Effortless English: Learn To Speak English Like a native

 
WILL LISTENING TO MUSIC IMPROVE MY ENGLISH?
I get this question a lot. Personally, I don’t suggest learning English through
music. I get students coming to me with lyrics, and I can’t understand half the
words the singer is saying. Music is an art form with lots of imagery in the
language. Even native speakers often don’t know what the singer is trying to say.
Likewise, the pronunciation used in songs is not normal. Singers frequently
change the natural pronunciation in order to fit the words into the melody of the
music. In terms of learning English, it’s much more efficient to use television or
movies. The meaning of what people are saying is usually clearer, and you also
have video to provide visual cues that help you understand. So yes, please listen to
English language music if you like how it sounds, but don’t expect it to help your
own communication in English.

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CHAPTER 12
The Fourth Rule – Repetition Is The 
Key To Spoken Mastery
You want to learn English and you want to speak it well RIGHT NOW. The
problem is most language classes move too quickly for students to master material
before moving onto something new. In this chapter, we’ll focus on the fourth rule of
Effortless English™ which advises you to take your time and 
learn deeply
.
What does it mean to learn deeply? To learn deeply means to learn English to the
point where speaking and understanding are automatic. Often people know a lot of
English grammar and vocabulary, but they don’t know it deeply. When it comes
time to speak, they’re translating vocabulary and analyzing tenses in their heads or
struggling to understand the meaning of what someone is saying to them. Effortless
English™ emphasizes training for mastery.
Deep learning means repeating what you have learned, again and again. This
might feel very different from the way you learned in school. Most schools have a
lot of pressure to move fast. They’re always pushing the students to learn more
grammar or a certain number of new words every week. The teachers rely
primarily on textbooks, and try to finish them on schedule. The problem for
students is that you learn a lot of stuff but then you forget it. Or you remember the
basic idea, but you can’t use it.
Take the past tense, for example. If you’ve studied English before, chances are
you learned the past tense. Chances are also good that you studied it in a textbook
and then *BOOM* very fast, you moved on. You went on to learn more grammar,
possessives, the future tense or the present perfect tense.
Now, if someone asks you if you know the past tense, you’d say, “of course.” But
the truth is you haven’t mastered the past tense. You moved through the material so
quickly that you never learned it deeply, like a native speaker. That’s why you still
make mistakes with the past tense. Even though you may have studied English for
many years, you still make mistakes because it’s not automatic. You haven’t learned
it deeply.