Sentence Length

How many words do you need in a sentence? Are short sentences better than long sentences?

Here is a fun article that shows you the importance of diversifying your sentence length in order to engage the reader.

www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2010/09/this-sentence-has-five-words/

What do you learn from this paragraph of sentence length? Do you know how to write effective sentences?

Let Praxis help you improve your writing skills!

Improve Your Brain

What if you could improve your memory? Your brain's speed and flexibility?
How about improving your problem solving skills? Is it possible?

Well Luminosity claims that through their excerises people can improve their 5 major core brain fuctions of:

1. Memory
2. Attention
3. Speed
4. Flexibility
5. Problem Solving

Does it work? We will let you be the judge of that. Check out:

http://www.lumosity.com/personal-training-plan/brain-areas

And let us know if you feel smarter!

The History of Movie Trailers

We all love move trailers and the origin of words can help lead us to discover why we say expressions the way we do.

This article addresses how the word Movie Trailer developed.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/08/why-short-movie-advertisement-clips-are-called-trailers/

Praxis works with translation, dubbing, and interpreting. If you need help making a project reach it's target audience we can help you!

Anagrams

What is an anagram?

It is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. Many famous names and expressions come from Anagrams.

You may just be surprised the anagrams that can be produced!

Check out this website that allows you to play with and create your own Anagrams.
 www.wordsmith.org/anagram/
 What will you create next?

Telephone Greetings

Now we answer with Hello, Hi, Hey, What's up?, or the more formal: "This is so and so speaking"

However, what about the original telephone greetings?

Ever wonder what people used to say back in those days?

This article addresses the original preferred way to answer the phone. What do you think of it?

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/10/saying-ahoy-hoy-was-at-one-time-the-preferred-way-to-answer-the-phone/

Interested in improving your telephone skills in a language? Contact Praxis International, we can help you reach your goals!

Color Idioms In Different Languages - A project by Alan Kennedy

Idioms, can be tricky and they are there in any language.

Most languages have some kind of idiom dealing with a color.
Alan Kennedy did some research to collect some of these idioms in different langauges.
See how different languages use color to express a thought and idea.
Are the colors used the same in your langauge as in other languages?

http://www.starchamber.com/colors/color-idioms.html

Let Praxis International help you sort out the language colors in your life. Contact us today!

Untranslatable Words from Around the World

For those of us that speak more than one language, we have begun to realize that some words just don't transfer. 

There are slight differences in the meaning of some things that aren't available in another language at times. This can be one of the most frustrating things about language development for new learners. 

However, instead of being frustrated learn to embrace those differences. Cultural difference, language, and areas affect not just what we say, but what we mean and how we say it. 

 

Check out these 20 untranslatable words from around the world. Maybe you will find just the word you've been looking for.

http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/20-awesomely-untranslatable-words-from-around-the-world/2/

Praxis can help you find the words your looking for to say what you want. Why not write us today?

11 Things the Wealthiest Americans Can Buy for the U.S.

It's all over the news. The gap between the rich and the poor is widening. Maybe you didn't know how much. Look at the difference some of the funding of the world's richest could make in the US for those with less. Imagine how it is around the world.

 

http://faireconomy.org/node/1765

Personality Type

Ever wonder what famous person your personality resembles?

Does your personality match more with Freud or Napoleon?

This fun website breaks down the major personality types, their characteristics and gives you insight into some of the famous people with these same traits. Find out if you have the same characteristics of the scientists you admire, or match more closely to a great philosopher. The results may surprise you!

http://www.celebritytypes.com/philosophers/