When I first started reading "The Philosophy of the Common Task" by Nikolai Fyodorov I got the sense that the enthusiasts for "transhumanism" had interpreted him incorrectly as a source for the idea of an end point of ...
Fyodorov – founder of Russian Cosmism
Cosmic Dancer on the Bomb Shelter
Когда впервые начал читать книгу "Философия общего дела" Николая Фёдорова, мне казалось, что энтузиасты "трансгуманизма" и ...
Фёдоров – основоположник “русского космизма”
Космический танцор на бомбоубежище
I think this video would make a good starting point, and I like the style. Pretty coloured letters and singing.
The advantage is that you get a better idea of the possible sounds for each letter put together with one ...
This video feels a bit out of sequence comparing it with other materials I'm looking at - but it does help to systematise the information about vowels:
The three long vowels aleph wow and ya were all included in the ...
lesson two – seven letters. ha kha and jim are just distinguished by the position of dots. Ha without, kha above and jim before/on the right. I think it could be a right-to-left J. Ayn and ghain also distinguished by dot ...
I'm using Anki as well as cardboard flashcards. The earlier Anki one was already a bit distanced from the paradigm of the two sided flashcard: If you think of a flat piece of cardboard – you just naturally have to look at ...
I'm putting together the pronunciations for the first eight letters of the Arabic alphabet from one page with the picture from this page which shows how to write the letters, and also how to write their names.
The first set ...
Bryan Garner's advice today is relevant to the project of simplification: "Build your vocabulary to make yourself a better reader; choose simple words whenever possible to make yourself a better writer."
This idea would ...
Garner’s tip of the day
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Silverstein comments (1995) that the inclusion of words like "ink" and "porter" point up the "fierce sociohistorical locatability" of the Basic English 850. This article mentions the idea of semantic primes - developed by ...
keywords, semantic primes,
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Zizek points out the strange kind of double bind that can occur when the hegemonic ideas in a society are precisely those of individual freedom of choice, free speech and tolerance (not that these are bad things in ...
Small group work – The humane teacher forces you to choose a topic.
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Yatskar et al. (2010) have a paper on extracting simplifications automatically from the editing process of Simple English wikipedia. A few points gleaned from that:
about 18,000 people work on Simple English ...
under-researched field…
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My project for this summer involves Simple English wikipedia and the use of English as a foreign language in legal contexts. Some years ago I made a proposal of an open source lexical syllabus but never seemed to have the ...
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