Tag Archives: ted talks

TED Talks with subtitles

By Salsita Says | Published: April 6, 2009

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 [...]

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English conversation hour - The future of books

By Salsita Says | Published: March 24, 2009

Today we began to talk about the future of ‘the book’. When I say ‘the book’ I mean the traditional kind of book, with a cover, a blurb, a spine and pages that you can turn. Everybody present agreed that the convenience of being able to read online was somewhat marred by the unpleasantness of [...]

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Using “Ted Talks” to practice listening and notetaking 1

By Salsita Says | Published: March 16, 2009

Practicing listening and notetaking is an essential part of preparation for doing both the TOEFL and the IELTS. Unfortunately, most of the example practice material is pretty dry. While it is still worth using the official practice example material in order to get a feel for the kinds of lectures you will be ‘forced’ to [...]

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