Friday, January 9, 2009


We have listening and pronunciation course in this term. It is a very useful for our educational development especially in speaking and understanding of the speech. In order to achieve these skills we have a lot of listening and speaking activities, however, they are not effective for our progress. Specially, Praat, a kind of program by which you can record and edit voice of sentences or words, is a nightmare for us. I hate this program and do not want to record anything but it is a compulsory activity for our course and we have to do it each week. It is very difficult because we do not have suitable physical environment for recording. In our dormitories, we have a clamor every time. Our computers and microphones are not suitable for this high specialized activity. For some of us, who has not a notebook, it becomes more and more annoying. On the other hand, the words that we must record are from different accents from different English speaking regions. One of them can be from Canada and another from Australia. This difference makes the work vary hard for us. We do not know even one accent but this activity enforce us to repeat the pronunciation of the words and sentences. We do not learn anything.

1 comment:

Mesude said...

one day while helin and neslihan were making praat ,I understand the difficulties of it .they asked me "do you want to try" I accepted and I told that week's word"destruct" but it was a real fiasco:) fortunately,I don't have to do it:)