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Ankerberg: Yes.

And let's talk, we've talked about a couple of the churches already.

I want to go to Pergamum, okay, Ron.

And this is the compromising church.

And the Lord said, "These things says he who has the sharp two-edged sword," talking

about Jesus, "I know your works."

And we've hit this last week but we're going to talk about it again.

Everybody that's a Christian, you need to realize what Jesus is saying about how He

handles churches.

Number one, he comes to every church every Sunday; number two is, He knows every member

and what they've done, He knows what you've done.

He says, "I know your works.

I know where you live."

He actually knows what you think, okay?

And He says to this church, "I know your works and where you dwell," and then He

says, "You are dwelling right next to Satan's throne."

What does Satan's throne mean here?

Rhodes: Well, I think it can mean a couple of things.

I think, first of all, Roman worship, emperor worship, was very common in this part of the

world.

This involved a requirement by the Romans that everybody say Caesar is lord.

And if you didn't say that Caesar is Lord, then you were persecuted or executed.

But I think, even more to the point, I think that probably the big giant altar to Zeus

was probably the throne of Satan.

This is a giant false deity there.

And, you know, the text goes on to indicate that even though this church did some things

right, they morally compromised.

And that lets us know that today moral compromise is not okay.

Ankerberg: Let me tell you a few of the things He says, okay?

First of all He says, you guys were faithful "even in the days when Antipas, my faithful

martyr, was killed among you."

Let's, first of all, talk about the good guys here.

Who was Antipas?

Rhodes: Antipas was ordained by John the apostle to be the Bishop at Pergamum during the reign

of the Roman Emperor Domitian.

And he was executed apparently by being put inside a brass bowl and then that brass bowl

was put over some flames.

So he literally baked to death.

It was a very cruel way of execution.

Ankerberg: And they watched that and they were still faithful then.

But then after saying you were faithful, then things seemed to have changed or slipped a

little bit.

He says, "I have a few things against you because you have there those who hold the

doctrine of Balaam."

God hates false doctrine.

Let's not be wishy-washy about this, God says, "I hate this doctrine."

But what is the doctrine of Balaam?

Rhodes: Well, the text goes on to define it for us.

It says, "I have a few things against you because you have there those who hold to the

doctrine of Balaam who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel,

to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality."

So basically this individual got a bunch of Moabite women to seduce the Israelite men

into intermarriage.

And that was a great violation of God's will.

So this was a moral compromise here.

Ankerberg: Then He says, "Those you also have who hold to the doctrine of the Nicolaitans,

which things I hate."

Here's another one of the false doctrines he hates.

But who were the Nicolaitans?

Rhodes: Well, the Nicolaitans, there's been a lot of discussion among scholars and they

have some different opinions.

My take on it is that this is a school of thought that basically involves a great deal

of Christian license in conduct.

There's a lot of self-gratification, there's a lot of indulgence, there's a lot of loose

living, there's a lot of sexual immorality.

So right here you've got both teachings emphasizing some aspect of sexual immorality.

And you don't like to think about that being in a Christian Church, but here it is.

These are people who were known for standing for the name of Christ but yet they fell into

sexual immorality.

And to me that is a huge warning for the Church today.

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Is Bottled Water or Tap Water Better for You? | Facts in 5 - Duration: 5:30.

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Bella Hadid Is Rocking L.A.'s Favorite Hairstyle — & It's Not The First Time - Duration: 2:16.

Bella Hadid Is Rocking L.A.'s Favorite Hairstyle — & It's Not The First Time

Have you ever noticed that big-name models — the Gigis, the Kendalls, the Kaias — rarely get haircuts? If they do, it must be an undetectable trim (a dusting, if you will) just to maintain their signature look.

They are human blank canvases, after all, and considering they spend most of their day with a glam squad being primped for shoots, runways, and red-carpet events, it's no wonder they try to keep everything as simple as possible.

That said, you might consider Bella Hadid one of the exceptions.

If any modern supermodel has a penchant for changing her hair, it's Bella.

She's no stranger to faking it with extensions or clip-in bangs on any given occasion, but when it comes to cutting her hair for real, she always goes for one cut in particular: the bob.

Not only is it consistently trending in L.A.

(no matter the season), but it's also one of those hairstyles that triggers instant nostalgia.

In fact, dare we suggest that Hadid's cut is slightly inspired by another supermodel of the '90s, Christy Turlington?.

Needless to say, Bella Hadid loves a good bob — and we have proof.

Her best are just ahead.

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SCOTUS Travel Ruling Is Bad Geopolitics: James G. Stavridis | Morning Joe | MSNBC - Duration: 14:24.

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What is... Driftland: The Magic Revival ? - Duration: 9:05.

Hello everybody, today we're gonna answer

the question, What is Driftland: The Magic Revival Driftland is an RTS game where four

races fight for control of Islands and their Strategic Resources.

The Islands are floating around in the upper atmosphere of a planet and can be pushed and

pulled around with magic, hence the name of the game.

The game has been in Early Access on Steam for around 8 months, and currently has a playable

skirmish mode versus the A.I. with campaign and multiplayer to be added later this year.

While it might sound light on content, what's there is really polished and plays very well

and the game is pretty cheap, weighing in at under twenty dollars.

As I mentioned there's four races; Humans, Dwarfs, Wild Elves and Dark Elves, and they

each come with their own unique buildings and units, which I'll touch on a bit later.

So let's delve into the game mechanics of Driftland.

You always start with one island under your control and a Castle on that island.

That is your capital building, if it get's destroyed, you lose the game.

You can never build a second one, or get a chance to recover, once it's gone, it's GG.

Castles produce explorers, these are units that will explore islands and uncover any

treasures and resources.

Now unlike most traditional RTS games, in Driftland, you don't directly control the

units at your disposal.

They have free will so to speak, meaning they will kind of do what they want and go where

they're needed.

To get them to do something, you can assign a task for some gold, and then increase the

bounty on that task over and over, spending more and more gold until someone takes the

job.

This was a pretty weird system to me at first, and I'm a little divided on it still, but

essentially it means you have to spend gold to get what you want done fast.

Placing attack orders on foreign lands can cost quite a bit if you want everyone to join

the attack, so it's kind of interesting that your economy also has an affect on what orders

you give.

Economy is the biggest part of the game, without direct unit control, you spend most of your

time building and managing your economy, assigning and reassigning workers to different projects.

So to get an idea of how things are managed, let's talk about each resource.

On the left side of the UI we have everything to do with population, the population count,

the maximum housing they can have, the food they consume and the gold they produce.

There's a handful of rules that govern how the economy works.

The first is the bigger the population, the more food required to sustain them.

The second is, those who don't work, generate gold.

The third is that all buildings and units require gold to maintain.

So at the very least, you have to balance how many workers are working food to keep

food coming in, and not working to keep gold coming in to sustain buildings and units.

It can be a tricky little balancing act in the beginning of the game, but you're given

a very flexible assigning and reassigning tool to dynamically shift workers around instantly

to balance your economy.

Now as you begin to grow, you'll also want other resources and will have to shift workers

onto them.

There's 7 other resources; Mana which I'll touch on last, wood and stone which is used

for building, coal and steel, which is mostly used for upgrades and diamond and ruby which

is used for special units.

These 7 Resources are finite in Driftlands, you will use up the resources on an island,

and when the resource is completely done, the worker building dismantles itself and

the workers return to the population pool.

Food and Population are infinite though - as long as you have houses and farms to work.

That's the basics of the economy, in order to setup a good economy, you'll need to build

efficiently.

Now the building aspect is pretty interesting, you can place buildings anywhere on islands,

but space is obviously finite, and resources take up space on each island whether your

gathering them or not.

Once an island has no more resources, it's a good idea to redevelop it by placing military

buildings or farms on it.

And outer islands need more defenses to keep away patrolling enemies and random barbarians.

The last aspect to building is the Castle itself.

This is your main point of progression, build up the resources to fortify and upgrade this

and that allows you to then upgrade to the next tier for all other buildings, so much

like an age of empires type game, you should be constantly pushing to get the next tier

of castle as quick as possible.

It allows further development of all buildings and increases your magic range.

Next we'll talk about Magic.

Each race has their own set of magical abilities, some with crossovers and some unique to the

race.

Generally though, each race can use the same Island cantered magic abilities.

By building up enough mana, you can push and pull islands around with spells, in order

to bring them close to yours and establish bridges, locking them down as your own.

You can build teleport gates, that allow you to island hop, but they degenerate over time

so typically building bridges is the best way to get islands under your rule safely.

As well as that, magic allows you to terraform islands and even create new ones.

Some of these spells require an active mage on the ground, such as terraforming or destroying

an island.

A fun tactic is to keep up the pressure on an island with heavy bounties for attack,

and use mages to try and destroy it.

It can take a long time, so you'll need heal spells to keep the mages from dying or fleeing.

I tried it once and it went well though I did end up killing some of my own allies with

the explosion.

I'm not sure if Island destruction is ever really necessary.

The Dwarfs have a powerful spell that causes an earthquake damaging all buildings on the

island which I feel is a better alternative than total destruction.

Magic is also limited in reach by your Castle.

The more you've upgraded the further your magic will work, else you'll be restricted

to just using aerial units to reach far away areas.

For most races, these units are very high tier and require finding wild birds to tame

and then a unit with a high enough rank will mount it automatically.

They typically require ruby to create and if the enemy get them early on, they can be

hard to fend off, typically spells and magic is their best counter I've found until you

get your own.

If you wanted to move your capital, you'd have to destroy the bridges and move it around

with magic, while it can be cool to have a mobile base like this to extend your magic

reach, it totally destroys your economy as all production islands are disconnected from

the capital producing nothing.

With careful management though it can be pulled off, but it is certainly more risky to have

your capital on the borders of your empire.

The final aspect to discuss is reputation and progress points.

Driftlands has a few PVE aspects to the game, roaming eagles, treasures, barbarian camps

and more mysteries lie around islands waiting to be discovered.

Exploring and Attacking these places net you progress points and usually some form of treasure,

so are worth doing.

Progress points are put into a tech tree between economy, warfare and magic and basically buff

you up over time as you perform actions.

While it's a relatively simple and useful tech tree, it does favour those who are doing

well already, so I could see it as being a bit of a steamroll which it's often felt like

for me.

There's also Reputation, which I found sort of hard to understand.

Essentially as long as you keep ontop of your economy then your people will give you good

reputation, allowing for a higher gold yield and faster population growth, sounds pretty

straightforward, but I had an overcrowding debuff for a while, even though I had empty

houses so I just wasn't sure what was causing that necessarily.

If this reputation gets low enough, or something in your economy goes bad, you can have mini

rebellions where workers come out of houses and attack nearby units and buildings.

It's never been much of a threat for me, but it's something you'll want to keep ontop of.

So that's basically it for all the mechanics of Driftland as it stands right now.

You can play with up to 5 other AI in skirmish and set a few different rules for the game,

but I'm looking forward to seeing how multiplayer will hold up when it gets introduced.

I think it'll be a really fun game to play with friends, and games can last quite a while,

with all of mine taking at least 90minutes.

As I mentioned in the beginning the game is very polished, looks and runs great, has neat

new ideas and I think deserves a lot more attention.

With only the AI to battle, it's hard to say whether the island mechanics are truly being

used to their full potential, I feel like stealing islands away from the enemy and connecting

them to your land should happen more, but it's very rare.

Technologies feel pretty one dimensional, I would rather see the player dedicating scientists

to boost research so it actually feeds off the economy, allowing players to potentially

build tall so to speak.

Either way, the game has been very fun so far, and when multiplayer drops I'm hoping

we can get a few members of the republic in to play a few games on twitch.

I think with players looking to target farm islands or a few key buildings you can really

destabalize an economy.

Something I didn't mention is there are buff buildings that increase production by 10%

of a given resource, so wiping out a few of those could tank your enemies economy, and

unfortunately I just never saw the A.I. making any plays like that.

Not to say that A.I. is bad, just that I feel there's more potential in there for deeper

strategies.

That's it for my early impressions on Driftland: The Magic Revival.

Let me know what you think about the game and the video in the comments below, do you

think you might be picking this up?

I for one just think it deserves more attention as not many people know about it.

If you want to support the channel, and keep it going, check me out on Patreon, the support

there is what's keeping me going.

I'll probably keep mentioning that $1 there is the equivalent to around 1200 views for

me, so you can have a really big impact on this channel, and currently ad revenue makes

up about 10% of my income, with the rest being fan funding so thank you for the support.

Also check out my twitch schedule to see when I'm playing these types of games, join our

Discord to get involved, and if you have the time, join the steam group, to play with like

minded players.

Thanks again, I'll see you in the next one.

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This mobile network is giving away free football season tickets this week - Daily News - Duration: 1:30.

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Why Is It Called The Adam's Apple? - Tayor Talks - Duration: 3:41.

I'm Pinchas Taylor

and this

is Taylor Talks!

So why does everyone think it's an apple?

The tree that Adam & Eve were not supposed to eat from in the Garden of Eden

was called

In the entire episode of Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit,

it never once mentions

what that fruit was!

Most cultural references are to apples.

You have the "Adam's apple,"

You have Apple & Eve

the apple juice company,

and have a lot of old paintings of

naked Adam and Eve eating from

an apple tree.

Whoa!

Get that out of here!

So why does everyone think "apple"?

It all started with a mistranslation in the 4th Century.

The bible was translated from language to language,

and just like when you translate anything,

words are changed and meanings are distorted.

The torah was translated from Hebrew to Greek

then Greek to Latin, and then Latin to Old English…

and I sayeth unto thee

that this is where the problem beganeth

In the Latin translation of the bible

the word "malum" means "evil," and it can also mean "apple."

People miss associated the words, and assumed that Adam and Eve came in contact with malum (evil)

through the malum (apple).

So what kind of tree was it?

The Talmud talks about this very topic but never reaches an actual conclusion.

It might have been a Wheat stalk

might have been an etrog

might have been a grapevine

or might have been a fig leaf.

We'll get back to the Talmud in a second

but first I want to talk about Michelangelo.

Interestingly, in Michelangelo depiction on the Sistine Chapel

he depicts the tree of knowledge as a fig tree.

Roy Doliner, a Vatican tour guide, explains

that there is surprisingly a lot of Jewish undertones

In Michelangelo paintings'

Maybe Michaelangelo Was a….

nah let's not go there

The Midrash teaches that the Torah never

mentions specifically what fruit it was

in order to preserve the dignity of Adam and Eve.

This is why the Talmud never comes to an official conclusion

If we knew specifically what kind of fruit it was

then every time we would eat that fruit

we would think of the very first sin of Adam & Eve

Additionally, the sages were even concerned with even preserving the dignity of the tree

So we shouldn't look scornfully at it every time we pass

Well, we didn't find out what type of tree it really was

and I guess we'll never know

if this should really be called an

Adam's fig

but there is one very valuable takeaway

I can barely imagine the immense what it means

to be sensitive even to the feelings of a plant

but that's where g-d sets the bar.

If we're supposed to be that careful about a plant's feelings

just imagine how sensitive

we have to be to our fellow human beings.

So next the next time you find yourself in a situation

where you want to say something negative

just remember the Adam's Fig

and be a little more sensitive.

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CONGRESS JUST DID WHAT TRUMP COULDN'T – JEFF SESSIONS IS DONE - Duration: 12:57.

CONGRESS JUST DID WHAT TRUMP COULDN'T – JEFF SESSIONS IS DONE

GOP lawmakers have had enough of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' nonsense, so they

are finally taking action against him.

The Gateway Pundit reported that Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) and his fellow

GOP Rep Jim Jordan (R-OH) are giving Sessions' Department of Justice seven days to turn over

the documents that they owe to Congress.

Jordan announced on Wednesday afternoon that he is teaming Meadows to introduce a resolution

that would give the DOJ one week to comply.

"Mark Meadows and I are introducing a resolution that would give the DOJ seven days to turn

over the documents that they owe Congress.

We need to vote on this immediately," Jordan announced on Twitter.

Jordan then called out Sessions' Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

"Rod Rosenstein threatened congressional staff.

When the bully picks on your little brother, you have to respond.

It's time for House Leadership to stand up," Jordan tweeted.

This will also send a brutal message to Sessions, who has defended Rosenstein by saying that

he does not believe he actually threatened staffers.

On Tuesday night, after hearing that Sessions defended his deputy attorney general, Meadows

said that he is "confident" Sessions didn't know "what he was talking about."

"We're fed up with it," Meadows said.

Republicans have clearly had enough of Sessions, and with even President Donald Trump turning

against him, it seems like his days in the Department of Justice may be numbered!

SHARE this story if you want to see Jeff Sessions step down!

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No more years of hurt? Why Three Lions is in vogue again for England - Duration: 6:54.

No more years of hurt? Why Three Lions is in vogue again for England

A blend of nostalgia and the new spirit surrounding England's World Cup campaign has made Baddiel and Skinner's hit ubiquitous once more.

Three simple words but yet so much more. Twenty-two years after it was first written, the refrain to Three Lions is once again being sung lustily.

You can hear it from the stadiums in Russia whenever England are playing, or at home in pubs and those weird human pens they call "fan zones".

It is being shared between people as a greeting, daubed in dust on the back of white vans, posted in group chats and, naturally, turned into a meme. It's back and it's everywhere, but why?.

When David Baddiel and Frank Skinner, of the TV show Fantasy Football, sat down with Ian Broudie of the Lightning Seeds to record a song for Euro 96, they were indulging in an act of guerrilla marketing.

The official theme song was "We're in this Together" by Simply Red.

But despite boasting Alan Shearer in the video and Hugh Masekela on guest vocals (the song had a distinctly Afro-pop vibe), Mick Hucknall's effort only reached No 11 in the charts.

Three Lions, meanwhile, with its jaunty terrace rhythms and tour through English football history got to No 1. And it pushed on from there.

Three Lions became the song not only of the tournament but of the country that summer. When it was played before England's semi‑final against Germany, the Wembley crowd belted out every word like it was the national anthem.

In trying to pin down the reasons for the comeback of Three Lions, nostalgia does seem a good place to start.

"Growing up in England in the 90s was fun", says Owen Blackhurst, the features editor of Mundial magazine which – among other things – curates late‑20th‑century football for an audience just about old enough to remember it.

"It's like a chapter in a history book when everything was great. There was good music, great festivals and the sun was shining. Nowadays things are very different and people want every little piece of that time they can get.".

Blackhurst suggests that there is not only a fondness for the time but also for the team, of the Terry Venables side that boasted not only the telepathic strike partnership of Shearer and Teddy Sheringham but also Paul Gascoigne in his Indian summer and, at the back, the grizzled Arsenal stars Tony Adams and David Seaman.

They not only won games but also played good football. "People look back and think 'that team was great'," he says. "Partly that's because all they've seen since is crap England teams, even in 2006.

But it's also that people are more invested in tactics nowadays, thanks to things like Football Manager and Fifa, and Venables was out there playing with wing-backs. It's not just nostalgia, there was something so fresh about that team.".

There is another team now playing with wing-backs, of course, and it is managed by Venables's right‑sided centre-half Gareth Southgate.

Perhaps the pleasures of Euro 96 are now long enough in the past that they can be seen through rose-tinted spectacles. But perhaps it is also that the current England team are evoking memories of that time.

After all, when Skinner and Baddiel returned to the studio to re-record Three Lions in 2010 (admittedly in the motley company of Robbie Williams and Russell Brand), it bombed.

"Personally I hadn't enjoyed an England game since 2002," says Blackhurst. "The football was bad, obviously, but everything seemed negative, from Fabio Capello treating people like kids, to Roy Hodgson picking teams to keep people happy.

From the style of football to Jesse Lingard and Raheem Sterling mucking around on social media, the whole thing just feels more progressive.".

The youthful, diverse squad (made up of players from all regions of the country), the quick technical football and, most importantly, the sense that the squad are enjoying themselves make this a very different tournament for England fans.

It has given them licence to enjoy themselves too and, for one of the authors of that once-again ubiquitous anthem, it's about time.

The England team has been in the wilderness and the song always runs in parallel with the team," says David Baddiel. "You can't sing about it coming home when it's lost.

The difference between Three Lions and all other songs before it, including World In Motion, is it was the first song properly to be about football and actually to describe the experience of being an England fan.

"We know rationally that we tend to disappoint but somehow we keep on hoping that things might be different this time.

And that element of the song, of defiance, of hope in the face of history, picks up energy if history suddenly looks like it might turn round.

Even though the song comes from a place of vulnerability, it's central refrain can be chanted at the right moment – now, for example – when fans want to throw caution to the wind.".

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Is Immersion / AJATT the Most Effective Language Learning Method? - Duration: 6:45.

Oh boy, I'm finally getting around to that video about immersion and AJATT.

I can't wait to write the script.

What could possibly go wrong?

*samurai grunt*

Ow, my hands.

*Taco Bell fart*

*girly rawr*

*panting*

Man bun is actually two words.

And lose the man bun, you girly-man weeb.

Immersion is often seen as the GUARANTEED way to learn a language to fluency,

but out of the millions who study and learn foreign languages, VERY FEW people are willing

to pay the price of immersion.

Most people aren't willing to sacrifice their old lifestyles and hobbies to learn a foreign

language, and this is.... understandable.

At the same time, there is a lot we can learn from programs that advocate immersion like

AJATT and even polyglots like Alexander Arguelles and Steve Kaufmann.

The overall main message you'll find is that

if you want to get really good at a foreign language really fast,

you're going to need spend multiple hours per day reading and listening to that language.

For most people, language learning is just

a hobby they do for 30-60 minutes a few days a week.

If your goal is to have basic everyday conversations in the language,

this might be all the time you need.

If your goal is to understand almost everything in the foreign language, however,

it might take you 20 years to get there at this rate.

It's easy to get wrapped up in this idea that we have to study 2, 3, or even 4 hours a day

to reach the advanced levels, but this isn't true at all.

In fact, the opposite is true.

There comes a point somewhere in the intermediate stages where you can stop studying all together

and go out and live the language!

This means to ask yourself this question every morning.

"What's one thing that would be really fun and exciting to try to learn from?

Then, go read and listen to it.

You might be wondering,

"But how do you learn from books, TV shows,

and video games where everything is in the foreign language

and you understand so very little?"

This... is a great question actually and one that has many different answers.

For.. reading materials, however, the how-to is a lot simpler.

It's simply to look up as many words as you need to

and keep going until you find yourself continually getting bored.

At that point, take a break and then find something else to read/listen to.

Here is where beginning language learners make the biggest mistake.

This includes my past myself who made the same mistake for YEARS while studying Korean.

There is this tendency we have to try to study and review almost everything new to us.

When we start reading, we immediately encounter thousands of words we have never seen before,

so what do we do?

We slow down the reading to a snail's pace

so that we can "practice" and "review" all of this new material.

We make hundreds of Anki cards for almost everything new

or even re-read material over and over in order to "master" it.

The truth, however, is that there is no need

to study nor review all the new language you encounter through reading.

The only thing you need to do is...more reading.

If all these new words are SO IMPORTANT, you'll encounter them again and again

and review them through.... more reading.

Each time we re-learn a word through a new context,

it makes it just a little harder to forget it the next time.

This is also how we build upon our understanding of the multiple meanings and connotations

a single word can have.

I believe what's most important about Anki and other forms of review is their ability

to make your progress visible during the beginner and early intermediate stages.

They give you a sense of personal progress in comparison to native materials,

where it can feel like you're making no progress at all.

You feel like you're moving in the right direction

every time you successfully recall something while reviewing.

But in the end, when you get into the habit of reading for a few hours every day, you

can review the hundreds or thousands of words you have already learned while picking up

25, 50, or even a 100 new words a day.

You might even find that a hour of reading can be infinitely more fun

than an hour of Anki reviews.

When it comes to listening and immersion, you'll find a large variety of strategies

and ideas between AJATT and polyglots, but if I had to pick the most important idea here,

it would be this one.

Read when you can.

Listen when you can't.

And whenever you think can't read or listen anymore,

you....actually can.

The trick is to switch materials whenever you get bored.

In language learning, there's no need to finish anything.....ever.

You're finished when you're bored and not when you complete something.

In a single day, you can jump from manga, to an article on a news site like NHK or even

Famitsu, to an episode or two of an anime or a TV drama,

to even MORE if you want to learn FASTER.

For news articles, there's NO NEED to finish the ENTIRE thing.

Learn what you can until you get bored and then just.......forget the rest.

On the next day, you're going to find PLENTY of new articles to move on to.

The same applies to anime and TV dramas.

Learning just a few lines from each episode is enough to move on to the next.

Turn off subtitles and keep them off until the end of the episode, and THEN use them

to learn AS MUCH AS YOU CAN before boredom eventually settles in.

Once you understand the power of reading and listening over studying and reviewing,

you'll find it naturally easier to spend more and more time in the language.

When you finally stop studying and reviewing altogether, you start to really feel like

you're not just learning the language but actually living it.

At that point, immersion becomes a natural consequence

rather than something you force yourself to do.

There's one last thing before I disappear from YouTube for yet ANOTHER month or two...

These kinds of videos do take a lot of time and effort to make, but at the same time,

I'd like to provide more content that is hopefully helpful, higher quality,

and can also actually pay the bills.

With that in mind, I decided that I'm going to start a podcast over at Patreon.

I believe in making my best content free and available on YouTube, but I also don't want

to just take people's money without giving SOMETHING back in return.

So this podcast will be a mish mash of behind the scenes content as well as additional language

learning and self-development content.

I'll also be taking and answering common questions I get.

I hope to see you there, and as always, thanks for watching!

For more infomation >> Is Immersion / AJATT the Most Effective Language Learning Method? - Duration: 6:45.

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What is money? - Duration: 8:12.

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Prince William facts: How tall is Prince William? Netanyahu picture sparks search frenzy - Duration: 3:05.

 The latest stop on the Duke of Cambridge's four-day tour of Jordan, Israel and Palestine is the West Bank where he met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

 On Tuesday, he visited the official residence of Mr Netanyahu who urged him to deliver a "message of peace" to the Palestinian leader

 But although the important moment marked hope of better relations between the divided territories, many people could not help but focus on the two men's height

 One image of the Duke stood next Mr Netanyahu and his wife Sara saw him towering over the two

 A Kensington Palace picture of the three - stood with two descendants sheltered during the Holocaust by the Duke's great-grandmother - also provoked some comments

 User @millywoller wrote: "Quiz of the day: Who is the tallest person there?"How tall is Prince William? William is 1

91m or 6ft 2, according to Google. Princess Diana's eldest son clearly takes after his mother in height as she was 5ft 8

How tall are Harry, Meghan and Kate? The Duke, is also taller than his young brother, Prince Harry, who is also surprisingly lofty at 1

86m - equivalent to 6ft 1. Both of the princes have tall spouses with Kate, Duchess of Cambridge measuring 5ft 7 while Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is 5ft 6

 This might be why many fans have not twigged just how tall the two royals are. Prince William's height has been the source of much fascination in recent days as he meets a succession of much smaller officials

 People noted the difference immediately when the Duke touched down in Jordan on Monday and was met by Crown Prince Hussein as he left the plane

 One person wrote: "William is so tall and slender!" And in his latest meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in Ramallah in the West Bank, William once again looked miles taller than his companion

 Perhaps Kensington Palace has even picked up the point? In its most recent tweet of the pair, shared after midday today, it showed an image of Prince William and President Abbas sitting down

 Kensington Palace tweeted to its 1.57m followers: "In Ramallah The Duke of Cambridge meets Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas

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