Taylor Swift: Taking Us to the Past using the Present | English Listening Practice

I will love Taylor Swift until I die. In fact, I want her music playing at my funeral. I'm not kidding. That woman saved my family.

 

In 2020 and 2021, her voice and music filled our home and soothed our pain. This is a very personal episode, kind of a love story. But, it's also about the English language. It's about English grammar. It's about how verb tense and time in English are flexible.

 

Taylor Swift's music is not only beautiful, but her lyrics are great tools for practicing English listening and reading. You can learn a lot about how to speak (sing!) English and how to write in English if you listen to her music and notice the language she uses. 

Do you want to know more? 

Listen and share your thoughts with me. You can contact me from my website: English with Catherine.

Here is a link to the article I talk about in the podcast: The Paris Review.

Don't forget to follow me on Instagram where I share some language used in the podcast: definitions of vocabulary, the meaning of expressions, as well as tips for listening to all those sounds in English that are messy and hard to hear.

 

Music is a big part of our lives, isn't it? It's important to support the talented musicians we love. Go listen to the band that provides the theme song "Change my Mind" to the Hear You Go podcast. They are Amos the Transparent.

 

Thanks for listening! Stay tuned for the next episode of Hear You Go.