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     Although phonemics is to be used only as a part of pronunciation development, Adrian Underhill’s interactive phonemic chart is an excellent teaching tool that can be played full-screen and gives clear audio examples of the English phoneme set. You can even download it for your own use off line, at Macmillan English.

 
On July 25, 1909, the Frenchman Louis Blériot became the first person to fly an aeroplane across the English Channel, from France to Kent.

Ernst Hemingway in Pamplona

     50 years ago, Ernst Hemingway travelled for the last time to Pamplona. That’s the news. But the narrow, almost indissoluble connection between the writer and the Sanfermines started some time back when he first visited the city in 1923. In 1926 he published his first full-length novel, The Sun Also Rises (also known [...]