Despite all the problems related to copyright violation, I think that YouTube is an extremely funny and interesting tool to learn foreign languages. As a matter of fact, not only it is possible to listen to native-speakers and non native-speakers’ accents, but you can also find out cultural differences or similarities. In class we had fun in seeing how English people depict the Italian (but also Spanish, French etc...) way of speaking.
Although at the beginning I had a negative opinion about YouTube because of all the videos about bullying that news on TV are used to report, now I changed my mind. I think that YouTube is a good tool for my PLE and last semester I used it regularly to find out more about the ‘topic of the week’ or simply to add something funny to my blog. I also enjoyed watching the videos posted by my peers. Needless to say, I agree on the fact that music can help our learning process. As a matter of fact, I added to my blog a video with the lyric of a song some time ago and I commented that we can learn English also listening to music. For example, I learnt many poetic expressions listening to English songs, such as “pouring rain”, “roll the dice”, “bed of roses”, “two steps behind”, “you can never hide from the shadow that is creeping up beside you”, “it’s amazing how you can speak right to my heart”, “you can light up the dark”, “there is a truth in your easy” and “it can’t get worst than yesterday”, just to mention some of them.
In conclusion, we can say that, if used properly, YouTube can open many new worlds. I hope that you too can take advantage of this tool!
Have a nice day!
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