Grammaire et langue anglaise
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Phonologie et prononciation de l'anglais
Améliorer sa prononciation avec les cours de phonologie adaptées et ludiques. Les étudiants et professeur trouveront également des ressources plus détaillées.
You will also find lessons about the different dialects and varieties of English.
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Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Linguistics is concerned with the nature of language and communication, and with the study of particular languages and dialects. It includes many subareas / fields of research : grammar, phonology, syntax, morphology, etc.. In this section you will find a lot of lessons regarding linguistics.
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“Surely, man had never before so terribly altered, in so brief a period, as had Roderick Usher! It was with difficulty that I could bring myself to admit the identity of the wan being before me with the companion of my early boyhood”.
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Complexion / skin |
‘a cadaverous complexion’ – R. Usher looks extremely pale and ill. ‘The ghastly palor of the skin” – this expression conveys an idea of death. |
Eyes |
“an eye large, liquid and luminous” / “the miraculous lustre of the eye” |
Lips |
“lips somewhat thin and very pallid, but of surpassingly beautiful curve” |
Nose |
“a nose of a delicate Hebrew model, but with a breadth of nostril unusual in similar formations” ( = delicate but with very large nostrils) |
Chin |
“a finely moulded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy”. |
Hair |
“silken” / “unheeded”( =that is heard, seen or noticed but then ignored) / “floated about the face” – his hair is extremely messy |
“His action was alternately vivacious and sullen. His voice varied rapidly from tremulous indecision (…) to that species of energetic concision”.
‘[…] which may be observed in the lost drunkard and irreclaimable eater of opium”
Symptoms |
‘extreme nervous agitation’ – he suffers from overly-acute anxiety. ‘a morbid acuteness of senses’ – he has become hypersensitive. He can no longer stand certain garments, the smell of flowers, light and most sounds.He is terrified and lives in fear. He is in a constant state of “intolerable agitation” |
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