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The Weekly Summary - Issue 27.0 - Learning Edition

11 Oct 2020 1 minute read 10 comments tvlachak

Issue 27.0 / October 11, 2020 Learning This is a superb learning system that may work for you. The following is a short excerpt from the new book Postjournalism and the death of newspapers on the huge pivot we’ve seen with the media in the last coup...

The Weekly Summary - Issue 18.1 - Learning Extended Edition

10 Aug 2020 1 minute read 7 comments tvlachak

Issue 18.1 / August 10, 2020 Learning For decades, the reading curriculum in elementary schools has been based on a skills-based approach, such as finding the main idea. Recent evidence is showing that background knowledge is important when students...

My Challenging Journey ep.7 - My first attempt to earn crypto coins

3 Jul 2020 1 minute read 13 comments The Lebanese Girl

Here is going to start my first attempt to earn online some crypto. Or better, we should say the second since I'm already getting them, and I like it so much, from publish0x and from the cute tips you all offer.   Anyway, as soon as I started to surf...

Have you ever thought of becoming a Polyglot?

20 Jun 2020 2 minute read 9 comments The Lebanese Girl

Since I was a little child, I always was fascinated by languages. Whenever I hear a strange word, I feel the need to know its meaning and want to discover which language is it. In addition, learning a new language opens new worlds to you, you get to...

Duolingo: The best free language learning platform

26 May 2020 2 minute read 2 comments PierreL

I don't know about you, but I've always loved learning new languages. I love, travelling, discovering new cultures, new foods, new landscapes, and languages are a part of all that. I'm French, my wife is Brazilian-Dutch, and so we're fortunate enough...

Find an exchange in your language!

19 May 2020 3 minute read 3 comments Galaxie Crypto

Having trouble finding an exchange in your language? It is not always very easy to find an exchange in your language. When you start in cryptocurrencies, it can be a big brake on getting into this wonderful world. A wonderful world? An unclear world...

Writing, second language and Nicaraguan signs

6 May 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Heruvim78

  Motto: "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." (Samuel Becket) * I was listening again the podcast with the guy who is writing a book every 21 days. Few years ago he would get just enough to stop working for a livi...

Toki Pona: A Philosophical Constructed Micro-Language for Simplifying Thought

24 Mar 2020 11 minute read 2 comments rhyzom

Constructed languages are an interesting field. Most of us have heard of Esperanto. But there are plenty others, each designed for specific purposes and goals. Lojban, for example, has been designed with the purpose of eliminating irregularities or a...

translator

20 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

When translating I use an automatic translator but with caution. Often what comes out from it makes no sense. Language often is a reflection of cultural patterns that are specific to a particular culture and cannot be translated directly. Here is an...

Myths vs Reality. #2 Christmas. #1 The brain basics. A. Metaphorical brain

10 Mar 2020 13 minute read 0 comments alexbiojs

  (the overall image was created by me by combining the images from Pixabay, namely: Flying reindeers, Santa and a reindeer, An Elf, Christmas attributes) As mentioned in the previous post (by the way, pay attention to the Disclaimer provided there),...