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Learning English with marked stress position
One of the most difficult things about learning English is learning its orthography. It poses problems for native speakers who tend to (...)
March 30, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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Pronunciation of vowels in open and closed syllables in English
Although the concept of open and closed syllables is only rarely taught to learners of English, it is quite easy to grasp and knowing it (...)
March 27, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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‘On the one hand’ vs. ‘on one hand’ in English
Actually, both “on the one hand” and “on one hand” are considered correct, but “on the one hand” is preferred by many dictionaries (and (...)
March 17, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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Intuition behind the Cauchy-Schwarz, Markov’s, and Jensen’s inequality
People often tend to learn inequalities just as formulas that are to be memorized, not to be thought about. There is, however, usually an (...)
March 13, 2013 – Jakub Marian – Mathematics
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Names of the letters of the Latin alphabet in English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Polish, and Czech
I learn and speak several languages, but the proper pronunciation of the names of the letters of the standard 26-letter Latin alphabet is (...)
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By the way, have you already seen my brand new web app for non-native speakers of English? It's based on reading texts and learning by having all meanings, pronunciations, grammar forms etc. easily accessible. It looks like this:
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Is killing a dog worse than killing a pig?
I read an article yesterday (on one of the major Czech news servers) about a man who threw his mother’s dog through a stairwell (it was (...)
February 26, 2013 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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Pronunciation of plain “e” in French
Let’s take a look at the letter “e” without any diacritical marks (if you would like to know what the diacritical marks (i.e. è, é, ê, (...)
February 25, 2013 – Jakub Marian – French
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A little criticism of Richard Dawkins
Recently, I have seen the following video with Richard Dawkins, prepared by Al Jazeera English and discussing Dawkins’s book The God (...)
February 23, 2013 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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How to learn a foreign language: Mastering
This is the final phase of learning a language, and it is suitable for you when you speak it at about the C1 level. After some time of (...)
February 2, 2013 – Jakub Marian –
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How to learn a foreign language: Skimming
Skimming is just a form of familiarization with languages which are close to a language I already know. For example, Dutch is very close (...)
February 2, 2013 – Jakub Marian –
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