Sentence examples for English listeners from inspiring English sources

For this very reason it probably fails to take hold at once of a good many normal English listeners.

I think its snapshot of Australia (not idealised, but certainly distilled and concentrated) had a particular appeal for both expatriate Australians and English listeners, perhaps helping to explain why it made No 26 on the British charts, but only No 64 in Australia.

Applying the PAM to English listeners' L2 lexical tone perception is complicated.

Thirty-six native-speaking Australian English listeners were recruited from the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

All of the non-Thai participants were naïve to the Thai language, and the English listeners were also naïve to any other lexical tone languages.

Contrasts of each accent versus the silent baseline showed the classic pattern of bilateral auditory activation in both the Scottish and English listeners.

It is an alienating process – certain locutions and words that you'd always spoken naturally suddenly involve a sense of performance, a self-consciousness, and either you choose to use them, and become "characterful" to the English listener, like one of Shakespeare's comic turns, or you trim your spoken language accordingly and revert to your first speech only with family and school friends.

"Hispanics listen to the radio much more than English-language listeners do," he said.

Until he reaches the album's last two songs, which are geared to English-speaking listeners and verge on corniness, Mr. N'Dour presides over gleaming, intelligent, unabashedly global pop.

Mr. Martin started his career singing in the teenage Puerto Rican pop group Menudo, and while he might have peaked among English-speaking listeners with his 1999 hit "Livin' la Vida Loca," his Spanish-speaking audience has stayed with him.

Because the work has no subtitles, English-speaking listeners may be annoyed that the meaning of Mr. Koh's speech will be available only to those who understand his language.