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In this activity, you will learn about and examine the features of spontaneous speech. Recognizing these features in everyday speech will make your understanding much easier. |
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Read and listen to the fragment of this lesson's conversation. Pay attention to the highlighted text. |
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Click to listen: MARC: What's...What’s his, if you don’t mind me asking, what’s his, like, his biggest...the biggest challenge he’s had acculturating? CHRISTINE: Um...aside from the language which obviously is.. MARC: It’s a tough one. CHRISTINE: …probably the biggest issue that anybody faces: not being able to communicate and, you know, being an adult person feeling like a baby again, uh…aside from that, which I think is a given for anybody, I think has been the social aspect and especially around food... |
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| In a casual spontaneous conversation, people often interrupt each other in mid-sentence to comment on what is being said. |