Sentences with phrase «by mastering language»

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Lam also points out a less often discussed way podcasts can develop your brain — by helping you master a new language.

In order to qualify for the Beryl Wilson Austrade Scholarship, applicants must be female, Australian citizens, enrolled full time in the final year of a master's degree by pursuing coursework in international business or a master of business administration with an international business specialization, and fluent in an Asian language.

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.

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.

For Heidegger, language is not a bag of tools, a pile of raw material to be used by man, the master of his world.

He had a Greek dictionary, and was convinced that there was no way to penetrate the meaning of the Christian texts except by mastering the original language.

Finally there was a word of obviously genuine sorrow that Erasmus was engaged in a quarrel with the scholar Lefevre d'Etaples, with the usual complicated mixture of judgements: «Erasmus is certainly by far the superior of the two, and he is a great master of language.

The Buddha - Carita of Asvaghosa is the great Buddhist epic, «an actual epic created by a real poet, who, filled with intense love and reverence for the exalted figure of the Buddha, and deeply imbued with the truth of the Buddha doctrine, was able to present the life and doctrine of the Master in noble and artistic, but not artificial language.

And rather than absorbing language from the environment and learning to communicate by imitation, children are born with the innate capacity to master language, a power imbued in our species by evolution itself.

By practicing language rules, any person able to read will be able to master English grammar.

The language and sentiments are often unfiltered and raw, maybe more than you want at times, but Leary is a master at playing guys on the edge and this is an extraordinary showcase, by turns moving, funny and stunning.

Best motion picture of the year «Amour» «Argo» «Beasts of the Southern Wild» «Django Unchained» «Les Misérables» «Life of Pi» «Lincoln» «Silver Linings Playbook» «Zero Dark Thirty» Performance by an actor in a leading role Bradley Cooper in «Silver Linings Playbook» Daniel Day - Lewis in «Lincoln» Hugh Jackman in «Les Misérables» Joaquin Phoenix in «The Master» Denzel Washington in «Flight» Performance by an actress in a leading role Jessica Chastain in «Zero Dark Thirty» Jennifer Lawrence in «Silver Linings Playbook» Emmanuelle Riva in «Amour» Quvenzhané Wallis in «Beasts of the Southern Wild» Naomi Watts in «The Impossible» Performance by an actor in a supporting role Alan Arkin in «Argo» Robert De Niro in «Silver Linings Playbook» Philip Seymour Hoffman in «The Master» Tommy Lee Jones in «Lincoln» Christoph Waltz in «Django Unchained» Performance by an actress in a supporting role Amy Adams in «The Master» Sally Field in «Lincoln» Anne Hathaway in «Les Misérables» Helen Hunt in «The Sessions» Jacki Weaver in «Silver Linings Playbook» Achievement in directing «Amour,» Michael Haneke «Beasts of the Southern Wild,» Benh Zeitlin «Life of Pi,» Ang Lee «Lincoln,» Steven Spielberg «Silver Linings Playbook,» David O. Russell Best foreign language film of the year «Amour,» Austria «Kon - Tiki,» Norway «No,» Chile «A Royal Affair,» Denmark «War Witch,» Canada Best animated feature film of the year «Brave,» Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman «Frankenweenie,» Tim Burton «ParaNorman,» Sam Fell and Chris Butler «The Pirates!

Arrow gives the film its American Blu - ray debut in a transfer newly mastered from a 2K restoration from the original camera negative, with both the Italian and English language soundtracks (note that American actor Mitchell's voice in the English version is one of many dubbed by Paul Frees) and newly translated subtitles for the Italian version.

As directed by Zak Hilditch (whose 2013 debut «These Final Hours» was an expressionistic apocalyptic tale), «1922» has the merits of a solid «Tales From the Crypt» or «Masters of Horror» episode, with a straightforward story that folds the delicate visual language of a rural Terrence Malick drama into the mold of existential horror.

But if you look at the data in Amazon books, you will see that the bestselling books about the Common Core are «skills - centric» ones that claim to prepare teachers for the new language arts standards by advocating techniques for «close reading» and for mastering «text complexity» as though such skills were the main ones for understanding a text no matter how unfamiliar a student might be with the topic of the text.

The entire first plane (0 - 6) is a sensitive period for language — if you think about how an infant moves from no ability to communicate verbally to babbling to speaking to writing to reading, all in the space of about six years, and if you think about the fact that most of what that child is learning he or she masters simply by absorbing what goes on around her, it's amazing.

«By contrast, anthropologists don't do experiments, certainly not on the culture they are studying; rather they master the language, observe carefully, and engage in long conversations with trusted informants, especially when they are puzzled.

Teachers countered his profanity by challenging him to master the English language and become a public speaker.

So while parents and caregivers should support and nurture these systems through fun, pre-reading exercises such as making up rhymes, singing, and playing with language, they shouldn't feel that it is a reflection of their caregiving skills if their child hasn't mastered learning to read independently by the time the fifth birthday party rolls around.

Ambition on is closing the word gap by boosting access to high quality early language and literacy, both in the classroom and at home, ensuring more disadvantaged children leave school having mastered the basic of literacy that many take for granted.

The rules shall authorize the delivery of speech - language services by baccalaureate degree level persons under the direction of a certified speech - language pathologist with a master's degree or higher.

What Is Visible By Kimberly Elkins Twelve • $ 15 • ISBN 9781455528950 Elkins» compelling debut is based on the life of a fascinating but almost forgotten historical figure: Laura Bridgman, who mastered language despite being deaf and blind and became one of the most famous women of the 19th century.

If one looks through the history of literature and letters, one indeed sees the outliers, the innovators and those ahead of their times all obscured, all ignored by the conventional wisdom of their eras, and yet it is always the innovators who push forward the language, and given the number of masters who have died penniless, money is no measure of the artistry or «authorhood» of a writer.

Lincoln mastered grammar, language and expression all by himself.

October 2002 Chicago Sun Times Review: The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 By Michael Cart «Other funny moments lie in Seaton Smith's»» Jiving» with Your Teen»: «When you master their vocabulary you can finally tell them, in their own language, that the police are at the door.»

Use analogies and figurative language often — similes, metaphors, personification, etc. are all devices used by master writers.

If you want to land the job and pass an interview, you have to project success by mastering your body language.

By practicing language rules, any person able to read will be able to master English grammar.

- when the team learned that Switch would support Unity, they began the process of bringing the game over - it was planned early on to get the game onto Switch within a month of it launching - by Fall 2016, Unity's optimization progressed, and error messages that previously appeared with I Am Setsuna stopped - by the end of fall last year, the team was finished with pre-submission to Nintendo - I Am Setuna was the first title to enter this process - a meeting with Unity was suddenly held, and it was decided that I Am Setsuna would end up becoming a launch title - Nintendo asked for the developers to finish the master version that year if possible - the team was able to port quickly due to Unity, as well as the lack of online / vs features & modest hardware requirements - having a good grasp on specs also made work come together quickly - setting various aspects such as the app's icon, languages, etc. was said to be very simple - there was also good compatibility for titles that have / planned to have multi-platform support on home and portable consoles

In this atmospheric puzzle platformer, you will explore awe - inspiring environments, perform heroic deeds, and meet legendary characters from Iñupiaq stories — all narrated by a master storyteller in the spoken Iñupiaq language.

A master of postwar abstraction, Zao Wou - Ki (1920 — 2013) created a unique pictorial language shaped by diverse influences.

The opportunity to develop additional programming as the result of the Tooker loan allows PAFA to pursue a symposium on a group of artists, including Peter Blume, George Tooker, Ivan Albright, and other Americans who used a realist method to invent their own worlds by transforming the symbolic language of Old Master painting into a contemporary idiom.

Salvador Dalí (1904 - 1989) La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) by the master Italian poet Dante Alighieri, in six volumes, Italian language.

Influenced by some of the masters of figurative painting, such as Titian, Rembrandt, and Peter Paul Rubens, Auerbach has helped form a new aesthetic language of painting.

Inspired by 20th century European masters, Miles distills his respect for modern art history into his own spare contemporary language embodying meditation and tranquility.

Hand - printed by master printmaker Lorenzo Clayton, this work includes the key figure maps (in seven languages) from Hunting Life; A Forever House.

They examined the language used by art critics throughout history with its gender - loaded terms such as «masterpiece» and «old master».

As stated by Pope Francis, «If we approach nature and the environment without this openness to awe and wonder, if we no longer speak the language of fraternity and beauty in our relationship with the world, our attitude will be that of masters, consumers, ruthless exploiters, unable to set limits on their immediate needs.»

The Warmers are flummoxed by Monckton because they don't realize the Brits have not only managed to master the English language (gasp!)

A good example is the smart contract model developed by Barclays and R3, under which contracting terms (in the form of an ISDA master agreement in natural language) are connected to computer code via parameters (a smart contract template).

Could the strictest legal language, could even that language which is peculiarly appropriated to an art deemed by a great master to be one of the most honorable, laudable, and profitable things in our law; could this strict and appropriated language describe with more precise accuracy the cause now depending before the tribunal?

Writing in 1926, the grammarian H.W. Fowler said the rules are «an odd jumble, and plainly show that the language has not been neatly constructed by a master builder».

Apart from teaching the Introduction to Digital Currencies, Andreas Antonopoulos has written Mastering Bitcoin, a guide translated into nine languages other than English by volunteers and now freely available for downloading.

Once you've mastered a new programming language, cement your new skills by finding yourself a project to apply it to.

By practicing language rules, any person able to read will be able to master English grammar.

The online master's in school counseling from New York University - Steinhardt, our partner, offers students the option of pursuing bilingual school counseling to address common issues experienced by English as a second language students.

Children typically master the «language of play» by age 4, she says, but they don't full

The idea that parents and caregivers might proactively build the rudiments of resilience is not without precedent.67, 68 Vygotsky suggested that the role of parents, caregivers, and teachers is to work within the child's zone of proximal development so the child will learn to master skills that were previously beyond their independent ability.69 This is the theory behind both Reach Out and Read70, 71 and more recent efforts to decrease obesity by nurturing the foundational motor skills needed for an active lifestyle.72 — 74 The current challenge, then, is for pediatricians, home visitors, and early educators to collaboratively increase the capacity of caregivers and communities to nurture those rudimentary but foundational SE, language, and cognitive skills as they emerge developmentally.

By practicing language rules, any person able to read will be able to master English grammar.

She mastered the arcane language of real estate by studying contracts and asking lots of questions.