#10 MIT Open Courseware

MIT Open Courseware

MIT is one of the best engineering schools in this world.
So, for a stuendt who study in engineering, this website is so precious.
Although we may not able to study at MIT,but we still can take a lecture by this site.

The website have a great classification of courses.
All courses had been classified by department.
you can easily find what you want.
Or you interest what lecture is the most popular.
It provides the link "Most Visited Courses" you can click.

Some of courses have video but some only have assignments or notes.
and you must have a great english level if you wanna learn through video.
because the professor speaks so fast and the transcript is separated form the video.
so if your english is not good enough, you have to spend more time on learning words.
and the professor may not a native speaker, the accent is also a problem.

Fortunately, some courses have been translated into chinese or some else language.
But part of courses only.
It quite is a pity.

#9RadioTime Listening Experience

I picked this radio station
1.FM - Top 40

Program:
Top 40-Pop from San Francisco, CA

As its title , was a station about hit songs from San Francisco.
I thought this station probably could stand for the fashion at San Francisco.
We could know what is the young people like to listen at there.
Even we never been there!
It had lots of songs and different types, POP,Rock,etc.
Not like the specific channel only had one kind of music.
And it had advertising time after they played severl songs.
Could be the other way to train our listening, because the conversation in advertisement usually more speedy and simply.
But it had a weakness, the station interface would not show the singer or name of the song which is playing.
So, if we heard some great songs, still have to try other way to find it out!

#8English Song

Unplayed Piano
Damien Rice & Lisa Hannigan

Come and see me
Sing me to sleep
Come and free me
Hold me if I need to weep
Maybe it's not the season
Maybe it's not the year
Maybe there's no good reason
Why I'm locked up inside
Just cause they wanna hide me
The moon goes bright
The darker they make my night

*Unplayed pianos
Are often by a window
In a room where nobody else goes
She sits alone with her silent song
Somebody bring her home

Unplayed piano
Still holds a tune
Lock on the lid
In a stale, stale room
Maybe it's not that easy
Or maybe it's not that hard
Maybe they could release me
Let the people decide
I've got nothing to hide
I've done nothing wrong
So why have I been here so long?

* *

Unplayed piano
Still holds a tune
Years pass by

In the changing of the moon

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This song is Damien and Lisa together compose for Aung San Suu Kyi.

Hoping Myanmar's government to release Aung San Suu Kyi who had been put under house arrest for many years.

Aung San Suu Kyi is National League for Democracy of Burma's Party secretary who also won the general election in 1990.

But the results were nullified by the military government.

And she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.

By a wonderful piano wasn't played and placed in a stale room to describe the situation of Aung San Suu Kyi.