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the above transcription of television is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.
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An example use of television in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… that was on Japanese television once in …”
Television is a device that uses a cathode ray tube to display images.
the word television occurs in english on average 58.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that television can be often used in the following areas:
1) leisure and entertainment;