Speech GraphicsSpeech Graphics creates world’s first high fidelity animation of human speech organs » Speech Graphics Oct 14 '13 Author: Speech Graphics Posted in: Press Specialist audio animation studio, Speech Graphics, announced today the launch of the world's first high fidelity animation of the human speech organs. Communication in today's global economy is critical and for the approximately 2 billion people learning English as a second language, accent and pronunciation are two of the most difficult aspects to master. Gregor Hofer of Speech Graphics explains: "A strong accent can be a major barrier to effective communication. Revealing a hidden world never seen so clearly before, Simone is a fully functioning cutaway of the inside of the mouth, nose and throat. Viewed from the front, Simone's face moves in perfect synchrony with audio recordings of sounds and words. Saundz.com provided a learning curriculum and graphical web interface around the Speech Graphics animation.
How To Remember Things I once came up with a metaphor I thought perfectly captured the sheer mass of material my classmates and I were expected to memorize in our first two years of medical school: it was like being asked to enter a grocery store and memorize the names of every product in the store, their number and location, every ingredient in every product in the order in which they appear on the food label, and then to do the same thing in every grocery store in the city. When I look back now I can't imagine how any of us were able to do it. And yet we did. The mind's capacity to store and recall information is truly wondrous. Since I attended medical school we've learned a lot about memory and learning. Though much of what follows are techniques I used to survive my first two years of medical school, much of the science that proves they work is new. Become interested in what you're learning . One of the most common complaints I hear in clinical practice is about memory loss.
Tableau périodique des éléments Le tableau périodique des éléments, également appelé tableau ou table de Mendeleïev, classification périodique des éléments ou simplement tableau périodique, représente tous les éléments chimiques, ordonnés par numéro atomique croissant et organisés en fonction de leur configuration électronique, laquelle sous-tend leurs propriétés chimiques. La conception de ce tableau est généralement attribuée au chimiste russe Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendeleïev, qui, en 1869, construisit une table, différente de celle qu'on utilise aujourd'hui[a], mais semblable dans son principe, dont le grand intérêt était de proposer une classification systématique des éléments connus à l'époque en vue de souligner la périodicité de leurs propriétés chimiques, d'identifier les éléments qui restaient à découvrir, voire de prédire certaines propriétés d'éléments chimiques alors inconnus. Le tableau périodique a connu de nombreux réajustements depuis lors jusqu'à prendre la forme que nous lui connaissons aujourd'hui.
How to Learn (But Not Master) Any Language in 1 Hour (Plus: A Favor) Deconstructing Arabic in 45 Minutes Conversational Russian in 60 minutes? This post is by request. How long does it take to learn Chinese or Japanese vs. Here’s the reasoning… Before you invest (or waste) hundreds and thousands of hours on a language, you should deconstruct it. So far, I’ve deconstructed Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Norwegian, Irish Gaelic, Korean, and perhaps a dozen others. How is it possible to become conversationally fluent in one of these languages in 2-12 months? Consider a new language like a new sport. There are certain physical prerequisites (height is an advantage in basketball), rules (a runner must touch the bases in baseball), and so on that determine if you can become proficient at all, and—if so—how long it will take. Languages are no different. If you’re a native Japanese speaker, respectively handicapped with a bit more than 20 phonemes in your language, some languages will seem near impossible. 2. 3. 4.
How to improve long-term memory Memories are constantly in flux, decaying as soon as they have begun to form. Although you can't count memories, if you could, you'd soon discover that more than half of what we experience is inaccessible to memory within a single hour. For this reason, when learning, it is best to continuously and cyclically review information as you go. Optimal revision During the 19th century, Hermann Ebbinghaus, a German psychologist, spent more than 15 years learning random strings of nonsense syllables, and testing himself on their recall. Ebbinghaus found that the ideal time to review a memory is just before you are about to forget it. The "forgetting curve" helps to explain why we so often remember nothing shortly after cramming intensely for an exam. Continuous testing Another important way to keep your memories healthy is to practise retrieving them. One way of understanding this is to consider how memories are, in a sense, movements that your mind makes. The danger of getting information wrong
Science et Technologie © Illustration ESABruxelles vu par Sentinel-1A. Le satellite de l'ESA Sentinel-1A, lancé le 3 avril, a déjà livré ses premières images radar de la Terre. Elles offrent un alléchant aperçu de l'imagerie opérationnelle que cette nouvelle mission va fournir à l'ambitieux programme européen Copernicus de surveillance de l'environnement. Fort à propos, la première image montre Bruxelles (Belgique), siège de la Commission européenne. La Commission européenne dirige le programme Copernicus et coordonne la large gamme de services qui va permettre d'améliorer la gestion de l'environnement et de protéger la vie quotidienne. L'ESA a la responsabilité de développer la famille de satellites Sentinel et de garantir la disponibilité des flux de données pour ces services. Cette première image de la Belgique a été prise le 12 avril, un jour après que le satellite ait été positionné dans son attitude opérationnelle, et montre le potentiel de la vision radar de Sentinel-1A.
Language-Learning Software and Online Courses | Transparent Language Smarts: It's not how much you learn that matters. It's how much you remember. Forgetting follows a pattern. There are steep drop offs in retention after 60 minutes and after 24 hours. Immediately after learning something, you will be able to retrieve a great deal of information. But then you will forget the information rapidly if you do not review it - first within an hour and then within a day. The best times to review information are right before you go to sleep and right when you wake up. This is so for three reasons. Working on what you want to remember is one of the ways you beat the forgetting curves. "Darn," I said to myself, "I am lousy with names." The best way to make information memorable is to use the keyword method, because it links our verbal memory with our spatial memory. If you seem never to be able to remember your doctor's phone number when you need it most, consider using the phone number as part of a password on your computer, for example, Dr5551212Jones. The average short-term memory capacity is 7 plus or minus 2 pieces of information.