different. It’s why you rarely see Russians (even those who lived in the States for a long time) talk like native English speakers. Why is that? Because Russian only has five vowel sounds‚ while English has 12. In Russian‚ there’s also no distinction between short and long vowels; in English‚ there are five long and seven short vowel sounds‚ along with eight diphthongs. Consonants in Russian and English are roughly the same amount. Their sounds‚ however‚ are not fully compatible. The biggest
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ENGLISH The Pronunciation of English by Somali L1 students in Sweden Testing indications of phonetic transfer through Error Analysis and Contrastive Analysis Mathias Börjesson‚ 880412 BA Degree paper‚ 15 hec Interdisciplinary Degree Project Teacher Education Programme LP01 Supervisor: Monika Mondor Examiner: Report number: Departments: University of Gothenburg/Dept of Languages and Literatures/English Course: EN1C03 - English: Advanced Undergraduate Level (linguistic essay)
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think fast and makes the mind active.. This type of games contribute more towards skillful thinking other than entertainment part. In this paper we discuss about the algorithm and scoring model for guess-the-word game in which words are guessed using vowels and consonants. INTRODUCTION By playing word guess games‚ player can test their brain’s ability in paying attention and capacity to guess the words.A main advantage of playing these games is player’s mind will be engrossed fully which will lead
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Lexical Features Structure Features and Rhetorical Devices of English Newspaper Headlines 陈伟创 ( 030224101‚ Class 1‚ Grade 2003‚ SFS‚ SCNU ) Abstract: With the development of mass media‚ newspaper is one of the major media for us to get information all over the world. Nowadays English newspaper is very popular and read all over Chine. However‚ many people still have difficulty in understanding English newspaper headlines even for some English majors. This is because English newspaper headlines
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General information about Japanese * Although Japanese is spoken almost exclusively in Japan‚ it has been spoken outside. * Before and during World War II‚ when Japan occupied Korea‚ Taiwan‚ parts of China‚ the Philippines‚ and various Pacific islands‚ locals in those countries learned Japanese as the language of the empire. * As a result‚ many elderly people in these countries can still speak Japanese. * More than the 1.2 million of the United States sometimes employ Japanese as
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physiological and psychological make-up of human beings. Dropping of consonants e.g. French n as in an (year) or bien (good) etc. → no voiced n but a nasalised preceding vowel Phoneticians found out that the sound [an] is being pronounced as [ān] anyway‚ since the nasal cavity cannot be closed off totally during uttering the vowel [a] and hence the final [n] becomes redundant. [an] is then pronounced as [ā] (nasalised a). This phenomenon is a so-called weak spot in language that is likely to change
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Ezekiel Amarh Celta Assignment 2: Focus on the Learner For this assignment‚ I interviewed Ibrahim A Rabie‚ a 46-year-old Sudanese student from my intermediate class. Ibrahim works night shifts as a security guard in west London and spends most of the day recovering from the long twelve hour shifts. Ibrahim’s first language is Arabic which he speaks at home with his wife. He came to England to live with her in 2007 and has been studying English on and off for the last year and a half. Ibrahim
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Music from all over the world presents a range of musical theories. Some of these are documented in writing whilst others are transmitted orally. Discuss and give examples with reference to both Western and non-Western music. Music Theory can be understood as chiefly the study of the structure of music. With the idea of both written and oral notation‚ it may be understood through recognized systems of indication‚ and used as systems of memorizing and transmitting the theories themselves. Western
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Comparing spoken and written communication Spoken language and web based communication are different from each other: they both have different features and aspects. Spoken language takes place in person‚ is transitory and relies on sounds. Whereas web based communication takes place online where speakers can be many miles apart during a conversation. So the features in web based communication are not present in spoken communication. A common factor which is required for a spoken conversation
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Class 1 Topic – 2 Articles Introduction An article‚ sometimes called an article adjective is a little word used before a noun to point to something The words a‚ an‚ and the are special adjectives called articles. Types of Articles Definite Article Indefinite Article Definite Article The article “the” points to a definite (particular) person‚ place‚ or thing Articles in English are invariable. That is‚ they do not change according to the gender or number of the noun they refer to Example
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