Learn English With Songs Possible?
Today, we will look at a very interesting topic. Effortless English director AJ. Hoge is talking about a question: Is learning English with songs a good idea? It sonds good to learn English with songs, but is this a powerful method to improve your English speaking? Watch the video below for the answer:
Learn English With Songs- A Good Idea?
Text for the video:
Hi I am AJ Hoge, the director of Effortless English. It’s time for today’s student question. Here is the question: Should I use songs to learn English?
This is a very common question. So many student ask met his: AJ, should i use songs, should i listen to music, English music, English songs, pop songs to improve my English? Because, you know this sound fun right? I understand the question. It sounds fun, listen to music in English to improve English.
However, you may not like my answer but I say no. Do not use songs to learn English. If you enjoy songs there are in English, fine listen to the music. Because you enjoy the music, dans, have fun and enjoy it. But it is probably not going to help your English listening or speaking very much. Why not?
Well, the main reason is that song are very hard to understand, most of them. I mean, to be honest, when I listen to pop songs or rock music or what ever, uh hip up if I listen to many times, I can not understand the words. It is hard to hear what they are saying. Because when people sing, they change the way pronounce the words. They change the natural way of speaking, right? They are not speaking, they are singing.
So you probably know this in your own language. Sometimes you listen to songs in your own language, you can’t understand what they are saying. So that’s the first problem, It is hard to understand. Many times it is hard to understand.
Problem number two, even if you understand the words, the individual words, you probably don’t understand the meaning. You many not understand the meaning. Again, I don’t understand the meaning of many songs. Why, because it is like poetry. Sometimes there is no obvious meaning, right? It is a lot of different words but who knows what it means. We have no idea. May be the person who wrote it does not know,right.
So this is a bad way to learn English. Because you are listening someting hard to understand, the pronunciation is unnatural and the actual meaning of the sentences is unclear, strange it is more like poetry, it is not normal English conversation.
So for all of these reasons, using songs to improve your English speaking it’s just generally not a good idea, don’t do it. It is a wasting your time. Listen to real conversations. Listen to audio books. Even listen to someting like this like just someone speaking real normal English. That is much better.
Focus on that with your English listening not on songs. Enjoy the songs, have fun with them, but don’t include them in your English learning.
And that is today’s question. To learn more about the Effortless English system, visit our website at effortlessenglishclub.com I will see you there, bye bye.
P.S. I totally agree with AJ Hoge. English songs doesn’t help you to learn English. However, there are some special songs which created for English learners. These are not normal songs. These songs are created to help you to learn English grammar and vocabulary. Click here to learn more about these English songs online.
Hi it’s good question and Iagree with you the song don’t helpus to learn english it is waste time
Hi there!
You exactly answer my question about learning English from songs.
Your justify was just perfect..
so I just can say Thx.
yes but some time ican understand and ican learn