8/10/2023 0 Comments Usher confessions vinyl recordGo to and click on "Confessions of an English Learner." Or write to and type "confessions" in the subject line, and please tell us where you are from. ![]() You can find more stories about misunderstandings and share your own. The good thing is, he writes, I would never, never confuse Koala with Korea again. Mohn-Duh says his friends looked at him wih confused and astonished expressions.įinally, they asked me - why did you want to go to the Korea Sanctuary to take pictures with Koreans? Then I knew that I made a big mistake that is because the pronunciation of Koala and Korea are quite similar and it always confuses me a lot.īut Mohn-Duh found the happy ending. I told them: ‘Hi, guys, you know what? Yesterday, I went to the Korea Sanctuary to take pictures with them.’ And because we all come from different countries around the world, English is the common language for us to communicate with each other. Later, he writes:Ī koala I decided to share this wonderful experience with some of my friends who I met in Australia. While in Australia, Mohn-Duh went to see koalas at a protection center in Brisbane, Queensland. He says he was very embarrassed by one mistake he made. He said he had visited there to improve his English ability. Mohn-Duh from Taiwan wrote about something funny that happened to him in Australia. We would like to tell about one of the new additions. JUNE SIMMS: Thanks to all of you who have shared your experiences on our new blog Confessions of an English Learner. Now, there are blog contributors from fifteen American cities. ![]() Interested in learning more about vinyl? John Meyers has the blog for you. But, that said, I mean I really think it comes back to a tangibility factor.” Vinyl tends to be warmer and richer and CDs are colder and more brittle, in a sense. JON MEYERS: “There is a palpable audio difference. Jon Meyers says music sounds better on vinyl. Now, he puts together about three fairs a year. He began to help organize vinyl record fairs in the Washington, DC, area about three years ago. He started his career as an employee at a record store just as vinyl recordings were falling from favor. You know, you just, you see an album, and you’re like ‘I really need that album,’ and so you buy it.”įorty-five-year-old Jon Meyers has worked in the music industry for years. And it just led to people trying to investigate and actually listen to stuff so instead of being sort of, ah, force-fed things through radio or by the major labels on CD it was more of an organic process of discovery of things from the fifties or the sixties or the seventies.”ĬHENAE BROWN: “Yes, I bought a couple of albums today that I wasn’t expecting to buy, but they were, they called to me. TIM HARRIS: “The randomness and the, ah, you know the fact there’s a lot of obscure things you were never gonna be able to find on a CD that you could find on vinyl. He says he loves the element of surprise connected to the used records market. After it closed, he began selling used records to make a living. Harris worked for a reggae music record label for fifteen years. Tim Harris is among about forty sellers at the DC Record Fair. I like this, it’s exciting to find records that, you know, came out twenty years ago and you can buy it for two dollars.” You know, instead of just going on iTunes and buying it. She told us she did not even have a turntable for playing them.ĬHENAE BROWN: “I like the idea of buying something older. She bought ten albums for about twenty dollars at the fair. And, hundreds of people were waiting to buy.Ĭhenae Brown is a nineteen-year-old college student. Tens of thousands of vinyl recordings were on sale at the Record Fair. There were many of them at a recent DC Record Fair held in Silver Spring, Maryland. Their biggest fans can be found among young people. By this time most music lovers had stored or thrown away their vinyl albums.īut vinyl records are now making something of a comeback. Then, a few years later, music CDs were developed for mass market. They could be played on smaller devices as well. Cassettes were smaller and easier to carry around. ![]() In the nineteen eighties, cassette tape recordings began to outsell vinyl records.
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