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6 Principles I Use to Learn Anything

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Surround yourself as much as possible with your subject.

Join and participate in groups and communities of people that are passionate about the same topic.

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The 10 Lessons To Learn From Traveling

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By College Tourist; Author: Nicole Darian, University of Iowa What The Real World Won't Teach You Contrary to popular belief, traveling can teach you more than a classroom, job, or relationship ever will. I've found that people's definitions of "the real world" vary quite a bit.

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Travelling is your best teacher

Contrary to popular belief, traveling can teach you more than a classroom, job, or relationship ever will.

The real world means packing up and leaving your comfort zone, the familiar, your sa...

Lessons that travelling will teach you

To be more patient when things do not go as planned - and it happens on every trip.
To leave your comfort zone. It's exhilarating to forget what's familiar for a bit and expand your horizons.
To be more curious. Being in new territory will probe new ideas and curiosities.
To appreciate other cultures.
To live simply. You can survive with very, very little.
To make friends with strangers as travelling make you desperate for human interaction.
...but to also embrace your solo travel experience. You will come home with a new sense of independence.
To try new things as what you do at home doesn't always work when you travel.
To think creatively. Sometimes it takes a little thinking outside of the box to get by.
To find beauty in small things that you did not notice before you started your trip, like a home-cooked meal.

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How to Learn Anything: A real-world guide to mastering any new skill

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That was my first thought when I finished my last exam in my Master's program. I had been learning for nearly 20 years, and I thought I was finally finished. I couldn't have been more wrong. We're constantly learning new skills from the moment we enter this world to the moment we leave.

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"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much an..."

Albert Einstein

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Daniel Coyle

"Our brains evolved to learn by doing things, not by hearing about them. This is one of the reasons that, for a lot of skills, it’s much better to spend about two thirds of your time testing yourself on it rather than absorbing it."

Telling Others About Your Pursuit

It can keep you accountable, but it can also lead to a false sense of completeness. One way to avoid sabotaging yourself is to state your goal as a commitment rather than progress towards the finished product.

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Rules for Learning Foreign Languages in Record Time

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I've written about how I learned to speak, read, and write Japanese, Mandarin, and Spanish. I've also covered my experiments with German, Indonesian, Arabic, Norwegian, Turkish, and perhaps a dozen others. There are only few language learners who dazzle me, and Benny Lewis is one of them.

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Learning a new language: knowing the most used words

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In English, just 300 words make up 65% of all written material. We use those words a lot, and that’s the case in every other language as well.

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Learning cognates

Cognates are “true friends” of words you recognize from your native language that mean the same thing in another language.

For instance:

Words like Action, nation, precipitation, solution, frustration, and thousands of other -tion words are spelled exactly the same in French, and you can quickly get used to the different pronunciation. Change that -tion to a -ción and you have the same words in Spanish. Italian is -zione and Portuguese is -ção.
Many languages also have words that share a common (Greek/Latin or other) root.
Even languages as different as Japanese can have heaps of very familiar vocabulary.

Interact in your new language daily

To hear the language consistently spoken, you can check out TuneIn.com for a vast selection of live-streamed radio from your country of choice.
To watch the language consistently, see what’s trending on Youtube in that country right now.
To read the language consistently, you can find cool blogs and other popular sites on Alexa’s ranking of top sites per country.

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