Introduction to International Legal English
Introduction to International Legal English is a course for classroom and independent work on the level of the previous previously released International Legal English. Designed to educate law students and legal professionals in the English-language communication in an international professional environment. It covers a variety of legal issues, and all kinds of speech activity
Year: November 2008. GG
Author: Amy Krois-Lindner Matt Firth and Translegal / Krois A. Linder, and M. Firth
Category: Audio to the textbook
Developer: Cambridge / Transligal
Publisher: Cambridge / Transligal
Course Language: English
Format: PDF
Quality: the Scanned pages
Number of pages: 17
ISBN: 0521718996 ISBN-13 (EAN): 9780521718998.
Series: Legal English
Audio codec: WMA
Audio Bitrate: 128 kbps
The CDs are well-recorded, and the listening activities plentiful and varied. An effort is made to provide a variety of accents and speakers- always a good thing- and none of the accents are terribly obscure. The listenings start a bit slower and more deliberate than natural speech and given the complexity of the vocabulary and structures, this is probably a good choice. The first 8 listenings slowly work towards a natural, native rate of delivery and from that point on (somewhere in Unit 3), the variations all feel quite natural. UK, US and Australian speech are all represented (in a fairly mainstream ‘broadcast English’ sort of way), and the usual smattering of ‘foreigners speaking English’ all have distinct accents (although they are either watered-down versions or the speaker speaks more slowly). It is arguable whether this is useful ‘practice’ or not but students should not, at any rate, find it frustrating
Author: Amy Krois-Lindner Matt Firth and Translegal / Krois A. Linder, and M. Firth
Category: Audio to the textbook
Developer: Cambridge / Transligal
Publisher: Cambridge / Transligal
Course Language: English
Format: PDF
Quality: the Scanned pages
Number of pages: 17
ISBN: 0521718996 ISBN-13 (EAN): 9780521718998.
Series: Legal English
Audio codec: WMA
Audio Bitrate: 128 kbps
The CDs are well-recorded, and the listening activities plentiful and varied. An effort is made to provide a variety of accents and speakers- always a good thing- and none of the accents are terribly obscure. The listenings start a bit slower and more deliberate than natural speech and given the complexity of the vocabulary and structures, this is probably a good choice. The first 8 listenings slowly work towards a natural, native rate of delivery and from that point on (somewhere in Unit 3), the variations all feel quite natural. UK, US and Australian speech are all represented (in a fairly mainstream ‘broadcast English’ sort of way), and the usual smattering of ‘foreigners speaking English’ all have distinct accents (although they are either watered-down versions or the speaker speaks more slowly). It is arguable whether this is useful ‘practice’ or not but students should not, at any rate, find it frustrating