Does listening to music in the language help with learning the grammatical parts of the language?

I presume you mean listening to songs. I have not found it that useful, since the vocabulary is quite limited.

>Does listening to music in the language help with learning the grammatical parts of the language?

Yes, but you have to take care in choosing which music and which band you are going to use. If you don't truly like the music you won't want to listen to it over and over again, and if you choose a band with lyrics that are too basic or too nonsensical you either won't learn much or you'll waste your time with something less than useful.

Sometimes you'll also find good songs that repeat certain grammatical patterns, like this one by Jaurim (Korean band) from their first album:

http://www.pagef30.com/2009/11/learning-korean-...

This song has a lot of ~도 (even if, like Japanese ~ mo) as well as 지 않아 for forming the negative. They are:

손을 내밀어도 말을 걸어봐도

왜 나를 사랑하지 않아

곁에 다가가도 미소 지어봐도
나를 바라보지 않아 나를 바라보지 않아

너를 바라봐도 좋은 선물해도
나를 알아 주지 않아 나를 알아 주지 않아

A lot of other grammatical patterns too, like quoted speech (the 고 in 그녀가 말했어 내가 널 잃어가고 있다고) and relative clauses (아름다운 너에게선 - from beautiful you, or from you who is beautiful), plus some other things.

The best part about using songs in learning languages is that after you are done listening to them they stay in your head for hours and hours.

I don't avoid listening to music (hey, I'm a musician!), but I don't use it as a method for learning languages. As Steve says, the vocabulary is quite limited. Considering repeated choruses etc. I'd learn much more from a three minute newscast than than three minutes of music.

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OK, nobody here said that music was the only method, but now and then I hear things like "You silly people, haven't you realised that music is THE BEST method!"...

Of course you can learn SOMETHING from lyrics.

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I'd say it really depends on the target language. I've certainly learned quite a few new words and phrases from listening to Chinese songs over the years. But Chinese is a language where pronunciation and grammar can't really be toyed with too much. And besides the grammar is really simple.

However, in English and I'm sure many other Western languages, pronunciation and grammar are often altered to fit the music. Grammar rules are often bent just to make things rhyme, and you wouldn't want to end up actually speaking like that. When learning a foreign language you may not have the language sense to tell if something in a song is a purposeful grammar mistake or not.

So I really wouldn't use music to help learn grammar. I'm not really sure what sort of grammatical points you'd pick up from a song, besides random words and phrases. And as mentioned, for that there are far more useful learning materials.

Music was certainly an important factor in my success in learning German, but mainly as a way of just keeping in contact with the language and diversifying my overall content intake. As pure learning content I don't think that songs are generally intensive enough, since the overall amount of language used is generally quite scant in comparison to, say, an audio book, where a much greater number of words is uttered per minute than is generally the case with music. Songs are often repetitive, though, and this can help to some degree in engraining basic structures and elements of the language. I certainly found this to be the case with German, but it simply comes down to how much you enjoy and like listening to music in general.

Also, I am not going to enjoy listening to every singer out there in my target language. So, listening to songs is not intensive enough for me , at least. If you have some spare time to kill, sure, why not, but as a sole learning aid, I do not think so if one can stick to the same learning activity for quite a long time because of a boredom factor. It is true that songs carry limited vocabulary and you have to learn a freaking huge number of words when you are new to a language.