Folium: Why the French Don’t Show Excitement via BBC Travel
… Connect: BBC Travel: Why the French Don’t Show Excitement … Sometimes, when you don’t feel like you belong, the most painful of realizations can shake you. You might understand this if you have ever moved to another city, state, or country. You may have even felt this moving from middle school to high school. […]
Folium: How to Teach Yourself To Do Hard Things via Lifehacker
… Connect: Lifehacker: How to Teach Yourself To Do Hard Things … Life is hard… … There, I said it. Someone had to, right? Doesn’t it seem like sometimes there are people in this world who make hard things look easy? Don’t you wish you could be those people? Was the hard task they accomplished […]
Folium: It Takes A Classroom To Learn The Family Language via NPR
… Connect: NPR/CodeSwitch: It Takes a Classroom To Learn The Family Language. … Throughout the United States, there are children of all ages that struggle with their cultural identity due to the suppression of the “heritage language” that their parents or grandparents speak. These kids grew up listening to, watching, or even being spoken to by extended […]
Folium: Why People Think Spanish Is Easier Than French via ThoughtCo
… Connect ThoughtCo – Why People Think Spanish Is Easier Than French … During my high school experience, there was a general consensus that Spanish was a far easier language than French. Although both were offered, there were two French teachers and four Spanish teachers to accommodate the far greater number of students taking Spanish. Even […]
Folium: How to Live Longer, from Two People Over 100 via LifeHacker
… Connect LifeHacker: How People Live To Be Over 100 In Costa Rica … The wellness craze sweeping the nation has many of us wondering, “How do I live longer?” or “How do we live healthier lives?” What is it about American culture that has us feeling so concerned, and why is it that we […]
Folium: What Should I Absolutely Not Do When Visiting Your Country via BBC
… Connect BBC: What Should I Absolutely Not Do When Visiting Your Country … If you’re looking to visit another country soon and want to know what to expect, most blogs you read around the internet will tell you what to do while visiting different countries. This blog on the other hand warns you of […]
Folium: What Is The Value Of An Education In The Humanities via NPR
… Connect NPR: What Is The Value Of An Education In The Humanities? … The cost of living paid for by those who have come before us is small in comparison with the cost of which we pay as students to receive an education about those have have come before us. Adam Frank is his […]
Folium: We think More Rationally in a Foreign Language via BPS
… Connect BPS: We think More Rationally in a Foreign Language … There is a psychology of language that is the study of the psychological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. There have been many studies done on bilingual students that has reported on that people are immune to two […]
Folium: Why Constant Learners All Embrace the 5-Hour Rule via Inc.
… Connect Inc: Why Constant Learners All Embrace the 5-Hour Rule … Have you ever wished to become like the greats of the world? You may have asked yourself this question many times, but have you ever asked yourself what the greats do in order to be considered one of the greats? Nobody is born […]
Folium: The Glossary of Happiness via NewYorker
… Connect NewYorker: The Glossary of Happiness … Languages often get “lost in translation,” and this phenomenon can be due to a simple mistake or due to the fact that one language was not quite able to capture the essence of a word’s meaning in another language. Sometimes in other languages there are certain words […]