Great thread! I too am a car "learner" -- even 15 minutes is time to run over a new verse or two. However, people in front of you at stop lights sometimes think you're "talking" at them and flip you the bird, or is it the "you're # 1 sign" ? I once asked a good musician how he went about learning tunes (mainly instrumental) and he said he always started by listening to the record at least ten times before sitting down to work out words, chords or lead lines. Then its the play & scribble out the lines method. At a site on the web about Opera singing, I found the hint that people memorize lines more quickly when they are reclining. I suppose that's because you're less occupied with anything else. I don't know about the rest of you, but when I'm playing an instrument with someone else singing, I have a hard time picking up the words -- too busy with chords, etc. To learn from another singer I have to sit and listen to them without playing along. Somehow I suspect that -- contrary to oral tradition ideals -- most singers learn by writing down the words. Even if you learned it orally, you usually jot down the words for archival purposes. If you don't write it down you run the risk in five years or so of forgetting part of the words if its not a regular song in your set list. It seems to me I heard a folk scholar expound on this -- saying that only children's songs (like jump rope rhymes) are the few that are really transmitted orally.