Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Freedom?

While Julian Assange has been more than a year in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Edward Snowden in transit zone in Moscow... words such as bugs, spying and surveillance are much in use.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/03/hidden-microphone-ecuador-embassy-assange

And then, a petition in favour of the freedom of the press that was signed by our Minister of Education's brother, the journalist Antoine Peillon.
http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/la-redaction-de-mediapart/110713/we-have-right-know-join-appealalready-25000-signatures

Monday, July 01, 2013

The SOUNDS of English!

Revise your pronunciation of the SOUNDS of English with the BBC for free and right here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/sounds/

And here, the same sounds, from a U.S. University: http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html

Work well during the summer. 15 mn a day is the best!