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Body language is very important, especially when you're communicating with your peers. Find out about body language and how important it is when communicating with peers with help from a psychologist, physical therapist and group fitness instructor in this free video clip.
Japanese sesame seaweed salad is a lot easier to make than you might think. Learn to prepare Japanese sesame seaweed salad with help from the host of a nationally televised culinary show host in this free video clip.
Working on your body language is the key to becoming a successful actor. Find out about drama techniques and body language with help from a professional actress and performer in this free video clip.
Body language and attitude play an important role in our daily lives, even if we don't immediately realize it. Find out about body language and attitude with help from a licensed marriage and family therapist in this free video clip.
"SPQR" is an acronym frequently seen on military banners in films about the Roman Empire; it's also the name of a Roman version of the popular computer strategy game, Total War. But the meaning of these four letters is rarely explained, which is unfortunate, because the acronym's definition sheds light on an important period of the Roman Republic.
If you want to show off your braid, consider accentuating it with hair accessories and other items. Accessories draw the eye toward the braid, and you can braid them into or clip them onto your hair. Try brightly colored or large, bold pieces if you want an attention-getting hairstyle.
AudioQuest is a well-recognized name in the high-end audio accessory market. As a manufacturer of interconnecting cables, speaker wire and other audio improvement products, AudioQuest has unfortunately become the target of counterfeiters. Like many counterfeit items, whether watches, purses and shoes, you can use indicators to pick out counterfeit items from authentic. These cables are commonly found on popular online auction sites.
SAP is an integrated business software program that processes all aspects of business operation to help a company achieve unified solutions to their various challenges. The SAP software comes in many different modules, each created to run a particular business consideration. SAP SD, one of the most instrumental SAP modules, manages issues involving sales and distribution.
The 8086 Assembly Language is a programming language used by developers who need to create core-level applications for microprocessors. Unlike other languages, Assembly can only manage a single character string at a time. If you want to access the value of the current character string, you can do so by adding specific instructions to the source code.
Conversation skills are crucial for effective socialization, influencing how easily people make friends and excel in the workforce. Developing good conversation skills often requires that students break bad habits and come up with conversation topics. However, no conversation will run smoothly when improper pronunciation impedes clear communication, an especially significant problem with nonnative speakers.
Teaching English to kindergartners can be a challenge. Kindergartners stay in constant motion, and keeping them focused on a foreign language can be difficult. One of the tricks to teaching English is to keep it entertaining and dynamic. The more interesting your lessons, the more likely the students are to learn the new vocabulary.
The subjective verb occurs less frequently in modern English than the imperative command or indicative tone found in most sentences. English writers use the subjective mood to express a hypothesis, proposal, demand, possibility or contingency or to express a doubt or regret. The subjective mood or tense may also express something that is improbable, impossible or untrue.
Shelves can be an ideal way to add style to otherwise bare walls. You can build tiered accent shelves for any wall in your home. This DIY project will allow you to customize your accent shelves to your space and display requirements. Build the shelves out of hardwood such as cherry, birch, walnut or maple. Hardwood is durable and attractive, making it ideal for home furnishings like accent shelves. The unit consists of three tiered shelves that are attached to a vertically oriented back.
Your television's tuner allows it to receive a radio signal from the airwaves and convert that signal into a picture you can see. External tuners aren't used much with televisions, as each TV has an internal tuner, although there are some cases when an external tuner can be helpful.
Teaching verbs and the conjugations of verbs should be enjoyable and educational for kids as well as English-as-a-second-language students. By using games to teach the various forms of verbs, you can create an enjoyable atmosphere that helps the student to learn verb conjugations. Using items found in almost any classroom, you can quickly create an entire lesson plan using effective games.
If you spend time around teens, you've probably heard an exclamation similar to this: "Oh em gee, you guys -- did you see Gossip Girl last night?" Teens often garner speech patterns and slang directly from the TV shows they watch. Whether they follow a "GTL" routine or buy items to "pimp a ride," knowing how your teen's entertainment choices affect the way she speaks can give you some insight into teen pop culture and what it means.
Aliphatic acrylic polyurethane is a chemical compound used as a coating in industrial and building applications. The chemical makeup of aliphatic acrylic polyurethane makes it tough and flexible, and it is added to many products to create a durable finish. Aliphatic acrylic polyurethane is most commonly used in sealants or coatings intended for outside use.
Advanced games provide the playground to teach children English without the pressure of traditional textbook learning. Games allow children to pick up concepts quickly while retaining information. They also provide engaging sessions in which the children gain great exposure to the language as well as practice. With the use of puzzles, games and activities, English instructors can command the attention of their students, while increasing the pace and keeping the motivation alive in the classroom.
The best known music in Portuguese comes from Brazil. Learn Portuguese guitar music with help from a Los Angeles-based guitar player in this free video clip.
Gloves, coats, sleeping bags, sheets – the market for these items contains numerous brands, all of them offering different purported advantages over the competitors. Insulation is one of the primary focuses of these markets, and something manufacturers use to sell their products as better than the rest. Primaloft and Thermoloft, two registered brands of insulation, differ significantly from one another in a number of ways. Differences include material properties, uses and price range.
Children can begin to learn languages, both their native language and a second language, at a very young age. Just as they learn the proper words for familiar items, colors, animals and family members in their native language, they can also learn them in a second language. Games and songs are often the preferred means for young children. Lots of childrens' games are identifying games.
Kinesthetic learners learn best through movement. Students who learn in this manner experience difficulties in retaining information when it is taught aurally or visually, but they can remember things much more easily if they can physically interact with the information while hearing or seeing it. When teaching abstract concepts such as figurative language to kinesthetic learners, teachers should incorporate a physical connection into the lesson. And adding a kinesthetic element to instruction can help all types of learners remember the information better.
Head Start is a government-funded program designed to help provide aid through education for low-income children as well as their parents. Since the 1960s, the program has expanded to provide support for pregnant, low-income parents as well as the children of American Indians and migrant workers. Many households involved in the Head Start program use English as a second language. As a result, English activities can help reinforce and teach the language to children at a young and impressionable age.
Learning a new language is not an easy task—and neither is teaching a group of teenagers how to speak a second language. If you’re in the position where you have to teach a group of teenagers a new language, you will have to take into consideration that everyone learns differently. While some people learn better reading out of textbooks, others learn better with hands-on experience. Get your students' attention using these group games that can be tailored to teach about almost any language.
The downbeat, the first beats of the measure, the stressed beats and the accent beats are all names for a stronger beat in musical performance. Musicians learn early on that rhythm is a series of silences and sounds that are further augmented to be stronger or weaker than the regular beats. Accented beats are those stronger staples of rhythm. Music notation has a few ways of symbolizing the accented beat. However, learning how the stronger beats are made isn't as easy to explain.
COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Language and is a high-level programming language originally developed in the late 1950s. COBOL was intended to be as legible as possible and, as a result, includes structures -- such as section, paragraph and sentence -- traditionally associated with English prose. COBOL programs are typically more verbose, or wordy, than those written in more contemporary programming languages, such as C or C++.
"Phonological rules" sounds like an obscure concept you'd find buried in a textbook, but these rules actually affect your life every day. Phonological rules are a part of communication through language, whether spoken or written, and knowing what they are and why they exist can help you better understand your world. Understanding phonological rules is even more important is you're teaching English or working with people with speech problems.
Three classes of verbs in Spanish are conjugated in a regular fashion. They end in either AR, ER or IR. AR verbs include hablar, to speak; caminar, to walk; and estudiar, to study. It’s important for students to learn the common way of conjugating all the AR verbs so that they can use them correctly as they develop a larger vocabulary.
While many of the terms for cutting meats and vegetables in the kitchen come from France, there are some Italian chopping techniques which may be lesser known. Some tools used for cutting in the kitchen, such as a mezzaluna, come from Italy. The word pesto actually comes from the technique used to make the sauce.
Google Talk is an instant-messaging application for voice and text chat. Users of Gtalk download the Google Talk Gadget (software) and may chat with others around the world. Recognizing the global nature of the Internet, Google makes it possible to translate chat messages from certain other languages into English and vice versa. Using these translation bots, you may translate into English or other languages in real time. Fortunately, creating an English translator in Gtalk is as simple as adding a special email address that can automatically translate on the fly.
Zeus is a mythological god who was worshiped by the ancient Greeks. Historians conclude that the ancient Greeks believed Zeus to be the god of the sky, who lived on Mount Olympus and ruled over the Greek Olympian gods and mankind. Since he was an ancient Greek god, the language used to refer to him was ancient Greek. Writing an epitaph relating to Zeus for a tombstone, monument or memorial is a philosophical and poetical endeavor, even more so when written in Greek.
Learning Spanish while having some fun is not such a stretch. Children and adults both learn best when their attention is focused, and games just naturally work. Inserting verbs into play can be a painless way to teach the language. Help students understand that there is more than one way to express the past in Spanish. A specific moment in the past as opposed to a general conversation about the past will make the difference in how the verb is used.
Verbs are the backbone of any language; without verbs, sentences would simply be a collection of nouns and adjectives without any subject or any purpose. Foreign language teachers introduce verbs in the earliest levels of their classes, starting with regular verbs and then adding irregular verbs when students understand basic conjugations. Foreign language teachers must design creative activities to teach these verbs to their students.
English is one of the central languages across the globe – especially in the business world. Considered a relatively complex language, learning it can be tricky and much of the success rate depends upon the quality and techniques of the teacher. Instructors must adapt to the age group, depending upon whether they’re teaching kids or adults.
Immigration, an important and controversial topic in politics, has influenced other sectors of society as well, especially education. An influx of non-English speakers into a community can naturally lead to an increase of young people in schools and classrooms who may struggle with the language. Patience and sensitivity can help support such students' learning.
Many words change their meaning according to which syllable is stressed when the word is pronounced. Stressing one word in a sentence over the others can change the meaning of the entire sentence. The sentence then takes on a whole new focus or offers information that would not have been there otherwise.
Microsoft’s Windows operating system contains a library of accented characters, allowing you to write grammatically in languages that feature characters with the acute and grave accents, the circumflex, tilde and umlaut. Accented characters are activated in Windows using keystroke commands composed of a series of digits. The library of keystrokes is referenced using the operating system’s Character Map utility. Additionally, online resources allow you to reference Windows’ numeric keystrokes.
A liturgical church provides traditional religious services based on a duty to the public. A doctrinal church depends on specific doctrines or religious statements to educate the public about religion. A church often offers religious services based on liturgy and teaches moral principles based on religious doctrine. The Catholic Church can be viewed as a liturgical church with well-structured, historically defined, traditional church services. A non-denominational church based strictly on biblical teachings and less formal ritual of services may be considered a doctrinal church. A majority of religious institutions rely on both liturgical and doctrinal practices.
Body language experts inhabit a very narrow occupational category in our country, but their expertise in nonverbal communication is sought by professionals in many different industries. Many body language experts are self-employed; as a result, these professionals constantly try to improve their professional profile through publication and seminars. Many other professionals, such as detectives or language interpreters, must also possess a detailed knowledge of body language to perform their daily work.
Koreans are very interested in speaking English. Throughout Seoul and the nation are many special academies called hogwans, where Korean students learn English. They are taught by Korean teachers and native English speakers who teach conversational English. Some Koreans have also turned to studying online with a native speaker for extra practice and many study abroad in English speaking countries; 69,000 Korean students were studying in the United States in 2008.
Communication is made up of more than just words. Body language is a significant part of the message you convey -- sometimes even the biggest part. It can be easy to mistakenly send the wrong message with body language. This can be due to ignorance of the way certain signals or gestures are perceived or simply a lack of self awareness. Fortunately, learning about body language signals can help you understand how to send the right signals.
Spanish is one of the most commonly studied languages in the United States. Whether the student is a child or an adult, knowing a second language can be useful in many aspects of life and learning. When first learning a language, however, it is as if all who study are like children because they must build a foundation for their language skills by using basic and simplistic methods. One of these methods that can quickly engage a student's mind is by participating in games or activities.
Whether along the white picket fences of the suburbs or in the chaos of the city, adding flowers to the sidewalk creates a welcoming environment and beautiful curb appeal. Choosing the right plant for the space determines this project's success. Obstacles include high foot traffic, excessive heat or cold and water drainage near the harsh concrete surface. Proper planning can keep these obstacles from becoming roadblocks. Remember to check with any local ordinances before planting beside city-owned sidewalks.
A child who has a language delay needs additional help in preschool to ensure that he doesn't fall behind. Parents and teachers can use a variety of techniques to help the child develop his language skills. Often the child is suffering from a problem with comprehension when presented with whole sentences, although he understands the individual words. Signs that a child has a language delay or comprehension problem include less developed speech than other children of the same age, lack of a response to questions, inability to follow directions and repeating the words of the other speaker.
Sign language instructors are speech-language pathologists who have been trained to help people with speech, language and fluency disorders. These professionals, also known as speech therapists and speech and language specialists, usually have a master's degree and receive professional credentialing from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association as required by most states. The average salary of a sign language instructor was $69,880 as of May 2010, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
According to the book "Storytelling: An Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore," storytelling dates back at least to the second millennium B.C. Stories often function on more than one level. Characters and situations sometimes have a hidden meaning for the reader to figure out. A story in which everything has another meaning is called an "allegory."
Speaking only one language limits a person's ability to communicate effectively both at home and abroad. Being unable to speak the the local language while doing business abroad places English speakers at a disadvantage at meetings and negotiations. At home it prevents businesses from communicating with customers and keeps emergency workers from giving clear instructions to the community.
UTF-8, USC Transformation Format 8-bit, is a character encoding format for Unicode, a text based system. The format is used for displaying written words with html code for websites. Creating webpages with UTF-8 can be done in most text editors and browser supported editors. Links from webpages that are not UTF-8 supported can be misrepresented by accented characters. To remove accented characters you will need to add in replacement commands for each accent.
For thousands of years, indigenous peoples have kept sacred caves, caverns and crypts to honor deities, nature spirits and ancestral lines. During the last 2,000 years or so, these traditions continue, often with sacred grottoes specifically dedicated to gods or saints. From ancient Celts and Buddhists to Christian, Hindu or tribal cultures, the quiet grotto became a place to offer prayers and meditations, and to honor those who came before. During the mid-18th century, grotto building became fashionable in Europe and eventually took shape in home landscapes across America. You, too, can create one in miniature form to meet your…
Don't be an old stick-in-the-mud; give a fist bump and celebrate our modern slang. In August 2011, controversy arose when Webster's Collegiate Dictionary added a new slew of slang words that some say dumb down rather than build up the English language. The reason, according to some, is how these words came to be. But not all slang shares such a recent, "parkour"-like influence.
