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German Accusative Pronouns - Deutsch lernen
This is a quick overview of the accusative pronouns for my German 1 students. I review the nominative and accusative cases. Then I review the nominative pronouns and introduce the accusative pronouns. I also have a short puppet show in...
Curated Video
Using Context Clues to Understand Unfamiliar Words
Join us in this video to learn how to use context clues. Context clues help us identify the meaning of unknown words in texts or reading passages. When you stumble upon an unknown word, try rereading the sentence and looking for clues...
PBS
The Secret Tax Hiding in Plain Sight!
You're paying a secret tax every year... not just to the government, but also to your insurance company, your phone provider, even your employer!
The Business Professor
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
What are Key Performance Indicators of KPIs? Key performance indicators (KPIs) are targets that help you measure progress against your most strategic objectives. While organizations can have many types of metrics, KPIs are targets that...
The Business Professor
Investor Presentation - The Market
How do you demonstrate the size of the market in an investor presentation? Top-Down Market Sizing: Pulling existing data from analysts like Gartner or Forrester and estimating a market's value. Bottom-Up Market Sizing: Proving your...
The Business Professor
Founder's Stock
What are Founder's stock? Founder stock is equity ownership in a company that is granted to the company's founder or co-founders. It typically represents a direct ownership stake in the company and gives the founder voting rights and the...
The Business Professor
Executive Summary of a Business Plan
What is the Executive Summary in a business plan? An executive summary is a brief overview of a long document, such as a business plan, proposal, or report. It's a section that grabs readers' attention and summarizes critical information...
The Business Professor
Dividend Rights of Preferred Shareholders
What are Dividend Rights of Preferred Shareholders? Preferred dividends refer to the cash dividends that a company pays out to its preferred shareholders. One benefit of preferred stock is that it typically pays higher dividend rates...
The Business Professor
8 Attributes of Management Excellence
What are the 8 Attributes of Management Excellence? In their book In Search of Excellence, McKinsey consultants Tom Peters and Robert Waterman found 8 common themes which they argued were responsible for the success of 14 identified...
The Business Professor
Social Choice Theory
What is Social Choice Theory? Social choice theory or social choice is a theoretical framework for analysis of combining individual opinions, preferences, interests, or welfares to reach a collective decision or social welfare in some...
The Business Professor
Mental Frame
What is a Mental Frame? Mental framing is how you see any given situation and occurs when you position your thoughts in such a way as to convince yourself of the value of difficult situations. This positioning begins by asking a few...
Sir Linkalot
Lesson 68 - More Things That Look Like Letters (Levels 3-5)
Material Covered:Vulnerable,Susie's Story - The Prefix 'Sub' Phenomenon,Susie's Story - Phenomenon,Privilege,Benefit,Anxious
Sir Linkalot
Lesson 56 - Other Things Inside Words + Susie's Stories (Levels 3-5)
Material covered:Sausage,Special,Words beginning with 'speci' ,Convenience,Serious,Curiosity,Susie's Story - Natural,Susie's Story - Genuine
Oxford Comma
Poetic Devices Explained ENJAMBMENT and ENDSTOPPED
How do poet's decide to end their lines? How are you supposed to read them? In many ways, poetry is more like sheet music than it is a novel; knowing the difference between enjambment and end-stopped lines will help you better read it....
Debunked
English Phrases That We Get Wrong Everyday!
We've all been saying them, and we've all been wrong!
Debunked
What's The Largest Thing To Ever Live On Earth? #MYTHS#WorldRecord
We look at the largest things to have ever lived on our planet, and it doesn’t stop with the Blue Whale or the Patagotitan!
Debunked
4 Common Movie Myths About Space Debunked | Explosions, Speed, Sound and Asteroids.
Movies take a lot of dramatic license where science is concerned, but who's getting it all wrong on the silver screen. From the g-force you would suffer when achieving lightspeed to what a nuclear bomb would sound like in space we...
Curated Video
The Structure of Sign Languages
Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego), describes Bill Stokoe’s early work on analyzing sign languages and searching for the relevant parameters to characterize meaning.
Curated Video
The Flexibility of Language
David Bellos, Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, describes the extraordinary flexibility that language possesses to convey different shades of meaning.
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The Benefits of Hardship
Historian Michael Berry (UCLA) discusses how he experienced more culture shock on returning to the USA from China than in going to China.
Curated Video
Signing As Language
Sign language linguist Carol Padden relates the importance of Bill Stokoe’s pioneering work for developing a deeper understanding, not only of sign language, but of the linguistic structure of all languages.
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Camus and Suicide
Poet and independent scholar Jennifer Michael Hecht gives background to her book, Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It, while invoking some of Camus’ ideas on suicide.
Learn French With Alexa
Appeler (to call) — Past Tense
Alexa conjugates the French verb appeler (to call) in the passé composé.
Learn French With Alexa
TROUVER (TO FIND) Past, Present & Future
Alexa conjugates the French verb TROUVER (to find) in present, past and future tense.