Custom Search Are you learning a language programme online and feel you are not making the kind of progress you are hoping for? Are you speaking beyond just greeting words like hello, how are you, and basic expressions like “My name is….”? Are you interested in learning more than just the basic social greeting phrases [...]
Are You Wasting Time With Google Search For Languages?
by Hanifa K. Cook on April 13, 2009 in Internet, Language, Tool
Learn Modulation Of Language
by Hanifa K. Cook on March 19, 2009 in Language
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 [...]
Best Tip: Build And Exercise Vocabulary Skills
by Hanifa on March 1, 2009 in Internet, Montessori
Do you wish to build your vocabulary of foreign words in a matter of days or weeks? Here is a great tip. When I showed kids candies before class began, they would wait in great anticipation. To get them to speak their first Mandarin words, I said, “我要。” as I held a candy in front [...]
Companionship, Respect, Love and Admiration
by Hanifa K. Cook on January 20, 2009 in Childhood, Language, Learning Skills, Montessori
The final form of human society is based on organisation. However, without written rules and regulations, how can society of children organise itself? This article investigates on society of cohesion from the aspect of organisation. Kids are more than ready to love, admire and respect, without compensation or expectation of rewards. At any given venue [...]
Knowing The Guru And Expert
by Hanifa K. Cook on December 10, 2008 in Learning Skills
An “expert” is someone widely recognized as a reliable source of technique or skill whose faculty for judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely is accorded authority and status by their peers or the public. A guru (Sanskrit: गुरु) is a person who is regarded as having great knowledge, wisdom and authority in a given [...]
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