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How to Learn Mandarin Chinese (Fast)

By Anna. Updated: September 6, 2023. Reading Time: 12 minutes.

How to Learn Mandarin Chinese Fast – 20 Learning Strategies + Tips

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Whether you’ve been learning Mandarin Chinese for a few months or you’re thinking about starting soon, there are tips and tricks to make that journey smoother and faster. Be it your pronunciation or general skills that you are trying to improve, or you just need ideas to freshen up your schedule, we’ve got something for you.

If you’re after some strategies and tips to learn Mandarin Chinese fast, keep reading!

How to Improve Team Performance

By Anna. Updated: February 14, 2023. Reading Time: 7 minutes.

8 Tips to improve team performance and efficiency

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Team performance and productivity are keys to achieving goals and accomplishing tasks. To ensure that your team is performing at its best, you can employ the following strategies to improve team performance and efficiency.

However, building a productive and efficient team is not that easy. It requires effort and commitment from everyone involved, including managers and team members. So before delving into the tips on how to improve team performance, here is a slight description of work efficiency and productivity and why it is essential.

How To Improve Posture – 5 Strategies

By Anna. Updated: November 28, 2022. Reading Time: 10 minutes.

How to improve posture through simple exercises and stay healthy.

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If you’ve been increasingly experiencing muscle spasms or back pain, then your posture is to be blamed, or the pandemic forcing us to live through endless home office hours without proper physical activity. However, good posture is more than just standing straight and looking prim and proper. It helps you develop flexibility, strength, and balance.

12 Tips To Create A Good Work-Life Balance

By Anna. Updated: October 19, 2023. Reading Time: 9 minutes.

What Is Work-Life Balance – Tips For Entrepreneurs and Employees

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Have you ever been at a friend’s birthday party, trying to relax and engage when your phone starts pinging with emails about work? Or, have you been sitting in a work meeting, unable to stop your mind from drifting to a pressing family problem?

What Is Deliberate Practice?

By Anna. Updated: April 20, 2023. Reading Time: 9 minutes.

A practical guide to using deliberate practice for learning, work

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Have you ever spent hours practicing a skill and still felt like you weren’t advancing at all? For example, spending two hours quizzing flashcards of verbs conjugated in Spanish and the next day not being able to recall a single one. If you’ve been in this situation, it was probably followed by frustration, discouragement, or even giving up.

Best VR Apps for Fun, Education, Work

By Anna. Updated: October 20, 2023. Reading Time: 13 minutes.

23 Best VR apps. Virtual reality for learning skills, socializing, work

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Gone are the days when virtual reality apps (VR) are used only for gaming. Some of the best VR apps currently available focus on a wide range of genres and interests and diverse uses, including learning, training, entertainment and conducting business.

How To Build Good Habits – 15 Strategies

By Anna. Updated: April 20, 2023. Reading Time: 11 minutes.

A guide on how to build good habits for studying, learning, working, life

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Stephen Covey said, “Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.” If we think about habits this way – what do yours reveal about your character?

The small, oftentimes unexciting, tasks of our lives can actually tell a significant amount about our personalities, lives, and environments. Becoming aware of your habits and their influence on your life – both positively and negatively – is the first step to then building strong, helpful habits and overcoming bad habits.

Best Virtual Field Trips 2023 – Kids and Adults

By Anna. Updated: October 20, 2023. Reading Time: 11 minutes.

22 best virtual field trips for culture, education, entertainment, art, travel

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In the third grade, my class took an overnight field trip to Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. From the trip, my strongest memory is when I was chosen from the class to help churn butter. I can recall the humid spring air and my sympathies for the labor of colonial women as my small arms struggled to turn the heavy wooden crank attached to a barrel containing what seemed like an incredible amount of cream.

Virtual Reality in Education – How to Use VR

By Anna. Updated: October 20, 2023. Reading Time: 12 minutes.

How to use virtual reality in education. Benefits and use cases of VR

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Technology is rapidly shaping our lives, including how we connect, communicate and learn. Many fields will be transformed by tech advances, including education. Drivers shaping education include the future of work and the needs of current learners, alongside applications of technology within and beyond the classroom.

How To Be Smart With Money – 4 Strategies

By Anna. Updated: April 20, 2023. Reading Time: 13 minutes.

How to be smart with money. Improve business and personal finances

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Did you know that money is the leading source of stress¹ for Americans? Despite being something so integral across our lives, many of us have a taut relationship with money.

How to Declutter Your Life – 10 Techniques

By Anna. Updated: October 19, 2023. Reading Time: 7 minutes.

How to declutter your life – Reduce stress, Act faster, Keep it lean

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Would you say the path to minimalism is rather easy or difficult? It’s probably a matter of opinion. However, if we want good stuff in our life, we need to start making room for the good stuff. It sounds like an easy formula but the realization of it is far more challenging.

How To Visualize – Visualization Techniques

By Anna. Updated: April 20, 2023. Reading Time: 13 minutes.

How to visualize? 19 creative visualization techniques to reach your goals

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The Greek philosopher Aristotle explained the method of visualization in a few simple steps, and even though this advice is over 2,000 years old, it still holds true today.

“First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends: wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.”

5 Memory Techniques to Learn Faster

By Anna. Updated: April 20, 2023. Reading Time: 6 minutes.

Effectively memorize and recall information – 5 memory techniques

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The Roman philosopher Cicero once said,

How to Learn American Sign Language (ASL)

By Anna. Updated: October 19, 2023. Reading Time: 7 minutes.

Learn American Sign Language ASL – Tips, Rules, Resources

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“A different language is a different vision of life.”
Federico Fellini, a renowned Italian film director and screenwriter

Sharing information takes on a totally different shape when your eyes become your ears, and your mouth becomes your hand. Sign languages open up new horizons of communication. In this tutorial, we will share practical tips on how to learn American Sign Language ASL.

The Benefits of eLearning, Pros & Cons

By Anna. Updated: May 27, 2022. Reading Time: 7 minutes.

What are the benefits of eLearning for entrepreneurs and companies?

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New models, technologies, and designs in education promise to make our learning experience seamless and more effective than ever. Hence, more and more people go online to learn new skills or deepen existing ones. They seek a convenient, competitive, and recognizable way of learning to succeed in their professional and personal life.