Blog of the Two Hands Approach to the English Language

in your hands - video

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Charlie Winston's video In Your Hands shows the frustration of joblessness coupled with the need to leave things and let the Divine take care of them. Check out the official music video at realworldrecords or myspace. A bit reminiscent of the angst of the Show of Hands Witnessalbum.

simple English wikipedia

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For those EFL or ESL students out there: Simple English Wikipedia

video: jerry lewis goes rhapsodic on the typewriter

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guitarist jim weider's pulse CD cover

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jim weider's pulse CD cover shows a wonderful picture of clasping 2 hands surrounding or protecting a glowing light...

dinner at Omar Kayyam's, and George Mardikian's first experience in an English-speaking country

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George Mardikian's initial experience in a country where a language other than his native tongue was spoken is very similar to my first few weeks in South Korea. I left for South Korea in 1997 to teach English there, but only partially mastered the Korean alphabet and a few greetings and numbers only by the time I arrived there. I remember dining on kim bap (Korean sushi) nightly for a week or so while I firmed up my understanding of what went into the other items on the menus. Below...

ben harper video - with my own two hands

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naomi campbell helps literacy and medicare causes in Romania; Lucian Blaga

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Supermodel Naomi Campbell has done some charity work for medicare, literacy, and business education in Romania and even is interested in charity work in Turkey, visiting Emine Erdogan, the wife of Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, while she was in town to view a Formula One race. Perhaps she missed reading the poems of philosopher and poet Lucian Blaga, which I am sure give a much broader scope to the range of Romanian thinking and literature. He was...

Madeleine Ball on course work and Wikipedia; day of typewriters

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Madeleine Ball is a scientist who documents some of her observations and finds in her MadPrime blog. She wrote in 2007 about Martha Groom's students who were required to add or edit articles at Wikipedia rather than write term papers. Despite the fact that some of the articles were either deleted or incorporated into other entries, "the fact that Groom has identified features that get students more involved�a broad audience and sense of ownership of their work�might help...

English pronunciation and phonetic representation (part I)

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TEST YOUR ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION Once you've learned to correctly pronounce every word in the following poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. If you find it tough going, do not despair: you are not alone. Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye,...

maui luau storyteller

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