Eat Sleep Dreamers, get ready to learn English with Justin Bieber.
This is going to be ridiculous! Oh my God! First question, are you a Belieber? A Belieber
is someone that is a fan of Justin Bieber. Raise your hand if you are a Belieber.
If you are a Belieber you are going to love this lesson because I'm going to teach you
English with Justin Bieber. Now there's one song that I hear everywhere I go. It's in
every shop I go in to, it's coming out of every car, whenever I turn on the radio I
hear it. Despacito! I don't know the lyrics but I know that I love it and I know that
I cannot stop moving. I just, I need to dance whenever I hear this song, I need to dance.
So I thought well, let's turn this beautiful amazing song into an English lesson. So here we go.
Mr Bieber, let's do this.
Our first phrase 'Come on over'. This is an invitation for the person to move towards
Justin Bieber. So that's the idea here, is that they are moving to his location. So if
we look at just the phrasal verb 'Come over' again this is talking about moving from one
place to another. The important thing is that the location is wherever the speaker is. So
if I said to you 'Come over tonight and I'll cook you dinner' that probably, the location
is my house. Ok, come over to my house and I'll cook you dinner. So the location is where
the speaker is. So let's say I have a friend in Hong Kong and I say 'Come over and visit
me' the location is here, my country, England or London even. So come over is moving from
one place to another and the location is where the speaker is. A blessing is a noun and it's
something that makes us very happy or that we are grateful for. Here Justin Bieber thinks
that this person is the blessing that their relationship is a blessing. Maybe you might
say 'getting that job was such a blessing' it has made me so happy it's been so lucky
that I got that job. The adjective is blessed and you see this a lot on social media like
hashtag blessed. I'm so blessed to have this opportunity to speak to you guys for example.
So again another way to show appreciation for how lucky you are and for something that
makes you feel happy.
My sunrise on the darkest day. This is saying
that you are the beautiful moment in an otherwise difficult time. So you are the light in my
life. This is deep, this is Justin Bieber getting deep. It's getting beautiful. This
is getting romantic guys. This is really interesting. Got me feeling some kind of way. What I'm
interested in here is the missing words, the words that aren't in the sentence. It's quite
normal for us in spoken English and certainly text message English communication to miss
out words and particularly pronouns. The words that are missing here are 'You have' so 'You
have got me feeing some kind of way.' You have. And this is common in spoken English
and sort of text message English to just take the pronoun you / I and just kind of throw
it away like oh I don't need it. You know who we are talking about. I'm talking about
you, you've got me feeling. It's just a really common pattern. We have to be careful obviously
because sometimes we need the pronouns to tell who is doing what but if the meaning
is clear and who is doing the act is clear then yeah throw away your pronoun, you don't
need it. So for example if I wrote a note for my flatmate and I put it on the fridge
and i said 'Gone to the shops' I don't need to say 'I have gone to the shops' I don't
need to say it. They can see that it's from me, it's my flat mate, they know that it's
me so I just put gone to the shops. So sometimes for ease, to make life easier for ourselves
we throw away the pronoun.
A piece of natural pronunciation here. Wanna, make me wanna. So wanna is want to but squeezed
together because it's easier to say wanna than want to and it's really normal in spoken
English both in American English and British English completely normal. Yeah, and then
the spelling wanna I wouldn't write it in my IELTS exam or my CAE exam or for a business
proposal but yeah I mean we sometimes do it. I personally would write want to but when
I'm speaking yeah I wanna go home yeah of course, why not? Savour every moment, to savour
it's a verb and it means to take pleasure in something. To enjoy that something particularly
deliberately like you think about it. So for example I always savour my dessert. So if
I have maybe some chocolate cake I won't just go, I won't just eat it all without thinking
I will enjoy it, I will think about enjoying it so this is what it means, to take pleasure
in something that you enjoy is to savour something. So Justin Bieber is savouring the moment,
he is taking pleasure in this moment, he's thinking about how great this moment is. Interesting
here is the spelling. So in American English it's savor but in British English savour so
there are lots of words where in British English we are using the u as well not just the o.
So for example flavour, in American English flavor in British English flavour.
Tailor-made. If something is tailor-made then it's specially made for someone. Almost always
we are talking about clothes here tailor-made clothes so if I want a nice new suit to go
to a wedding I might go to a tailor and they will measure me and then they will create
the suit to fit me perfectly so if it's tailor-made it fits you perfectly like exactly your measurements.
What a great word to nibble. Now usually nibble we are talking about eating in small bites.
So a biscuit, I might nibble. I don't just eat it at once, I eat little bites and then
eventually I eat it all. Now here Justin Bieber is talking about an ear. Hopefully he's not
eating the ear. I think here he's talking about biting gently and repeatedly and softly,
I think Justin is being affectionate with his partner here to show that he likes them
by nibbling their ear. Interesting! I'm going to stick to nibbling biscuits, if that's ok.
This is how we do it. I guess this is how we do it kind
of means that this is our style, this is the way we do things in whatever place so in Puerto
Rico. So this is how we sing or this is how we part or I don't know what the thing is.
I guess here it's singing and being romantic, I don't know but this our style, this is the
way we do things here.
I hope you enjoyed that lesson guys, I hope that you danced like a crazy person and I
hope that you have that song in your head for the rest of the day. It's brilliant, I
love it!
Now I think Despacito is a song that stays in my head and it repeats in my head and that
kind of a song we call catchy. It's really catchy. So if a song is catchy it stays in
your head, you keep hearing it, you know that Despacito, just keeps on in your head, that's
a catchy song. And I think Despacito is the most catchy tune in the world, I mean it's
ridiculous. So I'd like to hear from you guys which songs do you think are really catchy?
I think Despacito is a pretty catchy tune, what other ones do you know? Let me know in
the comments below. Guys if you want another video teaching you English with music or English
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English. Thank you so much, take it easy and I'll see you next time.