Linguistic analysis for acquiring fluent written and spoken English

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Targeted vocabulary, American or British?

One of my students is mastering computer vocabulary and concerned about speech intelligibility. I peeked in on today's webinar, which she was watching on the JetBrainsTV channel.

I am surprised to learn that "data" has two forms in American and two in British and that /kweri/ from the webinar is actually an alternate American form.

American .. data, community, query, better, tuning

British. ...... data, community, query, better, tuning

Another observation is that some terms are culturally mediated (elevator speech , brilliant)

Some grammatical points would contribute to intelligibility. There is an inversion when a WH-word precedes a clause. How can we ... instead of How we can. There should also be a difference for the stress and vowel length or vowel reduction for record/record and report/report. Use a [z] sound when pluralizing vowel-final nouns (categories), which should sound different from the verb categorize. These words are different so should sound different: export and expert.

Is learning Latin good for your health?

I can't answer that, but there is an oft-repeated claim that the process of learning Latin helps with vocabulary acquisition and with learning a spoken language in addition to your native language. Whether that's any spoken language or a spoken language with Romance roots seems to be bypassed.

As a student of language pedagogy (teaching practices) and as a language teacher and as a language student, I would like to see a pair-wise study comparing increased L1 vocabulary acquisition rates and retention for L2 learners (English, Latin); (English, Spanish); English, medical jargon); (Spanish, French); (Hebrew, Arabic); etc.

So in "case" you are interested what your teacher means when declining nouns and conjugating verbs, here are some links to examples.

On Latin:

two thirds of English words are derived from Latin roots
has been the language of science -> and its terms are still used in
medicine, law, and [my addition] tech , but then it changed.

from https://mcl.as.uky.edu/benefits-latin#: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj-zCfVC2Zg&t=96s

Copernicus wrote in Latin!

Harry Warnecke, Louis Armstrong,1947

image of Louis Armstrong at the National Portrait Gallery, owned by the American people, cited here

2021: opens Friday, May 14th, with timed-entry passes!

What are names of your classmates, co-workers, or customers most likely to be? The Social Security Administration tracks first names by year and state, so you can easily find the answer to this question.

Practice saying and spelling names:

Linguistic analysis for acquiring fluent written and spoken English - by GrossLearning

Targeted vocabulary, American or British?

Is learning Latin good for your health?

Name that tune! Name that baby!

"This permit permits you to drive."

This is how your brain connects its language centers.