Play Schools in India
India is a land where family bonding is quite strong and a child begins his first years of education perpetually from home. Why? Because it is believed what parents and grand-parents can teach, none else can. But with time, this trend is slowly changing and play schools are gaining popularity. Especially so, in the cities...
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Sending Your Children To Playschool -- When...
Sending children to playschools can be a difficult and arduous task for any parent and there are several aspects that have to be considered before one decides to take such a step. Parents are always in a dilemma about playschools and settling on the right time can be difficult. Moreover, children are quite vulnerable at...
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How Kindergarten Teachers Can Shape Your Child
Teachers play a vital role in the growth of children and this is especially true during the early years of their education. Kindergarten teachers are always fondly remembered and this is due to the fact that they are always nice and courteous. Kindergarten teachers shape the future of your child and their role should not...
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Pre-School Law #1 -- How Soon Is Too Soon?
There are several theories that suggest different ages for pre-schools and parents are often perplexed by many conflicting answers. Pre-school programs are generally for children who are below the age of kindergarten and there is no specific time line that is available. Many pre-schools admit children as young as nine months...
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Preparing Your Kids For Pre-School -- Things...
Most children find it tough to adjust to their life in a pre-school and parents play an important role in preparing and guiding the children through this phase. There are a few things that parents can do to make the transition as smooth as possible for their child. This article will outline certain points that will be useful...
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Baba Ramdev - symbol of yoga
Biography - Baba Ramdev A small boy of Haryana who studied only up to the eight standard and became paralyzed by the godly plan. His parents were poor and so couldn’t afford the expensive allopathic medicines. But he didn’t stop there. With determination in his mind he practiced yogic asana and consumed the herbal medicines....
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Teaching jobs in Hyderabad
If you are a teacher or a tutor in Hyderabad and surrounding areas and looking for a part time, home based jobs or tutoring assignments, We have a good news for you. ThinkVidya.com is now India's largest network of learning seekers and learning providers across 600 different categories of subjects. Join us for free...
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Importance of professional training for learning...
Why you need professional guidance? Acquire an accurate map i.e. professional training. An accurate map helps you reach the top faster! Imagine you are taking a trip to an important destination inside an unfamiliar city without an accurate map? Now imagine the city is filled with hundreds of thousands of other people,...
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Tips for speaking English with neutral accent...
The Americans, the British and the Aussies all speak the same language, English. If you listen carefully, you will find a drastic difference in their pronunciations. This difference in pronunciation is what brings about so many different accents. Accent Neutralisation: English accents change a lot within India. Every...
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BBC world service -- learn English course...
Before the advent of internet, people used to learn English over the radio. British Broadcasting Corporation’s World Service is a world-renowned radio service. It is broadcasted in 32 different languages and is available over the internet as podcasts (downloadable audio files of the broadcasted programme). The service covers...
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Veta English speaking course -- overview...
Almost 3 decades into the industry and still going strong, Vivekananda Institute, as it was called earlier, was started in the year 1981. Veta’s motto is ‘Anyone who walks into Veta, walks out speaking fluent English.’ True to its mission statement, Veta, which has 250 and odd centres across India, has trained more than...
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Software to improve English -- reviews on...
Learning English can be as fun as games. Actually, it could be more fun than playing games. That is exactly what these softwares do. They make learning English sound more like playing a game where you learn a lot. There are plethoras of software to choose but only few have earned users’ praise. Here is a review of some...
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English speaking courses and tutorials -...
Self-learning can be quite a challenge. It requires lot of motivation to learn something on your own. For those who lack this drive, courses and tutorials can help them out. In certain cases, a formal degree or certificate proving your mastery in English could be an added advantage. It is for these purposes that attending...
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Improve your English vocabulary -- tips and tricks
Vocabulary should be like a garden during spring which is full of flowers. That is, your vocabulary should be full of new words to make your speech and written language more interesting. Nobody says, ‘Learn vocabulary’. It is often referred to as ‘building vocabulary’. That is because, just like building a house takes few...
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Improve English pronunciation -- tips and tricks
Let us be honest with ourselves. Reading about pronunciation is not going to take you anywhere. You have to speak English to master the pronunciations and it doesn’t matter if you go wrong. You fall down, you learn to get up. It is no different with English. Every English speaking country has its own form of English....
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Improve English grammar -- tips and tricks...
There is no shortcut for learning grammatically correct English. It takes time to understand and put to use the rules of English grammar. But, there are ways to remember the grammar to help you speak correctly. Try to speak English the way you write it. Spoken English is pretty relaxed and you can get away with grammatical...
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Indian classical music
By: Manjari Singh The Indian classical music is rich with its historical, cultural, theoretical and aesthetic form. India has its own vibrant culture and customs. Classical music of India forms the very important part of this culture. The origin of the Indian Music can be be found in the ancient literature and scriptures....
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10 quick tips to improve your spoken English
Speak your mind. With precision 10 quick tips to improve your spoken English You may have noticed that over the past few years, fluent verbal communication in English has come to symbolize a superior personality. The way you speak English and communicate, rates you as a winner or loser in this age of cut-throat competition....
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Improve English grammar -- difference between...
Traditional grammarians consider passive voice to be an erroneous way to express one’s ideas. Passive voice is considered as an erroneous way to express one’s ideas (by whom?) These two sentences are examples of active and passive voice and express the same thought. In other words, the meaning conveyed by both the...
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Improve English grammar -- usage of ‘Who’...
Both native and non-native English speakers find it equally difficult to differentiate between ‘who’ and ‘whom’ and end up interchanging the words. ‘Who’ is preferred in colloquial English as it sounds more casual than ‘whom’ which sounds a bit too formal. Syntax Before you know the usage, you need to understand the...
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Improve English Grammar Using The Correct Tense
'Tense’ is one of the building blocks of the English language. By learning and understanding the usage of the tenses you are one step nearer to your goal of mastering English. Tense gives you the time of occurrence of the action or incident. It forms the relative timeline on which the verbs take the present tense, past...
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Right Age to Start Music Classes for Children
Music is not just a source of pleasure; it is one of the best things to get over any kind of psychological issue. Parents can encourage their kids to start with their music classes as soon as possible. Music is now also considered therapy, which can lower down pressure, anxiety and help people overcome depression. At...
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Iyengar Yoga - Ramamani Iyengar Memorial...
Iyengar Yoga One of the most popular schools of yoga, Iyengar Yoga is now highly followed by thousands of disciples and practitioners in India and abroad. You may be acquainted with the name of B.K.S Iyengar if you are familiar with different schools of yoga, in India particularly. Do not forget to visit the Ramamani Iyengar...
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Yoga in India - Popular Yoga Forms
Yoga in India has almost become the other name of the healthy lifestyle. Yoga classes and Yoga schools have mushroomed everywhere. Plenty of TV channels dedicate their significant time slots to Yoga shows, and Live Yoga from the camps organized all over India and outside. Yoga Gurus like Baba Ramdev, Bikram Choudhury have...
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Baba ji's Kriya yoga
Kriya yoga is the form of yoga or yogic posture that is enunciated by the Yoga guru Mahavatar Baba ji. He is a living inspiration for many yogis around the world. There is hardly any yoga expert who is not familiar with the name of this yoga icon in India. The word “kriya” implies action. It also denotes self-realization...
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