the value of learning english

Learning English is pretty useful:

English language learning will allow you to communicate effectively with people from all over the world, making travelling a lot easier and helping you to learn more about different cultures. The importance of English language can be seen in almost every aspect of our lives.

6 Reasons Why Learning English Language Is Important | TLG Blog

A great article in the latest E L Gazette by Mike Mayer of Pearson looks at the value of learning English

The key to a world of opportunities

In today’s interconnected world, effective cross-border communication is more crucial than ever. A new report from Pearson highlights the pivotal role played by English proficiency in accessing career opportunities and personal growth. How English empowers your tomorrow highlights a significant gap between the demand for strong English language skills and the current state of English language training as part of both formal education and in the workplace.

The key to a world of opportunities - E L Gazette

Can you make another list of why learning English is so valuable?

Why is it important to learn English? | ETS Global

8 Benefits of Learning English in 2023

The Value of Learning English - The Classroom

The Value of Fluency in English: Everything You Need To Know

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how classical music brings people together

Playing music together is a wonderful way to bring people together.

In families:

The Kanneh-Masons: The family that plays together - YouTube

This house is full of music - YouTube

In Paraguay: 

Jay Doubleyou: the recycled orchestra of cateura paraguay

In Venezuela

Jay Doubleyou: what does your taste in music say about you?

El Sistema – Fundación Musical Simón Bolívar de Venezuela

El Sistema - Wikipedia

In Europe:

Jay Doubleyou: barenboim and education

Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance | BBC Proms 2014 - BBC - YouTube

In the Middle East:

Music Matters - 25 Years of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra - Sowing Seeds for an Orchestra - BBC Sounds

An Introduction to the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra - YouTube

In our orchestra, Israelis and Palestinians found common ground. Our hearts are broken by this conflict | Daniel Barenboim | The Guardian

BBC unveils 2024 Proms lineup: Daniel Barenboim, Daleks and disco | Classical music | The Guardian

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comparing: all sorts of categories

What sort of things can we compare?

ALL SORTS OF CATEGORIES:

There are the not so pleasant but maybe more interesting things:

Are we really becoming more peaceful – or does violence come in cycles? - BBC Science Focus Magazine

Why human society isn't more—or less—violent than in the past | Science | AAAS

And there are the more fun things:

Best online clothing stores in the UK 2024 | The Independent

Online shopping - Which?

Cheap online shopping: price comparison & tricks - MSE

And there are the more practical things:

Compare Cheap Car Insurance Quotes | Compare the Market

COMPARING CRIME STATISTICS:

Are British police more interested in 'crimes against women'?

Every week in the UK, two women are murdered; as the documentary explained, a staggering 94 per cent of those cases involve stalking. As such, its illustration of the police response, near-universally dismissive or inept, was maddening – and terrifying. As State of Fear ended, there was precious little in the way of resolution – of course, there’s no way of wrapping up such a sprawling, systemic failure with a bow. Nonetheless, in its unflinching, forensic gaze, the show did essential work in simply taking women seriously and attending to their stories with measured and diligent interest. We can only hope that it pushes police to begin doing the same.

Stalking: State of Fear took women seriously - if only the police did too

And: Do immigrants commit more crime?

The academic literature and official statistics provide mixed findings for the relationship between immigration and crime. Research in the United States tends to suggest that immigration either has no impact on the crime rate or even that immigrants are less prone to crime.[1][2][3] A meta-analysis of 51 studies from 1994–2014 on the relationship between immigration and crime in the United States found that, overall, the immigration-crime association is negative, but the relationship is very weak and there is significant variation in findings across studies.[4] This is in line with a 2009 review of high-quality studies conducted in the United States that also found a negative relationship.[5]

Research and statistics in some other, mainly European countries suggest a positive link between immigration and crime: immigrants from particular countries are often overrepresented in crime figures.[6][7][8] The over-representation of immigrants in the criminal justice systems of several countries may be due to socioeconomic factors, imprisonment for migration offenses, and racial and ethnic discrimination by police and the judicial system.[9][10][11] The relationship between immigration and terrorism is understudied, but existing research is inconclusive.[12][13][14] Research on the relationship between refugee migration and crime is scarce and existing empirical evidence is often contradictory.[15][16] According to statistics from some countries, asylum seekers are overrepresented in crime figures.[17][18][19][failed verification]

Immigration and crime - Wikipedia

The mythical tie between immigration and crime | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

Trump says migrants are fueling violent crime. Here is what the research shows | Reuters

Immigrants less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born : NPR

It's a matter of perception:

Many people who oppose immigration say that it increases crime. But does immigration really affect crime? Studying a country whose proportion of migrants has tripled in less than ten years, researchers find immigration significantly impacts people’s perceptions of crime but has no effect on actual crime.

Does immigration really increase crime? - McGill University

And what about other countries?

We causally analyse the link between immigrants and crime in Germany for 2008–2019. The effect is positive for the early sub-period and negative or insignificant for the later one. When analyzing the total period, the estimates average out to zero.

Do immigrants affect crime? Evidence for Germany - ScienceDirect

Reality Check: Are migrants driving crime in Germany? - BBC News

And: Are strangers dangerous when it comes to children?

Statistics on child sexual abuse | NSPCC Learning

And: What are the countries with the highest/lowest crime/murder/suicide rates?

Crime Rate by Country 2024

List of countries by intentional homicide rate - Wikipedia

List of countries by suicide rate - Wikipedia

CULTURE, COMEDY AND ENTERTAINMENT:

Here are some lists. And how can we really compare such things?

Movies:

Greatest American Film Directors | Pantheon

Driven to Darkness: Jewish Emigre Directors and the Rise of Film Noir on JSTOR

Musicals:

West Side Story (1961 film) - Wikipedia

West Side Story is the product of a bunch of GAY JEWS!!

Musicians:

Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog - YouTube

Elvis Presley - Hound Dog (1956) HD 0815007 - YouTube

Comedians:

Top 10 Best Comedians of All Time

Top 10 Absolutely Fabulous Moments - YouTube

Footballers:

Une équipe de foot multiculturelle peut-elle encourager la France à l'être aussi ?

It’s not just football – it’s a barometer of diversity. Bring on the Euros… | Euro 2020 | The Guardian

Finally, what country could possibly compare?

THIS IS RUSSIA WINTER IS COMING - YouTube 

Discussion of Tchaikovsky's personal life, especially his sexuality, has perhaps been among the most extensive of any composer in the 19th century and certainly of any Russian composer of his time.[102] It has also at times caused considerable confusion, from Soviet efforts to expunge all references to homosexuality and portray him as a heterosexual, to efforts at analysis by Western biographers.[103]

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Wikipedia (23 secs into the youtube video)

Compare:

BBC Radio 3 - Discovering Music, Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings

Ossip Abramovich Gannibal's father, Pushkin's great-grandfather, was Abram Petrovich Gannibal (1696–1781), a Cameroonian[14] page kidnapped and taken to Constantinople as a gift for the Ottoman Sultan and later transferred to Russia as a gift for Peter the Great.

Alexander Pushkin - Wikipedia (15 secs into the youtube video)

Compare:

Rare Editions of Pushkin Are Vanishing From Libraries Around Europe - The New York Times

Forgery or History? Peter Harrington Rare & First Edition Books.

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comparing: education, society, culture

When we compare different countries or cities, especially our own, we tend not to be too critical.

Jay Doubleyou: comparing: countries

Jay Doubleyou: comparing: cities

EDUCATION:

The US and UK are not doing very well:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/13_02_07_nn_unicef.pdf

Here's a critical look at the state of the United States some fifty years ago:

Jane Elliott Brown Eyes vs Blue Eyes 1 - YouTube (incl intro - first minute)

Jane Elliott “Blue Eyes - Brown Eyes” Experiment Anti-Racism - YouTube (incl subtitles)

Here's the same experiment forty years later - and in the UK (main part from 9 mins - and to 14 mins)

How Racist Are You? - Jane Elliott's Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise - YouTube

The issue of class and race and gender in our education system is very complicated and very controversial:

‘Forgotten’ White working-class pupils let down by decades of neglect, MPs say - Committees - UK Parliament

Poorer white pupils let down and neglected - MPs - BBC News

White “working-class” boys aren’t failing because they’re White - Make it Plain

Looking at girls:

More than half of British girls lack confidence learning maths, poll finds | Schools | The Guardian

Ada Lovelace Day – Celebrating the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths

Cafe Scientifique: Floating Offshore Wind Farms – Sidmouth Science Festival

2021 Sidmouth Science Festival programme.pdf

Let's compare the education system in India:

Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education | TED Talk

SOCIETY:

It seems that every 'marginalised' group have a hard time.

For example: Are British police interested in 'crimes against women'?

Every week in the UK, two women are murdered; as the documentary explained, a staggering 94 per cent of those cases involve stalking. As such, its illustration of the police response, near-universally dismissive or inept, was maddening – and terrifying. As State of Fear ended, there was precious little in the way of resolution – of course, there’s no way of wrapping up such a sprawling, systemic failure with a bow. Nonetheless, in its unflinching, forensic gaze, the show did essential work in simply taking women seriously and attending to their stories with measured and diligent interest. We can only hope that it pushes police to begin doing the same.

Stalking: State of Fear took women seriously - if only the police did too

And: Do immigrants commit more crime?

The academic literature and official statistics provide mixed findings for the relationship between immigration and crime. Research in the United States tends to suggest that immigration either has no impact on the crime rate or even that immigrants are less prone to crime.[1][2][3] A meta-analysis of 51 studies from 1994–2014 on the relationship between immigration and crime in the United States found that, overall, the immigration-crime association is negative, but the relationship is very weak and there is significant variation in findings across studies.[4] This is in line with a 2009 review of high-quality studies conducted in the United States that also found a negative relationship.[5]

Research and statistics in some other, mainly European countries suggest a positive link between immigration and crime: immigrants from particular countries are often overrepresented in crime figures.[6][7][8] The over-representation of immigrants in the criminal justice systems of several countries may be due to socioeconomic factors, imprisonment for migration offenses, and racial and ethnic discrimination by police and the judicial system.[9][10][11] The relationship between immigration and terrorism is understudied, but existing research is inconclusive.[12][13][14] Research on the relationship between refugee migration and crime is scarce and existing empirical evidence is often contradictory.[15][16] According to statistics from some countries, asylum seekers are overrepresented in crime figures.[17][18][19][failed verification]

Immigration and crime - Wikipedia

The mythical tie between immigration and crime | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

Trump says migrants are fueling violent crime. Here is what the research shows | Reuters

Immigrants less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born : NPR

Many people who oppose immigration say that it increases crime. But does immigration really affect crime? Studying a country whose proportion of migrants has tripled in less than ten years, researchers find immigration significantly impacts people’s perceptions of crime but has no effect on actual crime.

Does immigration really increase crime? - McGill University

We causally analyse the link between immigrants and crime in Germany for 2008–2019. The effect is positive for the early sub-period and negative or insignificant for the later one. When analyzing the total period, the estimates average out to zero.

Do immigrants affect crime? Evidence for Germany - ScienceDirect

Reality Check: Are migrants driving crime in Germany? - BBC News

And: Are strangers dangerous when it comes to children?

Statistics on child sexual abuse | NSPCC Learning

And: What are the countries with the highest/lowest crime/murder/suicide rates?

Crime Rate by Country 2024

List of countries by intentional homicide rate - Wikipedia

List of countries by suicide rate - Wikipedia

And: What makes the English? Let's go to Munich (at 10:30)

From football fans watching England, to Dover, a Druid gathering, and a mass trespass near Reading, Grayson wonders who are the English?

Grayson Perry's Full English - Series 1: Episode 1 | Channel 4

FINALLY: CULTURE, COMEDY AND ENTERTAINMENT:

Here are some lists: how many of these represent 'minorities'?

Movies:

Greatest American Film Directors | Pantheon

Driven to Darkness: Jewish Emigre Directors and the Rise of Film Noir on JSTOR

Musicals:

West Side Story (1961 film) - Wikipedia

West Side Story is the product of a bunch of GAY JEWS!!

Musicians:

Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog - YouTube

Elvis Presley - Hound Dog (1956) HD 0815007 - YouTube

The Rolling Stones - Little Red Rooster - YouTube [1:30]

Comedians:

Top 10 Best Comedians of All Time

Top 10 American Male Stand-Up Comedians of All Time - YouTube

The 20 Best Stand Up Comedy Specials of All Time - YouTube

Top 10 Absolutely Fabulous Moments - YouTube

Footballers:

Une équipe de foot multiculturelle peut-elle encourager la France à l'être aussi ?

It’s not just football – it’s a barometer of diversity. Bring on the Euros… | Euro 2020 | The Guardian

Finally, what country could possibly compare?

THIS IS RUSSIA WINTER IS COMING - YouTube 

Discussion of Tchaikovsky's personal life, especially his sexuality, has perhaps been among the most extensive of any composer in the 19th century and certainly of any Russian composer of his time.[102] It has also at times caused considerable confusion, from Soviet efforts to expunge all references to homosexuality and portray him as a heterosexual, to efforts at analysis by Western biographers.[103]

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Wikipedia (23 secs into the youtube video)

Compare:

BBC Radio 3 - Discovering Music, Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings

Ossip Abramovich Gannibal's father, Pushkin's great-grandfather, was Abram Petrovich Gannibal (1696–1781), a Cameroonian[14] page kidnapped and taken to Constantinople as a gift for the Ottoman Sultan and later transferred to Russia as a gift for Peter the Great.

Alexander Pushkin - Wikipedia (15 secs into the youtube video)

Compare:

Rare Editions of Pushkin Are Vanishing From Libraries Around Europe - The New York Times

Forgery or History? Peter Harrington Rare & First Edition Books.

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comparing: cities

How would you compare your nearest city with another in your home country - or with your favourite city outside your home country?

There are lots of different ways to compare cities...

On this site, Hong Hong and Wichita in the US are the 'top cities':

City comparison | Compare cities around the world - Versus

Here we can chose two different cities to compare - but only in the States:

2024 Compare Cities

There's a nice list of things to compare:

How to Compare Different Cities | An Expertt Mini-guide

As a starting point, this app looks at how quickly you can get onto a highway/motorway, from Sao Paulo, New York and Santiago:

Urban Observatory

Here we can compare cost of living and quality of life:

Cost Of Living Comparison

Quality of Life Comparison

For example:

Cost of Living Comparison Between Exeter, United Kingdom And Santiago, Chile

Quality of Life Comparison Between Exeter, United Kingdom And Santiago, Chile

There are so many ways to measure things...

Nightlife Index 2023 – Consumer Choice Center

The Top Cities In The UK Empowering Independent Music Artists | iMusician

The best cities for art museums and graffiti

Which cities have the most museums? – Jack's Adventures in Museum Land

This is from a TED Talk from nine years ago. How have things changed since then?

Worldwide, violence is on the decline, but in the crowded cities of the global south — cities like Aleppo, Bamako and Caracas — violence is actually accelerating, fueled by the drug trade, mass unemployment and civil unrest. Security researcher Robert Muggah turns our attention toward these "fragile cities," super-fast-growing places where infrastructure is weak and government often ineffective. He shows us the four big risks we face, and offers a way to change course.

Robert Muggah: How to protect fast-growing cities from failing | TED Talk

Here's more on cities from TED Talks:

Ideas about Cities

The Best TED Talks about Cities and Urban Planning – parCitypatory

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comparing: countries

What are the differences between your country and other countries? - those that you know, have visited, would like to go to...

There are lots of different ways to make comparisons:

Guide to Country Comparisons - The World Factbook

There are lots of statistics to look at to make comparisons:

The Diversity of Countries and Economies across the World | OpenStax Macroeconomics 2e

How different nationalities see the world differently - And why it matters | Listening Partnership | Oxford

How does does your country compare?

This study was carried out by UNESCO in 2007:

An overview of child well-being in rich countries

A comprehensive assessment of the lives and well-being of children and adolescents in the economically advanced nations

The true measure of a nation’s standing is how well it attends to its children – their health and safety, their material security, their education and socialization, and their sense of being loved, valued, and included in the families and societies into which they are born.

Click on this link to see a table which compares these different criteria - and the UK and US come out significantly badly:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/13_02_07_nn_unicef.pdf

www.unicef.org/media/files/ChildPovertyReport.pdf

There are plenty of other statistics about how well we look after our children.

For example, how many resources they have at school, with Scandinavian and German/Austrian/Swiss kids having more than enough - see page 36 of this more recent report from the OECD:

www.oecd.org/els/family/43570328.pdf

Jay Doubleyou: explaining how your country's education system works

And then there is the measurement of 'happiness':



Happy Planet Index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This idea originally came from Bhutan:



Gross national happiness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There are many other such indices:

The 2014 Legatum Prosperity Index - Home
The World's Happiest (And Saddest) Countries, 2013

And:

Happy Planet Index - YouTube
Happy Planet Index
The data | Happy Planet Index

Here's a good question for discussion:

Which country does the most good for the world? | Simon Anholt - YouTube

The answer is at 12:25!

Jay Doubleyou: what's the best country?

Jay Doubleyou: the good country party

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non-western democratic traditions

There is a lot of voting going on at the moment - but some is more 'democratic' than others:

Russia’s Putin hails victory in election criticised as illegitimate | Vladimir Putin News | Al Jazeera

Vladimir Putin: why it’s time for democracies to denounce Russia’s leader as illegitimate

But should there be 'one way' to see democracy?

As Western leaders express their openness to differing models of democracy, non-Western democracies such as Brazil, India, Indonesia, and South Africa are beginning to consider how they can support democracy as part of their increasingly active foreign policies. As they do so, they appeal to non-Western democratic transitions and speak about the importance of different political models. As international democracy support becomes less a Western preserve, the substance of such support is likely to become less Western as well. 

The calls for non-Western democracy are loud and passionate, but seldom make clear exactly what non-Western models would and should look like. What actually distinguishes a non-Western from a Western model of democracy? There is a general sense that other societies want less individualism, more traditional social values, more economic equal-ity, and more consensual and participatory politics. But it remains un-clear how such desires translate into a distinctively non-Western tem-plate for democratic politics...

The principle of liberalism-plus is meant to convey the need to look seriously at non-Western ideas that give greater meaning to political liberalism’s core spirit of tolerance, pluralism, and accountability... Some variations will involve non-Western countries making choices that Western societies would not favor; other variations will be matters of Western and non-Western countries seeking to improve current democratic practices in relatively similar ways. Supporting the notion of democratic variation is not about moving regimes defined as “not democratic” into a category of “democratic” systems. Rather, it is about improving democratic quality across all types of regimes.

Exploring “Non-Western Democracy” - Carnegie Europe - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

With a few more thoughts here:

Can non-Western democracy help to foster political transformation? | openDemocracy

Indonesia, India and South Africa are also having elections this year:

2024, the year when half of the planet goes to the polls | International | EL PAÍS English

Elections tracker 2024: every vote and why it matters | World news | The Guardian

But, basically, the more democratic a country the less corruption there is and the happier people are:

New analysis of the latest World Happiness Report finds that democracies tend to be happier than non-democratic or authoritarian regimes.

Happiness and Democracy | Action for Happiness

Happiness is a Warm Democracy - JSTOR Daily

Does democracy make people happy? - SWI swissinfo.ch

Happiness, democracy and socio-economic conditions: Evidence from a difference GMM estimator - ScienceDirect

Ukraine and the future of human happiness — International Day of Happiness - 20 March

And there is a correlation between being democratic and being rich: 

All advanced economies' governments are not only large and complex, comprising thousands of agencies that administer millions of pages of rules and regulations; they are also democratic – and not just because they hold elections every so often.

Why Are Rich Countries Democratic? by Ricardo Hausmann - Project Syndicate

Ricardo Hausmann: Why Are Rich Countries Democratic?

If you live in a country with a per capita income over $10,000 – like Botswana – you are almost certainly to be living in a strong democracy. If you live in a state where the per capita income is less than $1,000 (and unfortunately there are plenty of African examples) you are almost certain to be living in a strong autocracy.

Which comes first – democracy or wealth?

Returning to the topic which started this piece, democracy is more than elections however:

Ukraine is fighting on behalf of all democracies - GOV.UK

Why the War in Ukraine is not about Democracy versus Authoritarianism | Royal United Services Institute

How Corruption Weakens Democracy – Transparency International - Transparency International Ukraine

Ukraine’s investigative journalists are facing intimidation – POLITICO

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writing about your holiday in different registers

REGISTER: THE BASICS:

It's important to be able to handle different registers:

the way a speaker uses language differently in different circumstances. Think about the words you choose, your tone of voice, even your body language. You probably behave very differently chatting with a friend than you would at a formal dinner party or during a job interview.

What Is Register in Linguistics?

a variety of language used for a particular purpose or particular communicative situation. For example, when speaking officially or in a public setting, an English speaker may be more likely to follow prescriptive norms for formal usage than in a casual setting, for example, by pronouncing words ending in -ing with a velar nasal instead of an alveolar nasal (e.g., walking rather than walkin'), choosing words that are considered more "formal" (such as father vs. dad or child vs. kid), and refraining from using words considered nonstandard, such as ain't and y'all.

Register (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

With a little more here:

Jay Doubleyou: register

Jay Doubleyou: register: populism, culture wars and woke

Jay Doubleyou: learning to use the appropriate register @ fawlty towers

REGISTER: TRYING TO WRITE IN DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF ENGLISH

Here are some ideas about making writing more nuanced:

Jay Doubleyou: writing with register: a lesson in using different levels of 'politeness'

Here are some more ideas around the theme of writing about your holiday:

1: Write a postcard to a friend

2: Write the same but to a great-aunt

3: Write a report to a local town council which is asking for input from tourists - in its consultation on its local tourism policy. Make use of the specific holiday experiences as outlined in your postcards, but put it in the language and format of an official report, giving your opinions and any recommendations.

4: Write an academic piece analysing the different aspects of holidaying in this part of the world. Again, make use of the examples referred to in the above pieces, but in an impersonal style with no personal opinions, with reference to statistical data and other academic studies.

5: Write in a highly subjective manner, following the stream of consciousness style of Virginia Wolfe's "To the Lighthouse", a story of a family on holiday, recounting in the same type of language the feelings and impressions when on holiday as it happens: To the Lighthouse - Wikipedia and To-the-Lighthouse-Etext-Edited.pdf

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youglish

Quite a useful tool for learning languages:

Improve your English pronunciation using YouTube

 - and not just English!

"dass Kann Ich Nicht" | Pronunciation of "dass Kann Ich Nicht" in German 

Here's a review:

What is YouGlish and How Does YouGlish Work?

By Luke Edwards

 published 10 November 2023

Youglish helps you improve word pronunciation with useful YouTube video guidance

YouGlish is a great resource for learning to correctly pronounce words. As the name suggests, this is setup for English speakers and uses YouTube to deliver those guidance videos. But it goes beyond that to many language options.

Crucially, this uses native speakers of the language from which the word originates. This means you can hear how that word is pronounced by someone who can speak it naturally in the local tongue.

Since this uses YouTube as its source, videos are super simple to access and can be played across a host of digital devices. 

YouGlish is a very valuable tool not only for individuals, but also for teachers with ELL and ESL students. 

You can narrow down your search by the word, by class, by phrase class, or by context. The tool also provides tips on how to improve English pronunciation – written below the video. This includes the phonetic pronunciation as well as suggestions of other words that help with pronunciation. 

What is YouGlish and how does YouGlish work? | Tech & Learning

And here's a look at how to use it:

YouGlish for the Classroom - YouTube

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reports and sessions from this year's iatefl in brighton

The International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language has just finished its annual meet-up: Join us for the IATEFL International Conference | iatefl.org

Their YouTube channel has a few of the plenary sessions to watch: IATEFL - YouTube

And the EL Gazette has special articles from this year’s plenary speakers:

Vicky Saumell – Using AI in education

Letizia Cinganotto – The multilingual method

Zarina Subhan – Down with idioms!

Rose Aylett – Being a ‘global’ educator

IATEFL: it’s not over yet! - E L Gazette

With some blogs reporting from the event, including: IATEFL Brighton 2024 day 1 – IATEFL live online – Sandy Millin

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