Podcast and Languages Learning

Have you ever heard about podcast? What is podcast? Podcast is seems like an audio and video blog or internet audio files. Podcast is an acronym from the word of “i-pod” and “broadcast”. From those two words, we can see that Podcast is like a media or tool to publish and offer audio and video materials inside. It’s allowing the users to create and get the audio files inside. For example, for honing pronunciation skills, we also can access, listen, download, or may create it by using podcast. Podcast also can be played to a computer or mp3/mp4 player. In brief, podcast is a very useful media or tool which publishes audio or video files that can be downloaded an uploaded by the people online.

How can Podcasting be useful for learning languages?

Like I have said before that podcast is a media or tool to publish audio or video files, it means that it will very useful for learning languages, especially listening and speaking skills. Podcast is an attractive media to improve pronunciation in language learning. Anyone can access and create podcast using a computer or software program. Podcasts can be downloaded and played to a computer or MP3 player. So then, we can download an audio about pronunciation there or listen it well. Podcast also useful to learn languages, because it’s simple to create, publish, edit, and listen. So, it will make our learning becomes easier. Then, it can be used to distribute lecture material in learning languages. Besides, according to Stanley and Meng, podcasting can empower students by giving them opportunities to create and publish for a real audience and facilitate recording and distributing news broadcasts, creating or listening to teachers’ notes, recording lectures distributed directly to students’ MP3 players, supporting student interviews, and providing oral history archiving. From those, we can see that podcast is very useful media to improve language learning which can be used by every students or teachers.

Benefits of Blogging for Learning English

Hi guys, today I'd like to share you about the benefits of blogging in learning English. Here are they:

Based on my experience, we can get many benefits for learning English from blogging. First, blogging can helps us to express our feeling or ideas in written form. We can express them by using written English. It means that while we write in the blog, we also practice our English writing. Here, we can learn and exercise our writing skills. We also can develop our creativity in writing.

Then, blogging also really helpful for exercise our communication skill in using English. As we know that blog is a media or tool to communicate the others. By blogging, we can communicate with the others about everything by using English. We may share the information that we have to them. Then, they can share their opinion or suggestion to us in the comment part. Blogging can be accessed easily (unlimited access) by every people around the world, so it’s not impossible to have native in the comment part. If it is happen, it will make us more easily to learn and practice English by communicating them. Therefore, we can communicate more easily and interesting. In brief, blogging is a media to develop our English communicating skill.

And the last, blogging can facilitate us to relate with the other useful writing, videos, news and information about English itself. So, we can enrich our knowledge to improve our English. Overall, blogging is a very attractive and interactive media for learning English easily and fun without an expensive price.

Improve Your English !

Hi guys....
Today, I have some tips to improve your English skills and I'd like to share it. There are a lot of techniques you should do in order to improve you English pronunciation:

The first thing you should know is that everyone can speak English with a clear pronunciation. Everyone can speak every language because there is no difference between human; we are all born with the same mechanism. If you really want to improve your English pronunciation, you should be surrounded by English everyday. When someone talks to you or to someone else in English you should not speak at the same time, you should listen, focus on his speaking, his English intonation, which words he stress. Listen always to English and be sure that you will speak it one day.

Never try to speak fast, always try to speak English slowly at the first time, you will get faster subconsciously without doing anything, you should pronounce each word correctly, that's the goal! Always practice your English, read out loud, speak English with your friends, practice English everyday, this will help you to know the correct way to stress syllables. Never be quiet, always speak out loud, this helps you a lot if you are shy when you speak English. And compare your speaking with a native speaker, you will see the mistakes you've done, you will improve your English pronunciation.

You should have some friends with the same goal as you, friends trying to learn English, you should practice your English with them, tell them if you find something useful to improve your English or if you find a new method, they will also tell you, they help you when you get bored, it's really one of the best things to improve your English.

That's all of the technique that you can use to improve your English skills. I hope it will be useful for us. :)
See you.

Green Color

Morning guys....
Glad to be here,
Today I want to share about an interesting story. Do you know what? As we know that there are so many colors that occurred in this world, such as: pink, green, blue, yellow, brown, white, black, and etc. So, which one do you like? I personally really like green color. Do you know why? Because when I see this color, I feel really fresh. I have read an article about the meaning of green color. In that article, they said that Green is an important color in nature. It is the color of grass and the leaves on trees. It is also the color of most growing plants. Sometimes, the word green means young, fresh and growing. About one hundred years ago, greenhorn was a popular expression in the American west. Then, someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb. The expression comes from the early nineteen hundreds.
The Green Revolution is the name given some years ago to the development of new kinds of rice and other grains. The new plants produced much larger crops. The Green Revolution was the result of hard work by agricultural scientists who had green thumbs.Besides, Green is also the color used to describe the powerful emotion.
Really interesting, right? In brief, we can see that green is a symbol of nature and plants. Then, plants and nature are the things that can build a fresh situation in this world. Can you imagine when there are no plants in our world? I think that our world will be so hot and warm. So, let's go green guys!

Learning English

Hi guys, I found an interesting thing about learning some English word expressions that people usually use. Here it is.

Words and Their Stories: Mouth Expressions

People use their mouths for many things. They eat, talk, shout and sing. They smile and they kiss. In the English language, there are many expressions using the word mouth. But some of them are not so nice.
The speaker might say: “I really put my foot in my mouth this time.” If this should happen, the speaker might feel down in the mouth. In other words, he might feel sad for saying the wrong thing.
Information is often spread through word of mouth. This is general communication between people, like friends talking to each other.“How did you hear about that new movie?” someone might ask. “Oh, by word of mouth.”
Source: VOANews

See guys ?!, there are many words that people usually use to express their feeling. They might use a sad expression when they feel unhappy too. On the other hand, they might say more polite words when they feel happy to express it. However, we can understand the people's feeling when they're talking to us by looking at their expressions and some words that they use when they're talking to us. Really interesting, Right? :)

there is a will, there is a way !

Hi guys...
Today, i just would like to share you about an interesting thing. Do you know what? It's about the way to be a success person in life. Maybe it's very common topic that we often hear. But, I think it still very interesting to talk.

Sometimes, people feel it's very hard to be a success person in the world. I totally disagree with this opinion, because to be a success person is not really hard if we have a strong will in our mind. Just like a common sentence, "if there is a will, there is a way". It means that if we have the determination to do something, we can always find the path or method to do it. See?! It's very simple, right?! To become a success person, we just need to believe that we can find any solution in some problems that we face! Don't force our mind to find the answer or solution that we are looking for, just let it flow as a water! Do everything that you want to do. never give up! Don't afraid with any problems that you face in your life. Consider that it's just a little part that you should pass. Then, believe that you will find the answer and solution for any problems when you try to pass it.

So, always remember this sentence: "where there's a will, there's a way" ! ^^

Warning !

Study Finds Small Increase in Brain Cancer with Excessive Mobile Phone Use

The largest study to date on the potential health effects of mobile phone use concludes that the devices do not increase the risk of brain cancer among average cell phone users. But it finds a slightly greater risk of cancer among heavy users.

Panel member Daniel Kewski, of the Center for Population Health Risk Assessment at the University of Ottawa in Canada, says the group was unable to prove that heavy mobile phone use increased the risk of cancer because the findings were based on the sketchy memories of some participants.

Otis Brawley, chief medical and scientific officer of the American Cancer Society, says there is little evidence that even heavy cell phone use causes a significant increase in brain cancer. And if it did, says Brawley, the problem would be dwarfed by other more serious public health concerns.

Read More:VOANews

From the information above, we can see that mobile phone is one of the things that can be a bad influence for us. Because if we use mobile phone too long, it will be a risk of cancer. Now, we know that it will not good if we use mobile phone too long. So, now let's we change our bad habit. What i will suggest here is don't use mobile phone too long, just use it for our need.

Let's see!

Hi guys...
Today, I have an interesting issue. Here it is.


Saving the World, One Patch at a Time

Climate quilt gives children a voice in fighting for the environment

The world's children are joining the fight against climate change. And they're doing it one fabric swatch at a time through an international initiative called the Climate Quilt Campaign, which encourages young people everywhere to help protect the environment.

Using recycled materials, children in the United States, Australia, China, New Zealand, Britain, the Philippines, South Africa and many other countries, designed "pledge patches," depicting how they promised to work on environmental stewardship. Last month, thousands of patches arrived in a small town in Pennsylvania where volunteers gathered to sew them together into a huge quilt.

Source: VOANews

If the children can do it, how about us?! ^^
We also can join to fight climate change. We can give our contribution for it too. We can do from a little thing first, just like the children in all over the world has shown to us. There are so many ways that we can do in giving our contribution to fight climate change. Come on guys, keep your spirit guys to save our world ! :D

Getting New Knowledge!

Hallo friends,
I have a good article for us. Let's we see! :D


Rice Could Help Prevent Heart Attacks

People worried about heart attacks get a lot of advice about what to eat: less fat; more fruits; more vegetables. New research suggests the most important thing they can do may be to simply eat more rice.

It's hard to imagine needing justification to eat rice — for much of the world, it's the major component of every meal. But Japanese researcher Satoru Eguchi says in Japan, rice has been losing popularity to other more Westernized staples.

Studies have shown the heart-healthy value of fish, but there is no equivalent research into the benefits of rice. It's known that rice has a lot of fiber and some vitamins, and Eguchi and his colleagues at Temple University in Philadelphia were convinced there was even more to it.

What they discovered is that there's a component in rice that can actually prevent heart attacks.

It works by inhibiting a hormone called angiotensin II. The hormone can cause blood vessels to narrow and excess sodium to accumulate in the blood. These are factors that lead to cardiovascular diseases like high blood pressure and hardening of arteries.
There are a number of medications available that block angiotensin. Eguchi says his research shows you may be able to get the same benefits from eating rice.

Read More: VOANews

From the text above, we can see that rice has many benefits for us. Research found that rice contains a lot of fiber and some vitamins, and it could help prevent heart attacks. so, don't worry again to consume much more rice, because there are many benefits from it that we can get.

Let's Do It!

Hello guys,
Today, I have one news from our country. It's about our environment. Let's we see.

One Billion Trees

The Indonesian Government launched a more massive tree planting program called “One Billion Indonesian Trees for the World” to help replenish our forests. The new program was kicked off following successes in previous tree planting programs since 2007. The government has allocated a budget for the purchase of 36 million seedlings this year and hopes to get 300 million more from the private sector, state companies, NGOs, regional governments ans other donors.

Additional 320 million seedlings are expected from community and rural forest programs, 300 million from forest and river basin rehabilitation programs, and 50 million from people’s forest partnership program. The “One Billion Indoensian trees for the World” program is also aimed at improving the welfare of the people especially those living near forest areas. Not only does the program aim to urge reforestation but hopes the trees will contribute to the reduction of climate change and prevent landslides.

Source: Metro TV News


I think it is very good program from Indonesian Government. We can see that Indonesian Government also care with our environment. As an Indonesian, I also believe that we can also contribute to save our nation and help them to success the program. We can start from the little thing,right? Now, let's green our Indonesia and save our nation. ^^

English Online Community

Hi guys....

Do you want to practice your English? Do you want to improve your English skills? I suggest you to join this online community, because we can practice our English skills and discuss many things here. It's very interesting.

Let's visit this community: Spoken English

My Story

Wow... Nice to be here…

This is the first time I posted something in my blog. I just wanna try to fulfill my blog. Actually, I still confuse about what would I say here, but today I want to tell you about a little of my experiences in learning computer. Okay, let me share it.

I have learned computer since I was in Junior High school until now. But, actually I had known about computer when I was in Elementary school. For the first time, I used it just for playing ‘solitaire’ and ‘pinball’. But, when I was in Junior High school, I was learned about Microsoft office, from Microsoft word until Microsoft excel. Then, I knew that computer is not only for playing, but also for create something. By using computer, our working would become more practice and faster. For example, when we use Microsoft excel, we can count the total by typing the formula, then it will appear automatically. I really interested for it.

Then, when I was in Senior High school, I learned a new item in the computer, that is, internet. It was really exciting. We can communicate with the other persons by using the internet, and then we also know the newest information by clicking it in the internet. Really amazing, right? When I was in Senior High school, I just knew about Google, Yahoo Massenger, and Youtube.

But then, when I am in the University right now, I know about the other things that the internet serves for us, from Facebook, Twitter, Learning Online, Learning Community Group, and Blog now. I learn many things in here. I find a new interesting thing in the internet. For blogging, this is the first time I am using it. So, I need to learn more and more about it. It’s why now I am trying to know it deeply. I think it’s very interesting because we can create our own blog that suitable like what we want. I will make my first blog now become a useful blog not only for me, but also for the others. So, I need many suggestions for it.

I think that’s all for today.

See you guys… :D