All in all, I am really pleased with our dictionary recording. We not only had a lot of fun recording, we also did a quite good job. Reading the comments, I got the feeling the people who watched the video liked it as well. Especially the idea of showing the speaker's face before explaining other important aspects of the dictionary found an echo. All of us agreed that it is nice to have a face of the person talking, it keeps people watching.
Of course, there were some things that could have been better. For example, I know that none of us would ever win the price for best cinematography but hey, we just had a lousy smartphone camera, so you better not search for the "watch in HD"-button and just enjoy our miserable but also exhilarating attempt to look professional.
Pronunciation and Grammar: We could've have spoken a little bit louder, sometimes we're hard to understand. For example, nobody got the difficult word at the beginning. Maybe we pronounced the one or other word wrong and forgot some letters here and there, but when there's a camera staring at you and you want to make a good job because you know a lot of people are going to watch it afterwards, your brain acts like you speak English for the first time in your life. True story.
Transcript:
Kate: Hello, I'm Kate and we're going to speak about online dictionaries, we've chosen the freedictionary and let's type some simple words in like walk. So we have the pronunciation of the word, the audio and different meanings of the word with plenty of example sentences and parts of speech. Also the phrasal verbs/words like walk out and plenty of example sentences.
Salome: Hello, I am Salome. So again walk. So we can see here the origin of the word like ....and punctuation. So there are also different parts of the word like then again walk is the word (examples) and the again the different definitions and so are idioms and the next part is
Giulia: Hello I'm Giulia and I'm going to explain the next part like the Thesaurus box in which you can find some useful information like synonyms and related words and antonyms. There are different colors so it's easier to find the word and we have also some pictures here one the right hand with different expressions and meaningS of the word.
So...
Kathy: Hey I'm Kathy and last but not least we have translations which you can choose. Different..different languages you can choose and references in classic literature which is not very common. And we decided to type in a difficult word...can you please do that?
Saolme: Say, what's the word?
Kate: Ubiquitous or something^^
Kathy: This word is not very common. And the structure, as you can see, is the same! Here..here...here..heere!!
Salome: Ok, ok, ok!
Kathy: the structure as you can see is the same, but because it is not that common there are fewer explanations and a fewer description...still synonyms and pronunciation...and translatiojns...and now about the main page!
Kate: So, what's inside, we have a lot of useful information here, for example medical dictionary, financial dictionary and more languages to choose.
First there are some interesting apps and also a weather forecast.
Salome: Also, we have here the word of the day, for example today's word of the day is headstrong, the next is article of the day, for example the Mi...also next is in the news, following postings are this day in history and last is today's birthdays.
Giulia: And then on the right side we have some...yeah some other boxes like the english language forum when for example you can share your knowledge other people or my word list to remember a different word you have looked at and also some games for example the famous hangman, Spelling bee to understand the spelling of the word, Match up, and at the end quotation of the day and some discussions about it. And then a stupid thing I guess: horoscope. But I guess it could be useful for someone.
Kathy: Ok so..all in all we chose this dictionary because it's clearly structured, has a lot of information and also some games to remember the words easier.
All: Thank you for your attention, bye!
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