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Saturday, December 10, 2016
Telugu learners word list #4062
Will Duolingo make non English languages to go extinct?
Will Duolingo make non English languages to go extinct?
Will Duolingo have a positive or negative impact on the number of people learning English?
While Duolingo can be used to learn English, it also aims to make learning English less necessary through its translations of the web.
So what sort of impact will it have on the number of people learning English?
So what sort of impact will it have on the number of people learning English?
Even with Duolingo learning another language is
hard. If you're in a monolingual culture (like the US), it's even harder. A
brain really doesn't want to work that hard, so it will fight you when it comes
to learning a second language, and there is only so much a program can do to
counteract that. You need strong motivation to learn a new language as an
adult, and without it, not even the greatest computer program in the world will
help you.
So with all these factors, even if Duolingo makes language learning a lot easier, there are all sorts of factors that keep languages just as plentiful and diverse now (in the days of only a matter of hours between continents) as they were when the only ocean transportation was by sailing ship (when it took months to go between continents).
So with all these factors, even if Duolingo makes language learning a lot easier, there are all sorts of factors that keep languages just as plentiful and diverse now (in the days of only a matter of hours between continents) as they were when the only ocean transportation was by sailing ship (when it took months to go between continents).
If one looks at a snapshot of the number of people learning;languages
Snapshot of the stats of Duolingo users .
"Hind speakers learning
english "num_learners":
2,722,505
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "hu", "num_learners": 3579370,
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "hi", "num_learners": 2722505,
"learning_language_id":
"en", "from_language": "ko",
"num_learners": 2315704,
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "uk", "num_learners": 668232
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "ro", "num_learners": 3117645
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "pl", "num_learners": 4471643,
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "dn", "num_learners": 2537886,
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "fr", "num_learners": 12696232,
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "ar", "num_learners": 6968800,
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "cs", "num_learners": 1530595,
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "id", "num_learners": 1348499,
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "es", "num_learners": 94165078,
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "ru", "num_learners": 11234169,
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "zs", "num_learners": 10951292,
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "zs", "num_learners": 10951292,
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "pt", "num_learners": 36869019,
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "el", "num_learners": 601224,
learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "vi", "num_learners": 5023652,
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "it", "num_learners": 11320062,
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "cs", "num_learners": 1530595,
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "id", "num_learners": 1348499,
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "es", "num_learners": 94165078,
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "pt", "num_learners": 36869019,
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "hu", "num_learners": 3579370,
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "hi", "num_learners": 2722505,
"learning_language_id":
"en", "from_language": "ko",
"num_learners": 2315704,
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "uk", "num_learners": 668232
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "ro", "num_learners": 3117645
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "pl", "num_learners": 4471643,
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "dn", "num_learners": 2537886,
"learning_language_id": "es",
"from_language": "en", "num_learners": 74092950
"learning_language_id": "es",
"from_language": "de", "num_learners": 1185965
"learning_language_id": "es",
"from_language": "de", "num_learners": 1185965
"learning_language_id": "es",
"from_language": "ru", "num_learners": 269524,
"learning_language_id": "es",
"from_language": "de", "num_learners": 1185965
"learning_language_id": "es",
"from_language": "ru", "num_learners": 269524,
"learning_language_id": "es",
"from_language": "pt", "num_learners": 4886990,
"learning_language_id": "eo",
"from_language": "en", "num_learners": 637107,
"learning_language_id": "ro",
"from_language": "en", "num_learners": 28776,
"learning_language_id":
"vi", "from_language": "en",
"num_learners": 382714
"learning_language_id": "it",
"from_language": "en", "num_learners": 17419559,
"learning_language_id": "de",
"from_language": "en", "num_learners": 27721239
"learning_language_id": "he",
"from_language": "en", "num_learners": 508071,
"learning_language_id": "no-BO",
"from_language": "en", "num_learners": 1137191,
"learning_language_id": "sv", "from_language":
"en", "num_learners": 2716186,
"learning_language_id": "pt",
"from_language": "en", "num_learners": 7477679,
"learning_language_id": "uk",
"from_language": "en", "num_learners": 537466,
"learning_language_id": "hu",
"from_language": "en", "num_learners": 204227,
"learning_language_id": "nl-NL",
"from_language": "en", "num_learners": 2906814,
"learning_language_id": "cy",
"from_language": "en", "num_learners": 376623
"learning_language_id": "fr",
"from_language": "de", "num_learners": 1735916,
"learning_language_id": "gn",
"from_language": "es", "num_learners": 21547,
"learning_language_id": "pt",
"from_language": "es", "num_learners": 4712849,
"learning_language_id": "fr",
"from_language": "it", "num_learners": 512276,
learning_language_id": "sv",
"from_language": "ar", "num_learners": 91726,
"learning_language_id": "fr","from_language":
"ar", "num_learners": 415663,
"learning_language_id": "de",
"from_language": "ar", "num_learners": 308652,
"learning_language_id":
"de", "from_language": "es",
"num_learners": 4355530,
"learning_language_id": "fr",
"from_language": "es", "num_learners": 9537459,
"learning_language_id": "it",
"from_language": "es", "num_learners": 4991845,
"learning_language_id": "ca",
"from_language": "es", "num_learners": 443889,
"learning_language_id": "de",
"from_language": "ru", "num_learners": 1503756,
"learning_language_id": "fr",
"from_language": "pt", "num_learners": 2482755,
"learning_language_id": "de",
"from_language": "pt", "num_learners": 1062619,
"learning_language_id": "en",
"from_language": "tr", "num_learners": 8659371
"learning_language_id": "de",
"from_language": "tr", "num_learners": 358609,
"learning_language_id": "de",
"from_language": "fr", "num_learners": 573747,
"learning_language_id": "it", "from_language":
"fr", "num_learners": 836985,
"learning_language_id": "fr",
"from_language": "ru", "num_learners": 379533,
"learning_language_id": "fr",
"from_language": "ru", "num_learners": 379533,
"learning_language_id": "fr",
"from_language": "de", "num_learners": 1735916,
, "learning_language_id": "vi",
"from_language": "en", "num_learners": 382714
"learning_language_id": "it",
"from_language": "en", "num_learners": 17419559,
"learning_language_id": "de",
"from_language": "en", "num_learners": 27721239
"learning_language_id": "he",
"from_language": "en", "num_learners": 508071,
"learning_language_id": "no-BO",
"from_language": "en", "num_learners": 1137191,
"learning_language_id": "sv",
"from_language": "en", "num_learners": 2716186,
"learning_language_id": "pt",
"from_language": "en", "num_learners": 7477679,
"learning_language_id": "uk",
"from_language": "en", "num_learners": 537466,
"learning_language_id": "hu",
"from_language": "en", "num_learners": 204227,
"learning_language_id": "nl-NL",
"from_language": "en", "num_learners": 2906814,
"learning_language_id": "cy",
"from_language": "en", "num_learners": 376623
Duolingo Effectiveness Study
EXECUTIVE(SUMMARY
The research study of Duolingo effectiveness was independently conducted in September to November of 2012.
The study lasted for approximately eight weeks.
A random representative sample was selected from Duolingo users who studied Spanish. The participants were at least 18 years of age, native speakers of English, not from Hispanic origin and not advanced users of Spanish, and all of the participants resided in the United States The participants took one college placement Spanish language test in the beginning of the study and one test at the end of the study. The test results were measured in points (the higher the better). The improvement of language abilities was measured as the difference between the final and the initial language test results. The effectiveness of Duolingo was measured as language improvement per one hour of study. Overall the average improvement in language abilities was 91.4 points and the improvement was statistically significant. • The effectiveness measure showed that on average participants gained 8.1 points per one hour of study with Duolingo. • The 95% Confidence Interval for the effectiveness is from 5.6 points to 10.7 points gained per one hour of study. • The study estimated that a person with no knowledge of Spanish would need between 26 and 49 hours (or 34 hours on average) to cover the material for the first college semester of Spanish. This result is based on the language test’s cutQoff point for the second college semester and the 95% Confidence Interval of the effectiveness measure. •( The main factor for higher effectiveness was the motivation of the participants, with people studying for travel gaining the most and people studying for personal interest gaining the least. •( Another factor for higher effectiveness was the initial level of knowledge of Spanish with beginners gaining the most and more advanced learners gaining the least.
Thursday, December 08, 2016
Another scam:urinary neurotransmitter testing
"Trying to determine what was in some compartment of your refrigerator by looking in your garbage can"
"Save yourself some dough and aggravation. Next time you’re wondering what neurotransmitters you may be short of, just take an internal inventory of how you’re feeling instead"
" Relief may be closer and much less expensive than you think"
a 4$ prescription of an SSRI would do a better job than all the holistic crap shoot ,burning a large hole in your wallet
"Save yourself some dough and aggravation. Next time you’re wondering what neurotransmitters you may be short of, just take an internal inventory of how you’re feeling instead"
" Relief may be closer and much less expensive than you think"
a 4$ prescription of an SSRI would do a better job than all the holistic crap shoot ,burning a large hole in your wallet
Tuesday, December 06, 2016
Bhawani Singh, BJP MLA from Kota is an IDIOT
The IT department should raid this AH and his relatives to see how many gunny bags of illicit 500.1000 INR notes he has stashed away in gunny bags.
This guy does not
even grasp the rudiments of the demonetization plan, it’s reasons
And the need for secrecy.
Anybody can start rumors.Not every BJP MLA is
honest and non-corrupt.The party should look into this and severely punish him for anti-party activities.
The price we are going to pay/letting a carpenter trying to improve American healthcare.
Now it is a given that
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President-Elect Donald Trump has chosen Rep. Tom Price, MD (R-GA), an orthopaedic surgeon, to head the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and help his coming administration repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a burning cause for the congressman, according to media reports tonight."
some important things to know about Dr.Tom price.
the last time he looked at a patient was 2 decades ago he became a full time politician in 1996 as far as I know ( correct me if I am wrong )
it is my personal opinion that Orthopedic surgeons are nothing but "glorified carpenters"
So watch out for the trouble we will have in future with this carpenter trying to improve American healthcare.
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President-Elect Donald Trump has chosen Rep. Tom Price, MD (R-GA), an orthopaedic surgeon, to head the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and help his coming administration repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a burning cause for the congressman, according to media reports tonight."
some important things to know about Dr.Tom price.
the last time he looked at a patient was 2 decades ago he became a full time politician in 1996 as far as I know ( correct me if I am wrong )
it is my personal opinion that Orthopedic surgeons are nothing but "glorified carpenters"
So watch out for the trouble we will have in future with this carpenter trying to improve American healthcare.
In 2011, Price voted to prohibit funding of National Public Radio,[20] to terminate the Emergency Mortgage Relief Program,[21] to extend the USAPATRIOT act,[22][23] to repeal portions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 on multiple occasions,[24][25] to reduce non-security discretionary spending to 2008 levels[26][27][28] (and subsequently voted against several amendments offered via motions to recommit with instructions),[29] to reduce Federal spending and the deficit by terminating taxpayer financing of presidential election campaigns and party conventions,[30] to provide funding for government agencies, including the Department of Defense, through September 30, 2011,[31] to cut the Federal Housing Authority's refinancing program,[32] and against a resolution which would force the president to withdraw American forces from Iraq.[33] In 2013, he was the main sponsor of the Require a PLAN Act (mandating that the President identify a fiscal year in the budget will be balanced).[34][35] He voted for the No Budget, No Pay Act[36][37] and a resolution establishing a budget for the United States Government for FY 2014 that passed the House of Representatives.[38]
Tom Price opposes abortion and supported the proposed Protect Life Act, which would have denied Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) funding to health care plans that offered abortion (the PPACA already prevented public funding covering abortions) and allowed hospitals to decline to provide emergency abortion care.[39][40] He was rated at 100 by the National Right to Life Center. He was rated at 0 by Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America.[41][42] He participated in the 2011 March for Life.[43]
Tom Price opposes gun control. He praised the Supreme Court's decisions in District of Columbia v. Heller, which found that the absolute prohibition of handguns in the District of Columbia was unconstitutional, and McDonald v. Chicago, which stated that the Second Amendment applied to the states.[44] He was given an "A" grade by the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund, a 92% approval rating overall from the National Rifle Association and an 83% approval rating[45] from the Gun Owners of America, and a 0% approval rating from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.[42][46]
Tom Price voted against a bill prohibiting job discrimination based on sexual orientation (Nov 2007). He voted in favor of constitutionally defining marriage as one-man-one-woman (Jul 2006). Representative Price voted against H.R. 2965, which would have ended Don't ask, don't tell. He receives a 0% rating by the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights organization.[47]
Tom Price does not support federal regulation of farming. He has voted against regulating and restricting farmers, earning him a 70% from the American Farm Bureau Federation. However, due to this belief, the National Farmers Union gave him a 0% approval rate.[48] He supported the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act, stating that it would keep the Environmental Protection Agency from applying too many regulations to farming and ranching.[49] He also voted for the Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2012 which, had it become law, would have made supplemental agricultural disaster assistance available, if needed.[50][51]
In 2008 Price signed a pledge sponsored by Americans for Prosperity promising to vote against any Global Warming legislation that would raise taxes.[52]
Future shock the millennial kind and PREZ "T"
Gina Reuscher says
"According to an article on Business 2 Community, 8 out of 10 Millennials find video helpful in making purchasing decisions. They are also 85 percent more likely to purchase an item they watched a video about. Why? Because that’s how they like to take in information. 2/3 of Millennials prefer video over text. And a whopping 50% ONLY watch video!
In a recent blog I covered how Facebook predicts that its content will eventually be purely video-based content. Think about that. These social platforms cater to the users. If their users wanted all music, that’s what it would be. Pictures? Done. Text? That’s Twitter (for now). The point is Millennials increasingly dictate the type of content that is delivered. The sole reason being that they represent a large portion of the current consumer demographic for most products and they are absolutely the dominant demographic for the near future."
I am reminded of a movie idiocracy
Idiocracy is a 2006 American satirical science fiction comedy film directed by Mike Judge and starring Luke Wilson,Maya Rudolph, and Dax Shepard. The film tells the story of two people who take part in a top-secret militaryhibernation experiment, only to awaken 500 years later in a dystopian society where advertising, commercialism, and cultural anti-intellectualism have run rampant, and is devoid of intellectual curiosity, social responsibility, and coherent notions of justice and human rights.
'In a speech, President Camacho (Terry Crews) (a former professional wrestler) ( PREZ"T"? gives Joe the impossible job of fixing the nation's food shortages, dust bowls, and crippled economy within a week. Joe discovers that the nation's crops are irrigated with a sports drink named "Brawndo", whose parent corporation had purchased the FDA, FCC, and USDA. When Joe has the drink replaced with water, Brawndo's stock drops to zero, and half of the population lose their jobs, causing mass riots. Joe is sentenced to die in a monster truck demolition derby featuring undefeated "Rehabilitation Officer" Beef Supreme (Andrew Wilson).
Frito and Rita discover that Joe's reintroduction of water to the soil has prompted vegetation in the fields. During the televised event they show the sprouting crops on the stadium's display screen, and Camacho gives Joe a full pardon, appointing him Vice President. Joe and Rita find that the "time masheen" Frito had mentioned is merely an inaccurate, history-themed amusement ride. Following Camacho's term, Joe is elected President. Joe and Rita marry and conceive the world's three smartest children, while Vice President Frito takes eight wives and fathers 32 of the world's stupidest children."
Silly Youtube videos and the real close encounters of trump kind
It is rather difficult for any imaginative You tube buff not to create a mash up on 'lose encounters of trump kind" but most of them are based on his appearance like space invaders. but they are mostly silly.
like the linguist in Arrival
'The spoken language of the heptapods, and their blimp-like ships, are both evocative of whales, those mysterious creatures right in our backyard. “Arrival” makes a moving case that we’ve only scratched the surface of what we think is possible — and what we define as intelligence."
So we have to just wait and see what has been produced by the "white super beings"( i.e. those white guys and gals who had their revenge for their suffering under a black president who talks like a professor and tortures their feeble minds for 8 years )
like the linguist in Arrival
'The spoken language of the heptapods, and their blimp-like ships, are both evocative of whales, those mysterious creatures right in our backyard. “Arrival” makes a moving case that we’ve only scratched the surface of what we think is possible — and what we define as intelligence."
So we have to just wait and see what has been produced by the "white super beings"( i.e. those white guys and gals who had their revenge for their suffering under a black president who talks like a professor and tortures their feeble minds for 8 years )
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