This is the Introduction of the book about colour idioms and symbolism in 3 languages–English, German and Chinese. I have worked on for a long time with my father, Peter Daly. We are in the editing stages and will soon publish it in the coming months. 🙂
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(Published on LinkedIn on September 15, 2023) Did you start to learn a language like French or Chinese and then give up after a few months of study? As it hard to find suitable resources? Were the ones you did find boring topics? Or, were the language practice methods boring and repetitive? Well, that was
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(Authors: Nigel P. Daly and Yeu-Ting Liu; published in Taipei Times, October 7, 2023; https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2023/10/07/2003807320) Taiwan is a vibrant hub of technology, innovation, and trade flows. Yet it has long confronted an international communication bottleneck. Although Taiwanese students are immersed in technology and globalization, they struggle to learn English, struggle to enter international careers, and
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ChatGPT is an excellent English language checker for businesses whose staff are not high level English users, but it does not understand context and subtleties of communication like formality, politeness, style appropriate length of text. For this, we still need professional human communicators.
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Studying a foreign language in public school systems results in 1000s of hours of inefficient time use since for most, they only achieve and low intermediate level at best. And if AI technologies will soon make automatic translation immediate, why spend so much of our youth’s time and potential on it? I out forward 3 reasons to support the continue studying foreign languages, but only if we can adapt our curriculum and use AI to make learning more efficient. The cognitive and meaningful benefits of foreign language learning can only be reaped by those who achieve a high level of competence.
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AI chatbots will level the global communicative playing field; printed in Commercial Times, Feb 23, 2023 (https://view.ctee.com.tw/technology/48662.html ) AI 聊天機器人已經到來，我們將永不相同。 AI 聊天機器人 ChatGPT 可以用如此驚人的細節和無可挑剔的語言回答問題，這給整個教育業及創意產業投下了震撼彈，這些產業擔心學生會因此作弊猖獗，而文案人員及記者將因此流離失所。比較少被提及的是，這種人工智慧工具擁有前所未有的潛力，那就是在以英語為主的研究和商業領域中，打造一個全球平起平坐溝通交流的環境。 2023 年將被銘記為 AI 聊天機器人之年。去年 11月，總部位於舊金山的 OpenAI 發布了 ChatGPT，而 AI 聊天機器人的技術因而大躍進。該產品已經獲得了超過 一億位的活躍用戶，成為歷史上成長最快的商業應用軟體 [1]。微軟已向 Open AI 投資 100 億美元 [2]，並且近期才剛剛將 ChatGPT 整合到其 Edge 瀏覽器中 [3]。對此，谷歌的 Sundar Pichai 拉響了「紅色警戒」以加速發布他們自己的人工智慧工具，如 LaMDA 和一個名為 Bard 的聊天機器人 [4,5]，它們將在未來幾週內與百度自己的人工智慧聊天機器人 ERNIE
AI 聊天機器人將打造一個全球溝通公平競爭的環境 Read More »
Good morning class! Ever wanted to criticize someone in English, but didn’t have the courage? Use this golden phrase. “With all due respect” (phrase) – used to express polite disagreement in a formal situation Which does NOT “express polite disagreement”? a. [Ukraine] isn’t a place–WITH ALL DUE RESPECT–like Iraq or Afghanistan, it is a relatively
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Good morning class! And our word of the day is “#Literally“.It comes from a Olympic gold-medal skier in hot water.“Literally” (adv, /ˈlɪtərəli/) in a literal way; exactly Which is NOT the correct usage of “literally”?a. Eileen Gu: “Anyone can download a VPN [to use IG in China] its literally free on the App store”b. “Literally anyone
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My mother was human. Joan Betty Llewellyn Daly had her charms and foibles – as does everybody. On April 1, 2021, she passed away. After a few weeks or mourning and contemplation, I have come to truly appreciate her strengths – and I will strive to learn from them. My mother’s life was filled with
For over two decades, advances in ICT have created a flood of information that has disrupted the traditional business marketplace and plunged it into the new attention economy where companies struggle to catch and maintain customer attention. A parallel shift can be seen for scientists in a new research attention economy. Researchers face unprecedented competition
