Independent learning log

Date: 11.04.2014
Work done and recources used: English Center http://www.englishcentral.com/myenglish
Location and partners: Home, no partners
Time spent from-to: 22:00 - 22:30
Process of learning:  I really liked it. I learnt some interesting information.

There were a great number of video shoots. I chose one of them and passed 4 steps there.

The first step was just to watch this video. There were subtitles and while I was watching the video, I could stop it and click the word that I didn't know. And when I clicked it, there were all information about this word ( transcription, meaning, example, pronunciation). 

After watching, the next step was to learn the words. So this video played again, in that time the places of words were missed, that I saw on the first step. I typed these words and started to remember them. 

The third step was to speak the video. Using microfon, I pronounced every word that I learnt in the previous step.
And in the end, I passed small quiz vocabulary, where I could check how many words I remembered.
Cons: One can say when I passed  the second and third steps, it was a bit difficult to remember words at once. It seems to me that if I didn't write words correctly, it would be better to repeat these words for the second round or more. And so I could remember them quickly. But it depends on person.
Pros: To my mind, generally it helps you to improve your speaking(spelling), listening skills and it enables you to expand your vocabulary. Also you can compare your speech with the speech of native speaker and correct your pronunciation if it is necessary.
Accordingly, I recommend you this recource and  if you use this site permanently, you definitly improve and  practise your English. It is better and more interesting than to learn words from the dictionary and without practising to forget them sooner.