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Pleasure to meet you!

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Guess now it’s my turn, third proud member of our wonderful Myngle team. (Writing about oneself is never easy, but let’s see how it goes.)
My name is Danilo, I am also from Brazil (born in Brasília), and I’ve recently gotten married. I guess I am a bit of a nomad type of person who shares [...]

Introducing another team member: Egbert van Keulen

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Hi,
Welcome to our Myngle blog. My name is Egbert van Keulen. Through this post I want to introduce myself to you, so you can get acquainted to yet another member of the Myngle team.
I live in Naarden, The Netherlands and I am married and have 2 children and a third one coming. Yes, sleepless nights [...]

Hello!

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Well, I guess it’s my turn, and after Marina’s inspired introduction, I will try to measure up to hers.My name is Valter, and I was the second one to join the team, a little after Marina. Or should I say, the one who caught the Myngle bug right after her…
The great thing about the team, [...]

Meet the Team

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

 
It is time to introduce the Myngle team.
So I start with me: Marina.
I’m the founder of this Myngle dream, step by step coming to life. And I’m proud of the great team that came to believe in the same dream.
You’ll meet them all.
What do I like?
Well… a picture says more than 1.000 words…
 
What is the [...]

The big date is increasingly closer!

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

I think I can speak for the entire Myngle group when I say we are getting pretty excited as launch date comes closer. Our team is increasing, more cool people joining, more interesting personal backgrounds, more quality and competence for you!
We are working hard, November doesn’t seem that far away when we compare to the [...]

How do you want your learning?

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Do you want your learning process to have music, audio, quizzes, writing assignments, role plays? How do you learn best?
Howard Gardner described the now much debated “Theory of Multiple Intelligences” which notes that people learn differently through a set of different intelligences:
“linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal. and naturalistic.”
This implies that some learn best [...]

“No pain, no gain?”

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Going through my daily web surfing I found a nice sentence on Wikipedia’s Second Language Acquisition page:
“The process of language learning can be very stressful, and the impact of positive or negative attitudes from the surrounding society can be critical.”
Please try to recall your school days, which were your top-grade subjects? Did you like these [...]

I want to be a polyglot!

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

First there was Portuguese, of course, being born in Brazil that is the first language a person learns. Shortly after that came English.
Learning English for me was quite interesting since at first no one actually taught me. Huh?! I traveled to the US and did lots of observation and a gradual amount of interaction, eventually [...]

The Convenient Online World

Monday, July 9th, 2007

What were some things that in the past were stricly done offline and now you can do it through the web?
Can you remember the time when there were no social networking sites? Can you remember a time when there was no VoIP?
In the future (near future as well), what will we be able to [...]

Some philosophical thoughts… about differences and languages

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

“All the time we are aware of million of things around us, aware of these things but not really conscious of them unless there is something unusual or unless they reflect something we are predisposed to see.
We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful [...]


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