English as a Second Language

**Whether you're an expat living in Singapore, or a Singaporean who speaks a foreign language (intermediate level and above) — join us for an evening of real conversations and meaningful connections!** **Meet new people, speak in that language, and experience something beyond the usual language exchange!** **$10 for native speakers / $25 for language learners** See what our events are like: @riley.language [https://riley.figma.site/](https://riley.figma.site/)

Welcome! Gist below! :-) 1. Bring a book to the meet! 2. Buy a drink (and a bite if you're hungry). 3. Say hi to the folks. 4. Read! 5. We'll do a short round of intros and a short sharing at the end too. :) Come in and find us (we're probably the only reading group)! In the event that the place is full, we'll find a back up nearby. :-) This is a limited seats, small group event, so do try to update your RSVP early if your plans change! Thanks in advance! Nearest MRT: Tiong Bahru (EW17)

Je vous invite á une soirée de conversation en français, tous les vendredis. C’est pour ceux qui veux ameliorer leur connaisance de la langue française, comme moi. Comme vous voyez, je ne connais pas cette langue telement bien. Alors, les francophones natifs sont également les bienvenus. Venez nous raconter l'histoire de votre vie, votre passe-temps favori, ce que vous aimez ou n’aimez pas au sujet de la France, ou dans la langue française, ou tout aspect de la grammaire ou du vocabulaire, dans un environnement tranquille et sympathique.

Hatha Yoga practice at a condo right by Farrer Road MRT every Monday. 🦅 08:00pm - 09:15pm These are weekly classes where the whole group practice and progress together, working on fundamentals and slowly building up. This class is good for beginners or anyone working with injuries. A consistent practice will build your foundation strong physically & mentally. Details: ✨ Class time: 04:30pm - 5:45pm (75mins) ✨ Single drop in session: $40 (SGD) ✨ Please [WhatsApp 96469599 ](https://wa.me/6596469599)(Hwee) to sign up. ✨ Minimum 5 pax to start ✨ Bring your yoga mat, face towel and yoga blocks (if you have challenge bringing yoga blocks, let me know, i will arrange something) ✨ As always, we progress step by step as we practice consistently every week, it is not a full 75mins of workout, we start of with mindfulness and end with a long mental relaxation which most people look forward to. Please feel free to ask any questions or raise any concern. Please reach 5mins early.

**LEARN MANDARIN WITH US** **和我们一起学华语/普通话** Come and join us every Saturday afternoon and learn some useful Mandarin from proficient speakers in a friendly and casual atmosphere. Besides learning the language, you will also get to make new friends from all around the world. Whether you are a beginner, intermediate and advanced learner, we welcome you. The meetup starts at 4 pm. We will try our best to arrange seating at this time so that each group has expert Mandarin speakers. If you come later than 4.10 pm we cannot guarantee ideal seating. Seating priorities will be given to those who signed up. **欢迎会说华语/普通话的朋友** 我们非常欢迎会说华语/普通话的朋友来参加我们这个华语/普通话练习小组，帮助来自世界各地的朋友学习华语/普通话。 *** GETTING THERE Take Downtown (blue) Line or Circle (yellow) Line to Promenade MRT. Take Exit C at Promenade MRT, and go up to level 3. LOCATING US INSIDE THE FOOD COURT Look for a round tables section near the wall of the food court away from the stalls. You can drop the Event Host a message if you are lost. NO COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES We welcome anyone who is keen to learn a language or help others learn the language. However, this is NOT the platform for individuals who have other intentions, such as recruiting members for their business or organization or selling products or services. We will not hesitate to ask such individuals to stop attending our meetups.

Join us for an exciting language exchange meetup where you can practice both Japanese and English in a friendly and supportive environment. Whether you're a beginner or an advanced speaker, this event is perfect for honing your language skills while making new friends who share a passion for Japanese culture. Immerse yourself in conversations, games, and activities that will not only help you improve your language proficiency but also deepen your understanding of Japanese culture. Bring your enthusiasm and curiosity, and get ready to expand your language skills while connecting with like-minded individuals. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your language abilities and cultural awareness in a fun and interactive setting! Let's learn Japanese. にほんごをまなびましょう！ 日本語を学びましょう。

True Breakfast will shutter on 26 April thus we decided to pay them one last visit. We have been to True Breakfast outlets several times (this one and the one at Cuppage) so we are a bit sad that they are closing down as they serve authentic Taiwanese breakfast. Let's enjoy it one last time while they are still there. Reviews: [https://sethlui.com/true-breakfast-capitol-singapore/](https://sethlui.com/true-breakfast-capitol-singapore/) How to get there: Nearest MRT: City Hall Nearest bus stop: City Hall Stn Exit B (04167) If you have any questions or comments, please ask them in the Comments section. See you there! Cheers, KehHan & Jacky

**🌏 Multilingual Singles Night @ Harbour Place** **Join us for our first language exchange meetup for singles! Practice languages in timed rotations, then unwind at our karaoke after party.** **The Flow:** **10 mins Mandarin/Cantonese → 10 mins Japanese → 10 mins English/Bahasa Melayu. Swap groups and repeat ×3 or x4.** **Details:** **📍 Harbour Place Tanjong Pagar** **🕰️ 7:30 PM-9:30PM** **💰 $20 ticket for gents ,$16 for ladies (includes in drink )** **GST +9% surcharge if paying on the day.** **To Attend:** **RSVP on Meetup** **Paynow to Kimi and text Kimi at 8796 4912 or Sebastian at 9199 1468 to confirm payment before attending** **🎤 Karaoke after party to follow!**

Where does genuinely new stuff come from, and what does the answer obligate us to do? We are primates, evolved for the African Savana, with meat machines in our heads. These meat machines can do something curious: they can imagine. Even further, they can be “creative”; that is, they can imagine something “novel”. At first glance, imagination seems like a cute quirk. We can imagine fantasies, tell fun stories, paint pictures, make gadgets. Some of these stories we deem “creative” or “novel”. But what actually counts as “new/creative”? The commonly used notion for “creative” in various domains of study is the creation of something “novel” and “useful/appropriate”. “Novel” ensures the new idea/invention is not just a basic recombination of old things. “Useful/appropriate” ensures that the idea is meaningful, reveals something interesting, and is not just a random mess. Both of these terms are broad and contentious (intentionally so). Who defines what is “novel” or useful/appropriate”? Should it be defined by the individual who originated the idea, or by the social judgment of peers, or specifically by experts, or by history/those who come later? The **Systems Model** recognizes that “creativity” is not a property determined by individuals, but through an interaction between the domain/field of innovation, the social ecosystem (gatekeepers, institutions, etc.), and the innovation itself. Other views emphasize the **cognitive mechanisms** of creativity. New ideas do not emerge “de novo”, they emerge from a recombination of past ideas, with a novel “transformation of the problem space”. Hence, an individual needs to make the creative leap with regards to themselves (their past experiences, cultural knowledge, etc.); it is a mental operation. Even if their new idea might already be known to someone else/the public, if they themselves did not know it, it is still a novel creation for them. Thus the question: Is there a rigorous notion that can tell whether something is “truly novel”, or even quantify how much? And who decides? Beyond the domain of fiction and art, our meat sack brains can also imagine things like multiple dimensions, 4D space, invisible forces, and other notions that at the time were heavily criticized as fanciful thinking (imaginary numbers, non-euclidian geometry, microscopic germs). Our minds were shaped by natural selection to solve savanna-scale problems — predators, social hierarchies, thrown objects. There's no selection pressure for imagining or grasping 11-dimensional string theory or quantum field theory. Feynman himself suspected we might not be able to understand wavefunction collapse or superposition. And human working memory is sorely limited. It is surprising that these ideas turn out to be “*real”*. They explain the physical world and give us tremendous power over it. Sometimes, increasing our power over the physical world depends on creating ever more “novel” ideas/absurdities (e.g. Infinite dimensional vector spaces. Subatomic particles. Quantum phenomena. etc.) Outlandishness is not sufficient for scientific success, but those ideas that yielded the greatest increase in understanding/power were often the most outlandish. In other words, the degree of “creative novelty” in science is proportional to the degree of increased physical power we gain. Is there a limit to what our brains can conceive? Science and art are very different domains. But therein lies the puzzle: the process of creativity deployed in science seems no different from the process of creativity deployed in art; so perhaps the same process is generating novelty in both. This suggests a tantalizing unity of what it means to be “novel”. If the same process generates “novelty” in 2 (seemingly) different branches: art and science, and one branch leaves physical traces, then “novelty” might not be mere arbitrary social judgment. Discussion Questions: * What counts as “creative”/”novel”? Who judges this? Is it an individual or social or objective judgment? How do we know whether something is “new” or not? Are we just “doing whatever we do?” * Operationally, how does creativity work? How does creativity “create new things”? Where does the newness come from? * Is the process of creativity in art, social science, natural science, engineering, technology, all the same underlying process? * If it is the same underlying process, how does “novelty”/creativity in science relate to creativity in art? * What’s the difference between imagination, creativity, and knowledge? * Is society obligated to create the conditions necessary for people to engage their creativity? If we disable people’s creativity, is that a form of mind control?

Good Evening.... .....^0^/...... Hardness : 0.5 stars \*1/2(Sunset) Distance: approximate 4km or time 6KM \- Meet @ Harbourfront MRT\- Exit B ground level Here, we come for a Sunset/ lighting walk around 4km..... Let's have a leisure walk at night for this time.....We will walk from Harbourfront MRT ---> Sentosa to enjoy the new lighting.... Route: -. MRT-exit B Harbourfront --> linked boardwalk -->Sentosa food street --> Lighting area --> Sentosa bench --> Harbour Front(Vivo)...... Programme: -. 5:30pm - meet @ Harbour front Exit B ground level -. 5:40pm-5:50pm - walk to level 3 coffee shop for dinner -.6:05pm to 7:00pm - Dinner -.7:00pm - Start walking from Coffee shop -.7:05pm to 8:30pm- Leisure walk to Sentosa for sunset & lighting -8:35pm-8:45pm - take Free train back to Vivo -9pm- 9:30pm - sit @Harbour front MacDonald for drink -9:40pm - go home... \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* Thing to Bring: * Water ( At least 1L); * Some food (May hungry along the way); * Wear bright reflective clothes; * comfortable cover shoes; * Some $$( In case too tired can not walk......Take taxi home ); * Camera; * other thing suit your walk....... \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* Please have a comfort cover shoe to protect your leg, Bring a cheerful heart.....& a relax Mind... Cheer ^_^ Contact person * Bong - 96 196 902 NOTE: \*\*This Event is for members only. Please ask your friends to sign up and RSVP on this Event page. *FOR MEMBER ONLY*\* **Depend on the speed of the group, the route & distance may adjust to time**

Let's grab some coffee/food and share a morning chat! The East Market has an ample parking lot and outdoor and indoor seating. Grab a cup of coffee from Winston's Coffee & Waffles or on your way to East Market and meet us on the second floor - table behind or east of the elevator. Per what this group is about: "Everyone is welcome! International transplants to Columbus who want to improve language skills, Columbus residents who want to discuss international travel and culture, and anyone who enjoys getting together for good conversations."

Inspired by our successful events like "Saturday Mornings @ East Market" and other "Pot Luck in the Park" lunches, this gathering promises to be a blend of fun conversations, language exchange, and cultural insights, all while sharing wonderful foods with each other. **Please bring a dish to share and anything you would like to drink.** We will provide plates, plastic silverware and napkins. So, come hungry and ready to chat!

Let's grab some coffee/food and share a morning chat! The East Market has an ample parking lot and outdoor and indoor seating. Grab a cup of coffee from Winston's Coffee & Waffles or on your way to East Market and meet us on the second floor - table behind or east of the elevator. Per what this group is about: "Everyone is welcome! International transplants to Columbus who want to improve language skills, Columbus residents who enjoy talking to people from other countries, and those who would like to discuss international travel and culture, and who enjoy getting together for good conversations."

Let's grab some coffee/food and share a morning chat! The East Market has an ample parking lot and outdoor and indoor seating. Grab a cup of coffee from Winston's Coffee & Waffles or on your way to East Market and meet us on the second floor - table behind or east of the elevator. Per what this group is about: "Everyone is welcome! International transplants to Columbus who want to improve language skills, Columbus residents who enjoy talking to people from other countries, and those who would like to discuss international travel and culture, and who enjoy getting together for good conversations."

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Hey Everyone! Let's meet at Belle's Bread Bakery and Cafe. There is lots of free parking and easy access to the cafe and many shops and restaurants as well. This is a great way to meet new and old friends while chatting about life and practicing English language speaking skills. All are welcome and encouraged to join us anytime between 11am and 1pm. Looking forward to seeing you soon.

Hey Everyone! Let's meet at Belle's Bread Bakery and Cafe. There is lots of free parking and easy access to the cafe and many shops and restaurants as well. This is a great way to meet new and old friends while chatting about life and practicing English language speaking skills. All are welcome and encouraged to join us anytime between 11am and 1pm. Looking forward to seeing you soon.