Sunday, March 03, 2013

4. Listening to American music

4. Listening to American music
If you are a fan of music this way of learning to speak English may work well too.
Surely, it is not the tool that helps you to speak, but the best method of memorizing the phrases (provided you know what they really mean) and possibly using these phrases when you speak English.
This method has a huge advantage, something that belongs to the whole philosophy of practicing a foreign language, which is a REPETITION!
As with any subject of you admiration, with the songs you love you certainly wish to stay longer and more frequently, hearing and repeating the words and melodies of the songs, thus memorizing the language of the songs.
On the other hand, the songs are often full of colloquialisms that are used by groups of fans and therefore not really used by regular people.
A word of advice, though. If you are deeply in love with pop music, try to identify which vocabulary still has a potential to serve you in real life with real people.
If, on the other hand you flock with the guys humming the melodies of their music icons, you are quite safe with the vocabulary picked up in the lyrics of the songs.

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