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I had prepared another listening lesson for this AM session but 2T just returned from a weekend in Taipei, Taiwan (ROC). As my old Navy Chief used to say, "this here is a teachable moment!" So today we decided to "goof off," forego the prepared listening lesson, and "shoot the shit" about his recent trip for awhile. The highlight was the National Palace Museum which gave us great vocabulary to work on pronunciation with like: sculpture, vase, urn, dynasty and rulers. Since we've been working together for a few weeks, I'm getting a better ear for his pronunciations. Good thing with words like sculpture and rulers. The piece de resistance, however, was lanterns! These are hand made, red for luck, illuminated at night, and hung from the street lights. They made a big impression on 2T. His enthusiastic yet unrecognizable pronunciation of "lanterns" made me work like a rented mule to figure out what he was saying! Once I figured out the word was lanterns, we went to work on some pronunciation drills. L as the first sound of a word seems harder for my 2T to get his tongue around than L appearing in other parts of a word. Seems there ought to be a reason for this. Maybe if I can figure out why this is, I can make it easier for the Asian students I encounter (there is a fair sized Chinese population in the area of Panama where I expect to live). Looks like more research on my end! Can you guess what today's idioms were?
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