LEARNING ENGLISH THROUGH
My first experience in an English speaking country was right after I finished highschool. I spent 8 months in Dallas, Texas, studying english at Brookhaven college. My English from school was not good at all so when I found myself surounded by English spakers and ONLY English spakers I had to find my own ways to improve my English in order to be able to communicate. The best way I could think of was using my discman and earplogs and play my favourite bands songs and translate all the lyrics. The results were great! I got to learn a lot and it was not hard at all, I enjoyed every second. So, as I considere it a wonderful learning method regarding languages, I did some research and I found this two web sites that I recommend you to check out. Your English regarding vocabulary, pronuntiation and listening will improve for sure.
In this first link you will find quizes, lyrics and song videos. Click here and improve your English while learning more about your favourites songs!
And here is a web site that focuses on english IDIOMS and how to learn them through songs.
Please feel free to comment about this method and add any article or website about it. Have a great day!
What a beautiful picture! I love it! :):)
ResponderEliminarOk, now, seriously:
ResponderEliminarYou have a point here: English music is such a great way of learning English! Especially slang and colloquial expressions.
However, sometimes singers use ungrammatical items to suit their lyrics. For instance, they may say 'she don't know' or something like that. So we can learn through music, but we need to be careful too.
Rossana, I like the topic of your entry because I believe all of us have learnt many things by means of songs. So, it's interesting that at least one of us have written about it. In addition, I tend to use some songs when teaching English. Now, I'm working on a song by One Direction since my student really loves this band. I feel she is so centred on the song that she sometimes forgets she is studying English! In fact, when I was younger I printed some songs in which I was interested and read them once and again until I almost learnt it.
ResponderEliminarBy the way, Rossana, it could be a good idea that you revise your entry since there are some little errors such as 'english' (i,e. you didn't write it in capital letters). :):)
ResponderEliminarthanks for highliting that! I went through it and fixed the "E"nglish erros ;)
ResponderEliminarPerfect, then! :) :)
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