by Hanifa K. Cook | Mar 17, 2014 | Chinese, English, Language
What do price, Facebook, bags and the English Language have in common? It is tagging. Price tags, blog taglines, question tags, Facebook tags and bag tags. Facebook tags are like cancer cells in the bone. You can privatise or remove tags, but another one just pops up out of nowhere. If anything, it is always misused.
by Hanifa K. Cook | Feb 22, 2014 | Chinese, English, Language, Music
Are you ready to be impressed and be inspired? I am totally in awe at the courage of Asian singers. I have wanted to write about this but it took this Malaysian singer, Shila Amzah to make me jump out of bed to start writing. I just have to share this with everyone. ...
by Annie Cook | Feb 21, 2013 | English, Language, Learning Skills
Similies and metaphors are found in almost every genre of music. From Windows 8 commercial, “Everything At Once” by Lenka to Katy Perry’s “Fireworks”, music gives you so much more than just entertainment . Hi Jean, Thank you for your email....
by Hanifa K. Cook | Feb 19, 2013 | English, Environment, Language, Personal Blog
Singapore is well-known for many things, one of which is ‘Singlish’, a term used to describe a unique brand of English spoken by the general Singaporeans. For Singaporeans, we speak and hear Singlish all the time; it is pointless to ridicule natives for not being to...
by Annie Cook | Apr 11, 2012 | English, Language
When I wrote my first whitepaper a few months ago, I could not think of a better topic to write about than this one …. about how to raise a kid to learn 3 languages before the age of 6 years old. I was there for the first 6 years of my child’s life. I had...
by Hanifa K. Cook | Feb 2, 2012 | English, Language
Acronyms shorten the use of full names. In some cases, such as these ones, PUB, BRA and PLN, they have different meaning depending on how they are used. Here are the 3 acronyms which can be words with real meaning in a language.
