While I did not work on the Apollo Program, I did spend six years on a contract with the NASA. Beginning as a technician, I worked my way up to crew chief, Operations Controller, and finally, Maintenance & Operations Manager on the Spacecraft Tracking and Data (Acquisition) Network, working on Ascension Island and Quito, Ecuador. […]
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56 of the Most Useful Phrasal Verbs in English Below are some of the most common phrasal verbs in the English language. We organized them alphabetically so they’re easy to find, but you can group them however you want when you’re learning them! Bring Bring up — To mention something. (Note: The two
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Curated from Playful Learning: 56 Phrasal Verbs to Easily Grow Your Vocab — by Yuliya Geikhman First, I’m not a big fan of teaching grammar as a standalone subject. I’m more of a proponent of comprehensible input. — more to follow on that in another post! What Is a Phrasal Verb? A phrasal verb is
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I’m going to plagiarize, in just a few seconds. Yesterday, my wife and I where talking about how to use “in” vs. “on”. Yes, we were. That’s what it’s like to be married to an English teacher. 🙂 Carmen is a native Spanish speaker but her grammar results on the ESL placement test are
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How to Learn Any Language in Six Months Chris Lonsdale | TEDxLingnanUniversity Transcript Translator: TED Translators admin Reviewer: Allam Zedan The people in the back, can you hear me clearly? OK, good. Have you ever held a question in mind for so long that it becomes part of how you think? Maybe even part of
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5 Techniques to Speak Any Language Sid Efromovich Transcript Translator: Наталья Овчинникова Reviewer: Adrienne Lin I speak seven languages. As soon as people find out about that, what I’m most often asked — other than for my phone number — is: “How did you do it? How did you go about learning all these different
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Patricia Kuhl TED Talk “…astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another — by listening to the humans around them…”
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4 Keys to Acquiring a New Language Quickly With our world becoming increasingly globalized. The numbers of travelers for business and pleasure increase each year. Immigrants, as well as refugees, present new communications challenges. Acquiring a second language is becoming, if not mandatory, certainly beneficial, in many fields of business and even for day-to-day life.
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