Hobbies for Students: Acting

Every kid loves to enact someone else or act in a particular manner like he hasn't before, and participation in drama's in school as well as in classes are the way they can fulfill their fantasy of acting. There are a lot of advantages for children who take up acting or drama as a hobby, these are:

1) It helps your child develop the Four C's, which are, confidence, concentration, coordination and communication which are highly essential skills required all throughout your life. 

2) Allows children to develop good vocabulary skills, as they get to learn new words as well as learn how to pronounce them correctly. 

3) Helps in developing a child's reading skills, as they must read scripts, learn them and then enact them, thereby enhancing reading skills. 

4) It helps children learn how to co-operate with each other, as plays, skits and films are team-work and not an individuals efforts alone. Learning how to work with others is one of the most important lessons you must learn in life, and it is much better if you learn it when you are young. 

5) Acting also enhances the emotional intelligence in children, as, by encouraging children to 'act out' a range of emotions, children are better able to understand their emotions and develop empathy with others.

6) And finally, acting is a lot of fun, where you make tons of friends and have an amazing time!!

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A Career in Art

The field of art is vast, and very difficult to make a name in, but it is not impossible. Even though there are millions of struggling artists across the globe, if you are talented, passionate and have undergone the right kind of professional training from established training personnel, then there is no reason why you cannot make it in the field of art. Here are some tips to help you get started and make a sustainable career in art:

1) Begin Early:

The best way to boost a career in art is to begin as early as possible. If you are passionate about art from school or college, start taking classes and practicing everyday, as this is a field where it takes a long time to get established. Beginning early helps you learn faster and enables you to reach advanced levels of art earlier in your life. 

2) Professional Classes:

Taking help from professionals is a must as they will help you harness and enhance your artistic skills and teach you the pros and cons of the intricate details involved in making art. You should also take professional training for the purpose of learning the teaching process, so that one day you can also teach and make some extra money in doing so. 

3) Be Passionate:

Art is one field which is driven by your passion. You need to love what you do, and you need to be passionate about it. In this field, there is always rejection that you have to face, but you cannot allow that to bring you down, you need to have the passion and aspiration to go on and make it big. 

4) Networking:

Networking is one of the keys to making a name in Art and you should keep attending events, workshops and seminars that deal with art, where you can interact with people and get to learn a lot. You need to be in touch with the right kind of people, so that you get recognized and people know you. 

These are just some helpful tips if you are interested to make a career in art. 

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Hobbies for Students: Art

Starting with Art activities from a young age, is very helpful to kids and really helps in developing their mind to become more creative. Learning art, and its different forms gives kids a valuable use of their time and it is much better than surfing the net or playing video games. It is an activity which strengthens coordination and helps develop skills which could be used later on as a career. There are several advantages for kids to learn art, some of these are:

1) Creativity: One does not simply copy art or know it, art is something which has to do with the imagination and is therefore enables kids to create something which does not exist. It makes kids more creative in their thinking and coming with innovative and different works which stand out, will also come with time and practice. 

2) Strengthens your Mind: Art enhances your focusing abilities and is also vital for hand-eye coordination and  strategic thinking. 

3) Visual Learners: Almost 1 in 2 children are visual learners, therefore if they have the ability to sketch and produce, they can even convert boring text material into fascinating images. This could really help in the future for higher studies which are complex in nature. 

4) Intelligence: Studies have shown that kids who take up art, are more likely to do better in Math and Science in the future. So, even if you want to become an engineer or a doctor, it would be much more beneficial to have taken up art as a hobby. 

5) Future Prospects: The Art industry is huge, and though it may be difficult to get into, it is an amazing and very fascinating field to work in. 

These are just a few reasons why Art makes for such a great hobby for kids, for more on careers in art, come back tomorrow!

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A Career in Sports

Sports is definitely one of the most difficult streams to make a good career, but the rewards it offers are definitely worth it. If you are truly passionate about a game, and have undergone training with the right professional's who say you have the potential, then it is possible to make it big in sports. So if you are looking forward to make a name in sport, you have to follow these tips, plus must do a lot more:

a) Start EARLY!

Most sports superstars, started their respective games, when they were barely four or five years old, and it is vital to begin early, as you can develop the skills much faster later on. So if you have been playing a sport for recreation, then, now is the time to get serious about it if you are interested. 

b) Professional Help

So, you are talented at a game, and you are playing for your school or college, how do you take yourself to the next level? Hire a coach, or go through professional training, as they will help harness your skills and develop certain attributes like stamina, physical strength etc. 

c) Hard-work and Dedication

You cannot be successful in this field without hard-work and dedication. You need to be constantly training, and pushing yourself everyday. Your dedication needs to be a hundred percent, then only is there a possibility of making it big. 

d) Patience

It takes a lot of time to get recognized in a field where competition is so high, and places so low. So, if you are putting in the effort to no reward, you cannot quit. You must show patience and determination to make a name for yourself. 

These are just some helpful tips if you are interested to make a career in a particular sport. 

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Hobbies for Students: Sports

Whatever point you are in your life, you always need some kind of physical activity to keep fit and healthy. The advantage of being a student is that you can easily make time and grab the opportunity to take a sport. Playing a sport is very good for body and mind, and they are really awesome fun. Whether its football, cricket, tennis, table tennis or any other sport, the sheer determination to win and giving your best shot makes sport something really unique and amazing. Here are some reasons why you should take up sports as a hobby for school: 

1) Get Popular!!

Sports are generally team games and you tend to make a lot of friends by playing everyday or every few days. Playing is a great way of meeting more people and making new friends, which could go a long way in the future. 

2) Look Awesome!!

Research has shown that kids who play sports, especially girls, tend to have a positive body image, a healthy mind and high self-esteem. Playing sports as a child has a lot of advantages towards your appearance, so we advise you to follow a sport religiously. 

3) Learn the Lessons of Life

Sports teach you a lot of important lessons in life. Even if you give it everything, you can still lose, you may lose because of a mistake, you learn how to be a team player and you learn how to plan and coordinate. These lessons are vital for the future. 

4) Get Smart!!

Research and studies have shown that students who take up sports are more likely to achieve academic success as well as more likely to graduate from high school. The reason is that sports makes your mind very sharp and attentive, which also helps when you are studying.  Motor skills, strategic thinking, and even math skills are learned by playing sports. Students develop strategic thinking as they figure out plays and the best way to get around a player or score a goal. Math skills are used as they calculate scores and stats.

We hope you decide to take up sports, come back tomorrow for learning about how to make a career in sport!

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A Career in Music

Although becoming a musician is a risk, and very unorthodox, the rewards are big and if you really are passionate about music, it is not impossible to make a career as a musician. You need to live music, breathe music and love music, to be successful as a musician. 

Music is a very lucrative career and there are a lot of talented people that pursue it. You need to believe in yourself and remain persistent, as making a name is not at all easy and it requires a lot of hard work, effort and a little bit of luck. There are a lot of ways in which you can make people more aware about your music and try to establish a name for yourself. Here are some tips to help YOU become the NEXT BIG THING:

1) Technology is Cool...Use it!!!

Thank god for the internet, should be in your prayers everyday, as this is the one medium, with which you can showcase your talent and your music to millions of people across the world. With blogs, video streaming sites like Youtube, podcast's and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, and thousands of other tools, you can create your own music and share it with the world.

2) 3..2..1..You are now LIVE!

When you are beginning a career in Music, you cannot be lazy or shy. You need to keep playing gigs live for whatever reasons. Get your music out to people, as word of mouth is still the best form of publicity. Play live at everything possible for you, sometimes it doesn't matter if you are getting paid, you need to meet the right kind of people, and start getting into the whole music scene. By constantly playing live gigs, people become more and more aware and before you even realize, you will have a lot of fans, as everyone loves and listens to music. 

3) Be with your Instrument, till death do you apart!

Know your instrument inside-out, left, right and center. You do not want to screw up in front of people, and nor do you want people to think you are not talented. You need to be married to your instrument, and know every tune, every cord and everything about it. Keep practicing, cover songs by other artists and make your own, but just constantly be at it. 

4) DO NOT COPY!!

One of the most important lessons to learn when trying for a career in music, is to be original. Do not be a ripoff of some other talented band or musician, as it will come back to haunt you. Being yourself is very important in this industry and copying others is generally not going to get you places. 

5) DO NOT GET RIPPED OFF!! 

Another important thing to do, is always copyright your own material, so if anyone uses it illegally or without your permission, you can sue them. Another good part of copyrighting you music, is that if someone wants to use it for a television show, or for a concert, video, etc. you can get paid a premium for it.

We hope you achieve your musical aspirations and really put in an effort, towards this field as a career. 

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Hobbies for Students: Music

Music is one of the best hobbies you can take up whilst you are studying in school. Music is a part of everyone's lives, and each one has their own personal choices. Learning a musical instrument is an amazing experience and it teaches you a lot apart from just music. You learn to create, visualize and express yourself. 

As Bob Marley said, "The one good thing about music, is that when it hits you, you feel no pain."

It's important to develop a taste in music from when you are young, and who knows, by the time you've grown up, you could be the next big thing. There are various various reasons, both scientific and behavioral  as to why you should take up music from an early age. These are: 

1) Children can play and enjoy their own music. While they may not develop professional talent, they will gain an understanding of music that will help them relax in the future. As they get older, consider music lessons. Qualified instructors can teach children how to play the piano, guitar, violin etc. a skill that they can use for life. 

2) Music helps develop children's language skills: When young children listen to familiar words in songs, the neural transmitters in their brains are firing away, and their brains are building connections to the sounds they are hearing and the words they are singing. Singing songs and reciting poems and rhymes with children helps them develop early literacy skills. 

3) Music is a wonderful way to address the many needs of children because music is nonjudgmental. There is no right or wrong, it just is what it is. Listening to different types of music nurtures self-esteem and encourages creativity, self-confidence, and curiosity. 

4) Music encourages the ability to listen and thus to concentrate. Songs encourage speech and auditory discrimination. Through music, children learn to hear tempos, dynamics, and melodies. Listening for loud and soft, up and down, fast and slow encourages auditory development in the brain. 

5) Music helps stimulate children's brain connections: A recent study from the University of California found that music trains the brain for higher forms of thinking. For example, researchers believe that music affects spatial-temporal reasoning (the ability to see part-whole relationships).

A study conducted by psychologist Frances Rauscher of the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh and physicist Gordon Shaw of the University of California at Irvine specifically links the study of music to necessary brain development. They demonstrated that preschoolers who were given early exposure to complex multi-sensory stimulation—in this case, musical keyboard lessons and group singing—scored higher on tests measuring spatial reasoning, a skill used later in math, science, and engineering. 

Thus, music is a really cool and fun hobby to explore and we hope you begin playing your first musical instrument. 

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Greatest Indian Stories

We've emphasized all week on the importance and value of learning our amazingly rich and beautiful Indian languages. Today, we'll speak about some of the best and most important literary contributions by India, and which language they were written in. Although there are so many millions of books and written works, there are a few which have been monumental to our country and the people. These books are:

1) The Vedas

The Vedas are a sacred collection of texts, originating in Ancient India. The language of the Vedas is the oldest form of Sanskrit, and these Vedas contain the oldest Hindu scriptures. The Vedic texts are organized as : 

a) The Rigveda 

b) The Yajurveda 

c) The Samaveda

d) The Atharvaveda 

They say that The Vedas are not written by Human Beings, but by a divine origin, and that is why these texts are so special and amazingly accurate in this modern day and age as well. 

2) Ramayana 

One of the Sanskrit epics, The Ramayana forms a really important part of the Hindu religion. The Ramayana has ideal characters, like the ideal father, ideal brother, ideal servant etc, and revolves around Ram, whose wife Sita gets kidnapped by Ravana. This is an epic tale and a definite must-read for anyone who hasn't read it yet. Reading it in the original would be best, but also would be really time consuming and difficult, not to worry though, there are tons of translations available and you will definitely get it in the language of your choice. 

3) Mahabharata 

This is another Sanskrit epic, and is one of the most influential books in the world. The values and philosophies are used in board-rooms even today, and they teach us so many different and unique values and lessons for life. It depicts the Kurukshetra War and the fates of the Kauravas and Pandavas in a spectacular manner. and this book is also a must read and available in all translations. 

These three books are India's pride and glory when it comes to literature and we really hope you take the effort to at least read the translations, as there are a lot of lessons to learn from there stories. 

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The Magic of the Kannada Language

Kannada is a language spoken by roughly 70 million people world-wide, but mostly in the Indian state of Karnataka, and is one of the 40 most spoken languages in the world. The Kannada Language is truly a magical language, and has a spectacular and somewhat intriguing literary past, which still continues today. In fact, works of Kannada literature have received eight Jnanpith awards and fifty-six Sahitya Akademi awards.

Kannada has also given us some of the most amazing poems to have been written in our country, and with great poets like Pampa, Ponna, and Ranna who are considered as the kings of poets, their work has made our country even richer and has added value to our varied and diverse literature, poems, myths and tales. 

Kannada is one of the most unique languages in India, and highly significant as well, for, the first encyclopedia was written in Kannada and later translated to Sanskrit under the name, Shivatatvaratnakara. Apart from being the third oldest language of India, Kannada is also one of the first Indian Languages for which a foreigner wrote a dictionary, known as Shabda Kosha. 

Kannada has been developing, both as a language and as a literature for the last 2000 years, and is therefore recognized as one of the classical languages, and it truly is one. We hope you decide to take up learning a second language, and choose Kannada, as it is simply a beautiful language to learn. 

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Say "Ha" to Bengali

The Bengali Language, is an eastern Indo-Aryan Language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. Having over 230 million Bengali speakers worldwide, it is in the top 10 spoken languages of the world, and has contributed a lot too India, as the National Song, as well as the National Anthem were composed in Bengali. 

Bengali binds together a truly unique, diverse and beautiful culture which has made large contributions towards the Bengali Language movement. The Bengali language has truly influenced great literary works and a lot of amazing poems, stories and myths have originated from this language. Just the very literature and literary works is enough reason to learn this truly special Indian Language. 

Apart from these reasons, learning Bengali also can have an impact on your career path, as there is a lot of scope and demand for Bengali to English translations and vice-versa, as there are few skillful people in this field. 

We hope you take the time, to learn and appreciate this wonderful language. To learn more about the language you can check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_language

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Say "Haan" to Hindi

Did you know that more than half a billion people worldwide speak the Hindi language? Its one of the most popular languages in the world, and the national language of India. After the rule of the British, India started growing at a rapid rate, and now, there are Indian influences in all parts of the world. The tourism industry in India has also significantly grown, so, whether it is for fun or even for business purposes Hindi is a really important language to learn. 

Bollywood!! Another reason to know the language, is definitely the Indian film industry known as Bollywood, which has thousands of movies and songs, and is the second biggest film industry just after Hollywood. Many singers and celebrities from other countries collaborate with Indian Cinema personalities and Hindi is used in various international movies and songs. 

India, is filled with beautiful places, monuments and architectural wonders, like the Taj Mahal, which one can truly enjoy and gain the most knowledge by knowing the language. Also, India has one of the richest cultures of the world, with millions of literary works, stories for you to read, and the most beautiful poems and words, which you can have first hand experience rather than listen or read a translation. These are the reasons why we highly recommend that you learn Hindi, the language of India. 

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Why you should learn Tamil?

Tamil, is a Dravidian Language, which is predominantly spoken by the Tamil people of South India and North East Sri Lanka, and it is the national language of Sri Lanka as well. The Tamil language has been declared as a classical language by the government of India in 2004, and is one of the most culturally rich languages in existence. 

Tamil, is truly a beautiful language, and it is one of the oldest and longest lasting classical languages of the world. It has been described as "the only language of contemporary India which is recognizably continuous with a classical past" (Kamil Zvelebil, The Smile of Murugan Leiden 1973, p11-12). The Tamil language has the richest and most amazing pieces of literature and art which would be best to read originally rather than a translation. 

Along with this, Tamil is truly a unique language of India, since it is not derived from Sanskrit. Its literature arose and became popular in the South before Sanskrit, and thus is content wise much different from what we may have read in the other languages. The Tamil language has its own grammatical rules, its own tradition and above all, its own unique brand of literature and art.

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Why should you learn Spanish?

We've often heard words like "Gracias" is movies, reason being Spanish is such an amazing and unique language, and is really pleasing to the ears. Learning Spanish would be a really enriching and pleasurable experience, and there are tremendous advantages of learning this culturally rich language, these are:

1) The Culture:

Learning Spanish will enable you to keep pace with the Hispanic influence on culture which is definitely getting stronger by the day. 

2) Business Opportunities:

Spanish is a language which is really becoming important when it comes to business opportunities. It helps you better communicate with Spanish employees and opens up a huge market of more than 350 million people who's mother tongue is Spanish. In North America, the Hispanic population is the largest growing market segment at the moment. 

3) Make the most of your travel experiences:

If you've ever dreamed of visiting far-off, exotic, tropical places, you don't have far to look when you consider the great number of Spanish-speaking countries that fit this description. Wherever you decide to go, be it to Central America, or to Spain, the mother-country of the Spanish language, knowing the language will get you far.

Knowing the language and culture of the land you visit will give you insights into the people and culture that a non-Spanish speaker would never have access to. Knowing even a little Spanish ahead of time helps travelers communicate more successfully, especially considering that a great number of Spanish speakers do not know English. Whether giving an address in a taxi, making reservations in a hotel, ordering food or drinks in a restaurant, or meeting the locals at the main hang-out, your travel experience will be much smoother and more enjoyable when you can communicate.

4) Employment Potential :

Know a second language? Great, you're hired! If you have proven yourself to be a capable employee with just the right job skills AND you speak a foreign language such as Spanish, you are much more likely to land that job of your dreams than if you are monolingual. In fact, many jobs today require a minimum of basic proficiency in another language.

With the world becoming ever more global, contact with people of other countries has increased tremendously in recent decades. Just having a basic knowledge may be all it takes to separate yourself from the crowd of applicants for the job you are pursuing. With the rapidly increasing Hispanic population, there are a multitude of career fields in the US that need Spanish speakers. Among them are nurses, social workers, teachers, salespeople, translators, and many more. 

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Why should you learn Chinese?

In this culturally diverse world, knowing a foreign language can open the doors to various careers and imbibe you with a lot of knowledge. Although the Chinese Language is pretty complex and difficult to learn, there are various reasons why you should learn the language, these are:

1) The Changing World:

You have heard it before – Globalization  Outsourcing, Free Trade. The world is changing, even if the USA and the European Union continue as important actors in the world scene, they have to compete with other countries, most of all – China. Since China has joined the WTO – it’s growing economy, solid commercial balance and big foreign money reserves interacting with China is important to everybody. But how can you interact and do business with someone and in such a huge country like China if you don’t even understand the language?

2) Fastest Growing Language:

Did you know, that the number of students learning Chinese is the fastest growing among all foreign languages? Quite often, demand in Chinese classes are higher than the Chinese teachers available.

3) Competitive Advantage:

In some years, many students will learn Chinese  but nowadays, speaking Chinese is a real advantage when it comes to finding a job after earning your degree. If you learn Chinese  you are different and you can benefit from many new opportunities with your competitive advantage.

4) China is a Manufacturing Hub:

China has more than 1.3 billion inhabitants and an unbelievable workforce. Even though China is home to millions of factories, creating goods for the people of the world, many of these companies are managed by or in cooperation with foreign players. 

5) Potential for China to become the biggest consumer market in the World:

China is not only the factory of the world, producing many of our daily goods, it’s also a fast growing market with more than a billion consumers. Foreign companies rush into the Chinese market in the hope of huge benefits. By creating one marketing campaign, you can reach more people than in any other country of the world. 



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