Who knows Polish the best
The Polish language is so hard that each year Poland holds a contest who is the best native and foreign speaker. This year a Russian won the foriegn speaker category.
It is very rare that a foreigner can speak Polish so well. There are so many exceptions to this language that most Polish […]
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Mayan language
The Mayans were the only perhaps the only indigenous peoples of the Americas that had a written language. And what it revealed was a powerful civilization marked my rituals and blood.
The Language
Mayan languages were written in the Maya hieroglyphic script. Some of the script were sounds and others words. The surviving body of written […]
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Do pets know when they are spoken to in another language
If you tell a dog to “sit” and it knows this word through training, the dog will sit. However, if you give the same command to a dog with the same tone and verbal gestures in another language. Often the dog will sit regardless. Experiment […]
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English has invaded other national languages.
Trends in business and demographics is like global warming, often there is little that can be done to reverse these trends. So is the case with the English language. “English has already invaded the languages of Moliere, Cervantes and Goethe, dominating the fields of technology and business and […]
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Polish is the hardest language to learn in the world
What is the hardest language to learn for English Speakers? Take a guess; it is not Chinese or Japanese. It is Polish. Polish has seven cases and Polish grammar has more exception than rules. German for example has four cases all which […]
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If God did not exist, all things would be permitted.
Dostoevsky is often quoted with this statement. It comes from the ‘Brothers of Karamazov’. Or does it? The meaning of the quote is clear and powerful. And goes along with Dostoevsky’s beliefs as illustrated in the ‘Brothers of Karamazov’.
Russian
My question is did he actaully write this […]
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How long does it take to learn a new word in a foreign language
When learning a new word in a foreign language, the pronunciation for me is always the hardest. In fact to say the word feels very akward and I say to myself ‘the reality is I will never be able to say […]
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Power of the subconsious mind
“More fundamentally, the new studies reveal a subconscious brain that is far more active, purposeful and independent than previously known. Goals, whether to eat, mate or devour an iced latte, are like neural software programs that can only be run one at a time, and the unconscious is perfectly capable of […]
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Increase your brain function
National Academy for child development has a page that talks about sequential processing and you can even take a test online brain function test This gives you concrete way to increase your brain function. It is not abstract or fringe science. It is a way that you can increase your sequential […]
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What is sequential processing and what is its connection to language learning
Sequential processing as a ECP
Sequential processing is our ability to take in, store, process and use information in an orderly way. Sequential processing is a part of short term memory. It is not intelligence in itself but a building block that supports intelligence […]
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