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Mind mapping to learn a language

Learn a language with mind mapping
Mind mapping
Creating mind maps or mind mapping is using a paper and pencil to draw out maps of connections between two or more ideas. You can use mind maps to learn a language with grammatical ideas, vocabulary and even conversational ideas such as question and answer. Mind maps look like [...]

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Translation method can help you learn a language

Translation method to learn
The translation method, about a hundred years ago, was the method of language learning in vogue which died out with the introduction of the direct method for teaching languages. Arrogant language experts sub the translation method as an artifact from the last paradigm shift. But the reality is a modified translation [...]

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Immersion - How to learn everyday phrases in a foreign language with ease

Immersion, for learning a language
The best way to practice a language is always in the languages natural environment. If this sounds like painful immersion, it is not.
How to really be immersed to learn a language
Try something like this: Instead of going to hard core language school or expensive vacation in 4 star hotels here is [...]

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Acupressure for concentration and learning

One acupressure point for concentration and learning
Do you want better concentration, learning and greater clarity of mind fast? Try this acupressure point.  Its called SI5. That is Small Intestine 5 or Yang Valley.
The location of this acupressure point for concentration and learning is easy to find.  At the beginning of your hand and at the end of [...]

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Why people do not learn languages

People do not learn languages because they have wrong expectations. Wrong expectations about 1) how a language is learned. 2) how much time is required to learn a language 3) about their only natural abilities to learn a language.
The expectation is that they just can just pick up a language. They have heard many stories of [...]

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Best way to learn a language

What is the best way to learn a language
I will tell you the best way to learn a language clear and simple. All over the Internet you see advice on language learning and the best way to learn a language This advice on the best way to learn a language is usually a list [...]

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Learn a language for more money

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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Subconscious mind and learning

Power of the subconsious mind
“More fundamentally, the new studies reveal a subconscious brain that is far more active, purposeful and independent than previously known. Goals, whether to eat, mate or devour an iced latte, are like neural software programs that can only be run one at a time, and the unconscious is perfectly capable of [...]

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Sleep is where the brain processes what it has learned

Sleep and language learning
To Understand The Big Picture, Give It Time – And Sleep from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.  Memorizing a series of facts is one thing, understanding the big picture is quite another. Now a new study demonstrates that relational memory – the ability to make logical “big picture” inferences from disparate pieces [...]

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I am from New England but live in Krakow, Poland. Having both a programming, music and a language teaching background, and personal experience with brain regeneration, I have combined these passions by creating LearnFast language learning software and mp3 language learning programs in various languages. They are streamlined and effective and incorporate the latest [...]

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