Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is how hit the right tone when you give characters accents and dialects. Guest-writer Charles Carson writes, To flavor a novel and provide authenticity, authors often use dialect in their written dialogue. But the use

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

By Ravi Khanna Washington, DC 07 February 2008 The American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress in Washington featured Indo-Caribbean drumming and dancing at a recent performance. The center has been featuring traditional ethnic and regional m

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2008年(二月)

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: So it is that time of year, the few weeks at the end of the year when everybody has a list - best of, worst of, least, most - all that stuff. This week on the show, we have our own lists of highly specific superlatives. And to ge

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图片1 Moheb is joining the Culips team and helping us create an online writing course (We will let you know as soon as we start taking students!), so we wanted to introduce him to you. We talk a bit about his interesting experiences in Egypt, the U

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: a collection of life stories told in just six words. RS: But first, we have a report on a linguist in Virginia who collects accents from across America, and across the world, and

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

Todd: Hello, Jason. You're from England. Uh, where are you from in England? Jason: I'm from South London. Todd: Oh, cool. South London. Why don't you talk about that for awhile. Jason: OK, well, London is a little bit colder that Japan, it's a little

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It only takes a few seconds of the original 1943 'English by Radio' theme tune and I'm dreaming about 1940s Britain. Crackly violin melodies build to a strong, confident finale, reassuring the listeners that we are safe in the hands of the BBC. Now,

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