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.

This is the example:

Movies

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Watching movies is a great entertainment source. Movie very useful for enhancing your mental health. Movie can influencing our lives whether negatively or positively. Whatever the genre, as long as you enjoy it, it can make us to take time to relax and forget about our daily concerns and problems. The bad thing is movies also can make us forgot the time and keep watching so sometimes we forgot about our duty.

Movies are also highly informative. There are so many movies that offer so many information, like documentary or historical movies. Documentaries provide educational benefits and they are generally very interesting to watch. Like, Waiting for Superman: A look at the journey of promising students through a school system that limits their academic growth potential. A review of public education. Teached: This education documentary by a Teach for America alum who looks at inequality in education for urban, minority youths. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed: Ben Stein’s look at Intelligent Design, and the lack of academic freedom to teach the concept in the classroom. To Be and To Have: An interesting documentary chronicling the education had in a one-room school in rural France. One teacher and students ages four to 11.

We can watching movies with anyone. Like your family, children if you already have, friends, boyfriend or girlfriend. I suggesst you to watch movies when you have time to, but I’m not recomended you to watch movies all the time, watching movies all the time  is bad for your health, like for your eyes. Waching movies all the times also can makes you lazy, sometimes you forgot about what should you do because you get addicted to it. so you have to choose when is the best time to watch movie. And I hope when your childern watching movies its better for you the parents to watch with them, so we can control what kind of movies they watch.

Music

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Music is a good source of education for your children. Children loves music. Children likes to move around taht's why when children listening to music they will sing, clap and dance along with the tunes. Sing, clap, and dance to music tells the brain to make meaning of it.

Music can build your child’s music library. To build your child’s music library, you have to focus on interaction with the music that’ll help train your child’s musical ear. the method you can try is trying to mixture of genres you like and music they like. You can try to compares music you play to the foods you serve, listening to the same CD all the time, you can try to mixing music from your culture and from those around the world, as well as music that you love.

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There so many kinds of music that can children try. To introduce your child to music, consider the songs you sang growing up and start there. Maybe starting with nursery rhymes put to music before gradually moving into folk songs and classical music. A nursery rhyme is a short rhyming story, often set to music and usually designed for young children, such as those in a nursery. Songs for children are a part of many cultures, and they often serve as an oral record of important political and historical events. They also can preserve archaic forms of language. Folk songs a song originating among the people of a country or area, passed by oral tradition from one singer or generation to the next, often existing in several versions, and marked generally by simple, modal melody and stanzaic, narrative verse. Classical music, The word "Classical", when used to describe a musical style, is used by popular culture to distinguish this kind of music from jazz, rock, or other contemporary styles.  The word "classical", however, actually is a period of time in Western Art Music that describes the music of Haydn, Mozart and early Beethoven, as well as other composers who lived at that time.  The general time designations are Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern.  However, the term "Classical Music" has come to be known as a term for a genre of music that spans the course of hundreds of years, including all the music from Palestrina to Stravinsky, to the current day.  Many people are unaware that Classical music is still being composed today, although it is far different than what was created several hundred years ago. You can try to  adding classical music especially if the piece tells a story or teaches them about instrumentation. You can try Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens or Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev, both of which use instruments to represent different animals and characters. The children can learn about specific instruments while learning a story. I suggest you to let your childern to listen to nursery rhyme first and then you can move to folk songs and classical, but for classical I suggest you to avoiding very long orchestral music, and instead listening to short pieces about four to five minutes in length. string quartets or other pieces that rely on only one class of instruments are not the best for young children because they may not demand as much of the child’s attention.