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Learning languages


Learning languages is very important in our world today. Many cultures in the world are blending especially with the growth of the internet and travel industries. Let's face it, we are interacting more with people of different languages now than ever before. So learning foreign language is useful and ordinary thing. There are various methods of learning other language.
Firstly, teacher is really influential in the learning process. There are a lot of possible ways to help learning language. The most important way in my opinion is setting regular homework, because it helps to remember known information and get a lot of new knowledge. Second one is getting students to work in pairs or groups. It helps to express your opinion with other and better understand themes. Working through past examination papers is also very useful.
Absolutely, you must attempt if you want to learn language and find the way which is the most suitable for you. There are some unhelpful in the long run and some very good language learning habits. For instance, translate every unknown word as you read. Sometimes it is helpful but in the long run it can become useless, because in some situations you can’t look it up in the dictionary - you must understand text from the context. Nevertheless, guess unknown words as you read is also not so advantageous in all situations. Both habits are useful just in some cases. Also, only speaking in class when you are sure you won’t make a mistake is really bad habit. We are learning from our mistakes.
Moreover, there a lot of good learning habits. Very useful habit is to keep a vocabulary notebook and revise new vocabulary regularly. You must do this in order to develop your vocabulary. There are some more important habits. For example, reading newspapers or magazines outside class, watching films, TV shows in other language, speaking only foreign language in class. The last one is very influential, because you get good practice in speaking and this will be very helpful for talking with native speakers.
In conclusion, everyone uses some established methods in order to learn foreign language. But also we develop our own learning habits and skills, which are the most suitable for us and helps us to learn language as good as possible.

Professor Richard Wiseman’s experiments

Professor Richard Wiseman is very famous and licensed psychologist. Professor Wiseman has established international authority and reputation for his research into unusual areas of psychology, including deception, luck and the paranormal. Prof Wiseman’s research has been featured on over 150 television programmes.

One of his television shows is “The People Watchers”. This BBC programme is made by Professor Richard Wiseman and his team. This team comprises of members: Sara Clarke, psychologist; Dr Jack Lewis, neuroscientist; Emma Kenny, psychologist. There are a lot of experiments concerning human behaviour done by this team.

One of experiments is made by Jack Lewis. He tries to show that people like you more when they help to you. There was a situation then the girl helped Jack twice in a few minutes and did his job. After this Richard Wiseman’s team asked her what she thought about Jack. The girl’s answer was surprising: in her opinion Jack was very helpful man. In conclusion, the more you be asked the more you are liked.

Second experiment was made by Emma Kenny. Emma watched what kind of notes were the most suitable for keeping her clients out side the door: a small printed, a large printed or hand written notes. The answer was the hand written notes. For instance, one woman did not want to go inside because note was so informal.

There are more interesting experiments. For example, one experiment shows that people are more likely to help women not for man. One of the girl asked people to use their mobile and most of people gave her to call. Than Jack asked people to help they did not want to help him and did not trust him.

Professor Richard Wiseman is exciting person and deserved in psychology. He did various experiments which are very interesting and useful to read or watch for development of your knowledge in psychology.