Name: Learn English With Kelly Clarkson: My Life Would Suck Without You
Uploaded: 2018-04-06T15:38:28.000Z
Duration: 18 min 13 s
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What's up guys my name is Aaron, and I teach English and Spanish on take lessons comm and

To help my students learn a fun way of learning English and of course that is through music so

Today we're going to be studying a song by Kelly Clarkson

and it's called my life would suck without you and this is just a

It just makes me want to get up and dance and go crazy and just enjoy myself

So when you listen to this song? It's not gonna feel like studying and of course

That's the key to learn any language is to make it fun. I

chose this song specifically because it has a lot of informal English and slang words, so

You might hear Kelly say some things in this song that someone told you not to say in English

Or someone might have told you that this is wrong well

It's not wrong. Kelly is not learning English she speaks English

She's a native English speaker, and this is just the way she talks

So you should at least be aware that English speakers do talk like this and I want you to be able to?

Understand it when you hear someone say something like this on top of that if you always use the language

they're gonna sound like a textbook so I encourage you to listen to this song and

And if you try to learn from the way that she talks you're gonna sound more like a native English speaker

now with that said this lesson is going to be geared a little or towards intermediate or

Who can benefit from learning the slang and

But if you're a beginner then still listen to the song because it's still super fun

And I still think it'll help you learn English, so let's jump into the song. Here's the first verse

So I told you that in this song kelly uses informal English and right from the very start

Her first sentence is guess this means you're sorry now

You might already know that in English you always need to include

the subject of the sentence so what she's trying to say here is I

guess this means you're sorry we're the subject of the sentence is I

But she doesn't say that here the subject is just understood to be her

So when she says guess this means you're sorry she's really saying I guess this means you're sorry

which means that she doesn't really know for sure and

Maybe no one actually told her this but somehow she just knows

Then in the next line were able to see how

Kelly is able to guess that this guy is sorry

so he's standing at her door which probably means that he left and then came back to her and

From that she's able to guess that he's sorry

Now we don't know for sure yet what he's sorry about but apparently

He's been a bad boy, and he has to come back and he has something to apologize for and we're gonna find that out next

Now I want to talk for a minute about the phrase take back

But really it's one verb because when you use these two words together

They mean something very specific especially when you're talking about

Take back some words now when you buy something from the store, and you take it back

you're returning it because you changed your minds, and you don't want that thing anymore and

Because the guy has said something to Kelly and then he changed his mind

And he's coming back to her and now he wants to take back the things that he said it's like he's saying

I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said those things. I take it back

Now I really quickly want to talk about why she used the word like at the beginning of this sentence

It's because she was talking about a list of things all the things that he said that he's taking back

Now she didn't tell us what those things are

But they might have been something like you're fat, or like you're stupid or

You might have said something like I hate you or anything else

We'll never know but these are a list of things that he said the one thing that we do know is that he said I

She's giving an example of one of the things that he said and this is

Really a very serious thing to say to your girlfriend if you say I want anyone but you

That's literally saying that I would be happy with any other person on the planet

But not you so you are the only person that I don't want that's kind of crappy

Now listen to how she pronounces the word wanted

Because she does not pronounce it the way that you might expect

The proper way to pronounce this word in English is

Wanted, but when we're speaking in actual conversations in real life

That's not the way we talk we tends to run our words together and speak fast and we get a little bit lazy

And if you're good you'll still be able to understand English speakers when we're talking like this

so she's dropping the tea out of that word and kind of weakening the D at the end so instead of

Wanted she says wanted just listen to the difference between those two a few times

and this is a very common thing for English speakers to do such as words like painting or

So pay careful attention to that when you listen to people if you don't

Understand one of the words that they're saying it might be because they're pronouncing it this way

Here is another example of Kelly's informal speech where she takes a sentence and drops the subject

Now what she's saying here is you said you'd never come back

But what she actually says is just said you'd never come back

And it's understood that the guy is the one who said this

because he's the one that she was just talking about so the subject of a sentence kind of carries over to this one and

Now we're going to go into the chorus, and this is honestly the most fun part of the song so here it is

The only thing I want to say about this line is that she does not use the full word

honestly that is much more kind than using the whole word and

Honestly these two words mean the exact same thing the first one is just more formal the second one is less formal

Now here she's using the word got in the same

This is not a correct way of saying that but that's how she talks in everyone understands her

So when she's saying you got a piece of me what she's actually saying is you have a piece of me?

And I don't understand entirely what she's saying there

She's being a little bit poetic but apparently she's saying like

He is captivating her or just that she really cares about him in some way the other thing