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Gabriel Nhantumbo
What method do you apply to learn language? Pick a method out there try, test and measure for a while, might be for one or two months, see how it responds to your goal. What is your goal for learning language? Pick a method and test it thoroughly, if it is giving you the results you want then make it a process. If it is not giving the outcome you want, you change, adjust, test it until you find what works for you. Once you have found out what works for you, in terms of the method and your own way of using it, and then make it a process. Process is how you proceed when doing something, example you may say I listen as my method but how you listen and the amount of time, energy, understanding and so forth, are going to differ from person to person. So find your way and when the outcomes be positive you stick to it for as long as you be satisfied. If for whatever reasons the results start to decline, not being what you want, it is time to improve the process. Most of the time, to identify a method takes just few days, because they are well known. You need to fit the method to your individuality. The method is not hard to find, but the process is what is going to take more time to find out and it is where you have to put your focus on. We all can be using same method in different process. So pick a method, adjust to your own learning style, and make it a process, and build a system around it. By a system, I mean you are going to committee to apply the method and process every day, take time, be consistent and stick to it for as long as it is giving the outcome you want. Now that you have the method, the process and the system, you have what it takes for enjoying learning language, running it smoothly every day and having positive outcome.
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Is education for Freedom or slavery?
We go to school to get formal education. After spending years in school, we build a false mentality that education will grant us a career for life, but in fact, what we get after finishing a level in school is a certificate of completion, that is certainty.
Often, people equate a certificate to their lifetime job, career or personality, but in fact, we are not our certificate, what means that we can pursue a job or career outside of our field of Education. We should not limit our chances because of a certificate, it is not what education means and it is what I call be educated for slavery.
Job, career, opportunity should not be limited to our certificate.
Education should not limit our chances of grabbing opportunities
Education has an impact in our lives in all aspects even if we are not working in the field of our academic degree. Education plays a role in our choices, family, health, food, friendship, opinion and much more.
Education for freedom is to allow it to influence our lives in different areas and not to define ourselves by our certificate. The knowledge learned in any field of education can be applied and adjusted to different areas of our lives. Be open to any opportunity worth pursuing and adapt to different environment.
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I live in Tete, a small city in Mozambique but rich in mineral resources and surrounded by countries such as Zimbabwe, Malawi and Zambia. Due to its business opportunities in mining industry, many people come to visit and work. I think, people visiting my city should consider arranging a comfortable place to live with access to water 24 hours a day, which is not easy sometimes, and to mention that the weather is terrible in summer it hits up to 46 degrees Celsius, so be careful with that. However, Tete is not only about the bad stuff or a city to avoid, Tete is also known as the land of meat in Mozambique because there are variety of meats at affordable prices, from goat to cow to porch to chicken. Just to have an idea a big live goat is sold for 15 $ (1000 MZ), a big live cow costs 150 $ (10.000 MZ) and a chicken costs 2 $ (150 MZ). Those affordable prices are available in district of Marara, it is just 60 km away from the city.
Welcome to Tete Mozambique
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At 6:30 in the morning, I wake up and the first thing I do is checking my cell phone and planning my day. Then I take shower, brush my teeth and dress my work uniform. Before leaving home I make my bed and I check whether there is any dirty cloth to wash. At last I have breakfast, simple and fast breakfast sometimes it's bread, butter and tea, and sometimes porridge, then I go to work around 07:15, my house is only 10 minutes away, so I get there on time about 07:25.
I work as a mechanic, in a small motor and bicycle warehouse in Tete, Matundo, and my job is to assemble bicycles coming from China, I put bicycle's components together. I spend long hours at work can be like, 10 to 12 hours. Everyday I have the same routine at work, doing the same job, assembling bicycles. By the end of the month, salary is not that much but it helps.
I return back home from work around 8 p.m, I don't do much at home, I'm still single, 23 years old, as I don't spend much time at home, I hired someone to help me with cooking, cleaning, tidying, washing and dusting.