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Articles tagged “TV”
How not to behave when you’re on the run
Published at 15:16, Sun 16 Mar 2008
I’ve been watching some
Prison Break lately. I don’t suppose I’m giving all that much away if
I mention that season 2 follows the lives of some convicts after a, y’know,
prison break.
One of the convicts in question is Our Hero, Michael Scofield, who we’re meant to believe is a genius. But I saw something the other day that gave me serious cause for concern on that issue.
Spanish phonology and American accents
Published at 22:21, Mon 15 Oct 2007
Among native speakers of American English who are learning Spanish, there’s a natural error that can easily mark them out as non-native Spanish speakers, and that seems to be fairly common. It’s all about the pronunciation and behaviour of the coronal consonants /t/ and /d/.