Vocabulary Sci-fi

     Dear friend!

     I`m writing to you from the future in oder to explain in a small talk what opportunities I have to learn English languge nowadays. I can easily yell that it`s not only cognitively but also - improbably interesting!

     This language is very useful to communicate with foreigners even when they are not from English-speaking countries. It is because English is an official language of main internarional laws and pacts, during talking business,  it`s widely spread in the social networks and is always developing on the world stage. May be it is a figure of speech but English language seems to be a mother tongue of the whole humanity.

     First of all, modern tehnologies have made learning foreign languages more easy. For example, you can use online dictionaries, communicating websites, chat with native speakers, come into contact with people around the world to improve the usage of your target language. Using different websites you can create "word maps" which will help you to enrich your memory with different collocations:

     Moreover there are "word clouds": the main principle is that learning words in colours is better for your memory. 

     Also you can find one phrase in different contexts using fraze.it. For instance, "to learn new words":

[The results of this study have important implications for language acquisition. It indicates exposure to language via television is insufficient for teaching language to very young children. To learn new words, children must be actively engaged in the process with responsive language teachers].

     What is more, creating Flashcard set in Quizlet can be used as electronic vocabulary:

     So do not "hold the line" during learning English, just speak up, just write letters to your pen-friends, just shake hands with foreigners and start to communicate, just have a meeting with participants of different exchange programmes, just speak your mind in English. You know that you can say no word but think in English  and it will perfectly.

     I`ve heard from my colleagues that face to face communication can make a speaker more confident what is really necessary. Despite the giggling of your enemies progress will be showed. 

     I`d like to "underline" that during learning English language I have an opportunity to listen to English music, to watch English films with subtitles, to read English books, advertisements, to visit extremely great number of sites in English. That`s why it is possible to create language nature around yourself. It would be great if you had the same...

     So whisper to the image in the mirror that YOU can and it will clap on your self-confidence.

     

                          With best wishes,

     your friend from the future Alex.

Funny fairy tale about two Dictionaries

  This is a fairy tale about two Dictionaries which is extremely eventful and I`m sure, it will occupy your soul for this 7 minutes of reading. The action was in the excellent (at the first sight) village where different Dictionaries where living including Longman English Dictionary, Oxford Dictionary, Cambridge Dictionary and others. They had simple life and looked ambiguously: young dictionaries were full of words, collocations and transcriptions; they were inquiring because of being enriched with new words, a bit doubtful about giving right definitions. Old dictionaries were indifferent to the people who were learning languages, trying to catch at least one Dictionary for studying. 

  One day Longman and Oxford Dictionaries had a walk to the dreadful forest that was not reputable. A big trouble expected them so it was really indescribable. But they thought it was a worthwhile trip included searching for the new words. Their ancestors said about inexplicable way to catch letters, make words, hide them between the pages and live together to the death. Two little boys-dictionaries were defenceless but had an assurance about great honour after the hunting. When Dictionaries were walking smiling and laughing they suddenly noticed their Native Language in blood, with black eye, lying on the ground between the trees. "I know who has done it", said Oxford and licked his lips. His cover was reflecting  in the tears of Language. It seemed that she was lying on the red grass and counting stars but really it was noticable that Language was passing away."Help ... Those heartless Articles, German Articles, killed me in order to be on the top", she explained and inhaled for the last time. Longman stamped his foot promised to wreak vengeance upon their enemy. Two boys absorbed the words of Language and washed away from the forest. Soon they finalized the promise and those merciless Articles were found dead, killed with funny sound "shwa".

My first vocabulary class

   Hi! It`s my first massage in my first blog about the first vocabulary class. My first vocabulary class was like a torrential rain during hot und boiling summer. It means that it was absolutely relaxing because I saw a lot of familiar faces, we were talking about our summer and had pleasurable 80 minutes. From the one side, it`s a classic example of a first class. But to make it clear this class was rather interesting. My classmates and I faced the prospect that we`re going to have an utter chaos. But what is the narrow escape in this situation? Have an 8-hour sleep or learn everythung overnight? Now it`s the main concern. We understood that life is going to connect with a considerable difficulty in the following three months. Really ... you can`t set fire to the rain but you can overcome yourself. We reached an agreement with our teacher that this year would be dynamic and our course will be a real effort. Morover, it is said that scholarship wil be paid according to the rating, so I`m sure that a fight for the points will break out. But the main thing is to lit a fire inside of our soul, motivate ourselves and small spark will burst into flames. Sometimes fierce critisism can generate unreal reality, that`s why after my first vocabulary class I understood that studying must be rulled with a strong accent. So do not burst into tears and don`t have your thoughts on fire. We hold ourselves responsible for the future, because it`s in our hands.