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🎙️🎙️🎙️🎙️ Modify (v) — /ˈ mɒd.ɪ.faɪ /, Meaning : to make minor changes in; to adapt. Example 1: He modified the recipe by using oil instead of butter. Example 2: She modified her car to run on solar power as well as gasoline. Don’t forget to leave a reaction)😎 #P70 #Vocabulary 💾 @Podcastant — Where Voices Become Legacy.

🎙️🎙️🎙️🎙️ THE LESSON ON DANCING. I have loved dancing ever since I can remember. It was a part of my life when I was growing up and it is still important to me now. It has to be the best way to exercise. What can be better than dancing to your favourite songs? I love going to clubs and discos. I can dance all night long. I never get tired of it. When I was small, I used to go to school discos. I’d also dance at the parties my parents, friends and neighbours had. I don’t think I’ll ever stop dancing. I also love looking at dancing. Ballet is beautiful. Dances from all over the world are beautiful. I think the life of a professional dancer must be a good one. One thing that always amazes me is how much children love dancing. I think dancing must be in their blood. Don’t forget to leave a reaction)😎 #P69 #Story 💾 @Podcastant — Where Voices Become Legacy.

🎙️🎙️🎙️🎙️ Anticipate (v) — / ænˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt /, Meaning : to expect or look forward to Example 1: The organizers of the fair anticipate a large crowd. Example 2: We anticipate great pleasure from our visit to London. Don’t forget to leave a reaction)😎 #P68 #Vocabulary 💾 @Podcastant — Where Voices Become Legacy.

🎙️🎙️🎙️🎙️ Involve (v) — / ɪnˈvɒlv /, Meaning : to make (someone) a part of something Example 1: I don't want to get involved with this; it sounds like a terrible idea. Example 2: A decision like that should involve you. Don’t forget to leave a reaction)😎 #P67 #Vocabulary 💾 @Podcastant — Where Voices Become Legacy.

🤨 If you had ONLY ONE choice…

🎙️🎙️🎙️🎙️ BRUCE LEE PHILOSOPHY!

I mean I might it might sound too philosophical but it's acting acting or acting and acting if you you've lost me so what I'm saying actually you see I mean it's a combination of both I mean here it is the natural instinct and here is control you are to combine the two in harmony not if you have one to the extreme you will be very unscientific if you have another to the extreme you become all of a sudden a mechanical man no longer a human being so you it is a successful combination of both so therefore it is not only I mean so therefore is not pure natural illness or unnaturalness the ideal is unnatural naturalness of natural unnaturalness yin yang man that's it if you don't have style if you just say well here here I am you know as as a human being how can i express myself totally and completely now that way you won't create a style because style is a crystallization you know I mean that way it's a process of continuing growth and wise it's very slow or is it and you push it out but all the time you are keeping the continuity going bending stretching everything you know suppose you know I mean you just keep it moving it's like a valid answer there yeah it is I mean to them you see the ideas running water never grows there so you gotta just keep on flowing interesting that yeah we don't in our world and heaven since the days of the Greeks who did combined philosophy and art with sport but quite clearly the oriental attitudes of the three our facets are the same thing man listen you see really to me okay to me ultimately martial art means honestly expressing yourself no it is very difficult to do I mean it is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky and be flooded with a cocky feeling and then feel like pretty cool and all that oh I can make all kinds of funny thing you see what I mean blinded by it or I can show you some really fancy movement but to express oneself honestly not lying to oneself and to express myself honestly know that my friend is very hard to do and you have to train you have to keep your reflexes so that when you want it it's there when you want to move your moving and when you move you're determined to move not taking one inch not anything less than that if I want to punch I'm gonna do it man and I'm gonna do it you see so I mean so that is the type of thing you have to train yourself into it to become one with the you think be formless shapeless like water now you put water into a cup it becomes the cup you put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle you put in a teapot it becomes the teapot now water can flow or it can crash be water my friend you.

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🎙️🎙️🎙️🎙️ Encounter (v) — / ɪnˈkaʊn.tər /, Meaning : to meet; to face Example 1: The plans for a new shopping mall encountered opposition in the city council. Example 2: The pilot told us that we might encounter turbulence during the flight. Don’t forget to leave a reaction)😎 #P65 #Vocabulary 💾 @Podcastant — Where Voices Become Legacy.

🎙️🎙️🎙️🎙️ Seek (v) — / siːk /, Meaning : to look for Example 1: Snakes seek the sun to warm their bodies. Example 2: Four people who sought refuge in the Italian embassy have left voluntarily. Don’t forget to leave a reaction)😎 #P64 #Vocabulary 💾 @Podcastant — Where Voices Become Legacy.

🎙️🎙️🎙️🎙️ THE BENEFITS OF A BILINGUAL BRAIN!

So what does it really mean to know a language? Language ability is typically measured in two active parts, speaking and writing, and two passive parts, listening and reading. While a balanced bilingual has near equal abilities across the board in two languages, most bilinguals around the world know and use their languages in varying proportions. And depending on their situation and how they acquired each language, they can be classified into three general types. For example, let's take Gabriella, whose family immigrates to the US from Peru when she's twoyears old. As a compound bilingual, Gabriella develops two linguistic codes simultaneously, with a single set of concepts, learning both English and Spanish as she begins to process the world around her. Her teenage brother, on the other hand, might be a coordinate bilingual, working with two sets of concepts, learning English in school, while continuing to speak Spanish at home and with friends. Finally, Gabriella's parents are likely to be subordinate bilinguals who learn a secondary language by filtering it through their primary language. Because all types of bilingual people can become fully proficient in a language regardless of accent or pronunciation, the difference may not be apparent to a casual observer. But recent advances in brain imaging technology have given neurolinguists a glimpse into how specific aspects of language learning affect the bilingual brain. It's well known that the brain's left hemisphere is more dominant and analytical in logical processes, while the right hemisphere is more active in emotional and social ones, though this is a matter of degree, not an absolute split. The fact that language involves both types of functions while lateralization develops gradually with age, has lead to the critical period hypothesis. According to this theory, children learn languages more easily because the plasticity of their developing brains lets them use both hemispheres in language acquisition, while in most adults, language is lateralized to one hemisphere, usually the left. If this is true, learning a language in childhood may give you a more holistic grasp of its social and emotional contexts. Conversely, recent research showed that people who learned a second language in adulthood exhibit less emotional bias and a more rational approach when confronting problems in the second language than in their native one. But regardless of when you acquire additional languages, being multilingual gives your brain some remarkable advantages. Some of these are even visible, such as higher density of the grey matter that contains most of your brain's neurons and synapses, and more activity in certain regions when engaging a second language. The heightened workout a bilingual brain receives throughout its life can also help delay the onset of diseases, like Alzheimer's and dementia by as much as five years. The idea of major cognitive benefits to bilingualism may seem intuitive now, but it would have surprised earlier experts. Before the 1960s, bilingualism was considered a handicap that slowed a child's development by forcing them to spend too much energy distinguishing between languages, a view based largely on flawed studies. And while a more recent study did show that reaction times and errors increase for some bilingual students in cross-language tests, it also showed that the effort and attention needed to switch between languages triggered more activity in, and potentially strengthened, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. This is the part of the brain that plays a large role in executive function, problem solving, switching between tasks, and focusing while filtering out irrelevant information. So, while bilingualism may not necessarily make you smarter, it does make your brain more healthy, complex and actively engaged, and even if you didn't have the good fortune of learning a second language as a child, it's never too late to do.

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🎙️🎙️🎙️🎙️ Utilize (v) — /ˈ juː.təl.aɪz /, Meaning : to use Example 1: Our system utilizes the most advanced technology. Example 2: Many of the library's resources are not utilized by townspeople. Don’t forget to leave a reaction)😎 #P62 #Vocabulary 💾 @Podcastant — Where Voices Become Legacy.