March 31, 2007 at 9:09 am
· Filed under Being bilingual, Children, babies and language, General language learning
Babies and languages
For baby, the more languages, the better Landmark research reveals multilingual upbringings benefit babies by Robert Bazell NBC’s Nightly news-Babies’ brains develop differently in bilingual environments. Recent studies show that babies who learn two or more languages at once actually perform better at certain tasks — mental dexterity brought on by a bilingual [...]
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March 30, 2007 at 8:02 am
· Filed under General language learning, Origin of languages
Connection between Native Americans and Old Norse
600-year-old American Indian historical account has Old Norse words by Larry Stroud from Guard-Two experts on ancient America may have solved not only the mysterious disappearance of Norse from the Western Settlement of Greenland in the 1300s, but also are deciphering Delaware (Lenape) Indian history, which they’re finding is [...]
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March 29, 2007 at 7:13 am
· Filed under Brain and language learning, General language learning
Your memory and the world
Aspects of language by Doug Hermann-Tribune-Star Anthropologists hold that groups of people who speak different languages are members of different cultures. A person’s language has been shown to affect memory. To begin with, a person’s language affects short-term memory performance. People who speak languages that use predominantly long words, such as [...]
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March 26, 2007 at 5:50 am
· Filed under General language learning, Learn Polish, Motivation and language learning
Learning as adult or as a child
My parents could speak Polish and Ukrainian. I was only taught English, as in the 1960s it was important in America to learn English and fit in. I often have regretted not learning at least one of these languages. However, the reality is every one of my parent’s five [...]
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March 25, 2007 at 12:19 pm
· Filed under General language learning, Off the topic of languages
Elves and their language
What was the language of the Elves? It was created by Tolkien and contained elements of Finnish and Welsh and I think ancient old Norse. The primal Elf language was Quenya and Sindarin. Tolkien being a fan of philological studies was able to create a grammar and structure that people actually learned. [...]
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March 24, 2007 at 8:57 am
· Filed under General language learning, Motivation and language learning
Autisic Savant learns a language in a week
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Amy Kroin- Daniel Tammet is a man of many talents. He can learn foreign languages — even notoriously tricky ones like Icelandic — in a week. He can solve intricate mathematical equations in less [...]
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March 23, 2007 at 7:52 am
· Filed under General language learning, Memory and language learning
A new way to learn grammar and Vocabulary
Learning languages does not need to be done with mnemonics or other special techniques, however, if you can apply some meaning or association to learning you will remember the vocabulary and grammar better. The is a basic learning technique that can be applied to any subject from foreign [...]
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March 22, 2007 at 8:07 am
· Filed under General language learning, Memory and language learning
Meditation and langauage learning
Are you looking for the next new thing to learn languages? Try one of the oldest and easiest methods. Relax.
Meditation ‘fools the brain’ in a threatening world By R J Ignelzi-Thanks to cutting-edge technologies like functional MRI scans, neuroscientists can look inside the brain to see if meditation actually produces physical change. Although [...]
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March 21, 2007 at 7:44 am
· Filed under General language learning, Technology and language learning
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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March 20, 2007 at 7:16 am
· Filed under General language learning, Motivation and language learning
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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