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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #46018 Short Linguistic training
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You will hear a recording. Below is a transcription of the recording. Some words in the transcription differ from what the speaker said. Please click on the words that are different.
* Click on the words that are different from what you hear
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I think with our linguistic training we also get all this invisible training to be authorities, to be the people who know. It is part of that process that you come out as a world authority on your chosen subject. But when we move into working with communities, we have to recognize that the communities have to be the authority in their language. Actually, a woman in the class I'm teaching at sydney at the moment, a career woman, expressed this very nicely, although she was talking about something else, she was distinguishing expertise from authority. And certainly linguists, because of the training we do, have expertise in certain very narrow areas of language, but we don't have the authority over what to do with that knowledge or what to do with other knowledge that the community produces. I guess for me the bottom line is languages are lost because of the dominance of one person over another. That's not rocket science, it's not hard to work that out. But then what that means is if in working with language revival we continue to hold the authority, we actually haven't done anything towards undoing how languages are lost in the first place, so in a sense, the languages are still lost if the authority is still lost.
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Printed "impalpable", the speaker says "invisible"

Explanation: The speaker says "all this invisible training", not "impalpable". Both words start with i, so listen to the whole word.

Printed "people", the speaker says "authority"

Explanation: Listen for "world authority on your". They start with different letters, and "people" does not make sense there.

Printed "empathize", the speaker says "recognize"

Explanation: You will hear "have to recognize that". The first letters differ, but both end the same, so listen to the start.

Printed "home", the speaker says "sydney"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "teaching at sydney at". The first letters differ, so focus on the whole word.

Printed "speaking", the speaker says "talking"

Explanation: Listen again to "she was talking about". They start with different letters, and both end the same, so follow the start.

Printed "uses", the speaker says "produces"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "the community produces". They start with different letters, and the spoken word is much longer.

Printed "real", the speaker says "rocket"

Explanation: Here the speaker says "That's not rocket science". Both words start with r, so listen to the rest of the word.

"linguistic" matches the audio

Explanation: "our linguistic training" has a less common word. It looks tricky, but the speaker says it exactly as printed, so do not click it.

"authority" matches the audio

Explanation: "be the authority in their language" repeats later and may look like a change. It is spoken exactly as printed, so do not click it.

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