When I was learning portuguese I found that it helped to listen to catchy music. The technique is to select a song you really love and listen to it alot.  That way I engaged that part of my mind that repeats catchy tunes endlessly whether I like it or not.  In english songs this drives me absolutely crazy.  However when I use it with portuguese it allows for an effortless learning technique.  Currently I am teaching english to my Brazilian girlfriend.  After she said the singer spoke to quickly I recorded me speaking the lines of the song 1 by 1 for her.   Because of the nature of portuguese speakers habits of pronounciation the recordings are optimized for a portuguese speaker.  I repeat the words where a portuguese speaker has trouble that arise from rules of portuguese pronounciation conflicting english ones.  See if you like the learning technique. The original song is here so you can listen with music at full speedEntire song spoken slowly              

       

    

 Looking at your watch a third time waiting at the station for a bus     olhando ate seu relogio a terceira vez … aguardando no terminal para o omnibus
 Going to a place that’s far, so far away and if that’s not enough                             Indo ao lugar que é longe, tao distante e se que é nao basta
 Going where nobody says hello, they don’t talk to anybody they don’t know  
 You’ll wind up in some factory  some no time job and nowhere left to go  
 Walk home to an empty house, sit around all by yourself  
 I know it might sound strange, but I believe You’ll be coming back before too long  
 Não voltar a Rockville  ( Nao ir
  At night I drink myself to sleep and lately  
  I don’t care if you’re not here with me  
  Cause it’s so much easier to handle  
  All my problems if I’m too far out to sea  
  But something better happen soon  
  Or it’s gonna be too late to bring you back  
  Don’t go back to Rockville            

   

 

 
  It’s not as though I really need you  
  If you were here I’d only bleed you  
  But everybody else in town they only wants to bring me down and  
  That’s not how it ought to be  
  I know it might sound strange, but I believe  
  You’ll be coming back before too long  
 
   Don’t go back to Rockville             

 

  Don’t go back to Rockville       

 

  Don’t go back to Rockville       

 

  And waste another year

 

 

 

 Another site that uses music to teach english

 

 

 

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