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Learning Languages

Through Digital Medias

Marcus Vinicius Marques Pessoa

2009

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A new descovery

• Why Study Language?

• What means digital media?

• How do you do?

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A new descovery

• "I speak English, so I don't have to learn a

foreign language...."

• Right?

According to the CIA World Fact Book, only 5.6 % of

the world's total population speaks English as a

primary language.

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Why Study Language?

1. To increase global

understanding

2. To improve

employment

potential

3. To increase native

language ability

4. To sharpen cognitive

and life skills

5. To make travel more

feasible and

enjoyable

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What Will Globalization Do to Languages?

• Pizza

• Pic-nic

• Choffeur

• Abajour

• Bureau

• Guichê

• Coffe-break

• Jobinsight

• Toillet

• Happy hour

• Soutien

• Lingerie

• VIP

• Play off

• Software

• Marketing

• Site

• Brother

• Marketing

• Fashion

• Catch-chup

• Gay

• Hamburger

• Drive-in

• Show

• Slogan

• Office-boy,

• Drink

• Play-ground

• Free-lancer

• Overdose

• Shopping

center

• Short

• Feed back

• E-mail

• Fast-food

• Internet

• Joystick

• Modem

• Mouse

• Outdoor

• Self-service

• Vídeo-game

• Hot-dog

• Wireless

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What means digital media?

Digital media (as opposed to analog media) are usually electronic media that work on digital codes.

•Cellphones •Compact disc •Digital video •Digital television •E-book •Internet •Minidisc •Video game •Game systems •and many interactive media

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Acessories

Microphone (mic) Speaker

Headset

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•www.englishtown.com •www.livemocha.com •www.sharedtalk.com •www.learning-languages-online.info/ •www.learnenglish.de/

Sites

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•Talk to me kids •Rosetta Stone •Euro Idioms

Softwares

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www.orkut.com

www.facebook.com

www.linkedin.com

Networks

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Games offers you a lot of expressions, and tips

Games

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1. Movies 2. Musics 3. Digital Books 4. Messengers (skype, msn,yahoo,gtalk...) 5. Blogs 6. Radio 7. Soap oprah 8. Etc,

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“Some time ago I used to leave things to tomorrow,

until I decided to do things today. So nowadays I have

harvested what I’ve planted”

Marcus Pessoa

THANK YOU

American Latin memorial at São Paulo - Brazil.