Learning English Language Using Music

By Wieka Octia Prisanti

English language is an universal language, almost everyone in this world know what english language is, but not many people know how to use english language expect they are who live and grow up in countries that use english language as their mother toungue. So many poeple learn how to speak english, because english language is an universal language, this language is use as the connector between each countries, almost all conference and competition international are using english language, like olympiad. Political from many countries with different language use english to comunicate with each other. English language is using by more than 100 countries in the world.

For most of student, so many think that english is difficult and only those who have been born with the talent can master it. That opinion make the student unwilling to learn english language, it makes they lazy and give up to learn english language because they think that it was useless to learn something that you never have talent in it, and they think that english language is someting hard to know.

The first thing we need to know that is we neet to realize that english language is not our mother tongue. So, because of that we rarely use english language in our everyday life, because of we never use it our brain never have a chance to know what is english language is. With our little knowladge about english language our brain will be hard to process everything that has something to do with english language. To put it simply, our brain dont have enough information to understand what is english language, so when we comunicate with foreigner we will confused because we dont know what it means. The skill to use english languege is needed for a country to keep progressing.

There are so many ways for us to be able to comunicate with english languaage. Learning english can be done at wherever you are with so many media, not only in the class, we also can hire a tutor to teach us, or you can study by yourselve. The media you can use like television, radio, android, tablet, pc, newspaper, and magazine, and now we have internet which we can acces wherever we are using android, tablet, or laptop, and also one of the media is of course and the most interesting for me is music, we can use music to learn english language.

Almost all the student like music. Music an art which arrange of tone or sound in order, combination, and temporary connection to create composition which has unit and continuity. The defferences of tone or sounds which ryhthmical is called music.

 Using music to learn english language can be interesting and fun. With learning english language by listening to english or western music can expand or vocabulary. For the first time choose a song or music that have a simple words, from time to time you can choose a hard one. Check each words and translate it, write a memo it you find new and unfamilliar words or words that usually forgotten by you. Listening to music also can improve your sepeaking in english language, you need to choose a song that have a simple words and slow tempo, so it wont be too hard for you to follow it, tried to follow it, you can record your pronaunciation and you can check it if you pronounce it right or wrong. Listening to music also can improve our sesitivity to english words, maybe for the first time it will hard for you to know what it means, but if you keep listening to music your ears will gradually have become accustomed to english words. We also can learn grammar and how to arrange sentences. Listening to western music also makes us know the differences of british, american, and australia english. For people who always listening to wales songs, in the end their pronounciation will be like british language. Its also the same for those who listening to american or australia music. Sometimes the songs that sings by wales singer is harder to pronounce and to listen than american or australia songs. The conclusion is there are so many ways to learning english but the eassy one is listening to music, there are so many advantage if we learn english use music as the media, like expand our vacabulary, improve our speaking, improve our sensitivity to english words.

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