Monday, June 22, 2009

My first impressions of the English online course

Online courses offer you a great opportunity to learn the language you want at the most appropriate time for you. There are many languages you can choose: English, Business English, Spanish, German, Italian, French and Portuguese. Also you can choose which level of which language to study.

To start the course, you must have made an account with your user name and password. Your password gives you the opportunity to go to all levels and lessons you decide it`s useful for you. You have a summary of all lessons, where you can see what the lesson contains like grammar and words.

For the Spanish course (like every other), there is a program, which shows you at what time and at which level there are lessons. These lessons are taught by a qualified teachers in a virtual classrooms and they are connected with different parts of life like home, work, shopping and many others. You can also do a homework and when you want, you could send it to your teacher for check, by clicking the “Courier”.

You can connect your teacher by entering the virtual classroom at the level you want, or when you have a question you could see whether the teacher is online at the upper left angle of the page, and you can ask by connecting Skype.

This course offers you an opportunity to listen and speak as much as possible.
While learning, you develop your writing, speaking and listening skills. Also texts in the course help you to learn more about the culture and life of the Spanish people.
At the end of every lesson, there is a summary of the new words and grammar you have to pay attention to.

Lessons are developed specially for this type of learning – online learning. There are dictionaries and exercises after each lesson. You also have a review lessons and when you have learned all the lessons of your level, there is a test, which helps you to choose which level to go next. You can find all materials you need, in the web page at the section “Learning materials” and you can use them at any time .

After you have made the test, you can see your teacher comments at “tests”-> “Results”, which helps you to realize your mistakes and what to pay attention to.
The best of online learning is that you can learn language wherever you are, and whenever you want. You have 24 hour access to the e-books and you could see what each level contains. You can also visit different level lessons at the same time, which could be very useful for developing your language skills.

Nowadays it is preferred type of learning, which provides great possibilities for personal and professional development.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

What about education

Education

Education exists since first people on the earth. It represents the need of the humans to learn and to develop through the years. It`s that helps people to develop their possibilities and their personality. But is it an investment to the future, or just a waste of time?
Some people think that, it`s the most important thing for our development and for our progress, but other think it`s a waste of time. The thing, we have to remember, is that education is what, has given us all human science achievements, and it is the reason for it to be our great value and goal in life.
In the past, it has been a luxury, which few people could afford to themselves, and only the rich people could study. The great people in the human history were educated and qualified people.
The knowing person knows his rights, and fights for them. He can`t be manipulated, and knows what he wants.
Now we came to the most significant moment: what is the authentic meaning of education? In our world its` mission has to be, to help young people to develop as personalities, and to help them to go though all the difficulties in their way of self-realization and self-improvement.
That is why education helps people to grow as personalities, to fight for their freedom and individuality and fight against indifference.
School has to be the place, where young people possess their freedom, and where they work on their personalities and their independence. The place, where the young man would feel the freedom and the responsibility for their own life.
Nowadays, it feels like education is losing the power, it has had in the past. Many people decide that it is not so important, and they can live without it.
It`s good that lately we see more ambition and hunger for knowledge in young people. I could even say, that it is a kind of fashion to be smart and knowing.
With all that new technologies, the process of studying is getting more and more easy and interesting. The Internet gives us all the information we need and unlimited possibilities in our contacts with people.
It is very interesting and entertaining to learn, and you could fully enjoy learning.
That is why I can`t say education is a thing we can live without. No, it is necessity and very important for our personal development. Where we would be without learning? Definitely nowhere. Every thing, that is a part of our daily round, every little thing, we use every day, is a result from many scientific researches of the world around us.
The starve for learning is thing, that every human has deep inside. It is actually, the curiosity, that makes us being interested in something and learn more about it.
Young people should know, that the history is writing here and now and our future depends on ourselves. We must believe, that we could do anything, because even the most complicated technologies are made by someone like us – some person, who has studyed, learned and worked to achieve it.
Learning is the thing, that gives us unlimited possibilities in everything
Go people, learn, and enjoy your freedom!