Tại nhiều nước trên thế giới, Uber - ứng dụng di động giúp kết nối giữa người tiêu dùng và dịch vụ thuê xe đưa đón có tài xế riêng đã quá quen thuộc với người dân. Tuy nhiên, đây là ứng dụng này chỉ mới xuất hiện tại Việt Nam từ tháng 7/2014. Ứng dụng này hiệu quả như thế nào, làm thế nào để sử dụng, mức giá như thế nào?... những câu hỏi đó sẽ được anh Alan Jiang – phụ trách thị trường quốc tế Uber giải thích.


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From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. 

The Internet company Google is testing its newest device, Google Glass. Most of the technologies for Google Glass are already available on smartphones. What is different is that Google has taken those technologies and added them to eyeglass frames. 
Chris Dale is the senior manager of communications for Google Glass. He says the device is a very small computer that sits in a lightweight frame and is positioned above the eye. He says it makes exploring and sharing the world around you easier.
The glasses have a tiny video screen and camera that connect wirelessly to the Internet through Wi-Fi, a smartphone or a tablet computer. You can make and receive calls, send and receive texts, take pictures, record video or search the web. You control Google Glass using your voice and a touchpad on the right temple arm of the frame. Professor Marcia Dawkins is among a group of people who have tested Google Glass. She thinks she could use the device in her classroom. Her Google Glass looks like a pair of bright orange glasses, but without the lenses. There is a tiny rectangular glass at the top right corner. She has been recording videos while biking. She has also been able to talk to her sister in Thailand. But not everyone is excited about Google Glass. Some are concerned about risks to privacy. They say the device will make it easy to video people without their knowledge. There are also concerns about the use of facial recognition technology. Google says it will not approve the use of such applications. The company says it is still testing Google Glass and hopes to make it available by early next year. For VOA Learning English, I'm Alex Villarreal.

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Nhà ga đường sắt ở trung tâm Berlin-Đức là nhà ga lớn nhất châu Âu. Công trình được xây dựng trên nền đất cát bão hòa nước dọc sông Spree ở trung tâm Berlin. Ống vòm bằng kính khổng lồ được sử dụng để đem lại nhiều ánh sáng tự nhiên nhất cho nhà ga. Đón hàng trăm đoàn tàu qua lại, công trình được kỳ vọng sẽ đưa Berlin thành trung tâm của châu Âu khi nó được hoàn thành. Một ngạc nhiên nữa là tòa nhà văn phòng được xây dựng ngay bên trên nhà ga. Các kỹ sư đã áp dụng một công nghệ chưa từng được sử dụng trong lịch sử ngành xây dựng. Họ xây hai tòa tháp lên cao, rồi nghiêng về hai phía để nối liền thành một cây cầu bên trên nhà ga. Bộ phim khắc họa những khó khăn và thách thức mà các kỹ sư và cả kiến trúc sư công trình phải đối mặt để xây nên công trình biểu tượng cho Berlin. 

Berlin Train Station 
Megastructures
2005

Bản quyền bộ phim thuộc về National Geographic Channel.
ACUD.VN biên tập phụ đề tiếng Việt.

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Dubai được biết đến như một thành phố với rất nhiều công trình đỉnh cao. Những dự án của Dubai ngày một lớn và dường như không có giới hạn. Vượt lên trên tất cả, dự án về The World là lớn nhất. Dự án giúp thực hiện tham vọng biến Dubai trở thành điểm du lịch hàng đầu thế giới. Hơn 300 hòn đảo lớn nhỏ được tạo nên từ cát biển hút từ dưới đáy đại dương. 25 km đê chắn song xây dựng từ đá thiên nhiên. Các kỹ sư còn phải đối mặt với các vấn đề về bảo vệ đảo khỏi bão biển, hay làm sạch nước biển bên trong khu vực. Việc xây dựng hạ tầng kỹ thuật trên những hòn đảo xa mạc này cũng gây không ít đau đầu cho các nhà đầu tư. Họ phải có hệ thống phát điện và hệ thống lọc nước biển riêng biệt cho từng hòn đảo. Việc thu hút nhà đầu tư cũng là một vấn đề nan giải mà các nhà phát triển dự án phải tính toán tới, vì nó là phần quyết định tới sự thành công của dự án. Dù gặp phải rất nhiều khó khăn, cũng không thể phủ nhận rằng Dubai là một trong những nơi đi đầu về xây dựng những công trình thế kỷ. 

World Island Wonder
Megastructures
2007

Bản quyền bộ phim thuộc về National Geographic Channel.
ACUD.VN biên tập phụ đề tiếng Việt.

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Đập Tam Điệp ở Trung Quốc là con đập thủy điện lớn nhất thế giới, với tổng công suất 22.500 MW, gấp hai lần con đập lớn thứ nhì Itaipu ở Brazil. Con đập được tạo nên với hai mục đích chính: tạo ra nguồn năng lượng sạch cho 60 triệu cư dân, và giúp điều hòa con sông Dương Tử hung dữ thường xuyên gây lũ lụt. Thành công của con đập được dựa trên những bước đột phá về kỹ thuật ở những con đập điển hình khác: từ việc tạo ra điện năng từ dòng nước, nắn chỉnh dòng sông trong quá trính thi công, vật liệu xây dựng đập, chống lũ tràn, di chuyển thuyền bè qua đập, và chống lắng đọng phù xa. Tập phim sẽ giới thiệu những con đập nổi tiếng cũng với những bước ngoặt về công nghệ giúp các kỹ sư xây những con đập ngày một lớn hơn.

Những con đập được khắc họa trong bộ phim: 
1. Đập Debdon (4 KW)
2. Đập Mareges (128 MW)
3. Đập Hoover (1.345 MW)
4. Đập Grand Coulee (2.000 MW)
5. Đập Kransnoyarsk (6.000 MW)
6. Đập Tam Hiệp (22.500 MW)

Những công nghệ bước nhảy (leap) giúp các kỹ sư xây những cây cầu ngày một dài hơn và vững trãi hơn: 
Bước nhảy 1: Tạo ra điện năng
Bước nhảy 2: Nắn dòng sông
Bước nhảy 3: Bê tông
Bước nhảy 4: Lũ lụt
Bước nhảy 5: Thuyền bè
Bước nhảy 6: Phù xa

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Episode 7
Session 2
2009
Big-Bigger-Biggest

Bản quyền bộ phim thuộc về National Geographic Channel.
ACUD.VN biên tập phụ đề tiếng Việt.

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Tòa nhà Trung tâm thương mại thế giới ở Bahrain là tòa tháp đầu tiên trên thế giới sử dụng năng lượng gió do nó tự tạo ra. Đó là sản phẩm của kiến trúc sư 37 tuổi người Nam Phi, Shaun Killa, người luôn đam mê kết hợp những công nghệ bền vững vào công trình của anh. Việc đưa tuốc-bin gió lên tòa nhà chọc trời chưa có ai từng thực hiện. Thách thức đầu tiên đối với Killa là việc tìm ra một đội kỹ thuật có thể cùng anh chia sẻ tầm nhìn về thiết kế độc nhất này. Hàng chục hãng thiết kế đã làm anh thất vọng khi cho rằng điều đó là không thể. Cuối cùng thì 2 kỹ sư từ 2 công ty của Đan Mạch đã liên hệ và cho rằng thiết kế đó có thể được thực hiện. Thông thường, tuốc-bin gió được lắp đặt trên cột thẳng đứng trên cánh đồng gió. Tại đó những nguy cơ về thiết bị lỗi là không lớn. Tuy nhiên ở tòa nhà trung tâm thương mại, cánh quạt gió ở rất gần khu mua sắm và khu văn phòng. Những vấn đề về kỹ thuật khác cũng phải được vượt qua, đó là việc chống va chạm cánh vào cầu, ngăn hiện tượng cộng hưởng dao động giữa cánh tuốc-bin với cầu, và làm thế nào để nâng cầu cùng cánh lên đúng vị trí. Bộ phim khắc họa mọi khó khăn mà toàn đội đã phải đối mặt để tạo nên một công trình lịch sử: tòa nhà tạo ra năng lượng từ gió đầu tiên trên thế giới. 

World trade centre-Bahrain 
Megastructures
2008

Bản quyền thuộc về National Geographic Channel.
ACUD.VN/ThuVienXayDung.net biên soạn phụ đề tiếng việt.

Phụ đề Việt. phát âm cực hay, chuẩn mỹ, nói câu ngắn dễ học, kịch bản lôi cuốn từ đầu tới cuối

chửi tục khá nhiều : FUCK YOU, WHAT THE FUCK, I WANNA FUCK YOU, ...


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The Kids Are All Right - phim hôn nhân đồng tính gây chấn động nước Mỹ

Khi cuộc tranh cãi về hôn nhân đồng tính ở Mỹ vẫn đang tiếp diễn thì bộ phim mới đầy gay cấn của đạo diễn Lisa Cholodenko mang tựa đề The Kids Are All Right đang thu hút số đông khán giả Mỹ.






Annette Bening và Julianne Moore hóa thân thành cặp đôi đồng giới trong phim The Kids Are All Right



The Kids Are All Right đã nhận được nhiều lời ca ngợi của giới phê bình và là phim ăn khách kể từ khi có mặt ở rạp chiếu nhiều thành phố lớn của Mỹ hôm 9/7.

Không có một cuộc cách mạng rõ nét nào trong The Kids Are All Right, bộ phim giải trí kể về một cặp đồng tính nữ tuổi trung niên (do Annette Bening và Julianne Moore thủ vai) có những đứa con tuổi vị thành niên tìm thấy người hiến tinh trùng là cha mình (Mark Ruffalo). Nhưng thực ra, phim là một tác phẩm mang tính chính trị rõ rệt. Hôn nhân đồng tính và cha mẹ là người đồng giới trong phim nêu bật những thực tế của cuộc sống Mỹ hiện đại. Cách tiếp cận của phim cũng như thời điểm phát hành (Mỹ có thêm nhiều bang hợp pháp hóa hôn nhân đồng tính) đã đặt The Kids Are All Right vào vị trí mà sử gia điện ảnh Mark Harris, trong một cuộc phỏng vấn với France24.com, gọi là phim có tiềm năng cập nhật chuẩn mực màn bạc Mỹ cho những gì được coi là gia đình Mỹ “bình thường”.

Không có cảm giác phim “không bình thường”





Các mối quan hệ đồng tính đã được nêu bật trong nhiều bộ phim Mỹ, như Brokeback Mountain, The Birdcage. Trong những tác phẩm điện ảnh đó, tình dục đồng tính được mô tả như một phong cách sống lập dị rõ ràng. Nếu so sánh, thật khó có thể “gán” cho cặp đôi đồng tính trong phim The Kids Are All Right là những người có tính “lật đổ”. Mà thay vào đó, phim cho thấy Nic, Jules và hai đứa con của họ đã tạo nên một gia đình theo tập quán như thế nào.

Nic, một bác sĩ, là người trụ cột nuôi cả gia đình và là người kỷ luật, trong khi Jules lại là người đồng bóng hơn, là người nội trợ trong gia đình. Cả hai đều dồn tâm trí cho cuộc sống đúng mực của hai đứa con tuổi vị thành niên của mình, một đứa con gái thông minh và cậu con trai khỏe mạnh. Xem cảnh đầu tiên là bữa tối của gia đình, bao trùm khung cảnh đó là những câu chuyện tán gẫu hết sức thân mật cùng những lời cằn nhằn khiến người xem không có cảm giác đang xem một bộ phim “không bình thường” của điện ảnh Hollywood.

Trong một cuộc phỏng vấn quảng bá phim, đạo diễn Cholodenko, bản thân chị cũng là một người đồng tính luyến ái đang nuôi một đứa con với người bạn tình đồng giới, nói rằng rất tự nhiên khi đặt gia đình này vào bối cảnh văn hóa dễ nhận biết như vậy. “Tôi biết thể nào cũng có người nói đây là một gia đình trái với thông lệ, hai người mẹ và những đứa con. Đối với tôi, kiểu gia đình như vậy lại khá điển hình. Chúng tôi đang đưa thực tế đó lên màn bạc theo cách không nằm trong môi trường bị chính trị hóa”.

Phong cách sống lập dị trong phim không phải là hôn nhân đồng giới hay cha mẹ đồng giới, mà là sự tồn tại của một người đàn ông bình thường nhưng chưa vợ: Paul, người đã hiến tinh trùng, nhưng tình trạng sống “vật vờ” của anh ta lại tương phản với sự ổn định của cặp đôi đồng giới nữ.

Khi Paul gắn kết với những đứa trẻ mà anh ta không hề biết mình có chúng và có sự gần gũi đáng nguy hiểm với một trong hai người mẹ chúng, thì sự dính kết của gia đình này nằm trong thử thách. Đạo diễn kiêm đồng tác giả kịch bản Cholodenko không hề ngại đề cập đến những khía cạnh dễ bị tổn thương của gia đình này. Chị mô tả tính tò mò của hai đứa trẻ khi trong cuộc sống của chúng xuất hiện một người đàn ông...

Xóa bỏ hàng rào với gia đình “gay”

Cholodenko không có ý định lấy hôn nhân đồng tính làm đề tài thử nghiệm, mà chị đưa ra những vấn đề trong gia đình này như những sự “biến tấu” của những lo lắng gia đình, như tình trạng không được nghỉ ngơi, những khủng hoảng về lòng trung thành và tính cách – tương tự như những gì mà các bậc cha mẹ và con cái trong gia đình bình thường phải đối diện. Theo các nhà phê bình, Cholodenko không chỉ làm được một bộ phim hay mà còn rất có ý nghĩa. Lisa Schwarzbaum, trong bài phê bình về phim đăng trên tạp chí Entertainment Weekly, đã viết rằng “phim xóa bỏ được những hàng rào giữa “nội dung gay” và “nội dung gia đình” phổ biến.

Nhiều nhà phê bình còn “tâm đắc” với phim hơn khi cho rằng tác phẩm điện ảnh này không chỉ định hình lại những quan niệm về gia đình Mỹ trên màn bạc mà còn về cuộc tranh cãi về hôn nhân đồng tính ở Mỹ. “Nếu The Kids Are All Right có thể là một vũ khí hữu hiệu trong các cuộc chiến văn hóa, thì không phải vì nó tạo nên cách nhìn cấp tiến về hôn nhân và gia đình, mà vì nó quá hiện thực, quá sexy, quá buồn, quá trung thực và khôi hài đến xé lòng”, nhà phê bình Andrew O’Hehir của Salon.com nhận định.













Bonus : Cảnh nóng rất nóng của Julianne Moore trong phin , không dành cho các cháu bé !












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nghe để biết giọng Úc đặc sệt chính tông là thế nào, trừ Nicole Kidman





Giới Thiệu :

In 1939, Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) travels from England to northern Australia to force her philandering husband to sell his faltering cattle station, Faraway Downs. Her husband sends an independent cattle drover (Hugh Jackman), called simply “Drover”, to Darwin to transport her to Faraway Downs.

Lady Sarah’s husband is murdered shortly before she arrives, and the white authorities tell her that the killer is an Aboriginal elder with magical powers, “King George” (David Gulpilil). Meanwhile, cattle station manager Neil Fletcher (David Wenham) is trying to gain control of Faraway Downs, so that Lesley ‘King’ Carney (Bryan Brown) will have a complete cattle monopoly in the Northern Territory, giving him negotiating leverage with an Australian army officer, Captain Dutton (Ben Mendelsohn)…

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Hai tuần Nigeria, 1 tuần New York. Vừa về lại DC. Bận ngập đầu nên có nhiều chuyện để kể nhưng đành để đó. Mùa thu bên này đang rất đẹp, thời tiết dễ chịu. Cuối tuần này có Rally của Jon Stewart nên mình đang rất excited. Chủ Nhật là Halloween nhưng vì có cái peer review due nên phải ngồi nhà viết và submit (đã tranh thủ ngồi ở sân bay đọc và comment xong rồi).

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Nhân có 1 bạn hỏi về phát âm tiếng Anh nên mình quyết định sẽ cho ra 1 loạt bài về phát âm tiếng Anh. Cho ra đây để nhắc nhớ chính bản thân mình; thêm hữu ích cho bạn nào đó nữa thì cũng tốt. Phải nói rằng phát âm tiếng Anh là thứ vô cùng chuối đối với dân Việt, dân nói thứ tiếng mà âm cuối không hề quan trọng và lưỡi rất ít di chuyển. Đối với nhiều bạn trẻ hiện nay, có thể sự học tiếng Anh đã khác. Nhưng cái thời mình, không hề có ai chỉ cho mình cách phát âm. Hôm rồi tôi gặp đứa bạn ở VN sang, nó nói tiếng Anh mà tôi không thể hiểu được (mặc dù ngày xưa ở VN thì hiểu ngon ơ). Phát hiện ra lỗi là đã thành công 50% trong nhiệm vụ chỉnh phát âm (accent reduction) rồi. Nếu không phát hiện ra những chỗ hay mắc lỗi trong phát âm tiếng Anh thì sẽ không bao giờ có ý thức để sửa. Với những di dân như mình, tiếng Anh ảnh hưởng lớn đến phát triển nghề nghiệp bởi khi không phất âm đúng tức là giao tiếp thất bại. Tôi đã ở Mỹ 6 năm nhưng phát âm vẫn là một thứ làm tôi stress và đôi khi ảnh hưởng đến sự tự tin. Mình có đủ kiến thức nhưng mình lại không thể diễn đạt được ý của mình 1 cách rõ ràng và hiệu quả.

Lời khuyên chung khi nói tiếng Anh:

- Nói chậm, rõ từng từ. Nên nhớ rằng nói thật chậm để người khác hiểu quan trọng hơn cảm giác "funny" khi nói chậm.
- Không bao giờ bỏ sót âm cuối. Trong tiếng Anh cố 1 số stop sound mà khi nói bạn phải để hơi xì ra (release air): p, t, g, b, d và k (nếu n đi trước t thì n có thể loại bỏ âm t hoặc làm giảm âm t).
- Với những từ sử dụng thường xuyên, nên thực hành để nói chúng thật chuẩn.
- Dùng từ thay thế. Đôi khi tôi hay phải nói vòng bằng vài từ khác vì từ tôi muốn dùng quá khó để phát âm hay có thể gây nhầm lẫn. Ví dụ đơn giản nhất là dùng cannot thay cho can't.
- Những âm dễ mắc lỗi nhất là: t, d (end sound), th, sh và l
- Tự ghi âm giọng mình lại là cách tốt để sửa phát âm của mình
- Chữ cái tiếng Anh có thể tóm vào thành 5 nhóm:
+ nhóm 1: c, d, e, g, p, t, v, z (có thể lấy v làm chuẩn)
+ nhóm 2: f, l, m, n, s, x (x làm chuẩn)
+ nhóm 3: a, h, j, k (a làm chuẩn)
+ nhóm 4: q, u, w (u làm chuẩn)
+ nhóm 5: i, y
+ Leftover: o, r

Khi phát âm những nhóm từ này, lưỡi sẽ di chuyển theo những cách thức nhất định mà tôi sẽ nói ở phần sau.

Tôi sẽ dử dụng nhiều bài giảng trên youtube để minh họa. Thực ra không có nguyên tắc cụ thể nào trong phất âm tiếng Anh hết nên bạn phải dựa vào nghe và thực hành. Practice, practice and practice.

HƯỚNG DẪN PHÁT ÂM CỦA DAVE SCONDA

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Passage 1
Every summer across the United States, Americans organize yard sales. Single households or several households decide on a date and time to sell all their unwanted things right in front of their homes. You don’t need a permit from any local authority to set up a yard sale. And only if you live in a condo association do you need to give notification to your neighbors. What matters most is good advertising. Several signs on local streets and perhaps an announcement on a local online website are good things to have.Passage 2
Saturday mornings are the most common time for yard sales. They can start as early as 8:00 and last well into the afternoon, but by noon, most of the choice items have been sold. Rarely do you see a yard sale take place on a workday or last towards dinnertime.Passage 3
Yard sales are common in the suburbs, where there is enough space to set up tables along sidewalks and in driveways and where they are people looking for bargains. You can find almost anything at a yard sale: an old guitar, a pair of shoes, books of all kinds, toys, and furniture.

As for why there are so many yard sales on a typical summer weekend in America, I can explain by admitting a fault that too many people in my country have. Americans tend to have a lot of junk and a lot of clutter. Seldom will you find a family with an empty basement or attic. And our closets? They’re full, too. We hold on to things for too long, and we collect things we don’t really need. Only when we realize that we have too many things and too little space left in our homes do we decide to take action. We experience extreme pleasure when we declutter, that is, gain space by removing stuff and organizing what’s left.

I should note that there are some alternatives to having a yard sale. Sometimes when we empty out our closets, we donate clothing to charity and give books to the local library. But when we find such a wide variety of junk in our closets, under our beds, up in the attic, and down in the basement, we consider the option of selling our stuff to make a profit. Then we experience the satisfaction of decluttering and earning some money.Passage 4
You may wonder who wants to buy used items. Often buyers are people who must watch their budget. They buy items secondhand because it’s too expensive to buy everything new. There are also shoppers who specialize in antiques. They search for old objects that are being sold for pennies, but are actually worth a considerable amount of money.

Buyers come from the surrounding area and sometimes beyond. Many buyers drive to yard sales. Some decide to stop as soon as they see signs for a yard sale, even if they are not in a familiar town. In fact, many look for yard sales on the weekends and for these people stopping at yard sales is a pastime. They like to search for something special and enjoy negotiating a good price. These bargain hunters may visit a few different yard sales in one day.

This summer I helped organize a neighborhood yard sale. I set up my own table and sold things along with several other neighbors. In a little bit, I’ll show you what my experience was like.

This is a lesson for the ADVANCED English language learner. The theme is the 2008 Olympic Games, and there are 3 main parts. This is PART TWO, in which we develop listening skills. Be sure to watch Part One (vocabulary).

TRANSCRIPT :

Today I'm going to talk about the phrases 'want to' and 'going to'. Wanna and gonna are acceptable, although casual, pronunciations of these phrases. For example, in a job interview, you might not want to use this more casual pronunciation. You might say a phrase like, 'I want to contribute ... blah blah blah.' Want. Where you actually make that T sound. But if you're in more casual conversation, for example with a friend, you might say something like 'I want to be there by 6.' Wanna, wanna, here it would be appropriate to use that word.

In the words wanna and gonna, it is the first syllable that is accented. Wanna, gonna. And the vowel sound in the first syllable is most likely going to be the 'uh' as in 'butter' sound, though you may at times hear it a little closer to the 'ah' as in 'father' sound. I think I myself pronounce it closer to the 'uh' as in 'butter' sound. Wanna, gonna. In both of these words, the final syllable is a simple schwa sound, short and unaccented. Wanna, gonna.

Another note about 'wanna', wanna is short for the words 'want to'. Not ever for the words 'wants to'. So, for example, in the phrase ' I want to be there by 6', I'm replacing 'want to' with 'wanna'. But if we change the subject to he, he wants to be there by 6, now the word is wants, with the S, and not want (because of the different conjugation). Therefore, we cannot shorten it into 'wanna'. He wanna be there by 6. Can't say that because 'wants to' does not shorten into wanna. Only 'want to'.

Going to, or gonna, is used with a subject and the conjugated verb 'to be'. I am going to be there at 6. If we're going to shorten 'going to' into gonna, we're also going to want to shorten 'I am' into I'm, a contraction. I'm gonna be there by 6. You are going to becomes you're gonna. He or she is going to becomes he's gonna, she's gonna. We are going to becomes we're gonna. They are going to becomes they're gonna. They're gonna. If you're going to be shortening these words, they're, the contraction, gonna, the more casual pronunciation, you don't want to pause between them. They're gonna, they're gonna. The whole point in shortening them is to say it faster. So, if you pause in between, it will make the sentence sound a little strange. They're gonna. We're gonna. I'm gonna. It all melts together, almost as if it's one longer word.

Repeat the following sample sentences. I want to see the movie on Friday. They wan to be here. We want to get there early. I'm going to see her tomorrow. Are you going to be there? They're going to pay for it. We're going to stop by later.

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Today I'm going to go over how to pronounce the letters of the alphabet. You may find if you speak with an accent that native speakers will ask you to spell something if they feel they're not sure they've understood what you said. For example if you have a foreign name that is unfamiliar to Americans, you might find them asking you to spell it after you tell them what your name is.

A. A is simply the 'ay' as in 'say' diphthong []. A. So you can see teh jaw goes from being more dropped, A, to closing more, A, as the tongue reaches up towards the roof of the mouth for the second part of the diphthong. A. The next letters all have the 'ee' as in 'she' vowel sound [] where the corners of the mouth pull a little bit wide, ee, and the tongue raises very high, ee, in the front/mid part of the mouth. B. B had the B consonant sound where the lips start together, bb B. And opens into the 'ee' as in 'she' vowel sound. C. C begins with the S consonant sound, ss, and moves into the 'ee' as in 'she' sound. C. D. D begins with the D sound, dd, dd, the voiced consonant, and moves into the 'ee' as in 'she' vowel sound. D. E is simply the 'ee' as in 'she' vowel sound. E.

F. F begins with the 'eh' as in 'bed' vowel sound [], which has quite a drop in the jaw, eh, eh, F. It then finishes with the F consonant sound where the bottom lip moves up and touches the top teeth, ff, and you release air through that. It is unvoiced. F. G. G again has the 'ee' as in 'she' vowel sound. It begins with the 'jj' as in 'jar' consonant sound []. G. H. H begins with the 'ay' as in 'say' diphthong, just like the letter A, but it ends with the 'ch' as in 'char' consonant sound []. H. Ch, ch where you release just air though the mouth position. H. I. I is pronounced with the 'ay' as in 'buy' diphthong []. I. J. J begins with the 'jj' as in 'jar' consonant sound, jj, it then has the 'ay' as in 'say' diphthong. J, J. K begins with the kk K consonant sound and then has the 'ay' as in 'say' diphthong. K.

The next three consonants all start with the 'eh' as in 'bed' vowel sound. L, L begins with the eh sound and moves into the L sound, where the tip of the tongue, L, L, moves up to touch the roof of the mouth just behind the teeth. L. M. M begins with the eh sound and then finishes with the M consonant sound where the lips come together - M, mm, mm - while you make noise with the vocal cords. M. N. N begins with the eh sound and moves into the N consonant sound. N, nn, where the tongue raises to the roof of the mouth and the lips remain open. N, N. The letter O is simply pronounced with the 'oh' as in 'no' diphthong []. O, O.

P. P begins with the P consonant sound, pp, where the lips are together and you release air. It then goes into the 'ee' as in 'she' vowel sound. P. P. Q. Q begins with the unvoiced kk K consonant sound, and then has the 'ew' as in 'few' diphthong []. Q. R. R begins with the 'ah' as in 'father' sound [] and then moves immediately into the R consonant sound []. R, R. S. S begins with the 'eh' as in 'bed' vowel sound. Eh, Eh, S S. It then moves into the S consonant sound. S. T. T begins with the unvoiced tt T consonant sound and then has the 'ee' as in 'she' vowel sound. T T.

U. The letter U is pronounced with the 'ew' as in 'few' diphthong. V. V begins with the voiced vv consonant sound where the bottom lip moves up to the top teeth. V, v, followed by the 'ee' as in 'she' vowel sound. V. W. W begins with the D consonant sound. dd. It then moves into the 'uh' as in 'butter' [] followed by the B consonant sound. Double. It then has the schwa [] and the dark L sound. Double, W. And the 'ew' as in 'few' diphhtong. W. The accent is on the first syllable. W. X. X begins with the 'eh' vowel sound, it then has the K and the S consonant sounds together. Eh kk ss. X. Y. Y begins with the W consonant sound, where the lips are in a tight circle. It then opens into the 'ay' as in 'buy' diphthong. Y. Z. Z begins with the voiced consonant, zz, followed by the 'ee' as in 'she' vowel sound. Z.

And now, all of the letters of the alphabet. Listen and repeat. If you can record this, that would be helpful. You can then listen to it and compare your pronunciation with mine to see if there are any errors.

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Transcript of Commencement Speech at Stanford given by Steve Jobs
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Thank you. I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.

Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a drop-in for another eighteen months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife, except that when I popped out, they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, "We've got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?" They said, "Of course." My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.

This was the start in my life. And seventeen years later, I did go to college, but I naïvely chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and no idea of how college was going to help me figure it out, and here I was, spending all the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back, it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out, I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms. I returned Coke bottles for the five-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example.

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer was beautifully hand-calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans-serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me, and we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.

If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personals computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.

Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later. Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever--because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.

My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky. I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was twenty. We worked hard and in ten years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We'd just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I'd just turned thirty, and then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so, things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge, and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our board of directors sided with him, and so at thirty, I was out, and very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down, that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the Valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me. I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I'd been rejected but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods in my life. During the next five years I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world's first computer-animated feature film, "Toy Story," and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.

In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT and I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful-tasting medicine but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking, and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it, and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don't settle.

My third story is about death. When I was 17 I read a quote that went something like "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "no" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important thing I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life, because almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago, I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctors' code for "prepare to die." It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next ten years to tell them, in just a few months. It means to make sure that everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope, the doctor started crying, because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and, thankfully, I am fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept. No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don't want to die to get there, and yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new. right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it's quite true. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalogue, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stuart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late Sixties, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. it was sort of like Google in paperback form thirty-five years before Google came along. I was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great notions. Stuart and his team put out several issues of the The Whole Earth Catalogue, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-Seventies and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath were the words, "Stay hungry, stay foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. "Stay hungry, stay foolish." And I have always wished that for myself, and now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Thank you all, very much.

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Like millions of Americans I learned of the tragic events in Arizona on Saturday, and my heart broke for the innocent victims. No words can fill the hole left by the death of an innocent, but we do mourn for the victims’ families as we express our sympathy.

I agree with the sentiments shared yesterday at the beautiful Catholic mass held in honor of the victims. The mass will hopefully help begin a healing process for the families touched by this tragedy and for our country.

Our exceptional nation, so vibrant with ideas and the passionate exchange and debate of ideas, is a light to the rest of the world. Congresswoman Giffords and her constituents were exercising their right to exchange ideas that day, to celebrate our Republic’s core values and peacefully assemble to petition our government. It’s inexcusable and incomprehensible why a single evil man took the lives of peaceful citizens that day.

There is a bittersweet irony that the strength of the American spirit shines brightest in times of tragedy. We saw that in Arizona. We saw the tenacity of those clinging to life, the compassion of those who kept the victims alive, and the heroism of those who overpowered a deranged gunman.

Like many, I’ve spent the past few days reflecting on what happened and praying for guidance. After this shocking tragedy, I listened at first puzzled, then with concern, and now with sadness, to the irresponsible statements from people attempting to apportion blame for this terrible event.

President Reagan said, “We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them, not collectively with all the citizens of a state, not with those who listen to talk radio, not with maps of swing districts used by both sides of the aisle, not with law-abiding citizens who respectfully exercise their First Amendment rights at campaign rallies, not with those who proudly voted in the last election.

The last election was all about taking responsibility for our country’s future. President Obama and I may not agree on everything, but I know he would join me in affirming the health of our democratic process. Two years ago his party was victorious. Last November, the other party won. In both elections the will of the American people was heard, and the peaceful transition of power proved yet again the enduring strength of our Republic.

Vigorous and spirited public debates during elections are among our most cherished traditions. And after the election, we shake hands and get back to work, and often both sides find common ground back in D.C. and elsewhere. If you don’t like a person’s vision for the country, you’re free to debate that vision. If you don’t like their ideas, you’re free to propose better ideas. But, especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible.

There are those who claim political rhetoric is to blame for the despicable act of this deranged, apparently apolitical criminal. And they claim political debate has somehow gotten more heated just recently. But when was it less heated? Back in those “calm days” when political figures literally settled their differences with dueling pistols? In an ideal world all discourse would be civil and all disagreements cordial. But our Founding Fathers knew they weren’t designing a system for perfect men and women. If men and women were angels, there would be no need for government. Our Founders’ genius was to design a system that helped settle the inevitable conflicts caused by our imperfect passions in civil ways. So, we must condemn violence if our Republic is to endure.

As I said while campaigning for others last March in Arizona during a very heated primary race, “We know violence isn’t the answer. When we ‘take up our arms’, we’re talking about our vote.” Yes, our debates are full of passion, but we settle our political differences respectfully at the ballot box – as we did just two months ago, and as our Republic enables us to do again in the next election, and the next. That’s who we are as Americans and how we were meant to be. Public discourse and debate isn’t a sign of crisis, but of our enduring strength. It is part of why America is exceptional.

No one should be deterred from speaking up and speaking out in peaceful dissent, and we certainly must not be deterred by those who embrace evil and call it good. And we will not be stopped from celebrating the greatness of our country and our foundational freedoms by those who mock its greatness by being intolerant of differing opinion and seeking to muzzle dissent with shrill cries of imagined insults.

Just days before she was shot, Congresswoman Giffords read the First Amendment on the floor of the House. It was a beautiful moment and more than simply “symbolic,” as some claim, to have the Constitution read by our Congress. I am confident she knew that reading our sacred charter of liberty was more than just “symbolic.” But less than a week after Congresswoman Giffords reaffirmed our protected freedoms, another member of Congress announced that he would propose a law that would criminalize speech he found offensive.

It is in the hour when our values are challenged that we must remain resolved to protect those values. Recall how the events of 9-11 challenged our values and we had to fight the tendency to trade our freedoms for perceived security. And so it is today.

Let us honor those precious lives cut short in Tucson by praying for them and their families and by cherishing their memories. Let us pray for the full recovery of the wounded. And let us pray for our country. In times like this we need God’s guidance and the peace He provides. We need strength to not let the random acts of a criminal turn us against ourselves, or weaken our solid foundation, or provide a pretext to stifle debate.

America must be stronger than the evil we saw displayed last week. We are better than the mindless finger-pointing we endured in the wake of the tragedy. We will come out of this stronger and more united in our desire to peacefully engage in the great debates of our time, to respectfully embrace our differences in a positive manner, and to unite in the knowledge that, though our ideas may be different, we must all strive for a better future for our country. May God bless America

dạy phiên âm chữ cái theo giọng Mỹ, họ làm thành bài hát dễ thương, vừa dạy phát âm đúng, vừa dạy sign language sử dụng bởi những người câm điếc.