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4 days ago by admin

A complete self-help guide on accent reduction and accent improvement! The article includes step by step guidelines, along with additional resources. My experiment (I wish I had done it years ago) with different approaches and some commercially available tools on accent softening are also incorporat ...

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7 days ago by hannaenrio

My flight experience was pretty weird one, although everything went ok. It is obvious that people are really crazy about the pork flu and in Madrid and Rio airports there were people with masks, even in the flight from Tenerife to Madrid, there was this elderly lady with a mask. They also handed us ...

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7 days ago by loseitright

As many of you would have known by now, my school has been in the spotlight recently for being the worse-infected H1N1 community-transmission cluster in sunny Singapore. There are now like 51 confirmed cases. Personally, I think that the entire H1N1 crap is just a big hoo-ha for world governments to ...

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8 days ago by Nick

Sometimes the language barrier we face can be a challenge in even the most familiar of situations. I was just feeling a bit hungry so I decided to head down to the corner 7-Eleven and pick up something for lunch. I looked through their refrigerated section and found a delicious looking mixed vegitab ...

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9 days ago by stace09

Although Marcelo had arranged for a car to take me to the bus station, where I was confident I could pick up my pre-purchased ticket and board the correct bus to Arraial do Cabo, a beach town a few hours from Rio de Janeiro, when the driver arrived, he expected to be told where to go. “Omnibus…” I s ...

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12 days ago by Anwyn

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs spouts what keeps recurring as an especially jarring note in Obama’s mealy-mouthed nothings over the fraud and violence in Iran: “He’ll continue to speak out in support of those that are seeking to demonstrate and do so in a way peacefully,” White House press ...

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13 days ago by biscuitinabasket

… yes I really did! This memory came flooding back last night, after my ex sent me a message on MSN that our mutual friend (lets call her E) gave birth to baby girl last week. E (bless her) is one of the most unique people I have met. By unique I definitely one in 6 billion - there can only be one o ...

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14 days ago by Fiona

I start back with my Italian language lessons in a couple of weeks, and after much harassing from Alf, I’ve started revising some things in my own time from school books he’s bought me when back in Italy. I thought I’d start with going over prepositions, as this is one thing I can never get right, b ...

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15 days ago by admin

When I first came to America, I recall that I continued to think in my mother tongue, even when talking to my English colleagues or in a meeting at work.....However, lately I find myself thinking in English most of the times.... Our brain and thinking process adapt to the new culture and new lnaguag ...

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17 days ago by Anwyn

Mr. Jonathan V. Last, here, seems very opposed to and disgusted by the idea of men in the delivery room during the births of their children. Other than that, and the fact that I too despise the expression “we’re pregnant,” I don’t know what the hell he’s talking about. It wasn’t until the late 1960s ...

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