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.