November 26, 2007at 9:56 am
· Filed under Brain and language learning, General language learning
How to feel or invoke an emotional response with a word in a foreign language
One the the problems with speaking and hearing a foreign language is you do not feel the words like your own. If someone says ’I love you’ it does not have the same impact perhaps. You might accidentally say a bad word and […]
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October 16, 2007at 1:40 pm
· Filed under How to learn a language
Transliteration and mnemonics- how to learn new words in a foreign language
Transliteration
One important technique for learning new words is writing out the pronunciation of the new word you are trying to learn in your own way of sounding it out. It is is like your own transliteration. If you sound out a work they way […]
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October 5, 2007at 3:38 pm
· Filed under Being bilingual, Children, babies and language, General language learning
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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September 28, 2007at 9:45 am
· Filed under How to learn a language
Emotions for learning words
Do you want to learn words, invoke an emotional responses. I know this sounds a little strange but try screaming the word you are trying to learn. This is not for everyone, more for unconventional learners or for fun once in a while. The more of your mind and body you […]
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September 28, 2007at 9:26 am
· Filed under How to learn a language, Memory and language learning
Technique to learn words
If you need to learn a word. One way you can remember it is close your eyes and spell it in the air. See the word. See it and spell it with your finger like you are writing it. I know this sounds funny but you are using your motor skills […]
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September 26, 2007at 2:42 pm
· Filed under English Language
List of twenty weird words
List of the strangest English words
For example:
7. Limerance
To be in love
8. Mesonoxian
Pertaining to midnight
9. Mungo
A dumpster diver - one who extracts valuable things from trash
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September 23, 2007at 10:22 am
· Filed under Brain and language learning, Children, babies and language, General language learning
Words herd by a baby
By the time a baby is 10 months old, he or she typically will have heard about a million sentences and many millions more words.
Behind the baby ’s gurgles and blinks and chuckles and burps, an amazing change is occurring virtually unseen. A little brain is whirring, picking out, processing and […]
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September 11, 2007at 10:28 am
· Filed under General language learning
There was an African Parrot named Alex that would speak 100 English words and had the Intellect of a 5 year old if you can believe it. He was able to identify colors, shape and sounds. This goes agaist the theory that parrots just imitate sounds.
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September 4, 2007at 9:08 am
· Filed under English Language, Languages and the world, Learn Polish
Which language has more words Polish or English
Conventional wisdom will tell you the English language has the most words of any language in the world, as it is the most universal and the pax lingua of today. And when you compare it with a language like Polish with only fifty million native speakers, certainly English […]
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September 4, 2007at 9:03 am
· Filed under Learn Polish
Polish sounds
Why does Polish have so many curious sounds and difficult pronunciations? If you have ever heard Polish it sounds like szch schszch For and English speakers these sounds and pronunciations are dizzying. What is the origin of these hscz szsch sounds that are everywhere in the Polish language. Well, one theory is the Poles […]
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