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How Sensitive Are You Towards Learning Languages?

Hanifa K. Cook — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 02:26:26 +0000

How do you know if you are sensitive towards learning a language? How would you know if you are not cheating time by faking your own interest? “I love this guy but he is a foreigner. So I should learn his language to get to know him better?” It does not work that way. This [...]

7 Tips On How To Learn A Language Naturally

Hanifa K. Cook — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:41:16 +0000

You can actually learn a language naturally without going to school or studying a textbook. I call this “Language Of Life”. Many expatriates who live outside their native environment can prove this theory to be true. That you do not need a textbook or go to school to learn a foreign language, you just need [...]

Learn Chinese: Love and Hate Mandarin

Hanifa K. Cook — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:14:18 +0000

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 [...]

How To Communicate With A Native English Speaker

Hanifa K. Cook — Fri, 22 May 2009 11:17:35 +0000

The basis of this post is to help non-native speakers of English language to understand how to approach communication with a native English speaker. However, this post is written in English, my preferred language of communication. In writing this post, I speak to the mind of a non-native English speaker, hopefully shedding some light on [...]

Learn Modulation Of Language

Hanifa K. Cook — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:07:35 +0000

There are a few techniques used by teachers, salespersons, actors, actresses, news presenters and singers to make their performance interesting to their listeners, viewers or audience. It is the way they give pitch to their voice and intonate their speeches that makes us listen with interest. This technique is called modulating the voice so our [...]

Tips On Non-native Language For Your Child

Hanifa K. Cook — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:41:17 +0000

Here are some helpful tips for you to decide on your choices of non-native language for your child. 1. What is native language? It is simply the mother tongue of the child or the language that the parent or caregiver will be at home with the child. In some countries, the native language of the [...]

Power Speech:Mother Tongue Without School

Hanifa K. Cook — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:51:37 +0000

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 [...]

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

Hanifa K. Cook — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:32:24 +0000

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 [...]