Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Yilmin's Initial Web Pick

My initial pick is http://www.eslfast.com/robot/ which is a sub-section of a huge website http://www.eslfast.com.

This website is basically a English speaking practice website; thus, it has a lot of practical conversational dialogues on ESL/EFL speaking/listening issues. On the first page of http://www.eslfast.com/robot/, you'll see there are 25 different titles. If you click one of them, then you'll find a lot of subtitles of it. For example, if you click FOOD, then it shows 21 subtitles for FOOD. If you click one of them, it shows a couple of relevant conversations.

All in all, this website includes lots of possible everyday conversations so that the learners can easily practice at home by listening to the dialogues. It even gives us some dialogues related to election or crimes. Moreover, the website is very user-friendly because all you should do is CLICK the banner and CLICK the play button.

What I want to have in this website is conversations for real beginners. Even though the website says it is for the beginner-level language learners, some of the dialogues are not so easy. I wish this website also has some easier conversations for real elementary-level learners.

2 comments:

  1. Yilmin:

    Thanks for finding this site. It's very clever.

    I got a little frustrated with the Robot guy, though. If I typed in a comment which was not exactly what he wanted to hear, he could really take me "off on a tangent". I just wonder if he could be too confusing for many beginner and intermediate students...?

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  2. I agree. You know, I had the same idea with yours. This website is not so good for beginners. Moreover, as I indicated, some conversation scripts are not appropriate for beginners. I hope they add some materials for REAL beginner.

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