So I'm not the only one! The concept of using Audio Pattern Matching techniques to figure out some words in foreign languages. I do that all the time and I'd say 80% of the russian words I learned by listening to Тату were cases like that. Heard the part of the lyrics, made a guess, looked up the lyrics translation and found I was right.
Also in Charlie's Angels 2, at the beginning, one of the girls said "I'm no angel" in a foreign language (Pretty sure it's a Slavic language givin that my very limited knowledge of Russian helped me understand it) and I recognized it (Not just reading the subtitles)
That was kinda scary but cool at the same time!
Now if I can leverage this more and more, I could learn Russian rather quickly if I pay more attention to Тату lyrics. (And watch a couple of russian movies, so maybe I can blind-purchase Russian Ark on DVD when it comes out)
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