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Showing posts with label Interesting links. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Interesting links. Show all posts
20 Nov 2012
7 Nov 2012
22 Oct 2012
PERSONALITY
Some interesting links on PERSONALITY:
- Learning English CROSSWORD Adjectives of Personality
- Learning English QUIZNET Adjectives describing Character
Graphology
Handwriting Personality Quiz
What does your handwriting say about YOU?
16 Oct 2012
9 Oct 2012
The Guardian Q & A series
Every week the British newspaper, The Guardian, chooses people who have been in the news recently, and publishes a short interview with them called Q & A: The Guardian Q & A series
1 Oct 2012
Howdyusay...?
How do you say...?
Spanish and English are two very different types of language, and this is especially true when it comes to pronunciation. In Spanish, we hit all the words as they come out in a sentence. However, in English, some words are more important than others. The words that are important are called strong words.The words that are not as important are called weak words. Sometimes words have a strong form and a weak form depending on whether we pronounce them in context or in isolation, fast or slowly.In general, we could say that when a not-so-important word is pronounced fast and in context, the weak form appears because the word is linked to the word that precedes or follows it. A typical example is the auxiliary word have. If you pronounce it together with, for instance, the modal verb might, the slow pronunciation of MIGHT HAVE would be very different from the fast pronunciation, where linking between the two words happens (a phenomenon that in Linguistics is called liaison) and a weak form of have appears.
To help you learn this difference, there is a free online talking dictionary of English pronunciation on howjsay.com. Type the words MIGHT HAVE in the search box and see what happens.
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