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By Patricia Kuhl Welcome to my blog. In this opportunity, I’d like to summarize a video by Patricia Kuhl. In this video, she speaks about an interesting topic, is the linguistic genius of babies for 10.17 minutes. She opens her speech by showing a photo of baby but she will speak about something which we can not see, it is their little brain. She explains about two studies of the baby brain. The first is by using the modern tool of neuroscience are demonstrating to us what’s going on up there is nothing short of rocket science and the second is her study aims to shed some light on what the romantic writers and poets described as the “celestial openness” of the child’s mind. She also explain reason we can not preserve the language by speaking to adult because a language has a period for learning. Babies and children in their period on learning, they can preserve the language if we speak with them because they are genius. When they turn seven, there is a systematic decline. After we pub...

By Terry Moore In this chance, I would like to summarized a video by Terry Moore. He talks about why is x the unknown for 03.53 minutes. By watching this video, perhaps our curiosity will be have the answer. As we have known that x is always unknown. When we unknown about something, it indicates that we know nothing about something. Therefore we always write or say x. At the beginning of his speech, he directly say that he has the answer about our question why the letter x always represents the unknown. He told about kinds of x, which are the X prize, the X files, project X, TEDx. So, where the “x” come from? For further explanation about a mystery letter, x, stay read this summary till the end because he will reveal a mystery about “x” and enjoy it. Start when he decided to learn Arabic about six years ago, which turns out to be a supremely logical language. This language like crafting an equation when we want to write a word or a phrase or a sentence because every part is extreme...

By Kelly McGonigal Hello! Welcome back to my blog. Today I would like to summarize a Ted video by Kelly McGonigal. She talks about how to make stress your friend for 14.28 minutes. A fun topic because it is about how to make stress as our friend. Means, you do not have view stress as an enemy. Perhaps you and I have ever felt stress in our life and we do not know what and how stress really is. By reading this summary, we will know and learn about stress which explain by Kelly as a health psychologist. She has mission that is want to help people to be happier and healthier. Okay. Let move to the next paragraph. When open her speech, she asked the audience to make a confession about the level of stress. She told about what she has been teaching for 10 years is doing more harm than good because she have turned stress into the enemy. So, she has been telling the people that stress make us sick. Otherwise, she wants change our mind about stress. Are you ready for that? Keep reading! She ...

By Diana Laufenberg Diana Laufenberg had talked about how to learn from mistake. The topic which is closest to our life because we do it much and often. When we did, we promised ourselves to do not repeat again. In the fact, we did for more once. So, Diana had explained how to learn from mistake. She has been teaching for a long time, and in doing so have acquired a body of knowledge about kids and learning that she really wish more people would understand about the potential of students. The differences between she and her grandmother the way they get the knowledge and information as she has told to the audience. This was different than either generation had experienced before, and it changed the way she interacted with information even at just a small level. But the information was closer to her. She could get access to it. From Kansas, she moved on to lovely Arizona, where she taught in Flagstaff for a number of years, this time with middle school students. She taught geograph...

By Christine Sun Kim Alhamdulillah, praise be to Allah. I've summarized summarize a ted talks video by Christine Sun Kim about music of sign language. One of the interesting languages for me is sign language because we use the unspoken way to communicate with people who can not speak or hear as a normal person. So, in this video, she talks about 15.11 minutes with interesting topic. She started her speech by delivering the symbol of musical. Piano, “p” as her favorite musical symbol means to play softly. After explain about her favorite musical symbol, Kim continued about American Sign Language history and her background. First of all, French sign language was brought to America during the early 1800s. as time went by, mixed with local signs then evolved into the language as we know ASL. So, it has a history of about 200 years. Then, her background. Kim was born deaf and taught to believe that sound was not a part of her life before she realized that sound was very much part of ...

By Jamila Lyscott Holla! Welcome back to my blog. Today, I’d like to summarize a video of ted talks. In this opportunity, I’d like to summarize a video by Jamila Lyscott, an articulate person. In this video, she talks about ways to learn English for 04.29 minutes. In her speech, she speaks quickly and fluently. I would say that she is like a rapper. So, it is a bit difficult for me to catch all of her content by listen one time. So, I need more than one time to comprehend it. Hope you will understand and can learn from this summary. In the opening of her speech, she said, “today, a baffled lady observed the shell where my soul dwells and announced that I'm "articulate" which means that when it comes to enunciation and diction don't even think of it. She can speaks in three languages and adjust them based on the condition. One of her condition was when her professor asks a question and her answer was tainted with a connotation of urbanized suggestion. There’s no mis...

By Jay Walker Assalamu’alaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh Today, I’d like to summarize a video by Jay Walker. In this video, he speaks about English mania for 04.28 minutes. Perhaps, we are one of the English mania. In this video, he delivered whether a mania good or bad. So, by reading this summary and watching the video, we know about the mania especially English’s mania. He delivers three examples of manias and starts his speech with Beatle mania: hysterical teenagers, crying, screaming and pandemonium. Then with sports mania: deafening crowds and all for one idea, is get the ball in the net. Next, religious mania: there’s rapture, weeping, and visions. Mania is good. Mania can be alarming or mania can be deadly. Now, the world has a new mania is a mania for learning English. He gives example about Chinese students in learning and practice their English by screaming it. The students repeat the sentence after the teacher loudly. It happen in China. They learn English harder because...