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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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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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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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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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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First Proof that Exercise Creates New Cells in Brain Area Affecting Age-Related Memory Loss by Seniorjournal-MRI imaging at Columbia provides first observation of new nerve cells– A researcher that focuses on Alzheimer’s disease and the aging brain is the lead author of a newly released study that proves exercise actually creates new nerve cells in [...]
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The fact is today there are many resources to learn languages online. You have webages, radio, online TV and even YouTube. At this juncture it is not a matter of finding resources, but finding resources of value that will help you learn. It’s a matter of efficiency. If you are a beginner, you need to [...]
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Associative Memory - Learning At All Levels from Science Daily “Green” means “go,” but what does “red” mean? Just about everybody says “stop” since we all have learned to imbue certain colors with meaning. Long thought to be limited to higher levels of information processing, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies successfully traced [...]
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Learn something meaningful to learn it well. Want to learn a language? Try translating parts of writings that are very meaningful to you personally, that you would not mind having in your brain, in your long term memory. Why? Your brain has an easier time recalling things that are meaningful. The adage goes; ‘an old [...]
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One aspect of language learning that has always fascinated me was the ability to learn language faster, though very simple techniques. The basic techniques of accelerated language learning are 1) Learn vocabulary over grammar. 2) Read a text, translate it, create flashcards with the words you do not know and read it again. 3) Make link-words, learning though [...]
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