"The enchanting music of sign language" by Christine Sun Kim

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Christine was born as a deaf woman. She was taught to believe that sound wasn’t part of her life. But she finally find another way which can change if sound was very much part of her life. She told about English Sign Language (ESL) based on her experience. As a deaf person who living in a world of sound she can understand the sound in two ways, those are first, watching people response the sound, the people like loudspeaker for her and she learn and mirror that behavior. Second, in the same time she learn to create the sound and see how people respond to her, this is sound etiquette. Deaf culture, movement is equivalent to the sound. Now sound is her new art medium. She surprised knowing sound has similarities with ESL and music. For example, a musical note cannot be fully captured and expressed on paper. And the same holds true for a concept in ASL. They’re both highly spatial and higly inflected meaning that subtle changes can affect the entire meaning of both signs and sounds. She told that envision of piano is like representative of sound. This represents how time is expressed in ASL. She said that ASL a rich treasure that we can learn and take a part and she make us realize to open our mind to take part in our culture and experience our visual language.

"Why Is 'X' The Unknown?" by Terry Moore

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Terry Moore Learned Arabic about six years ago, that is supremely logical language. That is way he know why X the unknown is. In Arabic writing, the sentences or phrases is like crafting an equation because every part carries have a lot of information. One of the reason that Western science are mathematics and engineering, including Al-jabra in English algebra that really affected of the common Era by the Persians, Arabs, and turks which influence Europe (Spain). The problem for Spanish scholar in translate the material of Arabic is letter sheen and word shaian cannot be rendered into Spanish because Spanish do not have SH sound. They borrow CK sound from classical Greek in the form of letter Kai. So, when Kai translate into a common European language to say Latin, they replace the Greek Kai with the Latin X. The conclusion to answer why “X” is unknown because we cannot say sound  "SH " in Spanish. 

"Txting Is Killing Language.. JK !!!" by John McWhorter

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Writing has certain advantages when you write, it is a conscious process because you can look backwards. Speech is much looser, much more telegraphic, it is very different from writing. So, the languages is speech. As history has gone by the natural for there to be a certain amount of bleed between writing and speech. For example, in this era when someone give the speech to basically talk like writing.  Someone who talking like writing have to type the text first, if she/he do not make by herself, she/he ask people to write what wanna talk, it’s mean the receiver of writing have to have good receive the message and quickly. Texting is very loose in its structure, no one think about capital letters or punctuation in one text. In the new kind of language there is new structure coming up. For example, in texting a convention which is LOL, now the generally think LOL is “Laughing out load” but if you text now or someone is aware of substrate of texting it’s become different meaning. In short, he told that texting these days is that what we are seeing is a whole new way of writing that young people are developing.

"How to Make Stress Your Friend" by Kelly McGonigal

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Kelly McGonigal is a health psychologist, her mission are make people happy and health. People have stress experience and most of them maybe say about stress in negative like stress is a disease. But she think differently, stress can make us healthier when we change our mind about it. In a study conducted at Harvard University, before the test takers went through the social stress test, they were taught to rethink their stress response as helpful. That pounding heart is preparing them for action. If they are breathing faster, it is no problem. It is getting more oxygen to their brain. Well, they were less stress, less anxious and more confident. On the result of the example, the oxytocin work in brain and body.  So, sometimes stress can give energy to us.

"3 ways to speak English" by Jamila Lyiscott

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Jamilia Lyiscott is an articulate woman, she told her experience about her articulate languages. She can articulate in three ways, those are with her family, lecturer/teacher and friend. When her professor ask question and her answer is tainted with a connotation of urbanized suggestion and her professor do not pay intention to her because she is articulate, when her mother asking something she also answer by articulate. English is a multifaceted oration subject to indefinite transformation. She say about their rules of language, when her mommy say “ya’ll-be-madd-going-to-the-store” that mean the sentences not follow the law because never word “madd”  go before present participle. She speak not based on America or British structure but she speak broken English and American sound is foolish to British English. The point from her experience being articulated person is just speak in the way like we want.

 "Learn to read Chinese.. with ease" by ShaoLan

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ShaoLan is an calligrapher’s daughter that grew up in Taiwan. When she was a young, her mother introduced and showed chinese characters. She told that  since the age of five years old, she learned how to draw all shape of Chinese character correctly. And then, she learned new characters every day during the course of the next 15 years. She thought how the way to make fast method of learning Chinese language. She explained an ordinary way to know chinese language easily. She draws a shape that indicates person. Then, shape of the fire is a person with two arms on both sides as if yell frantically. After that, continue with a tree mountain, sun and moon. The symbol of the door looks like a pair of saloon doors in the wild west. The method is called as eight characters radicals. Those are the building blocks for people to create lots more characters. Not only that, she also explained about build an extra 32 which this method we can make phrases.

 "How to learn? from mistakes" by Diana Laufenberg

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Diana Laufenberg talks about her teaching experience in several schools. she taught from Wisconsin and to small town in Arkansas where is teach subject about American Government, after that she moved to Arizona where she taught about Geography. Next, she moved to Pennsylvania at the Science leadership Academy where the students always bring leptop everyday for getting the information. From the experiences she learn a lot of things such as how to teach well and what kind problem that students face. Many people go to school for getting information. In short, based on her experiences she think that the main point is if we still think that education just get if we go to school and only for getting information not for experiential learning, students voice and embracing the failure, it means we are missing the goals of education its self. So, to create a quality of education we have to change the other way in teaching as a teacher exactly.