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Elusive Sounds

Certain sounds seem elusive.  All languages contain them and many are notoriously difficult to emulate.  For example many Koreans and Japanese struggle with “R” and “L” sounds.  In one dramatic example, a radio commercial has a Korean man attempt to correct an American’s pronunciation of the car “Hyundai”.  After several attempts the Korean admits he

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Watch Out for False Friends!

You can’t trust them.  They deceive you so easily.  I’m talking about false friends!  They may look like friends, but they’re not! Actually, I am referring to what are more properly known as “false cognates” – words that appear or sound similar in two different languages but actually mean something different.  Actually, “actually” is one

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What it is Like to Learn via the Live & Learn Training Program

This way of learning is different from traditional methods of language instruction.  This program is rather intensive.  For one thing, the student is immersed in an English-language environment.  The percentage of Cincinnati residents who are monolingual, native-English speakers is quite high.  When speaking with people in hotels, supermarkets, restaurants, and such, it is necessary that

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