Reflection of JCA1 course

Well, this JCA1 course was totally different than last year for me. This year we had to record our assignments instead of writing but it was interesting and funny sometimes. I hope that these recordings have improved my level of English. My pronunciation is definitely better. I can also recognise differences between American and British English, as well. The funniest assignments were when we supposed to create a dubbing of our favourite TV shows and series because we had to use there the speed, rhythm, intonation in exact same way. Next unusual method is that our teacher brought guitar and our whole class sang with him songs. We were surprised how good he is! We sang Christmas carols at last meeting and dubbed TV series called Friends. The most hilarious individual task was when I used tongue twisters because they are really difficult and I just wanted to practise those things! We practised linking words, word stress, strong and weak forms. But as I mentioned before, these things improved my language and pronunciation and I hope that I will use these tricks and knowledge at the final test. I know that sometimes it was a little bit annoying but I tried to do my best.

Yeah, but final test is coming quickly again and this is my second chance to fix last unsuccessful year. So it’s really important to be successful this time. I hope it’s going to be OK. I can fail, but these experiences will not be ever taken from me.

I’m glad to be there and I would like to finish my journey.

Thanks for your time!

Week 10 Assignment - Individual Task

Reflection:

For my Individual Task number 10 I have chosen a grammar that includes Linking Words. I have watched video when the guy said that English people are just lazy to say some vowels and so on. For example they sometimes drop out every letter “t” in “bottle of water” I was just amazed by this and I wanted to practise those Linking Words because it’s very useful for us as a learners of English to know this.

Original link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmXUhKYKhBw

I hope you like it.

Thank you

Week 10 Assignment

Reflection:

This assignment is definitely difficult for learners because you just don’t know what will happen in the following scene. I remember when we had a class; I had some problems with The Simpsons scene. Honestly, I just didn’t know what to say! I have chosen a short clip from Family Guy series that I like very much. Even this short clip was fun to watch. I made some mistakes when I used a wrong tense and sometimes I said something ridiculous. But I hope that I did a good job in some positive ways.

Original link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehWFWQDqres

It was the last voice assignment for this semester and I’m looking forward my next voice assignments.

Regards.

Week 9 Assignment - Individual Task

Reflection:

Word stress is topic for my individual task for this week. When I was thinking about this exercise I thought it would be easy to do but after some words I realized how dumb am I actually. However, we should practise words like this because when you change a stress somewhere, the native speakers could not understand you. Well, some words were quite easy but words as ‘monogamy; autonomy; geometry’ were a little bit difficult for my tongue.

Words list:
biography, geometry, mythology, monogamy, astronomy, philosophy, telepathy, endoscopy, hypocrisy, democracy, analogy, biology, geology, urology, terminology, mythology, autonomy, economy, gastronomy

Thanks

Week 9 Assignment (Correction included)

Reflection:

Well, this assignment was really thought for me because I wasn’t prepared enough to speak about it but I guess that is the main purpose of this exercise to practise for our speaking examination.  When I firstly realized how this picture looks like. In my mind I said something like “What the hell is this?! “ So I tried to describe it anyway but luckily I created some sentences which actually make some sense. Actually I’m not fan of those pessimistic paintings. I expected some funny picture with some animals or smiling people but honestly not this. In this case was really hard to come with something quickly. But I hope that I did a great job.

 I know that I made some pauses between words. I tried to say "negative" in correct pronunciation and say some sentences better.

Thanks for your time!

Week 8 Assignment - Individual Task

Reflection:

For this individual task I’ve chosen dubbing of The It Crowd series especially Season 3: Episode 6 called Calandar Geeks. This scene was really funny for me and quite easy to record. I like the It Crowd series very much.

Here’s a link and you can compare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khyfYITIhV0

Thanks.

Regards

Week 8 Assignment

Reflection:

For this eighth assignment I’ve chosen The Simpsons series especially Season 9: Episode 5 called The Cartridge Family. Homer wants to buy a gun for himself in this episode because he wants to protect his family. But his family feels more at risk than unarmed.

The one difficult thing while recording was that the salesman has a little bit strange accent but I tried to imitate this in the best way I could. Anyway it was fun. I would like to do dubbing for my individual task, as well.

Here’s a link and you can compare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIpLd0WQKCY

Thanks.

Regards