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I am developing the perfect flashcard app and you can contribute
My journey as an English student started 4 years ago when i made a trip to New York. During high school everyone was telling me how important being able to speak more than a language was. But it wasn't until i had the experience of being in a non-spanish speaking country that i realized that learning english was an absolute MUST.
So when i came back to Argentina I did what everyone who "wants" to learn English does, I enroll in an institute, and the next year I quit this institute to enroll in another and then in another.
¿What was the problem? The classes were so freaking boring, that's how i bumped into Italki and started booking one to one sessions.
During my years in english insitutes i did learn something: For learning vocabulary DON'T study the translations, that's what all my classmates were doing and actually the way they taught us!. Here is how i outperformed my classmates: Every time i had to learn a new word i did a fast google search trying to see examples, collocations and images of the word being used in the real world.
I got used to learn new vocabulary by looking at images that a new need was born: I NEED A TOOL THAT ALLOWS ME TO KEEP ALL MY VOCABULARY IN ONE PLACE, AND HAS IMAGE SEARCH, DICTIONARIES, TRANSLATORS, ALL IN ONE PLACE.
That's how I decided to develop my learning platform it is called FlashcardX. and it is a place where you can create your collection of flashcards and store them securely in the cloud, access them from any device. but also it has manny tools than will boost your experience. for right now it is only available in spanish(spanish is the language of the app, but you can use it to learn any language and manny other subjects too), it is an open source project. and I aim to make it ultimate platform for learning vocabulary and more. You can check it out at: www.flashcardx.co.
You can send my a message on Italki if you wanna contribute with the platform, give some feedback or just ask me how to use it!
December 27, 2017
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My new learning platform - Be a partner
Hello My Name is Pablo, I am building a new learning platform that i know will change the paradigm of how we learn, i am looking for partners who want to work with us and to experiment for creating a new learning experience!, below I will let a document describing this idea, and how the partnership program we opened will work, By the way this is the first time i write a document like this. So if you have any suggestions i will be happy to hear them.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XPaOEaoCMaleQMtftsYnjEi1XkQ8UQjtBI_iBAVVzzE/edit?usp=sharing
October 23, 2017
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The magic of Eye Contact
As long as it may seem the most obvious thing in the world for confident people who take it for granted there are also a lot of folks like me perhaps that whether because of lack of self esteem, habit or just neglect they just don't look other people to the eyes while talking.
Having at least 50% sustained gaze in to an strange's eyes can feel a little uncomfortable if you are not used to it, i have spent 20 years of life terrifying this, i never was a confident as a child neither as a teenager, the use of glasses and an squint left eye didn't help, but the main reason was just ignorance. Since this last year i am really at studying human relationships, social dynamics and even in the PUA world(i just finished reading "The Game" by Neil Strauss awesome book). I wanted(and still want since this is just the beginning of what i hope will be a life-changing journey) to become a good communicator an to connect more with people, not just for my own benefit but because i think is really cool. As long as i started practicing to talk more to people, and more important to listen to them i was amazed by the good results it got. People love to be listened, but still i was missing the most important part, eye contact, it was the perfect the moment to implement it, one step at a time, practicing with relatives and setting reminders all around the house, this is the most important part otherwise you will forget all this within hours, believe me.
After a month of implementing this technique i can tell this was one of the most important discoveries of my life, most people really feel appreciated when you do it, like if you were 100% with them and not thinking in other stuff, also after overcoming the discomfort part i feel like 100 times more connected with the person, and it helps me to focus on them, even girls seem to be more attracted to it, there is a rule that says the perfect amount of eye contact for most situations is 60%, and i do believe it, this should not annoyed anyone, of course there are situations that require lower percentage and others that require a higher one(these are the bests :) ) use your insights!.
Its incredible how sometimes we can forget or like in my case never "learn" something as simple, and so human, if you are like my "old" self please you got to try it and make me know how are you dealing with it!
April 20, 2016
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My "struggle" for getting a first job as a programmer part 1
All this strange(perhaps emotionally hard) journey started almost a year now, when at my 20 years old and with very limited skills(let`s say in most of the fields) I decided that is was time to start applying the stuff i had been studying at the university for more than a year, (I study computer engineering by the way), into the real life. I was bored of school, so with so little knowledge of how the things worked in this field i made up my first cv, an really ugly cv, but not that ugly as the photo on it lol.
So i sended the cv to a couple of companies that were looking sophomores, next day i received 3 calls(i had just applyed for 2 companies) , the problem? the 3 of them were full time consuming and i would not have time for school, one seemed perfect(EY is the compan'ys name), it was distance IT support(i could work from home), so i would have to talk in english with company`s clients from all around the world, i was thrilled, but here came the thing i had to do an english test, and at that time i was't pretty good, so i was out. then was another one that semmed pretty good(accenture) but i felt that the company didnt care much neither about me nor any of their employees so i passed, maybe you think that im really complicated, perhaps you are corrects, but at that time i wasn`t needing monet, i just wanted a job for learning new skills besides the college, it was not worth it to have a job that i didn't like and were i would not learn new things, i were looking for cool experiences.
Then i stayed a time without thinking about work, but working in my own skills. when december came over thw wanna-work attack depression started popping again, so i went down in seek. i got a call from a company for a work as a developer, the only problem was that I didn`t feel with the values of the companies (if it has any), i am feel person, i love doing things that follow my values, nonetheless i went to the interview against my own will. i had to do a skills test, even tough i thought i did pretty bad at the test, and i still do, they call me for a "psychotecnic interview" ,.So i showed up at their offices, where a uncortable woman that presented herself as a psicolog took to her place first question: "why do you want to work to our company? " answer: "i don`t know... (some not feeled shit)", then we continued whit logic tests, all of them were perfect(or at least it semmed like because the interviewer`s poker face wasn`t giving any clew). finally the hardest..
April 18, 2016
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