Emotional Intelligence in our life That's been a while since last time I wrote something in my notebook.I didn't find the time (the everlasting excuse) or,may be,I hadn't had the motivation to do this. Anyways,since I've decided to master my English by the end of May,the only way to do that is practice,practice and again practice.Practice makes perfect. Have you ever wondered why we get angry or furious when somebody jolts us in public transport,or why,when we get angry, scold our mum and thus insult her?And finally, are you interested in how to control our emotional outbursts in everyday life?If so,I would like to share with you some glimpses and ideas written in the book named "Emotional Intelligence" written by Daniel Goleman. To start off,let me tell you who is this man.Author of 15 books (so far) in psychology and somewhat sociology, mostly about emotional intelligence; psychologist who received his PHD in Harvard University; a science journalist at New York Times who wrote articles about new breakthroughs in the field of psychology. His undeniable bestseller is Emotional Intelligence - a comprehensive book on the nature of emotions, human decision making and a practicum on emotion handling. Since I started reading this book and put a goal of mastering English, I thought about sharing my reading experience with you guys, and also practice my rusty English writing skills. "Everyone may become furious - it's quite simple. But to get angry on who deserves it, when they deserve it, and how they deserve it - not that simple." Aristotle These are the first words of the book, and I think it perfectly describes it's content related to emotional intelligence. The first thing he mentions is the fact that your emotional state can spread to others. It's that case when your day suddenly becomes more cheerful when a bus drivers greets you and talks about beautiful sights and places of your city, thus breaking your daily gray routine. Every emotion implies a tendency to move or act. In fact, the word itself comes from latin "motre" which means movement or to move. If you are left with a child, you'll see that when he get's angry - he starts to cry, to throw things away, to move his hands nervously just to get what he wants. The same thing with animals who have emotions (like dogs when they want to play). And when it comes to adults, the intelligent side of our brain (neocortex) kiks in. Here we witness a dichotomy of human behavior - emotional/rational behavior. That's it, follow my next notes =)

Reflections on different techniques of learning new foreign words. I have put myself a clear goal: in the 2 remaining months (July and August) to attain proficiency in English language. It's clear as "Good morning" that in order to master a foreign language you have to know a pretty big amount of active and passive vocabulary. I'm now C1 - C2, my vocabulary size according to my estimations is about 2500 - 3500 words. That is catastrophically few for me. My main accent now is on learning vocabulary and the proper usage of it. I read in English as much as I can (I try to keep the learning process of a foreign language into a pleasure - not transform it into a boring series of lessons) and each time when I see an unknown word - I jot it down on one page of my vocabulary-book, and on the another one - I write the translation. Sometimes i write near that word its transcription if i get messed up with the pronunciation. This technique of writing down new words on a page of my vocab-book and on the another one writing it's translated version, I've been using for 3 months. It gave me significant results but there remains a little feeling of cramming. When I understood the fact that the efficiency level of my vocab-book wasn't enough for me, I've started to make my own small research, and came upon some interesting techniques. One of them is called Mnemonics. It involves the concept of multi-sensorial learning: you write down a new word/collocation, you ascribe to this unit an audiovisual image and if it's occasion - make a phonetic association to one word in your native language. It helped me, a bit. I want to study at least 50 words per day - a bit of cramming is ok, in it's own limits. I also make a sentence with this word in order to remember it better. But there is still a lack of efficiency when it comes to transferring that word from short-term memory to the long-term one. Can you recommend me some efficient techniques/tips for overcoming this difficulty?

How do you learn a foreign language? Feel free and share your thoughts and experience, tell your story about learning a foreign language :)

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I want attain proficiency in English. I'm not a downer or borring person :D. I like active kind of sports(big passion for cycling), good movies, good books, business... I'm open-minded. Also I am a Russian and Romanian native speaker.

 

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My first note Wow, a small sense of excitement when I'm making it for the first time. It certainly should improve and strengthen my English writing and grammar usage. I am absolutely serious about attaining proficiency in this language therefore I think I will jot down my thoughts/interesting stuff here pretty often. By saying interesting stuff i mean: movies, may be sports(except for soccer), books, business/economics(field I'm interested in), travels, useful things(learning tips, life-hacks...). I'll try to make it interesting and in the same time beneficial for me. Dear italki member, if you read this and find out any mistake, you are welcome to correct it and I'll owe you a THANKS. :)

Can you recommend me decent android apps for foreign words learning?

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I'm a native Romanian and Russian speaker. 

Whatsup / skype companion for English communication ? Who wants? :)

Best way of learning new foreign language words?

I've reached the point of 31/day - but it's more like bruteforce(morning 10 min learning, rehearse throughout day at each convenient moment). Suggest me some effective techinques.