Monday 24 September 2012

Phonetics Focus

Hello, everyone! Recently I've come across a nice resource, which offers various fun activities designed to help you improve your pronunciation and knowledge of phonetics. Here is the link: Phonetics Focus
There is quite a number of games and activities, for example "Phonemic Search", "Phonemic Link", "Phon' Maze", "Odd Phon' Out", "Which Phoneme?", etc. TASK: Follow the link and do the more activities the better. Which do you find the most interesting? Entertaining? Useful? Express your opinion in the comments.

Friday 14 September 2012

Practise your phonetic symbols

Here are two links for you to practise and improve your knowledge of phonetic symbols:
Words
Hit and miss

Good luck!

Thursday 13 September 2012

Friday 7 September 2012

Vladislav's Introduction

I really liked the post called "Let's start". I always get excited when it's time to create anything like this. Firs of all, I want to mention that I tried to be honest, but then I realised that this resource has a limited amount of words you can type in for into-speech-transformation, therefore my introduction ends so suddenly.

I have so much information to share. I think I'll do it after a while if I have time. My first post in not very informative, but the Internet connection does not allow me to write heavy thing. It just won't send it. When I get home, I'll compose a bigger, much more interesting and extremely uplifting post. I'm extremely thrilled and want to see your speaking avatars too.

From Vlad with great love.
Bye for now.

P.S. I got so much pleasure doing this task.
Thank you, Maria Vladimirovna

Wednesday 5 September 2012

Let's start!

Now you are first year students at the Department of Foreign Languages at Tavrida National University! Congratulations! This is our blog, where you will have an opportunity to publish the results of your study such as essays, presentations, videos, and share them with your groupmates. Your first task will be to introduce yourselves via speaking avatars. To create an avatar follow the link on the right. When you are ready, publish your speaking avatar on the blog. Here is mine:

Don't forget to give your post a title and labels and to comment on the avatars of the other students. Remeber that comments should be polite, informative and constructive.