Learn English with songs

Learning English through music

English spelling and English sound parted ways centuries ago, which is why someone who has read the language for years can still lose the first ten seconds of a pop song. Music is where that gap closes: it forces you to hear the contractions, the swallowed vowels and the stress patterns that a textbook writes out in full. English is also the most-recorded language in popular music, so the catalog can move from a slow ballad to a rap verse without leaving the level you are working at.

Grammar and pronunciation lessons

Short lessons on the points these songs teach, each linked to the songs that use them.

English grammar (14) →English pronunciation (8) →

The English words these songs share

These 60 words appear across the most English songs in the catalog, so they are the ones to learn first. Ranked by how many songs use them, translated by us, and taken word by word — never as lines of lyric.

Every English song in the catalog

Sorted from the easiest card to the hardest. Each one opens a full page with its own glossary and sample quiz.

• Can't Stop the Feeling! — Justin Timberlake (2016)A1
• Girls Just Want to Have Fun — Cyndi Lauper (1983)A1+
• Beautiful — Christina Aguilera (2002)A1+
• Shake It Off (Taylor's Version) — Taylor Swift (2023)A1+
• I Don't Want to Miss a Thing — Aerosmith (1998)A1+

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