In this exclusive episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack talk about how music can help you improve your English. Transcript: 00:00:00 Jack Hey A-Z listeners, this is Jack here. 00:00:03 Jack And if you would like to become a an exclusive subscriber to the show, you can hit the link in the description and that will take you to our Red Circle page, where for $1.99 a month you will get access to an extra two or three episodes each week. 00:00:23 Jack And be careful, don't hit that donation button if you want to become an exclusive subscriber because the donation button is just a one time donation. However, the exclusive subscriber button will give you access to the extra two or three episodes. 00:00:42 Jack Each week. 00:00:44 Jack So make sure you hit that exclusive subscriber button if you want access to the extra episodes. 00:00:52 Jack Now let's get on with the show. 00:00:55 Jack Welcome to the Ados English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we're doing another topic talk episode, and this one is how to use music in language learning. 00:01:09 Jack And because I think music can be a real, UM, interesting way to, you know, improve your English. So the first one I have here is listen actively. 00:01:21 Jack And what that means is start by listening to songs and trying to understand the lyrics. Uh, look up the lyrics online, read along while listening and translate unfamiliar words and phrases. And then you can repeat and even sing along with the song. And I've. 00:01:42 Jack Seeing Korean students. 00:01:45 Jack Seeing English songs in like 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? Listen, listening actively. 00:01:53 Xochitl Looks great. 00:02:07 Xochitl I think it really helps because you're doing a lot of things there. When 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. 00:02:28 Xochitl Stupid. 00:02:29 Jack Absolutely. Absolutely. OK. Now, #2 is kind of related to #1, uh, this one is analyzed 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. 00:02:50 Jack Do you do I think that could be actually? 00:02:52 Jack It enjoyable because you're you'll get even more out of the song. You know, you might like the the melody of the song but 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. 00:03:14 Jack 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? 00:03:23 Xochitl Yeah, I I think it really helps because lyrics are fairly poetic in their language. We use a lot of figurative language and 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. 00:03:43 Xochitl I'm working through some just figurative language. In general, things like comparisons or symbols inside lyrics. All of those things really help you think about English and language on a higher level. 00:03:54 Jack Yes. 00:03:59 Jack OK. Yeah, I totally. 00:04:02 Jack And #3, we've got four. So there's two more #3 is use music videos because being able to see the the video. And I think part of it just looking at their lips, you know, as they're speaking that you're seeing the mouth and the art articulation is good. 00:04:20 Xochitl Yes. 00:04:21 Jack But also the context. 00:04:24 Jack Because, you know, many music video