Exploring Youtube

Hello my colleags,

I have tried the Youtube activity, which is on the Derivery Technologies (Central Queensland University, 2009). I don't often visit Youtube site, so I didn't know that enormous amount of learning sites are there(Youtube, 2009).

My first teaching area is Japanese, so that I serched "learning Japanese" on the Youtube web page. While I was brousing some postedYoutube, I found an useful website from one of them.

At first, the instructor mentioned the significance of learner's intention of learning Japanese, and suggested that the best way to improve Japanese is having a private tutor (Tofugu, 2009). I think because studying foreign language without living its country is so hard to improve, especially for speaking. It is very important to keep using the language what they are learning right now.

Then he introduced some useful website for study online. I picked one of them, the site is called "smart.fm"(Cerego, 2009). I played around in the website, and found it's fun! It contains quizes, sound (pronounciation) and writing. It is mainly useful for vocaburally, also good for listening. To get use to the site, it takes a bit of time, but I hope during the learner is enjoying the study, they will unconsciously improve their skill.

Here is the Youtube video and the URL which is about learning Japanese.
It is interesting to listen to his advice.







Thank you for reading.

References

Central Queensland University. (2009). Youtube. Reatreaved 23 July 2009, from: http://moodle.cqu.edu.au/mod/resource/view.php?id=671

Cerego. (2009). Iknow!. Retreaved 23 July 2009, from: http://smart.fm/apps/iknow

Tofugu, Youtube. (2009). Iknow: the best Japanese vocabulary site on the web. Retreaved 23 July 2009, from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8EcU3GPjnI&feature=channel