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(Photo credit: https://bit.ly/2IRZ6F3) There’s a lot of talk and action happening in the artificial intelligence line nowadays. People bander around the term ‘AI’ but most people don’t really understand the impact of what it will be like on our lives. Frankly speaking, right now we have some key…
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(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/2kSI0Yk) Deciding to take on a new language on a serious level (e.g. using it for your job or to get a university degree), requires more than just sitting down and passing some exams. It requires a decision on the part of the learner to take…
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(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/2nZ5TkH) There’s only one thing worse than listening to a liar, it’s listening to a liar speak in bad English! This post is about not necessarily being a liar but about speaking from the heart. Once we speak from the heart we tend to be telling…
Photo by John Schnobrich on Unsplash Unfortunately today we are still seeing some echoes of the ‘Harvard’ and ‘Oxford’ approach to learning which has left some people in the new generation still trying to fulfil what their parents see as the ‘right’ college or university to attend, whereas in fact the real learning for 99.999% of the rest…
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(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/2nNS8EU) I had a laugh when I first heard the term ‘screen face’, but it really can be true, spending too long looking at a computer screen can make you totally expressionless. Something similar can happen too when learning either online or with a teacher who…
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(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/2pHc4tV) What use is a university degree other than being able to throw your hat into the air in celebration that the whole thing is over!! When I was young (1000 years ago!), to have a university degree was really something. It meant that you were…
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(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/2GimdHI) Why do we speak or write? To communicate. Why do we need to communicate? To pass on whatever it is that needs to be passed on to others. So do we opt to communicate in English? We opt to communicate in English because we have…
