IT'S A MYTH THAT ADULTS CAN'T LEARN LANGUAGES AS EASILY AS KIDS( education / language )
Adults can learn a second language as fast as children, reports a new study, and it's only the conditions in which a child learns a second language that's given kids a reputation as such fast learners. This means that adults can develop the increased neural connections typical of... href... read more
WORD HIPPO( education / language )
Useful site here: wordhippo.com/Word Hippo . Thesaurus and word tools for your creative needs.... read more
HOW TO SPELL TRAMPOLINE( education / language )
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MYSTERY SOLVED( education / language )
I solved an old mystery today, thanks to one of the Russian language survivalphrases.compodcasts I've been listening to lately. It's a phase I'm going through. I'm starting to listen to Hindi, Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese, too. I guess I'm doing all of the titleBRICS target... read more
LANGUAGE PAGE( education / language )
Names in their own tongue and script: omniglot.com/language/names.htmLanguage names in their own tongue and script The table shows native/local names for languages in their own scripts, or autoglottonyms. You can click on the Language names that are links to hear how they ... read more
LESSON FOR TODAY( education / language )
There is an old hotel/pub in Marble Arch, London which used to have gallows adjacent. Prisoners were taken to the gallows (after a fair trial, of course) to be hung. The horse-drawn dray carting the prisoner was accompanied by an armed guard who would stop the dray outside the pub and ask the prisoner if he would like ONE LAST DRINK.If he s... read more