online games to practise the basics: greetings, numbers, time, days and months, to be and to have, fruits and vegetables, colours, numbers, animals, present tense verbs, clothes, infinitives.
Morph your voice in Audacity
Did you know that by applying certain effects to your voice in
Audacity
, you can sound dramatically
different and take on a character of your own.
To do this, first highlight your vocal track and then follow the instructions
below to generate each effect:
1. If you'd like to sound like ... a robot
Click on the
Effect Menu
and
then
Delay ...
Change the
Decay amount
to
10
Change the
Delay time
to
0.009
Change the
Number of echos
to
30
Click
OK
Click on the
Effect Menu
again
Click
Repeat Delay
Repeat this 5 times or more if necessary
Listen to this example:
Download
Creating_a_robot_voice_in_Audacity.mp3
2. If you'd like to sound like ... a demonic spirit
Click on the
Edit Menu
and then
Duplicate
Highlight the second track
Click on the
Effect Menu
and
then
Change Pitch ...
Change the
Semitone (half-steps)
to
-1
Click
OK
Highlight the first track
Click on the
Edit Menu
and then
Duplicate
Highlight the third track
Click on the
Effect Menu
and
then
Change Pitch ...
Change the
Semitone (half-steps)
to
-5
Click
OK
Click on the
Effect Menu
and
then
Bass Boost ...
Click
OK
Drag the
Gain slide
on the left of the third track to
+3DB
Highlight the second track
Click on the
Effect Menu
and
then
Echo ...
Change the
Delay time (seconds)
to
0.1
Change the
Decay factor
to
0.6
Click
OK
Listen to this example:
Download
Creating_a_demonic_voice_in_Audacity.mp3
3. If you'd like to sound like ... a chipmunk
Click on the
Effect Menu
and
then
Change Pitch ...
Change the
Percent Change
to
100
Click
OK
Listen to this example:
Download
Creating_a_chipmunk_voice_in_Audacity.mp3
4. If you'd like to sound like ... a telephone operator
Click o
Learn languages with free online games. Games to learn phrases, greetings, vocabulary, numbers and grammar in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian.
Folk music in many European languages http://folkdc.eu/
The Digital Children's Folksongs for Language and Cultural Learning (Folk DC) project is a European Union project designed to motivate young language learners to engage with language learning through using Folk songs, and activities around the songs.
The songs are in 10 European languages (Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish). The project will be producing a complete package for schools (Autonomous Teacher Training Tool kit - ATTT) so that schools all over Europe can take part in the project.
The project culminates in a simultaneous, live concert in 5 countries, streamed over the Internet to audiences all over Europe. School choirs will sing folk songs in non-native languages that will be streamed to the other concert venues and also made available to an Internet audience.
Schools can take part in this project by:
Using the resources produced by the project
Suggesting your own language, culture and music activities, inspired by the project
Watching the live concert (at the venue or online) - see how you can join
Adding folk songs of your language - see the project Wiki
You can ask more information about how you can take part here.
The project will introduce an understanding of the number, richness and culture of other languages when children start to learn a foreign language and begin to understand the meaning of additional languages. It will engage children in fascinating and engaging activities that will resonate in to the future and answer the need for materials that can directly engage and motivate children to enjoy their learning.
Question:
Have many hours of study in high school programs does it take for students to reach the Intermediate-Mid to Intermediate-High proficiency ranges?
Answer:
This is the number one question teachers and administrators ask about foreign language study. It is the right question, because it relates student proficiency outcomes to the amount of instruction hours students have had. Like other areas of study, what you get out depends on what you put in" (p. 1 of 6).
Free downloads of audiobooks. German has the second highest number of recordings. Go to 'advanced search' and select 'German' in the 'Language' section.
Author: Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?; Colonne, Guido delle, 13th cent; Benoît, de Sainte-More, 12th cent; Bergen, Henry, 1873-; Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910
Volume: 2
Subject: Troy (Extinct city) -- Romances, legends, etc
Publisher: London : Published for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: AIF-1840
Digitizing sponsor: MSN
Book contributor: Pratt - University of Toronto
Collection: toronto
Author: Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?; Colonne, Guido delle, 13th cent; Benoît, de Sainte-More, 12th cent; Bergen, Henry, 1873-; Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910
Volume: 1
Subject: Troy (Extinct city) -- Romances, legends, etc
Publisher: London : Published for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: AIF-1840
Digitizing sponsor: MSN
Book contributor: Pratt - University of Toronto
Collection: toronto
Will the Chinese people rise above cyber-vigilantism and use the Internet to build a just and fair society governed by accountable leaders? Or will the majority be be happy to wield their new-found powers of online speech in random fashion? That's really up to them. People like Liu Xiaoyuan and Yang Hengjun and a number of others have been raising such questions. It's hard to know whether people beyond the elite intelligentsia will pay attention to such concerns.
This is why the suppression and censorship of Cultural Revolution history in China is so dangerous. If people could freely write and debate about what happened under Mao, history would have less chance of repeating itself.
I just tried this (without creating an account or anything) ... it let me put a phone number in, and type out a message for it to send by a VOICE message, along with choices. It called instantly, and the moment my wife made her choice (by pressing 3 on her phone), the answer showed up on the website.
Purpose:To provide online resources for a number of languages taught in Australian schools and facilitate student understanding of the role of languages in global citizenship.
an online concordancer developed by Yasumasa Someya that draws on a number of different text banks, but with links to analyses that relate largely to Business English