General language learning

Why earn more degrees, just learn a language for more earnings power and a richer life
In the States its very trendy to accumulate more degrees and initials behind your name. It is education inflation.  Our fathers need a colleage degree now we need a masters and really some extra designations beyond that. Although it looks [...]

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Plants communicate to warn against danger
Plant communication is no longer about talking to your plants to help them grow, rather, they seem to talk to each other. Of course not like animal life, however, they have a network of communication to convey important information. This bold statement is actually based on a study in the [...]

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My brain lesion
I had a brain lesion about 16 years ago.  The word lesion is really a general medical jargon word.  What I had was basically bleeding in the brain from capillary telangiectasia or a cavernous malformation. The result was I had memory and brain processing problems. I still functioned at a rather high cognitive level, [...]

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These are actually the top post in which people entered my blog. Its intersting that 3 of the 5 are connected with love and only 2 are directly connected with languages and language learning.
Bilingual brains protected Being bilingual offers benefits
Hardest language to learn Which language is the hardest language
Free Russian dating Site that offer free Russian dating
Love phrases Love [...]

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Learn French the French way
I remember when I was learning French in junior high, my French teacher was telling us about a new method for learning French I thought was interesting. It was the humiliation method. They were doing it in Paris and some people said it was very effective. It involved doing things like [...]

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How trauma affects memory
I recall reading a while back that there was a study where subjects were shown a series of Photos. Most were neutral or pleasant; however, inter mixed, pictures of traumatic scene, things that are universally horrible, accidents and such. After the subjects viewing the photos were given a memory recall test [...]

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Rosemary for memory
I grew up in the New England countryside, which was settled in the 1600s. If you are a colonial history buff you know that the colonial departed were buried with rosemary.  Rosemary was used not as a preservative, which it is because of the antioxidants in rosemary, but rather for remembrance.  Even in [...]

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Hormones connected to emotions make your memories stronger
If you want to remember something connect it to a strong memory. If you want to learn a language, fall in love with someone speaking that language and your hippocampus will be bathed in hormones that will help you with this process.
The exact mechanism is phosphate molecules which [...]

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Bilingual babies learn in a different way
What is the difference in learning method? Bilingual babies focus on learning as many words as possible, monolingual babies focus on the small details of the words they learn.
Bilingual babies develop a strategy that they will focus their cognitive energies on associating words with with concrete objects. Two words [...]

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The word dobry in Russian, Polish and Ukrainian languages
Dobry is the universal Slavic word meaning “good”.  You could be in Ukraine, Poland, Russia or anywhere in Eastern Europe, and if you only knew this word, you could be OK in many situations.The Russian, Ukrainian or Polish word dobry can mean “good, fine, OK, sure, lets do it, [...]

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