Learning

(some of the books I went through)

I read technology news every morning and this morning I read about why Google wanted to buy local coupon site GroupOn. The woman interviewed said, for Google, it's much easier to buy into a market than to build up from nothing because with the former, you get a team of people who know what they're doing and they already understand the market. In effect, paying for something saves time. It got me thinking about some of the things I wish I had not done alone and it turns out that learning Portuguese is one of those things. Sure, some people are impressed when they hear that I learned it on my own but I wonder if that is worth the fact that I probably added on a few years to my goal of reaching fluency by doing it the way I did. READ MORE>

We are thrilled to be one of the first to publish lessons on Knoodle, a new on-demand learning platform that just launched this week. The Street Smart Brazil presentations have beautiful slides integrated with video. You have photos, text, image, and voice to make your learning fun and effective. Knoodle offers both free and low-cost lessons. Street Smart Brazil's first two lessons are offered free! READ MORE>