On Non-selfgoverning Territories (UN, 1999) (Текст читается с американским акцентом) Mr President, First of all I would like once again to thank the organizers of the seminar, namely the permanent re
study of dialects offers a fascinating approach to learning about language.
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Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a well- to-do family with roots in the northeastern United States.
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are not simply cold linguistic systems studied in grammar books, but rather, tools for human communication.
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I stood on the deck of S.S. Rajula. As she slowly moved out of Madras harbour, I waved to my grandparents till I could see them no more. I was thrilled to be on board a ship.
Humayun lay in a coma. His father Babar stood beside his bed, sad and worried. The Chief Vizier and the nobles crowded behind him.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE The English language has its origins in about the fifth century a.d.
The Story Behind The “Foundation” by Isaac Asimov The date was August 1, 1941. World War II had been raging for two years.
According to legend, when Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862 he said, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War!
Henry James (1843-1916) once wrote that art, especially literary art, “makes life, makes interest, makes importance.
The world depression of the 1930s affected most of the population of the United States.