Spreading the World… Silbo Style 3 A simple language legacy After wishing Mendoza farewell I head for the tourism office to pick up a few maps. My stop not only yields directions, but more insight i...
Spreading the World… Silbo Style 2 If you can’t blow, you must go! Though the whistling language hasn’t reached the level of the early days, there’s no denying it’s making a comeback. The sc...
Spreading the World… Silbo Style By Susan Zimmerman Discovering an ancient whistling language on a tropical Atlantic island 1 All eyes and ears are upon teacher Isidro Mendoza when he enters the cla...
Naipaul Speech and Style in His Own Words 1)Horace: Your style, that is a much-discussed 2)phenomenon. Naipaul: Yes. Horace: I even heard someone who had computed the average number of letters in a wo...
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The Sound and Style of American English-tape 2 Dr.David Alan Stern LESSON 1: SEPARATING THE HARD SOFT VOWELS Dr.David Alan Stern [LANGUAGE NOTE: Second language English speakers form almost any language have at least some trouble separating the hard...
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Course #1 LESSON 1: THE MUSIC OF AMERICAN SPEECH Dr.David Alan Stern IN THIS LESSON THE TAPE TEACHES YOU THE INTONATION (PITCH CHANGE) PATHERN WHICH IS CHARACTERISTIC OF WELL SPOKEN, STANDARD AMERICAN ENGLISH When it is spoken well, American speech h...