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Welcome to the Aedes English Podcast.
My name is Jack, and I'm here with my co-host, Social.
Today, we're doing another topic talk episode.
This one is how to use music in language learning.
Because I think music can be a real,
interesting way to improve your English.
So the first one I have here is listen actively.
And what that means is, start by listening to songs
and trying to understand the lyrics.
Look up the lyrics online, read along while listening,
and translate on familiar words and phrases.
And then you can repeat and even sing along with the song.
And I've seen Korean students sing English songs
in almost perfect intonation,
just because they practiced so much.
And they can actually sing a song in English.
And it sounds wonderful.
It just sounds wonderful.
So what do you think about that?
Listening actively.
I think it really helps.
Beaus, you're doing a lot of things there.
One, you're memorizing lyrics.
Another thing that you're doing is that you're
perfecting your accent and your pronunciation.
You're working on your listening skills.
And you are retaining information about the meaning of the lyrics.
And you're doing all of these things at the same time.
Which obviously is a huge benefit.
Absolutely, absolutely.
Okay.
Now number two is kind of related to number one.
This one is analyze the lyrics.
And so it's like breakdown the song line by line.
And try to identify patterns of like grammar,
verb tense, idiomatic expressions, and things like that.
I think that can be actually quite enjoyable,
because you'll get even more out of the song.
You know, you might like the melody of the song.
But not understand the lyrics.
But if you sit down and just break down the lyrics
and try to understand exactly what they mean.
And you know, there's going to be a lot of idiom, a lot of poetry,
a lot of rhyme in there.
And I think that might open some some doors.
I don't know what do you think.
Yeah.
I think it really helps because
lyrics are fairly poetic in their language.
We use a lot of figurative language in lyrics.
And I think that it really gets your gears working on decoding language
and working through some of those idioms that you might have heard.
Working through some
just figurative language in general, things like comparisons or
symbols inside lyrics.
All those things really help you think about English and language on a higher level.
Okay. Yeah.
I totally agree.
And number three, we've got four.
So there's two more.
Number three is use music videos because being able to see the video
and I think part of it just looking at the lips, you know,
as they're speaking, seeing the mouth and the articulation is good.
Yes.
But also the context.
Because you know, many music videos are often storytelling.
You know, it's a video, it's visual storytelling with a musical
soundtrack to go with it.
And how do you feel about that?
Like, and using subtitles as well with the music videos.
I think that's really interesting.
I think you can also try doing it without subtitles at first
and just seeing how much you understand what's going on.
And just switching back and forth, don't be afraid to jump into something without
subtitles and just try to see how much of it you can gather on your own.
Just through context and through what you already know.
And yeah, I think watching music videos, I really like your point about
looking at the lips and the pronunciation and the pronunciation and everything.
That's one of my biggest tips for language learning.
And when people ask me how I like mimic pronunciation,
I've always...
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Made a key point of looking at people's mouths when they talk.
Another language and you see the difference.
For example, in English, our mouths are a lot more closed.
And we use a lot of kind of gutteral sounds like all the way from the back of
our throat.
But in Spanish, you open your mouth a lot more when you talk to make the vows
like bigger.
And then in Korea, I noticed people using a lot of their nose when they spoke.
Oh, more nasal sounds.
Yeah.
Yeah, kind of nasal and noises and kind of gene noises with their nose.
So.
Yeah. That's interesting.
That's interesting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think music videos is a good way, especially if you've already analyzed the lyrics.
And here's another thing that just kind of occurred to me.
Is a lot of, music is a good way to do it because a song is something you,
if you find a song that really kind of, um,
you really enjoy.
Yeah.
You can listen to it multiple times.
Like listening to a lecture, some kind of like audio recording from a book
is going to get so boring after the third or fourth time.
But a song, you could listen to it a hundred times.
You know, you just, you still enjoy it.
I listen to it every day for a year.
Right.
Honestly.
Well, I'm one of those people that when I find a song that I love,
I just, I beat it into the ground, you know,
I'll listen to it over and over and over again,
until the point where I basically can't listen to it anymore,
which is, I don't know what that says about me.
It's a very odd thing.
A lot of people are like that.
It's kind of like a hit of, of good and bad.
Yeah, it's like a dopamine.
No, I mean, sorry, you're listening to a song.
Yeah, like a drug hit dopamine hit whatever.
So I have no experience.
I swear, but I just remember when I was in college,
we were taking a course on music.
And I remember that there was a study that said that it can be more powerful.
What goes on here, brain chemically,
when you hear a song that you really like can be more powerful than drugs.
And remember that really stuck with me.
Yeah, sure, sure.
Well, it makes sense, right?
I mean, there's adrenaline, dopamine,
and things like that that occurs naturally
through like you go skydiving or bungee jumping
that has a feel of like a drug feeling.
So yeah, you're not wrong.
You're not wrong at all.
Our last one is explore different genres.
Listen to a wide variety of music genres
to expose yourself to different vocabulary and expressions.
Each genre might have its own slang and cultural references.
I think that's interesting.
I like that.
Yeah, it kind of went similar to what I talked about with the articles
or what we talked about with the articles earlier.
Yeah, I think really diversifying the content
that not only what you watch on YouTube and through YouTube channels
or what you read in articles,
but also the kind of genres of music you listen to.
And even the genres of things that you watch on Netflix,
you could watch a show, like a horror movie,
a comedy, a stand-up comedy, a documentary,
and just very abyanite.
And you'll acquire a lot of information
and new vocabulary that will really help you overcome those plateaus.
And so you interested also.
If you want to learn a lot of vocabulary
about heartbreak, listen to country music.
Right.
If you want to hear romantic vocabulary,
listen to a lot of R&B, you know, a lot of love songs.
Right.
So yeah, it'll expose you to different things.
Well, those are our four, our four big ones.
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