#4. Podcast Review

1. Listen to one or two of the podcasts.
   - I listened to Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing: 326GG "Jealousy"   
       Versus "Envy" on iTunes.

2. Provide a link to the podcast on your blog. Give general information about the content
      and quality.
   - https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/grammar-girl-quick-dirty-tips/id173429229?mt=2
   

     The name of the podcast I listened to was "Quick and Dirty Tips." As I went to the link, I could see the grammar girl standing at the left side of the screen. At first, I simply clicked one of the list called recent tips, and it was "Donut Versus Doughnut." After I moved into that page, I found that there were a lot of ways to subscribe, download, email, print, and share at the right side of the text. Clicking an iTunes button among those, I decided to search something that I confused before in using English. In the next page, I picked one of podcasts titled "Jealousy" Versus 

"Envy," and then clicked "View in iTunes." 

 

     It was a roughly 5-minute-long podcast and about the difference between "envy" and "jealousy." In the podcast, the grammar girl talked about a word "jealous," which is used when a person has an element fear that (s)he might lose someone with an example, "A man is jealous of the best friend of his girlfriend, who is a dude." And then the grammar girl kept talking about "envy," a word for being used when a person wants what someone already has, giving an example, "A man envies his girlfriend's upcoming trip to Hawaii." 

   Thanks to the Grammar Girl, now I'm able to tell the different usages between the two words.
    

3. What do you think about the podcast? Which type of learners could benefit 

      from the podcast?

-  I think Grammar Girl was really beneficial to me because it helped me find out something unsure about grammar before. Also, most items of Grammar Girl ran within 10 minutes so it was very interesting to listen to when I was to kill time or just listen for fun. It would be useful again and again later whenever I try to search for uncertain things about grammar. 

      Basically, podcast enables learners to listen to the same material on multiple devices. Thus, podcast is suitable for the learners who are able to play with a variety of technical devices. Considering that Grammar Girl is an audio recording for the better writing, I would recommend this to the learners who are confused about little grammatical things that hinder their English writing. After all, it can bring about Grammar Girl subscribers' acquiring higher score on writing tests to some extent if the learners can catch out confusing things and use the correct grammar. Next, once Grammar Girl is downloaded, learners would feel really convenient because they can subscribe it without directly going the website everyday. So, it is fit for learners who are willing to study grammar on a regular basis but without inconvenience. Next, Grammar Girl can be played multiple times as many as the learner wants. So, if learners are exposed to it over and over again, it will decrease the possibility of forgetting important grammar tips.