{"id":6845,"date":"2023-11-19T20:08:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T20:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/?p=6845"},"modified":"2023-11-19T20:10:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T20:10:06","slug":"youtube-and-mousetraps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/uncategorized\/youtube-and-mousetraps\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube and Mousetraps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:21% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/YouTubr.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6846 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/YouTubr.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/YouTubr-291x300.jpg 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Does anyone know how long YouTube has been around? Amazingly, nearly 20 years and was founded in 2005 in the US by three former PayPal employees. Said to be the second most popular website in the world after Google, can we imagine life without it? I\u2019m often told by the younger members of my family to use YouTube when I don\u2019t know how to do something. Now that certainly worked a few weeks ago when my neighbour rang me in a panic at 06:30 in the morning to ask if we had a mousetrap as Willy, her cat had brought in a mouse \u2026 We certainly do but could I remember how to set it up? Of course not \ud83d\ude0a. So YouTube came to my rescue and I couldn\u2019t believe how many videos there are on how to set it up with a Nutella-coated raisin to attract the mouse and then let it it out later when it was running around inside trying to figure out how to escape! As you can imagine, I was the hero of the day \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A colleague recently pointed to me to a YouTube video on all the things you can do with it to help you learn English \u2013 slow down the text, read the transcript, use subtitles etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Youtube&#039;s Special Language Learning Features\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m82MImbW5C8?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may know them but if you don\u2019t, try them out, as there is a wealth of good material out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A.J.Hoge\u2019s channel is good for his uplifting and motivating style (and he speaks slowly!) and \u2018Speak confident English\u2019 has some excellent tips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are there any you can recommend?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any by the way, did you know that \u2018Tube\u2019 is an old word for TV and where the name comes from!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6845"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6850,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6845\/revisions\/6850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}