Fluent speakers don’t just focus on individual words, they learn and use chunks—common word groups. Music is a great tool to learn and internalise these chunks. The challenge is finding slow songs in English where the words are clear. Oldies like ‘The Beatles’ are good, or singer songwriters like ‘Adele’.
However, nowadays, you can also experiment making your own songs, at the click of a few buttons. Get ChatGPT to write some lyrics based on some vocabulary chunks you want to practise. Then ask an AI music site like www.suno.com to create a song for you with those phrases.
Here are some phrases I took from my recent live lesson on Leisure Activities :
- Doing yoga and playing football
- Do some stretching
- It’s my favourite way to disconnect
- A low-budget activity
- A time-consuming process
And here is the song I created:
https://soundcloud.com/keithohare/the-leisure-time-song
Once you find or create a song, you can,
- Listen and enjoy
- Sing along to improve rhythm and stress
- Memorise full phrases
I think songs can help you remember phrases, improve rhythm and intonation as well as be very motivating and fun—all key for speaking English fluently.
