Media

What adults can learn from kids

 Adora Svitak Child prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs “childish” thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity and especially optimism. Kids’ big dreams deserve high expectations, she says, starting with grownups’ willingness to learn from children as much as to teach.

Read More

The linguistic genius of babies

Patricia Kuhl Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another — by listening to the humans around them and “taking statistics” on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show

Read More

Speak to the heart

About the fragrance of languages and how a sick frog can save your day. Marleen is a philologist and a communication expert with a passion for storytelling and languages. On her seriously playful blog, she writes about the joys and

Read More

CRAFTSMAN PRINCE (Cartoon)

Multfilm subtitrlari O’zbekiston davlat jahon tillari universitetining katta o’qituvchisi (Ingliz tili) Zumradxon Shukurova boshchiligidagi guruh tomonidan tayyorlangan.

Read More

FRIENDS (Cartoon)

The cartoon subtitles were made by a team led by Zumrad Shukurova, a senior lecturer (English) at the Uzbekistan State World Languages University.

Read More

BOTIR’S HAPPINESS (Cartoon)

The cartoon subtitles were made by a team led by Zumrad Shukurova, a senior lecturer (English) at the Uzbekistan State World Languages University.

Read More

Why do we love? A philosophical inquiry

Skye C. Cleary Ah, romantic love; beautiful and intoxicating, heart-breaking and soul-crushing… often all at the same time! If romantic love has a purpose, neither science nor psychology has discovered it yet – but over the course of history, some

Read More

Who am I? A philosophical inquiry

Amy Adkins Throughout the history of mankind, the subject of identity has sent poets to the blank page, philosophers to the agora and seekers to the oracles. These murky waters of abstract thinking are tricky to navigate, so it’s probably

Read More

Questioning the universe

Stephen Hawking In keeping with the theme of TED2008, professor Stephen Hawking asks some Big Questions about our universe — How did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone? — and discusses how we might go about

Read More

ADVENTURES OF THE SMARTBOY

Adventures of the Smartboy. The cartoon subtitles were made by a team led by Zumrad Shukurova, a senior lecturer (English) at the Uzbekistan State World Languages University.

Read More