2009年11月17日火曜日

youtube and other video sites

Last week we viewed youtube "educationally" so I decided to pick out some choices
that could be a bit helpful to be both educated and entertained ;)
And just a note I was gonna post this last week but I kinda ran out of time
and completely forgot about this so I'm posting this today.

Anyway... like dr. kaya said last week, you can watch tons of videos like...
Obama's speech, how to do's in english, animes that has subtitles and so on...

But a lot of anime videos on youtube get deleted for illegal copyright...
which is sometimes a bummer so i reccomend http://www.watchanimeon.com/
there are tons of anime you can watch and i think its a good site for people who are majorly in anime ;)

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raw-japanese no subtitles
subbed-with subtitles
dub-everything is in english


and for people who wants to watch english cartoons like simpsons
or shows heres some sites the "I" reccomend

south park studios (rated for 16 above....i mean it...)
http://www.southparkstudios.com/

favorite tv shows (latest seasons of gossip girl, house, heros, etc...)
http://tvshowmania.blogspot.com/

simpsons (only able to be watched in the u.s. so if you're over there try it :))
http://www.thesimpsons.com/

well enjoy and hope your interest into english culture increase!

2009年11月9日月曜日

pbs kids


Today I will be showing about PBS kids!
And just a note I thought I posted this post last week but it wasn't and half of the stuff that I wrote about was deleted so I am going to explain again...ORZ
Any way... pbs kids is from the site "pbs", which Dr.Kaya showed us in class.
It's a site mainly for kids but I think its another fun way to learn enlgish :D
The main cartoons shown on pbs are Barney, Sesame Street, Arthur...and they were being shown since I was little.
Even though this site is aimed for kids, I think it is a great way to learn english for people who just started to learn :D
Sesame Street is a show for children from 3-5, its like the NHK show "Eigo de asobo".
Charcters like Elmo, Big bird, Cookie Monsters gives out tons of examples of words that is used with the letter and it changes every week!
PBS kids shows a movie of Sesame Street for free and has many educational games.
But the games are mostly aimed for 3-6year olds so I kind of reccomend the games for people who are patient ^^;

Today's song:

2009年11月2日月曜日

About facebook (educationally)


Okay enough fooling around and lets start focusing about "english"
....
Today's topic I am going to introduce is "facebook"
The reason why is because it's a great way to make friends from all around the world
and mainly a bunch of people from english-speaking countries are using it! :D

Also it like an english version of "mixi" so it's really fun for us college girls lol

Any way you're able to start out in japanese and join groups about what you like
and from there you can find many people who has the same hobby as you!
Or you can find friends that you once met out of Japan!!

Well I hope that my introduction to facebook helps out!

Oh and another reason why I reccomend facebook is...
-If you find friends from another couuntry it focuses you to try to communicate with them
-Because you want to find out more about your friends your reading skills will improve by reading there comments or profiles!
-You can chat real time with your friends across the sea
-You can learn slang (lol)
-If you become really good friends you can get them to help you with your english homework (lol)

Just becareful with some people who looks suspiscious!! ><;
and don't give too much profile about your self like this blog!

Today's song*