Many tourists who visit Singapore for the first time are quite surprised at how easy it is to move around the city. English is considered the country’s official language and Malay is the national language. From road names to business names, English words can be found everywhere. It is not until you do get to [...]
How Ordinary People In Streets Of Singapore Learn English?
by Hanifa K. Cook on Monday, September 28th 2009 1 Comment
in English, Environment, Language, Learning Skills Tags: America, communication, english, languages, learn english, malay, malaysia, mandarin, ordinary people, singapore, tamil, thailand, words
Chinese Names Incorporated And Tattoos
by Hanifa K. Cook on Sunday, January 25th 2009 5 Comments
in Chinese, Language Tags: Add new tag, America, education, english, kids, Language, languages, learning, mandarin, meaning, people, pre-school, teacher, translate, translation, writing
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.
There [...]
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