Learn a Language in 10 Days with Pimsleur

Learn a Language in 10 Days with Pimsleur

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The World Leader in Audio-Based Language Learning

Use the Pimsleur Approach to speak a new language in only 10 days! Pimsleur courses took over 40 years to develop and perfect. Just sit back and listen while the audio does the work for you. Each CD has been scientifically sequenced to rapidly lock language material into your brain after just one listen. You'll absorb your new language effortlessly without any reading, writing or computer use.

All of our courses come with a 30 Day, 100% Money Back Guarantee. If you're not absolutely thrilled with your new ability to learn a language and speak comfortably, simply return your course within 30 days for a full refund.

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Rapidly Learn Any Language in 10 Days

Using the World-Famous Pimsleur Method

Featured on PBS. Recommended by Forbes. Purchased by the FBI.

Use the Pimsleur Approach to speak a new language in only 10 days! Pimsleur courses took over 40 years to develop and perfect. Just sit back and listen while the audio does the work for you. Each CD has been scientifically sequenced to rapidly lock language material into your brain after just one listen. You'll absorb your new language effortlessly without any reading, writing or computer use.

If you're not absolutely thrilled with your new ability to learn your new language and speak comfortably, simply return your course within 30 days for a full refund.

Why Pimsleur Approach?

·         Same revolutionary method purchased by the FBI and NSA.

·         All audio! Just listen and absorb. No textbooks. No videos. What you hear is scientifically sequenced so you can retain without pain.

·         MP3 format and iPod compatible for anyone who is always on the go.

·         30-minute lessons are perfect for your daily commute, lunch break, or workout.

·         Master the most common words and phrases used in everyday conversations.

·         Speak without an accent so you sound like a native and blend in easily.

·         Impress your friends and family by chatting with them in another language.

·         Learn with confidence. 40 years of research and a 30-year history of success.

Learning Foreign Languages

Sometimes adults believe they’re past the age to be able to learn foreign languages, but this simply isn’t true. Whether you want to learn Spanish for a business trip or French for a study abroad program, learning foreign languages isn’t as tedious as it used to be. Rather than thinking of studying foreign languages as a check on your to-do list, incorporate it into your daily life in little ways.

1.     Free Resources: If you have time before your trip or move abroad, sign up for a daily email with vocabulary in a foreign language. Save these emails in a folder and see if you can eventually formulate sentences.

2.     Daily Interaction: We live in a diverse world; chances are you come into contact with someone fluent in the foreign languages you want to learn. Enlist them to help you with pronunciation, sentence structure, and context.

3.     Mental Reference: As you build your understanding of foreign languages, try thinking in the language. When you come into contact with objects or colors that you’ve learned the corresponding word for, remind yourself of them. Don’t remember or know the word? Keep a notebook to jot down words to look up. The more you equate learning the language to your everyday life, the easier it will be to integrate what you’ve learned.

4.     Other Resources: Check out local community colleges or programs for individual classes in foreign languages. Purchase a Pimsleur Approach language learning audio system to accompany you on jogs, commutes, or car trips.

http://www.pimsleurapproach.com/blog/foreign-language/learning-foreign-languages

1 What do you think about learning  a foreign language  in such a short time?

2 How about the tips given or procedures mentioned? Are they enough?

3 According to the video, comunicative competence in a foreign language is basically oral fluency. Do you agree the other ones (writing/reading) are not  important to develop and they just distract us to speak?

4 What about the reasons to use Pimsleur Approach? Why is it used for government agencies and is still announced in important sites. Is it a serious or a naïve method?

5 Would you like to try a fast course like that? Which points did you like from it?

Posted by: Paula Rolim; André Carvalho.

Why paparazzi are wrong?

PRIVACY

May 13, 2006

Ken Sunshine

Ken Sunshine, a publicist who represents Hollywood stars Ben Affleck, Justin Timberlake and Leonardo DiCaprio, says the paparazzi obsession with his clients is out of control and "It's got to stop."

Sunshine sat down with "CNN Presents" to discuss his view of the paparazzi as part of a documentary "Chasing Angelina: Paparazzi and Celebrity Obsession." (Read a defense of paparazzi from Frank Griffin by clicking here. )

QUESTION: Are the paparazzi going too far?

SUNSHINE: They're totally out of control. It is crazy to have packs of people, whose full-time, quote, job, is to get the most embarrassing photo they can of a celebrity. How would you like to have a camera two inches away from your face, where the ... the stalkerazzi is daring you to push ... be pushed away? ...

Somebody's going to get seriously injured or killed in a car accident unless something is done about these car chases. That is the single worst thing about the abuse of these stalkerazzis, and it's got to stop. Can you imagine driving up or down the Hollywood Hills and having a team of ... desperate lunatics, one behind you, one in front of you, who are cutting you off purposely, playing chicken on the Hollywood Hills? It's dangerous. ...

Lindsay Lohan almost did get killed by some lunatic that purposely rammed her car. I mean, what kind of behavior is that?

Q: Are the paparazzi invading celebrities' privacy?

SUNSHINE: There is just something weird about a human being whose livelihood, quote unquote, means living in the trees outside a celebrity's house. ... I think that the lack of respect for any degree of privacy that nobody in the public would want to tolerate in terms of the behavior of photographers, the behavior of press people ... those basic journalistic standards, is something that society should be reacting against. ...

There are some obvious examples out there of celebrities who crave that attention, that want to be covered. That's their right, go for it. And these paparazzis can make as much money if they want. But there are a lot of celebrities that don't. And they should have the right to be protected from absolutely abusive behavior.

Q: Should celebrities' children be off limits?

SUNSHINE: You're dealing with very personal parts of people's lives, where I think there ought to be some right to privacy at some level, particularly if it involves children. To me, I draw that line in the firmest way possible.

Q: Overall thoughts on the paparazzi?

SUNSHINE: There's something weird about somebody whose livelihood involves hiding in bathroom stalls. There's something weird about somebody whose living involves causing a ruckus at a shopping mall. ... There's something weird about literally playing chicken driving up or down the Hollywood Hills. ...

There's something outrageous, illegal and immoral about all of that.

See at: http://articles.cnn.com/2006-05-09/entertainment/sunshine.access_1_paparazzi-car-chases-celebrities?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ

1- Who's Ken Sunshine?

2- According to Sunshine why are the paparazzi wrong?

3- How are the paparazzi invading celebrities' privacy?

4- Comment this statement " There's something outrageous, illegal and immoral about all of that".

Posted by: Jouberth ; Helenio ; Rennan. 

Memorable movies from my childhood.

HOME ALONE

       Home Alone is the highly successful and beloved family comedy about a young boy named Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) who is accidentally left behind when his family takes off for a vacation in France over the holiday season. Once he realizes they've left him "home alone," he learns to fend for himself and, eventually has to protect his house against two bumbling burglars (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) who are planning to rob every house in Kevin's suburban Chicago  neighborhood. Though the film's slapstick ending may be somewhat violent, Culkin's charming presence helped the film become one of the most successful ever at the time of its release.

THE ADDAMS FAMILY

      Inspired more by the 1960s TV series than by the original Charles Addams New Yorker cartoons, The Addams Family proved to be one of the more successful of the TV shows-turned-movies of the 1990s. The film opens on a recreation of the magazine cartoon wherein the ghoulish Addamses prepare to pour hot oil upon a group of merry Christmas carolers. After a series of vignettes which establish the characters of Gomez (Raul Julia), Morticia (Anjelica Huston), Wednesday (Christina Ricci), Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) and family servants Lurch (Carel Struycken) and Thing (Christopher Hart), the plot proper gets under way. A stranger, played by Christopher Lloyd, shows up on the Addams doorstep, claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester. It appears, however, that Lloyd is a ringer, in cahoots with attorney Tully Alford (Dan Hedaya) to strip the Addamses of their fortune. In their usual against-the-grain fashion, the Addams Family seems to delight in the possibility that they're being hoodwinked-indeed, not even kidnapping or death threats dampen the Addams clan's joy of living (or should we say dying?). The Addams Family served as the directorial debut of cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld.

PROBLEM CHILD

      An adoptive parent discovers that some children are given up by their biological parents for very good reasons in this dark comedy. Ben Healy (John Ritter) is a pleasant but brow-beaten yuppie working for his father Big Ben (Jack Warden), a tyrannical sporting goods dealer. Ben would love to have a son, but his wife Flo (Amy Yasbeck) has been unable to conceive. Ben approaches less-than-scrupulous adoption agent Igor Peabody (Gilbert Gottfried) with his dilemma, and Igor presents Ben and Flo with a cute seven-year-old boy, Junior (Michael Oliver). However, Junior is hardly a model child; mean-spirited and incorrigible, the child leaves a path of serious destruction in his wake, and is even pen pals with Martin Beck (Michael Richards), a notorious serial killer. After the cat ends up in the hospital, the house catches on fire, and Junior displays his effective but unethical method for winning in Little League, Ben is having serious doubts about Junior when Beck escapes from jail and decides to kidnap his faithful correspondent, along with Junior's new mom. Problem Child proved to be a major box office success, spawning two sequels and a TV series. 

What are the memorable movies from your childhood? Why?

Who was your favorite character and why?

What is the memorable soundtrack? What or who does this music remind you of?

If you could change the ending of a movie, what would you change and why?

What lesson did you learn from a movie you watched?


Posted by Vitor Siqueira and Jorge Cabeça.

Do you like Rock'n Roll music?

like it or not, the fact is that, in the 20th century, the rock became one of the main references in different fields of knowledge. And you, what do you know about this cultural phenomenon that pushed the boundaries of music?

Watch the video, read and stay tuned for more

rock 'n' Roll ...

Rock'n Roll History:

Rock'n Roll Renegades

 

1950'
The beginnings of
Rock and Roll

Article from Education Department,
Saatchi Gallery Contemporary Art in London

It is hard to believe, but there was once a time when there was no rock music. Most historians trace the beginning rock back to the year 1954, when a new type of music, then called Rock and Roll, appeared and revolutionized musical tastes, at least among young people, and pretty much changed the world.

This new music, of course did not develop in a vacuum, but resulted from the convergence of two musical styles, Rhythm and Blues and Country, as well as a series of technological developments that created a new market for music. (to read more, click here)

Rock and roll

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

(This article is about the 1950s style of music. For the general rock music genre, see rock music. For other uses, see rock and roll (disambiguation).)

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s,^[1][2] primarily from a combination of African American blues, country , jazz,^[3] and gospel music.^[4] Though elements of rock and roll can be heard in country records of the 1930s,^[3] and in blues records from the 1920s,^[5] rock and roll did not acquire its name until the 1950s.^[6][7]

The term "rock and roll" now has at least two different meanings, both in common usage. The American Heritage Dictionary^[8] and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary^[9] both define rock and roll as synonymous with rock music. Encyclopaedia Britannica, on the other hand, regards it as the music that originated in the mid-1950s and later evolved "into the more encompassing international style known as rock music."^[10] For the purpose of differentiation, this article uses the second definition, while the broader musical genre is discussed in the rock music article. (to read more, click here)

Best Rock Bands Of All Time

Rock and roll is a genre of music that emerged as a defined musical style in the American South in the 1950s, and quickly spread to the rest of the country, and the world. It later evolved into the various different sub-genres of what is now called simply "rock". As a result, "rock and roll" now has two distinct meanings: either traditional rock and roll in the 1950s style, or later rock and even pop music which may be very far from traditional rock and roll.

This list is a collection of the top ten rock bands of all time. This includes bands that can be categorized as rock and roll, hard rock, southern rock, country, pop and just about any other genre that has evolved from 50's

rock and roll. (to read more, click here)

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Now that you've read a lot about rock'n roll, have fun and answer the following questions:

1. Are you a rock’n’roll fan? Do you have a favorite band or singer?

2. Do you like any rock music?  How would you define it by your own words?

3. Do you know any artists or bands presented in the text above? who?

4. Do you agree with the "top-ten" list of the best bands presented in teh 3rd. link? Make your own "top-ten" list. 

5. The rock and roll has changed a lot over the years. In your opinion, what are the most radical changes? Do you think that the "current rock" can still be called "true" rock and roll?

CULTURAL EXCHANGE

Cultural Exchange

Have you thought about that ?

Cultural Exchange

 

Noun

An exchange of students, artists, athletes, etc., between two countries to promote mutual understanding.

* Volunteer Abroad Program

http://www.cci-exchange.com/abroad_volunteerabroad.shtml

* Host an Exchange Student

http://www.cci-exchange.com/content_right.aspx?id=596

Interchange is an unforgettable experience in the life of international student who plans to have a great season of study abroad during the language course. Improve your Business English, attend a university abroad, get your MBA Online, numerous options. Learn the tips for the exchange of Fellows who have made their travel abroad and found (or would have found) the School of English ideal for studying, enjoying your trip Cultural Exchange, and make their economies avail the best!
Foreign exchange allows you to start your MBA Online, improve their Business English, and for teenagers, high school abroad with travel insurance.

Whatever the future exchange student chosen by the exchange - both Language Course, Collegiate High School Abroad, Working Holiday Exchange, Au Pair, university exchanges, or other - schools and agencies to exchange courses abroad must always provide:

Professionalism from Pre-Service;

Registered Associations of Schools of Quality;

Recent recommended by their students;

Ask for current photos of the School, Teachers, Students;

 ...
Refund Policy clear, appropriate - and Fair;

Several courses and levels;

Small classes, with various nationalities;

Always Speaking English;

Real Prices;

Cultural Activities, Tours and Lots of Fun!

Hey, you can travel  !!!!

* Some cultural Exchange Program

http://ask.reference.com/related/Cultural+Exchange+Program?qsrc=2892&l=dir&o=10601

* Teacher Exchange Visitor Program

http://www.isbe.net/bilingual/htmls/spanish_exchange.htm

* Cultural Interchange Agency

http://www.cia-agency.com/

...some questions for you...

1 - Have you heard about Cultural Exchange ? What do you think about ?

2 - Have you traveled abroad ?Did you do a cultural exchange ? Tell us your experience.

3 - If you have not traveled yet, where Country  would  you like to go ?

4 - Do you have plans to study or to live abroad? Would you leave your life in Brazil ?