Kinds of Smarts

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! We have been talking about some endangered species all over the word. In this case, endangered species in Australia, in which continent has over thirty million years of geographical isolation. That’s why there they have unique animal and plant species. However, this rich …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Tigers are the largest of all big cats. Five subspecies remain alive today, of which the Bengal tiger is the most common but not the biggest. It is found in a wide range of forest and mangrove habitats in India and Bangladesh. The …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Now a days a lot of different animal species have disappeared and continue in danger of disappearing due to our lack of interest in other lives, lives that are not ours and that can’t express what they think or feel. We need to …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Barbary sheep are naturally found in Northern Africa in Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan and northern Chad. There are introduced populations in southeastern Spain and southwestern United States, Mexico and some parts of Africa. The Barbary sheep is about 80 to 100cm tall …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Albert Einstein, in all his scientific glory once said, ‘Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. We all know that the rhino is in …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Although the Mellotron and the Moog were already known and used Synthesisers by bands like The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and many others in the 60’s, it was not until the late 70’s that this instruments became a main piece in the musical composition …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! “In the shadow play, acting out your own death, knowing no more…” Joy Division – Shadow Play (1979) For some people the sound is quite similar; the bass intensifies, the lyrics are deep and romantic, the voices are particular; the entire environment reminds …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Initially, new wave was a movement away from the traditional album-oriented rock of the early 70s so you could say new wave often mixed with the punk genre since they were roughly on the same trajectory at the time. New wave incorporated elements …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Country music, also known as country and western (or simply country), and hillbilly music, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s. It takes its roots from genres such as folk music (especially Appalachian folk and Western music) and blues. Country music often consists a lot of …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! An adjective is a word that describes something (a noun) or someone (a person). Adjectives sometimes appear after the verb To Be He is short. She is tall. Adjectives sometimes appear before a noun. Red car Old hat BUT… Sometimes we need to use more than one adjective to describe something …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! The “Ught” sound: Daughter Caught, Thought, Fought, Naughty. So the conjunction of ught is pronounced as an “awt” sound, any word with these combined words will be pronounced with an awt. The “Ight” sound: Fight, Light, Sight, Night, Right these words are pronounced …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Learn why we use rising intonation in American English and practice with examples. We use rising tone at the end of yes/no questions and when asking a statement as a question to check and confirm our understanding of what we mean by rising …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! In the formation of consonants, the airstream through the vocal tract is obstructed in some way. Some of the possible places of articulation are indicated by the arrows going from one of the lower articulators to one of the upper articulators in Figure 1. …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Practicing  Speaking  is  one  of  the  most  fun  and  rewarding  parts  of Learning  English.  Once  you  can  speak  even  a  little English, there  are loads  of  ways to  improve  your  skills   while  having  lots  of  fun. 1.- DON´T  STUDY  GRAMMAR  TOO  MUCH: This  …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Qigong also called Chi Kung is a technique used in traditional Chinese Medicine for maintaining and improving health. Qigong contains very delicate and slow movements that allow to relax the nervous system. Through these movements the extremities are stretched and carried out in …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Qi gong is an umbrella term that subsumes a variety of energy-based healing practices based on Taoist philosophy and principles of Chinese medical theory. Qigong translates from Chinese to mean, roughly, to cultivate or enhance the inherent functional (energetic) essence of the human …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Qigong is an ancient energy healing method used in Chinese medicine that has its origins before written language. It may be one of the oldest healing practices known to mankind. Most published studies are in Chinese language journals and have examined the effectiveness …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Self smarts (or intrapersonal intelligence) is the ability to know oneself and to act on the basis of this self-knowledge. This includes having an accurate picture of oneself. In other words, people who have highly developed self smarts tend to be extremely self-reflective. …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! A martial art is one of the methods of fighting, often without weapons, that comes from the far east, for example Kung Fu, Karate or Judo. Many martial arts, especially those from Asia, also teach side disciplines which pertain to medicinal practices. This …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! It’s hard to avoid conflict entirely, both in the workplace and elsewhere in life. It’s human nature to disagree. Poor communication or interpersonal tension can easily cause simple disagreements. Conflict management skills revolve around making sure everyone feels heard and respected while negotiating …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Communication is the essential element of good relationships. Whether it is at a personal level or at a professional level, communication is key to build powerful and healthy relationships. Even though becoming a good speaker might seem like something desirable, becoming a good …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Solving problems is one of the most difficult actions humans can do because the pride always comes first all the time. But for a long time, psychologists had learned that is easy to do this with the next simple steps. First you need …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! A roundtable is a focus event to closely explore specific issues identified elsewhere, or to identify new issues not addressed before. It can be used to explore solutions, define actions and develop strategies. A roundtable confronts issues rather than people. The premise on …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Persuasion is an umbrella term of influence. Persuasion can attempt to influence a person’s beliefs, attitudes, intentions, motivations, or behaviors. Persuasion is also an often-used tool in the pursuit of personal gain, such as election campaigning, giving a sales pitch, or in trial …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Deductive reasoning can be a useful tool for analyzing a situation or issue and coming up with a specific solution or answer. You can use a deductive argument to a family member’s issue or problem. Start by gathering information from your sister in …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Logic smart (or logical-mathematical intelligence) is the capacity to work with numbers and to reason well. This includes discerning logical patterns or relationships and efficiently categorizing, classifying, and calculating information and data. In other words, people with highly developed logic smarts tend to …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Good detectives, who are selected from good patrol officers, are sufficiently educated to have acquired the ability to articulately communicate orally and in writing. Some are genetically predisposed to have thought processes that facilitate investigative thought and attention to detail, all learn from …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! The crime genre is now more popular than ever before; its success is not only because of fantastic writers who have crafted intricate stories, but also for its wide variety of subgenres: from classics such as Sherlock Holmes to the booming true crime …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Have you ever tried solving a brain teaser? Was it hard? If you are one of those people who like mental games, you might have thought about doing one of your own; and if so, how do you think it has to be …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Unity in design occurs when the elements in a space work together in such a way that the resulting look is balanced and harmonious. It is difficult to achieve unity without harmony.  Harmony is accomplished by the repetition of a particular design element, such as color, …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! The rhythm in graphic design has different definitions, but mostly shows a repeated pattern to feel more organized. In here we can find some relevant elements that are going to be helpful for our creations, like for example lines, repetition, intricate details, gradation, …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! When we draw, we have certain expectation.  Why? Because correct proportions, no amount of shading will make your disproportional drawing look good. Artist refer to the size as a relationships between objects. Let’s take our face for example. We have a symmetric proportion. …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Compare any two elements in a design. Either the elements will be equal in every way or one will exert some level of dominance over the other. The most dominant element will attract the eye and get noticed first. It might even appear …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Contrast is the difference in luminance or color that makes an object distinguishable. In visual perception of the world surround us, contrast is determined by the difference in the color and brightness of the object and other objects within the same field of view. Contrast sensitivity and visual acuity Visual acuity is a parameter that is …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! So far, we have chosen and written the script for a theatre scene, but understanding it completely can be quite difficult. The main issue being that a script is a literary genre on its own, so the structure is quite different to a …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Talent packaging is the process of attaching writers, actors, directors, producers, crew or other essential ingredients to a project. Finding a good script means writing the script yourself or finding a screenwriter to write it. A great screenwriter can take a mediocre idea …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Imagine  you´re  asking  a cab  driver  if  He´ll  take  you  to  a  shopping  center  five  kilometers away  and  He  replies-in  the  most  chilling,  low,  flat  voice  you  have  ever  heard- “Sure.  Get  in.  Would  you  get in? Now  imagine  there´s  another  car  behind  …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! “(…) between industry and the underground, between artifice and authenticity, between the adventurers and the curators, between rock and pop, between dumb and clever, and between boys and girls.” -Bob Stanley (Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! : The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Genuine listening has become a rare gift—the gift of time. It helps build relationships, solve problems, ensure understanding, resolve conflicts, and improve accuracy. Here are some steps to help you develop effective listening skills. Step 1: Face the speaker and maintain eye contact. …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! HELTER SKELTER by The Beatles is considered one of the first HARD ROCK songs in history, being a brave experiment back in the 60’s when soft music and psychedelia were merging in the popular taste and culture. It was not until the 70’s …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Electronic music has increased its popularity during the last decades and it seems that is one of the most demanded means for musical production nowdays. Electronic music employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology. In general, one distinction could be …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! The Rhythm and blues has evolved over the decades of use,  generally it has been associated with music made predominately by black artists and musicians although it were right or wrong. Originally R&B had been used since the 1940s as a substitution of …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Qigong (pronounced chee-gong) is an ancient Chinese exercise and healing technique that involves meditation, controlled breathing and movement exercises (also known as Kinaesthetic sensations). When you practice and learn a qigong exercise movement, there are both external movements and internal movements. These internal …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Is a Chinese practice of aligning breath, movement, and awareness for exercise, healing, and martial arts training, extends back more than 4,000 years. Archeological evidence suggests that the first forms of qigong can be linked to ancient shamanic meditative practice and gymnastic exercises. …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Healing It’s harder to remedy an illness than to prevent it, and Qigong has powerful preventive effects. However, when disharmony becomes apparent, Qigong exercises also can play a crucial role in restoring harmony. Qigong movement and postures are shaped by the principle of …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! The Qigong it’s the base of Chinese knowledge about the Qi, and studies the primary interrelation of these with the human being, and the capacity that both have to generate effects each other. The human being has the faculty of move or control …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Sometimes we have a bad feeling about someone or the intentions that person has. We always have that friend that say: be careful with that person because I don’t like his/her intentions, well you should listen to your friend because there’s people that …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! In life as much as in work, it’s important to know how to provide feedback to others, effectively and constructively without causing offence. There are many opportunities in life for providing others with feedback, from commenting on the way that your colleague has …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Empathy is simply recognizing emotions in others, and being able to “put yourself in another person’s shoes” – understanding the other person’s perspective and reality. To be empathic, you have to think beyond yourself and your own concerns. Once you see beyond your …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Intuition is the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning. You could say that intuition is something that one knows from instinct, like a hunch. You may think that you’re good at guessing what others are thinking, but… How …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! There are four main kinds of word formation: prefixes, suffixes, conversion and compounds. Prefixes We add prefixes before the base or stem of a word. Examples                                       Prefixes monorail, monolingual               mono – means ‘one’ multipurpose, multicultural      multi – means ‘many’ Suffixes We add suffixes …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! “What?” “Can you say that again?” How many times do you hear this when you’re speaking? Even if your vocabulary and English grammar are perfect, it can still be difficult for people to understand you because of your pronunciation. Learning to pronounce English words correctly can be …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Practicing  English  is  one  of  the  funniest  and  most  rewarding  part  when  it  comes  to  learn  English.  Once  you  start  to  speak,  there  are  different  ways  to  improve  your  skills  quickly  while  having  lots  of  fun.  Here  are  some  tips  to  improve  your  …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Phonetics is a science that deals with the sounds of human speech. The sounds of human speech are very complex and have been studied for centuries. Through the history of linguistics as a science, phonetics has always been an important part of language studies.  Phonetics is …

  Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Learn how to improve your intonation and have better conversations in English. Intonation has an important role in communicating the meaning behind your words and changing your tone can help you express how you feel in conversations in English. Improving your intonation …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Since European settlement and introduced predators, hundreds of species have become extinct in Australia. Today, nearly 1 in 3 of our unique mammals is at risk of extinction! Just to mention some of the endangered species, we have: Black-flanked Rock-wallaby: They live in rugger rocky areas. …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! The Iberian Lynx is one of the most endangered animals in Europe. Only 404 cats live in the Mediterranean forests of the Iberian Peninsula. Back in 2002 The Iberian Lynx had a shrinking population of less than 100 individuals. Thanks to the effort …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Snow leopards are the most elusive, the most secretive and smallest of the big cats. They are the only ones, from the Panthera family, that cannot roar. Their habitat is the harsh mountains of central Asia, from the Himalayas to the Hindu Kush …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! World’s known biodiversity oscillates around 1.7 million described species, but more than 26,000 are threatened with extinction at some level. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies species into nine groups, which represent lower risk (3 categories), threatened (3), and extinct …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! We as a human are the most endangerous species to end with the ecosystems and natural habitat of many animals, talking about felling of trees, hunting and traffic of wild animals. It’s the case of the Northern White Rhino, functionally extinct on March …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Logic smart is usually well developed in mathematicians, scientists, and detectives.  As detectives they have to think in the possible cases when someone suffers a murder or a crime. Sherlock Holmes is a perfect example he dedicated a lot of time to “defining …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! During the history of humanity, men have improved their world basically solving problems, sometimes in innovative ways and some other not very disruptive ways, however they have gone beyond and have developed many techniques which help them overcome the setback they have found. …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! “Reading is meant for reading” …. This is the first logic we can find about the detective novels, but why are they so successful? Some people believe that detectives’ literature is a way to escape from reality, nevertheless the detective story addicts claim …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Deductive reasoning, also deductive logic, logical deduction is the process of reasoning from one or more statements (premises) to reach a logically certain conclusion. The Greek philosopher Aristotle, who is considered the father of deductive reasoning, wrote the following classic example: All men are mortal. Socrates is a …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! People with Logical intelligence process information through logic and reason. They are attracted to investigation by means of the scientific method. They do well with quantitative methods that rely on the researcher’s ability to observe and reach a verifiable conclusion. They dislike nebulous …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! When it comes to working with elements in a design we have two basic classes to work with. We have positive forms and negative space. The most basic form we can use is the abstract point or it’s concrete sibling the dot. We …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre!  Hello guys, today we are going to talk about value and space as part of graphic design. The value is used most of the part for the colors, from the darkest one to the lightest one, it can be used to give a …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Shape is a figure or surface area enclosed by a boundary, such as circle, triangle, rectangle, square, star, crescent, hexagon and heart. We can see them all around us. These can be in two-dimensional Shape or three-dimensional. They can be formed by curved …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Balance in design is the distribution of elements of the design. Balance is a visual interpretation of gravity in the design. Large, dense elements appear to be heavier while smaller elements appear to be lighter. You can balance designs in three ways: Symmetrical …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Role playing is a way of working through a situation, a scenario, or a problem by assuming roles and practicing what to say and do in a safe setting. This kind of learning experience has several benefits and advantages even rehearsals of personal …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! It has  been widely argued that  speech makes up only  a  fraction of Human Communication. The researcher Albert Mehrabian famously broke it down as follows: 55% of communication is through Body Language. 38% tone of voice. 7% relies on the meaning of the actual words themselves. Regardless  of  …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Moving your body when you act it’s a tough mission on its own, but doing it according to the musical score is an even greater ordeal! So, in order to begin this adventure we need to know how we react to music. What …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Time to get ready to learn the alphabet, it doesn’t matter if you are an advanced member or if you are just starting; you may find yourself realizing you don’t know the alphabet — WHAAT? NO WAY! — Yeah, instead of being ashamed …

Learnex, English Forever ¡Aprende Inglés para Siempre! Little Shop of Horrors Storyline: It’s a horror-comedy story originally created in the 1960’s played by Jack Nicholson and it tells us the life of the clumsy Seymour Krelboyne who works in a Flower Shop which owner is Mr. Mushnik. Seymour works together …