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How to Learn English with Songs and Music ✔
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Apr 9, 2025
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hello and welcome back to learn English
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with be Global my name is Kristen and I
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look forward to teaching you today I
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wanted to talk to you a bit about
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learning English with music and by
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learning songs so generally music speaks
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to everyone it is the one universal
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language music touches a part of your
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brain that other areas of language or
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just conversation or reading or watching
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television doesn't touch and for that
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reason alone by learning songs you can
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help better your English as well so
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let's start with the why
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why why use a song to learn
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English so let's talk about some reasons
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why like I said English and learning
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music in general music is universal that
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means that it spans the universe we all
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hear the same thing whether or not
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there's lyrics which are the words to a
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song or if it's just music classical
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music only the instruments that we are
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hearing everyone hears the same thing
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and it makes everyone feel a bit
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different but you don't need to speak a
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language to understand music and to be
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able to
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connect so it connects
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emotions or
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feelings and whenever you can have fun
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with something and you can connect with
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it on an emotional level you're going to
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learn in a different way than you may if
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you were only speaking or only studying
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a vocabulary list when it's something
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that you emotionally connect with you
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have a tendency to learn more and to
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understand more and to retain or
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remember those words because they're in
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a song that you can feel something
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about
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vocabulary learning songs is a great way
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to expand your vocabulary to learn more
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words grammar now this one's a bit
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tricky you want want to be careful
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because many songs today aren't
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necessarily using the correct grammar
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some songs are using a lot of phrases or
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slang which is both good and bad so I
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would make sure when you're learning
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songs it's going to help you know which
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verbs to put in front of which
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descriptions it's going to help you
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understand how to format sentences but
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the grammar may not be correct so I
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would always check with a teacher to
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make sure that what you're saying is
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grammatically correct however for
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conversational English and for learning
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slang songs are
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great you can also pick up on the
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accent whether it is an English accent
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or an American accent learning the song
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and listening to it over and over again
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is going to help you hear how those
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words are pronounced in a normal
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everyday this is how I speak now of
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course it's not quite the same as
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conversational however what's great
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about music is often times especially
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with a slow song you can really hear
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what it is they're saying and sometimes
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when you're having a conversation that
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can be more
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difficult so the last thing I wanted to
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talk about is
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culture you can learn so much about a
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culture through music and that can be
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both good and bad typically most songs
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tell a story and in that story you're
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going to learn more about the country
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that that music is coming from and the
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people that that music is coming from so
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it gives you such a greater knowledge of
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the people their phrases and their slang
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their
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accents it helps you with
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vocabulary and music is universal it's
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something we all know and love and it's
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something we can all connect to one of
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the most important things with learning
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English and using songs or music do you
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know what it feels like to have a song
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stuck in your head maybe you hear it in
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the morning and then by the night time
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you're still singing it it is still
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stuck in your head
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so imagine if you are to learn a song in
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English and know it so well that that
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song gets stuck in your head those are
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words and phrases and vocabulary in the
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English language that is then going to
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be with you forever because you have
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emotionally connected to it and the song
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is stuck in your head
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so when it's stuck to say that something
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is stuck in your head that means that
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it's going and playing in your mind over
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and over and over again and you can't
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get rid of it it's stuck there it's all
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you hear so now we've gone through the
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why why can we learn English by learning
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music now let's talk about how you can
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learn English through song and through
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music music how do we do that one of the
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first things that we really need to
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focus on and pay attention to would be
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choosing the right
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song it needs to be a song that is slow
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slow enough for you to
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understand with a singer that speaks
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clearly and hopefully is the kind of
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music that you like that's going to be
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the best way to start out learning
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English by listening to music you want
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it to be something that you can
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understand something that you enjoy
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listening to and something that's going
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to really help you be able to learn
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English and not just misunderstand or
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because it's going so fast you don't
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know what they're saying so make sure
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that you pick a genre
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or a type of music that you know you'll
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be able to enjoy listening to and words
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that you will be able to
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understand a great example is Louie
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Armstrong's What a wonderful world that
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is a great song
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as just one example it's nice and slow
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you can understand what it is that he's
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saying and he uses very simple sentence
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structures so that might be a good one
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for you to start with if you're not sure
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now after you've chosen the right song
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you need to
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listen and when I say listen I don't
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mean to just put it on while you're
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doing something else I I mean close your
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eyes make sure there are no distractions
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really listen to the song Don't Worry
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yet about what the words are or what it
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is that they're saying just take some
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time to listen hear it enjoy it and let
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it just take over you so that's the only
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thing that you're doing is listening to
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that
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song then once you've listened to it a
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couple of times for fun and to enjoy
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just listening you do want to start
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looking for words and phrases that you
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might
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know so once you think you might know
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some words or some phrases you want to
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write them
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down so as you're listening to the song
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Start to think of the words that you
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hear that you know it doesn't matter
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what word it is it doesn't matter how
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many there are any word that you think
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you might know go ahead and write it
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down and start making a list I would
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also suggest that you write down the
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story what is it about
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anything that you may get from the song
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that will help you understand what the
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song might be about and it's okay if
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you're wrong this is not a test you
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write down the words that you know and
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you write down the story or little parts
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of what you think the song may be
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about then once you've chosen the right
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song you've gotten into a real quiet
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place to listen to it with no other
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distractions
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after that you want to write down the
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words that you know write down the story
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that you think it may be about then you
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want to go online and find the
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lyrics the lyrics are the words to the
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song So once you have the lyrics then
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you're able to do both you can can
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actually listen to the song while you
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are reading the lyrics to help you
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understand it more you can do both at
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the same time the great thing about
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doing this also is that you're using all
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of your senses you're listening you're
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thinking about the words you're writing
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them down then you're reading while
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you're listening and you're writing
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doing all those at the same time and
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doing it with something that you are
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connected to emotionally is going to
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help you learn so much much more and
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it's going to be so much more
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beneficial so once we've done that then
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you want to take the lyrics and you want
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to write down any vocabulary words so
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basically you're creating a vocabulary
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list from those words that you didn't
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know that were in the song
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so take your time to make that list of
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all of the vocabulary words that are in
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the song that you might not know and
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some of them may be
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slang or phrases maybe you don't
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understand so if that's the case feel
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free to look it up so that you
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understand everything that the song is
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about and that you can have a list of
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words for you to quiz yourself on
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something that you can test and then
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learn throughout the week maybe pick a
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different song every
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week so once we've gone through writing
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them down we've grabbed the lyrics from
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the Internet or wherever they may be for
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the song and we've made our vocabulary
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list what's the last thing we have to do
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sing the
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song now for me that would be the most
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fun part I am not a singer however I do
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love to sing so once you know the song
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you can start singing it and the beauty
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of it is you know all the words you know
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all the phrases you have them written
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out and you understand it so it's going
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to mean so much more to you to learn the
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song in English and be able to
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understand everything that it is telling
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you I think that is the most exciting
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part most
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definitely so
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this is how we learn English with songs
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now how do we choose the songs which
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songs are best I recommend that you use
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maybe pop
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music any music that is in the pop
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category usually is easy to understand
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and you can find something that's slower
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that will help you more watch music
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videos
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there are so many music videos online
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that you can watch that will show you
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some of them even have the lyrics
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attached to them on the bottom but then
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that way you can also watch the song and
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listen to
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it another great idea for learning
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English through song is listening to the
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radio and now the radio is so easy to
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get on the internet there are apps you
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can put on your phone and ways that you
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can listen to radio stations in every
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country all over the world to be able to
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practice that language so you can find a
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radio station that's in the area that
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you want to be and not only will you be
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able to learn English but you will get
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more awareness as well into their
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culture into their phrases and their
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slang as well as their accents now the
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radio can be hard because they do speak
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very very quickly but it's still great
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for you to listen to maybe just put it
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on while you're cleaning the house and
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maybe while you are listening to the
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radio you will hear another song that
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you can go through this process
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with another great idea is Children's
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shows so Sesame Street I know Sesame
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Street
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typically almost everyone in every
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country has watched Sesame Street at
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some point so if you can go online and
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Find episodes of Sesame Street that are
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in English for you to practice that will
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help and they also have songs on Sesame
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Street and music they have songs for
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children that are easier to understand
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and they're made for people that are
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just learning the language which is also
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you and that can
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help and last but certainly not least
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get
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creative so you've found some songs
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you've listened to them and you've gone
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through
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all of these six steps to help you
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improve your English why not write your
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own song maybe you have a list of
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vocabulary words that you're having a
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really hard time remembering so you
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could put together your own phrases and
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your own words to create your own song
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that will then help you be able to
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understand music better and it will help
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you learn English
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better I hope that today's lesson has
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helped you I know that I have truly
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enjoyed talking to you about music and
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about learning English by listening to
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songs all you need to do is follow these
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steps with every song until you're
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singing it all the time and it's stuck
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in your head it's a fun way to learn
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English and add to your list of studying
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throughout the
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week I can't wait to talk to you again
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again very soon thank you so much
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