The difficult sounds of English

Ebook Perfecting your English pronunciation (Second edition): Part 2 includes contents: Unit 11 The vowel æ; Unit 12 The vowels of r (ɝ and ɚ); Unit 13 The vowel ʌ; Unit 14 The vowel ʊ; Unit 15 The vowel ɔ; Unit 16 The vowels ɑ and oʊ̆; Unit 17 Syllable stress within words; Unit 18 Word stress within sentences; Unit 19 Marking a business speech.

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Ebook Perfecting your English pronunciation (Second edition): Part 1 includes contents: Unit 1 Retraining the articulation muscles; Unit 2 The International Phonetic Alphabet; Unit 3 The consonant th (θ/ð); Unit 4 The consonant r; Unit 5 The consonant l; Unit 6 The consonant ng (ŋ); Unit 7 The consonants b, v, and w; Unit 8 The consonant j or g (ʤ); Unit 9 The vowel ɪ; Unit 10 The vowel e.

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The question of whether bacterial species objectively exist has long divided microbiologists. A major source of contention stems from the fact that bacteria regularly engage in horizontal gene transfer (HGT), making it difficult to ascertain relatedness and draw boundaries between taxa. A natural way to define taxa is based on exclusivity of relatedness, which applies when members of a taxon are more closely related to each other than they are to any outsider. It is largely unknown whether exclusive bacterial taxa exist when averaging over the genome or are rare due to rampant hybridization.

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The purpose of this study is to help English learners, the third year English major students at Haiphong Private University realize some common errors when they speak English including some difficult consonants, ending sounds, intonation and stress errors and give to them some ideas how to cope with this problems.

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Diseases are the most crucial factor that reduces the productivity of animals. Proper diagnosis of diseases in field condition most of the time is difficult due to many factors. Auscultation of heart and lung sounds has vital role to play regarding the determination of health status of the animal. Since long, clinicians are dependent upon the use of stethoscope to detect the heart and lung sounds.

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The writing of second language learners of English often presents problems that are different from those found in the writing of native English speaking students. These include culturally conditioned rhetorical patterns that sound ‘strange’ to the native speaker ear as well as unfamiliar grammatical errors that are simply not found in native speaker writing.

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Cascading Style Sheets sound intimidating. The name alone conjures up images of cryptic code and syntax too difficult for the layperson to grasp. In reality, however, CSS is one of the simplest and most convenient tools available to web developers. In this first chapter, which takes a different format than the rest of the book, I’ll guide you through the basics of CSS and show you how it can be used to simplify the task of managing a consistently formatted web site. If you’ve already used CSS to format text on your sites, you may want to skip this chapter...

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Your income after law school is an important factor in determining what constitutes manageable payments on your education loans. Although it may be difficult to predict what kind of job you will get (or want) after law school, or exactly what kind of salary you will receive, it is important that you make some assessment of your goals for the purpose of sound debt management. The money you borrow will be paid out of your future earnings and may have a significant effect on that lifestyle.

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Make Millions and Make Change! is your essential guide to business and personal success. While the title of this book may sound like a get-rich-quick scheme, the methods that are shared get real people rich in the real world, even during the most difficult economic times. Building your brand into a sustainable business is an immense challenge, especially in a down economy.

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In defining a new paradigm it is difficult to know where to begin. How do you take fifteen years of medical practice in pathology and ten years of clinical observation utilizing the theories of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, homeopathy, and therapeutic nutrition and meld them into a model of biological understanding and medical practice? The answer is actually quite simple — start from the beginning and build a convincing model based upon sound physics, physiology, pathology, and clinical medicine and see if the model fits the expected outcome.

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Age-related hearing loss or presbycusis is mainly caused by changes in the inner ear. However, your genes and loud noises (such as from rock concerts or music headphones) may play a large role. Initially there is difficulty in hearing high-frequency sounds, such as someone talking. As hearing gets worse, it may become difficult to hear sounds at lower pitches. Hearing aids Telephone amplifiers and other assistive devices may be helpful. A cochlear implant (Surgery) may be recommended for certain women with very severe hearing loss.

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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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Pathology of the Head and Neck is an easy sounding title for a complex subject matter. This title stands for an accumulation of diverse diseases occurring in different organs whose relationship to each other consists in the fact that they are located between the base of the skull and the thoracic aperture.

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Nothing is difficult once you have learned it. That applies to Excel as well, and once you have learned it, you will be able to do things you never dreamed of! You will be able, to make calculations more complex than NASA did when they sent the first man to the moon! It may sound like big words, but in the case of Excel - or spreadsheet programs in general - it is quite true. Spreadsheets can process large amounts of data and give you the calculation results in no time. And when the calculations are made, you can have them presented as beautiful tables...

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This book is titled ‘Airport design and operation’. However, the reader will not find chapters devoted exclusively to airport design or airport operation. Airport design and airport operation are closely related and influence each other. A poor design affects the airport operation and results in increasing costs. On the other hand it is difficult to design the airport infrastructure without sound knowledge of the airport operation. This is emphasized throughout the book.

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