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Finding Purpose - Song of my Life - Kristine van DoorenProducing a Musical - Part TwoWelcome back, Jim and Anne!All of the interesting details, and the networking of artists needed to create the musicial, "Celebrate His Holiness", (written by Rick and Patti Ridings.) Begining with willing hearts and trusting the Lord, Kirk and Deby Dearman, Randall Bane, Debbie Roberts, and many more singers and dancers came together in Southampton. The result; a musical experience that changed lives, drawing people closer to each other, and to God.
2025-08-2036 min
The Actual Fluency Podcast for Language LearnersAFP 184: Rick Dearman - Using Forums in Language LearningIn this episode Kris is joined by Rick Dearman to talk about using forums to help support you in your language learning, language conferences, and much more.
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2021-10-0441 min
The Autodidactic PodcastDealing with demotivationToday we'll explore the methods to deal with demotivation.
2021-09-0812 min
The Autodidactic PodcastManagement of my timeGiving an update on how I have changed my study schedule because of the impact created by a new job. Looking at time management for help.
2021-08-2409 min
The Autodidactic PodcastCreation of quizzes and exams to test yourself.Today we'll investigate how you can create quizzes and tests for yourself as an autodidactic learner.
2021-08-1108 min
The Autodidactic PodcastTextbook study and markupsUsing textbook markups in my destupidification project. I'll talk about how I plan to read, study, and review textbooks as well as creation of pop quizes for myself.
2021-07-2714 min
The Autodidactic PodcastGetting resources, using mnemonics, and filling out a retrospective timetable for the destupidification challenge.Today I'll cover all the things I'm doing to get resources for learning at no cost, how I'll use mnemonic techniques and create a retrospective timetable for my study plans.
2021-07-2113 min
The Autodidactic PodcastMy Destupidification ProjectIn season three I'm going to explore using all the methods and techniques I've spoken about in seasons one and two. I'm going to be using myself as a guinea pig.
2021-07-1315 min
The Autodidactic PodcastS2EP13: Me, Myself and I – The end of season podcastHello and welcome to the autodidactic podcast Season 2, Episode 13. This is the last episode in this season. I decided I would spend a little time telling you what I will be doing over the next few months with regards to my own self-study plans and what my plans are for this podcast. Hopefully you’ll be able to take something from my plans in order to use for yourself and you’re own autodidactic study. I’m currently focusing on five main areas for self-study. Learning new programming languages Learning natural languages Learning maths Learni...
2021-04-2011 min
The Autodidactic PodcastS2EP12: Some general tips for self-studyWelcome to the Auto Didactic Podcast, Season two, Episode 12. This week, I want to discuss some learning processes that I use. That might be helpful for you as you become self taught. One of the main issues that you may find yourself running into is motivation. So you start off quite well and you’re charging along learning whatever it is you wanted to learn and then you dip, you run into an intermediate learning stage where you’re not really learning much more and the subject doesn’t excite you as much as it did initially. And yo...
2021-04-1520 min
The Autodidactic PodcastS2EP11: The life and times of the hermit mathematicianHello and welcome to the Autodidactic podcast, season 2 episode 11. Before we begin I would like to do a little self-promotion and tell you about my other activities online. I have a YouTube Channel and I’ll put the link in the show notes, as well as a number of books both fiction and non-fiction. I’ll also put the links to some of these in the show notes. So if you want to see the links, or the transcript of these podcasts you can find them all at https://autodidactic.info/ Let’s get on with the show...
2021-04-0711 min
The Autodidactic PodcastS2EP10: Autodidactics of the past – George BooleHello and welcome to the Autodidactic podcast, season 2 episode 10. I wasn’t able to publish a podcast last week due to some time constraints. Hopefully this episode will have been worth the wait. This week I’m going to be talking about a famous mathematician who was vital in the creation of the digital age. I’m going to be talking about George Boole, an English mathematician who helped establish modern symbolic logic and whose algebra of logic, now called Boolean algebra, is basic to the design of digital computer circuits. George Boole approached logic in a n...
2021-03-3112 min
Listen to Top Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, SuspenseJosephine Tey: The Daughter of Time & other mysteries: A BBC Radio crime collection by Josephine TeyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/500561 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time & other mysteries: A BBC Radio crime collection Author: Josephine Tey Narrator: Tilly Gaunt, Joan Sims, Julia Foster, Giles Fagan, Peter Gilmore, Paul Young, Full Cast, Edward Petherbridge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: March 25, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: Dramatisations and readings of five of Josephine Tey's classic mystery novels Scottish novelist and playwright Josephine Tey was one of the greatest Golden Age crime writers and the author of eight mysteries, including six featuring Scotland...
2021-03-2505 min
The Autodidactic PodcastS2EP9: Mid-Season InterludeHello and welcome to the Autodidactic Podcast, Episode nine Season two. If your first time listener, I wanna welcome you to the show and I’m glad you’re visiting. If you haven’t already, please visit the website autodidactic.info, where you’ll find links to all the shows that the show notes and the transcriptions and these contain. You need links to anything I talk about in the show. This season. I’ve been covering autodidtactics and their methods for learning, but on this show I don’t want to talk about a specific aut...
2021-03-1714 min
The Autodidactic PodcastS2EP8: Study methods of “The Great Explainer”Hello and welcome to the Autodidactic podcast, season 2 episode 8. This episode was also delayed this week, but the reason for the delay was simple; I hadn’t yet finished the autobiography of this weeks featured autodidactic. This week I’ll be looking at a modern autodidactic Richard Phillips Feynman. Richard Feynman won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 and assisted in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II. He became known to a wide public in the 1980s as a member of the Rogers Commission, the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Alon...
2021-03-1014 min
The Autodidactic PodcastS2EP7: How to create a rigorous standard for self-learningHello and welcome to the Autodidactic podcast, season 2 episode 7. This week I’m taking a little break from exploring autodidactics of the past to focus on a different topic, how to create a rigorous standard for self-learning. My friend and I had an argument. He said only people who learned at university had a rigorous education. I countered with the fact I knew more about computing and programming as a self-taught programmer than my daughter with a degree in computer science. But he did made some very valid points about the lack rigour most self-taught people have....
2021-03-0314 min
The Autodidactic PodcastS2EP6: Exploring the study methods of the (other) inventor of calculusHello and welcome to the Autodidactic podcast, season 2 episode 6. This week I’ll be talking about a German autodidactic who one of the great thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and is known as the last “universal genius”. He made deep and important contributions to the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of religion, as well as mathematics, physics, geology, jurisprudence, and history. Who? It is Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1 July 1646–14 Nov 1716) a prominent German polymath and one of the most important logicians, mathematicians and natural philosophers of the Enlightenment. A contemporary Denis Diderot...
2021-02-2415 min
The Autodidactic PodcastS2EP5: Exploring the study methods of Thomas Henry HuxleyHello and welcome to the Autodidactic podcast, season 2 episode 5. This week I’ll be looking into a British autodidactic named Thomas Henry Huxley who was born on the 4th of May 1825 and died 29 June 1895. Huxley was a biologist and anthropologist specializing in comparative anatomy. He was known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his advocacy of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. His father taught mathematics and was assistant headmaster at a school in Ealing which Thomas Henry attended for a brief period. But after his father lost his job he no longer attended school. For his genera...
2021-02-1616 min
The Autodidactic PodcastS2E4: Polymathy and AutodidacticsHello and welcome to the Autodidactic podcast, season 2 episode 4. I had an email in my mailbox this week from a listener named Kenyatta (forgive me if I have mispronounced your name). She was wondering about my definitions of Autodidactic, Polymath, and self-learner. So I thought I would expand a little on these terms this week, and how I tend to use them. She also asked why I ask for donations. Well that one is easy to answer, I don’t have any corporate sponsor, and I pay for all the podcast hosting and things myself. So the do...
2021-02-0910 min
The Autodidactic PodcastS2E3: Exploring the study methods of a famous American WriterHello and welcome to the Autodidactic podcast, season 2 episode 3. I’m happy to say that I’m appearing on another podcast soon. I was interviewed by Kris Brohom from Actual Fluency Podcast about my language learning activities and advice for people studying during the pandemic. I’ll put links in the podcast transcription on the autodidactic.info website. This episode I’m going to be looking into the study habits of a great writer and autodidactic. Before I tell you his name, let me read a quote from him. “Libraries raised me. I don’t believe in c...
2021-02-0211 min
The Autodidactic PodcastS2EP2: Exploring the study methods of Ben Franklin.Hello and welcome to the Autodidactic podcast, season 2 episode 2. I’d like to apologise for the delay in getting this weeks episode out. I ran into some technical issues and also getting a quiet area to do the recording. Hopefully I’ll be able to be more consistent in future. This week I’m going to start delving into the lives and study methods of autodidactics through the ages and into modern times. I’m going to start with a person who most listeners inside the United States would need no introduction. I haven’t yet worked out the fo...
2021-01-2713 min
The Autodidactic PodcastS2EP1: Season Two Introduction – The WhyHello and welcome back to the autodidactic podcast, episode 1 season 2. If you’re a returning listener Welcome back! If you are new to the podcast then welcome aboard. This episode I want to just give a brief introduction to the new season and the types of things I’ll be covering. Let me start by quoting the first few lines of a Rudyard Kipling poem. I KEEP six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. Seas...
2021-01-1907 min
The Autodidactic PodcastEP13: Gaining qualifications or certification from self-studyHello and welcome to the autodidactic podcast. This is season one, episode 13. If your a returning listener then welcome back! If you have just started to listen then welcome aboard. We are at the end of season one. I had intended to do another show with answers to any questions I’ve received, but I think I can cover those at the end of today’s show. So unfortunately I’m going to end on unlucky number 13 for this Season. I’m ending this season a bit early for a couple of reasons. The first reason i...
2020-11-1014 min
The Autodidactic PodcastEP12: How to evaluate resources for studyHello everyone and welcome to Episode 12, Season 1 of the autodidactic podcast. If you’re a new listener welcome, and welcome back to returning listeners. This is episode 12 and we are nearing the end of Season One. We’ll get a couple of more shows in before taking a break for the holiday period. The last show of the season I’ll try to cover off all the listener questions which I’ve had. If you have any questions you want to get on to the prompt sheet for the show make sure to send them in soon. The emai...
2020-11-0220 min
The Autodidactic PodcastEP11: Study Plan Creation for Self-learnersHello, everyone, and welcome to the Autodidactic Podcast Season one Episode 11. This week we’re going to talk about how to structure a study plan when you’ve not got a lot of knowledge about the subject which you want to start learning. So when you first decide, you’re going to learn a new skill rather than rushing out in finding new resources, there’s a lot of things you should do first. So when you first decide that you’re going to learn a new skill rather than rushing out and finding new resources...
2020-10-2719 min
The Autodidactic PodcastEP10: Solving concentration problemsHello and welcome to the auto didactic podcast. This is Season 1 Episode 10 If you’re a long-time listener, welcome back to the show. And if you’re joining us for the first time, welcome aboard. As always, I just want to say that I enjoy getting feedback for the show. So if you have any feedback, feel free to email me at rick@autodidactic.info, and you can request topics or give feedback or give your experience. Today we’re going to talk about concentration. Now, when you study, concentration is very important, and it’s something that you...
2020-10-1929 min
The Autodidactic PodcastEP9: Taking Lecture Notes“Hello, everyone, and welcome back. This is Episode 9 Season 1 of The Autodidactic Podcast. If this is your first time, I welcome you, and if you’re a returning listener, thanks for coming back. Today I want to cover the topic of lecture notes. As an Autodidactic, self-learner you’re probably not gonna attend many formal lectures, although you might. Other than attending class every day, taking good lecture notes is probably the single most important activity for college students, but if you’re self learning, you might not think you need to worry about this sort of thing.
2020-10-1216 min
The Autodidactic PodcastEP8: How to mark and highlight text books for review.Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the show. This is Episode 8, Season 1 of The Autodidactic Podcast. Today we’re going to discuss textbook highlighting. If you’re new to the show I would like to welcome you and if you are returning, I’d like to welcome you back. As always, I really enjoy getting feedback for this show. So if you’re interested in giving me some feedback, you can email me at rick@autodidactic.info. You can make comments on the website as well where I will be uploading the show notes for this show as well...
2020-10-0515 min
The Autodidactic PodcastEP7: Textbook Study MethodsWelcome to the Autodidactic Podcast with your host Rick Dearman. Hello, and welcome back to the Autodidactic Podcast. This is Episode seven Season one. Today I’ll be covering the topic of studying and reading textbooks and the methods that you can use to read textbooks in order to get the most out of them. I’ve struggled to record the podcast this week because I’ve been so busy myself studying. I recently began or rather re-started doing some assembler language programming using a raspberry pi. And this led me down a rabbit hole that h...
2020-09-2827 min
The Autodidactic PodcastEP6: Mnemonics and memorization of study materials.Hello everyone and welcome back. This is episode six, season one of the Autodidactic Podcast. Today I will to cover the topic of memorisation. Last week I said I would be covering study methods and mnemonics but I’m going to focus only on mnemonics this week since it is quite a big topic. I would also like to say thank you to a listener, Janice who requested I do a show dedicated to mnemonics and memorisation. Many years ago I read a study which suggested engineers who graduated with a bachelors degree in engineering would have al...
2020-09-2120 min
The Autodidactic PodcastEP5: Using Flashcards for StudyWelcome to the Autodidactic Podcast with your host Rick Dearman. Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the show. Today we’re going to discuss flashcard learning. If you’re new to the show would like to welcome you and if you are returning, I’d like to welcome you back. As always, I really, really enjoy getting feedback for this show. So if you’re interested in giving me some feedback, you can email me at rick@autodidactic.info. You can make comments on the website as well where I will be uploading the show notes fo...
2020-09-1419 min
The Autodidactic PodcastEP4: Finding Study ResourcesHello everyone and welcome. If you’re new to the podcast, I want to welcome you to the show and thank you for coming along. If you want to listen to previous episodes of the show you can find the shows and the show notes on the autodidactics.info the website. The autodidact podcast is a podcast to help self learners try and become more efficient and more effective in the way that they learn and how they proceed. You don’t have to listen to all the podcasts but I would recommend that if you hear some...
2020-09-0713 min
Chenelle’s language learning journey podcast.Clljp.ep.172. A chat with Rick dear man the host of the lollygagging podcast an his polyglot storyToday on Chenelle‘s language learning journey podcast. I have the pleasure to speak with the cohost of the lollygagging podcast Mr. Rick DEARMAN about how he got started in the language learning community and how he teamed up with lollygagging podcast cohost Dave PRINe to create the lollygagging podcast. We talk about our shared love of language learning in the different ways that we both learn languages and use them in our daily lives. I hope that everyone enjoys this podcast episode with lollygagging podcast hosts and polyglot Mr. Rick DEARMAN. Please subscribe, share and review the podcast at ev...
2020-09-011h 32
The Autodidactic PodcastEP3: Using your study timeWelcome to the Autodidactic Podcast with your host Rick Dearman. Hello and welcome to the Autodidactic Podcast, Episode Three – Season One. If you’re a new listener, I’d like to welcome you and encourage you to give feedback on this show by emailing me at rick@auodidactic.info, and you can visit our website where you’ll find the show notes and transcriptions of this podcast. On today’s show, we’re gonna be talking about what to do with the study time that you have and how to create a study plan. I’ll give you so...
2020-08-3118 min
The Autodidactic PodcastEP2: Time ManagementEpisode Two, Season One Welcome to the autodidactic podcast with your host Rick Dearman. Hi, and welcome to the autodidactic podcast. This is Episode Two, Season One and I’m your host, Rick Dearman. If you’re a first time listener, I want to welcome you to the show, and I’m glad that you’re visiting. If you haven’t already, please visit the website autodidactic.info where you’ll find links to all the show and to the show notes, which contain any links to anything I talk about on the show.
2020-08-2815 min
The Autodidactic PodcastEP1: The IntroductionEpisode One – Season One Welcome to the autodidactic podcast with your host, Rick Dearman. Hello and Welcome to Episode one. The first question you’re probably asking yourself is; What is an auto didactic? Well, it’s pretty simple an auto didactic is a self taught person, so a self learner, somebody who’s taught themselves the subject in great detail, but did it without necessarily classroom or a teacher. Generally, autodidactics are individuals who choose the subject they want to study. They’ve chosen their studying material. They study rhythm, and the ti...
2020-08-2814 min