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Listen to native speakers pronounce “saussure” in real conversational contexts with synchronized timestamps and subtitles.
can understand us, the language interfaces. Let’s start with words. The basic principle of a word was identifiedby the Swiss linguist, Ferdinand de Saussure, more than 100 years ago when he called attention to the arbitrariness of the sign. Take for example the word, “duck.” The word,“duck” doesn’t look like a duck or walk like a duck or quack like a duck, but I can use it to get you to think the thought of a duck because all of us at some point in