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Este é um caso maravilhoso. O orador da turma foi dignosticado como autista e especialistas disseram que ele nunca iria conseguir aprender a falar. Pois vejam ele falando!
This is a just wonderful. The valedictorian was diagnosed as autistic and experts said he would never learn to speak. See how wrong they were!
More than frequently I find myself puzzled at the wonders of life and this reminds me how I should not take things for granted, even the most basic ones. The gift of hearing, seeing and speaking was not granted to all of us. Lately, BIRD GEI has had the privilege of working with people with special needs in language acquisition, and might I add, a SECOND language. While it is hard enough to acquire a second language when we have all our senses, I can but admire people who overcome difficulties in doing so.
This 8 month old baby was born deaf, watch the moment as his cochlear implant is activated and he hears sound for the first time, and his mother’s voice.
“Such small things for some, and huge for others. Listen to the tone of the mother, it has the resonance of LOVE!” ~ Joaquin Samper
PORTUGUÊS
A BIRD GEI publicou a 6a Pesquisa de Produtividade em Aquisição de Língua Estrangeira em novembro de 2010. Nós comparamos a eficiência de cursos de idiomas online vs. presenciais. Esta pesquisa foi a primeira de seu tipo no Brasil, porque mostrou a produtividade e os indicadores de evolução de aprendizagem e não apenas uma visão em cada modalidade de cursos. Os cursos online estão alcançando mais e mais pessoas e por isso sentimos que a pesquisa ainda é relevante.
O vídeo é um excerto de uma entrevista sobre gestão estratégica de idiomas concedida ao programa de TV Spot e foi ao ar em junho de 2009, apresentado por Paulo Macedo, jornalista especializado em tendências de mercado e, portanto, antes do início da pesquisa. Na entrevista, o conceito de e-learning foi mencionado. É relevante porque já mostrava que as preocupações na época foram confirmadas na Pesquisa.
ENGLISH
BIRD GEI released its 6th Productivity Research in Foreign Language Acquisition in November, 2010. We compared the efficiency of online language courses vs. traditional face to face learning. This research was the first of its kind in Brazil because showed language evolution productivity and indicators, and not only an insight on each modality of course. As online courses reach more and more people, we feel the research is still relevant.
The video is an excerpt from an interview about languages strategic management at TV show Spot aired in June 2009 and hosted by Paulo Macedo, a journalist specialized in market trends and, therefore, before the beginning of the research. In the interview, the concept of e-learning was mentioned. It is relevant because it already showed at the time concerns that were confirmed and which will be presented in the forthcoming Productivity Research.
Click on play to listen to an explanation about the origin of Halloween. You’ll be surprised!
A BIRD GEI acompanha anualmente o desempenho, indicadores e resultados de funcionários patrocinados pelas mais diversas empresas e divulga os resultados sobre a produtividade do aprendizado de idiomas periodicamente. Estas pesquisas servem de parâmetro para que o mercado e outras empresas possam determinar o modelo de gestão que pretendem adotar e uma visão surpreendente deste segmento. A última pesquisa compara a proficiência média em inglês da geração X vs. Y. Assista! Os resultados são surpreendentes. Veja as outras pesquisas em www.bird.com.br na seção serviços.
BIRD GEI accompanies the annual performance and results indicators of employee-sponsored by many different companies and publishes the results on the productivity of language learning periodically. These surveys serve as a parameter to the market and other companies to determine the management model they intend to adopt and a surprising view of this segment. The latest survey compares the average proficiency in English of generation X vs. Y. Watch! The results are unexpected. Other research available in English on our website www.bird.com.br under the tab “serviços”.
Strawberries are good for you but having them in a cocktail may make them even healthier, a study suggests.
A team of Italian, Serbian and Spanish researchers confirmed the protective effect of strawberries in the stomach of a mammal affected by alcohol, said on Monday the University of Granada, who participated in this study.
A researcher at the University of Barcelona (UB) and co-author of the work, Sara Tulipani, explained that the positive effects of strawberries are associated with antioxidant capacity, which activate enzymes and their own body’s defenses.
The conclusions of the study showed that a diet rich in berries may have a beneficial effect in the prevention of gastric diseases, so that this fruit could attenuate the formation of stomach ulcers in humans.
The fruit contains compounds that can protect against cancer, heart disease and arthritis.
But having them with alcohol, such as in a daiquiri, boosts these antioxidant properties, the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture says.
Nutritionists said the “detrimental effects” of such drinks could cancel out such benefits.
The most common cocktail to include strawberries is the daiquiri – which also includes lime or lemon juice, strawberry liqueur, sugar – and rum.
The researchers, from the Kasetsart University in Thailand and the US Department of Agriculture Research Service, were actually looking for more effective ways of keeping fruit fresh during storage.
‘Detrimental effects’
They found that treating strawberries with alcohol enhanced the antioxidant capacity within the fruit – which boosts the fruit’s power to neutralise destructive molecules called free radicals – by a third.
Free radicals are highly reactive oxygen molecules which damage DNA and cell membranes.
They are linked to a wide range of diseases and are thought to be one of the chief causes of ageing.
Treating blackberries in the same ways also had beneficial effects.
But Dr Frankie Phillips of the British Dietetic Association said: “It’s well known that some preparation of fruit and veg can enhance the availability of nutrients and other plant chemicals including antioxidants.
“For example, cooking tomatoes or stir frying pepper facilitates availability of the lycopene and beta-carotene they contain.
“That’s why the five-a-day message states to include a variety of fruit and veg as fresh, frozen, juice, dried and canned, and encourages different preparations.”
She added: “Whilst this study suggests that consuming strawberries with alcohol increases the antioxidant capacity, there are clearly detrimental effects of consuming alcohol in terms of cell damage.
“So any potential antioxidant benefits may be cancelled out by the potential liver damage caused by too much alcohol.
“Our advice is to enjoy summer berries but don’t expect a panacea in the form of a strawberry daiquiri.”
With her mouth is wide open, teeth bared and eyes pressed tensely shut, tennis star Serena Williams looks a picture of pure anger in this close-up photograph.
Has she just lost the final of a Grand Slam? Or perhaps had to withdraw through injury?
Or is she, in fact, ecstatically happy?
When the image is widened out to include her body language the answer is made more clear.
The pumped fist is an indicator of her happiness and, as it happens, this photograph was actually taken at the moment she defeated her sister Venus at the 2008 U.S. Open.
The difficulty of identifying her emotion in the close-up photo occurs because context is vital to interpreting facial emotion, according to a new psychology paper.
‘Humans are exquisitely sensitive to context, and that can very dramatically shape what is seen in a face,’ says psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard School of Medicine.
‘Strip away the context, and it is difficult to accurately perceive emotion in a face.’
Barrett’s paper, written in conjunction with graduate student Maria Gendron and Batja Mesquita of the University of Leuven in Belgium, has been published in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science.
The paper refutes the contention that there are six to 10 biologically basic emotions, each encoded in a particular facial arrangement, which can be read easily in an image of a disembodied face by anyone, anywhere.
The perception of facial-emotionals is influenced by many kinds of contexts, says the study.
A scowl can be read as fear if a dangerous situation is described, or as disgust if the posture of its body indicates reaction to a soiled object.
Eye-tracking experiments show that, depending on the meaning derived from the context, people focus on different salient facial features.
Suggestion and certain words affected facial perception in the study, with participants routinely doing better at naming the emotions in pouting, sneering, or smiling faces when the experimenter supplied words to choose from than when they had to come up with the words themselves.
Equally important is the cultural context of an expressive face.
People from cultures that are psychologically similar can read each other’s emotions with relative ease, an effect that similar language or even facial structure does not produce.
Culture even influences where a person seeks information to interpret a face. Westerners, who see feelings as inside the individual, focus their attention on the face itself. Japanese, meanwhile, focus relatively more on the surroundings, believing emotions arise in relationship.
The implications of such research are ‘substantial,’ says Barrett, who believes it could help understand changes in emotion in people with with dementia or certain psychopathologies, and even in healthy older people, who may have difficulty expressing themselves.
There are also implications for law enforcement where some U.S. agencies are training people to detect deception using methods based on the idea that a person’s internal intentions are broadcast on the face.
Everyday
Everyday is an adjective that means commonplace, ordinary, or normal.
~ These shoes are great for everyday wear
~ You shouldn’t wear an everyday outfit to the wedding
~ Don’t use the everyday dishes – it’s a special occasion
Every day
Every day means “each day.”
~ I go to the park every day
~ I have to work every day this week except Friday
~ Every day I feel a little better
The Bottom Line
Everyday is a single word and is an adjective, so it’s the one that is used in front of a noun to describe something as normal or commonplace. Every day is an adjective (every) plus a noun (day), and it means each day.
