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Common Dictation Mistakes and What They Reveal
You finish a dictation, compare it with the transcript, and see a page full of red. The natural reaction is to count the errors and feel bad. The better reaction is to read them. Dictation mistakes…
September 27, 20267 min read
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English Connected Speech: How Linking Sounds Really Work
You know every word in the sentence, yet when a native speaker says it at normal speed, it sounds like one long blur. The missing piece is almost never vocabulary. It is English connected speech…
September 26, 20267 min read

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