YouTube makes me happy. I often watch YouTube because there are people who make excellent videos with original content. One of my favorite videos on YouTube is TED. There are many experts and specialists presenting their experiences or findings. It offers us a variety of topics including health, economics, social matter, science, and entertainment. I can learn a lot about advanced theories or current issues from experts, and their fantastic ideas inspire me so much. Thanks to TED, it expands my curiosity and enthusiasm significantly. Also, I can tell you that TED gives me another advantage which helps me improve English listening ability. It provides me with well-prepared English presentations with English subtitles. I always see an episode without subtitles to get an outline of the story at first, and then watch it again with English subtitles to find out how much I have understood it and what points I could not catch. Since the presentations amuse me so much, I can enjoy watching them over and over again. This practice has had significant effects on my listening and vocabulary improvement. I also have been learning many better phrases to express my opinions or ideas in English. TED also shows us many good examples of presentations which attract an audience so much. Some excellent speakers make use of a short pause before they start talking about the important part of his story. The others use eye contacts with the audience efficiently. Their movements and gestures are so beautiful and elegant that it often makes me feel like watching an incredible performance. Another YouTube video I would like to recommend to English speakers is Katsura Sunshine's video where he plays a traditional Japanese comedy, Rakugo, in English. He is a Canadian who came to Japan and got attracted by Rakugo. He had learned Rakugo from a great Rakugo Master for years, and then now he is a professional Rakugo performer in both Japanese and English. I guarantee that you can enjoy the authentic Japanese comedy in English. Although there are some difficulties in translating some Japanese phrases into English, he made it very well, and I feel it sounds real Rakugo even in English. His Rakugo talks are so interesting that they make many English speakers laugh greatly. Here is the link to one of his performances on YouTube. I hope you can enjoy it. https://youtu.be/hbt0jAYDVOw Thank you for reading my entry.