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		<title>Speak Only When Ready &#8211; But When Will You be Ready?</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2010/03/21/speak-only-when-ready-but-when-will-you-be-ready/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was an interesting exchange between Steve the Linguist and Benny the Irish Polyglot. I downloaded the podcast more than a week ago but only managed to get through it on a red-eye flight back from Seattle yesterday.
In brief, Steve thinks that we should first immerse ourselves into a lot of input activities and then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No More Skypecast</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2008/09/04/no-more-skypecast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, another free on-line service was gone, not only the &#8220;free&#8221; part, but also the service itself.
Skypecast was launched in 2006 to host public conference calls up to 100 people at a time. It was since being established as a meeting place for many to get to know others and talk about anything. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pronunciation-Wrestling</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2008/06/24/pronunciation-wrestling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last project at work, we dealt with a US telecommunication company. We had a team consisted of about 6-7 colleagues from the US and 4 of us from Canada, all &#8216;locked&#8217; in a conference room somewhere in the vicinity of Seattle.
Since our client was a telecommunication company, the word &#8216;Mobile&#8217; came up extremely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Quadriplegic Mayor</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2008/03/03/the-quadriplegic-mayor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2008/03/03/the-quadriplegic-mayor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan caught the attention of the international media back in 2006, when he accepted the flag at the closing ceremonies of the Turin Winter Olympics. He is Canada&#8217;s first disabled mayor and also the first quadriplegic mayor of a North American city.
The mayor was paralysed after a tragic skiing accident when he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Statistical Machine Translation</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2008/01/07/statistical-machine-translation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in last October,   Google Translate completely switched to its own home-grown translation software, adopting the Statistical Machine Translation approach.
Google Translate had been using SYSTRAN as the underlying translation engine, the same software Babel Fish uses. In the past, I used to get the same translation results from both engines, so I did [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>For the Sake of Conversation</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/11/20/for-the-sake-of-conversation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keith left me a comment on my previous post, asking why I would join so many language-exchange networks. In fact, I am not quite sure if I know the answer. May be they are free, or perhaps I keep joining new ones simply because none of them has met my expectations.
When I look back at [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>O Canada</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/11/15/o-canada/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I was compiling a collection of more than 25 different versions of the Canadian nation anthem &#8220;O Canada&#8221; for my daughter. The anthem is her favourite song besides, of course, the Alphabet song. I had been singing the anthem to her since she was 3-months old. Somehow, the tune worked great for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scarier Than Halloween</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/11/03/scarier-than-halloween/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/11/03/scarier-than-halloween/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 02:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just delivered a Toastmasters speech on the past Wednesday, right on the Halloween. No, this was not the scary part. It was my first speech in 11 months. This was not that scary either. The real scary moment was when I received the recording afterwards, and I watched myself delivering my speech.
Many people, including [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Coalition Of The Willing</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/09/07/coalition-of-the-willing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/09/07/coalition-of-the-willing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naturegirl left a comment on my previous post, mentioning a common scenario, where you want to practice your target language, only to find out that the other person always responses back to you in English (or your native language).
This is indeed an extremely frustrating experience. This could be by far the number one enemy for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>More on Accent Reduction Course</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/07/13/more-on-accent-reduction-course/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/07/13/more-on-accent-reduction-course/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent comment from my previous post  on “Accent Reduction Course”, Max asks if anyone knows a good course to help his friend on his English accent. His friend comes from Mainland China. Both Max and his friend are currently living in Hong Kong.
Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t have any reference in Hong Kong, but [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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