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  • What's up guys?

  • I wanted to make a video for my students about this song called "What A Wonderful World"

  • by Louis Armstrong.

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

  • it uses very simple vocabulary.

  • The verbs that it uses are very simple.

  • They're all present tense.

  • Most of them are first person verbs.

  • 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.

  • He was very popular for a long time.

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

  • it.

  • It's Louis, Louis Armstrong.

  • 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

  • a beginner in English.

  • The first word is Roses.

  • Now, roses are a type of flower.

  • And they look like this.

  • That's a rose.

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

  • A present tense verb.

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

  • up.

  • 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.

  • That's Won-der-ful.

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

  • This just means great or very good.

  • 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

  • I'm saying right now.

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

  • Just look them up online.

  • 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

  • a wonderful world it is.

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

  • It's really making a statement.

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

  • That's what he's trying to say here.

  • 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's just his accent.

  • That's how he pronounces the word.

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

  • so just be aware of that.

  • This is just like the tree part.

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

  • and white clouds."

  • 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

  • as a greeting.

  • 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

  • you."

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

  • Because he says, "I hear babies crying."

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

  • And he says, "They'll learn more.

  • Even more than I know."

  • 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

  • everything is gonna turn out great.

  • 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

  • culture.

  • 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.

  • So thanks for watching my video.

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用音樂學習英語。多麼美妙的世界 (Learn English with Music: What A Wonderful World)

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