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ESL: Pronunciation Practices, Tips & Tricks to Help You Sound Great!

Pronunciation is always a big challenge when speaking a language that is not your own. No matter how hard you try, there are always some sounds in a foreign language that your tongue and lips simply will not...

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Mastering the Kanji - a how to guide

When it comes to any task of this magnitude, you first need the right attitude. What I mean by this is that if you come into this task believing you are going to fail, then you will. If you always believe you...

2 comments    study guide writing japanese
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Recollections of Learning Chinese Mandarin at The Defense Language Institute

A 37 week intensive basic Chinese Mandarin class at the Defense Language Institute did much to stimulate my interest in learning foreign languages for conversational fluency. It also led to a career studying and working on Chinese language and cutural topics. The six class periods we had each day were extremely interesting and challenging.

2 comments    cold war vietnam war vietnamese
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The Stages of Second Language Acquisition

How do humans learn a second language? There are five stages that second language learners go through when acquiring the foreign language.

6 comments    language stages second language
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The Psychology of "Inception": Planting Ideas and Manipulating Memories

In this summer’s blockbuster Inception, Dominic Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his team of thieves delve into the minds of unwitting dreamers to extract valuable information. In one encounter, Cobb is approached by powerful businessman, Saito (Ken...

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Rosetta Stone - Will You Become Fluent

If you want to know why Rosetta Stone's share price is going down, it's because people aren't lining up in droves to buy their products. I met an employee of the the Rosetta Stone company through a broken down battery, taco bell and picking up a...

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Teaching Guidelines for Spoken English Course in India & its Benefits

For India English is a foreign language but it is on high demand for job, higher studies and so on.Thus, learning English becomes important but people realise it very late. Then comes the need of Spoken English course. To offer a maximum benefit to the students some guidelines offered for teaching....

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Fluency Building Phrases in Japanese

Japanese phrases that are used everyday and will help fill in those gaps in conversation and build fluency. All phrases shown have audio examples added for pronunciation.

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common abbreviations for English learners - improve your fluency!!

Hi! Are you learning English? Do you find it difficult sometimes to understand people because they abbreviate, contract words and join them together ? Hopefully this page will help you gain more understanding...

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Improve Your Child's Reading Comprehension Skills by Building Knowledge

To improve your child's reading skills, you need to work on both decoding and building general knowledge. Find a list of knowledge building books for preschool and early elementary school students.

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