Learn English With Laurent Garnier Newsletter#1
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1 Greetings
Hi everybody!
As you maybe know (or not) I'm building a website about sciences languages and with a specific part concerning the natural language learning and more specifically how to learn English when you're not an English native speaker. So I hope you'll find some interesting materials there. But instead of waiting for the endless construction of my website I decided to create a weekly newsletter. So here it is.
Enjoy the reading!
2 Phonetics words of the week
2.1 Vowels
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English 中文 Phonetics Example sEAt 座位 siːt Have a seat. 有座位. clEAn 干净的 kliːn Please clean the room before leaving. 请在离开之前清理房间. rEAd 读 riːd Read books in order to improve your vocabulary. 阅读书籍,以提高您的词汇量. grEEn 绿的 ɡriːn I like green tea. 我喜欢绿茶. tEEn 十几岁的青少年 tiːn Among my students there is one teen. 在我的学生中有一个青少年. mEEt 碰到 miːt That's the first time I meet you. 这是我第一次见到你. belIEve 相信 bɪˈliːv In America a lot of people believe in God. 在美国很多人相信神. recEIve 接到 rɪˈsiːv Yes, I received the package yesterday. 是的,我昨天收到包. percEIve 意识到 pəˈsiːv I perceive some irony in your remark. 在你的言论中我觉得有些讽刺.
我们可以看到有3组:
- 该 EA 如何 sEAt, clEAn, rEAd (小运动找别人3)
- 该 EE 如何 grEEn, tEEn, mEEt (小运动找别人3)
- 该 EI 和 IE 如何 belIEve, recEIve, percEIve (小运动找别人3)
3 Topic of the week
Do you know who is Jacque Fresco? You can have a quick overview in this YouTube video.
3.1 Little challenge
Try to summarize what you have understand about the work of Jacque Fresco using at least 5 lines.
4 Tips of the week
4.1 Good writing
If you haven't heard about that tool yet it's time to install this plug-in! It's called Grammarly and it's very useful. As the name says that's correcting your grammar errors (not all obviously) so it's really convinient.
4.2 Good pronunciation
Here is a really nice video with the text it is poem.
5 Feedback
This is the end of this first newsletter. I hope you enjoyed reading it. Any kind of feedback would be appreciate, if you have any suggestion feel free to leave a comment by answering to this email. If you know people that would be interested by this content, feel free to share it.
Have a nice day and see you next week.
Best regards,
Your language learning knight, Laurent Garnier