One of the most magnificent websites that I have ever seen, ScientificAmerican.com, Unlike all the magazine's website, advertising for their magazine and trying to convince you to pay for the subscription, offers you a widespread range of services on its website; As a matter of fact, the magazine is just a tiny part of their service.
The most interesting part of the website, which I want to present, is the Podcasts section. This part comprises four different categories which are 60-second science, science talk, 60-second earth and 60-second psych.
In 60-second parts you can listen to news or different pieces of information just in one minute. Besides gaining useful info about different aspects of science, earth and psychology, it is of use to English learners, who want to get to know and cultivate their American accent. The concepts are mostly broad and not too technical so that everyone, having general knowledge, can grasp them readily.
Science talk consists of interviews with science experts, but this part, being lengthy, doesn't have scripts and might not be as useful for learners as 60-second parts, in which you can have access to the exact transcript of podcast.
At the end, Scientific American is worth visiting and exploring for either technical and general purposes.
I would change this sentence:
ReplyDelete"Having been developed billions of websites, Internet is a web, in which you can almost find every thing; that is, there is nothing that you want and you can't come across it on this widespread network."
It sounds pretty awkward to me.
I think it might be better to say:
Internet represents the web consisting of billions of websites. There is almost nothing you can’t find on this widespread network.
Hi Mahdi,
ReplyDeleteI was thinking of how I would write this text. This is what I have come up with. I am sorry if you find it annoying. You may just delete this comment. It is just another way for me to practice English. And I am not a native speaker so that there may be mistakes in my version of your post.
25 years ago no one could predict that the Internet would be an inalienable part of our life. Nowadays, most people cannot imagine how to cope with their everyday activities without the Internet. Internet represents the web consisting of billions of websites. There is literally nothing you can’t find on this global network!
Recently I have come across one of the most interesting websites I have ever seen, ScientificAmerican.com. Unlike many other magazines’ websites that try to trick you into buying their subscription this resource offers a wide range of services. As a matter of fact, the magazine itself is just a tiny part of this website.
The part I find especially interesting is the Podcasts section. This section comprises four different categories that include 60-second science, science talk, 60-second earth and 60-second psych sections.
In 60-second sections you may listen to news or different pieces of information just in one minute. Besides learning useful info about different aspects of science, earth and psychology, it may help an English learner to get used to American accent. The topics are broad and not overloaded with technical details so that everyone can easily understand them.
Science talk consists of interviews with science experts. However, this section is lengthy and doesn't have scripts so that it might not be as useful for English learners as 60-second parts, in which you have a transcript of podcast.
To sum up, Scientific American is worth visiting and exploring for either technical or general purposes.