Are people with high IQ’s good language learners? After watching some material about it and considering it, the answer to this question casts hope to the ones who do not have a high IQ. We saw that good language learning strategies can help you leverage your learning, making your effort and abilities pay off more efficiently and effectively. It is like having to tight or loose a bolt, the strength you have will not be the key factor towards accomplishing the task. It is going to be the tool you use plus the correct use of such tool what will lead to success. Once you select a spanner or a screwdriver, the way you impel force with the tool would be different as different the tool is. In any case, the said tool is going to make your effort more focused and effective. The language learning strategies are like those tools that help us accomplish our different goals faster, easier and with less frustration so henceforth I will pay more attention and learn more about them.

Hello! Is this a complex grammar form... or a mistake?

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Let us first restate the question of how we acquire: given the correctness of the natural order hypothesis, how do we move from one stage to another? If an acquirer is at "stage 4", how can he progress to "stage 5"? More generally, how do we move from stage i, where i represents current competence, to i + 1, the next level? The input hypothesis makes the following claim: a necessary (but not sufficient) condition to move from stage i to stage i + 1 is that the acquirer understand input that contains i + 1, where "understand" means that the acquirer is focused on the meaning and not the form of the message.

I would expect to have the verb conjugated with the singular form (i.e. understands). However, the words "is that" may play a role changing the grammar form, or may not.

Could you please tell me what you think about this? 

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Hello everyone! What sounds more common?

What do you like to do on weekends or what do you like to do on the weekends?

or even what do you like to do on the weekend?

What do you think? 

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Hello everyone! I just wanted to come here to tell English learners that we have a great writing tool featuring instant feedback! 

Feedback may not be as good as Italki community's but I found it really useful for beginner levels. I hope you take the most out of it.

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Is it true that “anyone who speaks the language can teach the language”? On the understanding that in this phrase "anyone" is anyone who enjoys basic social and physical abilities to successfully communicate in English, I say yes. I would like to face the question using parenthood as a particular example of non-teachers teaching language. The question we should ask is not if anyone can do so, but rather how well or efficiently is that person going to teach the language. It depends partly on what the learners needs or goals are. Parents, for instance, are one of the most important actors when it comes to learning our mother tongue (I believe). Moreover, even though most of them were not “trained language teachers”, in a sense, no one could have done their tasks any better. Does it mean that those parents would ace teaching English as a foreign language? As you might imagine, not necessarily. This, I think, is because the learning goals and needs of foreign language students and children in their language acquisition process are different in terms of time and focus. That is why parents approach may not fit students’ objectives. That does not mean they cannot teach their language though. This is related to the teacher techniques being used. We can say that without being conscious of it, parents have their own techniques they have developed over time. Interesting enough, new parents as new teachers, most likely change their teaching techniques over time.

Though about retaining These days I've been learning about how we learn more effectively. One of the most interesting insights is that contrary to what one might think, "rereading" is far from being advisable for making your new ideas (steamed from a learning process) stick in your long term memory. In fact, not only does it not help you too much attain this target but is not a good way to understand in depth that you want to master. So here we have the replacement. It is thinking on what you just read and to try to recall as much as possible without opening the text again. Doing this has shown to be far more effective in getting the new concepts last in your memory and really deeply grasping them. It got practical when I saw not only can I read when being sat or even standing on a bus for me to take advantage of that time but also just think on recent reading. It winds up being more useful and confortable.

The 2 modes of thinking There are two types of thinking when it comes to thinking. They are essentially different to each other but work together helping us figure several different things out. The first one is the focused mode of thinking, wich is the one we use when approaching known-how-to-solve things, as solving math exercises or calculating more complex information. The other one, the diffuse mode of thinking, is used when we face certain situations for the first time and are not familiarized with the way to solve it. Therefore, as the patterns (or information) in our brains we need to use for us to home in on a solution are "widely distributed" throughout our brain, we need to let our thinking go several places there for the purpose of getting started on the right place (I may call it the right neural pattern). It seems that we are either in one mode of thinking or the other one at the same time, but surely we can turn from and to each one to get into a resolution. This way, for an unknown or though situation we can land into the right place using the diffuse mode and start to work more intently using the focused mode. Thank you!

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Hi everyone i've just seen this is and knew it was worth sharing. Edx.org is an amazing web page created by MIT and Harvard to offer Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) provided by different good universities around the world, they incuded. I've used edx.org as well as coursera.org to improve not only my English but to learn about interesting topics on the road. I hope you find it useful!

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have sb do sth Today I saw these expressions about making and having people doing what you want to. There is a difference worth to mention and is that we use "make" when the people we are persuading do our will against theirs. We use "have" to express that we found a polite or legal way to persuade people to do what we want. Besides that, there is another option in this matter, and it's the use of GET someone TO do something, and is (it's) the same idea as with "have" but you just need to add the "TO" before the verb. So I'd like to have you correct my writing mistakes because that way we help each other, in other words I would really like to get you to highlight my mistakes. Thanx in advance!