Name: Learn English with Music: What A Wonderful World
Uploaded: 2018-04-06T15:30:02.000Z
Duration: 9 min 17 s
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I wanted to make a video for my students about
this song called "What A Wonderful World"

And it's a great song for learning English
especially if you're just a beginner because

And it's very easy to understand the words
to this song even if you're a beginner.

Now, this song is by a man named Louis Armstrong.

And his first name is Louis, It's spelled
like Louis, but that's not how you pronounce

He's mostly known for playing the trumpet,
but he also is well known for singing.

And you might notice he has a very unique
voice.

First I want to point out some vocabulary
that you might not be familiar with if you're

The second word is bloom, now this is a verb.

And that is what happens when a flower starts
off closed and it starts to grow and open

So, before the flowers bloom, they look like
this.

And then, after they bloom, they look like
this.

The next word I want to point out is Wonderful.

Now, this is a pretty common word, so you
should definitely be familiar with this.

Blessed is a religious word, and I actually
looked up the definition in the dictionary.

And it means holy, fortunate, or divinely
favored.

This is not a common word for people to say,
but you might hear it a lot in Christmas carols,

or church hymns, or even in the bible when
it says, "Blessed are the poor in spirit.",

"Blessed are those who mourn.", "Blessed are
the meek."

Sacred is kind of similar to blessed, and
it just means Holy or devoted to God.

A rainbow is the big colorful thing you see
in the sky after the rain.

So, besides these words, you can probably
understand most of the other words in this

song unless you're a complete beginner, in
which case you probably don't understand anything

But if there are any other words in this song
that you don't understand, that's fine.

The phrase, "Trees of green" means the exact
same thing as "green trees".

So what he's saying is, "I see green trees,
and red roses."

Now, this is a very positive, optimistic song.

So, he looks at the flowers, and he sees them
bloom, or grow, and that reminds him of what

Now, "What" is normally a question word, but
in this case it's not asking a question.

When he says, "What a wonderful world" he's
really just saying, "The world is wonderful."

And he has a very interesting pronunciation
of the word "world" really, when he says it,

it kinda sounds like he's saying "woild".

That is not a common way of pronouncing that
word, but some people do say it that way,

"Skies of blue" means the same thing as "blue
skies", so he's saying, "I see blue skies

Once again, this is a very positive, happy
song.

So here, Louis is saying that the days are
blessed, and the nights are sacred.

So literally the whole day, from morning until
night, is happy, positive, blessed, sacred.

He's showing us some very happy feelings here.

So he sees these pretty colors in the rainbow
in the sky, very pretty, and he sees the same

colors on the people that are walking by him
in the streets.

So he sees people shaking hands, and that
is just the thing that you do when you see

someone that you know, and you grab their
hand, and you shake them for a few seconds

And the people say, "How do you do?" which
is just a way of saying, "Hello, how are you?"

But that is kind of an old fashioned way of
saying that.

People don't really say, "How do you do" anymore.

So here, Louis suggests that when people say,
"How do you do?", they're not actually trying

to say, "How do you do?", but rather, it's
their own personal way of saying, "I love

This might be the only part of the song that's
not completely positive.

But it gets better because after that he talks
about how much these babies are going to learn,

And he has this very positive, optimistic
outlook on life, that these babies are young

now, but they're going to grow up and be smart
and probably be successful and happy, and

So he ends off the song by saying "Ohhh yeahhh.",
which really doesn't mean anything.

But I think it kind of adds a nice ending
to his very positive feeling.

And that's a very nice happy thought to end
on.

So I hope this video helped you learn some
vocabulary and learn a little bit about american

And I just want to encourage you to keep listening
to this song, keep reading the words, and

keep learning and memorising, and this should
be an easy, fun way of learning English.

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