Album Notes

ColloTunes™ for English Learning are songs created and performed by Fluency MC, the Teacher-Trainer-Language Explainer-High Stress Drainer-Knowledge Entertainer to learn English grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. The artist uses specially designed music and lyrics that follow the natural stress patterns and sound-spelling relationships of English. AND you can rock out to it!

The Collo in ColloTunes is short for collocation. A collocation is a high-frequency chunk of spoken or written language. “Take a shower,” “meet for coffee,” “a tough situation,” and “a great deal of time” are examples of Collos. When we meet Collos again and again, they stick in our heads; we say and write them automatically without hesitating, translating, or worrying about grammar.

ColloTunes feature the Collos we use every day to communicate effectively in English. When you listen, read, speak, and write with ColloTunes, your language skills will quickly improve!

With ColloTunes™, rather than repeating sentences “robot-like” or memorizing lists, you surround yourself with natural conversation through music. Listening, chanting, and rapping makes it fun and easy to improve communication skills.

To learn English well, you need to be familiar with the sounds, spellings, intonation, and grammatical patterns of the language. Unfortunately, many popular materials for English language learning contain uncommon idioms, old-fashioned uses of grammar, or unnatural stress and intonation patterns. Or the music stinks!

This is why ColloTunes™ are carefully crafted to focus on the most high-frequency uses of grammar, vocabulary, and sound-spelling relationships--over sizzling beats!

Balancing fluency, accuracy, and repetition, ColloTunes use rhythm and rhyme to develop students into superior speakers, listeners, readers, and writers of English.