by Hanifa K. Cook | Sep 8, 2009 | Language, Personal Blog
Do not seek opportunities to discuss religion, it never works. Instead make way for opportunities to discuss everything else except religion. People want to get to know people not because they feel comfortable with the person not his or her religion.
by Annie Cook | Sep 1, 2009 | Language, Learning Skills, Spanish, Tool
There are a lot of language learners who choose to learn Spanish simply because it is one of the most spoken languages in the world and a huge population of the planet can communicate in Spanish either as a mother tongue or a second language. Spanish is an appealing...
by Hanifa K. Cook | Aug 25, 2009 | Language, Learning Skills, Personal Blog
What activates reading? What do we read? When do we read? Here are 47 things: Blog Articles Songs Poetry Drama Advertisements Billboards Television Brochures Grocery packages Grocery receipts Bills Bank Statements Notes Text messages Emails Magazines Tabloids...
by Hanifa K. Cook | Aug 22, 2009 | English, Language, Personal Blog
Half of the population in the world do not speak or understand English, but their world has not stopped just because of lack of this knowledge. English is perceived and perhaps regarded as the universal standard of communication for commerce and social networking. In...
by Hanifa K. Cook | Aug 19, 2009 | Language, Learning Skills, Networking, Oral or Speaking
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by Hanifa K. Cook | Aug 5, 2009 | Language, Learning Skills
If you can speak, you don’t necessarily know how to write the language that you speak. The reverse, however, is not true. When you write the letter ‘a’, it usually means you have understood how to pronounce this letter. Writing is all about...