Learn English With Laurent Garnier Newsletter#1

1. Greetings
2. Phonetics words of the week
- 2.1. Vowels
3. Topic of the week
- 3.1. Little challenge
4. Tips of the week
- 4.1. Good writing
- 4.2. Good pronunciation
5. Feedback

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

English	Español	Phonetics	Example
sEAt	asiento	siːt	I prefer to sit in the passenger's seat.
			Prefiero sentarme en el asiento del pasajero.

clEAn	limpio/a	kliːn	I need to put on a clean shirt.
			Necessito ponerme una camisa limpia.

rEAd	leer	riːd	I read the newspaper every day.
			Yo leo el periodico todos los dias.

grEEn	verde	ɡriːn	Green is my favorite colour.
			El verde es mi color favorito.

tEEn	adolescente	tiːn	Teens need a place where they can meet after school.
			Los adolescentes necesitan un lugar donde encontrarse
			después del colegio.

mEEt	encontrarse	miːt	I met someone today who said he knew you.
			Me he encontrado con alguien hoy que dijo que te conocia.

belIEve	creer	bɪˈliːv	I believe God exists.
			Yo creo que Dios existe.

recEIve	recibir	rɪˈsiːv	Yes, I received the package yesterday.
			Si, recibi el paquete ayer.

percEIve	percibir	pəˈsiːv	I perceive some irony in your remark.
			Percibo cierta ironia en su comentario.

Podemos notar que hay 3 grupos:

Los EA como sEAt, clEAn, rEAd (poco ejercicio para encontrar otros 3)
Los EE como grEEn, tEEn, mEEt (poco ejercicio para encontrar otros 3)
Los EI y IE como belIEve, recEIve, percEIve (poco ejercicio para encontrar otros 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