Learn English with the rhythm of the music

Most students have ever complained that the learning process is boring and sleepy, while most people love music. Music is like the spice of life, turning a black and white silent film into a 3D Hollywood blockbuster so why do not we use music to learn English.

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This blog will introduce Lyricstraining, a useful tool to learn different languages. This blog can be divided into two parts.  Firstly, instruction on how to use it will be given as the first part of this blog. Then some comments about its advantages and disadvantages will be available in the second part. 

🎵 How to use?

You can click here (https://lyricstraining.com) to go to the website. You can search Lyricstraining in your app store and download it on your phone. 

The picture here is the homepage. Here are many songs recommended or you can search on the top of the webpage for your favorite songs. 

(From https://lyricstraining.com)

Choose one and then you can choose the difficulty as shown in the picture.

(From https://lyricstraining.com)

Then you can start. Fill in the lyrics sing your keyboard according to the music you are listening.  You can skip the blank when you cannot figure out the lyrics but you may lose score when you skip.

(From https://lyricstraining.com)

After the game is over, you can see a score rank among players around the world. You can share your score and compete with your friends.

Here is a video from youtube, if you still have difficulty to use it.

😁 advantages 

1 Music and video here motivate learning. You can use it anywhere by yourself. It promotes learning autonomy.

2 The video here is relevant to the lyrics so it may provide a context for the students to understand the lyrics here.

3 Music can reduce pressure. A good mood facilitates learning. 

4 Most of the singers are native speakers so the pronunciations are mostly standard. The languages used are authentic.

5 Competition in the score rank urges people to work hard.

6 Benefit learners' listening comprehension.

😱 Disadvantages

1 Some songs convey a negative meaning. For example, some songs may involve excessive drinking and bad languages. It may have a bad effect on teenagers.

2 The intonations of speaking in a song are totally different from normal conversations in daily life.

3 Although the videos here are interesting, you may not be able to concentrate on reciting the vocabulary due to the distractions of video.

4 If you cannot fill in the blank in time, the music and song will stop. If they stop for many times, it is unpleasant.

5 After one song is over, a table of high scores comes. You may lose confidence and motivation when compare yourself with top players with a high score.

6 I think learners can memorize new words better by hand-writing than tying. Unfortunately, the handwriting function is not assessed in Lyricstraining.

7 It may not help you a lot if you want to improve academic English.

Overall,  Lyricstraining is helpful but still need to be improved.