by Hanifa K. Cook | Nov 10, 2008 | Environment, Language, Learning Skills
If something so natural as speaking takes 2 years for a child to do, speaking a foreign language may take a longer time for an adult. Unless you understand the power of speech your mother tongue has given you, your hidden potentials will remain untapped and unused....
by Hanifa K. Cook | Nov 4, 2008 | Environment, Language, Montessori
My daughter is attending Mandarin class at a local learning center near our house. At present, she is already speaking 4 languages: Mandarin, English, Bahasa Indonesia and Malay. Since she has started school in Singapore, she has started to pick up the unique...
by Hanifa K. Cook | Nov 3, 2008 | Environment, Learning Skills
I was thinking as I watched my child played pretend game with her cousin. The topics they chose ranged from working in an office, ordering meal at the restaurant, marriage ceremony and going to the beach. I noticed they were quite strong in their vocabulary, using...
by Hanifa K. Cook | Nov 3, 2008 | Environment
MOBILE PHONE IS A LIFELINE Way back in 2005, the global network was already talking about how the poor would profit from using the mobile banking network using the phone-banking. This tool, the telephone, is not just a tool, it is people’s lifeline. Without it, you...