Day #34 - You ask for rhymes? I'm not sure you'll be happy with my answer

Writing about rhymes and English learning? For kids. No problem, but for teenagers and adults – there’s a big problem. I couldn’t find any interesting rhymes for that audience.

But if we look at the issue wider, there are some possibilities of using rhymes and learn English simultaneously. These are some examples:

• Creating your own rhymes
• Reading  and writing or translating poetry
• Listening to song lyrics.

I understand it’s not much. Maybe you can give me some advice or at least some clues where, and what kind of rhymes I can look for? Please don’t hesitate to write some comments.

Meanwhile I’m going to write about the ways of using rhymes I found out. Just wait for next posts.

Day # 33 – Tell me more about your expectations

Ok. In last post I remind you what I’be been writing about on my blog. Maybe it would be a good idea to ask you what you want to read about?

So now you have a chance to write what you want to know about learning English.

I’m waiting for your requires.

Day # 32 – Online courses in English – this is something for you and me

I strongly believe that taking part in an online course in English can bring benefits also in English learning. I participated in some online courses and my experiences can confirm this. I think it can be possible because you do something interesting in English what is very motivating, what let you immerse in English as well. Of course it’s not easy, and you have to choose a course carefully to be sure that it suits both your interest and your level of English. Another very important advantage of learning this way is that you can kill two birds in one stone – improve your English and learn something new.

Where you can find some interesting, stimulating and free courses? Usually I choose MOOCs (Massive open online courses) – the access for them is open and they give wide range of subjects. Which one to choose? All depend on your English level and interests.

For more advanced English learners:

One of the best places when you can look for a course is https://www.coursera.org

I would recommend you to check also here http://moocs.wisc.edu/?source=emailbigred or here http://www.mooc-ed.org/

For less advanced learners I would choose courses from this page https://www.futurelearn.com/ especially because you can find English learning courses there as well.

And now good news – you can try how one of the MOOCs works. Futurelearn is releasing  at least two courses for English language learners:

• A Beginner's Guide to Writing in English for University Study – this course’s already begun – but you can still join it, as I did – it seems very interesting. If you choose to attend it you need to hurry.

• And a not only based on writing, and less difficult course Exploring English: Language and Culture which I failed to finish last time but definitely am going to try ones again because it’s worth it. The course starts 2 Feb so you have some time to decide.