Lets say someone has a type of untreated ADD(attention dephysite disorder)yet he or she is trying to learn something that requires a lot of concentration and focus.
What are some things that help with maintaining focus and concentration?If you have ADD,your more then welcom to throw your .2 cents in
does that "someone" need a hug?
than ask bob saget!
I have always been extremely interested in alternative health techniques and treatments. I am currently in a very good job that I am not really crazy about. I would like to move into the alternative health field and would like to eventually open a health food store and small health spa. I know it is a process but I want to know where I can start. As far as I know (and I could be wrong) there is no school to go to learn alternative health. I don’t know where to start learning and how. Also for the learning process I need to work around my full time job as I don’t have the option to not work as I need the income. I really want to start learning about this field and just need some suggestions on where and how to start. Is there perhaps a way to be like an apprentice to an alternative practitioner?
What about some books from a health store?
An even better start is a web search in Yahoo for "alternative health techniques" that will yield at least 412 results including overviews of alternative health techniques and stacks of other useful information for you.
Another useful search in Yahoo for "alternative health practices" will yield at least 2,888 results.
I’m planning on learning Korean and then I hope to learn Mandarin. Will studying Korean before Mandarin help at all? Also, I plan on giving about 1 hour per week day until school is out, in which then I will spend about 6-8 hours studying( I also plan on doing this during the weekend while school is in and even in the summer). I have already learned most of Spanish, and will be taking AP Spanish next year, will any of this help me in learning Korean and Mandarin?
Some people are just naturally faster at learning languages than others for whatever reason. i know people who have diligently studied languages for years and can barely handle the basics. then you hear about people who can learn any number of languages with no problems.
I also think that if you are in a situation where you HAVE to learn a language, then you will be able to learn it quickly. a person living in Korea will probably be able to learn Korean faster than someone living in, let’s say, Kansas, as long as you actually move outside of the english speaking foreigner circle and actually talk to people who either can’t or won’t speak english with you.
It depends on a lot of things, too. How similar the language is to your native tongue, how many languages you’ve already learned, your affinity for language learning. I achieved Japanese fluency in two years, and passed their hardest proficiency test (JLPT1) in only one year. If you ask me, the best thing you can do when learning a language as different from your native tongue as Korean is to study and practice a lot. Memorizing the vocabulary just flat takes time, but grammar, word choice, and syntax can be learned as fast as you study and practice, and those are what are fundamental to fluency. It’s why it’s so much easier for an American to learn and start speaking Spanish than Japanese – both require new vocabulary, but Japanese (which is like Korean with different words) requires utterly different grammar, word choice, and syntax.
It might also help to define what you consider fluency. If you manage to master the fundamental elements of the language, fluency becomes just a question of topics. If I know 200 words about the zoo, I can fluently converse about the zoo because vocabulary at that point is just plug-and-play. Oppositely, even in English I’m not fluent in a topic about chemistry reagents and enzymes, even though I understand English grammar and syntax.
Also, to a certain degree, time is a tool. I think the seven-year rule comes from two ESL studies that showed that it took 6.5 years for college-level non-natives to achieve native-level vocabulary (~20,000 words). I also think that you can only study so much vocabulary a day before your efficacy starts to decrease, at least in my experience. However, there are also hardcore 8-week immersion courses that are designed to improve your competency stupid-fast. And they do it by utterly surrounding students in the language – they study a bunch of different things (so your mind doesn’t lock up) and present material in a lot of different contexts (the average student has to see a word or grammar construct 7 times before he’s able to use it effectively, the average AP student 2-3).
And if you ask the US government, it’s not a question of years. It’s a question of weeks. They train their soldiers to functioning fluency (which would if anything only leave out vocabulary) in Korean in 60 weeks, 4-5 class hours and 2-3 class-prep hours a day.
So based on this and my experience, I’d say it ultimately depends on you, but also that time is exponentially valuable. If you are college-level and study for 2-3 hours a day, it may take 7 years. Yet if you study 8-12 hours a day, you can reach amazing levels in a couple months. Or, if you’re just army-level with an affinity for language, you can achieve fluency in about a year. But you have to know yourself because not everyone has the mental endurance to devote that much time to studying something. You bet your *** a soldier is going to have a lot of discipline, and use that willpower to study (effectively) 8 hours a day for an entire year. If it’s just 8 weeks, and the person does it during a home-stay program, he may have the stress-relief available to study 12 hours a day. But realize that at some point, everyone burns out and becomes less effective at learning. Once you know where your point is, you know how to effectively utilize your time, and you know from where to start working on your mental endurance.
So all of that to say, I don’t really know how to answer your question – kkk! There’s no way to judge "fluency" or how long it will take you to get there, since everyone is different. But keep studying, and keep going, and you will get there. Especially if you can find a situation where you NEED to use Korean, even if it’s just finding someone online to chat with that can’t or won’t speak English with you.
Or is it best to learn to read it with the instrument? I have no experience with readnig music and I thought I should learn the basics before I start to play the violin.
It certainly wouldn’t hurt, but I don’t know if it would help much either. Learning to read and play at the same time might take a bit longer at first, but long term is probably the best idea.
If you need a program to learn to read music, try Speedy Music Reading – you can combine it’s exercises with the violin (or use them seperately), and they say you can even learn to read music in under a week!
Ask Misterduncan. This has been posted late because my video editing computer decided to die. I had to retrieve and transfer all the files for this lesson in to my laptop and edit them using that. It is a miracle that this video was completed.
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Right now I’m a sophomore in high school, and I’ve dreamed of becoming a hairdresser for the past few years. I know the cosmetology school I’ll be going to when I graduate, but I want to learn a bit about cutting hair in the meantime.
I want to go into cosmetology school ahead of the game. I’ve read up on hair care; but now would like to learn about actually CUTTING hair. To where I could give my friends trims and stuff. Any tips on how I should learn this?
It will be better if you went into school without having any experience. Anything you learn ahead of time might interfere with the techniques the school will teach you.
You can practice hairstyling. This is something that would be great to know before you enter school. You will know how to roll hair onto rollers, which is called a wet set. You can also practice doing up-dos. Good luck in cosmetology school.
Also, would I have to learn both block and cursive Russian? Also, do other languages with the latin alphabet write in cursive?
You need to learn Russian cursive if you want to be able to read handwritten Russian.
On the other hand, although cursive is the standard method of handwriting in Russia, consider that most communications are done electronically now-days, so learning to write in cursive is up to you. Everyone will still be able to understand if you write in block letters, and you can pick up on reading Russian cursive without much effort.
P.S. If you decide to take up Russian cursive and feel that starting out in English will be easier, go for it. The styles of cursive are identical.
P.s.s. Check this answer, the info may be useful for you: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AifC4H.kiuo9MEHW2lxV7Krsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090209140123AAzQA6l
San Francisco Java, PHP, and HTML5 user groups hosted an event on May 11th, 2010 on HTML5 with three amazing speakers: Brad Neuberg from Google, Giorgio Sardo from Microsoft, and Peter Lubbers from Kaazing.
In this first of the three videos, Brad Neuberg from Google (formerly an HTML5 advocate and currently a Software Engineer on the Google Buzz team) explains why HTML5 matters – to consumers as well as developers! His overview of HTML5 included SVG/Canvas rendering, CSS transforms, app-cache, local databases, web workers, and much more. He also identified the scope and practical implications of the changes that are coming along with HTML5 support in modern browsers.
This event was organized by Marakana, Michael Tougeron from Gamespot, and Bruno Terkaly from Microsoft.
Microsoft was the host and Marakana, Gamespot, Medallia, TEKsystems, and Guidewire Software sponsored the event.
http://marakana.com/forums/html5/general/132.html
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