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How Many Words Are There in the German Language?

By aubrieamstutz | September 18, 2019 | Category Language Learning

*This post was published on the Lingvist Blog. A definitive number of words in a language is extremely hard to pin down for two main reasons. First off, a language is not a stagnant, established entity. Secondly, deciding which “words” should be included in a count is a rabbit hole in itself. The closer you look […]

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The Best Way to Learn Spanish at Home

By aubrieamstutz | September 18, 2019 | Category Language Learning

*This post was published on the Lingvist Blog. Change the Language of your tecnología Beginner: Email Account and Phone Keyboard A great first step is to change the language of your email account, a specific mobile app like Facebook, or your profile on another website that you use often. Another might be to change the language […]

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How to Memorize Vocabulary Fast

By aubrieamstutz | August 5, 2019 | Category Language Learning

with Lingvist’s Course Wizard *This post was published on the Lingvist Blog. The most frustrating feeling when speaking a foreign language is knowing the word for something but not being able to remember it. The “tip of the tongue phenomenon” occurs when we fail to retrieve a word from our long-term memory. Although we can’t guarantee […]

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Forgetting to Remember: Spaced Repetition in Learning

By aubrieamstutz | August 5, 2019 | Category Language Learning

*This post was published on the Lingvist Blog. Language learning researchers estimate that someone who knows between 800–1,000 words can successfully participate in basic, everyday conversations. After learning 2,000 words, research suggests you can understand about 80% of a text. Considering that you probably want to have some time left over to actually use your second language (before […]

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Images of the Multilingual Brain

By aubrieamstutz | November 14, 2019 | Category Uncategorized

‪‪Learn more about how brain imaging techniques interact with other factors (such as age of language acquisition and proficiency) in this presentation I gave on a meta-analysis! Presentation of a meta-analysis by Elise Wattendorf and Julia Festman (2008) on neuroimaging techniques targetting multilingualism. This presentation was given in Prof. Luigi Rizzi’s Theory of Grammar and […]

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Five Reasons to Learn Spanish

By aubrieamstutz | September 18, 2019 | Category Uncategorized

*This post was published on the Lingvist Blog. 1. It’s popular 5.6% of the world’s population speaks Spanish There are an estimated 400 million native Spanish speakers in the world. Spanish is also the official language of 20 different countries. For Spanish learners, this translates to plenty of people to practice with, tons of dialects, slang, […]

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A Reading Of New York Times Notable Book “Lab Girl” By Geobiologist Hope Jahren

By aubrieamstutz | February 5, 2018 | Category Uncategorized

On February 2, 2018 I had the honor of reading a segment of Hope Jahren’s memoir Lab Girl. From the New York Times Review: Her engrossing new memoir, “Lab Girl,” is at once a thrilling account of her discovery of her vocation and a gifted teacher’s road map to the secret lives of plants — […]

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Discipline through liberty: Learning enabled with Montessori

By aubrieamstutz | June 23, 2017 | Category Uncategorized

By: Aubrie Amstutz (Note: This article was originally published on The Lux Science Blog) I had always dreamed of being a public school student. I went about my work as if instructed directly by a teacher, craving the traditional assignment and completion gratification cycle, wanting so badly to sit in neat lines with eyes pointed […]

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Why is a “Customer Success Architect” important?

By aubrieamstutz | May 11, 2017 | Category Uncategorized

I am proud to announce that I successfully completed Docusign’s Customer Success Architect Certification Course at this year’s Momentum. Momentum is Docusign’s annual conference in San Francisco, Ca. A Customer Success Architect specializes in building a foundation for success with a product and ensuring all stakeholders are satisfied with both the hard and soft dollar ROI. […]

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TESOL in the Virtual World

By aubrieamstutz | April 29, 2017 | Category Uncategorized

“TESOL in the Virtual World” is a talk given at the Los Padres CATESOL Conference on April 29th, 2017: Virtual learning is increasing in popularity with access to technology. How can technology best be used to increase engagement and improve access among distance learners? In this talk, I consider the pros and cons of virtual […]

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