Name: Learn English With Songs | 4 Fun & Easy Steps!
Uploaded: 2020-03-26T03:25:40.000Z
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Well, today you're going to get some expert tips on how to use music to learn English.

So learning English does not have to and it should not be born.

I personally love music, and that's why I saw you stick it on the video with a shot across his bow.

So as I was saying, I absolutely loved music.

So over the last 11 years, learning at six different languages, music has always been an essential part of the learning process for me.

Now, this is a new type of lesson that we're trying out.

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So music is really great for making learning fun and effective, and most of all, it helps you to remember everything that you studied like.

Have you ever noticed that a song that will come on the radio that you haven't heard since the nineties or the eighties or whenever, depending on your age.

But you can sing along and remember almost all the lyrics.

That is one of the biggest reasons it makes such an effective language learning tool.

What's more, music and help you to learn vocabulary expressions greatly improve your pronunciation and your clarity.

You could get the rhythm and the flow of the language.

Music is even a way that you can naturally study the grammatical rules for me personally in learning different languages.

It has helped me to master different vert tenses, toe learn the congregation toe learn, for example, the conditional and subjunctive tenses.

And this is without ever taking a formal class or opening a grammar book.

Music is just that powerful, and obviously not any song will work.

Song choice is super important, and this is actually something I could make an entire different video on.

By the way, that's something that you would be interested in making, Let me know by commenting down below, just hit pause quick.

Or you could even tell me down in the comments.

What is a song that you love, that you would love us to make a lesson out, and it's saying all this, you might think Well, Ethan, you're just really great at learning languages, or you must have some gift for it.

Well, I have to tell you, I really have never been an excellent student and any of my classes going up.

For example, my brother was always a much better language learning than me and always got better grades in his language classes at school.

However, for me, I've always loved learning different things, like music and culture of different countries.

And ultimately, that's what may be really successful, even not having a talent for language learning.

All right, so now I'm going to give you four expert tips for learning English with music, and we will even break down a song from Ed Sheeran a little bit in today's lesson.

All right, so the first expert tip is that you are going to need to choose a good song for learning, one that has a good rhythm that you love listening, Thio that you are curious to know some of the vocabulary and stuff, and depending on the difficulty of the song in your level you might go really deep with learning with a song, or it might be something that you could do rather quickly.

So what I like to do is actually print out the lyrics and mark it all up with a pen.

Ah, highlighter, because for me, I learn better when I do things with my hands.

But you might choose to do some of this on the computer with the pendant, but I will be showing you how I do this in this very same video in just a minute.

It's important that you come up with a system for symbols for breaking down this music.

So, for example, you might underline the different vocabulary.

You might swear symbol Kavaler that you recognize, but you need to add it to your active vocabulary.

You could circle some different grammar that you're wanting to check out, either that you have no idea about.

You don't know what that congregation is or that you recognize.

Look at it a little bit deeper in this context, because it's something maybe you've had a problem with, for example, conditional subjective, that really difficult tenses, by the way.

If that's here in the house probably conditional.

Check out this video that we have up at the top, and then you're also going to be really training.

You're here because you're going to go through while listening to the song and tried to mark together any connected speech, any odd pronunciation or anything that isn't pronounced the way that you would expect it to be.

You could even start to mark the difference, flow and rhythm of the song like Where are the stresses at?

It's going to depend how good your English is and how much I've been here for music you have.

But I tend to find that I can pick it up rather naturally by listening to the song a lot.

So it's really important that you unwrap your curiosity, that is, that you really bring out that inner scientist within you, and you really have to focus during this process so that you can really catch all those little subtleties of the language.

Really taken note of any interesting call occassions any odd use of expressions or slang or even some different grammatical rules?

Is it being used flexibly is being broken.

Is it just for the song or is this something that natives do all the time?

And when you start to do this, you really focusing on it, You're going to start seeing this all over the place, so maybe you'll listen to a song and then you're watching a TV series and you see this expression used in the TV series, and that's going to really help you a ton with remembering and starting to use everything that you're learning.

Let's look at an actual example of this with Ed Sheeran song Sing All right, so I'm here with some different color pens and the lyrics that I have printed out beforehand, and we are just going to go through and break these down a little bit.

So the easiest place to start, I would say, is by going through and first quickly identifying what is the vocab and expressions that you don't know So we can just glance through this and already see some that might be difficult for most learners, for example, maybe glass.

You've heard that before, but you're not exactly sure if that means like a cup or doesn't mean like a window glass.

So maybe we could put like a square around that to mark that it is something that we have seen before.

But we might want to revise it or added Thio Monkey or another vocabulary memorization software to be able to review it later and add it to our active all Kappler.

And then we'll just go through like underlining some other ones.

So disappear, for example, getting ahead of the program.

No man's land set the tone sounds like an expression get involved rushing from head to toe.

And then this part is especially complicated as we have blaze flames, fire brigade, local raves and so on.

So the next maybe we'll go through it and look for some interesting grammatical structures.

Some things that either we recognize and we are just trying to look at it in the context or something that maybe we don't recognize, and we need to look up.

I've been sat, so maybe I'll put a circle around that to market that it is something that I am not quite sure.

Why do we say I've been sat and not I've been sitting or I am sitting with you?

This is actually grammatically quite a weird structure.

So if you saw that and you found it a bit confusing for me as well, it seems like a bit of a strange structure that he used here.

And then we can see wood here, so we might wonder, Is that conditional?

And I would pry circle this whole thing because it's with witch.

So that's like a bit of subjunctive there.

And then we also could hear which we know is another conditional tense.

So we'd circle that and that all kind of go together.

We wish they would disappear so we could get down now.

And maybe we saw Get down is another phrase of herbs.

So we underline that and then we come down and we see Until then, we've got nothing to say.

So we got Shouldn't that be we have got And you might just circle that so that you can look into that later and maybe you'll ask like your teacher or you just do it some investigation online, and then the next thing I might want to do just because obviously this is getting quite full of different like underlines and circles and squares is I'll take one of these colors that I've got and I would actually listen to the song, maybe even listening to it on 10.5 point 75 and highlighting some of the different things.

So just give you an example of that, and then we'll actually look at the pronunciation in a little bit we see here Wanna so he doesn't say want to.

He says I wanna And maybe you know what that means.

Or maybe you need to look it up And then just to give you a couple more examples that I already looked up in the song and that we will listen to in a minute I want to you that becomes want you most likely and hold your body that d and why might become a Jew.

So it becomes a soldier and just the last example how this step into he actually connects that.

So he doesn't say step into easy step into Maybe we could get down now.

I don't want no I don't want no to your body to body.

Take another step into the no man's land.

And if I wanted to go even deeper with this, I might start actually writing over here some different definitions, any notes that I find and I can actually have a really good lesson right on one piece of paper with these lyrics.

And this whole thing maybe would take you 10 or 15 minutes.

So just giving example this I might take this term no man's land.

And take note that I looked that up and it means, ah, place where people can't live like a desert or something.