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Why OOH Sounds Different Than AHH
New ReviewHuman language is an incredible thing: a combination of mouth sounds that we combine into words, sentences, poems, and constitutions. They carry meaning, emotion, and power. But underneath it all, language is really just physics. In this...
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When We First Talked
The evolution of our ability to speak is its own epic saga and it’s worth pausing to appreciate that. It’s taken several million years to get to this moment where we can tell you about how it took several million years for us to get here.
SciShow
What Whistled Speech Tells Us About How the Brain Interprets Language
You can find groups of people from all over the world who communicate full conversation by whistling. And neuroscientists found how our brain works with whistled language is mind-blowing.
SciShow
The Neuroscience of Tongue Twisters
We’ve all been tripped up by tongue-twisters. That’s the whole point! But at a neuroscientific level, they’re as difficult to understand as they are to say.
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How to Combine Vowels & Basic Greetings in Spanish
Howcast - Learn how to combine vowels and basic greetings in Espanol from Spanish teacher Andrea Cukier in this Howcast video.
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How to Pronounce Vowels in Spanish
Howcast - Learn how to pronounce vowels in Espanol from Spanish teacher Andrea Cukier in this Howast video.
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How to Warm Up Your Voice by Singing Vowels
Howcast - Learn how to warm up your voice by singing vowels from vocal coach Cari Cole in the second video of a four-part Howcast series.
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How to Do an Italian Accent
Howcast - Learn how to do an Italian accent from voice and speech coach Andrea Caban in this Howcast video.
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Accent Training Terms & Vocabulary
Howcast - Learn accent training terms and vocabulary from voice and speech coach Andrea Caban in this Howcast video.
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12 Tips for Baby's Month 6 Doctor Visit
Howcast - Learn what to expect at your baby's month six checkup from pediatrician Dyan Hes, M.D. in this Howcast video about newborn and baby development.
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How to Sing the Korean Alphabet Song
Howcast - Learn how to sing the Korean Alphabet Song with this Howcast video lesson.
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The vowels: [a] [e] [i] [o] [u]: classroom instructions
Pupil outcome: I can recognise and understand instructions in the classroom. Key learning points: - The vowels [a] [e] [i] [o] [u] are pronounced differently in Spanish and in English. - When you know the sound-symbol correspondences...
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Reading Multi-Syllable Words {Vowel Teams}
This gives practice reading multisyllabic words with vowel team and diphthong syllables, along with many hopefully prior learned syllables. This helps kids break apart words to read and spell longer words.
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Common Trigraphs: TCH, DGE, & IGH
This video teaches about trigraphs, tch, dge, and igh and the rules of when to use them. There is practice with both reading and writing with them.
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Let's Learn Blending Vowel Teams: OU, OW
This video teaches how to blend vowel teams/ diphthongs OU and OW sounds. Practicing blending sounds is an important step in learning to read.
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Naming Covalent Compounds the EASY way | How to pass Chemistry
This videos will cover how to name covalent compounds. It is important to remember that we have to use prefixes when we name covalent compounds. Covalent bonds, or compounds, form between 2 nonmetals, or 2 anions. In a covalent bond the...
Professor Dave Explains
Latin Phonetics Part 1: Vowels
If we are going to learn Latin, the first thing we must do is learn phonetics, as we need to understand the basic sounds of the language, so that we can read it properly. This will require looking at both vowels and consonants, so let's...
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Reading Multi-Syllable Words {Open & Closed Syllables}
This gives practice reading multisyllabic words with mostly closed syllables or short vowels. This helps kids break apart words to read and spell longer words.
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Discover The 5 Vowels! | Basic Learning Songs For Kids
Let's learn our A, E, I O, U's!
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Exploring the Alphabet: The Vowel Team
Join Marissa on a journey into the world of books as she introduces the Alphabet Team, focusing on the superheroes of the alphabet—the vowels. Through an engaging and interactive game of "What's That Sound?" Marissa introduces each...
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Let's Learn Blending Long Vowel (CVCe) Words
This video teaches how to blend long vowel words. We use CVCe words. Seeing the silent or magic e at the end of a word is a signal that the word may have a long vowel. Practice blending the sounds in words is an important step in...
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Vowel Team Syllables {Syllable Types}
This video teaches vowel team syllables (ai, ea, oa, ou, oo, and more) and how to read them. It is assumed that kids already know open, closed, Magic E, and r-controlled syllables. See links to those videos below. Knowing syllable types...
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Consonant + le Syllables {Syllable Types}
This video teaches consonant + le syllables, (-ble, -cle, -ple, -tle and more) how to divide them and how to read them. It is assumed that kids already know open, closed, Magic E, r-controlled, and vowel teams syllables. See links to...
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R-controlled Syllables {Syllable Types}
This video teaches R-controlled syllables (ar, er, ir, ur, and or) and how to read them. It is assumed that kids already know open and closed syllables. See links to those videos below. Knowing syllable types help readers read...