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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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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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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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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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How Facebook calculates the number of Likes of a website
Originally, I thought that the Facebook like button displays the number of people who had clicked on it. However, I have experienced some (...)
January 3, 2013 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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How to recognize gender in German using suffixes
In German, almost every noun belongs to one of the following three gender groups: Masculine (der), feminine (die), or neuter (das). To be (...)
December 30, 2012 – Jakub Marian – German
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How to quickly form any interval from any note
Using the traditional approach, if you want to be able to quickly name any interval from any note, you basically have to memorize them (...)
November 19, 2012 – Jakub Marian – Music
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Finding a student flat in Berlin
I have been posting only scarcely lately. The reason is that I was trying to find some form of permanent accommodation in Berlin where I (...)
October 6, 2012 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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