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Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000)

/^t/Thousands years ago a human started producing a sound. It was probably accompanied by some gestures, body language or facial expressions. The other was observing, watching and imitating and suddenly he realised that he could understand the meaning. After many changes, improvements and trials human speech was born and it started to serve people as the very basic means of communication letting them express their thoughts, feelings and various ideas concerning the reality on their own.