I'd highly recommend Debarge, the greatest music group ever. Quite easy to make out what they sing. You could even sing along with them if you can emit high voice like El haha. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyQm3rYyNrQ
>>16 That's true. It's my mom's favourite programme. Her English really is easy to understand even for Japanese people..
English spoken by Hawaiian ppl is also easy to understand for Japanese cause the Hawaiian language is always pronounced with vowel sounds, as well as the Japanese language. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBafDAggfSI
>>1 Actually, if you really want to improve your listening skills, listening to english songs wouldn't help you so much. I'd recommend you to use learning materials for english learners. I've been listening to english songs ever since I was at jr high school, but it never helped with me improve my listening skills.
>>1 If you already are at a certain level where you can understand easy spoken english, you should use skype! you can talk with native english speakers via skype for free. it would be good for you to communicate with english speakers who learn japanese. you can help them over with japanese, in return they'd teach you english.
>>24 a lot of ppl assume skype is a web service where you can voice chat, it's true, but you can also text chat. so if you have a difficulty communicating in talking, text chat would help you. i usually do it at the same time.