Happy Sunday! It’s the last day of the music festival here at Austin City Limits, and it’s been an amazing time! If you are just visiting the blog, WELCOME, and you’re not too late to travel with me on my current vacation. For the next couple of weeks, I’ll be posting a “Travel with Me” blog series that covers different aspects (parts) of my trip. Part 1 went over common vocabulary related to packing, and included many of the everyday items and products that you may be surprised to learn you didn’t know!

Because I have been in Austin, Texas at a music festival this weekend, Part 2a was all about ways to learn with a band from the lineup. On Friday, I shared 5 ways to learn and improve English with The Foo Fighters, the band headlining that night. You can access these past posts by scrolling through the blog, or clicking the links in the previous sentences!

Today will be all about music again, specifically one of my favorite bands on today’s lineup- Of Monsters and Men. What makes this group extra special is that they are from Iceland, and their first language is Icelandic! This means they, too, are English learners (or at least they once were). They sing, only in English, are internationally recognized and are proof that non-native speakers can reach professional success in English as their second language. I am challenging you with a reading comprehension task this post, and providing you a link from a magazine article that has an interview with band. In this interview they talk about how they learned English, amongst other things, but can you find this information? How did the band learn English?

http://www.confrontmagazine.com/2012/06/of-monsters-and-men-2/

Post your answers in the comment section below. Good luck and 

Happy Studying! ♥