In fact, there is another way to learn English, which is to listen to and sing more English songs.
Don’t underestimate English songs. English songs are rich and colorful, with beautiful language and beautiful sounds, like Carpenter's "Yesterday Once More", with a magnetic voice carrying a melancholy melody, and the phrase "when i was young, i listened to the radio", which makes you feel like you are in the infinite past. In nostalgia. Even simple and easy-to-understand lyrics like "what ever will be, will be" can make you understand the simple philosophy of life.
Of course, enjoying the infinite beauty of music and experiencing the simplicity and profoundness of lyrics is only one of the purposes. Another very important reason is that it can help you learn pronunciation, vocabulary, sentence patterns, grammar, history and culture, And exercise your language communication skills.
1. Sing to learn pronunciation
Lyrics are the language of poetry, with concise sound and clear meaning, bright rhythm, and sonorous and powerful. Learning lyrics is the most effective pronunciation practice. Singing English songs requires articulation, clear articulation, singing with words, and phonetic knowledge such as omission and continuity. This requires singers to pay special attention to their voice and tone. For example, the children's song "london's burning" has only four lines: london's burning, london's burning. fetch the engines. fetch the engines. fire! fire! fire! fire! pour on water. pour on water.
This song It was written about the Great Fire of London in 1666. Liao Liao described the scene of everyone fighting the fire in just a few sentences, and the sentences were smooth and easy to read. By learning this kind of lyrics, many pronunciation difficulties such as stress, stress, continuous reading, rhythm, etc. will be trained, and the pronunciation and intonation will be greatly improved.
2. Sing to learn vocabulary
Learning to sing is a good way to deepen your memory. The vocabulary of English songs is concise and meaningful. There are many popular buzzwords and authentic expressions, which can also expand the vocabulary. For example, the song One Sweet Day, which won the Grammy Award in 1996, has such lyrics: I know eventually we'll be together. You will gradually understand that eventually is the adverb form of event. As long as you remember this lyrics, eventually this Words you may never forget.
3. Learn sentence patterns by singing
You can also learn many sentence patterns when learning to sing. There are countless examples of this. For example, in the lyrics of i swear, there is this sentence: i swear, like the shadow that's by your. Another example: you give me wings, making mefly. you touch my head and could touch the sky. There is also a sentence pattern of there be: there is place in your heart.
< p>4. Sing to learn grammarEnglish songs contain a variety of grammatical phenomena. When students learn to sing in English, they will not feel at all that they are learning grammar. Boring and difficult to remember grammar is reproduced in an artistic form. , will make a very deep impression on people. Once you can't remember it accurately, you only need to sing it once and it will be accurate. The future continuous tense is a difficult grammar to master; but? I'll be right there waiting for you, isn't this a good example? As long as you draw inferences from one example, you will be able to understand the future continuous tense!
< p>5. Sing to learn cultureSome songs have a certain historical background. Learning to sing these songs not only learns the language, but also learns certain historical and cultural knowledge and social background knowledge.
Like learning to sing Joe Hill’s song, I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night alive as you and me. The song is full of nostalgia for Joe Hill. Through such songs, we can learn that Joe Hill organized workers' strikes, sang songs in prison, and died heroically in the end. Our admiration for Joe Hill arises spontaneously.
After talking about these points, I just want to tell everyone that listening to and singing more English songs is helpful for learning English, and only by singing repeatedly can you remember the lyrics you hear in your heart. Listening to and singing English songs can not only help you learn English, it also has the benefits of regulating tension, cultivating a sense of music, and cultivating sentiment.
I believe that even if I don’t say it, everyone will understand! ^-^