The iPod's fifth birthday
A nice article on the link.
We don't have an iPod. We have the real thing. A Creative MP3 player. We have found it useful (of course) for language learning, though you have to do it in the house really. You can't really sit on the bus or train exclaiming every now and again "Voulez-vous me dire où c'est, parce que je voudrais savoir!" and such like.
I also find it useful for rehearsing readings, getting the liaisions right and stuff.
Actually I have a great respect for those who listen to iPods on the bus and the tram, especially if it's not too loud, so that you can hear the "tss bang tss-tss-tss-tss bang".
The alternative, often done, is to use one of those phones that plays MP3 files and has a speakerphone facility and just play it. No headphones. Just play it. It's at its most depressing with French rap. It's more fun when it's a group of four young women and they all join in with the song.
Our old route to the kids' school used to take us past a particular bus stop at Gradignan where we used to see a man who had the most amazing pointy ears.
Not.
His iPod headphones stuck upwards and made his ears look pointy.
We miss you, Elf-man.
We don't have an iPod. We have the real thing. A Creative MP3 player. We have found it useful (of course) for language learning, though you have to do it in the house really. You can't really sit on the bus or train exclaiming every now and again "Voulez-vous me dire où c'est, parce que je voudrais savoir!" and such like.
I also find it useful for rehearsing readings, getting the liaisions right and stuff.
Actually I have a great respect for those who listen to iPods on the bus and the tram, especially if it's not too loud, so that you can hear the "tss bang tss-tss-tss-tss bang".
The alternative, often done, is to use one of those phones that plays MP3 files and has a speakerphone facility and just play it. No headphones. Just play it. It's at its most depressing with French rap. It's more fun when it's a group of four young women and they all join in with the song.
Our old route to the kids' school used to take us past a particular bus stop at Gradignan where we used to see a man who had the most amazing pointy ears.
Not.
His iPod headphones stuck upwards and made his ears look pointy.
We miss you, Elf-man.
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