"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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Creating software that can write long-form narratives is very difficult, full of all sorts of interesting artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural language problems.
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Therefore, I appeal to governments, NGOs and civil society to contribute to the improvement of our intercultural skills through the arts, sport, humanities and language learning and to enhance our diversity for the benefit of all.
Then I set my sights on a doubling our revenues and capturing much more of the language learning and edutainment market.
We were learning figurative language and looking up lyrics from music and they became totally interested in words.
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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.
I'm really interested in learning the language and it's good to see articles now being written in Manx in the local newspapers - not that I can understand more than a few words.
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.
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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The students are participating in an annual culture and language learning trip to China through the University of Maryland's Confucius Institute.
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.
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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On Roku, you can go well beyond Netflix to services like Pandora Radio, Spotify, some games and much more obscure channels focused on such things as UFOs, horoscopes, European horror films, language learning, autism and diabetes.
With the temple to Goddess English, he hopes to attract the villagers to language and learning.
Most of what makes learning difficult is specialized language and it usually takes me five books to begin to have a feel for this language.
Schools across the nation are in need of a diverse set of talented teachers, especially in our big cities and rural areas, and especially in the areas of Math, Science, Technology, Special Education, and English Language Learning.
Study in China is a website designed by the CSCSE to provide the prospective international students with general information on study in China, including Chinese higher education institutions, application procedures, HSK and Chinese language learning, life in Chinese universities etc.
David Reynolds, a professor of education at Plymouth University, said learning Welsh had "really taken off" and that any reservations about learning the local language seemed to have disappeared.
Upon its debut in 2012, the new channel will feature animated and live action programming that blends Disney's unparalleled storytelling and beloved characters with learning, including early math, language skills, healthy eating and lifestyles, and social skills.
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And what humanists, social scientists, natural scientists, and military professionals too are all learning is that our use of language, metaphor, and definition shapes our understanding of the problems we seek to solve, opening some possible options for solutions while simultaneously closing off others.
More than 60 years after independence, English has become a passport to upward mobility in the wildly aspirational former colony, and more Indians are learning the language than ever before.
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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On her benefits claim forms, she said some of her children had problems with their speech and language, physical and learning disabilities and behavioural issues.
"Even if gay pupils are not directly experiencing bullying, they are learning in an environment where homophobic language and comments are commonplace, " the report said.
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Mary Lou Jepsen of Google believes we can better understand brain disease, and brain functions like language learning, if we can massively increase the resolution of brain scans.
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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The Arno provides beginners with interesting circuits built right into the board, so they can focus on learning the basics of electronics and the Arduino language without needing to assemble and troubleshoot circuits.
Language learning is my heritage and my passion!
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Hawkins, who will continue to work as chief technical officer of Treo maker palmOne (nasdaq: PLMO - news - people ), already has his own research lab to study the neocortex, a massive part of the brain thought to hold such higher level functions as language, learning, memory and complex thought.
The scheme for children from nursery age upwards will follow the model established on that scheme of having all the teachers and assistants in the schools involved learning the language to be taught, rather than bringing in specialist teachers.
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