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Liii

Feb. 15, 2024

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Using Social Media to Learn Languages

1. In teams of 2 or 3, look for English speaking accounts in social networking sites that contain topics that interest you. They can be news sites, travelling accounts, grammar, English learning, recipes, etc.

Name of account: Englishfuns
Where: Instagram
Content: English grammar and vocabulary with practical examples.
How is it delivered?: Video.
How can it help us improve our English?: It includes examples that are used in real life situations. It also teaches simple and common vocabulary. It includes subtitles, so it’s easy to understand what the girl’s saying.

Name of account: Hyperplexed
Where: YouTube
Content: short and fun videos about how to recreate stuff from around the web with programming.
How is it delivered?: Video.
How can it help us improve our English?: It helps us to retain specialized vocabulary by applying it to real problems.

Name of account: Full-time Filmmaker.
Where: YouTube.
Content: advices for taking better photos or editing them, camera reviews, and competitions between photographers with few experience and professional photographers.
How is it delivered?: Video.
How can it help us improve our English?: It helps us grow our vocabulary. Furthermore, since it’s delivered through videos, images give us context, so it’s easier to understand the message of the video even if we didn’t understand what people said.

Corrections

In teams of 2 or 3, look for English speaking -accounts ion social networking sites that contain topics that interest you.

They can bYou may use news sites, travelling accounts, grammar, English learning, recipes, etc.

What you wrote is fine. In fact, many native speakers would write that way! But when I’m teaching, I try to use this sort of wording for maximum clarity.

: ItThis site includes examples that are used in real -life situations.

When you start a piece of text, it is good to avoid using the word “it” until the context is as clear as possible. Even many or most native speakers make this mistake as well, though!

It includes subtitles, so it’s easy to understand what the girl in the video is saying.

This is a suggestion for greater clarity.

Name of account: Hyperplexed
Where: YouTube

Content:
sShort and, fun videos about how to recreate stuff from around the web with programming.

: ItThis site can helps us to retain specialized vocabulary by applying ithat vocabulary to real problems.

Content: aAdvices for taking better photos or editing them, camera reviews, and competitions between photographers with few inexperienced and professional photographers.

Advice is always a singular noun in the most common English dialects.

: It helps us grow our vocabulary.

Furthermore, since it’the content is delivered through videos, the images give us context, so it’s easier to understand the message of the video even if we didn’t understand what people said.

Feedback

This looks quite close to an assignment that I would see from a native speaker! My suggestions are just the same suggestions that I would give to a native speaker, to write with more clarity. Even if you don’t use my suggestions, this still looks nearly identical to native English writing!

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Liii

Feb. 16, 2024

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Wow! Thank you so much for your feedback! ^^

How is it delivered?


: Video.


How can it help us improve our English?


How is it delivered?


: Video.


How can it help us improve our English?


Using Social Media to Learn Languages


1.


In teams of 2 or 3, look for English speaking accounts in social networking sites that contain topics that interest you.


In teams of 2 or 3, look for English speaking -accounts ion social networking sites that contain topics that interest you.

They can be news sites, travelling accounts, grammar, English learning, recipes, etc.


They can bYou may use news sites, travelling accounts, grammar, English learning, recipes, etc.

What you wrote is fine. In fact, many native speakers would write that way! But when I’m teaching, I try to use this sort of wording for maximum clarity.

Name of account: Englishfuns Where: Instagram Content: English grammar and vocabulary with practical examples.


: It includes examples that are used in real life situations.


: ItThis site includes examples that are used in real -life situations.

When you start a piece of text, it is good to avoid using the word “it” until the context is as clear as possible. Even many or most native speakers make this mistake as well, though!

It also teaches simple and common vocabulary.


It includes subtitles, so it’s easy to understand what the girl’s saying.


It includes subtitles, so it’s easy to understand what the girl in the video is saying.

This is a suggestion for greater clarity.

Name of account: Hyperplexed Where: YouTube Content: short and fun videos about how to recreate stuff from around the web with programming.


Name of account: Hyperplexed
Where: YouTube

Content:
sShort and, fun videos about how to recreate stuff from around the web with programming.

: It helps us to retain specialized vocabulary by applying it to real problems.


: ItThis site can helps us to retain specialized vocabulary by applying ithat vocabulary to real problems.

Name of account: Full-time Filmmaker.


Where: YouTube.


Content: advices for taking better photos or editing them, camera reviews, and competitions between photographers with few experience and professional photographers.


Content: aAdvices for taking better photos or editing them, camera reviews, and competitions between photographers with few inexperienced and professional photographers.

Advice is always a singular noun in the most common English dialects.

How is it delivered?


: Video.


How can it help us improve our English?


: It helps us grow our vocabulary.


: It helps us grow our vocabulary.

Furthermore, since it’s delivered through videos, images give us context, so it’s easier to understand the message of the video even if we didn’t understand what people said.


Furthermore, since it’the content is delivered through videos, the images give us context, so it’s easier to understand the message of the video even if we didn’t understand what people said.

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