{"id":1045,"date":"2012-11-09T02:36:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T02:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2017-02-25T08:02:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T08:02:56","slug":"teaching-our-ears-to-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/?p=1045","title":{"rendered":"Teaching our ears to listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right now we are almost halfway through with a two week training course that is called PILAT or <strong>P<\/strong>rogram <strong>I<\/strong>n <strong>L<\/strong>anguage <strong>T<\/strong>raining. In this program we are learning language learning techniques but also training our ears and tongues to listen for unique sounds. Here is one activity we had we thought you might want to participate with us. Here is what to do:<\/p>\n<p>1) The instructor will say two words twice (for example\u00a0 ball&#8230;.boll..&lt;then she will say again&gt;..ball&#8230;boll). Each set of words will be separated by a number.<\/p>\n<p>2) Listen to each set of words and determine if the words are the same or different.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/class-sound-differences.mp3\">Listen Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are your &#8220;clues&#8221; none of these involve tonal differences only consonant shifts if there is a difference.<\/p>\n<p>Are you brave enough to post your answers below in the comments? To post your answers just write 16-20 and whether the set of words is the same or different&#8230;and if your really brave why.<\/p>\n<p>Good language learners are willing to make big mistakes are you?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t cheat but once you&#8217;ve made your guess <a title=\"Answers to: Teaching our ears to listen\" href=\"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php\/answers-to-teaching-our-ears-to-listen\/\">click here for the answers!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now we are almost halfway through with a two week training course that is called PILAT or Program In Language Training. In this program we are learning language learning techniques but also training our ears and tongues to listen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ministry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4052,"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/4052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}