it's not really important but rather I have divided them in various alphabetical groups within each of the tree groups. And all that remains is to form images for the triad and then put them up in a Memory Palace. None of the sub-groups exceeds 16 so, it shouldn't be much difficult.

I am not sure whether it would boost my study later on ( it should though) but I am willing to give this method a try, this time. It's important to experiment.

Regarding Chinese, I haven't paid any attention to Anki sets for a while now, can't juggle this along with heavy focus tasks like the Songs and Verbs memorization.

And I am still onto various Finnish courses on Memrise, though I am doing the selective portions, as in verbs first so that it might complement my Finnish songs knowledge. I was able to guess the meaning of a few paragraphs though.

No other languages has been touched during this time. Haven't found the time to do it, apart from a short reading in Icelandic.

So, that's the progress log with not so good progress this time.