Youtube

A new era is coming, or perhaps it would be better to say: A new era is here. In recent years, the growth and expansion of the digital era has been incredible and unstoppable. Nowadays, people spend more time watching videos on YouTube than programs on TV, or at least that’s my view.

Personally, I’m a huge YouTube fan. There are many advantages to YouTube. You can choose what you want to watch, whenever you want, and that’s an important advantage over TV. Furthermore, you can find videos about everything; such as, cooking,cars, and comedy. No matter what you’re looking for you will most likely find it.

For me, YouTube is a major tool used to learn English. I’m living in Spain so here its quite complicated finding native English speakers to converse with. YouTube gives me the opportunity to practice my listening skills and of course the opportunity to learn grammar and expressions. There are a lot of good channels to subscribe to. For example,  Amigos Ingleses, Papa English and English with Lucy are good channels. YouTube gets us closer the “real” English. I mean, the English of “street”, that English that nobody taught us at school or even at University.

A common phenomenon on YouTube are the “YouTubers”. These are people who record themselves regularly and then they upload it. There are some that are quite interesting and obviously others that are dreadful. But if you find one you like then you will probably learn English with more motivation and maybe it will be easier to learn. So It´s up to you. ;)