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Pronunciation of plain “e” in French
Let’s take a look at the letter “e” without any diacritical marks (if you would like to know what the diacritical marks (i.e. è, é, ê, (...)
February 25, 2013 – Jakub Marian – French
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A little criticism of Richard Dawkins
Recently, I have seen the following video with Richard Dawkins, prepared by Al Jazeera English and discussing Dawkins’s book The God (...)
February 23, 2013 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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How to learn a foreign language: Mastering
This is the final phase of learning a language, and it is suitable for you when you speak it at about the C1 level. After some time of (...)
February 2, 2013 – Jakub Marian –
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How to learn a foreign language: Skimming
Skimming is just a form of familiarization with languages which are close to a language I already know. For example, Dutch is very close (...)
February 2, 2013 – Jakub Marian –
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How to learn a foreign language: Learning
This stage comes after familiarization or skimming through the language of interest and is what the title suggests—learning the language (...)
February 2, 2013 – Jakub Marian –
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By the way, have you already seen my brand new web app for non-native speakers of English? It's based on reading texts and learning by having all meanings, pronunciations, grammar forms etc. easily accessible. It looks like this:
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How to learn a foreign language: Familiarization
Familiarization is a language learning method applicable only to languages that are not closely related to a language I already know, (...)
February 2, 2013 – Jakub Marian –
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Translating harmonic progressions into chord names easily
Since I have written a post on quick interval naming, the name of this post may suggest some redundancy. However, in this post, we shall (...)
January 24, 2013 – Jakub Marian – Music
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What is dual N-Back and my personal progress
Dual N-Back is a game developed to enhance cognitive abilities, more specifically the working memory. Since my interests include a wide (...)
January 15, 2013 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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Common fallacies and truths about vegetarian nutrition
People who have strong feelings towards eating meat often claim it is impossible to stay healthy on a vegetarian (or vegan) diet to (...)
January 11, 2013 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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The single most important thing to realize when learning foreign languages
Most people, especially those who are monolingual, don’t realize what the language they speak actually is. Here is a very broad definition (...)
January 7, 2013 – Jakub Marian –
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