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Guest Post: 6 Unexpected Techniques to Memorize New Phrases

Memorizing stuff is hard for lots of different people, and the weird thing is that it works different ways for different people. Some can remember strings of numbers, others can remember faces, and others can remember the intimate details of events. If you are unlucky, then you may have trouble memorizing new phrases, so here are a few techniques to help you. These techniques will help you learn new words in English, and will help you learn new words and phrases in another language.

Guest Post: How to Use Translation to go from Online Student to Online Entrepreneur

As we get pressed into the new normal, more people are working online, living online, playing online and even shopping online. What people do not tell you, is that if you can learn online, if you can shop online and if you can even work online, it means you have what it takes to move from being an online student to being an online entrepreneur. No, this is not a get rich quick scheme and the truth is, working to build any business is challenging.

တ႐ုတ္အကၡရာရဲ႕အလွ

တ႐ုတ္ဘာသာကို သင္ယူေနၾကေသာသူေတြအေနနဲ႔ တ႐ုတ္စကားလံုးေတြဟာ အကၡရာတင္မဟုတ္ဘဲ အႏုပညာလက္ရာတစ္ခုလည္းျဖစ္တာကို နားလည္သေဘာေပါက္ရမယ္။ျပီးေတာ့ တရုတ္အကၡရာတိုင္းမွာ႐ွိတဲ့ စုတ္ခ်က္ေတြရဲ႕အဓိပၸါယ္ကိုလွပစြာ ေပါင္းစပ္ထားျခင္းျဖစ္တယ္။အဲ့လိုေျပာရျခင္းဟာ တ႐ုတ္အကၡရာေတြဟာ အမွန္တကယ္႐ွိေနတဲ့အရာဝတၳဳေတြအေပၚမူတည္ၿပီးအခ်ိန္ႏွင့္အမ်ွ တိုးတက္ေျပာင္းလဲလာလို႔ျဖစ္တယ္။ကြၽႏု္ပ္အဲ့ဒါကို ၁၀၀ ရာခိုင္ႏႉန္းအမွန္မေျပာႏိုင္ေပမဲ့ တ႐ုတ္စကားလံုးေတြနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီးျပထားတဲ့ ရုပ္ျပစာအုပ္ေတြရွိတယ္။ဥပမာေျပာရရင္ ''ေန'' နဲ႔ ''လ'' ကိုအရင္ကဘယ္လိုေရးသာၾကတယ္နဲ႔ယေန႔ေခတ္တိုင္ေအာင္ ဘယ္လိုအဆင့္ဆင့္ေျပာင္းလဲတိုးတက္လာတယ္ဆိုတာကို ေအာက္မွာၾကည့္ႏိူင္ပါတယ္။ 日 နဲ႔ 月 ကေတာ့ယေန႔ေခတ္သံုးတဲ့အကၡရာေတြျဖစ္တယ္။

Nauruan Language

The Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has held a two-day event promoting the Asia-Pacific culture in the capital city of Taiwan, Taipei City, on September 28-29th. The participants come from the Solomon Islands, the Philippines, the Marshall Islands, Vietnam, Tuvalu, Thailand, Singapore, South Korea, New Zealand, Palau, Nauru, Malaysia, Kiribati, Japan, Indonesia, India, Fiji, and Brunei. Apart from performing dances from each of the countries, the participants also displayed a wide variety of handicrafts and artworks as well as authentic cuisine on each country's booth.

9 Multilingual News Websites For Reading Practice

Learners learn languages in many different ways, such as attending language classes, playing games, or listening to audio. Whatever the methods are, they usually cover four aspects of language learning: reading, listening, speaking, and writing. Mastering only one or two of these is not enough because, in reality, we read, listen, speak, and write.

Medanese Slang

Jangan bikin awak palak (Don't annoy me) Have you heard about Medan ? Maybe yes, maybe no. It is not so famous as Bali or Jakarta, however, this city and the culinary is worth to explore.

Toki Pona: The Language of Good

I finally chose a new language to learn, and this time, it is a constructed language (conlang). Guess what? It is The Language of Good or Toki Pona. Surprising? Let me tell you why. Before I decided to learn it, I have read a lot about Toki Pona because it is one of many popular conlangs.

The Beauty of Chinese Character

People who have studied Chinese must realize that Chinese character is not just a character, but it is also an art. Every stroke in the character forms a beautiful combination of a meaning. It is said that Chinese character evolves from time to time based on the actual object. Although I cannot say that it is 100% true, there are books about Chinese pictogram. For example, you can see below how "sun" and "moon" was written in the past and the evolution of it until nowadays. Characters 日 and 月, on far right, are the characters used today.

Tuvaluan Language

Talofa Tuvalu! The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s chartered jet landed on this Polynesian island last year on the final leg of their tour to the Far East . Tuvalu ranks as the fourth smallest country in the world , following Vatican City, Monaco, and Nauru as the top 3 in the list, respectively. Formerly known as the Ellice Islands , Tuvalu separated from the Gilbert Islands in 1975 and gained independence from Great Britain in 1978. The capital city is Funafuti.

6 Local Writing Systems in Indonesia

Indonesia is a vast country in Southeast Asia that anyone can recognize easily on the map because it borders the sea, thus its country border is also the sea border. Hundreds of ethnic groups and languages exist in Indonesia. Despite having numerous writing systems, the government recognizes the Latin alphabet as the official writing system, which was introduced during the colonization by the Europeans.

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