Hello everyone and welcome to my blog :)
As you may know (if you have read the short info on the left) my name is Anita and I am 18 years old. I am a freshman in college and am currently (well, at least for the next three years) living in Graz. I am studying transcultural communications with the languages Croatian/Bosnian/Serbian, German and English. My hometown is the capital of Croatia, Zagreb. I love to hang out with my family & friends, travel, go shopping, read books, watch movies and so on. You will find out more about me if you are willing to stick with me and my blogging till the very end. :D
Let’s get this thing started then!
My blog is part of my English class, which means that I will get graded based on it. Sometimes my post theme will be given to me by my teacher (like todays one) and sometimes I will be able to blog about whatever I want. I will try to keep the blog as interesting as possible. Here you will find posts about family & friends, traveling, fashion, music, books and everything else that I have lately been into. My posts will also include pictures and music videos so it won’t get boring, I promise. Another thing that I hold dear to my heart is quotes, which means that every post will be ending with a quote that you will hopefully like and be able to relate to.
Our first task was to check out one of the following links and write a blog post about our experience.
I checked them all out and had a really hard time deciding on which to blog because I liked all three of them. Every single one offers a unique and fun way of improving your English. After changing my mind a couple of times I settled on the lyricstraining.com page.
What is the page about you must be asking yourself now. Here comes the answer: Lyrics Training is a website utilizing imbedded YouTube music videos of popular songs to provide language learners with a new way to practice their language skills. Language learners can choose from 6 different languages (English, German, Italian, Spanish, French and Dutch) and three levels of difficulty (easy, medium and hard). I will take you now step by step through the whole process of choosing a song.
1. When opening the page you will see videos dived into three categories: Try it!, Recently Played and Most Played (Today). You can either choose a video from right there if you like one or you can type into the "search box" on the top of the page the name of the song you want to listen to.
2. After writing the name of the song you will get offered the videos that can be found under that name so you can choose the one that you want. When you find the one you were looking for simply click on it.
3. The video will open and offer you to choose which difficulty level you would like to play on.
4. After choosing your difficulty level (in this case the level was medium) the video will start playing and the lyrics will be displaying underneath it. As the video plays, you are expected to complete the missing lyrics. The video will not continue until the missing word is filled in.
That is all, simple as that! It is really easy and fun to work with. This simple tutorial was made just as an example (showing only the difficulty level option) but of course the page offers more features on the videos (such as sharing it on various social networks), so please feel free to check them all out if you have the time! Just play around with it. Plus, you can always register on the webpage and unlock new stuff!
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to write them down, it would make me very happy! :)
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." George Bernard Shaw
XOXO A.
