Persistence Hunting

Here is a video about persistence hunting. I made the first video to describe persistence hunting and teach you some new phrases and vocabulary. The second video shows how humans used to hunt before we had weapons, and one tribe from Africa who still hunt this way today. I thought this was amazing and fascinating. If you have any questions then please ask me. I first read about persistence hunting in the book “Born to Run”, by Christopher MacDougall, and followed up on it to know more.

My introduction video to persistence hunting:

Documentary that describes persistence hunting:

Meet ESL Friends Online

This website can help you meet many other ESL students from around the world. You can often get their Skype, or MSN from their profile. Check it out, click on someone you think is cute, or interesting and see if you can get their Skype or MSN to call or chat!

http://www.englishforums.com/friends/

Learn Real English – Free ESL Videos

This website has an interesting 7 video series about learning better English conversation. If you enter your email, they will send you the videos, or you can just click on them on the right hand side of the screen. There are 7 instructional videos and also a few articles. The videos are called: Rules For Excellent English. They are at a pretty basic level. I hope you enjoy!

http://learnrealenglish.com/7-steps-to-powerful-english-conversation?gclid=CIyTytXo1Z8CFdAvpAodXngDaw

ESL podcast

Here is a list of some websites that offer an ESL podcast. If you don’t know what a “podcast” is, then you should type it into the search bar on my blog, and you will find an article about “podcasts”. Essentially, it’s an internet radio, or TV show. Here are some ESL podcasts that you can listen to when you have some free-time to improve your English.

http://www.eslpod.com/website/index_new.html#

HUGE LIST RIGHT HERE
http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/EnglishP/eslpodcast/

http://www.coolenglishpodcasts.com/

http://www.china232.com/

If you have any questions about how to access these websites, just ask me and I can help you!!!

Good Luck!!

The Annoying Orange

I saw this on the Youtube website, but didn’t watch it…. because I thought it looked annoying. Then today a student asked me if I had seen it. I said no, but when I came home I checked it out. It was WAY more annoying than I thought it would be.. in a good way i guess… It’s pretty funny and there are many episodes. Check them out!!

Organic Farming in Taiwan

I have still been looking for organic food in Taiwan, as I consider it to be more and more important. I have read some studies which consider the level of Nitrogen in conventional vegetables to be dangerous to peoples intestines, and blame it for a rise in intestinal cancer.

Here are some great articles you can read which talk about Taiwan specifically:

Organic Farming in Taiwan (English and Chinese): 2007
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/01/08/taiwan-organic-farming-in-taiwan/

Man Dedicated to Organic Farmer’s Market in Taiwan: 2007
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2009/10/139_15250.html

Nitrates in Vegetables: 2002
http://www.agnet.org/library/nc/135d/

Nitrates in Drinking Water May Raise Cancer Risk: 2007
http://foodconsumer.org/7777/8888/C_ancer_31/092302162007_Nitrates_in_drinking_water_may_raise_cancer_risk.shtml

Making Vegetable Juice At Home

Here is a little video i put together showing how easy it is to make vegetable juice at home.

and…
Here is a link to another channel on Youtube.com called liferegenerator. His video’s are all about healthy eating.

http://www.youtube.com/user/liferegenerator

Hope you enjoy!

Ipad

The big news is out, and Apple has released it’s Ipad e-book reader-
slash-everything else device. I’m curious as to how many people will receive this device. I am excited about it’s capabilities and can’t wait to get my hands on one! The device can link to 3 different online media stores including music, movie, and e-book stores, as well as the application store. It looks like there will be many custom applications build by developers and they will probably sell at reasonable prices. I won’t be going out to buy one right way, but I’m sure that this technology will eventually become part of my life and my children’s lives! Here is a link to a video about the new Ipad device:

http://www.apple.com/ipad/#video

Apple also gives the impression that they are trying to be environmentally friendly when building and manufacturing this product. However, is this just posturing or does it have an impact?

Crazy Stalker Email

Hi Everyone! I got some advice for you if you want to do some reading and listening, and want to have a good laugh at the same time! You can check out this website below:
http://emailsfromcrazypeople.com/

This website is called Email From Crazy People. It’s so funny to read the letters that some people write to other people. I can’t believe how crazy some people are. Most of it is about dating and relationships. So…. you can learn what NOT to write in an email to someone by checking out this website and reading the material here. There are also some voice messages you can listen to also. If you have a crazy stalker who writes you crazy email, then go ahead and post their emails on this website. Maybe they will learn their lesson when the whole world reads their email!

Lingosteve

Here is a guy who does a video blog in Engilsh. Here is his opinion about achieving your desired level of proficiency in any second language. I agree with his opinion about having fun, accepting your current level, while still striving to improve.