April Fool's Day
I never really liked "practical jokes" as a kid, and April Fool's Day is all about practical jokes of one type or another. Still, April Fools is a big day in the USA, as it is in many other parts of the world, and it's good for you to know about it.
The jokes can be as simple as telling you that your shoes are untied, to having pizzas delivered to you... and you have to pay. Others can be mean spirited with their jokes and say horrible things. A serious prankster may suggest that your dog died, or that the police are looking for you.
To me, most of the "jokes" people play on April Fool's Day aren't funny, but they do. :)
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Monday, March 19, 2012
New Videos To Restart April 2nd
I'm filming/shooting the next batch of videos for Joseph Teaches English (JTE) and plan on uploading several per week throughout the month of April. I have a whole laundry list (perhaps I should make a video from that idiom too) of ideas.
Thank you to all those that have been watching.
Have a good rest of March and I'll see you in April.
Thank you to all those that have been watching.
Have a good rest of March and I'll see you in April.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Joseph Teaches English
Hello, welcome to my blog. The topics will be in relation to my http://www.youtube.com/user/josephteachesenglish (JTE) channel at YouTube.
Back in 2009, my wife and I opened a YouTube channel called Italian Lessons 101. Our intent was to make at least 6 videos, but we really didn't know where to start. Our first video is really poor. The camera wasn't HD, the sound went in and out, and we really looked nervous. We made a few videos and then sort of forgot about it. A few months later we checked back in, and we had accumulated many views. So we decided to make more videos. The common thread in my video production is fun.
The difficult part for me, was that I am not a native Italian speaker, and our videos had to be kept very simple. At the beginning of 2012 I thought I should try to make ESL style videos. I love the English language and I've wanted to make videos with definitions of words. A few years back, I made several animated videos called "Animated Definitions". Perhaps I should upload some of those the JTE... they mostly dealt with slang.
In addition to my JTE (JosephTeachesEnglish) videos and the Italian language videos I'm an animator. My son and I are working on a project right now, and my time is really limited for other projects at the moment. However, I have a growing list of topics that I can't wait to get to for JTE.
Thanks to all that watch my videos.
Joseph
Back in 2009, my wife and I opened a YouTube channel called Italian Lessons 101. Our intent was to make at least 6 videos, but we really didn't know where to start. Our first video is really poor. The camera wasn't HD, the sound went in and out, and we really looked nervous. We made a few videos and then sort of forgot about it. A few months later we checked back in, and we had accumulated many views. So we decided to make more videos. The common thread in my video production is fun.
The difficult part for me, was that I am not a native Italian speaker, and our videos had to be kept very simple. At the beginning of 2012 I thought I should try to make ESL style videos. I love the English language and I've wanted to make videos with definitions of words. A few years back, I made several animated videos called "Animated Definitions". Perhaps I should upload some of those the JTE... they mostly dealt with slang.
In addition to my JTE (JosephTeachesEnglish) videos and the Italian language videos I'm an animator. My son and I are working on a project right now, and my time is really limited for other projects at the moment. However, I have a growing list of topics that I can't wait to get to for JTE.
Thanks to all that watch my videos.
Joseph
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