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Reading pride and prejudice part two

By Salsita Says | Published: May 2, 2009

Last week’s conversation class about the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen was quite successful. We met at the Egdgware arms pub in Second Life and spent about an hour discussing the first chapter. We mostly spoke about social changes, particularly the role of women in society in the past 200 years. The discussion [...]

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TED Talks with subtitles

By Salsita Says | Published: April 6, 2009

I just stumbled across an interesting video about a project to make sure that all new TED talks have an English transcript as well as subtitles for as many languages as possible. The project doesn’t seem to be completely up and running yet, but I will certainly be keeping my eye out for it. Don’t [...]

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How to prepare for an English proficiency test

By Salsita Says | Published: March 24, 2009

Today in class we had an interesting conversation about the best ways to prepare for taking an English proficiency test such as the TOEFL iBT or IELTS. I asked the students what they thought was the best way to prepare for the test. Here are some of the things we spoke about:

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