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Nabokov presentation ([|Playboy interview])

Final sentence intonation not good, register too familiar || INt(e)resting (3 syll) ||  ||   ||
 * **PRONUNCIATION** || **GRAMMAR/VOCAB** || **COMMUNICATION** ||
 * TOday > to'DAY || that name > this name || Register too familiar - you really need to practice a formal style, no jokes ||
 * House of RepresentativeS || he talks like the same manner he writes > he talks in the same manner that he writes, he talks as he writes || I'm done
 * parTICularly || vocabulary too simple, familiar: //pretty impressive, quite interesting// ||  ||
 * th (this Dis; that Dat) || review about it > review OF it ||  ||
 * but (vowel too forward and rounded, like oeuf) || there is ten pages of it > there are ten pages ||  ||
 * preSENT
 * 'LAtent 'TENderness ||  ||   ||
 * disCOVER, suGGEST ||  ||   ||
 * type (diphthong, not tap) ||  ||   ||

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