Hanifa K. Cook | Effective Communications

Changing Accents Do Not Help You Speak Clearer

by Hanifa K. Cook | Jun 15, 2009 | Language, Learning Skills

Is it always true that changing our accents will help improve our socio-cultural interactions in a multi-cultural world? That is not the case. All heads of states around the world will not be able to run their countries if they spend time worrying about their accent...

You Can Never Hate Your Mandarin: What Lee Kuan Yew Showed Me

by Hanifa K. Cook | Jun 9, 2009 | Chinese, Learning Skills, Personal Blog

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...

Red Faces – The Music Men Demonstrate Music and Movement

by Hanifa K. Cook | Jun 6, 2009 | Language, Montessori

What is music and movement? When we were in pre-school, we learnt to perform to music and lyrics with movement to learn languages. Watch this video, the Music Men will demonstrate what it is all about. This was a smash hit by the way.

Concentration is key to good memory

by Hanifa K. Cook | May 30, 2009 | Learning Skills

The areas in your brain that process this information for your memory are the hippocampus (the primitive structure in the brain), amygadala (processes emotion), cerebral cortex (used for processing information for long term memory such as languages) and network of...

Memory Problem? Car Keys And Wallet.

by Hanifa K. Cook | May 28, 2009 | Learning Skills, Montessori

Take a break. Listen to this song< "Looking For My Car Keys and Wallet". Everybody has problem with trying to remember to do things. Your're not alone.