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Halloween is celebrated on October 31st in the United States. People dress up in costumes, attend parties, and carve pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns. On Halloween night, children go door-to-door to ask for candy from their neighbors saying, “Trick or Treat!”
In this eerie episode, we’re using a funny novelty song from the 1960s to practice the [æ] vowel sound vs. the [e] vowel sound in the pronunciation of the letter A.
We also discuss some of the interesting vocabulary words associated with Halloween. Join us for a spooky, silly, holiday episode.
Official YouTube Video
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There’s an important election coming up in the United States, and Heather and Ece are on their way to their polling place to cast their votes. On the way there, they discuss the 1985 Tears for Fears song, “Everybody Wants to Rule the World.”
The song has useful vocabulary and interesting figurative language, and it also includes a discussion about power and people who “want to rule the world.” Join us for a timeless 1980’s song that is just as relevant now as it was then.
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In each season, we like to include a traditional song that is good for language learners of all ages. For Season 3, Episode 4, we’ve chosen a song we remember from our own childhoods, “I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.”
This song is silly and funny and since it repeats each verse, it’s great language practice. We’ve also recorded ourselves singing the version of the song included in the lyrics on the podcast website. Have fun trying to sing along!!
Official YouTube Video Links:
The Learning Station 2005
Judy Collins on The Muppet Show 1977
Burl Ives 1952
For more content, visit the Singing Languages website.
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We love listening to many different types of music from different time periods. In Season 3, Episode 3 we’re using the 1977 disco song, “Take A Chance On Me,” by the Swedish super group, ABBA.
The rhythm of this song is great for practicing fluency. You may need to sing it a few times before you can sing as fluently as ABBA does, but it’s a really fun way to practice. And just remember that if ABBA, whose native language is Swedish, can sing this well in English, so can you!
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It’s summertime where we live, and we’re busy soaking up the sun. In Season 3, Episode 2 of English as a Singing Language, we’ve got a catchy, sunny song that is full of useful vocabulary.
Sheryl Crow’s 2002 hit song, “Soak up the Sun,” will not only cheer you up and give you a positive outlook, but it will also give you lots of English practice!
Official YouTube Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIuEwXBktpY
For more content, visit the Singing Languages website.https://singinglanguages.wixsite.com/home/post/season-3-episode-2Follow us on Instagram @singinglanguages.
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Welcome to Season 3, Episode 1 of the podcast! We’re so excited about starting a new season of English as a Singing Language. We’re starting off the new season with a confidence-building song.
It seems like everyone feels like they have to pretend that they are someone they’re not sometimes, but it is important to be yourself. That’s the message in Montana Tucker’s 2021 hit song, “Be Myself.”
Check out the new season and practice reduced pronunciation with a catchy, fun song that has an extremely positive message!
Check out our YouTube channel @singinglanguages for a video version of this episode!
Official YouTube Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-GNAkpo8PcFor more content, visit the Singing Languages website.https://singinglanguages.wixsite.com/home/post/season-3-episodeFollow us on Instagram @singinglanguages.
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We started English as a Singing Language as a way for people to have fun singing while practicing English pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and fluency. We work hard to make every episode as perfect as possible. We write and edit our scripts, and record and edit the audio. We try to be extremely serious and professional while we’re working on the podcast, but sometimes one of us makes a mistake, and we just laugh and laugh and laugh.
Ece has saved all the funny recording mistakes and compiled the best ones for you to enjoy while you wait for Season 3, Episode 1 to be released. We hope you enjoy this special blooper episode, and we look forward to releasing the first episode of Season 3 very soon.
🎶Until then, enjoy the bloopers and … just keep singing! 🎶
For more content, visit the Singing Languages website.https://singinglanguages.wixsite.com/home/post/season-2-bloopers Follow us on Instagram @singinglanguages.
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When we started the podcast, “English as a Singing Language” back in 2022, it seemed almost impossible. There were so many new skills to learn and so many tasks to do. Luckily, we work well together, support each other, and enjoy the creative process. In fact, we believe that’s what friends are for! Friends are for encouragement, kindness and of course, lots of laughs. This belief led us to choose the 1980s hit song, “That’s What Friends are For,” for the final episode of Season Two.
There are useful pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary in this song, but most of all, we wanted to say, “Thank You!” to all of you who have taken the time to listen to the podcast, learn English and sing with us. That’s what the podcast is for - to connect us through song all over the world. We hope you enjoy this episode.
Until Season Three, have fun and … just keep singing!!
Official YouTube Video for original Rod Stewart Versionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIuEwXBktpY
Official YouTube Video for Dionne Warwick and Friends Version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyTpu6BmE88
For more content, visit the Singing Languages website.https://singinglanguages.wixsite.com/home/post/season-2-episode-16Follow us on Instagram @singinglanguages.
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English as a Singing Language has created an episode especially for International Workers’ Day on May 1st. We work hard as language teachers and podcasters, and we believe that ALL workers should be paid fairly and work in safe conditions.
We chose the 1980 hit song “9 to 5,” written and sung by Dolly Parton for the film, “9 to 5.” We talk about the descriptive vocabulary and useful idioms that Dolly included in these lyrics, and we celebrate workers all over the world!
Happy International Workers’ Day!!
Official YouTube Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbxUSsFXYo4For more content, visit For more content, visit the Singing Languages website.https://singinglanguages.wixsite.com/home/post/season-2-episode-15-1Follow us on Instagram @singinglanguages.
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Both Heather and Ece are ready for a vacation after a long semester of teaching. While Ece is going to a nearby city to visit a friend, Heather is getting ready to go to the beach.
In this episode, they are talking about prepositional phrases in the song, "Under the Boardwalk," by The Drifters. Have fun learning some useful English grammar while listening to this doo-wop classic song from the 1960s!
Official YouTube Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSddD6w5SKcFor more content, visit For more content, visit the Singing Languages website.https://singinglanguages.wixsite.com/home/post/season-2-episode-14Follow us on Instagram @singinglanguages.
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There were so many inspirational and empowering songs to choose from for our International Women’s Day episode, we decided to include another song from our party playlist. Katy Perry’s 2013 hit pop song, “Roar” is the perfect song for building up your courage and finding your voice.
This song is full of useful and interesting vocabulary, phrases and figurative language. It’s also really fun to sing! Check out this episode wherever you listen to podcasts: Apple podcasts, Spotify, or the English as a Singing Language website or YouTube channel. Make sure you follow us on Instagram, too!!
Official YouTube Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo1VInw-SKc
For more content, visit For more content, visit the Singing Languages website.
https://singinglanguages.wixsite.com/home/post/season-2-episode-12
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International Women’s Day is on March 8th. We like to think about all of the smart, strong, beautiful women we know on this day. In fact, Ece is planning a party to celebrate the day, and she is creating a playlist full of inspiring music. What is the first song she is going to add? It’s Rachel Platten’s 2015 hit, “Fight Song.”
This song has extremely inspiring lyrics, and it has great practice with the sounds [f] and [v]. We hope you have a wonderful day celebrating all of the women in your life. Happy International Women’s Day!
Official YouTube Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo1VInw-SKc
For more content, visit For more content, visit the Singing Languages website.
https://singinglanguages.wixsite.com/home/post/season-2-episode-12
Follow us on Instagram @singinglanguages.
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Love and music are in the air! In this special Valentine’s Day episode of the podcast, Heather is worried that she doesn’t have enough days in the week to finish all of the things on her to-do list. Ece introduces The Beatles’s 1964 hit song, “Eight Days a Week,” and we talk about simple present and imperative verbs. We also talk about how great it would be to actually have eight days in a week!
Listeners, eight days in a week is not enough to show you how much we care about you! We did, however, make a video version of this episode for our YouTube channel. We hope you enjoy this episode and we wish you a very Happy Valentine’s Day!
Official YouTube Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEJd2RyGm8Q
For more content, visit For more content, visit the Singing Languages website.
https://singinglanguages.wixsite.com/home/post/season-2-episode-11
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We hope your new year is off to a good start. If your new year’s resolution is to improve your English language ability, and you want some inspiration, we encourage you to take a listen to this episode.
Most people worry about what others think sometimes, and in this episode, we are using the hit song, “This is Me,” from the 2017 film, “The Greatest Showman,” to talk about accepting yourself and having a positive attitude.
The language focus of this song is the pronunciation of the schwa sound in unstressed syllables. The schwa sound is part of what gives English the rhythm and sound that it has. This song will help you sing your way to natural-sounding English!
Official YouTube Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEJd2RyGm8Q
For more content, visit For more content, visit the Singing Languages website.
https://singinglanguages.wixsite.com/home/post/season-2-episode-10
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What’s the weather like where you are? It’s definitely winter where we are, and Ece is once again trying to get Heather to enjoy the cold and snow. In this episode, we’re using Ariana Grande’s hit song, “Winter Things,” to talk about useful words for everyday conversation, and some special winter-themed vocabulary, too!
Grab your hat and your gloves and get ready to visualize yourself doing some winter things like skating, skiing… and singing!!
Check out our YouTube channel @singinglanguages for a video version of this episode!
For more content, visit the Singing Languages website.
https://singinglanguages.wixsite.com/home/post/season-2-episode-9
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Do you like to practice perfect pronunciation? If you said “yes,” then this episode is for you. This song has many examples of aspiration. If you don’t know what this is, you should definitely listen to this episode. There is plenty of pronunciation practice, and a song with a good message.
In this episode, we’re talking about Joni Mitchell’s hit 1970 song, “Big Yellow Taxi.” In addition to pronunciation, we also discuss the idea of “taking something for granted.” Isn’t it true that you don’t know what you have until it's gone?
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The most recent episode of the podcast featured the song, “Adventurous Girl,” which was written and sung by our friend and fellow language teacher, Patti Spinner. We were so excited to meet someone who loves using music to teach and learn language as much as we do - some people might even say more! We couldn’t pass up the opportunity to talk to Patti and ask her about her experience as a teacher and singer/grammar songwriter!
In this special Connections Episode, we would like to share our interview with Patti Spinner. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!
L-Pop Website
https://lpop.commons.msu.edu/
About Patti Spinner, Ph.D.
https://people.cal.msu.edu/spinnerp/
For more content, visit the Singing Languages website.
https://singinglanguages.wixsite.com/home/post/season-2-connections-episode-patti-spinner-interview
Follow us on Instagram @singinglanguages.
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Have you ever climbed a mountain? Have you ever flown in a plane? What kinds of adventures have you had? There is something extra special about the song featured in this episode. This song was written and sung by a friend of the podcast, and it is part of a series of songs that were created specifically to practice different grammar points in English! In this episode, we’re talking about the adventures that we have or haven’t had using the present perfect tense.
The song in this episode, “Adventurous Girl,” by our friend, Patti Spinner, is full of examples of the present perfect verb tense. You may not have heard this song on the radio before, but we’re sure you’re going to enjoy listening to it and singing along!
Adventurous Girl Lesson
https://lpop.commons.msu.edu/lesson-1/
L-Pop Website
https://lpop.commons.msu.edu/
About Patti Spinner, Ph.D.
https://people.cal.msu.edu/spinnerp/
For more content, visit the Singing Languages website.
https://singinglanguages.wixsite.com/home/post/season-2-episode-7
Follow us on Instagram @singinglanguages.
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In each season, we have to include at least one fun, silly traditional folk song that might be considered a “children’s song,” but is actually for everyone! The traditional folk song, “Down by the Bay,” was recorded by the children’s artist, Raffi, in the 1970’s. People of all ages can enjoy creating rhyming lyrics of their own.
For example, Ece came up with, “Have you ever seen Heather, enjoying cold weather?” (No, nobody has ever seen this!) Heather’s lyrics were, “Have you ever seen a teacher chasing a creature?” (No, but we’ve seen several creatures chasing teachers!) We hope you have fun inventing your own lyrics to this singalong song!!
Official YouTube Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWKVKfk6e40
For more content, visit the Singing Languages website.
https://singinglanguages.wixsite.com/home/post/season-2-episode-6
Follow us on Instagram @singinglanguages.
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