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Three Good Reasons Not To Use The Online Translator


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Chinese Names Incorporated And Tattoos


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. [...]

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Observing Language Development


I started speaking a fifth language about 10 years ago when I was living overseas. I had to learn to speak the language to be able to communicate with the locals and my domestic staff. I was not sure whether to begin by understanding their language or having them to understand mine. When we live [...]

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Power Speech:Mother Tongue Without School

Power Speech:Mother Tongue Without School


If something so natural as speaking takes 2 years for a child to perfect, then speaking a foreign language may take an even longer time for an adult. Unless you understand the power of speech your mother tongue has given you. The truth is the only language that you can ever become fluent and completely [...]

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Changing Australian English Accent Is ‘As Game As Ned Kelly’


It is Mondye. There I go again, playing with the Australian English accent as I type. The local school environment has influenced and changed the way my daughter speaks English. It is more than jus the accent; it is complete annihilation and total destruction. I would have ignored and perhaps accept the adverse influence on [...]

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