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5 Words That Don’t Mean What They Used to Mean
November 13, 2018 by Jan ShawkeyLinguist John McWhorter "traces the evolution of five words that have spent millennia drifting from one meaning into another...Category: Language, Special: Articles, Words-Phrases-SentencesComments Off on 5 Words That Don’t Mean What They Used to Mean
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More Help Understanding Native English: 19 Super Common Word Pairs That Reduce
October 22, 2018 by Jan ShawkeyCategory: Language, Special: Videos, Words-Phrases-SentencesComments Off on More Help Understanding Native English: 19 Super Common Word Pairs That Reduce
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How to Improve Your American Accent: Understanding Schwa
October 17, 2018 by Jan ShawkeyCategory: Language, Special: Articles, Words-Phrases-SentencesComments Off on How to Improve Your American Accent: Understanding Schwa
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How I Lost My Accent and Became Fluent in English
September 27, 2018 by Jan Shawkey"In this video, I talk about what helped me speak with an American accent and how I became fluent in English...Category: Intercultural/Diversity, Language, Special: VideosComments Off on How I Lost My Accent and Became Fluent in English
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Let’s Simplify Legal Jargon
March 27, 2018 by Jan Shawkey"Tax forms, credit agreements, healthcare legislation: They're crammed with gobbledygook, says Alan Siegel, and incomprehensibly long...Category: Language, Special: Videos, Words-Phrases-SentencesComments Off on Let’s Simplify Legal Jargon
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What Our Language Habits Reveal
March 1, 2018 by Jan Shawkey"In an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds — and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize...Category: Language, Special: VideosComments Off on What Our Language Habits Reveal
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Culture, Listening and the Language of Business
February 9, 2018 by Jan Shawkey"Branson Centre entrepreneur Yanique Grant explores the relationship between language, culture and business success...Category: Language, Listening Skills, Special: ArticlesComments Off on Culture, Listening and the Language of Business
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Gender and the Language of Business
February 8, 2018 by Jan Shawkey"Doesn’t language simply describe the world of business, or does it do more – does the language we use actually shape business?..Category: Business Communication, Language, Special: ArticlesComments Off on Gender and the Language of Business
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This Is the Only Letter in the English Language That Is Never Silent
February 5, 2018 by Jan ShawkeyCategory: Language, Special: Articles, Words-Phrases-SentencesComments Off on This Is the Only Letter in the English Language That Is Never Silent
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How Language Shapes the Way We Work
January 24, 2018 by Jan Shawkey"I am a big believer in the power of language to change the world...Category: Language, Special: ArticlesComments Off on How Language Shapes the Way We Work
