Guess who's back? Today I have to write a special post about a video we did in English class last week. I have to tell that we had quite a lot of fun recording our voices and filming the computer screen :D In a group of four we had to make a presentation of an online dictionary. We actually got very lucky with the OALD (Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary). I did not know this dictionary before but I have to admit that it is really helpful and I started to use it nearly every day.
However, as I am not a perfect English speaking person (yet) I unfortunately found a couple of mistakes as I was listening to my part.
My part was about the disadvantages,(almost none), and the special features of the monolingual OALD. The first thing I immediately recognized was the word order of the third sentence. I said "So if you are searching for a word which you only know in German it probably is not the best choice to use this dictionary". If I could correct myself I would say "So if you are searching for a word that you only know in German using this dictionary is probably not the best choice". I would also change the sentence "And it also has some good features.." into "It offers some good features as well..". So if I would be able to write everything down before I am talking, it would probably sound a little more professional ;)
All in all I realized that I have to work on my vocabulary when I am speaking. It is always easier to express yourself in a written text than in a spoken one. I also heard that I was using the word "dictionary" very often as well as "so" at the beginning of a lot of sentences.
According to this my aim is to expand my vocabulary and try to use it also in the spoken language. But to mention a positive thing as well, I have to say that I think I am talking quite fluently and without many "ums" :)
Beeing back with a new post, I was thinking a lot about what I could tell you all out there! Then I came across some absolutely great memories. So I thought I am gonna tell you what I did today, exactly one year ago when I was in down under.. :)
Once upon a time, when I was in a land far far away, I spend an amazing weekend in a town which has this awesome name called "Surfer's Paradise". So guess what you are doing in Surfer's paradise? Right, SURFING!! Well, at least we tried to :D We were a group of seven girls from different parts of the world. There were these two amazing Dutch girls, who we had a lot of fun with. One of them even had her birthday that weekend. Then there was a French girl, two German girls and of course my friend, who also had her birthday that weekend, and me from beautiful Austria.
It's not a secret, that surfing is incredibly hard! But we had a fantastic day, even though the weather was very windy and cold. More waves - more fun - but harder to surf.
After we all showed our great surfing skills, we went to celebrate the two birthday girls.
And we all lived happily ever after.. ready for our next surfing lesson!
SURFS UP!
Talking to Katrina was really interesting. Actually we found out that we have quite a few things in common :)
For example, we both have been to Australia. But compared to me, she has some family members there, which is pretty awesome!!
But her family residents not only in Australia. She has relatives all over the world! Her dad is from Manchester and her granddad is from Glasgow. That's where she's got that nice British accent from :D
Quite amazing is, that she was an Au pair in NORWAY for ten months and speaks some Norwegian!
