Learn how to speak Spanish with common phrases for restaurants in this free language video on learning how to speak Spanish.
Expert: Mixitxu Etxeberria
Bio: Mixitxu Etxeberria speaks fluent Spanish, holds a BA in Linguistics from Reed College, lived in Spain for one year, taught Spanish for six months.
Filmmaker: EV studios
Duration : 0:5:31
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They say learning other languages is difficult especially when you want to learn to speak French but it really isn’t that hard. What you do need to make it a whole lot easier is a program that teaches you to speak French with an easy to follow system.
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http://TheBestOfGuide.com/learn-spanish – Why Some People Don’t Want to Learn Spanish
Learning Spanish can be fun and interesting. It can make you comfortable in situations where you would be lost without knowing the language.
Actually, people of all ages can learn Spanish.
People often decline to learn Spanish because they think that they won’t be traveling to any Spanish speaking countries in their lifetimes.
First of all, you never know what’s around the corner. You could even win a trip to such a country. You never know what might take you there.
Second, there are reasons to learn Spanish even if you never speak a word of it.
You can enjoy Spanish literature and movies. You can take pride in knowing the words to songs that others can only stumble through.
You can watch Spanish language news and learn Spanish politics and culture. It can be a fun pastime.
For some, it seems like a monumental task to learn Spanish. They feel that Spanish is a hard language to learn.
This couldn’t be further from the truth. Spanish is one of the easiest languages.
In Spanish, if you know what a word sounds like, you almost always know how it’s spelled. If you know how it’s spelled, you can pronounce it easily.
Some of the words of Spanish are in common use in the vocabulary of most Americans. Others are just slight variations.
Of course, you will have to deal with gender of nouns, which is actually easy. Verb conjugations are harder, but still are easy to understand if taught properly.
If you want to learn Spanish, you probably can.
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This is the VOA Special English Development Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com
The lack of clean drinking water is a major problem worldwide. The World Health Organization says more than one billion people live in areas where renewable water resources are not available. The problem is especially serious in Asia and the Pacific.
A United Nations report says water availability in that area is the second lowest in the world, after Africa.
Nearly seven hundred thousand people in Asia and the Pacific lack safe drinking water. The U.N. report notes that the world’s poorest countries are also the ones that use the most water for agriculture. Agriculture uses about eighty percent of the water in the Asia-Pacific area. There has also been an increase in water used for industry. China and India more than tripled their industrial water use between nineteen ninety-two and two thousand two.
The lack of clean drinking water around the world forces millions of people to drink unsafe water.
This leads to an increase in diseases like diarrhea, the second leading cause of death in children under five. Floods, droughts, pollution and
climate change have created
even more problems.
The Millennium Development Goals
for two thousand fifteen call for a
fifty percent decrease in the number
of people without safe drinking water
and basic sanitation.
Scientists, governments and aid organizations around the world are increasing their efforts to meet these goals. Still, the U.N. says there is much work to be done. During its yearly World Water Day observance in March it called on the international community to work together to solve the water crisis. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are doing just that.
The American and South Korean researchers are investigating a new technology for turning sea water into drinking water. The new technology is called ion concentration polarization. The process uses electricity to
help separate electrically charged
salt particles from water to
make it drinkable.
The researchers tested their desalination process on a computer chip the size of a postage stamp.
The chip removed ninety-nine percent of the salt and other harmful substances from water samples.
So far the method purifies only small amounts of water. But the researchers say it may someday be available as a personal water purification product.
And that’s the VOA Special English Development Report.
(Adapted from a radio program broadcast 05Apr2010)
Duration : 0:3:59
Learn how to speak Spanish with common phrases for culture and other customs in this free language video on learning how to speak Spanish.
Expert: Mixitxu Etxeberria
Bio: Mixitxu Etxeberria speaks fluent Spanish, holds a BA in Linguistics from Reed College, lived in Spain for one year, taught Spanish for six months.
Filmmaker: EV studios
Duration : 0:4:19
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Afrikaans is a South African language originating from the Dutch spoken by settlers in Africa in the seventeenth century. Despite the fact that Afrikaans developed in Africa and is unique to the region, it is classified as Low Franconian West Germanic due to the fact that it originates from Dutch. Aside from English, Afrikaans deviates the furthest from the grammars of the other Germanic languages. It is mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia, with smaller populations of speakers living in Australia, Botswana, Canada, Lesotho, Malawi, New Zealand, Swaziland, the United States, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Due to emigration and migrant labour, there are possibly over 100,000 Afrikaans speakers in the United Kingdom. It is the primary language used by two ethnic groups in South Africa: the Afrikaans people and the Coloureds. You can learn to speak it in less than 5 minutes! And the best thing of all, it’s not a difficult language to learn! =)
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In Israel the language barrier that exists between Arabs and Jews is seen as one of the primary obstacles to coexistence.
Simply put, some Arabs who live in Israel don’t speak Hebrew and many Jews don’t understand Arabic.
Now, a new program has been launched in which Jewish schoolchildren are being instructed in Arabic.
This program is called Language as a Cultural Bridge and it’s the brainchild of the Abraham Fund.
The number of the Israeli schools applying initiative has nearly doubled since last year.
Unlike the existing Arabic curriculum, this program places emphasis on spoken Arabic and promotes a better understanding of Arab culture by bringing it directly into Jewish classrooms.
Dadi Komem, Abraham Fund:
2:20- 2:43
“The main goal of this program is not just to teach Arabic as a language. A language is a bridge to a culture and culture is part of the language. What we’re trying to do is make a real change in the positions and opinions of the children. We try to reduce fears and reduce stereotypes.”
But where stereotypes run deep, this is no easy task.
Maor:
If a terrorist gets hold of me, I can talk to him in Arabic and maybe he’ll release me.
Saida ‘Subhi, Arabic Teacher:
3:20 Everything in the beginning is difficult. At the beginning they said, ‘what do we need this for? It’s not important?’ but when I explained the language to them, they love it. They love the language a lot, because they love me (laughs).
Elad:
I might have Arab friends and I’ll want to talk with them if they don’t speak Hebrew.
Topaz:
If I want to talk with someone, let’s say at work, it will help me with the working relations. — Do you have Arab friends? — I’ve had three Arab friends since first grade.
Elad:
It’s quite an interesting language. They have interesting music. It’s fun to learn.
The program’s creators are working on expanding the program to more schools and reaching wider age groups.
They hope it will promote more tolerance towards Israel’s Arab minority, which constitutes a fifth of the country’s population.
Duration : 0:3:3
Learn how to speak Spanish with common phrases covering romance in this free language video on learning how to speak Spanish.
Expert: Mixitxu Etxeberria
Bio: Mixitxu Etxeberria speaks fluent Spanish, holds a BA in Linguistics from Reed College, lived in Spain for one year, taught Spanish for six months.
Filmmaker: EV studios
Duration : 0:3:20
Sorry for making such a long video ! Plus, I made some horrible english mistakes (ts, ts, ts NOT GOOD!)
Trying to explain some french pronunciation rules, taking the word “BONJOUR” as an example.
B = pronounced like the english B (baby/ブ)
ON = French nasal sound, pronounced like in the video at 1:32
“ON” should be pronounced that way when placed at the very end of word or in front of a consonant. In front of B or P, the letter N becomes M.
J = pronounced like in the video at 5:05 (j ≠ dj)!!!
OU = pronounced [ue/ウ] like in “true”
R = See video called “Pronunciation of the French R”:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_b920AesqDs
Duration : 0:8:24