Have You Heard This Tune?

By on April 10, 2012 in Text Lessons

Have you ever heard the song “Secrets” by One Republic? It’s a pretty good tune. This one is from the album “Waking Up”. Enjoy!

Vocabulary

Tune means song.

Sentences

“This is a pretty good tune.”
“Let’s put on some tunes.”

Pronunciation

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Natural Pronunciation Tip: In the first sentence notice how the double t in pretty is pronounced with a d sound. This is very common in american pronunciation.In the second sentence notice how the words “put” and “on” are reduced to “puton”. And again, you can here the t in “puton” pronounced as a d (“pudon”).

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  • http://www.javiervallestero.tumblr.com/ Francisco Javier

    Great song!

    I like your pronunciation tip. Fortunately, I’m already very familiar with that kind of pronunciation from all those Hollywood movies that I enjoy watching.

    Now, songs are a different kettle of fish. Some are very easy to understand (I mean, without reading the lyrics) whereas others are very difficult, to the point that  I usually wonder if a native speaker understands them.

    From what I have read, even native speakers find it hard to understand some parts of certain songs. I guess this happens in most languages.

    • http://www.americananthony.com American Anthony

       Yeah, songs can be incredibly difficult to understand. It’s true, even native speakers have a difficult time understanding the lyrics. That’s why you’ll see so many “…with lyrics” on YouTube. Great for non-native English speakers too.