Animals communicate with each other, and sometimes with us. But that’s where the similarity between animals and us ends, as Jason Goldman explains.
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Clenching your right hand may help form a stronger memory of an event or action, and clenching your left may help you recollect the memory later, according to new research.
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Anne Curzan, a professor at the University of Michigan, was stunned by a new slang word her students taught her. It's a new conjunction, a very rare bird for language nerds. Delete the scoop?
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Robin Good: Ve.rbatim.com is a free web-based co-browsing tool which allows you to co-navigate with one or more people any web page, while being able to see the mouse cursor of your partner when desired.
The web app is very easy to use. You just click on "Start a sesson" on this page http://ve.rbatim.com/ and the new page that opens up has a URL that you can share with anyone you want to cobrowse with.
On this page you have an additional address bar in which you can input any url you want to cobrowse. An integrated text chat area is made visible by clicking on the large down arrow visibile on the top right side of your screen.
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7 Simple Strategies To Give You Complete Vocabulary Mastery Improving your vocabulary is the most important investment you can make in yourself. Read on to discover the 7 simple strategies you can use to gain complete vocabulary mastery. Delete the scoop?
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People who can speak two languages are more adept at learning a new foreign language than their monolingual counterparts, according to researchers. Delete the scoop?
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Download our new free smartphone app - Go English. The app includes a link to our Facebook page, our Twitter feed and this Scoop.It page for quick access to links and tips; a feed of several podcasts and YouTube channels for learners, and Community and Chat apps to keep in contact with other people who use the app wherever you are (obviously these last two won't be too interesting until there are plenty of other people using the app.) NOTE: you will need to allow third-party apps to download and install Go English. 
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Hablan dos idiomas? You should, if you know what's good for you Delete the scoop?
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A series of exercises on collocations based on list 3 of the Academic Word List. Delete the scoop?
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Online, English has become a common language between users from around the world. In the process, the language itself is changing. Via Benjamin Stewart Delete the scoop?
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I haven't checked with corpora myself, so unsure if this order is correct, though it seems to at least partially correlate with other lists.... Delete the scoop?
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How many tenses are there in English? This is a simple question, to which, however, almost every linguist gives a different answer. According to Bublitz (1995: 135), these “dissenting views are reflected by the fact that linguists have yet to agree on the number of tenses [...] in English, which vary according to whether formal or semantic criteria or a combination of both are recognized. In particular, the present perfect, the past perfect and the future perfect defy easy categorization.” Linguists' different views on the number of English tenses can be grouped into four different approaches Delete the scoop?
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The grammar glossary features over a hundred grammar terms defined for anyone interested in TEFL. Delete the scoop?
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Is good grammar a lifestyle? If you're a writer, it should be. Here are a few tips for making good grammar part of your daily life. Delete the scoop?
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Once likened to a confusing tower of Babel, speaking more than one language can actually bolster brain function by serving as a mental gymnasium, according to researchers. Delete the scoop?
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Here at the Living Library, we believe that everyone has a story to tell. That’s why we’re inviting you to pull up a comfortable chair and a hot drink, as you check-out and enjoy our collection of living books. Via Sharon Hartle Delete the scoop?
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