June 29, 2008at 11:01 am
· Filed under Brain and language learning, Diet and the brain
Magic mushrooms and learning: a personal experience with Lion’s mane
Taking mushrooms is called “shrooming”. This is the second article I am writing on Lion’s mane as a smart drug.
I used this mushroom to try to increase cognative function after a brain lesion. The results were an improvement but I am not sure if it [...]
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Tags: Brain and language learning, Diet and the brain, Lion's mane, mushrooms
June 22, 2008at 7:47 am
· Filed under Brain and language learning, Diet and the brain
Lion’s mane mushroom for the brain
Hericium Erinaceus in Latin, is a mushroom that grows on wood. I grew these a while back as I read Lion’s mane mushrooms should have a positive affect on your brain, and I had a brain lesion. Also I am always looking for ways to increase cognitive function as [...]
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Tags: brain lesion, brain repair, Lion's mane
June 21, 2008at 2:41 am
· Filed under Brain and language learning, General language learning
Men and women and language learning
Women are thought to learn languages better than men. Forget all the advanced analysis and brain scans of why women are thought to learn languages than men, I will tell you what I observe. I have taught maybe 1000s of students though the years, languages. Generally women learn [...]
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Tags: language-learning, men, women
June 18, 2008at 4:47 am
· Filed under Learn Russian
The real economy in Russia
The economic situation in Russia is this. Russia and the Russians are getting rich, but the quality of life is not near that of Europe. My hope for Russia is they get a more open liberal economy that is pro business and pro trade with Europe. This will bring greater [...]
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Tags: economy, Putin, Russia, russian
June 12, 2008at 4:06 pm
· Filed under Off the topic of languages
Howard Webb as an Austrian player
Howard Webb was the referee at the the Poland - Austrian Euro Cup match. It was a great game. Poland dominated as Austria had no attacking force, however, Austria was able to tie it up in the last minutes with the help of referee Howard Webb. Everyone saw [...]
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Tags: Austria, Euro cup, Howard Webb, Poland
June 9, 2008at 9:00 am
· Filed under Learn Russian
Russia
I am writing this a little because I feel guilty that my last two posts were about Putin’s Czardom. This was not directed at Russia, but rather Putin’s imperialism. So I will say something positive about Russia.
Russia, the land of chess champions and super models and sometimes both in one. Russia. The beautiful Russian [...]
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Tags: Russia, russian
June 7, 2008at 5:31 am
· Filed under Learn Russian, Learn Ukrainian
Russia wants to takeover part of Ukraine
Russia wants Crimea to be part of Russia not Ukraine. Why? Oil. Read my comment at the bottom, its really about oil. What does Russian say is the reason? There are many Russians that live in Ukrainian Crimea. Â Why is this crazy that Russia wants Crimea? Because [...]
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Tags: Crimea, Russia, russian, Ukraine, Ukrainian
June 1, 2008at 3:14 pm
· Filed under Learn Russian
Why the Russians won EuroVision 2008
If you read my learn a language blog you know my world is East of the Oder river. I am very partial to the Slavic world. However, I have to say the Russian win of EuroVision 2008 was about money. Why? Ok the Russians spent 1 million Euro to develop [...]
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Tags: eurovision, russians