by Hanifa K. Cook | Mar 30, 2009 | Language, Spanish
The time has come for my monthly Spanish language update. So what have I learned this month? I dared myself to write my first sentence in Spanish but I am not ready. Writing has to come later, after speech. I have spent time reading tweets in Spanish and occassionally...
by Hanifa K. Cook | Mar 26, 2009 | Language
This post highlights 3 basic differences in the way a child and an adult learn to speak a language. After knowing the differences, you can easily follow 4 basic rules of learning by remembering the name of a flower, the ROSE. Number One. An adult has a pre-conceived...
by Hanifa K. Cook | Mar 19, 2009 | Language
There are a few techniques used by teachers, salespersons, actors, actresses, news presenters and singers to make their performance interesting to their listeners, viewers or audience. It is the way they give pitch to their voice and intonate their speeches that makes...
by Hanifa K. Cook | Mar 14, 2009 | Language
How does the Arabic numbers, 1,2 and 3 come about? If you are wondering why 1 is ‘one’, 2 is ‘two’ or 3 is ‘three’, look that slide presentation below. The knowledge seemed familiar; I might have learned it at college. At the end of...
by Hanifa K. Cook | Mar 10, 2009 | Language
The essence of good spoken language skills are twofolds. The first is intonation and the second is modulation of language. In this post, we will discuss intonation, with regard to the art of speaking clearly rather than the style of expression and choice of words,...
by Hanifa K. Cook | Mar 5, 2009 | Language
This is my latest progress update on my online Spanish learning programme. I discovered that I could learn Spanish and practise other languages from an a site called twitter. Twitter is highly recommended if you desire to look up quick updates on what your colleagues,...