BBC web site: Learning English

I always search for this kind of web sites made for learning a foreign language. When I was studying french, at highschool, I used to watch TV5 at cable tv. Internet was not a massive source of information. But now, through this BBC web site we could see how communications has improved.

Two months ago I decided to study german, by myself. DW (Deutsche Welle) web site is very different, not as BBC. English is a world known language, then BBC has this “pro thing”: they can teach it as if we already know (at least something about) it. We can see that the site does not propose the typical exercise about “grammar and vocabulary”.

They actually integrate those learning topics with information readings, games, news, etc. English can be grappled not as a distant and difficult process, but from a nearer look. DW gives you the possibility of downloading old pdf archives with a list of verbs to memorise. Boring. BBC shows how Fidel Castro's latest birthday was, and at the same time trying to teach and practice new words.

Through this site, learning english has become the instrument for showing their (our) culture, about what's happening nowdays from a different perspective: the one of the language.