Learning Foreign Languages with YOUTUBE

We formerly studied listening to a "radio-cassette" or using a microphon or a tape recorder in order to improve our "foreign" language. I can remember the pronunciation of several words after having listened to one of those already dead tapes.

Now you can learn with a CD player if you buy a language learning method or if you download it from the internet (from several pages we're going to visit in proper posts).

But nowadays one of the most important and popular system to learn a language is watching and listening to videos on YouTube. You can find a varied sort of educative videos from universities or from high schools around the world, but you can also use the musical videos or the personal videos, uploaded by people like you and me, to improve your learning.

For instance, I am attending to a course on French for non-French teachers in Murcia and our teacher used YouTube to work our imagination and vocabulary. That's why we had to start giving words that the tittle of the song suggested us, before watching it.

Afterwards, we got ashamed because none of the words told by us were any kind of relation to the video we watched.

Our teacher played and stopped it every time we wanted or needed and then she asked: "What is that?", "What has she said?", "What is she wearing?", "Where is she?" or "What's the weather like?".

This is one of the things you can do, but not the only one. You have the opportunity of finding some subtittled videos or with a karaoke version, so you can use them to reinforce the acquisition of vocabulary and the perfection of you understanding on your listening.

The video is in French but I think it's worth watching it. Its tittle is: "Le poisson rouge". What would the tittle "The red fish" suggest you?

Modern society and web 2.0: FLASH MOB

Everyday we can appreciate how we need the ICT  in our lifes and how we use them: some of these are eMails, mobile messages and web services like youtube or blogs.

This is how people use the social nets to get in touch and to organize shows in the middle of a railway station or in malls: they are FLASH MOB.

I think that the mostfamous flash mob is the one set in a railway station in Antwerp (with a choreographied song from The sound of Music), or the last in an Underground station in Madrid with music of Michael Jackson.

Enjoy yourself:

  

Post with videos / Entrada con vídeos

I've made this selection because I found them interesting. First you have this one in English:

ICT is fun in Learning.

Tras el vídeo que seleccioné en inglés, tienes ahora la oportunidad de ver esta película en español:

Bienvenidos a TICs aplicadas a la Educación