Pupils' blazer lapels sag with enamel badges for choir, language-learning, mentoring younger pupils and so on.
Rosetta Stone, a provider of language-learning software, has found that it needs to offer interactive coaching as well.
There are more language-learning products out there than you might think, touching several different learning styles and price points.
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The Ho-Chunk language-learning app is the latest idea he's brought to the table.
Supposedly resulting from abnormal antenatal exposure to hormones, this cluster includes maleness, homosexuality, left-handedness, poor visual-spatial skills, immune disorders, and perhaps also language-learning talent.
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One of the better known players in the language-learning space is Rosetta Stone, with online and software-based products, is ripe for disruption, According to Meinzer.
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But the reality is that many parts of the brain work together to produce speech and no single gene, region of the brain or theory can explain successful language-learning.
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Having donated to a foreign-language learning program at my sons' school, for example, I felt motivated to write letters of protest when it became threatened by the school board.
The Berlin-based startup's high quality app is the first educational application with both comprehensive and affordable learning material for iPad users that facilitates entertaining and multi-media language learning any time, any place.
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If I'm Luis Suarez sitting at home with my wife and family, who absolutely love it here -- they love life in Liverpool and learning the language -- it's arguable he will never have a better season than he has had this.
Critics deplored newspaper tabloids, which catered to first-generation immigrants learning the language and time-pressed laborers grabbing a few minutes to read lurid headlines on the train.
Reading, going to work and navigating a busy life may be enough to maintain brain health, but lifting performance takes massive amounts of practice--learning a new language, taking regular music lessons, doing complex jigsaw puzzles--to produce enough chemicals to make synapses stronger.
Its steep learning curve is not something to shy away from -- much like learning a foreign language, once immersed in the game play, players will pick up the necessary skills along the way.
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We were creating a new learning system, a new brand, and convincing some of our audience of a new concept, that 0-6 was the right time to start language learning.
Amazon built X-Ray using its expertise in language processing and machine learning, access to significant storage and computing resources with Amazon S3 and EC2, and a deep library of book and character information.
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Scanning their brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the scientists found that a region involved in language processing - the temporal lobe, part of the prefrontal cortex - was activated during verbal learning in rested patients.
At Shirelands Language College, an inner-city school in Birmingham, England, a portal called the Shirelands Learning Gateway makes it easier for parents to follow their children's progress, and it helps teachers and students keep track of schoolwork and take advantage of individualized instruction.
One school had a Spanish national on the staff and another teacher with a degree in Spanish - and every other member of staff had volunteered to devote one evening a week to learning the language.
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