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  tawfeeq April 4, 2014 20:42

  Good evening dear....
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  Wall-E[JAZZ] March 30, 2014 2:49

  Hi Galina,

  Thanks for your warm response! below links are really helpful. u have gave me reasons to stay here for long. Nice to meet you.

  Have a nice day!

  Jazz
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  Gabriel Sowrian March 29, 2014 23:42

  
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  tawfeeq March 29, 2014 18:25

  Good evening Galina . How are you ? How is everything in your side ? It is nice to see very beautiful comments of you on my page . Your appearance on it delights it and gives me pleasure.
  I was busy last months .

  Hope to see you around next days . Thank for being very close friend of mine .
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  Robbie March 26, 2014 4:56

  Hi Galina!

  Thanks a lot for visiting my page as well as leaving a warm message! I heard about the celebration of happiness by the United Nations on news. It's quite interesting to have such an important event considering our world is filled with different negative news.

  Happiness for me is having a peace of mind, enjoying hanging out with my loved ones (friends are included of course :P) and most of all, being grateful for the wonderful things that happened and still happening in my life. Life is really full of surprises and even though I experienced a disaster last year, it made me stronger and be appreciative about in many things......

  I hope you'll never lose your optimism and passion to serve others through your profession as an educator. I'm happy to tell you that our friendship is one of the best miracles that I will treasure!

  Stay happy and take care!

  Robbie : )
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  Gabriel Sowrian March 25, 2014 14:40

  WEAK and STRONG forms

  In English, some words have TWO WEAK FORMS – one before a CONSONANT sound and the other before a VOWEL sound. One of the words with two WEAK pronunciations is the preposition ‘of’.
  
  1. ‘of’ is pronounced /ə/ before a consonant sound.
     E.g. I ate a slice of pie. /ə paɪ/
  
  2. ‘of’ is pronounced /əv/ before a vowel sound.
     E.g. I ate a slice of apple pie. /əv ˈæpl/

  
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  keeepsmile March 24, 2014 11:30

  Hi Galina,

  Thanks for your wishes! I will also wish you much happiness.

  Have a nice day !
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  Gabriel Sowrian March 21, 2014 19:57

  Reading Phonemic Transcription [10]

  
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  Asif Ali, Zindani. March 20, 2014 17:23

  How have you been? Jelly bean!

   Long time no see!
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  Gabriel Sowrian March 16, 2014 17:18

  WEAK and STRONG forms

  
  Some words in English have two pronunciations – one when they are STRESSED and the other when they are NOT STRESSED. Let’s take the word ‘at’ as an example.
  
  1. I want you to look at /ət/ the crowd. (weak form)
  2. What are you looking at /æt/? …….. (strong form)
  
  Most of the words with a STRONG and WEAK forms are prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, articles and auxiliary verbs. These words are not usually stressed, so the unstressed pronunciation (weak form) is the usual one. The weak form usually has the vowel /ə/ or no vowel.
  
  There are about fifty words with two forms - strong and weak. I had to constrain the list to fourteen words as the space is limited. Remember, there are also some words that have more than one weak form. So, take the initiative to find the other words and their weak forms.
  
  Here are some resources that could help you to understand the weak forms better:
  
  You’ll find this video very useful!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzkzA77RMzg#t=39
  
  This page has a list of weak forms.
  http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/support-files/weak-forms-lis...

  

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