I have never read a blog in all my life before starting this course. And I firmly thought that I would never read one.
But you know what? You never can tell!
I have always been suspicious to blogs, maybe also because I didn’t exactly know what they were, and we are always afraid of the unknown.
But navigating around the web I discovered this new world: the blogosphere. And I have also discovered that blogs are not all the same; some of them are very interesting, they look like a web site, but they are much more useful because you can communicate in order to ask questions, give your contribution to the topics and leave your opinion. But I have to admit that I still don’t understand why people write blogs even if they have nothing interesting to say. It seems like a matter of fashion, that’s why many young boys and girls write their blog like they were writing a diary...a public diary! But who on heart is going to read it?!?!
We were told to create and develop our own blog...what a shock! I really didn’t know what to do! So, I sat down and looked around the blogosphere to see what people usually say and writes in their blogs in order to find some sort of inspiration, and finally I realized what I wanted to put in mine.
Ok, now that my blog exists I have to write posts...and here comes the second shock! We have been studying english for a very long time, they made us write commercial and formal letters, sum up newspaper articles and translate the strangest articles about the cannon balls of the english army...but colloquial english is something different and I felt a little bit lost! Colloquial English is what people daily use in their life to communicate but for me it’s not that easy! I am sure that it is just a matter of training: we have to read, to write and to speak to get used to this register.
So, leaving all my suspicions behind, I face this course with excitement and curiosity, I’m sure that we’ll learn a lot about blogs and “technologies” and improve our english!
But you know what? You never can tell!
I have always been suspicious to blogs, maybe also because I didn’t exactly know what they were, and we are always afraid of the unknown.
But navigating around the web I discovered this new world: the blogosphere. And I have also discovered that blogs are not all the same; some of them are very interesting, they look like a web site, but they are much more useful because you can communicate in order to ask questions, give your contribution to the topics and leave your opinion. But I have to admit that I still don’t understand why people write blogs even if they have nothing interesting to say. It seems like a matter of fashion, that’s why many young boys and girls write their blog like they were writing a diary...a public diary! But who on heart is going to read it?!?!
We were told to create and develop our own blog...what a shock! I really didn’t know what to do! So, I sat down and looked around the blogosphere to see what people usually say and writes in their blogs in order to find some sort of inspiration, and finally I realized what I wanted to put in mine.
Ok, now that my blog exists I have to write posts...and here comes the second shock! We have been studying english for a very long time, they made us write commercial and formal letters, sum up newspaper articles and translate the strangest articles about the cannon balls of the english army...but colloquial english is something different and I felt a little bit lost! Colloquial English is what people daily use in their life to communicate but for me it’s not that easy! I am sure that it is just a matter of training: we have to read, to write and to speak to get used to this register.
So, leaving all my suspicions behind, I face this course with excitement and curiosity, I’m sure that we’ll learn a lot about blogs and “technologies” and improve our english!
3 commenti:
Hi Cristina!
Like you, at the beginning of our course I felt a little bit lost… I didn’t know the programme Blogger and I didn’t know how to make a post, to insert photos… A disaster! But now, after two weeks of course, I have improved my abilities and I find that having a blog is a funny and relaxing way to exchange our opinions and our interests. This is also an opportunity to reconcile English learning and new technologies, that now have more and more importance in our life. I also think that training in informal English is important, because, as you said, in our four year of English at the University, we used a lot the formal register.
As regards the mistake, I found two:
- a little spelling mistake: “young” with “y” and not with “j”
- “English” must be written with capital “e”.
Apart from these two little mistakes, I really enjoyed reading your post! I liked the colours you used, the photos you posted and above all… The title: Habemus Blog! Funny!
Bye!
Valeria
Hi Cristina!
What a beautiful blog you created!!you seem an expert blogger now! :)
Like you,I was very surprised to recognize how many people have a blog...it's something new for me and the idea that everyone can watch your photos in Internet scared me a little bit...maybe because I'm a bit shy or just because I have a diary and I prefer to write something and keep it for myself...I don't know, however,here at the University I like the fact that we have a personal blog, in which I can express myself and exchange opinions with my classmates, I think it's a useful and modern way to learn colloquial English!!
that's all for now!
bye bye!
Elena
Hi Cristina,
I completely share your opinions about blog. Until a few weeks ago, I knew blogosphere by hearsay; I underestimated its usefulness in my life and considered it a wasting of time; maybe it was due to the fact that some friends of mine are used to writing in a personal blog, and they’re always telling about their private life…I mean…nothing interesting for me, because I know them and don’t need to read in their blogs to find out some news…so as you rightly said, thanks to this course, we realised that blogs are not all the same. There are blogs that are extremely interesting and exciting; above all we can take advantage and improve our knowledge from some blogs..
Bye
Ely
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