If you are in school or at university you will surely have made the experience that there are good students and not so good ones. And there are the outstanding ones. The same goes for any field your might be working in. There are the doohs, the OK-guys and the experts. In this article we will give you some advice how to become part of the group of great and outstanding students as well as becoming leaders of the pack – experts in your field.

Mind you, this is not a guide how to become just a good boy (attaboy, anyone?) and it is definitely not a guide how to game the educational system and cheat your way through. It is about becoming genuinely good. It is about becoming a natural thought leader, a top scientist, an expert, a creative mind and to land any kind of job you want.

What is an outstanding student?

An outstanding student is a person who has a natural curiosity and sees things differently, he asks interesting questions, tries to connect things and relate them to other experiences, has many ideas, and yes, usually gets good if not the best grades in school or university. Read the rest of this entry »

A spaced repetition software like Flashcard Learner adapts to your learning style and presents you only what you need to repeat right before you forget it. The algorithms of the learning software are optimized so that you spend as little time as possible on learning and repeating with a guaranteed recall of 90-95%. There are however some strategies how you can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of your learning even more (depending on your situation and ambitions).

Those strategies are divided into two major groups:

Methods how to best add new flashcards to your repetition sessions:

1. The fastest way of learning
2. The steadiest way of learning
3. The combined approach

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In order to teach your child effectively and give her the best possible methods of care and learning you have to understand how the brain of your child works since the brain of children with autism works very differently from the one of children developing normally. It is therefore crucial as a parent and as an educator to understand as much as possible of what brain research has found out so that you can create conditions in which your child can learn, grow and prosper.

What is autism?

Autism is a neurological development disorder that is impairing social interaction and communication. Very often autism is accompanied by learning disabilities. In the United States autism is diagnosed in about 2% of children (20 per 1000 children as reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC in the year 2012).
Autism shows itself in a wide variety of symptoms. Therefore the diagnosis is made by checking specific behaviors from a list. The official diagnosis is given if a child exhibits at least six of those symptoms. Among them at least following symptoms must occur:
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This is a guide to make sure that you will never learn any language.

There are several ways to never learn a language. For educational purposes, we have taken the liberty to group them broadly into three different approaches:

1. Learning languages on your own and at home
2. Learning languages in class
3. Learning languages abroad

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Learning a language requires a huge effort. But there are ways, how you can speed up your progress. The list of the 10 most effective learning strategies of learning a language can give you a head start and will prevent you from taking unnecessary detours. If you decide to embark on such a journey of expanding your mind, trying to understand another language and culture and people, make it as effective and efficient as possible.

Here are the contents of this article:
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Whenever you browse for language courses on the Internet you will find grandiose claims of learning a language in 1, 2, 7, 10, 30, or 90 days. Is there some truth behind that? Can you really learn a language that fast or do most advertisers just sell snake oil?

Let’s have a detailed look at it:

What does it mean to learn a language?

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