Part1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

I was a lazy child, therefore, if I had not fallen in love with this song, I would never have learned to sing it.

The power of passion motivated me to tackle this challenge.

This was not like singing just a few words from musicals.

I learned every single word, studying especially how to pronounce it, singing along.

Like I have mentioned in the previous post, the lyrics came with this reading aid written in katakana: this is one of the Japanese alphabet that we use to write foreign words.

I recreated how the attached lyrics looked, in the header picture.

Of course, I couldn't read the majority of the original lyrics, so I had to rely on this katakana.

The problem was that this reading aid could not reproduce the actual speech sounds of the English language.

Hence, many times I wondered why the katakana was so different from the actual singing I was hearing from the cassette.

I don't remember much, but I might have added my version of katakana, or I just ignored them once I knew more or less how to say the words.

It helped that it was a simple and short song, but I learned to sing it eventually.

I didn't understand the meaning, but I enjoyed it singing very very much.

And my pronunciation wasn't bad.

This was a great experience for me: it was the first English song learned by actually studying it intensively.

Well, as intensively as a child could manage.

I remember the sensation of pushing the replay? button of my father's bulky black cassette player🦕, over and over again, going back a few seconds to listen again and again.

In the coming years, I learned a lot of foreign songs, including songs in Spanish.

But, "Yesterday" has held in a special place in my heart ever since.

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Thank you for reading!

(The picture is my screenshot)

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