Blog Post #4: Podcast Review
-Listen to one or two of the podcasts.
-Provide a link to the podcast on your blog. Give general information about the content and quality.
* General information about the content and quality.
TED is one of the most famous podcasts containing many people's stories. TED can be accessed through the internet and it is also provided as a smart phone application. It is a kind of talk show and many people can appear as a speaker talking about various topics. People can both listen and watch TED and express sympathy for the speaker's opinion. If you access www.ted.com, you can see the categorized items- talks, speakers, playlists, translations, TED conferences, etc. You can choose the topic among technology, entertainment, design, business, science, global issues and you can also resize the contents by newest releases, date filmed, most viewed and so on. Even if you don't know English, it doesn't matter because contents in the TED are translated into diverse languages.
-What do you think about the podcast? Which type of learners could benefit from the podcast?
I think the podcast is very useful tool providing interesting and lively contents with easy technology. In fact, I downloaded TED application in my smart phone and whenever I want to see TED, I just touched the smart phone and accessed TED easily. Watching and listening to this podcast, as a language learner, I can experience the authentic language use, various types of accent and different communication styles. I think it can be very beneficial for the learners who want to improve their listening ability, learn natural conversation skills or patterns of speech.
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