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Where To Get The Best Free Education Online Lifehacker reader Gabriel Wyner was tasked with learning four languages in the past few years for his career as an opera singer, and in the process landed on “a pretty damn good method for language learning that you can do in limited amounts of spare time”. Here’s the four-step method that you can use too (and you don’t have to invest hundreds in a language course like Rosetta Stone).
New research shows that, with simple brain exercises, you may be able to actually increase your intelligence — something scientists previously thought impossible.
Chances are that you’ve said to yourself, at least once, that you need to read more. Whether you’re too busy to read a book, or you just have trouble getting attached to one, we have a few tips to help you schedule in your reading.
DIY projects are time-consuming, and more often than not it’s easier to just go out and buy whatever you need instead of trying to make it. However, in an interview with the blog Consumerism Commentary, Make Magazine editor Mark Frauenfelder shares his approach to tackle the time factor: dedicate 15 minutes every day to a project.
Learning a new language as an adult is no easy task, but new research highlighted in Time suggests that one way to speed up the process might be to stop trying to get the accent perfect. Instead, concentrate on the volume, stress and rhythm of words instead.
Ereaders are a handy way to carry a library around with you at all times, but an article in Time magazine suggest that ebooks might not hold the spatial cues that help you remember the text you read. The reasoning is that a physical book provides location context to what you read.
iOS: Most to-do apps are full of things that we have to force ourselves to do. TaskCurrent is an iPhone and iPad app that turns your to-do list into a list of skills to learn, motivational tricks, productivity tips to work into your day-to-day life and more. So while the app models itself after a to-do list, it’s the kind you’ll actually want to use every day.
iPad: The Khan Academy provides over 3000 free educational videos, exercises and lectures covering the span of everything from maths, physics, finance and history. It’s one of our favourite places to get a free education online, and now its complete library is available on-the-go on your iPad.
You’re probably aware that 30 minutes is the recommended amount of time you’re supposed to spend exercising every day, but productivity blog Stepcase Lifehack suggests using that same time allotment to exercise a different part of your body: your brain.
Dear Lifehacker, My mother just got a new computer. She’s eager to learn, but we’re starting from scratch. How can I give her some tools to learn on her own so I don’t need to hover over her while she explores every menu and every option? Sadly, I don’t have the time to really teach her, but I’d love to help her teach herself, and don’t want her to not ask me if she has problems. Please help!
