One of the most difficult problems facing non-native speakers of English is pronunciation. It is usually the largest obstacle to overcome when trying to achieve fluency. Many non-native speakers have studied grammar for many years but are unable to speak like native speakers due to their inability to pronounce the sounds of words properly. This page is designed to provide techniques to help you pronounce the sounds of the English language. Your pronunciation is the first and most important thing
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From "RP" to "Estuary English": The concept ’received ’ and the debate about British pronunciation standards Hamburg 1998 Author: Gudrun Parsons Beckstrasse 8 D-20357 Hamburg e-mail: Parsons@public.uni-hamburg.de Table of Contents Foreword ................................................................................................. i List of Abbreviations ............................................................................... ii 0. 1. Introduction .......................
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Languages‚ dialects and slang of Sweden Introduction My research will be how the language variation in Sweden looks today‚ and I will give some information about the Swedish language and other spoken languages in Sweden. I will also look into the sub-dialects called `Rinkebyswedish`‚ ´Swenglish” and slang language. Swedish is now officially the main language of Sweden and is spoken approximately by 10 million people. Although until 2009 it was not the official language. The reason for that was
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Code switching: - Definition: The practice of oscillate between two languages or between two dialects or registers of the same language. Code switching (CS) occurs far more often in conversation than in writing. According to Numan and carter the term defined as "a phenomenon of switching from one language to another in the same discourse. Trudgill‚"speakers switch to manipulate or influence or define the situation as they wish and to convey nuances of meaning and personal intention". Kinds
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Fellows and Oakley (2014‚ p. 39) state that here are many varieties (dialects) of English that are spoken throughout the world; it can be a regional (geographical area) or a social dialect (social characteristics). Crystal‚ (2013) explains that the globalisation of English means that countries around the world are taking up English and making it their own and are adapting it to
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THE QUESTION OF STANDARD ENGLISH: SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON JOHN HONEY ’S LANGUAGE IS POWER Christopher Rollason Published in Terminologie et Traduction / Terminology and Translation: A Journal of he Language Services of the European Institutions (Luxembourg: European Commission)‚ No 3. 2001‚ pp. 30-60 Abstract In the global economy to which we are now irreprievably condemned‚ there is no escaping the English language: innumerable citizens of the planet are surrounded by it‚ in their business or professional
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Biological and Physical Anthropology Language evolution as part of human evolution Language and brain: studies of neurolinguistics and perception and how language is changed through strokes Medical studies of how diseases are categorized and treated Archaeology “glottochronology” and “lexicostatistics”: how languages are related based on their shared vocabulary linguistic archaeology: how particular languages change over time‚ such as North American Indian Languages The archaeology of symbolic
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foreign language.[4] Spanish is one of the six official languages of the United Nations‚ and is used as an official language by the European Union and Mercosur. Spanish is a part of the Ibero-Romance group of languages‚ which evolved from several dialects of common Latin in Iberia after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century. It was first documented in central-northern Iberia in the ninth century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central
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Sociolinguists interested in? Sociolinguists are interested in explaining why people speak differently in different social contexts. And the effect of social factors such as (social distance‚ social status‚ age‚ gender‚ class) on language varieties (dialects‚ registers‚ genres‚ etc)‚ and they are concerned with identifying the social functions of language and the way they are used to convey social meanings. Q what do sociolinguists mean by the term variety? A variety is a set of linguistic forms
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Grandpa’s soup Why is her Grandpa’s soup so important to the poet? In my opinion the soup made by the Grandfather is important to the poet‚ because she is describing a good memory she has of her own Grandfather in real life. Often Grand-parents cook for their grandchildren and this can have a positive effect on the child’s relationship with them‚ but also help them explore new foods which have been home cooked sometimes to the family member’s own recipe. In the first paragraph of the poem the
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