Technology
has been use in several ways to improve people lives. In that context, internet
has been use as a tool to find and spread useful information.
One
of the most beneficial aspect of technology is that it is seems to be easy acquiring
a new language, because you can find lots of programs that will help you to succeed.
A part from been challenging, the decision of learn a new language; we should consider
that we are living in a century where communication has been essential for us.
Languages are the way of communicate ideas, knowledge, opinions, experiences
and principally to learn about different cultures, and this is essentially why
learning languages has been crucial, the more you learn, the more you
will share with different cultures.
Focusing
on listening skills of the process of acquiring a new language, one of the most
useful tool has been using TEDtalks, in order to practice my listening and
reading skills. It is constructive as you can add captions to each talk in the
language that you prefer, in that manner it will help you to make connections
among what you are listening and what you are reading to finally understand
what is has been communicated. In addition to that,
this technology can be used for both, practicing a language and learning about
several topics which are presented in the talks. TEDtalks are shown in a way
that is difficult to distract as there are presented in summarized performances
where orators develop their themes of investigations to an audience that have
similar interests.
The following presentention is a TEDtalk, which is related to languages, principally to English.
