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Supplement Your Language Learning By Using Common Sites In A Foreign Language
6:00AM Adam Pash | Ask anyone who’s achieved proficiency in a second language and they’ll tell you submersion is key. While most of us can’t pick up and move to another country just for our language-learning benefit, you can submerse yourself on the web easily enough. More »
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Get It Wrong Before You Google To Learn It Better
4:30AM Adam Pash | We live in an era where the answer to almost any fact-based question is no further than a Google search away, but Scientific American highlights a study suggesting subjects forced to get something wrong before being told the answer learn it better. More »
Memoriser Helps You Get Your Facts Straight
8:30AM Dustin Luck | Windows only: Learning through repetition is a proven method for learning new information. Freeware application Memoriser brings that repetition to the screen you stare at all day with a digital approach to flash cards. More »
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KissTunes Turns Your Keyboard Into A (Musical) Keyboard
6:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | You’re probably not going to crank out any concert-worthy concertos using KissTunes, but you can have a bit of fun with the simple computer-as-musical-keyboard model it uses to generate user-created songs. More »
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FlashCardMachine Helps You Create, Share, Find Flashcard Sets
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Flashcards, a staple of route memorisation and test prep, don’t have to take the form of dog-earred 3×5 cards. FlashCardMachine makes it easy to create custom flashcards with a variety of playback methods and media. More »
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Learn To Play The Guitar Online
5:30AM Adam Pash | We’ve shown you how to learn to play an instrument online in the past, but CNET’s Don Reisinger has a great roundup of even more resources for the job, focusing primarily on the guitar. More »How To Build A Web Site From Scratch With No Experience
2:00AM Adam Pash | I took one (bad) computer science class in college, and I’m not a web developer. So in early 2008, when I decided I was finally going to build a web site I’d been fantasizing about for years, I was starting from scratch. More »
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Learn New Phrases By Tweaking Your Gadgets’ Language Settings
5:30AM Azadeh Ensha | If you’re heading off to a foreign country and want to quickly familiarise yourself with its language, try changing the default language on your favourite gadgets to help jump-start your education. More »
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Get Better Advice By Taking Notes
7:00AM Adam Pash | We’d like to think that the people we’re paying to give us advice (like doctors, for example) would offer the same helpful advice no matter what, but reader citizenkahn writes in to suggest that if you really want to get good advice, pull out a notebook and start taking notes—a phenomenon he’s dubbed the Moleskine effect. More »
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