 So, bilingualism and music education as a title of my topic, but there is a secret subtitle that is the trickiest German trans perspective. That is actually my PhD topic, or that was my PhD dissertation. Luckily I finished, but I'm going to try this one out. Before I start with the research itself, a short story. I started learning English when I was a child, back then in the primary school. And I have to admit something, I wasn't very good at that. I was struggling with my baseball reading level. I didn't quite understand what was happening. And then something happened that kind of changed my life. This life, yes. So, I love this music. I was still a child, you know. I simply love this music. I love this music. I listened to it and I sang it each and every day. So, I got very curious. I got myself a dictionary. A real dictionary on the internet back then. So, I started translating the songs. And I revised those vocabulary that I learned through the songs. I have never forgotten that. And something strange happened. My grades in the school started getting higher. My teachers were raised. And soon I became the best English student in the classroom. Years later, when I was writing my master thesis, I realised the relationship between music and languages might indeed have influenced me back then. So, what is that similarity? They both are very different in each other, music and languages. But they both also have a large income. Both music and language have rhythm. They both have melody. They both have a structure. And they both have cultural features. Also, the studies show us that there might be some overlapping brain areas in the day when both domains are processed. When we look at their education, the studies show us the kids who learn languages through music. They learn that they have better skills in pronunciation. They have a wider vocabulary. They might even have better reading skills when they are reading music now. And what happens when it comes to bilingualism? Both musicians and bilingualists have something in common like that. We can call it door tusking or task switching or multitasking. But as musicians, you play something, you listen to the others in the same time, you're sometimes reading it. And as bilinguals or multilinguals, when you use one of the languages, you're constantly actually suppressing the other ones, which I do remember. And I believe most of you do it as well. And one study showed us both bilinguals and musicians have enhanced brain functions compared to the non-might-confident words or non-musicians. And then the study shows us that the influence by language-rolling children might be a little bit more sensitive to music, to pitch, that means they might be a little bit more talented in music. At the beginning of this stage, I said there's a Turkish-German perspective, right? So let's talk to this. Why Turkish-German community? First of all, I'm coming from Turkey myself. I've been living in Germany for eight years now or nine years now. And this community is the largest ethnic minority in a little bit of Germany currently. When I first came to Germany, I heard a lot of complaints about the language skills of this community. All Turkish people can never learn German properly. They switch back and forth all the time. And unfortunately, there are some bias about it. There's this study that tells us that analysed the media, German media, and they said most of the Turkish people, Turkish-Americans in Germany are portrayed with their lacking language skills in the German media. Well, of course we know this is not always the case. There are a lot of different examples of people with excellent language skills, and it's such and such. But what we are sure about is that there might be some problems, some issues in the education system. AppleToy says almost one quarter of the students with an immigration background in Germany cannot even have a basic secondary school qualification because of their language skills. So I took all of these information together when I was starting my PhD. And I asked this question, can we actually use music education against Turkish children and Turkish German children's language by language skills? I was very naive when I started my PhD because soon after I realised this question is way too big for one study to answer, but you can have a look at the different aspects of it, which I did get my study as well. I wanted to look at the home environment. What happens at home? What do the parents do? How do they think about bilingualism? How do they think about music? If they ever use music for language disorder, that was my main interest. My research question was what are the Turkish-German periods, the leaves and practices regarding music education and bilingualism? So that is a qualitative case, where we are interviewing a lot of parents in Munich with different social, economical and educational backgrounds, very different families from single moms to very traditional families to prompt family support. And I analysed all of these answers. I interviewed them at least for one hour each time. All the answers were put together and I found some commonalities that were sub-similar. What happens at home? What are the Turkish-German periods, leaves and practices regarding music education? Positive bleeds. Everybody believes music education is good. They should get some music lessons because those who have nice music education are a little bit more shy about getting lessons to their children which correlates with another study from Australia. So as a parent or a caregiver, the more music education you have, the more educated you are, the more you are given to your children as well. The second thing I found out was Turkish music getting on. Somehow all the parents I interviewed talk about it, but the funny thing is that all the students who are learning Turkish have the same idea of the same topic. Those who identify themselves are the Turkish-German and all they were born in Germany, they said, oh, Turkish music is the ocean and the Slovarnas are the valley. And those who have Turkish backgrounds but still identify themselves as Germans, they said, let's act on how we also perceive the music for the others. And what happens when it comes to bilingualism? The first thing is perfectionism and ask the parents, do you think your child is bilingual? They said no, even though they were influenced by bilingualism, because they thought bilingualism is being able to speak two languages perfectly, switching back and forth all the time, speaking about everything without any problem, but it's not the definition of bilingualism. It is very normal to have one dominant language and one non-dominant language that might even be just the understanding level. I realize this kind of lacking of information calls them a lot of pressure to the parents and they put this pressure on their children. And difficulty is we think, you know, by the level of family maybe it's not very challenging to speak one language others, sorry, others speak better language and their kid is bilingual, so what is that? But in the real story, in the real life, a lot of things actually don't realize what we don't see. For example, one parent told me that her German is not good, she speaks Turkish with her child, which is good, but that speaks German. But at some point, the child starts talking to mom, because she doesn't want to speak in Turkish. And the mom said, I don't want to use my own communication with my child. For me, communication is more important with language skills, with Turkish language skills. So even though I don't feel comfortable with German, I speak now very well with my child. And I was very curious if the parents were somehow doing something of music and obviously supporting this kind of realism. Even though, you know, unconscious level, there weren't many things happening, to be honest, but I called these baby steps, there were a lot of stuff that were happening as I said, and unconscious level without them knowing. For example, music for the weak language, mom has told me that her German was perfect, but she said, you know, Turkish is my love of music, so I talked to Turkish with my child. But she wanted that her child somehow does German as well, so she used music, they sang together, that's the reason how her child could start learning German. A lot of parents told me that the children have had a lot better to stay listening songs in different languages. Pronunciation, one parent told me that her child could not pronounce one specific sound in Turkish, I think that was over, and then she realized that he could pronounce it and he was singing, so she worked on that and eventually they fixed this issue with music. After the study, I realized the interest was super huge and I was very interested, but I never knew what was actually happening afterwards. Yeah, well, music, I remember and I love it, and then I never knew if they were indeed doing something. So I gave them a small prism of the music series, this music series contains two bilingual songs actually, first sung in German and then sung in Turkish, exactly the same and at the same instrument, same meaning just two languages, they translated everything. I gave this CD and then in two weeks I sent them a questionnaire just to measure if they were actually using it in the end sentence, yes, they all said they were, they were feeling to, they were very happy about it and they were feeling to use it in the future as well. However some parents told me, he knows he has been on, like these translating songs doesn't sometimes work, right? Like it's, it's kind of superficial because we're, like the Germans and the Turkish people, they don't talk about the same things and I was like, oh yeah what do you mean about that? And she said this German songs are about the activities, they go out more often, you know, Germans are always in the mountains when it comes to us, it is more emotional, it's like my mother's song, it's a very traditional very well known children's song internally. So I guess you've got to write, at some point translating will also not be enough because I know it's all about perceiving the things, right? So I thought there should be definitely some room for also traditional music, folk music or, or well known children music as well, if you want to support this bilingualism. So I'll put it like, I analyze all these questions if there were much, many more answers and I realized it was incredible, all the Paris, all about bilingualism and music, they all had positive views, but there were some difficulties or issues in their practice, they had some hard, for me, certain level of knowledge, that was my favorite type of knowledge about is bilingualism and our music and there were a lot of cultural influences. To take the one message, what does it tell us? Yes music might in detail learn languages or even get support by bilingualism, but just to believe in that will probably not be enough, there is a theory actually about it, a huge theory about that in education science, parents positively believe it's not enough, yeah, you know what, music has languages, so this is not enough for the children to actually benefit from this connection, but if you support your beliefs with actually, in any action, put them in the practice if you take the cultural features into that account, and if you keep educating yourself with the ability of that knowledge, it's probably going to be a positive outcome as children is learning. So, after I did this study, or during this study, I also worked with children, bilingual and bilingual children, and I realized I mentioned about children in songs from different countries is a lot of fun, so that's what we're going to try to hear in this week how you do the bees the animals, actually all the animals, what is the sound of the bee? any of that? how do you say that in a language for example? buzz, yeah, English people say buzz, German say Turkish people say buzz and I heard the Russians say but actually bees do not change their languages, it's a hard question. So, I matched up these three languages, three songs and I'd like to play it for you. 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So we'll have some time on the questions. So please raise your hands. You can pick the questions. So what do you do? She said why do we think learning, educating ourselves, should actually have a good question. Like an example of bilingualism, they didn't know it was very normal to have one dominant language and one non-dominant language, even for the children who grew up with bilingualism. They all thought bilingualism is having perfect, perfect language skills in two levels, in two languages, which is like the 70s here. But nowadays, we know that it's mostly the reigning case. So if you don't know that, you kind of have the pressure yourself, if you put this pressure to your child, which is not a good outcome in the end. So these kind of love, there are a lot of different details and answers that I couldn't answer. That was one of them. So there is no questions. Perfect. This was a great talk. Thank you.