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?

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



"Tef" wrote in message
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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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Tef wrote:

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.

I suggest that you determine what frequency this station is on, what time you
are hearing it, and perhaps you might tune in a bit early and stay late to
possibly figure out what station it might be.

Can't help you out to much unless you first take steps to help yourself!

dxAce
Michigan
USA

I typed,astize,at www.devilfinder.com There are some websites
there that mention astize.Untill just now,I had never heard of the word
astize either.
cuhulin

The search yields "astize" hits all in French, one hit relative to an
Iranian Embassy. The French would pronounce the word "asteez." I heard
astize, as in " has ties."

Maybe I misheard this, after all. The word can still be "the sties," the
ties." But the announcer was speaking so crisply, I doubt the sounds
ventured too far from "astize."

Has anyone heard this voice? I have never picked up anything close or so
sexy, though it's still intriguing.

???
...
I typed,astize,at www.devilfinder.com There are some websites
there that mention astize.Untill just now,I had never heard of the word
astize either.
cuhulin

Yeeeee Hawwwww,,, about three (or was it four) years ago,the Irish women
in Ireland were voted to have the sexiest sounding voices in the
World.And since I am Scotch Irish (a double whammy on me,although I am a
teeny weeny part Welsh too) by Ancestry,I believe I can vouchsafe for
that.
cuhulin

Though I'd say that American Irish women broadcasters unknowingly contribute
a lot to the pleasant sound of commercial and shortwave radio.


???
...
Yeeeee Hawwwww,,, about three (or was it four) years ago,the Irish women
in Ireland were voted to have the sexiest sounding voices in the
World.And since I am Scotch Irish (a double whammy on me,although I am a
teeny weeny part Welsh too) by Ancestry,I believe I can vouchsafe for
that.
cuhulin