by Hanifa K. Cook | Nov 2, 2009 | Internet, Language, News
What is the buzz this month? ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers board) recently approved a new Internationalized Domain Name Fast Track Processgeneric cialis. This means people will soon have localised domain endings on website addresses in...
by Hanifa K. Cook | Oct 29, 2009 | English, Language
My daughter was given 30 English words for her spelling test. Her English teacher had asked the students to find the meaning of each word and write it down on the exercise book. She spent 30 minutes searching and copying the meaning of 5 words from the dictionary....
by Hanifa K. Cook | Oct 21, 2009 | Language, Learning Skills
In my last post, I wrote about How To Be Bilingual. If you have been speaking or trying to speak two languages, you may not feel confident enough because people comment on your heavy foreign accent. Here are some basic rules you can follow once you feel ready to speak...
by Hanifa K. Cook | Oct 13, 2009 | Language, Learning Skills
You don’t necessarily have to speak two languages fluently to think like a bilingual person. Unless you have been living ‘seperti katak di bawah tempurong‘ or ‘like frogs in a well’ or 坐井观天,you would probably not have taken any notice of the foreign word you can...
by Hanifa K. Cook | Oct 8, 2009 | Language
Bahasa Indonesia is spoken by people of Indonesia, an archipelago in South-east Asia. With a population of over 208 million, for those living near or intending to live in Indonesia, it is essential to know basic Bahasa Indonesia because it is the offgeneric...