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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Your brain plasticity will determine how fast your brain will grow
I was walking though ‘Las Wolski” (a deep forest) on Sunday in Kraków. I was trying to learn some new words in Polish connected with nature. Words I had never even herd before. My girlfriend told me about five Polish words in a childhood poem [...]
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Playing with blocks helps children build language abilities
If you liked playing with blocks when you were a child, you are in luck, chances are your linguistic ability was improved.
A University of Washington, Seattle study has shown that language skill in children who played with blocks, were 15% higher than those who did not. This is actually [...]
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Phonetic ability connected to a child’s first language
If you spoke Polish as a child your phonetic language ability is amazing, when it comes to pronouncing other languages because of the richness of the Polish language. However, you might have trouble with ‘A’ or ‘O’ or even more the sound “th” because it is not really [...]
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Polish noun case endings
Polish is one of the hardest languages to learn, one of the reason is the Polish noun case endings. Every single noun, adjective, personal pronoun etc changes with case, number and gender. That means a noun used in a sentence, three times will look three different ways grammatically. This is Polish grammar. [...]
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Your memory is interrelated to your attitude toward your memory
Do not believe people who say intelligence is a gift, that it is all in the genes. That memory is something you have or you do not. That you can learn a language or not based on your effort but on if you have a gift [...]
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English mistakes
English words that are often mistaken
I am no grammarian or spelling master so I am sure I am guilty of a few of these mistakes, even on my language blog. Check out the list and see how you are using English
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Slang
Did you ever wonder the orgin of words like ‘idiot’ or ‘cool’, wonder no more. Here is a list of ten word slang origins.Â
Here is one example found on this site.
4. Third degree
To get the third degree means to be thoroughly questioned. The third degree of something has been regarded as the upper limit (or [...]
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