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...
by Hanifa K. Cook | Oct 6, 2009 | Environment, Internet, Language
Today, as I was browsing through my website, I discovered this old post. The site Second Life has apparently been taken down. So as you read this post, you will notice that I have removed all the links. But I like to keep this post up so others will know that this...
by Hanifa K. Cook | Oct 1, 2009 | Event, Language, Music, News
Childhoodspeech, Success With Languages, celebrate Children’s Day 2009 on 1 October 2009 along with you. Here are 6 top favourites stories, events, pictures and videos of 2009. These are selected based on the simplicity of its message: that there can only be one...
by Hanifa K. Cook | Sep 28, 2009 | English, Environment, Language, Learning Skills
Many tourists who visit Singapore for the first time are quite surprised at how easy it is to move around the city. English is considered the country’s official language and Malay is the national language. From road names to business names, English words can be found...
by Hanifa K. Cook | Sep 24, 2009 | Language, Learning Skills, Reading
How can you improve your English or (other languages for that matter) when you read? Although reading is an essential part of language proficiency development, reading itself does not come natural to many of us. By that, I compare it with walking, talking, eating or...