#5 English song

Song: Lucky

Singer: Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat

Singers’ information:

Jason Mraz  

Birth name: Jason Thomas Mraz

Nationality: American

Born: June 23, 1977 (age 39)

Occupation(s): singer, songwriter

Language: English

Representative works of music: I'm Yours, Lucky

Colbie Caillat

Birth name: Colbie Marie Caillat

Nationality: American

Born: May 28, 1985 (age 31)

Occupation(s): Singer, songwriter, actress, guitarist, pianist

Language: English

  

Official MV:

　　　　　　　　　(Reference: YouTube)

Lyrics:

　Do you hear me, I'm talking to you

　Across the water across the deep blue ocean

　Under the open sky, oh my, baby I'm trying

　Boy I hear you in my dreams

　I feel your whisper across the sea

　I keep you with me in my heart

　You make it easier when life gets hard

　I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend

　Lucky to have been where I have been

　Lucky to be coming home again

　Ooohh ooh ooh ooh

　They don't know how long it takes waiting for a love like this

　Every time we say goodbye

　I wish we had one more kiss

　I'll wait for you I promise you, I will

　I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend

　Lucky to have been where I have been

　Lucky to be coming home again

　Lucky we're in love every way

　Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed

　Lucky to be coming home someday

　And so I'm sailing through the sea

　To an island where we'll meet

　You'll hear the music fill the air

　I'll put a flower in your hair

　Though the breezes through trees

　Move so pretty you're all I see

　As the world keeps spinning round

　You hold me right here right now

　I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend

　Lucky to have been where I have been

　Lucky to be coming home again

　Lucky we're in love every way

　Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed

　Lucky to be coming home someday

　Ooohh oooh oooh ooh ooh

　Ooohh oooh oooh ooh ooh

  

Vocabulary:

　1. whisper [ˈwɪspɚ] (n.)低語

    　Ex: You'll have to whisper or he'll hear.

    　(你得小點兒聲說，否則他會聽到的。)

　2. sail [sel] (v.) 航行

    　Ex: They were going to sail around the little island, against the tide.

　    (他們打算繞著小島逆潮航行。)

　3. breeze [briz] (n.) 微風

    　Ex: The sun went in, and the breeze became cold.

    　(雲層遮住了太陽，微風有了些涼意。)

　4. spin [spɪn] (v.) 旋轉

    　Ex: The boat started to spin around in the water.

    　(船開始在水中打轉。)

Why you likes the song? 

In fact, come into contact with this song was an accident, because I am not concerned about the news of English songs. Therefore, almost all knew the English song that is known from Twitch broadcaster*.
　
At that time, I was listening to a favorite Twitch broadcaster group, LNG Workshop. Their members, Wannasinging and Niaws, were chanting the song, Lucky. The moment I thought this song was very brisk rhythm, plus I liked the two Twitch broadcasters singing. So after a few days, I went to YouTube to found the day of the video record file. Since then I fell in love with this song!

* "Twitch broadcaster" means Twitch實況主

* Twitch is a live streaming video platform. (https://www.twitch.tv/)

Cover MV: (Cover by Wannasinging & Niaws)

　　　　　　　　　(Reference: YouTube)

 Reference:

　1. Singers’ information: Wikipedia

        　(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Mraz, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colbie_Caillat)

　2. Official MV_Lucky: YouTube
        　(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acvIVA9-FMQ)

　3. Official MV_I'm Yours: YouTube
       　(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkHTsc9PU2A)

　4. Cover MV_Lucky: YouTube
        　(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sO-THcdl2w)

　5. Lyrics
        　(http://www.music-cool.tw/2014/02/jason-mraz-colbie-caillat-lucky.html)

　6. Vocabulary: iCIBA
        　(http://www.iciba.com/)

#4 Six Minute English

"Tea is the second most consumed drink after water."

Today, I chose" How do you like your tea?" in Six Minute English. This episode is mainly about the history of tea, drinking way and the origin of tea bags.

Compared to India and the British, tea has been in China for thousands of years of history, brewing tea is also very particular about the way. But the answer to this question, "The earliest origin of tea bags," is absolutely beyond your expectation.

Come and learn the story of tea!

#3 ESL Pod.Com

This week teacher introduced a listening training site, ESL Podcast, for us. In addition to listening to the 1241”Breaking an Arm or a Leg” in the classroom, the other part of the choice I chose 1136” Missing a Deadline”. This site is very slow pace of reading the article, I think it is suitable for beginners to use, but occasionally there are exceptions.

In my case, if this article is full of words I am not familiar with, not only hear difficult, also easier to give up directly. The first time in the classroom to listen, I was almost in the venting state, as if all the sounds are not listen to the ears, which makes me feel very troubled and weak. Later, to seek the teacher’s help, she suggested that I do not understand the word check dictionary, understand the meaning, and then try again.

I think the teacher's advice a little bit of help, but I am still dislike use of this site. My listening is not good, so I am very hard to find ways to improve, but I found not only listening problems, but also my vocabulary is too less. So when I listen to a dialogue, I do not understand.

In this study, I was more aware of my current need to improve the most probably is not listening to the training or increase vocabulary. It is myself psychological barriers, the instinctive nasty became not motivated learning.

What should I do...?