Can I learn by listening to music?

The short answer is no. Music can be hard to understand even in your first language. There are a few reasons why lyrics are hard to understand:\n\nLoud instruments.\nWord stress and sentence rhythm and intonation are all messed.\nLyrics tend to use “beautiful” language.\nMany lyrics consist of uncommon, poetic, abstract words and figurative meanings.\n\nBut most importantly, song lyrics are mostly devoid of context. Lyrics just begin, and we don’t know who is talking to who, in what situation, for what reason, in what tone, etc. This is inherent to lyrics and poetry. Because of that, music is mostly useless unless you’re actually translating the lyrics. But we don’t recommend translations because of the many issues with them, like we explain in How do you say X in Spanish?. However, listening to music is great in general for immersion, motivation, and integrating in the country. Understanding songs will only come at the highest levels in the language, but once you’re there, it will serve as a way of testing your level, and knowing that you have reached the highest levels of proficiency in the language.