Learn English With Your Favorite Music

Learn English with music and lyrics. It will not take you hours to learn! The songs are short. Plus, you know exactly what to expect from them, because their structure is very similar: a “verse”, the chorus, another “verse,” again the chorus. True? And finally, the lyrics you choose are exciting! But if you are looking to pass the Primary School Leaving Examinations (PSLE), you should get experienced tutors from PSLE English tuition to help you through your exams! But if you just want a little help with your conversational English, this is a good way to go.

How to learn with Music and lyrics?

Many times you may come across tasks where a word is omitted from the lyrics and you have to hear them and write them down. It develops post-hearing comprehension, its only concrete sub-skill, but leaves the rest untouched. Or many people translate the lyrics at home, which develops the translation skills.

But with lyrics you can develop much more than that! You can use music and its lyrics much more skillfully! You can develop critical thinking, speaking skills, pronunciation, writing skills, listening comprehension after reading and reading, the ability to guess new words, and emotional intelligence with the lyrics of songs.

1. FEELINGS. What feelings does the song convey? Try to be accurate! Don’t just be “sad” (= sad), but “disillusioned” or “disappointed” or cynical. You can even find this one with the help of a dictionary! Good little research task! An important question in this regard is: what helped define this? Which parts of the lyrics? Identify them!

2. MAIN MESSAGE. What is the main message of the song in the shortest possible terms? How does the title relate to the main message? Do you express it? How? Briefly summarize? Do you project it somehow? Does it display visually? Do you highlight a typical detail? This subtask helps you observe the structure and style of the titles, and later, in a sharp situation, it is much easier to infer the content of a text based on the titles – which in turn raises your comprehension skills to a new level.

4. INTERPRETATION. If there are vague, more poetic elements in the lyrics, what can they refer to? These are often not understood even if you translate the lyrics, but don’t worry! You just guess! Is there a part that can be interpreted in several ways? This befriends the idea that language can be ambiguous or vague – which is often simply omitted from the equation in the text containing the facts.

5. INVENTION. Find words in it that you don’t know what they mean and try to figure out if you think they have a positive or negative meaning! This trains an important skill: figuring out the meaning of unfamiliar words using the context, but not yet in a 100% sharp position, as all you have to do here is determine the sign of that word. A little practice in front of the deep water.

6. STYLE. What is the style of the lyrics? Simple, everyday? Educated, sophisticated? Foggy, poetic, or easy to interpret? This helps on the one hand to get closer to the song, and on the other hand to observe the English language style library, different faces.

7. VOCABULARY. Look at the vocabulary of the song! What are the most interesting terms in it for you? What is the most complicated word you have come across in it? And most importantly, what is the only or at most two terms you take with you from the song because it works well?

8. VERBS. At what time was it written? (Why?) It may be a strange question, but if you answer it, it will help you gain a deeper understanding of verb tenses through observation! Plus, the cases that have been analyzed and analyzed in the songs can come back to real life, and there will no longer be a question of which tense to use.

9. GRAMMAR. What grammatical structures have you already learned in it? Are there any where the lyrics differ from the typical grammar structure? If so, how would it be “nicely” worded?

10. IMAGINATION. Continue the story of the song with a sentence or two! What happens next? This is already your own text creation task, not for beginners, but for advanced ones.

Sing the song with the performer and mimic exactly its pronunciation, emphasis, and rhythm! If you get tangled up somewhere, say that part many times in a row! If the lyrics are complicated, beautiful, or too fast-paced, then I tend to recite parts of the lyrics like a poem! Or you can dance and sing at the same time (say during housework). I also used to. (And whoever says anything, that’s when I’m actually learning.)

Most importantly, sing the song out loud while having fun!