Podcast and Vidcast

Here is my vidcast;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iK6Jv8PpZM&feature=youtu.be

Script;

Grammar isn't the fun thing in learning a language but it is one of the most essential things in language learning. Can we understand a language without grammar? Yes we can but when we want to speak, things can get complicated very quickly. In an important businees meeting we have to impress the associates so we cant speak meaningless and funny things to them. So why grammar is so important? Languages can change from nation to nation so language rules can change from language to language too. As an example you can add adjunction at the end of a word in Turkish and change the meaning of the word and the sentence but you can't do the same in English. You have to change the location of the word to change the meaning of the sentence in English. So we can't just speak the language by learning vocabulary we have to learn grammar to speak it. To me vocabulary and grammar are the most difficult things in learning a language. Both of them require memorization and my memorization is awful. But this didn't put me back from learning a language. With plenty of practice and hard work there is nothing impossible.

And here is my podcast;
https://soundcloud.com/user-148241014/podcast-1/s-Zyg1l

Script;

Listening is one of the main section of learning a language. If you can't understand what you're listening you can't communicate with the speaker. And main reason to learn a language is communicating with other people.

In the past, people used to refer to listening and reading as ‘passive’ language skills. However, effective listening and reading require active attention, not passive reception. So one way to increase your listening skills is to make conscious use of the context in which you are listening, and not just the words the speaker is saying. The context provides a wide range of additional information. Some isa vailable to the ear (in the form of background noise, voice quality, accent, and so on), and some to the eye (for example, the speaker's facial expression and gestures, and actions in the background).

Flexibility of this sort is an essential skill in listening. Research has shown that we are more tolerant of uncertainty in our own language than in another language. We make an initial guess at what a conversation is about, then listen for more information to confirm or disconfirm that guess, and change our interpretation if we need to. When listening to a foreign language, we are more likely to keep to our original guess at the conversation topic than in our own language, even when we realise that some later information seems to conflict with it.

The techniques in the list below are shown in random order. As you read them, think about what they involve and group them into similar types of practice. Listening to a tape and writing down exactly what you hear is very helpful. To listen very specifically and in detail means you have to pay attention to sounds which you have some problems with yourself. Seeing what the gaps are in your dictation tells you what your listening problems are. I listen to the news on television or radio and then try to discuss the topics with friends. This is very useful for me to know whether the news that I have heard is correct and does not give different perspectives than mine. I improve listening by meeting a lot of friends and talking to them on any topic. The best way is to make them give explanations when I don't understand something and then to tell them what I have understood from those explanations. I think it's good practice to listen to other foreign speakers talking about your field. You have to get used to their accents, in the same way as you have get used to British people's different accents. In fact, there are bigger differences between British accents than between foreigners, I think. So it's all good practice and helps to find out more about the subject. By listening to different dialects and speeds, my English improved quite a lot. I am a member of the Greek Dance Society, so I go to their meetings once a week and spend about 2 hours per week talking English to other students there.