Showing posts with label letter-writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label letter-writing. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Useful Language. Giving Contact Information

Welcome again!


This episode contains sentences you can use while speaking or in writing to give contact information.

Listen to the sentences. Read the sentences.

If you think of any other sentence, we'll be happy to collect them to publish another episode on this. Please, post your thoughts on the TP Forums at talkingpeople.net.

Have a nice day!

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Useful Language. Making requests (in conversations & writing)

Welcome!

Here is some useful language for making requests and responding to requests. You should combine this with our episode devoted to saying thank you.

Listen to the sentences. Read the sentences.

More on the TP section of Useful Language.

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Useful Language. Saying You're Sorry (Apologies in Conversations & Writing)

Welcome again!

Sorry for taking so long to post another episode! :) (and sorry for posting several in a short time, which is what I'm about to do!)This audio includes "sorry" sentences you can use in conversations and in notes and letters/emails. It also includes some language comments, like the comment about the three different "that" words you can find!
Listen to this episode.
Read the sentences in this episode.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Useful Language. Saying Thank You & Letter-Writing 1

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thank you sentences on this TP link
Read the thank you notes on this TP link

In this episode devoted to useful language we can use in letters (but also when we speak, sure!), I’ll change the procedure. Because it contains mostly drilling (the same structure with changes in some words), I won’t be repeating each sentence twice, just once. However, so that you can practice Functional Translation the second time you listen to this episode, supposing you’re a Spanish speaker, I’ll be saying a similar sentence in Spanish before saying the sentence in English.

This episode has two sections: first, a one-page list of useful sentences to thank people different kinds of things. Then, 6 different thank you notes or letters you could learn to be fluent in! If you wish to write Thank You Notes and Letters please, post them on the TP Forum for corrections or feedback, and let’s see if we can publish them later. Some other day, we’ll publish Part 2 of the Thank you recording (work issues).

Friday, January 4, 2008

Useful Language. Letter-Writing. Asking for Info 01

With this audio we're pushing our section of Useful Language a bit further, to include... letter-writing!

Why record audios of that? Well, you can learn to read the language we may use in letters. In this way, you'll remember it better. You'll probably consolidate your speaking skills and you are likely to improve in terms of not making certain kind of grammar mistakes -- those "silly mistakes" you always make and that you keep not fixing because you insist in NOT proofreading your work!!! ;D

Listen now to this sample letter of someone trying to find out some information about language courses abroad. You can find this letter on our website: here.

If you want me to read your own sample letters, just tell me!

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

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This is the Talking People Podcast, which we will devote to audios and their transcripts on useful language, or with poems and stories.

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The episodes to learn English (EFL) that TP publishes include useful language (lenguaje útil) which you can listen to and repeat, to improve fluency and correction (fluidez y corrección), poems (poemas), which you can learn by heart, and stories (historias), which you can learn to read out loud. More key words we use (más palabras clave que usamos): life-long learning (aprendizaje permanente), communicative methods (métodos comunicativos), communicative strategies (estrategias comunicativas), language functions (funciones del lenguaje), functional grammar (gramática funcional), textual analysis (análisis textual), textual structure (estructura textual), nonviolent communication (comunicación noviolenta), inclusive language or non-sexist language (lenguaje inclusivo o lenguaje no machista), literature (literatura) including experimental literature (literatura experimental).