Designed for the use of teachers and advanced learners by William Stevens Balch (1806-1887)
It is designed for advanced scholars, and is introductory to a system of grammar which he has in preparation, which it is humbly hoped will be of some service in rendering easy and correct the study of our vernacular language. But this book, it is thought, may be successfully employed in the instruction of the higher classes in our schools, and will be found an efficient aid to teachers in inculcating the sublime principles of which it treats.
This video contains the filmed lectures that are the centerpiece of each student book chapter. Lectures can be viewed with subtitles. Targeted listening exercises are available on the audio program.Total running time 102 minutesLecture Ready Strategies for Academic Listening, Note-taking, and Discussion prepares students to deal with academic lectures with skill and confidence.The lectures include elements of natural speech, such as false starts and digressions, to provide practice in maintaining focus on the essential core of a lecture.
Jewish Mysticism - Kalman Bland out of print, with guidebook These lectures begin by offering an historians answers to two rather straightforward questions: What is Jewish about Jewish Mysticism (Kabbalah)? What is mystical about Jewish Mysticism? The lectures end with an historians attempt to understand our contemporary fascination with such arcane subjects. Reuploaded by miaow
One of the founders of the Prague School of Linguistics was a Russian-born American, Roman Jakobson (1896-1982). This article presents a summary of his famous “SixLectures on Sound and Meaning” (1942). In the lectures, he argues that acoustic phonetics (sounds) is a quite significant aspect in communication because of its intimate relationship with meaning. Yet, people have been paying more attention to articulatory phonetics or how sounds are produced. T