When I was a kid, I just thought that’s how memory worked!
This is how I got through poetry recitation in school and speeches for various groups. I had a French professor who used a copy of the poem she’d selected for each student in the class, so that she could mark our mistakes on the page (along with deductions and final grade). Whenever I messed up the pronunciation of a word, I could picture her circling it with a red marker. It’s too bad song lyrics in that language are slightly different, because turning a poem into a song could help link the sounds with the words on the page for easier recall.
