Do you love music?

Well, today you're going to get some expert tips on how to use music to learn English.

Let's get started.

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.

Yeah, sorry about that.

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.

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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.

I wasn't born with that.

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.

But you're wanting Thio.

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.

Personally, I am not past it.

This in other languages.

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.

All right, so let's get our hands story.

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.

That could be difficult.

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

What could that mean?

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.

What is that?

So start here.

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 it's a witch.

We wish they would disappear.

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.

Take another sap.

Didn't know.

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.

And then maybe I'll take some notes.

How can I remember no man's land?

I might try to connect it to something in my native language, or try to think of a song or something that will help me remember that.

And I'm also going to do things like adding it to my donkey or memorize vocabulary software and at some examples and pictures, anything else that's going to help me to remember this and add it to my active vocabulary.

All right, In this process, I'm giving you be sure to adjust it to work well, with your personal process, you're going to want to experiment with it, play with it.

You're probably going to even want Thio.

Listen to the song a couple of times when you're trying to catch the pronunciation.

Because, of course, the first time you're going to miss things.

And if you would like another example of this, I actually wrote an article, a wild back explaining my process for doing this with a solemn in French so you can find exactly what I did right up at the top.

All right, so Tip number one was obviously the biggest hairiest one.

We've gotten through it and just hang in there because these next three tips are really going to help you to round out the entire process and take your English the next level with music, you need to be using some sort of vocabulary memorization software if you're not already.

I previously mentioned hunky memorize quiz lit, and there's so many of these out there really great alternative, hunky that I use my iPhone.

Actually, it's flashcards for Lux because Hunky has a really expensive app on my iPhone.

Although it is free on Android.

So depending on the different costs, you might choose something different memorizes also free.

And another quick tip here is that you want to always be learning the words not just individually, but in context.

So you're going to want to take the entire coal occasion that you found.

So just to look an example from this on, we learned the word rushing.

So I'm not just going to put rushing in tow donkey and put the definition I'm going.

Thio put that and give the context of it.

So in this song, he says, feeling rushing through you now that's going to help you so much more to learn how to use these words in context.

If you just learned the word, you might have some trouble actually being able to use these in your everyday speech.

Plus, a lot of times you often have other words.

Other propositions, for example, that are used with it.

A really good example that I use all the time with my Spanish speaking students is it's not think in its think about.

So if you saw, for example, think and you want to put in your monkey you would want to put think about something, because you want to remember that you always put those two together.

Tip number three You want to actually cream ate a playlist of all of the songs that you are learning English with.

I actually have one of these on Spotify, which I absolutely love Spotify because it helps me discover so much new music.

You confined different premade playlists, for example.

You might want to look at the top songs right now in the United States or in Australia, and it can really be great for finding the songs that you're going toe.

Learn the language with, and I have a playlist on Spotify for each language.

So I have my French music, my Portuguese music, my cattle on music, my Spanish music and I'll be in different moods.

And I might throw on a different one for my learning.

And the key here is repetition.

We want a playlist of these so that we can break down the song's really learn with them and then listen to them again and again and again and again and again because the repetition helps to carve it into your brain So you'll remember all that vocabulary, so that grammar structure will start to show up correctly in your own speaking so that your pronunciation will really improve what you're singing and really building those muscles of articulation in your mouth.

The more you listen, the more you will start to understand.

All right, and we are down to tip number four.

Can you guess what it might be?

I already kind of mentioned it.

It is, of course, singing.

So I know a lot of you out there.

You're probably like me that you're like, I'm not a great singer, but it still is really great to sing because, as I've said before, it helps with picking off the pronunciation, picking up the rhythm and flow of the language because we kind of sing in a way that is exaggerating the way that we naturally speak, especially if you pick some sort of use that alike R B or rap or any other thing.

That kind of is mimicking how we speak and when you sing, actually want to really exaggerate every single sound because it's like a gym workout for your mouth, your building, those muscles of articulation.