Sounds foreign

Ebook Learning English as a foreign language for dummies: Part 2 - presents the following content: Chapter 10: written English; chapter 11: money, money, money; chapter 12: finding a place to stay; chapter 13: on the move; chapter 14: handling emergencies; chapter 15: ten ways to speak English quickly; chapter 16 : ten favourite English expressions; chapter 17: ten (actually 11) holidays to remember; chapter 18: ten phrases that make you sound fluent in English.

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This study investigates Vietnamese heritage speakers’ investment and identities in relation to the Vietnamese dialects they are exposed to. The findings suggest that the participants constructed and reconstructed different identities and their levels of investment in language learning varied due to their experience with the social worlds.

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Forty one Jersey cross bred and fifteen Holstein Friesian cross bred cattles were presented with the history of anorexia, pyrexia and brisket /jowl /ventral edema for 3-5 days. On clinical examination animals had tachycardia, muffled heart sounds, brisket /jowl /ventral edema, positive venous stasis, abducted elbows and pyrexia. Leukocytosis with neutrophilia, significantly elevated aspartate aminotransferase and globulin values were noticed on haemato-biochemical examination.

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In recent times, „Blended Instruction‟ - an effective method of instructions utilizing e-Learning materials in English education - consists of an individual learning part, a collaborative learning part and a teacher instruction part. In the individual learning, students act out model dialogues in the WBT courseware which incorporated a high quantity of video and sound clips. In the collaborative learning, students perform the dialogues in pairs and assessed each other‟s performance.

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The trends of globalization and transnationalism have drawn researchers’ attention to the issues of heritage speakers as well as their investment and identities. Speakers of Spanish, Chinese, Korean are thoroughly studied while not much research has been done in the realm of Vietnamese heritage speakers and their dialects.

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Support for the video deficit hypothesis comes from several lines of research. Studies of language learning have demonstrated that children aged two and older can learn vocab- ulary from television. 19 Unlike older children, however, infants and toddlers are less likely to learn from video. One experiment found that children younger than two learned vocabu- lary better from real-life experiences than from equivalent video presentations.

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The first Academy Awards were handed out on May 16, 1929, not long after the advent of “talkies.” By 1930, enthusiasm for the ceremonies was so great that a Los Angeles radio station did a live, one-hour broadcast, and the Awards have enjoyed broadcast coverage ever since.The number and types of awards have grown and changed over the years to keep up with the development of the motion picture industry.

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The whole of this chapter contains an original record, being a distinct narrative of the discovery of America by COLUMBUS, written by his own son, who accompanied him in his latter voyages. It has been adopted into the present work from the Collection of Voyages and Travels published at London in 1704, by Awnsham and John Churchill, in four volumes folio; in which it is said to have been translated from the original Italian of Don Ferdinand Columbus, expressly for the use of that work.

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Words of foreign origin are referred to as borrowed words or loanwords. A loanword is usually imported to Chinese by phonetic transliteration if a translation is not easily available. Semantic transliteration is seen as a good tradition in introducing foreign words to Chinese. Not only does it preserve how a word sounds in the source language, it also carries forward the word’s original semantic attributes. This paper attempts to automate the semantic transliteration process for the first time. ...

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Starting from the in situ quality of waterbodies themselves and working backwards to address threats to quality sounds like simple common sense. It is, but it is not how one would describe the current regulatory system. The focus of the current system is on specific numeric discharge limits applied to a precisely defined universe of pollution sources. The quality of surface waters themselves is a binding regulatory issue only if quality is adequately monitored and if point sources are found to be the source of the problem. Effluent taxes could play an important role in...

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It is undeniable that English has become the most popular foreign language in Vietnam nowadays. Nevertheless, among the millions of people speaking English in Vietnam, there are many people who make mistakes in pronunciation. This creates some typical features of so-called “Vietnamese English”. This paper focuses on the mistakes made by Vietnamese users of English when pronouncing the four English sounds /∫/, / /, / / and / /. Reasons for the mistakes and some tentative suggestions to mitigate the problem are then discussed.

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When we got close to the middle of the river, the guidesuddenly began making a low hooting sound. It was a signalof some kind, but for whom? We assumed he must be com-municating with the North Korean border guards he knew.We’d heard that some North Korean guards were in contactwith people in China, and some had supposedly even spokento foreign journalists who crossed this same river in search of interviews. We were denitely alert, but not fearful. Not yet.

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he International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)[note 1] is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association as a standardized representation of the sounds of oral language.[1] The IPA is used by lexicographers, foreign language students and teachers, linguists, Speech-Language Pathologists, singers, actors, constructed language creators, and translators.[2][3]

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Readings for the course are attached. The readings come from a series of articles provided in a bulk pack. The volume of material is not overly burdensome for a course of this type, but some of the material is difficult. All readings should be done prior to the class for which it is assigned. In general, I have tried to pair academic papers with recent industry reports, with the goal of marrying sound theory and empirical analysis with relevant current events and practices. Class sessions are organized with the same goal in mind. ...

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New Headway Upper-Intermediate Pronunciation Course is a practical and imaginative addition to the New Headway English Course. Its aim is to help students to express themselves both clearly and confidently, by training them in the key areas of pronunciation, in particulary the production of individual sounds, word and sentence stress and intonation.

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What is the difference between ən and ən? Remember the conventions used in the dictionary: - an italic letter shows a sound which is sometimes elided. The main pronunciation - which foreign learners are recommended to use - includes the sound. So for distant 'dɪst ənt the recommended pronunciation is 'dɪst ənt. - a raised letter shows a sound which is sometimes inserted. The main pronunciation does not include this sound. So for the recommended pronunciation is 'bʌt n. EXERCISE 31 AIM: To interpret the symbols ə and ə quickly and correctly. In some of the following words, the...

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ESL students, TOEFL and TOEIC test takers, and all others for whom English is a second language and who want to improve their pronunciation will find this book and compact disc combination especially instructive. The new second edition presents a significantly increased number of exercises, all of them providing practice in every sound that is specific to American-style English. Emphasis is on stress and intonation patterns in conversational English. Recognition of these patterns is essential to fluent speech and listening comprehension.

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In fact, you should be proud that you speak English with an accent. A "foreign" accent tells people that you speak at least two languages. And the world would be very dull if we all sounded the same.

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One of the best and probably the most popular CAE-coursebook that combines systematic training in exam techniques and thorough development of advanced level language skills. A comprehensive training and preparation for the CAE exam. Expert exam training develops sound strategies for tackling each task type. Genuine exam practice thoroughly prepares students and builds up their confidence.

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Human beings communicate in four ways.We listen, speak, read, and write.When you were a baby the first thing you did was listen to the world around you. You recognized voices; you were startled by noises; you were soothed by music. Then you began to imitate the sounds you heard and you experimented by creating your own sounds. You learned that crying brought attention, words identified things, and that linking words together made meaning. Then you learned that symbols on a page held unique meaning, and you learned to read.

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