Learn English with music

English swallows unstressed syllables, which is the single hardest thing for learners to decode. Songs stretch those syllables onto notes, so the words you normally miss in speech become audible.

1. 1Connect Spotify and press play on any English track.
2. 2The lyric line lights up in time with the vocal, with the English right below it.
3. 3Tap a word to keep it. It lands in your vault for review later — the song never stops.

• Adele

  Slow, enunciated, emotionally plain vocabulary.

• Ed Sheeran

  Conversational phrasing and everyday idioms.

• Taylor Swift

  Dense storytelling — the best source of natural narrative tenses.

• Sam Smith

  Long vowels, easy to follow at first-listen speed.

• Hozier

  Literary, image-heavy English for advanced learners.

A song repeats the same phrase four or five times and you don't mind. Melody carries the words into memory the way rote repetition never does, and because you chose the track, you'll play it again tomorrow.

Free: one language, 20 saved words, 3 songs a day.

Pro from $1.99/month: unlimited words and songs. Pro Unlimited adds every language.

Can I really learn English from songs?

Not on its own — but as the listening and vocabulary half of your study it beats any app, because you repeat willingly. Singuistic adds the reading and review half.

Do I need Spotify Premium?

You need a Spotify account so we can read what's playing. Playback works with what your account already allows.

Which songs have synced lyrics?

Most popular tracks. When a song has no synced version we show the plain lyric, still translated.