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Being a native English speaker is sort of a blessing that you never stop to think about. Obviously, when you live in a country where everyone speaks English, you take it for granted that you can speak it too. It's just normal that you can understand everyone and everyone can understand you. When you leave your country and travel around a bit, you, undoubtedly, come across other English speakers, native and non-native alike. At that point, you start to realise just how many different "Englishes"...
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French singer killing from the grave
Disturbing: Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord Claude François' grave in Dannemois (near Paris). Click for bigger. In 1967, French singer Claude François wrote a song in French called Comme d'habitude ("As Usual"), which became a hit in Francophone countries. Canadian singing star Paul Anka reworked it for the English-speaking public into the now legendary hit most [...]
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stop-lossed soldier punished for speaking out: please help
I've blogged before about Marc Hall, a stop-lossed soldier who has been arrested and imprisoned for speaking out against the unjust policy that led to his involuntarily re-enlistment. Hall - on his own time - wrote and played a song protesting stop-loss, and for that, he's feeling the full wrath of the US military. He faces court martial - a "trial" staged by his accusers - and either a lengthy prison sentence or forced deployment to Iraq.Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War,...
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Bad economy continues to hurt university students' lifestyles and graduates' job searches in Japan
1. http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20100117TDY02305.htm 73% of university grads have jobs waiting for them The Yomiuri Shimbun excerpt: >> A record-low 73.1 percent of university students have jobs waiting for them after graduation this year, a figure that also marked a record year-on-year fall and highlighted the bleak employment situation, according to government statistics. The figure was down 7.4 percentage points from a year ago, as of Dec. 1, and was the lowest since...
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Be afraid. Be very, very afraid.
What do citizens have to worry about when they live in a country with a lower homicide rate than Luxembourg and when the biggest criminal threat comes from pickpockets' Icicles. Big, scary icicles. The Swedish news wire service TT reported Friday that worried residents lodged a record 1,800 complaints with the city’s “icicle hotline” about ice and overhanging snow they feared could fall from building rooftops and threaten the safety of pedestrians below. In case you thought...
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Day trip to Metz
Last week I was fortunate enough to sneak off to Metz, France with two friends. We planned our get-away while the kids were at school, perfect as Metz is only 40 minutes from Luxembourg City. This was our second school-day field trip to Metz and I have a feeling it won't be the last.Have you heard of Metz' It is a beautiful city located in the Lorraine region of France. At two times in history it was taken over by the Germans, the last being in 1940. Metz was returned to the French after...
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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for Vietnamese learning English
One of the many reasons that Vietnamese and other foreigners need a teacher that can speak the language is because it is difficult to read English words and pronounce them correctly without first having somebody read them to you. This is because English orthography, the spelling system, is very inconsistent and contains many words from other languages such as French and Latin. Many Vietnamese students studying English rely on electronic dictionaries that can say the words out loud but these...
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Two in five Japanese thinking of doing two jobs
Having seen at the end of last year that over three in four are hurting financially, iShare followed up with a look at taking on a second job. Demographics Between the 4th and 7th of January 2010 495 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 55.4% of the sample were male, 33.5% in their twenties, 31.9% in their thirties, and 34.5% in their forties. 16.1% of the men unemployed seems a very high percentage, and with only 4% between the...
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TEFL Forum/ELT - J Issue #2 Preview Article: Devising Multiple-choice Questions, Quizzes and Tests
ELT - J Issue #2 Preview Article: Devising Multiple-choice Questions, Quizzes and Tests Issue 2 of ELT in Japan will consist of four articles: (1) "Teaching English [l] sounds vs. [r] sounds: Integrating applied phonology into the EFL classroom"; (2) "Devising multiple-choice questions, quizzes and tests"; (3) "Semantic mapping activities for the speaking class"; and (4)"Semantic mapping activities for the writing class". Full article at the link below....
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