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INTELLIGENCE : INTUITIVE QUOTIENT (5)

Intuitive Intelligence lies beyond the boundaries of science and analytics. It bridges the realms of reality and imagination, reason and instinct, material and spiritual dimensions of human existence. Intuitive Intelligence is non-linear. Intuition, argues Gerd Gigerenzer, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, is less about suddenly “knowing” the right answer and more about instinctively understanding what information is unimportant […]

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INTELLIGENCE : ADVERSITY QUOTIENT (3)

I thought i was finishing this Quotient chapter research last month, but i was wrong. My friend gave me some screenshoot about this quotient and i began to realize, “Ohhh.. there are some!” I surf and read some blogs, thesis, writing, and pdf for this quotient. It was 1997, first time Paul G. Stoltz spoke […]

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WORLD LANGUAGES (9) / AMERIND, NA-DENE, ESKIMO ALEUT ; and “The conclusion”

Today is the day, we almost finish our journey. Today, i will write about AMERICA. You know… We need to know about Native american language because, to be honest, lots of people don’t know anything about it. So, let’s digging! Amerind Amerind is a hypothetical higher-level language family proposed by Joseph Greenberg in 1960 and elaborated by his student Merritt Ruhlen. […]

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WORLD LANGUAGES (8) / PAMA-NYUNGAN ; PAPUAN

Now, we will go far to the east of south east asia and also south of earth. Papuan and Australian are next! Who’s excited?! Let’s go! Pama-Nyungan The Pama–Nyungan languages are the most widespread family of Australian Aboriginal languages, containing perhaps 300 languages. The name “Pama–Nyungan” is derived from the names of the two most widely separated groups, the Pama languages of […]

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WORLD LANGUAGES (7) / AUSTROASIATIC ; AUSTRONESIAN

We slide to South east asia and polynesia todaaaaayy.. Who’s excited?Me! HERE WE GO! Austroasiatic The Austroasiatic languages also known as Mon–Khmer, are a large language family of Mainland Southeast Asia, also scattered throughout parts of India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and southern China. There are around 117 million speakers of Austroasiatic languages. Of these languages, only Vietnamese, Khmer and Mon have a long-established recorded history and only Vietnamese and Khmer have […]

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WORLD LANGUAGES (6) / SINO-TIBETAN ; TAI-KADAI

Now, we slide into China and South-east Asia. Still long way to learn, everybody! Here we go! Sino Tibetan Sino-Tibetan languages, group of languages that includes both the Chinese and the Tibeto-Burman languages. In terms of numbers of speakers, they constitute the world’s second largest language family (after Indo-European), including more than 300 languages and major dialects. In a wider sense, Sino-Tibetan […]

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WORLD LANGUAGE (5) / URALIC ; ALTAIC

Like i promise before, we will talk about Altaic and Uralic. URAL-ALTAIC LANGUAGES! What’s that? Well, you will find out when you read this post. Lol And we start…………………..now. Ural-Altaic Ural–Altaic, Uralo-Altaic or Uraltaic is a linguistic convergence zone and former language-family proposal uniting the Uralic and the Altaic (in the narrow sense) languages. It is generally now agreed that even the Altaic languages most likely do […]

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WORLD LANGUAGE (4) / CAUCASIAN

YAY! After Africa, Europe, some Middle east, and South asia, now we are in Georgia! And Georgia used Caucasian (causasus) language. If you don’t know where’s Georgia is, it is between Russia (russian language was Slavic from Balto-Slavic, Indo-european branches) and Armenia (armenia language was armenian, Indo-european branches) & Turkic (we will learn about Turkic […]

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WORLD LANGUAGE (3) / NILO SAHARAN ; DRAVIDIAN

We are already researching languages from North Africa & some Middle East, West Africa, South Africa, and Europe and some south Asia. Today, we will back to Central Africa and other side of South Asia’s languages. WORLD LANGUAGES Let’s dig more! Nilo Saharan The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by some 50–60 million people, […]

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WORLD LANGUAGE (2) / KHOISAN ; INDO-EUROPEAN

Here again with me! I will continue our discussion about ; WORLD LANGUAGE Khoisan Khoisan are a group of African languages originally classified together by Joseph Greenberg. Khoisan languages share click consonants and do not belong to other African language families. For much of the 20th century, they were thought to be genealogically related to each other, but this is no longer accepted. They […]