Success With Languages» skills

Are You Wasting Time With Google Search For Languages?

Hanifa K. Cook — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:50:48 +0000

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 [...]

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 [...]

Best Tip: Build And Exercise Vocabulary Skills

Hanifa — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:06:58 +0000

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

Hanifa K. Cook — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:31:34 +0000

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

Hanifa K. Cook — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:32:06 +0000

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 [...]