[ENGLISH TIPS] KARAOKE CAN HELP YOU LEARN ENGLISH!
SINGING KARAOKE CAN HELP YOU LEARN ENGLISH!
Yes it’s true!
Find out how singing Karaoke can better your Language skills.
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A few months ago, we had a Karaoke competition here at Speak Up London. We encouraged our students to sing and memorise a song in class, whichever class sang the best would win boxes of pizza. Sounds simple doesn’t it?
Although it was fun for our students to sing and win pizza, what they didn’t know was that we were secretly improving their English language skills… yes it’s true! We will prove it.
Music is something that everyone listens to; we enjoy the lyrics and the rhythm, of songs. When we really enjoy a song, we may even sing a-long to it, and embarrass ourselves by doing Karaoke. No matter how bad we may sound, we enjoy the feeling that music gives us.
However, what if I was to tell you that singing Karaoke is very helpful when learning a language. Would you believe me? Well, it’s true! Remembering the lyrics to a song helps you remember the words of that song. It also helps in terms of constructing sentences properly and pronunciation.
When you learn a new language, you are not only learning new words and sentences, you will also learn about the culture. Karaoke will make you fall in love with a culture.
Learning the lyrics of a song helps you expand your vocabulary. Songs aren’t always very formal, so it is a good way for you to learn slang words that are commonly used in the language you are learning.
Singing can actually help you reduce your foreign-sounding accent. For example, if your favourite singer has a London accent when they sing, it is something that you will imitate and copy as you sing.
Your pronunciation will change to match the singer’s own and you will understand the ways in which the rhythm of a sentence is supposed to flow.
Linguistic research from the University of Edinburgh found that adults, who sang karaoke from a different language whilst learning, were twice as good at speaking it later.
It is believed that by listening to the words of a song, and by singing them to yourself, the technique takes advantage of the strong links between music and memory.
Therefore, you will remember all of the words to a song that has been in your head for a long time.
So, you see! Karaoke is good for you, so sing, even if you’re terrible at it.
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