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WORD OF THE DAY : October 1, 2017

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Learning a language can be pretty overwhelming. For that reason, I think that the small things matter. For people who want to add to their learning or for those who want to start gradually, here is the word of the day. There is a convenient way to pronounce it, its meaning and two examples of sentences on how to use it. This is brought to us by t he  Word of the Day app by Coefficient Software Systems Private Limited. Feel free to comment your own sentences using the word below.  Have fun! 📚📖📓📕📒📙📗📘🤓📘📗📙📒📕📓📖📚 WORD OF THE DAY : LINIMENT PRONUNCIATION: LI-ni-ment meaning: a topical solution used to alleviate stiffness or pain  Example 1: The homemade liniment  does a good job of easing my ankle pain. E xample 2: When I visit my grandfather at the nursing home, I usually give him liniment for his achy knees. 📚📖📓📕📒📙📗📘🤓📘📗📙📒📕📓📖📚 Thanks to the Word of the Day app by Coefficient Software Systems Private L...

WORD OF THE DAY : September 30, 2017

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Learning a language can be pretty overwhelming. For that reason, I think that the small things matter. For people who want to add to their learning or for those who want to start gradually, here is the word of the day. There is a convenient way to pronounce it, its meaning and two examples of sentences on how to use it. This is brought to us by t he  Word of the Day app by Coefficient Software Systems Private Limited. Feel free to comment your own sentences using the word below.  Have fun! 📚📖📓📕📒📙📗📘🤓📘📗📙📒📕📓📖📚 WORD OF THE DAY :  ALLAY PRONUNCIATION: al-LEY meaning: to make quiet or calm Example 1 : Even though the president has apologized for his lack of action during the crisis, his statement has done nothing to allay public anger. Example 2 : The man’s solid alibi helped to allay  the detective’s suspicions about him. 📚📖📓📕📒📙📗📘🤓📘📗📙📒📕📓📖📚 Thanks to the Word of the Day app by Coefficient Software...

ABOUT THIS BLOG: KASHIKOI

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I am so happy to post this blog about the game that we often play after our main lesson. 📚 It has been derived from the popular TV segment "Pinoy Henyo" which is often played on the Filipino show, "Eat Bulaga!" Loosely translated, Pinoy Henyo means "The Filipino Genius". I believe that the game is entitled as so because the creator and participants are Filipinos or "mga Pinoy". 🇵🇭 I want to share this game to my students because I have experienced benefitting from this game as well. 🌸 With the short time that we have for playing this game, I have only explained that playing games like this will help activate certain or almost all parts of the brain that are responsible for language. These are Broca's area, Wernicke's area, angular gyrus, and insular cortex. 🤓🤓🤓 (Age of the geeks, baby!)🤓🤓🤓 However, what I was not able to share during our sessions was that I have been in an accident years back. 😱 I have, from time to...