The Human Language is Software to all Others by Dr Imre Loefler from The East African Standard-The primary purpose of language is communication and the medium is the spoken word. Human language is a sophisticated and highly variable vocal communication system. What we call ‘language’ is unique to humans and a property of the brain: […]
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Old Woman Polyglot Surprises Fellow Countrymen from Bernama- An 84-year-old woman living in a remote Novgorod village of Utorgosh in southern Russia surprises her fellow countrymen with the knowledge of foreign languages. Everybody, who is acquainted with Maria Ivanova, is sincerely surprised, how an ordinary villager with secondary education, who worked at the local flax-processing […]
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First Proof that Exercise Creates New Cells in Brain Area Affecting Age-Related Memory Loss by Seniorjournal-MRI imaging at Columbia provides first observation of new nerve cells– A researcher that focuses on Alzheimer’s disease and the aging brain is the lead author of a newly released study that proves exercise actually creates new nerve cells in […]
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The fact is today there are many resources to learn languages online. You have webages, radio, online TV and even YouTube. At this juncture it is not a matter of finding resources, but finding resources of value that will help you learn. It’s a matter of efficiency. If you are a beginner, you need to […]
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Associative Memory - Learning At All Levels from Science Daily “Green” means “go,” but what does “red” mean? Just about everybody says “stop” since we all have learned to imbue certain colors with meaning. Long thought to be limited to higher levels of information processing, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies successfully traced […]
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Learn something meaningful to learn it well. Want to learn a language? Try translating parts of writings that are very meaningful to you personally, that you would not mind having in your brain, in your long term memory. Why? Your brain has an easier time recalling things that are meaningful. The adage goes; ‘an old […]
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One aspect of language learning that has always fascinated me was the ability to learn language faster, though very simple techniques. The basic techniques of accelerated language learning are 1) Learn vocabulary over grammar. 2) Read a text, translate it, create flashcards with the words you do not know and read it again. 3) Make link-words, learning though […]
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Music enhances language-learning skills from DailyIndia-It doesn’t matter whether you are tone deaf you should not stop taking music lessons for a new study has revealed that that playing a musical instrument significantly enhances the brainstem’s sensitivity to speech sounds. This finding has broad implications because it applies to sound encoding skills involved not only […]
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Spanish is spoken by 370 million people world wide by some estimates and 500 million if your include non native speakers. Learning Spanish will open door and almost rivals English as a business language.
Why learn Spanish? By JIM WINGARD-Spanish is the official language of Spain and its overseas provinces. It is also the official language of 18 Latin American republics […]
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Laptops expected to transform learning By Jennifer Feinberg- Portable laptop computers are more than just convenient high-tech toys. They’re a state-of-the-art learning tool to get students ready for the 21st century, says a Francophone School District official. About 1,200 brand-new $1,000 laptops are being set up in 38 French schools across B.C. as one aspect […]
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