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Listening Exercise

May 8, 2019April 15, 2008

What do you abstract from the following listening exercise? (5:20)

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Informed by Quotes

The fact of the matter is that the ‘real world’ is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group … We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

— Edward Sapir

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