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Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Specific skills > Speaking / pronunciation skills
'The thrill is that you're actually figuring it out on your own.
You're engaging with another language, not just parroting it...
It's an excellent way to start, and leaves the listener thinking,
Hey, Ich kann do dis.' - New Yorker, David Sedaris, humorist and
author, on learning German with the Michel Thomas Method Looking
for a convenient language course that fits your lifestyle and gets
you speaking a new language in a matter of weeks, not years? The
original no-books, no-homework, no-memorizing method is in tune
with the way the brain prefers to receive, store and retrieve
information. You'll stick with it because you'll love it. * Pick up
Swedish naturally and unforgettably without strain or stress *
Learn from listening and speaking, without the pressure of writing
or memorizing * Build up your Swedish in manageable steps by
thinking out answers for yourself * Progress to the full Foundation
Swedish course with confidence in the method. WHY IS THE METHOD SO
SUCCESSFUL? 'What you understand, you know; and what you know, you
don't forget.' - Michel Thomas Before there was machine learning,
there was Michel Thomas. For over 50 years he worked on decoding
languages by breaking them down into their most essential component
parts. These 'building blocks' are introduced to the learner
sequentially in such a way that you reconstruct the language for
yourself - to form your own sentences, to say what you want, when
you want. This unique method draws on the principles of
instructional psychology and works with the way your brain prefers
to receive, store and retrieve information. Knowledge is structured
and organized so that you absorb the language easily and don't
forget it. The method is designed to eliminate the stress which
prevents you from relaxing and allowing the brain to work in the
way which accepts learning in a seemingly painless, very exciting
and highly motivating way. HOW DO THE COURSES WORK? 'All stress
inhibits true and effective learning' - Michel Thomas During the
course, you will join Michel Thomas Method Teachers Roger Nyborg,
Hakan Rosenqvist and two students in a live lesson, learning from
both their successes and their mistakes to keep you motivated and
involved throughout the course. You, as the learner, become the
third student and participate actively in the class. Within the
very first hour you will be able to construct simple phrases by
listening and thinking out answers for yourself without the
pressure of writing or stress of having to memorize. You will learn
at your own pace, pausing and repeating where necessary, and
complete the course in about 3-5 hours. WHAT WILL I ACTUALLY
ACHIEVE? 'I am the architect who builds the house. It's up to you
to decorate it.' - Michel Thomas The Michel Thomas Method will help
you kick-start, continue, and flourish in your Swedish language
learning journey. It is not intended to get you perfectly fluent,
but it will get you speaking and using Swedish, with proper
pronunciation, faster than most any other method. It is designed to
give you a strong foundation and good working knowledge of a
language from which you can expand and later 'add decoration' to.
It is a rapid method for learning, but still requires effort and
concentration on the part of the learner. WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE
COURSE?* Start Swedish includes one audio CD. The booklet is
available to download from www.michelthomas.com. LEARN ANYWHERE AND
ANYTIME! Reclaim your pockets of free time to learn a new language!
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Foundation Swedish follows on from the Start course.
This expert guide provides yoga teachers with the skills they need
to understand how to care for and improve their voices technically,
as well as how to express themselves authenticity and effectively
as a teacher. Being able to give instruction clearly and with
emotional intelligence is part of the personal development that
each yoga teacher goes through. This book offers instruction,
support and ideas on how to embark on the journey of yoga teaching
with greater confidence and mindfulness. After the basics in vocal
projection, inflection and intonation are covered, the book details
the psychological significance of believing in your own value and
finding what makes each teacher unique and accessible to their
students. It includes advice on safe boundaries in the
student/teacher relationship, self-care, and tips on how to deal
with common teaching mishaps with grace and humour. Improvisation
techniques and personal stories from other teachers help to expand
the reader's skills further to create an affirming, practical
guidebook for all yoga teachers.
An introduction to the pronunciation and phonetics of French for
English-speaking students. Recent research has shown that adult
learners can achieve good and even near-native pronunciation by
using a phonetics-based approach. This book is the result of many
years' experience of teaching pronunciation and takes the student
in easy stages through the different sounds of French. No previous
knowledge of phonetics is required. The style is lively and
accessible and each chapter contains a set of specially designed
exercises for the sounds studied.
Die Beitrage dieses Bandes untersuchen aus einem
angewandt-gesprachsanalytischen Zugriff wissensbezogene
Aushandlungsprozesse in Gesprachen von Institutionenvertreter/innen
mit Klient/innen und ihren Zusammenhang mit institutionellen
Aufgaben und Zielen sowie den sozialen Rollen der Interagierenden.
Wissen ist in solchen Gesprachen allgegenwartig: Es bildet in
vielfaltiger Weise Grundlage und Gesprachsinhalte fur
professionelles berufliches Handeln und entpuppt sich als
interaktional ausserordentlich komplex. Die Untersuchung von
wissensbezogenen interaktionalen Praktiken, z. B. Praktiken des
Wissenstransfers, eroeffnet neue Perspektiven auf die
institutionelle Praxis. Sie dient damit der - aus angewandter
Perspektive angestrebten - Optimierung wissensbezogener
kommunikativer Prozesse.
The book contains papers presented at an international colloquium
which has taken place at regular intervals (since 1985) and which
is devoted to the contrasting study of the French language in
Europe and Canada. In 2007 the focus was on the different varieties
of French that can be observed in France and in Canada. Here
specialists from Canada, France and Germany present their research
results in the fields of phonetics and phonology, vocabulary and
lexicography, word formation, history of the French language and
the history of (French) place names in present-day Canada.
A many-faceted exploration of spoken eloquence: how it works, how
it has evolved, and how to tap its remarkable power We all know
eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we
gain more of it for ourselves? This entertaining and, yes, eloquent
book illuminates the power of language from a linguistic point of
view and provides fascinating insights into the way we use words.
David Crystal, a world-renowned expert on the history and usage of
the English language, probes the intricate workings of eloquence.
His lively analysis encompasses everyday situations (wedding
speeches, business presentations, storytelling) as well as the
oratory of great public gatherings. Crystal focuses on the here and
now of eloquent speaking-from pitch, pace, and prosody to jokes,
appropriateness, and how to wield a microphone. He explains what is
going on moment by moment and examines each facet of eloquence. He
also investigates topics such as the way current technologies help
or hinder our verbal powers, the psychological effects of verbal
excellence, and why certain places or peoples are thought to be
more eloquent than others. In the core analysis of the book,
Crystal offers an extended and close dissection of Barack Obama's
electrifying "Yes we can" speech of 2008, in which the president
demonstrated full mastery of virtually every element of
eloquence-from the simple use of parallelism and an awareness of
what not to say, to his brilliant conclusion constructed around two
powerful words: dreams and answers.
Learn to speak Italian as fluently as Italians do-an indispensable
guide, now with a timely new chapter on remote communication
Whether you're learning Italian now at an intermediate level or
looking to brush up on your Italian conversational skills, Practice
Makes Perfect: Italian Conversation offers a unique and effective
way to learn to speak the language fluently and spontaneously.
You'll get a handle on sentence building right away, through
extensive exercises that let you practice what you've learned
through engaging dialogues and numerous real-life examples. Based
on the successful approach of the Practice Makes Perfect series,
Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Conversation, Premium Third Edition
is organized around 11 units that present specific conversational
functions, from Striking Up a Conversation to Giving Opinions, each
exemplified with short dialogues that are also available as audio
recordings via app. The units provide you the opportunity not
simply to converse, but to build and support your knowledge of the
language with essential instruction on correct pronunciation,
grammar, syntax and word usage. Proven approach to learning helps
you get a handle on Italian conversation right away, and build on
your learnings as you go Supported by audio recordings, via app, of
all 60 dialogues, plus numerous exercise answers 850 exercise
questions help you practice what you've learned through dialogues
and practical examples A special conversational "markers" table in
the index shows important elements of conversation that have no
exact equivalents in English NEW: Includes a timely chapter on
remote communication (video conferencing)
A discussion of the benefits and pitfalls of citizen
science-scientific undertakings that make use of public
participation and crowd-sourced data collection. James Wynn's
timely investigation highlights scientific studies grounded in
publicly gathered data and probes the rhetoric these studies
employ. Many of these endeavors, such as the widely used SETI@home
project, simply draw on the processing power of participants' home
computers; others, like the protein-folding game FoldIt, ask users
to take a more active role in solving scientific problems. In
Citizen Science in the Digital Age: Rhetoric, Science, and Public
Engagement, Wynn analyzes the discourse that enables these
scientific ventures, as well as the difficulties that arise in
communication between scientists and lay people and the potential
for misuse of publicly gathered data. Wynn puzzles out the
intricacies of these exciting new research developments by focusing
on various case studies. He explores the Safecast project, which
originated from crowd-sourced mapping for Fukushima radiation
dispersal, arguing that evolving technologies enable public
volunteers to make concrete, sound, science-based arguments.
Additionally, he considers the potential use of citizen science as
a method of increasing the public's identification with the
scientific community, and contemplates how more collaborative
rhetoric might deepen these opportunities for interaction and
alignment. Furthermore, he examines ways in which the lived
experience of volunteers may be integrated with expert scientific
knowledge, and also how this same personal involvement can be used
to further policy agendas. Precious few texts explore the
intersection of rhetoric, science, and the Internet. Citizen
Science in the Digital Age fills this gap, offering a clear,
intelligent overview of the topic intended for rhetoric and
communication scholars as well as practitioners and administrators
in a number of science-based disciplines. With the expanded
availability of once inaccessible technologies and computing power
to laypeople, the practice of citizen science will only continue to
grow. This study offers insight into how-given prudent application
and the clear articulation of common goals-citizen science might
strengthen the relationships between scientists and laypeople.
Este volumen recoge una seleccion de las comunicaciones presentadas
en el Congreso Internacional sobre Descortesia y violencia verbal
en espanol, organizado por el Grupo de investigacion Argumentacion
y persuasion en Linguistica en la Universidad de Sevilla durante
los dias 5 al 7 de noviembre de 2008. Los estudios aqui presentados
se caracterizan, pues, por describir en diferentes corpora como el
lenguaje se utiliza para crear una relacion social armonica, o, por
el contrario, para producir un choque frontal con el receptor o
danar su imagen. En ellos se abordan las diferentes normas que cada
grupo social, situacion interactiva o tipo de texto impone. De esta
manera, hay aportaciones sobre sus manifestaciones en la sintaxis,
la prosodia o la semantica que se basan en la lengua de los medios
de comunicacion, en interacciones orales en ambitos coloquiales o
formales como, por ejemplo, los debates parlamentarios, y en
discursos del espanol peninsular y americano. El rigor cientifico
presente en todos ellos hace que sus conclusiones supongan un
verdadero avance en el diseno de las relaciones entre lenguaje y
sociedad.
Investigates the rhetorical practices that contemporary evangelical
Christian women use to confront theological and cultural issues
that stymie deliberation within their communities regarding how to
respond to sexual assault and domestic violence, with an eye toward
both compassion for victims and accountability for perpetrators.
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