Living Online

Lýdia Machová's talk at the Nomad Summit 2019 in Chiang Mai, Thailand where she talks about how she brought her language mentoring business from a local business in her native language, to an international business selling her information to the English speaking audience online. She wanted earn income based on her skills, not the hours she worked. She wanted to be free to travel the world more often. She grew up in Slovakia. She started English at 11, in school. She started German later in school. In adulthood, she started learning other languages every two years. She spends 1 hour a day, and only learns 1 language at a time. She talked about learning to become an expert of the information she understood and had had success with.

"Lýdia Machová  is an interpreter, a polyglot and language mentor that is reinventing language education. Listen to Ep50 as she describes her journey from interpreting and teaching English in her native Slovakia to developing her own language mentoring system and bringing it online. Recently a featured speaker at Nomad Summit 2019 Chiang Mai, Lydia, who speaks 8 languages, shares her thoughts on becoming an entrepreneur and embracing her new digital nomad lifestyle." https://www.languagementoring.com/ https://www.nomadsummit.com/ This podcast introduced me to JimJim's Reinvention Revolution Podcast. Though it was interesting to hear  Lýdia Machová talk about her experiences learning languages, and her experiences starting her business mentoring other language learners... I found myself very interested in their discussions about digital nomads and the Nomad Summit in Chiang Mai. I definitely found a few more videos via JJRR regarding online business and the digital age

Wow... they're up to 50 installments of the Easy Russian videos on the Easy Languages YouTube channel. Probably the most consistent set of phrases that Russian speakers thought foreigners should understand were phrases for asking directions. You'll see some of the Russian speakers using verbs of motion with different prefixes. As I was getting ready for my first trip to Russia, I did recognize I needed to review the verbs of motion and actually hired a tutor. That was great for my language learning, but from my experience it was the actual travel in Russia that helped understand verbs of motion because I saw people saying various phrases with the verbs of motion in real life before, while, or after the motion was completed. To reproduce that at home, I'd suggest as you come across phrases to learn, don't just practice them on paper or in front of your computer. Actually use the phrases by saying them to yourself to describe walking, biking or driving activities. T

"In this video tutorial, I show you how to resize an individual layer. There are times when you need to adjust the size of just one singular layer and this is how you do it!" In showing you how to resize an individual layer, he is showing how you can resize text beyond the maximum size in the Text tools in Photoshop. Your text needs to be on a layer of its own, and then you can follow his tip using the Free Transform tool in the Edit menu. This is just one way to show how to change the size of text or make the text a lot bigger in photoshop. This tip is for making really big images. For instance, if you have a store on Society6, you can resize text without losing quality so that you can create huge images for printing on their large (POD) print on demand products. Here's one example of a large single letter that had to be resized... Modern Magenta Ombre Letter M Monogram Wall Mural . By the way, though I often have affiliate links on this blog, I haven't gone thr