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Tip On How To Be Bilingual

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...

How Ordinary People In Streets Of Singapore Learn English？

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...

Tips On Improving Your English When You Read

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...

The Wonderful World Of Spanish 101 (2)

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...

We Don’t Read When We Write Or Do We?

by Hanifa K. Cook | Aug 27, 2009 | Learning Skills

Can we write without reading? This post is a response to questions to understand more about writing and reading: Let’s assume you do not understand Mandarin. Try writing the Mandarin character you see in the above picture or write/read this sentence...

What Activates And Deactivates Reading? 47 Things.

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...