Hi Everybody,
I must admit I had never thought about a 'visual' organization of my English learning before doing e-tivity 9! I tried to plan my learning environement so that it could apper as clear as possible... hope it will be so to you all readers! At the beginning I spent a bit of time experimenting Free Mind, which was totally a brand new program to me, however, finally, I could manage it... I had fun while I tried to organize my visual map of all my study activities and eventuatlly I was surprised as I realized that it is true that our language learning comes mostly from informal activieties and personal interests!
At the end of this e-tivity I reflected that I've been studying English since many years and there's still much I have to do to improve my pronounciation, the use of structures and so on... I mean, while I was building my map I understood that there won't be a time in which I'll be satisfied with my English... that is I'll be studying to improve my oral and written skills for the rest of my life... ;-) Even though I won't be the only one ;-) I was a bit disappointed about that...
However I've become aware, once again, of the fact that nowadays we have at our fingertips any kind of tools and sources which can help us to level our English up... and therefore they should be helping me not to get bored at practicing the language still for a long time ;-)
Since I'm sure that many of you Bloggers, who are attending our e-course, have written similar tools and sources to mine in your PELs, I'd like to focus a little bit on one main aspect of my English learning experience. [This aspect has to do with music, of course! ;-)]
Although there is a number of interactive English courses on the web, which offer free online lessons, conferences, podcasts, videos, and many others cool sources, I've come to the conclusion that to me there is only one strategy that till now has effectively made me improve my Engligh: Songs! :-) Since years I've been learning hundreds of new words from the lyrics of my favourite artists and it is obvious to me to say that they have helped me very much to widely enlarge my vocabulary. Some time ago I realized that listening to songs and reading lyrics, was not only a pleasure to me, but even a more successful device than reading books, to definetely learn new terms, structures, puns... The fact is that listening to a song, you can learn the pronounciation and the use of new words and because then you repeat them while you're singing the lyrics... you learn it, even without being aware of that!
What do you think about that? Do you have any different strategy to suggest me?I must admit I had never thought about a 'visual' organization of my English learning before doing e-tivity 9! I tried to plan my learning environement so that it could apper as clear as possible... hope it will be so to you all readers! At the beginning I spent a bit of time experimenting Free Mind, which was totally a brand new program to me, however, finally, I could manage it... I had fun while I tried to organize my visual map of all my study activities and eventuatlly I was surprised as I realized that it is true that our language learning comes mostly from informal activieties and personal interests!
At the end of this e-tivity I reflected that I've been studying English since many years and there's still much I have to do to improve my pronounciation, the use of structures and so on... I mean, while I was building my map I understood that there won't be a time in which I'll be satisfied with my English... that is I'll be studying to improve my oral and written skills for the rest of my life... ;-) Even though I won't be the only one ;-) I was a bit disappointed about that...
However I've become aware, once again, of the fact that nowadays we have at our fingertips any kind of tools and sources which can help us to level our English up... and therefore they should be helping me not to get bored at practicing the language still for a long time ;-)
Since I'm sure that many of you Bloggers, who are attending our e-course, have written similar tools and sources to mine in your PELs, I'd like to focus a little bit on one main aspect of my English learning experience. [This aspect has to do with music, of course! ;-)]
Although there is a number of interactive English courses on the web, which offer free online lessons, conferences, podcasts, videos, and many others cool sources, I've come to the conclusion that to me there is only one strategy that till now has effectively made me improve my Engligh: Songs! :-) Since years I've been learning hundreds of new words from the lyrics of my favourite artists and it is obvious to me to say that they have helped me very much to widely enlarge my vocabulary. Some time ago I realized that listening to songs and reading lyrics, was not only a pleasure to me, but even a more successful device than reading books, to definetely learn new terms, structures, puns... The fact is that listening to a song, you can learn the pronounciation and the use of new words and because then you repeat them while you're singing the lyrics... you learn it, even without being aware of that!
See you all soon!
Alice
