by Annie Cook | Mar 11, 2013 | Language, Parenting, Personal Blog
My colleagues in the Business Chinese Language class ask me why I want to take up this course. It is valid question. They are all working adults. I am a stay-at-home and work-from-home mother of a non-native Chinese kid who is learning Chinese. What does learning...
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 Hanifa K. Cook | Dec 11, 2012 | Event, Language
Finally, it is time for me to leave the wonderful world of teaching in the classroom to blogging about it. What better way to start of than by talking about something so simple and yet can be so impossible to teach than the infamous 7 words sentence kindergarten kids...
by Hanifa K. Cook | Sep 26, 2012 | Language, Learning Skills
Here is a question submitted by a reader. Submitted on 2012/09/24 at 7:53 pm by Kayla at this blog My main question/concern is how will I teach my children to read and write in 3 languages? They’ll obviously learn how to read and write in English because that is the...