Articles, tagged with "vowels", page 4
22nd February 2010
Want to learn how to enhance your guitar sound with a talk box? After reading this article, you'll be an expert.
With a talk box the guitarist is able to alter the sound of his/her guitar. This adds a new dimension to the sound. The guitarist controls ...
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Author:
Marius Vosloo
27th January 2010
When we notice our vision is changing, we get glasses. If a person gets a tooth ache, the dentist is called. If you break a bone, you go see a doctor to have it put in a cast.
However, if we start to lose our hearing, we simply turn the volume up on ...
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Author:
Robert Boger
22nd January 2010
One of the distinctive properties of translation is creativity, by which we mean the ability of native speakers of a language to produce and understand new forms in their language. Even though creativity is most apparent when it comes to translation and s...
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Author:
Rajiv Ranjan
07th January 2010
Visual thinking creates imagination in many autistic individuals. Many think in visual pictures to help them convey and process their words. To some people they believe this is nonsense, but it is a helpful tool to realize, words are a different langua...
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Author:
Bonita Darula
06th January 2010
Learning Japanese is fun. If you've seen Japanese cartoons, if you've watched any of theiroutrageous game shows, you'll easily come up with this conclusion. After all it was the Japa-nese who introduced Pokemon, Super Mario, and Street Fighter to the worl...
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Author:
netpost0123
17th December 2009
Looked in a mirror lately to make sure you're presentable? Or at least conveying your preferred image? Hair combed? Teeth clean? No clothing malfunctions?
Probably yes, considering how few truly slovenly people I see. But I keep spotting bad writing ev...
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Author:
Liz
01st December 2009
Teaching a child to read is a process that should begin from the time your child can follow you as you point to the words in a story that you are reading to her. Once a child is able to follow your words and can even say the words with you, she is able to...
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Author:
Robert Palmer
24th November 2009
An exercise: Name a video-hosting/sharing site on the web.
Did you guess YouTube? Good for you! Now name *another* video-hosting/sharing site on the web.
Oh, kind of stuck, weren't you? Maybe you thought of Google's own Google Video (redundant now t...
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Author:
Peter Brittain
18th November 2009
Grammar has never become more important to people than now. Because of the Internet revolution, more and more people are coming out with personal blogs and websites. And on these sites, they write their thoughts, feelings and opinions. The rise of these b...
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Author:
Boris_yo
05th November 2009
When we think of love, we think of a feeling or an emotion, and love is certainly It takes an action or a movement on our part to express love. In this sense, love is the greatest power in the universe.
There are thousands upon thousands of sto...
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Author:
Brian Gosur
29th October 2009
If you're curious about how to learn how to speak Japanese (or Nihonggo, as they call it), you can begin by by appreciating just how it sounds. That's right, just start by doing some straight forward listeningJapanese has 5 vowels and 15 consonants. Howev...
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Author:
netpost0123
26th October 2009
If you want to learn Hindu because you want to speak the main official language of India you actually need to study a Hindi language tutorial.
Hindu is not a language but Hindi is.
The word Hindu originally just related to the river Indus and referr...
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Author:
Cynthia Maxwell
20th October 2009
If you're curious about how to learn Japanese (or Nihonggo, as they call it), you can begin by by appreciating just how it sounds. That's right, just start by doing some concentrated listening.Japanese has 5 vowels and 15 consonants. However, for the Japa...
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Author:
netpost0123
01st October 2009
American English has more vowel quality distinctions than any other language, so no matter what language you speak, it probably does not have as many distinctions as English. English pronunciation has several pairs of vowels which are pronounced with your...
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Author:
Ryan Denzer King
01st October 2009
One of the features that distinguish American English pronunciation from some other types of English pronunciation is the use of the so-called "tapped" t or d. This English sound is called an alveolar tap (also alveolar flap) by linguists, and corresponds...
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Author:
Ryan Denzer King