{"id":8994,"date":"2005-05-23T12:53:52","date_gmt":"2005-05-23T09:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/23\/new-york-language-center\/"},"modified":"2005-05-23T12:53:52","modified_gmt":"2005-05-23T09:53:52","slug":"new-york-language-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/23\/new-york-language-center\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Language Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While we around Dr.Simos Kitiris office, I noticed a small office with a strange sign above its doors. It said: “New York Language Center”. I giggled. I mean it’s really funny. In the country that inheritted English language from the British Empire, there is this little language center which teaches you, no, not English… not even American, but New Yorkish.<\/p>\n

You’ll probably have to take a couple of weeks of courses, learn some brooklynisms<\/a>, find out how they call places<\/a>, and than have to pass an exam<\/a>. Or I don’t know what they are doing…<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

While we around Dr.Simos Kitiris office, I noticed a small office with a strange sign above its doors. It said: “New York Language Center”. I giggled. I mean it’s really funny. In the country that inheritted English language from the British Empire, there is this little language center which teaches you, no, not English… not … Continue reading New York Language Center<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22],"tags":[2418],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","tag-humor"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27046,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/04\/amazon-polly-text-to-speech-in-47-voices-and-24-languages\/","url_meta":{"origin":8994,"position":0},"title":"Amazon Polly \u2013 Text to Speech in 47 Voices and 24 Languages","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Amazon announced a new service - Amazon Polly -\u00a0text to speech in 47 voices and 24 languages. \u00a0This part got me intrigued: Polly was designed to address many of the more challenging aspects of speech generation. 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