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A nice free online resource for auditory learners — Wind in the Willows recording online

In our family, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame has always reigned as on of the most brilliant children’s books of all time, and some time ago we posted the full text of The Wind In the Willows in our Children’s Books pages.

A few days ago, I just discovered that someone has been posting a serialized audiobook version of  The Wind in the Willows online on youtube.  It’s very nicely read and about half done.  The reader assures me that she will be completing it.  It has also been embedded into our full text version so one can read and listen on the same page.

To us this was a wonderful find, and we thought in might be of general interest to our homeschooling friends.

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Lectures: words not in the dictionary

Lectures: words not in the dictionary

Dear Scholars,

I recently found a lecture by an eminent lexicographer on the project of listing all of the words of English — far more, he claims, than are found in any dictionary. The content is very interesting but the language used is really very poor in comparison with that others whose speech exemplifies spoken English as an art form (Stephen Wolfram’s lecture, for example, which I shared earlier).  Indeed, the speaker, Chris Cole of Harvard and Caltech, commits grammatical crimes in about every third sentence, a ratio which, though deplorable, is probably quite common among American English speakers, as spoken language is not generally expected to conform to the norms of formal English in this country. Here is the talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU_CiErwkFA
How many grammatical errors can you find?

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