The Learning Brain

It is great to know more about our brains and how we learn and remember things. Our feeling  which are "a brain process and not just a heart feeling" as many people think, play an important part in our learning and to develop new skills in life.

When passion meets discipline

Passion gives you strength, but it won't last forever.

It gives the push from nothing, to anything you want to start.

However, this isn't all you need.

You need to keep going.

You need more than a push.

You will study when you love it, yes, that's right, but we need more.

Discipline, it won't knock on your door and say here I am.No!

You have to go and look for it.

You have to fight and stand up and catch it.

You need to chase it and grab it.

You need to hold it and hide it. 

You need to empower it and practice it.

You need to be able to fail and stand up again.

It won't be beautiful, and you...

Will hate it.

You will suffer, cry, and crawl but this is real strength.

This is what you are looking for.

Your dreams are not only to sleep on.

You need to wake up and work, make them, build them, paint them, talk about them, laugh with them, cry with your dreams; because these are your goals coming true.

When your passion meets discipline your dreams become a reality,  and anything you want will be yours. Your enemy is you, your ally will be yourself.

Be responsible for your own future.

We create tomorrow today, and rest yesterday.

When passion meets discipline it doesn't matter how tired you are.

Your energy source, it is not your body or your mood; it's yourself, your dreams, your choices,  your goals.

If there is something you want to do, remember that your passion should meet discipline to achieve anything in life. 

By Sira Grays Palmers

Korean Learning

안녕하세요 (Hello) was the first word I learned in Korean and today I want to share with you some sites, apps and extension that have helped me to improve and they might be useful for you too, if Korean is the languages you are learning too.

안녕

1. In First place TTMIK( talktomeinkorean) You will never think that learning Korean is hard after using this site, not only the explanations are clear and easy, moreover the site has tons of sources you can use, wonderful phrases, videos, pronunciation and more. This is a 10/10.

2. Korean for a Smart Keyboard It is a wonderful app, I mean "we are learning Korean here let's type in Korean". This keyboard is not only great because it comes with a Korean auto corrector( believe me that it is important) But comes with an English dictionary 9/10.

3. DramaFever : There isn't better way to learn a new language than listening to native speakers, you can't find Korean friends, why not try watching some Korean shows or tv programs? This will help you with it's culture and listening( be aware that some dramas will not be close to Korean reality) 8/10

4. Lang-8: A great place, to meet, chat with and read native speakers. (N/A)

5. Hello Lingo : A great community to make new friends and language interchange partners in any language, born from Sharedtalk. People here are really friendly and are always willing to help. (9/10)

6. Ihaessi: A Chrome extension that provides you a Korean text dictionary. By clicking or highlighting a word. (7/10)

7. Korean.go: Alphabet and pronunciation (N/A)

8. Korean IME: Practice Typing. (4/10) The site should have more features and many a manual, and it's a little confusing, but it's OK if you just want to get used to type.




To be continued...

If you have any other site app or extension please leave it on a comment.

POMODORO (I use this technique to study)

Check this technique out, time it's crucial factor when studying, also one of the most important parts, because when we know how to manage time efficiently we could have time to do other activities and dedicate to our families and hobbies. 

Fight

"I have a fight within myself"
Siragrays

New languages or Future of languages

Memory Test

IMPROVE YOUR VISUAL MEMORY 

The most important language

1 man 25 languages

The benefits of a bilingual brain

Learning like a human

While reading an essay about the brain, and how people think of our brain as a computer I came up with this post. The title of  the essay is "The empty brain", It explains how humans are different from machines, and how our memories don't storage things or are programmed to do so. As we grow our abilities improve and language is something we are not born with, babies will learn the language they are exposed to.

So then I though that our brains are simple and at the same time complicated, the way we acquire knowledge is simple even though remembering is another matter. Memory doesn't storage information like computers, remembering things "we have feelings for" is human nature, like to be away from fire because we are afraid of getting burn. In the other hand computer can "learn" or recall things we program them to, however this is not something they can do by themselves.

Of course this is  just my opinion about learning with feelings involved, but when you think about how children develop awareness about their surrounding, social life and how they  face different situations in life, is basically "feelings + curiosity" what helps them to learn more about the world. I have heard people say that they can't learn things because they have grown old, but this is also false, meeting many polyglots that started learning their second or third language at their later thirties, and then being able to speak 7 or 9 by their late forties. So I wonder how this could happen?

Language Community SharedLingo

https://sharedlingo.com

Let's talk about the community. The Community is pretty nice, however they are really shy when it comes to voice chat, about 13 was the biggest numbers of users in voice chat that saw at the moment, whole community. 

Chatting Rooms: However it has general chat room which more active users about 75 as minimum. Voice chat: Well the quality isn't the best for connecting but once it does, it doesn't crash (maybe because it doesn't have a camera.)

Design: I give extra points for design because it's clean and easy. 

Games: No much to offer only 4 languages available and one game option. (>o> what?) 

There aren't many native users in Korean or Japanese rooms however it might be because it isn't weekend yet.

I found out that no many of my friends know about it, and most of them aren't willing to try because they found someone to practice with so yes the community is pretty short, I think it will grow :) because the site is easy to use, I think you can have on your phone, I haven't tried tho. 

I hope you join the site and help it to become a better place :3 and of course let's learn together. 


This is my personal opinion as a user I haven't been paid in anyway.

English Grammar

https://www.grammarly.com/answers/

I  a wonderful site for grammar, sometimes when writing an essay or even for us that are learning more that one language at time which can be confusing sometimes, I recomend you this site that will help you a lot, by asking questions or even giving to the community you can improve your English language ability, and of course be a better writer. 

This is my personal opinion as a user I haven't been paid in anyway. 

Language Community Gospeaky

https://www.gospeaky.com

After crying because Sharedtalk closed I moved to this site, the community is pretty nice and friendly however they are a little shy when it comes to voice chat.(Plus voice chat here is more like video chatting.) The quality of the video is good but sometimes crashes and some people have complaint that it's harder to use with some browsers. (Like firefox, perhaps it's just their internet, for me it's pretty fine but well).

One good thing is that it gives you the option to posts notes and you earn badges and points by using the site and completing your profile which I found cool, the only sad thing is that you can only post once every 2 hours it doesn't matter the  language wall you posted you have to wait, however I heard you can solve this with premium.

You can also add as many languages as you can in both your native and learning languages. Oh right we also have levels that reflects your contribution to the Speaky community.

Let me know if you like it and once you're there if you see my profile don't hesitate in sending a message maybe we could practice together. 

Go and check it out if I have forgot something let me know and I'll add it. 

This is my personal opinion as a user I haven't been paid in anyway. 

Challenges in self-study.

One of the most difficult thing in my life it has been learning self discipline, keeping on work or in the same  task for more than 5 mins, by brain who is extremely lazy, will tell me 1000 reasons why I should do something easier and go to leisure instead of learning or any significant work.

Because I normally will study by myself, I have encountered  many challenges in self-study.