audio


 * AUDIO **

**Listening and speaking** are two of the four basic skills of language learning. Whether listening to podcasts (audio files recorded by native or non-native speakers that are posted in a website and can be downloaded to listen to in a mobile device such as an mp3 player), or recording your own voice to be heard by your students and/or the world, or have students record what they have to say about a certain topic, audio is an essential component of language learning and one that generates interest and motivation on the part of students.

I'll show you two very simple and free "online" tools for you and your students to record audio files.


 * Vocaroo **

Let's start with [|Vocaroo] and see how it works.









And now let's listen to Liya's recording during my weeklong workshop in Yakutsk, Siberia, last month.


 * Audiopal **

Now let's move on to [|Audiopal] and confirm how simple it is. And now let's listen to Maria's recording during the same workshop.







Here are two tutorials, one about [|Vocaroo], the other about Audiopal. I hope you'll find them useful.
 * Tutorials **