HOW USE PLAYSTATION 4 FOR LEARN ENGLISH

Hello guys , I'm comeback , how is going your english ? My improves every day , two weeks ago

I went in the shop for buy a new playstation 4 ,you know that my favourite way to learn is by videogame, because in my opinion is the most complete way to learn , infact if with music and movies you learn only to listen and read ,with videogame you can learn to read, write, listen and talk , even all together in the same time , if you think about it, it's the more fun and complete way to learn , but let take a look about this console,always I'm excited when a new device is released, because I know that often a new technology mean new way to learn , so , I will show you some new interesting features. The first one is , " LIVE FROM PLAYSTATION " , if you go there you could see many people around the world make a cam, try to find only who talk in english , enjoy it , you can see him/they but their can't see you , that is a good thing if you are shy , so , in these cam people talk in english about everything and there are many users that send messages at them , so , listen what the guy in the cam are talking about and read the chat messages that the users send to him

FREE ROAMING GAME ARE AWESOME

Talking again about videogame , today I will explain you why for me free roaming game are awesome for learn english , even much

better then classic action adventures for example , the last free roaming game that I played was Grand Theft Auto V , it's the most famous brand in videogame industry, some people don't like it because their say there is too much violence inside , but in my opinion there isn't more violence then when you watch a action movie where the protagonist play the bad guy role, if you like this kind of game and you want learn english, it's a powerfull combination. But , why this game was so awesome for improve my english ? Well , this is what happened when I played with it : I was soak in a huge world , whoever in his life played at least one time at this sort of videogame he have a vague idea about how much wide could be the field, in this example we have a field of game big three time the real city on Manhattan, not bad , in one part of this virtual world there is a big city called Los Santos , what I like about these virtual cities is that the developers when make it they take ispiration by real city , infact Los Santos looking like

ENGLISH TEST

Every one or two months , I like do this test in order to know how much wide is my vocabulary, it's  very fast , simple and funny, you should take a look at it :  Test Your Vocab
The test is split in two pages , one of common words , and the second with more difficult words, complete it and watch your score.
Usually most of adult english native speaker know about 20.000 - 35000 words , it's a huge amount of words that we don't need to reach, instead how also the website report, most of the foreign english learners fall in the range  2500 - 9000 words.
When two years ago I did the test for the first time , my score was about 3500 , and I was able to read most of the english articles avaible on the web already.

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT YABLA ?

You know , always I looking for new fan way for improve my english , if you like learn english by music,  (read here) you should absolutely take a look at this website,  Yabla , it's very well made, after chose the language that you will learn , you can listen music with double subtitles , one in your native language and one other in the language that you will learn , of course if you are here , english is what you are interesting for.
I tried it for some months and was good , I could listening various english songs with eng subtitles , I could understand the 99% of the english subs and also in the rare case that I don't knowed some words, doesn't matter because below there where  secondary subtitle in italian language , so , no way to not understand the liryc , besided you have also the possibility to slow down the song if it's too much fast for you , when you do it , also the subtitles slow down, very fun, furthermore there are also many usefull gadgets, like the integrated dictionary..
But is much more that that , not only music ,because you could do the same with tv program, interview ,documentary and so on, the service is not free, anyway there are some free demo that you can try, before to decide if join.
Let me know what you think about it.

TOTALLY AVOID ENGLISH LESSONS ?

If you follow my blog since awhile you should know already that I don't like very much english lessons, I agree with who said  " languages should be lived, not learnt " , talking about this topic , some days ago I was chatting by skype with a man from Belgium , his said me that was in the same page with my way to think and moreover told me a story , when lived in Lanaken met a man called Dirk, his job was deliver drink and beer to pubs , he did french at school for years and couldn't speak a word, instead his english was very good , he learned it in pubs speaking with english people who were working there, of course is not a isolated case , there are many examples about people who learned english by themselves.

So , you should totally avoid english lessons ?
Yes , if you completely hate it , otherwise you could follow occasionally some of it , like I do.
Sometime I like take a look at some grammar for write better for example and I like follow some free english lessons videos on youtube , just look for a teacher who is not too much old school or boring , looking for enjoyable teachers , how the amazing Ronnie for example , I love this one...