My reflections upon BLOGGING
Hello everybody and WELCOME to my personal blog!
My name is Barbara and I'm 23 years old. I live in a little town near Venice and I'm attending the last year of "Foreign Languages for the International Communication" at the University of Padua. This year I have a new English course, which is completely different from the previous one: now we are supposed to explore the blogsphere. That's the reason why I'm developing this blog.
As I became a blogger just two weeks ago...and, furthermore, I'm not so good at using the computer...I hope I will be able to use the blogsphere correctly and to write interesting things!
If you want to give me some pieces of advice, make corrections of my mistakes or whatever else you want, please, write to me here on my blog!
As I wrote before I have been using the blogsphere just for two weeks. However I have already learnt a lot of things; first of all, I realized that there are so many blogs, for any kind of interest! Then I understood that many people explore, write and communicate to each other because blogging has become a kind of hobby for them.
As far as my personal experience is concerned, I think that, thank's to blogging, I will be able to improve my English learning. First of all, because I have to write my personal thoughts and comments in English. So, I will improve my writing skills. Then I have to read other people's thoughts so that I can improve my reading skills. Finally, I am supposed to communicate with people in English and I think this is the most important task.
So far at the university I have always been "obliged" to use an academic English but when I am in an informal context I have a lot of difficulties to talk about simple subjects in informal English. I have to improve my colloquial English and, as it is the kind of language used by bloggers, I think that blogging will help me to reach this target.
Well, That's all for the moment!
See you soon on my blog!
Barbara
My name is Barbara and I'm 23 years old. I live in a little town near Venice and I'm attending the last year of "Foreign Languages for the International Communication" at the University of Padua. This year I have a new English course, which is completely different from the previous one: now we are supposed to explore the blogsphere. That's the reason why I'm developing this blog.
As I became a blogger just two weeks ago...and, furthermore, I'm not so good at using the computer...I hope I will be able to use the blogsphere correctly and to write interesting things!
If you want to give me some pieces of advice, make corrections of my mistakes or whatever else you want, please, write to me here on my blog!
As I wrote before I have been using the blogsphere just for two weeks. However I have already learnt a lot of things; first of all, I realized that there are so many blogs, for any kind of interest! Then I understood that many people explore, write and communicate to each other because blogging has become a kind of hobby for them.
As far as my personal experience is concerned, I think that, thank's to blogging, I will be able to improve my English learning. First of all, because I have to write my personal thoughts and comments in English. So, I will improve my writing skills. Then I have to read other people's thoughts so that I can improve my reading skills. Finally, I am supposed to communicate with people in English and I think this is the most important task.
So far at the university I have always been "obliged" to use an academic English but when I am in an informal context I have a lot of difficulties to talk about simple subjects in informal English. I have to improve my colloquial English and, as it is the kind of language used by bloggers, I think that blogging will help me to reach this target.
Well, That's all for the moment!
See you soon on my blog!
Barbara
posted by Barbara @ 7:27 AM
6 Comments:
At 6:21 AM,
Alice said…
Hi Barbara
thank you very much for all the nice words you have said about my blog...you're really very kind!!
I think your blog too is well organised...well done!
I agree with you about our first two weeks of blogging and from what I read on the others blog we all sahre the same opinion.
See you on Tuesday.
Bye Alice
At 2:31 PM,
Sarah said…
Why the xxx?
Sarah
At 6:33 AM,
Sarah said…
Dear Barbara,
Here is the focus on language we did in class. Let me know what your corrections are.
Thanks,
Sarah
Recommended Checklist: vocabulary, articles, verb tenses (esp. when or when not to use the present perfect)
Mistakes: the blog; using ^ computer; use blogging; write ^ me; have wrote; using blogging; have already known; have understood; a formal English
At 3:28 AM,
Barbara said…
Dear Sarah,
in Italy "xxx" is a symbol which means "baci", for example, when you write a postcard, at the end you can write "see you soon, Sarahxxx" which means "ciao a presto, baci Sarah".
At 3:47 AM,
Barbara said…
Dear Sarah,
these are my corrections:
- to explore the blogsphere
- using the computer
- use the blogsphere
- write to me
- I wrote
- using the blogsphere
- I have already learnt
- I understood
- academic English
At 4:02 AM,
Barbara said…
Dear Sarah,
I forgot to answer to your first question: the reason why I put "xxx" is that I wanted to have a simple address for my blog; as "Barbara.blogspot.com" had already been used by someone else, I decided to use this symbol.
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