Sentences with phrase «at learning languages»

All of this attention only adds further weight to the long - standing perception that Brits just aren't «good» at learning languages - a commonly held belief that is just not true - every one of us is an expert linguist - after all, we have all done pretty well at learning at least one language - our mother tongue.

I was always decent at learning languages — except for Latin, but that was because there's no one to talk to unless you're friends with the pope — and I guess that's why I signed up for this new class without thinking twice.

«You wouldn't expect babies to be better than adults at anything,» says Jenny Saffran, director of the Infant Learning Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, «but they are better at learning language.»

Young children are not good at learning language if they're merely parked in front of screen media.»

Russian women will not expect a potential foreign partner to be fluent, but they will acknowledge any efforts made and recognize the attempt at learning their language as a commitment to a future relationship.

Contrary to the DTCC's work on its TIW, which started by identifying a problem that could be solved with the abilities of current blockchain technology, its interest in DA's work is aimed at learning a language - Digital Asset Modelling Language (DAML)- which could let them create any number of solutions in the future.

Sadly, despite repeated traditional attempts at learning the language, my high school French just never took.

Not exact matches

At Egon Zehnder, we have learned in much of our work with many of the leading Chinese tech giants and startup unicorns what type of talent is likely to thrive in China, which prioritizes the more nuanced «soft» skills of adaptability, flexibility, and potential rather than simply the «hard» skills of language fluency and past work experiences.

What's never been around before is a seamless integration of all of this: natural language processing at the front end so that it knows what you asked, natural language processing at the back end so you know what it just said, and in between a judgment engine that is learning so that over time, as you keep updating the knowledge paths, it keeps re-evaluating what it heard.

When businesses post jobs on the platform, Toptal identifies available developers proficient in the software languages necessary to handle the task at hand, then contacts the client to learn more about the job and the company as a whole before interviewing programmer candidates to make sure their skills and personalities are properly attuned.

It seems she learned too indiscriminately, repeating all sorts of language that had been directed at her — including racial epithets, political conspiracy theories, and all - caps Trumpisms (Microsoft has since deleted the tweets, though The Guardian was kind enough to take screenshots).

As the above anecdote suggests, my language at a young age made longshoremen blush not because I was learning the words on The Electric Company.

You may experience a bit of a learning curve at first, since texting involves becoming familiar with a whole new truncated language, but it is easy to pick up.

Learning a new language is a lot of memorization — especially at my age, it's difficult.

Whether it's doing the daily cross-word, conversing on difficult subjects, learning a language, or simply doing an interesting manual task, keeping active is at the heart of mental health, and the sine qua non of keeping on top of memory as you age.

It's such a natural extension, which is why things like programming and learning code comes easy to them, where someone older looks at it like a foreign language.

Many believe that part of the solution is to treat software development education similar to how foreign languages are taught at a much earlier age, instead of waiting until university or high school to begin learning.

Carla Hudson Kam, a linguistics professor at the University of British Columbia, says the approach to language learning should depend on how you plan to use the skill.

At this stage you should have comprehensive notes that convey whatever you're trying to learn in your own, stripped - down language.

Plenty of Fish grew slowly at first as Frind focused on learning the programming language and trolling internet forums for clues on how to increase traffic.

Learning a second language at any age «is an excellent activity to maintain cognitive function.»

(1) To address the coding skills gap and help prepare more people for jobs in software development, Apple created a powerful yet easy - to - learn coding language called Swift (TM), the free Swift Playgrounds (TM) app and a free curriculum, App Development with Swift, which are available to anyone and are already being used by millions of students at K - 12 schools, summer camps and leading community colleges across the country.

Carolina Wilson at Bloomberg notes these new ETFs are based upon «machine learning and natural language processing» and are cheaper than Blackrock's traditional sector ETF offerings.

«It has always saddened me that Canada is probably one of the only school systems in the world (or at least the world wealthy enough for full, functioning educational systems) that does not require at least an attempt to learn a second language.»

You can reinvent yourself, be the person you always wanted but maybe were too scared to be... and if you're lucky you might learn a language or two while you're at it.

Based on the above, UKTI commissioned the ECR program in combination with the PIB service to, among other things, allow companies to employ foreign - language - speaking students at U.K. universities and other British institutions of higher learning to address issues related to language and cultural barriers that companies may face in entering particular foreign markets.

they come into this country and the one thing they could do is at least learn how to use a language that is spoken in the country they move to that gives them freedom to do whatever THEY want to do!!

At his lecture he set aside his prepared notes and instead described the severe Prussian discipline of his own education: the classics he had to master; the languages he had to learn by exercises and constant tests.

In the same way, as the culture around us changes, the Church must learn the language and speak it, at the same time offering a «counter-cultural culture» that is different from the culture of the mileu (but not so different as to be inaccessible).

We begin to formally educate a child at the age of six, and twelve years later frequently find we have failed, not because school material is intrinsically difficult (the task of learning a new language is much more so, yet the child masters it in thee years); we find failure because we have ignored the fact that the developing personality has a natural sway, to and fro, which Whitehead says results in a «craving» to be continually refreshed by the experience of starting anew.

He went on to explain how his love of Norse mythology only deepened when he began to learn the Icelandic language at Oxford.

Learning an instrument or a second language at a young age, for example, creates certain mental capacities by literally altering the way the one thinks.

If at an early stage in his evolution it was useful for an individual to be able to adapt to a language - using community, i.e., to learn language as fast as possible, selection for this capacity might well have brought about a genetic assimilation of at least the bases for what had originally been only a learned adaptive response.

Thanks to Tommy over at Christ en vous l'espérance de la gloire I learned that I can read blogs in other languages.

I understand if you are not gifted at languages but still, English is one of the easiest languages to learn..

turkish seem to have a steep learning curve at the beginning but when you get the basics the rest is much more easier to master than other languages (in my opinion)

When Gabriel Paulista arrived at Arsenal two years ago he was expected to come in as Laurent Koscielny's partner at centre - back as most of us thought that Per Mertesacker was getting older and slower, but the Brazilian seemed to take a long time to learn the language and settle down to the rigours of the Premier League.

He also said: «First of all you have to look at the level of education of the player because they have to learn the language.»

yes i have to learn to wear my glasses and remember which language i'm thinking at the time of writing, i am always juggling with few languages all day and every day, Shah i apologize for my bad spelling but it wont be my last:)-RRB-

I think you have under - rated how hard Alexis tries to win at EVERYTHING, language is another thing for him to learn and from all reports I have seen, Alexis gives 200 % in life... not just football.

Not that Anderson, who lived with Ronaldo at the time, was much help when it came to learning a new language.

«At first, I didn't understand a word he was saying, or even believe anyone would create that kind of language because it's so difficult to learn!

He told arsenal.com: «First of all you have to look at the level of education of the player because they have to learn the language.»

At Teach to Talk, we have a video model where we model appropriate social interactions, language, behaviors where the child watches the video and then learns from that video.

Most teachers at the school are female - but there are 3 male teachers, 1 male nursery nurse, 1male learning support assistant and 1 male language support worker.

Because the overnighting infants tried to get their mother's attention and gazed at her more often — which on the actual test is a positive sign of readiness to learn language — the study's authors concluded that the overnighting infants were more watchful and wary about their mother's whereabouts, indicating more anxiety and insecurity.

Take a creative writing course at your local community college, master a new language, or learn how to knit.

This is extremely important because during this assessment other possible causes for your child's difficulties at school other than or in addition to ADHD may be discovered, such as a learning disability, delay in language development, and anxiety issue, and more.

At this age, your baby can not talk, but since he learns so much by what he sees, you can introduce him to sign language.

A critical tenet of Waldorf Education is that its curriculum is informed by knowledge of brain development, so that relevant skills such as reading readiness, homework, learning a second language, and handwriting, are introduced at appropriate developmental stages.