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New top story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Facebook is blocking the publiccode.eu open letter initiative as spam

Report to HN Public Facebook Blocks publiccode.eu open message as spam. 50 to post 8 comments on Hacker News. Just try to share the link on Facebook, it will be blocked as spam. In light of the deceptive messages and scams they use to advertise and disseminate, it is almost impossible to believe that this is unintentional.

YouGlish Helps ESL Students Improve Their English Pronunciation

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Yuglish is a great website for students who want to learn English as well as English and any English grammar. A simple and easy way to type English. YouGlish alternates spoken words in real-time communication situations. As a multilingual teacher and former EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teacher, I know how difficult it is to pronounce English. This is probably one of the most difficult features of learning English. So it was with my students, and so it was with me. When I started learning English in the mid-1990's, I spent a lot of time listening to the BBC, CNN and many other English language channels on my parents' satellite, listening to English. Dishes. There was no internet or youtube then. But when I graduated in English from university, my first course was phonetic copy and I learned how to translate words. Since then, when I do research on the meaning of words, I always check the phonetic replicas of words. Since English pronunciation (and pronunciation) is dis