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GONE WITH THE WIND (Унесённые ветром) Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) (Маргарет Митчел (1900-1949)) PART ONE (ЧАСТЬ ПЕРВАЯ) CHAPTER I (Глава I) Scarlett O’Hara (Скарлетт О’Хара) was not beautiful (не была красивой; to be – быть), but men (однако мужчины; man – мужчина) seldom realized it (редко осознавали это) when . . .
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(Or at Least Dramatically Improve Your Accent) When I was traveling in Ukraine, I met a man who I thought was an American when I first talked to him. He spoke perfect English and his accent was perfect, too. He had a huge vocabulary and could understand complex, fast speech . . .
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Most English songs are not good for learning English. I’m a native speaker of American English and I can’t understand a lot of the words in most popular “Top 40” songs. The current style in American popular music is to sing (and often yell) in a way that can’t be
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Not every English teacher recommends learning English with songs. In fact some teachers think it’s a bad idea. If you want to learn English with songs, it’s very important to know what they don’t like about learning English with songs.
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In December of 2010, Prime Minister of Russia, Vladamir Putin was learning English. As you might expect, he had the best teachers in the world. They had him learn a lot of songs in English as part of his English learning program. Note that they had him learn this American . . .
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I have traveled to many different countries where English is not the native language. I always would meet people who spoke English and I asked everyone this question. “How did you learn English?”
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Whoever owns the copyrights to the Beatles songs, doesn’t allow them to be posted on YouTube. So people post them, but YouTube immediately deletes them. So these are all Beatles songs, but in this playlist they are all performed by different artists, not the Beatles. Enjoy and learn. If you . . .
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