How to learn a new language in 6 months: Chris Lonsdale at TEDX

Chris Lonsdale gives a presentation about learning faster. In particular he is telling in this 18 minute presentation how someone can learn any language in 6 months time. 

According to his own experience talent and immersion have nothing to do with learning a new language fast. You can improve your communication skills and learn a new language by modelling and by using these 5 principles:

1. The interconnection between attention, meaning, relevance and memory. Any information that involves your survival or helps you achieve personal goals has relevance. Focus on language content that is relevant to you.

2. We master tools by using tools and we use tools faster when they are relevant to us.

3. When you FIRST UNDERSTAND the MESSAGE, then you will unconsiously aquire the language. Physiological training that create new filters in your brain: if you cant hear it you can't understand it if you can't understand it you will not learn it. 

4.  Talking is practiscing your muscles.

5. Psycho physiological state matters!  Feeling happy, relaxed and curious and not trying to interpret it perfectly straight away makes a big difference!


And  these 7 steps:

1. Listen alot: brainsoaking. 

2. Get the meaning and then the words (by bodylanugage) for comprehendible input.

3  Start mixing: language is a creative process!

4. Focus on the core high frequency content, if you master 3000 words you have mastered the language. 
Toolbox: use your questions to know more about the language, ask the questions in the language you want to learn and not in the language you allready know!
Glue words, improving ypour grammer and completing your sentences: get ready to have simple but whole conversations.

5. Get a language parent, someone who can coach you through with patience.

6.  Copy the face: mimic the facial expressions.

7. Same box different path :link mental pictures to new sounds.

Lifehack Finders Nice to Know: Chris Lonsdale is a psychologist, linquist and educator teaching at Lingnan university. In 1980 he graduated from the University of Canterbury with first- class honours. He is the author of  'The third ear'  which is based on his personal experience of learning foreign languages and his training in psychology.

Nuance Dragon speech recognition syncs with Evernote

Dragon speech recognition software is now ready to be used with the Evernote app, which means you can dictate, store and access your information and documents much faster and more effectively, saving yourself alot of time and energy.

Dragon by Nunace is a speech recognition software, Dragon is not only smart software in getting more accurate as you dictate, it also provides personalized vocabulary and shortcuts.

The productivity app Evernote can be used as a tool to stay organized on your mobile phone. It works well on both Android and iOS. Evernote makes it possible to keep different files like audio, video, images and notes in the same place. An excellent feature of the Evernote app is the list management functionality.

Lifehack Finders Nice to Know: The combination of fast en accurate working speech recognition software with the usefulness of the Evernote App makes this a great timesaver! 

Sweeping away the PET plastic bottles polution

A lot of countries nowadays are dealing with the pollution of piles of PET plastic bottles because not all of the produced PET bottles have container deposits. Many people just throw them away and they end up in the garbage. This excellent way of recycling the PET bottles can make a real and profitable difference. 

Lifehack finders Nice to Know: We love this idea and this video and think it would be great to have machines like this everywhere, where there is a pile or stack of these PET bottles. If you happen to be or know someone who is interested please share this video or leave a comment.

Can you hear me know? The Waverly Lab's Pilot

Waverly Lab has made the world's first smart earpiece language translator; The Pilot is using the latest technologies in speech recognition, machine translation and the advances of wearable technology. This smart translating earpiece allows the wearers to speak different languages but still clearly understand each other. The technology behind it enables one person to speak and the other hearing it in their language.

First languages will be English, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese in the spring of 2017  followed up in the fall of 2017 with Arabic, Hebrew, Germanic, Slavic, Russian, East Asian and African languages.

Lifehack finders Nice to Know: The Pilot is still running as a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo but is highly succesful at raising funds and is expected to be soon in the markets and will be available in red, white, black. A secondary earpiece is included for wireless streaming  music or to share with the person you are speaking with and there is a accompanying app that can be used as a supportive translating tool

Brownfields redevelopment and fighting climate change

Ecologist have discovered that Brownfield sites (wasteland areas of stone and rubbish) could be of importance in the fight against climate change. Researchers found out that urban brownfield grounds have an significant amount of untapped potential to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, if the soil is managed properly.

Newcastle University's Dr. Goddard says: "The soil beneath our feet is a major reservoir for carbon. Our research shows that we mustn't neglect brownfield soils because they have huge potential for carbon capture via a process called 'carbonation'."

Carbonation is a process that combines calcium (which is abundant in brownfield soils that contain demolition waste such as concrete dust and lime) with atmospheric CO2 to form calcium carbonate (calcite). Organic carbon in large amounts which is locked away in peatlands have accumulated very slowly, where as inorganic carbon in calcite, can form very rapidly in the soils of brownfields, making them more useful in cutting down the level of atmospheric CO2.

The results of an earlier survey of 21 Brownfield sites across Tyneside and Teeside in UK were striking especially their discovery that one hectare of urban soil can sequester up to 85 tonnes of atmospheric carbon per year. "Scaling that up, appropriate management of less than 12,000 hectares of urban land to maximize calcite formation could remove 1 million tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere each year," explains Professor Manning of the SUCCESS project that performed this survey.

They SUCCES project team surveyed the areas' plant and animal life, as well as their potential for recreation, education and food production with promising results as they recorded more than 180 plant species on the 21 sites, according to Dr. Goddard a direct result of the inorganic carbonation.

Currently the team is engineering artificial soils to capture as much CO2 as possible, and through such experiments they are trying to find out which vegetation is best at channeling carbon from the atmosphere into the soil via the process of photosynthesis.

Their goal is to recommend designer plant communities to maximize carbonation as part of 'carbon capture gardens' urban green spaces that soak up CO2 as well as being places for recreational use and wildlife

Lifehack finders Nice to Know: If only 700,000 ha of the 1.7 million ha of urban land the UK has was managed proactively it could meet 10% of the UK's yearly CO2 reduction target. The UK's 23 million gardens occupy about 433,000 ha. If a carbon capture function was built in to just 1% of these gardens, a reduce of 300,000 tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere per year would be possible, making this study and project a top ecological solution.

Make your own Glow Water

Need to impress in creative way or maybe while organizing a party and out of ideas? This simple trick will have everyone wondering how you did it.

Lifehack finders Nice to Know: Tip try mixing 2 different colors and see for yourself how cool it looks.

Print to go with the robotic ZUta Pocket Printer

The ZUtA Pocket Printer is a portable pocket size robotic printer which enables a user to print on the go. This clever device is able to last for up to an hour on a full battery and recharging it is possible via a USB cable. It doesn't require any special drivers, so this mobile printer is accessible from computers, smart phones and tablets, either by using the traditional print function or an app. It prints more or less 1,000 sheets of paper, uses a normal, replaceable ink cartridge and works well on paper of any size. A standard page of text will be able to print in about 40 to 45 seconds.

The printer is meant for smaller documents, for example tickets or notes from a meeting, but for larger projects with multiple pages, it will wait for the user to place it on a new sheet of paper before continuing the job. The ZUtA Pocket Printer is designed so that users can line it up with the corner of the paper to make sure their documents come out straight, it then rolls across the blank sheet on small, multi-directional wheels while ejecting ink. Watch this video here below, for a short demonstration of this quite unique and useful gadget.

Lifehack finders Nice to Know: The campaign for the ZUtA Pocket Printer on Kickstarter was an enormous success, making the launch of this product a reality. The first product line only prints in black and white, but a future one could have color facilities and while this pocket printer has only been tested on paper so far, it could possibly print on any material you can think of.  

 

So no more spending time looking for a printer or a copy shop when you need to print a file real quick, the ZUta Pocket Printer is an excellent mobile office solution for those entrepreneurs, who like to work from home or any other location.

Solar multifunctional lantern by Mpowered, a flexible and beautiful light

Mpowered created a lightweight 100% solar LED lantern which has a see-through body making it a sight to see. The Luci runs for up to 12h on a 7h charge and is inflatable so it folds flat for easy packing, it is also submersible, floatable and drop-proof making it highly suitable for those with small children. It has a friendly and affordable price and is in long term a true money safer.

This beautiful light is also available in a colour changing variant.

Lifehack finders Nice to Know: this light saves you money but is also a great survival item since it provides light under water and does not break because of the flexible material, a great benefit of this light is the fact that you can take it anywhere so for smart backpackers or frequent outdoor travelers this is a must have!

Bitcoin current worth $1,022

Bitcoin started 2017 with a bang, jumping above $1,000 for the first time in 3 years time. Since 2016 Bitcoin had a 125 percent climb and with this climb it defeated all other known bank currencies by far.

Bitcoin for those who still wonder, is a type of cryptocurrency that has no central authority and is not a part of any banking system, rather Bitcoin relies on thousands of computers across the world that validate transactions. By these transactions they are adding new bitcoins to the system making it a non- personal monetary but rather a digital monetary currency.

Currently the worth of 1 Bitcoin is $1,022 on the Europe-based Bitstamp exchange, This is the highest value, since the end of 2013.

Meanwhile in Venezuela, one of the countries suffering from hyperinflation, the largest Bitcoin exchange in the country called SurBitcoin is back operating at full capacity. The present economic collapse, failing banks and a 1600%  inflation forecast for the coming year will make Bitcoin the only stable and invest worthy asset in Venezuela in the near future.

Lifehack finders Nice to Know: we will follow up this article shortly with a tips and tricks list on how to start mining for Bitcoins and the latest updates on the internet about how it is done.

Gerard Morin on radiofrequencies and resonance

Gerard Morin, a name unfamiliar to those who never gave any thought to free energy theories and Tesla's inventions, but for those who are interested and may have heard of him; we certainly are excited about his thoughts and findings, here at
lifehack finders.

So here is the latest video of Gerard Morin showing himself what he means, through experiments that show the effect and impact of radiofrequencies or RF energy. If you want to learn more about this please take a look at his Youtube channel: Gerard Morin.

Lifehack finders: be prepared to be impressed if you never explored beyond what the energy companies are telling and 'selling' you!

Fight the power with bubbles

Piece of Resistance Soaps promoted on Kickstarter.com offer us organic soaps "to help people properly scrub, exfoliate, and cleanse the daily political gunk we see both on social media and on the telly.."

Their products: organic caffeinated soap infused with pine and grapefruit, not only look and sound very appealing but the philosophical statement of founders Lorien Reese and Judah Mahay, who are behind this campaign is both hilarious and rebellious.

Find out more about this project on Piece of Resistance Soaps
Lifehack finders Nice to Know: for all you coffee drinkers out there, safe yourself time on a daily basis (talk about life hacks!) With this caffeine soap bar you can shower and get your daily caffeine boost at the same time!

How the weakest link works

Apparently the expression 'at the center of attention'  is not just an expression. Sitting or standing in the middle of a room works like an actual psychological trigger to others, as explained by Richard Wiseman in this short video, we won't bore you with long video's no matter how viral they may be so this one is only 59 seconds. Get wise man, real fast, enjoy.

Lifehack finder's Nice to Know: Richard Wiseman is the bestselling author of many several popular psychology books that have been translated into over 30 languages and is described by  the magazine Scientific American as "…the most interesting and innovative experimental psychologist in the world today".