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Fun Learning with Podcast!

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 According to Wikipedia,  A  podcast  is an  episodic  series of spoken word  digital audio   files  that a user can  download  to a personal device for easy listening.  These days, podcast become popular. The topic itself is so variative, it can be entertaiment, politics, or even education. There are some platform that provide podcast, which are Spotify, Youtube, and many more.  Podcast can make our speaking skills get improved because it makes us adapt with english and increase our confidence while speak english. Don't be afraid to make a mistakes, because if we are not that brave we never learn. So, don't worry about the result, just enjoy the process. By the way, I make my first podcast with my friend that talk about culture shock between Indonesia and Japan. You can check it here . Happy Learning!

It's Time for Level Your Speaking Skill Up!

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  Speaking skills is needed for language learners as the purpose of the language itself is for communication. So we need to get our speaking skills improved and usable for our daily life. But before i jump to the list, i want to tell you that the most important thing in speaking is no matter how bad your accent and how terrible your grammar, as long your interlocutors are understand what you mean, that's okay. So, without any further do, this is three tips to make your speaking skills level up! 1. Vocabulary First thing first you need to enrich your vocabulary to minimize your brain lagging while you have conversation. So, if you have so many vocabulary in your head it will make your speaking skill improved by make your interlocutors not confused with something that you talking about. You can do it from listening to the music and podcast and  watching movie. If you find the words that you don't know what the meaning is, just go directly to dictionary and find it out.  2. ...

Writing

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  Here it is, some platform that you can use to improve your writing skill : 1. Grammarly Grammarly is an online platform that can help you to make your writing become grammarly correct. You need to write your essay and then the program will detect where the mistake and the they will solve it by change the uncorrect word or phrase with the correct one. You can access it online on the website or you can install it on your device. Unfortunately, there some features that you might can't use unless you purchase it. 2. Thesaurus Thesaurus is an online platform that lists words in groups of  synonym and related concept. So, if you find your writing is too informal, you can check and change the words to make it more academical. 3. Wattpad If there is no person writes, there will be nothing to read. So, you can try to write your own story on wattpad to help your writing skill get improved gradually. You can try it for free, so there is no reason to not start it. You can start it her...

Listening

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  These are some platforms to help your listening skill get improved: 1. Spotify Spotify provides a lot of kind of entertainment, like music, radio, and podcast. But, for listening skill, i recommend you to podcast. Why? because podcast itself is a content that people have something to talk or we can say they do the conversation. So, it will minimize the pronunciation pronounced incorrect, as the music probably does. 2. Youtube Same as a Spotify that provides the music and podcast, but Youtube has visual appereance because basically Youtube is an video-sharing platform. It can be helpful for people that has bad hearing. So, if they don't hear it well, they can watch the mouth of the speakers and then they will know what the speaker talking about. 3. BBC Learning English This platform also provides so many english material, including podcasts. The topic of it is so variative and you can download it for free with high quality. Click here to find it! 4. Duolingo Duolingo is educat...

Speaking

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  Speaking skill is the important thing on learning language because we need language to communicate with people and that's the purpose of the language itself. So, i recommend you these platform to make your speaking skill get improved : 1. Youtube No need to be doubtful, we know that youtube is so beneficial for people's life these days, and also for learning language. You can directly search what you want to watch and then you will find it. There is a lot of content creator that you can use but i recommend you this channel Dive Studios . It's not too formal but i think the delivery of their podcast is so friendly, and i love it. 2. Spotify Spotify provide music, radio, and podcast on its platform. You can directly use all of them to improve your speaking skill. From music, you can learn how to pronounced and order the words. From radio and podcast, you can learn how people interact each other. So, you can try apply it in real life.  3. Cambridge Dictionary Maybe you thi...

Reading

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  These are platform that i recommend you to improve your reading skill: 1. My English Pages My english pages provides a lot of article about so many topic. The text is not that long and easy to read even for the elementary school student. It can be the source of new knowledge from all over the world for english learner. 2. Wattpad From Wikipedia, Wattpad is  is a website and app for writers to publish new user-generated stories.  It aims to create social communities around stories for both amateur and established writers. In this platform, you can find so many readings and you can access it for free.  3. Webtoon Same as Wattpad, Webtoon also provide the story but in the form of comic. It is suitable for you that easily get boring while reading the plain text. You can access it online on the website or you can install the apllication.