Or foreign song lyrics. During the international “Celtic music” fad of the 1990s – when bands like Clannad, Altan and Capercaillie were briefly much bigger outs

Or foreign song lyrics. During the international “Celtic music” fad of the 1990s – when bands like Clannad, Altan and Capercaillie were briefly much bigger outside their native countries than within them – I listened to a lot of these songs and memorized the Irish- or Scottish Gaelic-language lyrics just through pure exposure. In spite of not actually speaking Irish/Scottish Gaelic (I know just a handful of isolated words), I could reproduce those lyrics now with probably a high degree of fidelity.