Learning a foreign language listening to and singing along with music is fun, effective and educative: You can learn a lot about Italian history, culture, and everyday life from the songs of the great Italian cantautori (singer/songwriters) whose songs are part of the Italian cultural DNA. The greatest of them like Fabrizio De André are represented in the Treccani encyclopedia of science, literature and art. A good artist to start with is Angelo Branduardi, whose lyrics are rather simple with catchy tunes and a clear pronunciation.
- Si puó fare (A1).
[list=][/list]A song to start with. It consists mainly of infinitives. You can learn the conjugation patterns inductively and find out that a lot of Italian words are related to other languages (French, Spanish, Latin but also English, German, etc. ) - I Santi (A2).
Another song with a fairly easy vocabulary. If you don't get the structure stare+gerund into your ear after listening to the song a couple of times, you shouldn't try to learn Italian. - Alla fiera dell'est (C1):
With its repetitive structure (type The old lady who swallowed a fly), this nursery rhyme is a good introduction to the passato remoto. After some listenings you will know it by heart, you just have to remember the "eating order". Since the vocabulary is (again) not too difficult you can get acquainted with the first forms of the passato remoto (3rd person) on a B level if you are an experienced learner of foreign languages.
All the lyrics and tunes of the songs are easily available on the web.