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2. Dictation (exercise) - Wikipedia

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   Dictation (exercise) Dictation is the transcription of spoken text: one person who is "dictating" speaks and another who is "taking dictation" writes down the words as they are spoken. Among speakers of several languages, dictation is used as a test of language skill, similar to spelling bees in the English-speaking world.

3. Shorthand - Wikipedia

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   Shorthand. Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to longhand, a more common method of writing a language. The process of writing in shorthand is called stenography, from the Greek stenos (narrow) and graphein (to write).

4. Dragon NaturallySpeaking - Wikipedia

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   Website. www .nuance .com. Dragon NaturallySpeaking (also known as Dragon for PC, or DNS) [1] is a speech recognition software package developed by Dragon Systems of Newton, Massachusetts, which was acquired in turn by Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, Nuance Communications, and Microsoft. It runs on Windows personal computers.

5. Direct method (education) - Wikipedia

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   The direct method is also known as the natural method. It was developed as a reaction to the grammar-translation method and is designed to take the learner into the domain of the target language in the most natural manner. The main objective is to impart a perfect command of a foreign language. The main focus is to make the learner think in the ...

6. Ear training - Wikipedia

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   Ear training. In music, ear training is the study and practice in which musicians learn various aural skills to detect and identify pitches, intervals, melody, chords, rhythms, solfeges, and other basic elements of music, solely by hearing. Someone who can identify pitch accurately without context is said to have "perfect pitch", while someone ...

7. Dictogloss - Wikipedia

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   Dictogloss is a language teaching technique that is used to teach grammatical structures, in which students form small groups and summarize a target-language text. [1] First, the teacher prepares a text that contains examples of the grammatical form to be studied. [2] The teacher reads the text to the students at normal speed while they take ...