Twitter Chat#langchat

Today I joined a twitter chat #langchat, which topic is foreign language. It is really amazing that I can see so many people post their thoughts and share useful links at the same time, and I scroll down find out something I really interested on about foreign language learning.

I found a website called"Speak to the Future", there is a learning campaign named "1000 words challenge", the writer said "not everyone will become a fluent linguist, but the aspiration of everyone to have 1000 words in another language is realistic and achievable". I found this quite convincible so I decided to give a try, sign in with my Facebook account and the screen begin to show japanese words with English explanation. After introduce those words, the system will test the meaning in English immediately with time limit. Since I have learned a little Japanese before, the result is fine and I felt really good about this learning website because I think I  can actually learned something might useful in future. (The picture below is my test result)

Overall, I found twitter chat is really form for professional development because it provides so many ways and possibilities for both educators and learners to follow. You are the center of learning, you can choose what content you'd like to follow and browse. Moreover, you can find people just like you, share common interest and have connected through this way.