Listening Diary, Learn English Through Story ★ Johannes Gutenberg (Level 2 ) Week 2

Date and the time I began           : Tuesday, 23 February 2021 19.30 pm

     Date and the time I finished        : Tuesday, 23 February 2021 21.08 pm

     Title       : Learn English Through Story ★ Subtitles: Johannes Gutenberg (Level 2 )

    Level      : 2

 Summary                             :

              Johannes Gutenberg was born in the city of Mainz, Germany, around 1398. He was an upscale merchant Friele Genfleisch zur Laden from the giver's wife, Else Wyrich. In 1411, there was an uprising in Mainz, for which Gutenberg had to move to Strasbourg where he lived for 20 years.

To support his life while living in Strasbourg, Gutenberg made items from metal, to produce jewelry from mirrors that were sold to nuns. Until finally, he returned to Mainz and worked as a goldsmith.

 The idea for the printing press started when he worked as a goldsmith in Mainz. At that time, he was writing a pardon letter. Finally, Gutenberg made letters out of metal by using black lead to form gothic letters. In the end, they could produce 300 letterforms to complete a continuous hand shape.

After successfully repairing his printing press, Gutenberg began printing the thousands of indulgences that the Catholic church misused for money. In 1952, Gutenberg finally secured a loan from Johann Fust to create a famous Bible printing project. The Bible is also the oldest printed book in the Western world.

Later, Gutenberg printed 200 volumes in the Bible. In small part, the Bible was printed on calf skin (velum). In fact, the combined Bible was very expensive. Not only that, Gutenberg also could not make the Encyclopedia Catholicon of Johannes de Janua. Gutenberg finally died in 1468 and was buried in the Franciscan Church, Mainz.

 What I learned?

He has a strong determination and enthusiasm. Although life only relies on selling metal goods, in fact Johannes Gutenberg could become the inventor of the world's first printing press. Thanks to these findings, Gutenberg has succeeded in becoming one of the people who can give his great work to the world.

 

What difficulties that I face while listening to the recording ?

I have found no problem with these videos. The words they used was understandable and the speaker clearly said the words.

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Listening Diary, Learn English Through Story : Famous Scots (Level 2) Week 1

 

Scotland is not a large country and does not have a large population but there are many Scotland's famous and important, here are five of them. Robert Adam 1728 to 1792 made some of the finest buildings in Great Britain in the second half of the 1700s, he went to schools and universities in Edinburgh and then to Rome for five years to study about the buildings there. Then he returned to England, he worked in the new city in Edinburgh and you can see the buildings by him in charlotte square, there are many beautiful buildings by Adam in England and Scotland people came from all over Europe and America to see it. 

David Hume 1711 to 1776 was a great thinker and writer who still reads and talks about his books today because they are so important. He also wrote a very long history of England at that time, the most important book of this kind of hume entered the university of Edinburgh. When he was 12 years later he went to France and made friends with famous French thinkers such as voltaire and russo. His most important book was a treatise on human nature 1739-1740. 

The next great Scot was Robert Burns 1759-1796 scots called him Robbie or rabbi burns, he was born into a poor rural family the oldest of seven children near Air in southwest Scotland. He started writing poetry when he was a child he wrote about important things about life and loving the rich and poor and Scottish. His words still speak to us today and many Scots love his poetry. Burns was born on January 25th and that night is called Burn Night by the Scots. On the night of burns there is a special dinner not only in Scotland but for Scottish people in other countries as well they eat haggis whiskey, a Scottish food drink, and recite poetry with burns and at midnight. On December 31st in many english speaking countries people sing the words burns. When they sing langseinlama, the song's name means something like a long time ago.

 James 1736-1819 was born in Greenheck near Glasgow and did not go to school often. When he was a kid he stayed at home and his mother was his teacher who was a quick thinker and he liked to build things with his hands. He got a job building things for teachers at the university of Glasgow there, he became interested in steam engines he started a business with his friend Matthew Bolton, and from 1794 to 1824 they made 1164 steam engines. This engine changed England and the world after what the world was a different place. 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 to 1930 was born in Edinburgh went to Edinburgh University and became a doctor but he didn't make much money as a doctor so he started wrote a story about a detective named Sherlock Holmes soon Sherlock Holmes was famous, and Conan Doyle became rich and famous also he wrote many stories about Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson and also wrote a story about a man named Sherlock Holmes.

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