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By AARON CHIMBEL / WFAA Mobile Journalist,

Three, four and five year-olds clinch hands and began to chug their way through the alphabet.

In a classroom nearby their parents are learning too. Not by singing, they’re studying words and phrases about clothing.

But without the games for their children, many of the adults say they wouldn’t be able to learn English.

“I don’t have nobody to leave her with,” Tereza Loburya, who came to Dallas three years ago from Sudan says of her daughter, Matilda.

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You will probably speak the language if you listen to it every day. A baby who was born in Thailand surely speaks Thai language. Other was born in America, he will absolutely speak English. The baby hear and listen to people talk everyday and he himself slowly catch up the words and their meanings, then he immitate to say those words again and again. Therefore, he will speak the language of the country he was born in.

Is this the same process of learning English to those ESL learners? I think it would be not much different. If you do the right way of learning a language, we can use it in communication when we need to have conversation in that language.

WASHINGTON — Saying that the United States economy was likely to worsen before it improves, President-elect Barack Obama on Sunday pledged to pursue a recovery plan “equal to the task ahead,” including the creation of a vast public-works program not just built around bridge and highway projects, but on creating “green jobs” and disseminating new technologies.

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Bandwidhth

The range of frequencies, expressed in Kilobits per second, that can pass over a given data transmission channel within a frame relay network. The bandwidth determines the rate at which information can be sent through a channel - the greater the bandwidth, the more information that can be sent in a given amount of time. Usually measured in bits-per-second. A full page of English text is about 16,000 bits. A 56Kbs modem can easily move 16,000 bits in less than one second.

Beta software

Beta versions of commercial software are work-in-progress test copies released prior to the full version. They’re used to put the product through real-world tests and to ferret out bugs before the finished software hits the shelves. Betas often expire after a period of time, usually when the full version or the next beta is released.

Learning more about English for computer and computer Science language

It is not new that English is the global language for business. What is new, however, is the pace of globalization, which is making cross-border commerce, acquisitions, and exchange of best practices more common, and the need for English proficiency more vital throughout organizations.

In the past, large companies such as GE have designed proprietary e-learning tools to teach so-called business English across the global enterprise. The trouble with this approach is these programs tended to be expensive to develop, difficult to assess and inflexible—unable to adapt quickly to the constant addition of new terms, idioms and acronyms that constantly crop up in business English. “It’s a huge issue,” says Rodney Nelsestuen, a research director at TowerGroup, who adds that today’s business pace is so demanding, the push for efficiencies so intense, it’s simply not acceptable to slow things down with questions in mid sentence about language.

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