According to American Heritage dictionary, there is no such word as "ASTIZE"



"Tef" wrote in message
...
However, when I stumbled on the lesson it lasted for almost 10 minutes -
no
pauses, no stopping to mention a supposed text they were following, no
page
numbers - 5 minutes of stupid, boring sentences, I could not stick around
and wait for them to say anything else. (You'd expect someone to come on
and
say in a different voice "And now we are turning to page Five", "Yesterday
we read...") What aroused my suspicion was one word that was not
beginner's
English material, it sounded like something like "astize" pronounced
semi-emphatically in a sentence "Johnny has a cube, a ball and astize." I
don't think I misheard ASTIZE for some object from a child's world.

"Tony Meloche" ???
...
Tef wrote:
I've heard stupid English lessons on around 7100 or so, especially
strong in
Europe. Sounds like a beginner's English, i. e., "Jenny is wearing a
nice
dress...Joey wants to visit his grandma"etc. The voices are female and
are
perfect broadcasting grade, Californian or maybe Midwestern.

Has anyone heard anything like this? Is this int eh same ballpark with
number stations?



The few that I've head are exactly what they sounded like - lessons
in simple English for those to whom it's a second language. Several
countries do it. Somewhat related are the broadcasts that the VOA does
- or used to do - in what they call "slow English", and that's exactly
what it is - you'd recognize it immediately if you heard it.

However, the station you heard could be something other than that,
yeah, (a type of code, etc.)

Tony

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