Educational websites
Nowadays, with the increasingly growth of technology, we can be witnesses of the numerous benefits in education that technology provides. One of them is the used of educational web pages.
In this case, I am going to focus my reflection on the webpages that can help students whose career is related to languages like us in UALE.
I think that long time ago studying languages had to be strictily in a classroom, which sometimes is kind of difficult because of lack of time, or maybe just because not all people is interested in learning languages. Therefore there was not space for languages at school, but now everything has changed because we can now use webpages to learn English or whatever language you want to learn, one of the most used one is:
Duolingo which is a webpage that offers 6 different languages, including, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Catalan. This webpage that can also be downloaded as an app, is one of my favourite because it allows you to practise the language you choose easily, you learn vocabulary, grammar and it is a fun process since you can also record your voice to check pronunciation.
The best thing at using this app is that you don't have to pay so It won't affect your economy, and as you can have it in your laptop, desktop, mobile phone or any device, it will be always at the tip of your fingers.
Another useful tool that we can use on the net is the google translator, I know that translator is not the most accurate in the world while translating, but it helps a lot when you need to translate isolated words, and it is the most famous translator since it contains a lot of languages, I don't even know the name of some of them, so it means that it is a varied tool, not just English-Spanish, Spanish-English.
In conclusion, I can say that webpages give us the resources that we need in order to gain more knowledge in the field we want to be experts, we can easily access to educational pages thanks to internet and there are less barriers between people interested in learning and the desired knowledge.
I completely agree with you, years ago it was almost impossible for people studying foreign languages online. Nowadays, thanks to these apps and websites, we are able to study in a comfortable way and we don't need to spend a lot of money because it's free. Actually I'm using Duolingo to practice my english and it is a good website to learn another language and like you mentioned before, this page has a really good variety of languages. On the other hand, I think that GT is a good application only to translate words, because sometimes when you want to translate a sentence it has no sense.
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