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Quangtn03  #453410  Sat, 15 Dec 07 11:08 AM
Wink [;)]Hi.
I have some questions. May you answer them? Smile [:)]

1/ How do you do to learn English from music/songs? Stick out tongue [:P]
2/ What do you learn in / from English songs?
3/ Which sort of songs do you like most? and why?

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Philip  #453431  Sat, 15 Dec 07 02:24 PM

 Quangtn03 wrote:
Wink [;)]Hi.
I have some questions. May you answer them? Smile [:)]

1/ How do you do to learn English from music/songs? Stick out tongue [:P]
2/ What do you learn in / from English songs?
3/ Which sort of songs do you like most? and why?

Smile [:)] ^-^

While I was studying French and Spanish in high school and college, I learned many songs in those languages.  The practice was fun (I love music) and very beneficial.  I learned vocabulary, some good idioms and even a few grammatical structures that we hadn't covered in classes.

I'm not really very involved in today's popular music (I'm an old fuddy-duddy), but I think it would be wiser to avoid it when looking for valuable language information.  It might be better to go back to the music from 1940-1980, concentrating on romantic ballads and so-called "folk songs".  [I'm not sure that studying an Oscar-winning song that tells how hard it is to be a pimp these days will offer you much.]
  
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Quangtn03  #453458  Sat, 15 Dec 07 04:52 PM
Thank you, Philip. I'll try on your advice. Smile [:)]
  
Arvsworld  #453629  Sun, 16 Dec 07 08:36 AM
In addition, there's a thread in this forum that brushes on this method of learning English by listening to music.
  
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Anonymous  #453713  Sun, 16 Dec 07 01:58 PM
Thank you, Arvsworld.
Your web is so  good. This worked well. Smile [:)]
  
Quangtn03  #453818  Sun, 16 Dec 07 07:22 PM
While I was studying French and Spanish in high school and college, I learned many songs in those languages.  The practice was fun (I love music) and very beneficial.  I learned vocabulary, some good idioms and even a few grammatical structures that we hadn't covered in classes.

I'm not really very involved in today's popular music (I'm an old fuddy-duddy), but I think it would be wiser to avoid it when looking for valuable language information.  It might be better to go back to the music from 1940-1980, concentrating on romantic ballads and so-called "folk songs".  [I'm not sure that studying an Oscar-winning song that tells how hard it is to be a pimp these days will offer you much.]



To Philip again. ^_^
Now, Have you still learned songs in the languagues you've learned? If not. Why? Smile [:)]
  
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Philip  #454118  Mon, 17 Dec 07 03:27 PM
 Quangtn03 wrote:
While I was studying French and Spanish in high school and college, I learned many songs in those languages.  The practice was fun (I love music) and very beneficial.  I learned vocabulary, some good idioms and even a few grammatical structures that we hadn't covered in classes.

I'm not really very involved in today's popular music (I'm an old fuddy-duddy), but I think it would be wiser to avoid it when looking for valuable language information.  It might be better to go back to the music from 1940-1980, concentrating on romantic ballads and so-called "folk songs".  [I'm not sure that studying an Oscar-winning song that tells how hard it is to be a pimp these days will offer you much.]



To Philip again. ^_^
Now, Have you still learned songs in the languagues you've learned? If not. Why? Smile [:)]
Not as much as I did while I was using them as a study aid.  I'm sure they would a great source of current slang, but because slang passes so quickly it wouldn't do me much good.
  
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Teroff  #459563  Wed, 02 Jan 08 04:58 PM

Hello. I think this is bad idea to learn English from musics and other.

First of all you must learn a gramma and after that you may learn English from Music/song, but not gramma only vocabulary bank.

But this is my IMHO
  
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Anonymous  #459717  Thu, 03 Jan 08 05:30 AM
 Teroff wrote:

Hello. I think this is bad idea to learn English from musics and other.

First of all you must learn a gramma and after that you may learn English from Music/song, but not gramma only vocabulary bank.

But this is my IMHO



Sometimes I thought of it as you did.
But I take me back in time, when I was a kid, I just listen, listen, and listen...and I speak. I think learning English from songs is one of the ways to improve your skills. It must be accompanied with other ways not only way.
Grammar, ok, I think you are right. In a song, I can learn new words, pronunciation, maybe...accent...and so on. Do you agree?
  
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