Word: lingualism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among the women, Caroline Rody's sweet secure voice renders the multi-lingual "Marieke" gracefully, if a bit timidly. Susan Pollock's voice sounds very well-trained--in fact, too well-trained. Her careful attention to breathing and assiduously precise placement of each note is distracting. The demure soprano of Carla Seidel finds the right, slightly cloying tone for "Carousel," though by the end she becomes both inaudible and unintelligible as she tries to keep up with the song. But then, that's the point...
...Some people can handle reading or just audio-lingual," Dinklage says. "When we had translation classes only a couple dozen students a year couldn't handle them, and they were the hard-core dyslexics. With the audiolingual classes, we encounter many more students having difficulty and processing audio inputs." Dinklage says that when audiolingual courses gave many students more difficulty, several administrators suggested that they take Latin or Greek. "But the Classics Department revolted against having forced conscripts in their classes," he adds...
...half hour before game time, there were no more seats left, yet the throngs of multi-lingual, beer-toting fans continued to file up the ramps. The finally burst over the retaining wall, scrambling to the edge of the playing field...
...minute he takes his blindfold off, at which point he cannot help but fall in. The movie contains several similar gems of poetic understanding of human predicaments. Chaplin, forced to work as a singing waiter, loses the words to his song, and is forced to sing in multi-lingual gibberish, thus marking the debut of Chaplin's voice in films. By the film's end, the tramp and the gamine walk off in the sunset, no doubt looking for other great movies...
...auditory discrimination handicap is an inability to distinguish adequately between sounds. Harvard's reliance upon the audio-lingual method of teaching a language makes a student with this handicap unable to participate or to learn properly in these courses...