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LETTERS and PHONEMES

Words in WRITTEN ENGLISH are made up of LETTERS. However, in SPOKEN ENGLISH we use small units of individual SOUNDS (called PHONEMES) to form SPOKEN WORDS.

1. These are the LETTERS that we use in WRITING to form the WRITTEN WORDS.

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2. These are the SOUN

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One Who Hopes

Language lovers, just like music lovers, enjoy the variety. For the latter, there's Mozart, the Rolling Stones, and Beyonce. For the former, there's English, French, Swahili, Urdu  ..... the list is endless. But what about those poor overworked stude

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LETTER vs SOUND

There are a few reasons why it's difficult to pronounce the words in English. One of them is because some  LETTERS are MULTI-VALUED. A MULTI-VALUED letter is a LETTER that makes more than one SOUND. Did you know that, for example, the LETTER "A" coul

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La La Land - Your choice

Hello everyone. Have you ever watched La La Land (starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone)? 

If not, I strongly recommend you take it. I just watched it once again yesterday and still enjoyed it so much. When it was released in my country (Vietnam), many

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Written Word vs Spoken Word

Can you pronounce the following words?

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If you know how to read the PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION given beside each word, you can easily PRONOUNCE the word correctly even if you’ve never HEARD or SEEN the word before, or don’t even know the meaning of the wor

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Long Words and Pronunciation

Have you ever come across LONG WORDS and wondered how to PRONOUNCE them. You know what? You can EASILY PRONOUNCE any word in English no matter how LONG and DIFFICULT it seems to be if you know how to read the PHONETIC SPELLING (simply SPELLING of PRO

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Guess my project

Hello and Ramadan Mubarak. I have been busy with my small project and I hope to finish it soon so that I would be able to join you and see your nice topics and share some too.

By the way, could you imagine what type of project is it? This is my second

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MyEC Presents: Stranger Things

Haven't you people noticed strange things going on with the 'Latest Activity' in your profiles?

When I came into the site today, I noticed that in my 'Last Activity' there were random old comments and posts made more than one year ago... showing up as

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Legal Terms and Pronunciation

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I'm neither a lawyer nor law student! Neverthless, I know how to pronounce the LEGAL TERMS when I come across them. It's possible because I could read the PHONETIC SPELLINGS. A phonetic spelling (or phonetic transcription) is the WRITTEN F

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