Probably you know what bilingual means or even have some friends who apart from their native language are able to speak one more fluently. Sometimes we become amazed by their ability to remember such big amounts of information or how quick they are in the uptake. They seem to know more, react quicker, and just seem smarter than others. Well, that’s true!

New York Times says:

“…But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age”.

The thing is in a bilingual’s brain both language systems are active even when he is using only one language. This gives the mind a workout that strengthens its cognitive muscles.

Bilingual people have better developed cognitive controlling system allowing to use skills which are necessary to use straight at the moment and block the skills and desires which are better to be avoided; in the bilingual brain both processes take place at the same time rather automatically and without much afford.

Thanks to this ability bilinguals in comparison with monolinguals possess a wide range of advantages:

• The ability to switch from one language into another without even paying attention to it;
• The ability to imagine visual and sound objects quickly and with great accuracy;
• A highly developed analytical mind;
• A highly developed visual and sound memory;
• A highly developed ear for music and the ability to copy sounds;

These advantages in their turn provide better results in highly important daily brain processes like planning, solving problems, the ability to remember the sequence of actions when driving and various other mentally demanding tasks.

And the good news is if you have an account on talkoclock you’ve got all the necessary prerequisites for become a bilingual person! And it’s possible at any age. Moreover studying foreign language or being bilingual helps your brain stay active much longer than any monolingual’s brain. All you need is practice and with the help of our service you will be able to communicate with the native speakers from all over the world for free and without any limits!

Good luck!

It’s a very arguable question especially if you take up any of these two radical positions. The truth is as always somewhere in the middle. The degree of how much are social networks harmful for you is determined by your own way of using it. You can be called a craftsman if you are able to benefit from its advantages and avoid inevitable drawbacks.

Let’s take as the example our social service Talkoclock to find out the shades of this urgent matter!

Among obvious advantages there can be easily distinguished such things as: staying in touch with friends without any difficulties, increased chances to make new friends, as well as finding romantic relationships.  However even those who praise such services for these obvious advantages do not tend to use them.

Imagine you communicate with your friends, say, on Facebook. Nevertheless Talkoclock is a way much easier and natural service to provide you with new acquaintances. Anyway, both Facebook and Talkoclock have the ability to unite people creating additional opportunities for communication.

Among less obvious advantages we may state communication with the representatives of different cultures. Such communication develops our personality increasing our intelligence, curiosity and tolerance. So, if didn’t have the chance to communicate with a foreigner on Facebook there’s a clear and obvious opportunity to do so on Talkoclock; we can even name this a special unique feature of Talkoclock service.

Social networks can as well be useful from psychological point of view. No matter what they do on social networks, teens are constantly creating, recreating, and honing their identities, which is a primary goal of adolescent development.This requires constant reflection on who they are, on who they want to become, and on their values, strengths, and weaknesses.

There’s no use of mentioning the obvious features of social networks as Facebook’s political activities group or jobs found through LinkedIn. Almost every successful social network possesses its own list of advantages; the same is with Talkoclock. You can successfully use it as an alarm clock, or a reminder, or even to get your good night wishes, birthday greetings or some surprising jokes or songs.

It’s far more difficult with the social network’s drawbacks. They are the initial cause for furious discussions of social networks’ harm.

The main drawback of our subject networks is that they rather disconnect us, since instead of doing something enjoyable such as talking and eating and dancing and drinking with friends, we are sending them messages or photos in cyberspace, while chained to the table.

Imagine a grown man who doesn’t know what it’s like to enjoy a walk under the rain with his/her mate, hold somebody’s hand or console a friend the whole night through. Since this a way close relationships are born and it would be the saddest thing if a new generation of today’s young people has lost this ability to communicate in a real world, to look somebody in the eyes since it’s much more comfortable to communicate via a monitor when nobody Is able to see you blushing or sweating or crying.

Social networks do possess such a drawback and while creating Talkoclock we knew this. That’s why our service has all the features necessary for real communication.

You don’t waste your precious time sitting in front of the monitor, you live your life and keep the pace with your daily activities with Talkoclock only helping you wake up or go to sleep, reminding about some urgent issues which you should perform in reality. At least you would just cheer up with our surprise calls.

Moreover, you’re not only typing soulless letters but talking to a real person hearing his/her breath and voice intonations.

The second most discussed problematic issue about social networks is privacy. Most resources allow many people to see your profile information and even your messages. Sometimes this is appropriate and what if you don’t want some people to read your personal info one day. Can you imagine how many people are able to read your wall messages on Facebook . However, this is not a problem for Talkoclock since your talks are absolutely private and the only witnesses of your talk are both you and your conversation partner. These talks are safe so it’s impossible that somebody would hear them.

One more vivid drawback is that social networks are a stamping ground for people spreading hate-content in enormous quantities. Inflammatory, hate-filled content just overwhelms the limited efforts to promote tolerance and to teach diversity there. It’s hardly imaginable that you would hear a cruel bloody story from your conversation partner on Talkoclock while it’s a common shared thing with social networks such as Facebook.

Thus social networks do possess a bunch of drawbacks, but took that into account when creating Talkoclock. You can be safe using Talkoclock! Enjoy it!

We’re glad to have you with us!

Feel free to comment and share your thoughts on the topic!

We’ve finally implemented the feature many of you were longing for!

Now you can finally send each other personal messages!

You can find them either at the top menu or in the “My profile” menu:

Here’s how your inbox looks like:

Note that you can send messages not only to your friends, but to any user!

Just go to his or her profile and press”Send message”!

There you can create your message:

Enjoy the new feature! Chat with people right now!

There’s some more new great things coming soon! We won’t tell yet!

One of the most important conditions of successful friendship is the absence of interpersonal competition among friends and relatively equal social position.

In order for friendship to thrive there are some necessary conditions:

• Mutual sympathy (pleasant communication)
• Mutual understanding
• Openness
• Frankness and sincerity as well as unselfishness
• Confidentiality
• Mutual interests and hobbies
• Mutual values

There are lots of different true friendship tests on the Internet. Here is one quite interesting, test yourself!

Everybody needs a friend. And each of us longs from the inside that their relationships with friends were as close and sincere as possible. But to gain such intimacy you have to work a lot on your attitudes and your feelings. Talkoclock can help you with that!

-          First of all with our help you will be able to make much more friends

-          Secondly, if you’re lucky enough to have many friends you have a great opportunity to make your friendship even more deep and intimate. Only best friends are thoughtful enough to call and wish Good morning and Good night. You have opportunity to call them every day for free. This is especially urgent if your friend lives in a foreign country and it may be expensive to make international calls. To do so, you only should pick up the function “Show friend requests only” in “Call Someone” and enjoy talking to your close friends.

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Here are some tips suggesting what you should act

Step 1

Meeting someone new it’s very important not only to pronounce your name but also to remember the name of your new acquaintance. When communicating it’s important to call your partner by the name which makes you remember it more easily and shows your interest in the person.

Step 2

Be attentive while communicating with your new acquaintance. Do not interrupt him/her, give the opportunity to finish his/her phrase or speech. After your partner finished his/her speech you may tell your opinion or share your own experience.

Step 3

People like talking about themselves as well as being listened to. So, be patient and try to do more listening than talking. Doing so, you not only win your new friend’s sympathy but also this will help you get to know him better. Since true friendship is far more than simple information exchange.

Step 4

Do not be fast to share your problems with a new friend. You don’t know him/her well enough and cannot be sure about the reaction towards some things. Maybe he/she won’t be able to understand your feelings or problems. Build your communication on a steady base of positive emotions. Be optimistic while answering your new friend’s questions.

Step 5

To continue close relationship with your new friends it’s vital to communicate alive and here talkoclock calls can be of great use! You may arrange meetings and mutual camping and walks via talkoclock.

Some more tips before you start acting:

1. Try to be focused on what kind of friend you are looking for. This may be a person to share your hobbies with. For these reasons pay attention to the section of interests and hobbies on talkoclock and try Q&A calls.
2. You should exclude “wrong” people who are not of your kind.
3. Tell your colleagues about talkoclock; may be if you start calling each other using our amusing service you will become closer to each other and even become friends.

What’s your personal opinion on the subject of friendship or may be you have some curious and interesting story to tell? We’re longing for your comments here! Were you lucky enough to make friends on talkoclock?

We’ve had many new users registered yesterday. We wondered why and found the reason!

It turned out to be that we had this guy – MattG – among our users. He even shot a video about us! We are endlessly grateful to him for this review!

Check it out, it’s amazing!

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NB! This is a useful stuff even for native speakers!

Sign 1. You know only a few phrases in English.

A lot of users from other than English speaking countries state English as their spoken language since they believe that the conversation is more interesting and fun to talk to a person from another country. Well, it’s probably true however not in case you know just a few words in English. It’s highly possible that you will never even get a chance to use them since you won’t progress further than saying Hi! to each other. It’s only logical that you will be disappointed just as much as your conversation partner. This is especially true for people whose language is completely different from English or belongs to another language group.

Sign 2. You don’t feel confident enough to listen attentively or to be actively involved into the conversation.

Even if you think speak fluent English sometimes you are not ready psychologically to listen since you may be too afraid of communication failure. One good way out is to take a special course in successful communication since if you have this problem in English it’s almost 100% sure you have the same problem communicating in your own language. Lots of Americans and British try to finish the conversation straight when they hear an incomprehensible accent. It’s important to be more tolerant and sensible since you may just miss something important or interesting. Other cultures are so fascinating and interesting so, don’t miss a chance!

Sign 3. Your written English is perfect but you have some troubles speaking it.

You often carry correspondence with English speaking people, read books and watch movies in English? However this doesn’t necessarily mean you can SPEAK English. So, try to analyze the situation before stating English language as your fluent one in order not to say that people were not able to understand you.

Sign 4. Your English is only good enough to talk to people sharing the same language with you. You suppose your level of English is good since you’re able to talk to your country mates and to write some essays for your English language test. You even have an excellent mark in English at school or university/college. Still when you have the chance to talk to foreigner you can understand properly only 60% of his/her speech? It’s high time to start to learn colloquial spoken English!

Sign 5. You have a strong accent.

The majority of people are aware of their accent. For instance if you have a strong south American or Scottish accent try not use some specific words and vice versa try to speak simple universal language that your partner was able to understand you. The other way out is taking a special course in proper English pronunciation.

If you found out that you possess one or more from the abovementioned signs then:

- State only your native language if you’re a resident of non-English speaking country;

- If English your native language try to minimize your accent and be actively involved in conversation;

In order to check out your English take a small test.

Do not be confused, you are sure to use talkoclock to improve the level of English, just make sure you do this at a right time and on a right stage of English language learning.

And now go to “My languages” and make some correction if necessary. First of all, this will improve the quality of your communication, second of all you won’t be complained about as a person not knowing the language.

We’ll be glad to see your comments on this subject! Be active! Let’s improve the service together!

There’s an amazingly interesting technique which is called Getting Things Done. Its founder David Allen claims that it’s possible to manage any busiest schedule.

The main idea of the technique is to relieve one’s head from unnecessary routine information by putting it into some external medium like a note pad or organiser or … talkoclock!

According to Getting Things Done technique it’s necessary to divide the information perception process into several stages:

I. Information gathering. This means it’s necessary to write down any task or idea in some external medium like paper, laptop, pocket computer.

II. Data processing and organising. This procedure is realized once a week and follows strictly a certain algorithm:

In case this is an operational task which takes a few minutes (but not more than five) it should be performed straight away. In case a task demands a lot of time to be spent it’s better to postpone its realization.

In case an element is not operational:

• keep this element in some archieve to serve as a reference information
• throw away this element as it’s not needed any more
• put this element into the list of dos which  “may be some day”…

To organise the work with the tasks wich demand further long term operations David Allen suggests making several lists for their realization:

1. Straight away actions – this is a list of certain actions which must be realized in a short term. Only following this step you’ll be able to work efficiently, successfully performing all the planned tasks. 

You may call it a to-do list. You may arrange a talkoclock reminder for any of such tasks so you won’t forget about them. The cutting edge of this method is that you always have your cell phone with you unlike your laptop or an organizer. Moreover, a nice talk with a stranger can stimulate more to accomplish your task.

2. Projects.

The tasks which demand more than one operation for thier performance should be called projects.

Generally speaking it’s possible to use talkoclock for the realization of one the tasks from the project one by one. It’s very convenient.

3. Postponed.

In case a task may be postponed or performed later then it should be placed in a separate list of tasks.

Specially for such tasks we have implemented a feature of a reminder for two weeks.

4.May be some day…

There are not urgent tasks of unknown time limit, so you don’t know will it become urgent or not. It’s reasonable to put such tasks into a special list.

III. Review and actions. All the lists should be reviewed from time to time. However, if you use talkoclock it’s needless to do as you will be called and reminded about the task. After the reviewing the lists as well as after a reminder from talkoclock it’s necessary to accomplish the task. Otherwise there’s no use in making lists!

Talkoclock will also help you wake up and go to bed at the arranged time which is also highly important in time management technique as it helps maintain biorhythm.

We hope talkoclock will be useful for you  as a time management tool!

Good Luck!

We’ll share the secret of successful communication between people of different gender. And this is not only for talkoclock users, it’s universal; you can use this info in the real life situations to achieve your goal. The main question is what differentiates males and females?

In a short-cut this table may briefly represent most of the differences:

What does this all mean? This clearly means that girls more often use talkoclock for communicative purposes underestimating practical ones. While talking they are more inclined to discuss their problems or to show true interest towards yours; in general be too talkative. Male on the contrary are never inclined to share their fears or problems, they do not ask for advice and sometimes show indifference and coldness.

Here are some useful tips for girls how to be successful in communication:

• More requesting a call, less calling
• Be prepared for a failed talk
• Less talking, more listening, giving the male opportunity to say his thought till the end
• Be prepared for a conversation partner to  be cold, impatient or even aggressive

There’s another list of useful tips for guys willing to succeed in the phone talk with a girl

• Be more open, communicative and not to be afraid of self-expression
• Actively show interest and care towards your female conversation partner
• Be patient if a girl is trying to give advice or talk too much, remember she’s only trying to be nice and helpful

In general women are the best communicators as their verbal abilities are far wider in comparison to men who in their turn may seem aggressive when talking. So, let’s consider a phone talk and see those differences:

Thus, it’s important to bear in mind this info and make some analyses to achieve the goal of successful communication.

You see it’s possible to improve your communicative skills with the help of talkoclock. Remember the abovementioned tips, make use of them, learn to recognize them and the result will be astounding! You will become more patient, tolerant and successful in communicating with the opposite sex. Not only on talkclock but also in real life. All you need is to communicate more and you’ll definitely find the pleasure of talking to girls or guys which is naturally more pleasant. However, this is the subject of biology…

It’s no secret that the number of guys exceed the number of girls using our service. But this is only a matter of time, so be helpful and nice and invite your female friends to be a part of our community! Share this post on Facebook. Let’s make talkoclock better together!

- Your talkoclock team

How to do that then?

Any to-do things can be devided into two main categories:

Flexible to-dos  can be performed at any time. You can do them in a row or scatter the order; you can even postpone them. 

Urgent to-dos demand compliance with the timetable. For instance a meeting, a conference, or an arranged call. So, each to-do must be performed in time.   

Can you determine which of the abovementioned to-dos the person requested a call for?

Iif a person requested a reminder for an urgent to-do it’s obvious that he/she wants to be reminded about that. So, it’s highly probable that such people are not about to talk, despite the fact that person may seem very comunivcative and polite he/she still is seeking for communication. Therefore if you wish to talk a bit longer and have a deeper conversation choose people requested flexible to-does!

Those who reqested a reminder call for a flexible to-do probably did it on purpose, in order for you to call them and have a small talk. Perhaps they didn’t even have difficulty remembering their plans or even made it up themselves to be able to have a pleasant conversation with a stranger or a foreigner. So, if you want only to test our service and to call any person just to exchange a handful of words it’s better to choose requests for urgent to-dos. At least your communication partner won’t be disappointed.

Have a nice talk on talkoclock!