Learn English with Coldplay

Eat Sleep Dreamers, I'm super excited. Today we're going to learn English with one of the

most famous bands in the world, Coldplay.

Music is a great way to learn English and today we're going to look at some really interesting

vocabulary, some natural pronunciation and some really useful grammar structures. Coldplay,

take it away.

I'd like to look at some interesting pronunciation here. We've got the sentence ''cause you're

a sky full of stars'. Now that first word 'cause it's an informal way of saying because

and we use it in spoken English mainly. So 'cause because 'cause you are. Now instead

of you are he's saying 'cause you're and again really normal in spoken English. It's quite

long to say Because you are a sky full of stars. "cause you're a sky full of stars.

He also says I want to die in your arms, I wanna, wanna want to but again in spoken English

to make life easy for ourselves we would say I wanna, I wanna go, I wanna do, I wanna play,

I wanna run. I wanna wanna wanna. Now it's important with pronunciation, you don't have

to say these words like that. You don't have to say, I wanna go home, you could say I want

to go home but it's good to be aware of the pronunciation so that when you are listening

to someone maybe a tv programme or a friend and they say I wanna, you know that that's

the pronunciation of I want to go. So good to be aware of these things, if you want to

use them in your spoken English, that's up to you.

I'm feeling drunk and high. So drunk is when you've had too much alcohol. In British culture

we have a lot of words for drunk, hammered, wasted, plastered. If you are a little bit

drunk you could be tipsy. And high we associate with drugs so if you've had drugs then you

are probably high. I think in this example Chris Martin is talking about life, he's drunk

on life, he's high on life so he's happy and not necessarily that he's taken alcohol or

drugs but just that life is making him feel, is making him feel great. If you want a whole

lesson on all the words that we have for being drunk in British English then let me know

in the comment below.

Here Chris Martin talks about I shouldn't have crossed the line. I shouldn't have. Shouldn't

have is a really interesting grammar structure, it's a past modal, it's in the negative here

shouldn't have and we use it to talk about regretting past situations or being sorry

about past decisions. For example maybe in the morning you feel very tired and you might

say I shouldn't have gone to bed late last night. So you are regretting your decision

to go to bed late. I shouldn't have gone to bed late. Another example you might say I

shouldn't have been so mean to my friend and again you're regretting your past action.

So shouldn't have, really useful nice grammar structure to talk about regrets of the past.

We are legends every day. This is another great piece of informal British English. Now

legend has lots of meanings but here and in informal situations it can mean if someone

has been really helpful or very generous or they are really successful you can call them

a legend. Let's put it into an example, thank you so much for helping me organise the party,

you're a legend. So I'm just saying you were really helpful, super helpful. Or if someone

lends you some money, let's say you need some money to get on the train and someone lends

it to you you could say you are a legend, thank you so much. And again it just means

thank you, you are very generous. So it's a really nice informal piece of vocabulary

we use in spoken British English.

Somehow, it's an adverb and it means, we use it when we are not sure how something happened

or we're not sure, we can't explain how something happened. It's a really useful word so for

example I'd say 'Somehow I've lost my phone' I don't know how but it's happened and I can't

explain it so somehow I've lost my phone. Really useful especially for me as I can't

always explain how things happen. Eat Sleep Dreamers if you are finding this video useful

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You don't know how lovely you are. Chris Martin here is saying you don't know how beautiful

you are because lovely means beautiful. Also in British English it can mean enjoyable or

pleasant and we use it all the time. So for example I might describe a weekend as being

'a lovely weekend' so a really enjoyable weekend. Maybe you've been out with your friends and

you might say 'Thanks so much for a lovely evening' and that means thank you so much

for an enjoyable evening. We might also say 'It was lovely to see you yesterday' so again

it was really pleasant and enjoyable to see you. We use it all the time.

I'd rather be a comma than a full stop. This is a really nice grammar structure. We use

it to prefer one thing over another. I'd rather so the 'd the d there is I would, I would

rather this than that. So an example would be 'I'd rather be a cat than a dog' actually

no no no wait 'I'd rather be a dog than a cat.' So my preference is to be a dog more

than a cat. Because dogs are cool man, I love dogs, they are kind of, you know happy and

they look like they have a lot of fun, yeah I'd rather be a dog. Another example 'I'd

rather stay at home tonight than go out.' Again you are showing that your preference

is to stay at home and not go out so two things and you are preferring one. So what does Chris

Martin mean here by I'd rather be a comma than a full stop. Well, lyrics are, people

interpret lyrics differently. People have different meanings and they attach them to

them. There's no right or wrong, I guess. Unless we ask Chris Martin ourselves then

maybe we could find an answer.

Which song or band would you like to learn English from next? You let me know in the

comments below and I will make the video for you. So tell me which band or which song would

you like to learn English from next?

Thank you so much for watching Eat Sleep Dreamers, this is Tom, the English Hipster and you know

what time it is, it's time to take your English to the next level.