Hi friends, Mandarin is one of the preferred languages to learn especially for people who wish to settle down in Asia for business. However it is not a language you can always learn without structured methods of instructions. I have discovered many natives who struggled to remember key phrases even after learning the language from [...]
Learn Chinese: Love and Hate Mandarin
by Hanifa K. Cook on June 9, 2009 in Chinese, Learning Skills, Personal Blog
Of all the languages in the world that is most talked about on the internet and least liked is Mandarin. It is so damn hard! It is greek to me! It is just impossible to remember how people can even remember a character let alone a stroke in the character! The ones who have been [...]
Drawing Day 2009: 1 Million In One Day
by Hanifa K. Cook on April 21, 2009 in Chinese, Event, Montessori
Do you love to draw? Do you enjoy drawing? Do you feel that you have a lot to say but which you would rather give in the form of a drawing? Would you draw on the plane? Could you try to draw with a pencil? Would you rather work with paints? Would you could you, [...]
Chinese Names Incorporated And Tattoos
by Hanifa K. Cook on January 25, 2009 in Chinese, Language
If you turn to any page in a Chinese dictionary for names in Mandarin, you may not come across a name like Sugiarto or Gunawan. Honestly, it may not even matter to you now because you will never come across them in your part of the world, say the United States of America or Ghana. [...]
Tips On Transliterator, Mobile Phone For Language
by Hanifa on November 19, 2008 in Chinese, Language
LOOK FOR TRANSLITERATION SERVICE NOT A TRANSLATOR If you want to learn to speak a foreign word, you must LISTEN FIRST. You must have a native speaker to help you to pronounce the word correctly but he is not your dictionary. You still have to do the work yourself. Listening is a very important part [...]
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