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This post is about a curious girl from Russia named Marina Orlova who has a website called hot for words. Despite some bias comments in this blog post about her I would give Marina and her blog and Youtube channel HotforWords two thumbs up.  I think she promotes languages and gets people into language learning, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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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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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List of twenty weird 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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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, [...]

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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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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 [...]

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