Learning english through songs

This is very interesting type of studying. When you are listening to songs (especially those you prefer) everything is easy, and even learning.
In this video the song is from great Irish singer Sinead O'Connor "Nothing compares to you".
Enjoy! :)

The History of English Literature

In this post you can find everything about English literature. I hope you will enjoy it! :)

The history of English

In this video you can find a history of English language. It shows the entire history of the language in only 10 minutes and it does that in funny way.
Enjoy! :) :)

This post is about learning grammar tenses. This is the topic that I hate the most, but I have to do it. I think that most of my colleagues thinks the same as I do.
I hope you will learn something from this video! :)

Scottish and Irish accents

This week my blog will be about Scottish and Irish accents. Many people think they are exactly the same, but they have some differences, which is explained in these videos. I know it's hard to understand but give it a try. For me, it's a complete pleasure to listen the Scottish and Irish people.
Enjoy! :)

British English accent

British English accent is unfairly left out. Most our students don't like it because it is hard to understand but for me it's awesome. In this video you can find 10 words which are used in British accent and are not so common in American accent (which most people use and not just Americans). Also my favourite english word "mate" which is british version of a "friend".

Learning english part 2

This link is from youtube account. I found it very useful, it is helpful in improving your english conversation and listening skills.
Here is the link:
 https://www.youtube.com/user/MinooAngloLink?feature=watch

Enjoy! :)

Learning english part 1

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/
Here is the link for those who want learn the english grammar. It's a great site. You can learn new words, practice grammar or learn some basic rules. It has a lot of exercises so it is not just a theory. It has helped me a lot with a morphology class in 1st year, the class I had a lot of problems, but studying on this site has really improved my knowledge about English grammar.
I hope you will find this interesting. Enjoy! :) :)

Everyday is like Sunday

Since I have no idea what to write and I'm in a depression (because of this terrible weather) I will put some poems:

Fatality by Ruben Dario

The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient;
the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing:
there is no pain as great as being alive,
no burden heavier than that of conscious life.

To be, and to know nothing, and to lack a way,
and the dread of having been, and future terrors...
And the sure terror of being dead tomorrow,
and to suffer all through life and through the darkness,

and through what we do not know and hardly suspect...
And the flesh that temps us with bunches of cool grapes,
and the tomb that awaits us with its funeral sprays,
and not to know where we go,
nor whence we came! ...



and this is my favourite poem from best poet, Pablo Neruda:
 
 I Like You When You Are Quiet

I like you when you are quiet because it is as though you are absent,
and you hear me from far away, and my voice does not touch you.
It looks as though your eyes had flown away
and it looks as if a kiss had sealed your mouth.
Like all things are full of my soul
You emerge from the things, full of my soul.
Dream butterfly, you look like my soul,
and you look like a melancoly word.
I like you when you are quiet and it is as though you are distant.
It is as though you are complaining, butterfly in lullaby.
And you hear me from far away, and my voice does not reach you:
let me fall quiet with your own silence.
Let me also speak to you with your silence
Clear like a lamp, simple like a ring.
You are like the night, quiet and constellated.
Your silence is of a star, so far away and solitary.
I like you when you are quiet because it is as though you are absent.
Distant and painful as if you had died.
A word then, a smile is enough.
And I am happy, happy that it is not true.



And I have to finish this post with Morrissey! :)

"And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die"

Just an observation

I must agree with my colleague Draga, who had wrote in her blog that it is better to have assigned topics. To be honest, our creativity isn't at the highest level so I think it will better for us that the professor can give us topic. And with no offence to other colleagues, but some posts don't have anything common with anything that we are studying. The other that  I would like to point out is the course from the first year " English literature till 1500". The 2nd semester has started two weeks ago and there haven't been any lectures in that course.For me, that is proof that our faculty doesn't have a professionality. Most of the blame comes to the dean. One thing that really pisses me off is that the professor who are they planning to hire for this job is some guy from Turkey. There is more than half an million people in our country who are unemployed and they are desperatly looking for a job, but no, they must must hire this turkish guy. I don't know his qualifications or preferences, but I think that people from our country should have an advantage. I'm still thinking why they have opened a turkish department on our faculty. With so many languages that people can study like italian, french, spanish they have choosen turkish. Some thing I will never understand.