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Practical benefits of languages: Getting on in the world

gisele — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:42:29 +0000

Learning languages has for many years been something other people do – at least if you are from the UK. English is the world’s most spoken language if you include those who speak it as a second tongue. Where once Britain’s educated classes would have spoken several languages as standard, today high schools are ripping languages from the curriculum. If you are lucky enough to already know the most useful language in the world, then surely your time is better spent studying other academic areas, or so goes the argument.

However, the CIA World Fact Book states that less than 6% speak English as a first language. CVs almost always contain the phrase “excellent communication skills” or something very similar. But what does this mean exactly? Without additional languages, communication is very limited. Indeed, knowledge of multiple languages is also said to help improve the mother tongue of the speaker, providing as it does a point of reference for understanding how vocabulary and grammar work in all languages.

Beyond the boardroom: the health benefits of learning another tongue

Beyond the boardrooms and bars of the wide world, new research seems to suggest that learning a language – and becoming bilingual – has far wider (and potentially far more important) advantages. As the brain is so complicated, firm conclusions are hard to come by, but in a study at the Baycrest geriatric centre in Toronto, cognitive neuroscientist Ellen Bialystok found that bilingualism seems to stave off the effects of Alzheimer’s. Her findings showed that because the brain has to work harder when learning and retaining languages it is better prepared to resist the debilitating effects of the disease.

You’re never too old

Thus, even if students do not have total mastery of a second language, their health and their brain benefit enormously. Just as a simple activity, such as taking a different route home from work, can stimulate the brain and keep it dynamic, so can remembering new words, sentence structures and unfamiliar manners. In the end, you’ll not only have a beautiful new language and a foot in the door of multinational companies, but a better chance of being in control of your life for longer. And you needn’t worry – no matter what age you begin to learn a language (or anything for that matter), the positive effects of mental stimulation will be played out in the health record.

If that’s inspired you to look for the best Italian language courses or get learning and book a Spanish course London has what you need. From St Georges International to all the other language centres operating in the city’s glamorous West End, you’ll find someone to help you help yourself.

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Bad Communication Skills

luvhari — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:19:52 +0000

Your ability to communicate is usually considered as having a direct relation to your intelligence. If you mumble and fumble along, even if you are confident or cute people will see through. Having said that sometimes even a mumbling idiot can become a very powerful person, not withstanding his stupidities. Look around and you will find a few examples.

Here is one video of a very hot looking woman who makes a complete idiot out of herself on a nationally televised interview. Listen carefully and you will notice she cannot evencomplete sentences correctly an often have too many thoughts to share within the overlapping ideas. To be perfectly honest I am very happy she is not the Vice president of any country.

Keeping your political views aside, have an objective look at what she has to say. Does it make any sense at all?
Had she been elected she would have been a worthy successor to George Bush.

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How to be happy?

luvhari — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:53:14 +0000

Where in your body do you feel the greatest pleasure right now?

Is it your feet? or your stomach?

Can you locate at least one part of your body where you feel the greatest pleasure…right now….

No answer?

I do not blame you.

Now think of at least one part of your body that hurts….

How may can you name?

If you are like any other person, you can name at least 2 or 3 parts.

How the Hell is this related to being happy?

All our life, we have been trained to focus on the mistakes, pains errors and unpleasantness in general.

When we focus so much on unpleasant painful things, how can you be happy rich or successful?

What is the first step in being happy?

Focus more on finding the pleasant thought feelings and expressions.

Dr. Kilstein, a leading NLP Specialist has created a DVD program that helps people recognize their most powerful states and then use it to make themselves happier and successful.

If you want to give yourself a wonderful Christmas present, this is it.

This is the perfect way to start your New Year.

http://www.communication-skills-4confidence.com/happy

PS : If you like to go directly to the main page just click on the link
“Click here to bypass this page without giving your email address.”

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On being Broke

luvhari — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:08:59 +0000

While this may not have anything to do with Communication skills, it does have a very important message for any self help junkies. If you feel constrained by your circumstances, you NEED to read this.

Doing the best with what you already have seems to be the key mantra in success no matter which field you look in and the more I see it the more I believe it to be true

On Being SO BROKE You Can’t Come To That Seminar

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