October 23 2012

Practice Video: Opening Statement

Below is an instructional video for making opening statements. I found it to be good practice on the machine.

Here are some briefs from the video:
cocaine= KOIK
perfect= P-FRT
informant= N-FNT
police department= PLEPT
identity= AOEUD
transport= TR-PT
simply= SOIM
prosecution= PR-GS
reasonable doubt= -RD
expert= SPERT
pressure= PRERB
ask you= SKU
impossible= KBOB
at the end of= TEFN
positive= POF

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October 19 2012

Friday Phrases


admitted into evidence= DMIFD
during deliberation= DURGD
during deliberations= DURGDS
during your deliberations= DURBGS
carbon monoxide= KMOX
carbon dioxide= KBOX
I object= IB
I object to= IBT

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October 17 2012

Practive Video: Dictation On Economics

The following video is great lit practice. The background music is also great for practicing focusing while there are distractions.

Here are some briefs for some of the words and phrases used in the video:
income= N-K
composition= KPOGS
economic= KMIK
in fact= N-FT
possession= PEGS
transform= TR-FRM
let us= LETS
arise= RIS
enterprise= SBRAOIS
commodity= KMOD
entrepreneur= SBRAOUR
airplane= AIRP
automobile= AOBL
entity= SB-T
consume= SKAOM
consumption= SKAOMGS
durable= DURBL
intermediate= SBAOED
infrastructure= STPHRUR
airport= AIRPT
depreciation= DPRAOERBGS
depreciate= DPRAOERBT

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October 5 2012

Friday Phrases


felon in possession= FLONGS
fractured leg= FR-LG
fractured arm= FRRM
glove compartment= GLOFMT
grand larceny= GR-LS
intervertebral disk= N*FD
intervertebral disks= N*FDZ
lieu of the= LAOUFT

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October 1 2012

Practice Video: Medical Q & A (120)


Here are some briefs from the video:
duly licensed to practice medicine= DLIM
New Jersey= NAOURJ
medical school= MAOL
ophthalmology= OPT/MOLG or MOLG
ophthalmologist= OPT/MOLGT or MOLGT
memorial= MAERL
with reference= WREFRNS
neoplasm= NAOE/O*E/PLAFM or NEO/OE/PLAFM
as a result= SRULT
melanoma= MEL/NOE/MA or MEL/A/NOE/MA choroid= KOR/ROID or KHOR/ROID [SIDEBAR: I like to use the brief KHOR/ROID because it doesn’t conflict with “corps reside” like KOR/ROID does.]

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September 11 2012

Practice Video: 4-Voice

Here‘s a great video that I practiced to today. I LOVE practicing to these “learn English” videos. In this particular video there are 4 voices. However, the conversation is spoken in 3-voice; a narrator is also present.

While practicing to this video, I used the following designations:

The question bank= Elena
The answer bank= Agatha
SKWRAO= Victor
The Judge (KORT/KORT)= Gabrielle, the narrator

Here are some briefs from some of the terms and phrases spoken in the video:

delicious= DLIRBS
I’m sorry= AOIMS
good night= GAOIT
darling= DARLG
custom= KUFM
especially= EP
somebody else= SBLS
possessive= PEFS
masculine= SKLIN
goodbye= GAOIB
good morning= GORNG
part time= POIM
native= NAIFT
Washington, D.C.= WARBDZ
weekend= WEND
how old= HOLD
thank you= THAUNG
do you remember= DOURM
French= FREFP
in my opinion= NAOIP
relax= RAEK

[SIDEBAR: At approximately the 13 minute 20 second mark, there is practice for the days of the week. At approximately the 14 minute 30 second mark, there is practice for numbers one through twelve.]

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