We put our trust in generations' worth of language and technology, not in our frail biology.
I took years worth of language classes, downloaded all the latest apps and even bought a Muzzy tape or two off of eBay – all to no avail.
Cramming is not good you can't fit an entire semesters worth of language into a couple of hours.
We have a sense of what speaking Yiddish, Arrernte, or Chickasaw means to the Yiddish, Arrernte, or Chickasaw communities, but we don't sufficiently talk about the worth of these languages to everyone else.
Whitney High School offers a college preparatory-based curriculum where students are required to take four years of language arts, three and a half years of social studies, three years of mathematics and science each, three years of physical education, and one year's worth of foreign languages, technology and applied sciences, and visual and performing arts (VAPA).
In addition to traditional classes, she teaches a summer course that packs a year's worth of Russian language study into two intensive months.
He should know: though his start-up only started up in 2009, it is on course to sell $8m worth of English-language-learning gizmos this year.Mr Choi talks of the prevailing "mood between parents, students, and government" which regards interactive, tech-based learning as the way of the future.
Tim Tebow has $5 million worth of recapture language, meaning Jets would have to pay back money to Denver.
The type systems in these languages are very different from a language like Java or C. It is worth trying these kinds of languages to see the sort of things you need to do to code around not having this kind of type system – unit testing, metaprogramming techniques, duck typing, and so on.
This is our time to recognize the worth of learning another language to our well-being, personal development and inner wisdom.
