Article: While there are 26 letters in written English, spoken English incorporates 44 distinct sounds. Learn the characters that represent each of these sounds. Then you will be able to write words phonetically, and study dictionaries that use these characters to "write out" the pronunciation of each word. RP English is the accent upon which phonemic transcriptions (the characters representing sounds) are based, so you'll be at an advantage learning RP English over another form of spoken English the characters will "spell out" the pronunciation of words in the way you're trying to learn them. Identify sounds or stress and intonation patterns that differ between your native language and RP English. Understanding these differences will show you which elements of RP you most need to work on. Learning some words will be a simple matter of adding vocabulary, while in other cases you'll have to re-learn how to pronounce a specific sound, letter, or syllable. While much can be said about RP English, its most distinctive characteristics are clipped consonants and elongated vowels. The clipped consonants, in particular, are what give it the nickname "cut-glass." Recognizing these basic traits will help you quickly distinguish RP English from regional accents or the increasingly prominent "Estuary English" once associated with southeastern Britain's working class.
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Learn the 44 sounds of the English language. Recognize how your native language differs from RP English. Identify key characteristics.
Article: A complete sentence must contain a subject and a verb and be a complete thought. The subject is the person, place, or thing that the sentence is about, and the verb is the action that is being performed in the sentence. Ex: "Wanda couldn't fall asleep last night." This sentence must be strongly related to the first sentence for the semicolon to work. Ex: "She had too much on her mind." Remember to make the first letter of the second sentence lowercase. Ex: "Wanda couldn't fall asleep last night; she had too much on her mind."
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Write one complete sentence. Write another closely related sentence. Connect the sentences with a semicolon.
Article: It's the app with an icon that looks like a blue compass. Type https://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp in the address bar and press Return. It's a red button in the center of the page. This may prompt a pop-up window asking if you want to run Java on this page. The website will detect what version of Java you are running and recommend an update if needed.
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Open the Safari browser on your Mac. Go to https://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp in Safari. Click Verify Java Version. Click Run, to confirm.