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  2. List of Skype features - Wikipedia

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    Skype 3.6 and later on Windows and Skype 5.3 and later on Mac supports 720p high-definition video. Skype 5.8 and later on Windows and Skype 5.5 for Mac support 1080p high-definition video with the Logitech C920 webcam as well as the primary use of H.264 video codec instead of VP8 found in past versions.

  3. Native-speakerism - Wikipedia

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    The native-speaker ideal for language teachers is a fallacy, [8] as native-speaker teachers are not linguistically and instructionally superior compared to non-native speaking teachers. The native-speakerism ideology is described as "a distorted world view" by Holliday, [ 9 ] and by labelling teachers as native or non-native it falsely ...

  4. American Indian English - Wikipedia

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    In the English of all Colorado River Indians (namely, Mohave, Hopi, and Navajo), front vowels tend to shift, often one degree lower than standard English vowels. [5] Old speakers of Lumbee English share the PRICE vowel, and some other pronunciation and vocabulary features, in common with Outer Banks English, as well as some grammatical features ...

  5. English as a second or foreign language - Wikipedia

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    For example, nouns and verbs that go together ("ride a bike" or "drive a car"). Native speakers tend to use chunks [clarification needed] of collocations and ESL learners make mistakes with collocations. Slang and colloquialisms – In most native English-speaking countries, many slang and colloquial terms are used in everyday speech. Many ...

  6. English as a lingua franca - Wikipedia

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    English as a lingua franca (ELF) is the use of the English language "as a global means of inter-community communication" [1] [2] [full citation needed] and can be understood as "any use of English among speakers of different first languages for whom English is the communicative medium of choice and often the only option".

  7. Near-native speaker - Wikipedia

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    An example of near-native speakers are non-native language teachers. Since non-native English-speaking teachers need to teach their second language in their daily lives to be competent language teachers, [24] they have to continuously train their linguistic ability and capacity in the second language. Hence, teaching it daily helps to increase ...

  8. Skype - Wikipedia

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    Skype 2.x used G.729, Skype 3.2 introduced SVOPC, and Skype 4.0 added a Skype-created codec called SILK, intended to be "lightweight and embeddable". [125] Additionally, Skype has released Opus as a free codec, which integrates the SILK codec principles for voice transmission with the CELT codec principles for higher-quality audio transmissions ...

  9. Teaching English as a second or foreign language - Wikipedia

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    Agencies are increasingly used to send English speakers to kindergartens, primary schools, and private companies whose employees need to improve their business English. The Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) is the largest nonprofit organization for language teachers (mainly native English speakers), with nearly 3,000 members. [53]