怎样通过听英语歌曲提高英语

怎样通过听英语歌曲提高英语

上学的时候，英语(精品课)老师经常和我们说“听英文歌能学英语”。我就跑去吭哧吭哧地听。然鹅，并没有什么用。长大后，我才发现当初是自己用错了方法。我之前选得那些歌都不适合学英语...

Before getting started you need to select the songs you will learn from. This is important because there are a lot of potential pitfalls. For example, songs that:

在开始前你要选好你要学习的歌曲。这一点非常重要，因为有很多潜在的陷阱，比如一些歌曲：

o use difficult language which isn’t commonly used

使用不常用的高难度语言

o aren’t mainstream (nothing against niche artists, but if part of the goal is to connect with English speakers, it’s probably more efficient to learn from music which would give you a common language)

不是主流歌曲（不是针对专营艺术家，但是如果部分目的是与说英语的人联系起来的，更有效的学习方式应该是给你更常用的语言）

o are too fast (hard to learn from)

速度过快（很难分辨）

o don’t have lyrics readily available

没有可以获取的歌词

Here are my eight tips to help you pick the right music for learning English:

以下是我能帮助你挑选有利于学习英语的歌曲的8点提示

1. Go to the right place to find songs.

使用正确的方式寻找歌曲

o You could search video sharing sites such as YouTube and Vimeo. They have vast libraries of music videos and some will also be subtitled with the song lyrics in English.

你可以使用YouTube和Vimeo搜索视频。这些网站有丰富大量的歌曲资源，其中还有一些歌曲带有英文歌词。

2. Select the right songs.

选择正确的歌曲

o Pick music you love. There’s no point to learning English through songs if you don’t really enjoy the music. This is the fast track to boredom.Find music that uses the right kind of language. Language which is not too easy or too hard, and which is commonly used.

选择你喜欢的音乐。通过你不喜欢的音乐学习英语是没有意义的。因为会很快令你感到无聊厌恶。找那些使用合适语言的歌曲。这些语言不会过于简单或者难度过大，使用较常用的语言。

Another thing to watch out for is that sometimes sometimes singers won’t pronounce the sound clearly. Perhaps heavy metal isn’t the best place to start.

另外一个要主要的就是有时候一些歌手并不会发音特别清晰。所以大概重金属音乐不是很适合。

You might want songs that tell a story, which could make it easier to understand and visualize. If you are a real beginner you might even want to learn children’s songs or Disney songs.

你可能想要一首讲述故事的歌曲，这可能更容易理解和形象化。如果你的确是个初学者，你甚至想要学下儿歌或者迪斯尼歌曲。

Start with pop music and then branch out. Mainstream, pop music tends to be about love and romance, which is good because there is a lot of repeated vocabulary. When you are ready to branch out, you can try more diverse genres to pick up a wider range of vocabulary.

从流行歌曲开始，然后扩展范围。主流，流行音乐倾向于表达爱和浪漫，这非常棒因为这些歌曲会重复很多词汇。当你可以拓展歌曲的时候，你可以尝试选择更多种类的歌曲扩展你的词汇量。

3. Get “scaffolding” and vocab support to digest the lyrics.

使用“支架式”和词汇表支持消化歌词

It would be nice if you could learn English purely by listening to the music. In practice, you will have to spend some time digesting the lyrics and their meanings so that you understand it first. This is what teachers often refer to as “scaffolding” (scaf folding is something which holds up and supports something that is being built. Like training wheels for a bicycle.). Instead of trying to figure out the lyrics on your own, you can use resources like the following to accelerate this:

如果你能纯粹的通过听音乐学习英语是非常好的。练习中，你可以花时间消化歌词和含义，这样可以让你明白它的意思。这就是老师经常说的“支架式”（支架式是用于支持某事而建