General articles on Language and Mind Mastery by Stuart Jay Raj
Mind and Brain
Wire your Brain to Learn Languages Exploiting Brain States for Enhanced Neuroplasticity Mindkraft Language - Brain Builder I is the first in a series of 'Brain Building' programmes developed by linguist Stuart Jay Raj that are designed to not only give you a robust foundation in key languages
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How long does it take to learn a language? How fast can you learn Russian? How much language can you learn in two weeks? If you've been following my posts and YouTube videos of late, you will have seen that due to recent cervical spinal surgery, my left
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Schools as we know them are dying. When we have all the knowledge in the world at our fingertips, why on earth do we send our kids to school? Please hear me out to the end - I'm not a home-schooling hippy, but what I have recently experienced
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In 1981, my grandfather called us excitedly to tell me that he'd done it! - It turns out that this phone call had a profound effect on the rest of my life - and even my identity. "I can finally solve the Rubik's Cube!"
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Before you read any further, take a look at this clip - I hope it will inspire you - I'll show you how they do it below: (Hint - You don't need an Abacus (算盤 Suànpán [Mandarin] Soroban [Japanese] to be able count lightning fast '
Thai
Asking for 'Not too spicy' and still getting Nuclear level spicy? - Maybe you're saying it wrong. This issue has come up twice this past week with 2 foreigners learning Thai who finally realised that they were ordering 'spiciness' wrong for many years now
Thai
There are two topics that recur month after month in all of the Thai language online groups that I follow. The first is whether or not the Thai letter ก should be transliterated as a 'g' or a 'k' when written in the Latin alphabet and
Language and Linguistics
One of the most powerful skills you as a language learner could hope to develop is the ability to think directly in the language that you’re learning without having to go through your mother tongue. I call this ‘thought fluency’, and it is the core skill that I aim
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By the end of this article, you will have all the tools available to automatically generate your own customised multi-lingual audio, spaced-repetition vocabulary learning training files as well as physical flash cards to help you increase your vocabulary in the language that you are learning and develop a much more
Language and Linguistics
How do You Know What You Are Experiencing is Also What Everyone Else Around You Is? So many expats that I meet in China, Indonesia, Thailand and other countries around the region tell me that they get around just fine without knowing the local language. I suppose that is a
Mind and Brain
How Should You Start Learning A Language? When you learn a language, should you be learning individual words from graded word lists, or should you be learning full sentences with words in context? I would say – both … and more. For those of you who want to quickly get to the