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Conversation hour pronunciation practice

By Salsita Says | Published: April 22, 2009

Have you seen the video below before? It’s the flight attendant onboard a South West airlines flight who is ‘rapping’ the welcome aboard message.
Come along to conversation hour and learn how to ‘rap’ this song. I’ve posted the words below the video.
When? Tuesday 21st April, PST 11pm
Where? The airport at languagelab.com (Click here to teleport)
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First reaction to languagelab

By Salsita Says | Published: April 7, 2009

Here is a video made by  languagelab at the recent IATEFL conference in Cardiff. It’s a video of Anna King, the DOS (director of studies) at OISE Cambridge talking about her first experience at languagelab. I’m excited about it because she met me! She also met Alistair, Scott and Caroline - unfortunately she forgot to [...]

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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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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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TOEFL speaking tips

By Salsita Says | Published: March 21, 2009

Jason Renshaw from the Renshaw Internet School of English has prepared an excellent series of short video lectures that give a thorough explanation of the six questions on the speaking section of the TOEFL ibt.
The lectures are designed to give you an overview of the question types, some suggested approaches to time management and some [...]

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