Lessons Learned in Multinational Deployment

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Lessons Learned in Multinational Deployment

• Introduction

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Epigraph

• Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for
  feeling
  
  what it is like to get inside somebody elses
  skin. It is the knowledge
  
  that there can never really
  be any peace and joy for me until there is
  
  
  peace and joy finally for you too.

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Language
(definition)

• Language is the blood of the soul into which
  thoughts run and out of which they grow.
• Language is the most imperfect and expensive
  means yet discovered for communicating thought.
• Language is the means of getting an idea from my
  brain into yours without surgery
• Language is wine upon the lips.

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Origins of language

• Polygenetic origins of languages
• Monogenetic origins of languages

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Teaching

• Behavioral Approach
• Cognitive Approach

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Varieties of English

• ESL
• ESOL
• EAL
• EFL
• EIL
• ELF
• EAP
• ESP

• ESP
• Business English
• Technical English
• Scientific English
• English for Medical Professionals
• English for Waiters
• English for Tourism
• English for Art Purposes
• Aviation English
• Military English
• NATO Speak

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Eccentricities of General English

• Examples
• A non-stop flight
• It is neither here nor there
• Watch your head
• Put on your shoes and socks
• Put your best foot forward
• Keep a stiff upper lip, etc

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Military English

• general mess vs. private mess
• shipment vs. cargo
• assent/dissent vs. ascend/descend
• uplift vs. lift up
• upset vs. set up
• private
• pocket
• magazine
• foxhole
• saddle
• spur

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Lessons learned
(abbreviations, acronyms)

• HEL
• OIC
• CCP
• ROE
• RTB
• QRF
• BOG
• DFC

• COC
• AO
• PB
• EFL
• DFL
• RB
• PP

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Lessons Learned
(minimal pairs)

• rake/rack
• bake/back
• lake/ lack
• mate/met
• -------------
• bay/buy
• bike/bake
• space/spice
• walk/work
• warm/worm
• bed/bud
• pour/purr
• cab/cub
• cap/cup
• pen/pan

• ship/sheep
• check/chick
• pill/peel
• slip/sleep
• grin/green
• fit/feet
• hill/heel
• wick/week
• ------------
• back/bag
• coat/code
• feet/feed
• ice/eyes
• rich/ridge
• bus/buzz

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Lessons Learned
(false friends)

• Ammunition
• Aggressive
• Corpse
• Focus
• original

• Fraction
• Intelligence
• Barracks
• Colon
• Mark
• complexion

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Conclusion

• Reasons of problems
• Ways of problem elimination
• Looking ahead

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