This would be great for learning a language or for kids who are just learning how to read.
"If they don't have access to learning a sign language that's already in existence, then a community of deaf people will find a way to communicate, " said Leanne Hinton, a professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley.
Most youngsters are excited and motivated, rather than fearful, about learning a new language.
In four of the schools covered, more than half the pupils at ages 14 to 16 had stopped learning a foreign language.
In May, a study commissioned by the Scottish government said children in Scotland should begin learning a second language as soon as they started school at the age of five.
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He compared learning social media to learning a new language and said that the only way to learn a new language is to make mistakes, get corrected and gain fluency in time.
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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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At the same time, social and intellectual activities such as visiting family and friends, reading, playing intellectually stimulating games or learning a new language did nearly nothing to ward off the symptoms of an aging brain, the study said.
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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.
Thus, learning a new design language, Willis worked his spell, knitting everything together with confidence, subtlety and gaiety.
Cyr, 26, who attended the February workshop to scope out the possibility of developing a language learning app for the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.
This coupled with a quick learning curve has kept Csound a popular audio synthesis language since its creation in 1985 by Barry Vercoe.
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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.
The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.
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.
Rosetta Stone, a provider of language-learning software, has found that it needs to offer interactive coaching as well.
They learn another language while also learning at a deeper level that other cultures have much to teach us.
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If you want a job in media, technology or a related field, make learning basic computer language your goal this summer.
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For a Finn to work in Spain or a Greek in Denmark involves not just a willingness to move to the other side of Europe but a serious amount of investment in learning another language.
So Dr Tallal and Dr Merzenich have founded a company, Scientific Learning, to sell a computer game intended to improve the hearing of children with language problems.
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.
"We see a lot of potential in mobile learning and believe that language learning should be optimized and offered on any mobile device, " says Markus Witte, managing director of Babbel.com.
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Then I set my sights on a doubling our revenues and capturing much more of the language learning and edutainment market.
She said French is a second language in her home and that her kids are learning to speak it, so being in this country at this time is good for her family.
Instead of welcoming each new immigrant as a potential instructor of his or her language in exchange for learning English, we have marginalized our immigrant population and reject their mother tongues while offering antiquated, often inaccessible English training.
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.
Children learning Jersey's native language need more opportunities to speak it, says a promoter of Jerriais.
Deplorable living conditions, difficulties learning the English language and dealing with the rustic surroundings of minor league baseball in a foreign country were commonplace issues.
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