marenpaisley | A project of sorts (Reply)

I've been doing a lot of work with ESL students since I began my job, and I was thinking that it'd be cool to make a mix CD of music in different languages for the students. From my own music collection, I've got songs in German, French, Japanese, Swahili (or Acoli, I don't know the difference), Hawaiian, Lakota Sioux, and Welsh. However, my students are from Bosnia, Lithuania, Slovakia, South Korea, Turkey, Ukraine, China, Egypt, and Liberia. Some of the Eastern European students speak Russian also, so songs from there would be pretty cool. I remember a long time ago being signed up with mp3.com so that I could download world music, but I'd get spam from them, so I was hoping to find another alternative. I also don't want to clutter up my computer with Kazaa or anything like that. Short of browsing Borders for inexpensive albums, I'm kind of at a loss.

I'm giving myself until "winter break" to get a CD put together, so we'll see.

Heh, all of this spawned from my wanting to bake cookies for them, but since Ramadan started, five of our students are fasting. How cruel would that be, bringing in food then? :^P

ETA: And the groans of disappointment coming from the living room? Make me so not want to subject myself to the stress of the Red Sox-Yankees game... and yet, it calls to me...