EDTC 300,  Learning Project

Hopping On The Tik Tok Trend

I feel like I am running out of places to learn from and this week was a challenge. There seem to be a ton of places to learn from but many apps and websites charge. I found a huge lost of websites but they all require a subscription. Does anyone know of any websites or apps to learn languages from for free?

Since I have seen so many people learning from Tik Tok I wanted to try it myself. I was surprised that their were so many people wanting to teach others on Tik Tok. This week was reassuring and really interesting. I watched many many videos this week and learned from many many creators. Some of the videos were teaching me the basics like hello, bye, and how are you which I have already learned so it was an opportunity to test me on what I remembered. One video I found taught me tricks to some ukrainian words related to english words. It was cool to see similarities in the lnaguages cause I often think they are disconnected.

My favourite creator to learn from is @Ukrainian.with.ira and I will link some of her videos below

This creator is so awesome and has thousands of videos to learn from! She taught me some things I didn’t even think to search about. One video explains that word order isn’t important in Ukrainian which I never would have expected because it is so important in English. She also has videos appreciating Ukraine because it is such a beautiful country.

Overall, I really liked learning from Tik Tok because of all the different creators available. The videos were really short but I could watch as many as I wanted because there was so many. I also loved the video options and getting to learn from multiple creators. As well, it was super convenient to watch some videos while on the bus, or eating lunch and get some learning in.

2 Comments

  • Allison Higgins

    Hi Meghan! I am feeling the same with regards to finding more platforms as we progress through this journey. I think that one platform can help in a multitude of ways though, so that might be helpful to keep in mind 🙂

    I also really enjoyed Tik Tok. Keep up the awesome work 🙂

  • Amy

    Hi Meghan-

    I’m glad I wasn’t the only one late to the learning on Tik Tok trend! I did the same thing a few weeks ago with my project. Until I actually explored Tik Tok I thought it was all silly videos for entertainment- I had no idea yo could learn so much! I’m glad to hear you also found it helpful 🙂

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