The World At Your Fingertips  

What you'll find in this website

    1. For active tourists, or simply armchair travellers, there are lots of travel tips and photos of top tourist destinations in Europe (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Venice, Paris, Madrid, Rome, London, the French Riviera, Geneva, Copenhagen, Oslo, etc.), China (Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an, Hangzhou), Malaysia (Penang, etc.) and even Morocco (Marrakesh, Casablanca, etc.). In each city you will be shown in words and pictures the "must-see" places as well as the things you must absolutely experience even if you don't have much time to spend there. More....
    2. Apart from the travel pages there are numerous topics in this site that could be of interest to you, from whichever part of the world you might be in. These range from today's world headlines from various sources so you will know if something big happens (including BBC, CNN, Huffington Post and Newsy video news) to computer tips and useful software (see vertical navigational menu on left ) plus all kinds of information that will be useful to everyone from anywhere in the world under "The World's My Home". More....  And if you love songs, you will be able to listen to them non-stop while you are working here. Yes, thanks to Deezer, you will be able to listen to playlists of songs by some 70 popular singers throughout the ages here.
    3. There is also a full course covering all aspects of learning Pinyin, which is the romanized version of spoken Mandarin. This unorthodox course is really like no other in that a few grammatical rules which have always been an obstacle to foreign learners of Mandarin have been "bent" in order to make the study of the Chinese language easier - without sacrificing much in terms of making yourself understood. It is indeed possible to speak Chinese Mandarin without knowing a single Chinese character (I know, more than one prospective student have been put off simply at the sight of these intimidating Chinese characters!) More....
    4. You will also find here a complete Basic Malay language course with 64 lessons and audio to help the individual learner at home. Although the Malay language is used mainly in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei, it is also quite similar to the Indonesian language. More....
    5. Another of the highlights of this site is a Bilingual Malay-English and English-Malay Dictionary. You will find it here. The icing on the cake is that the highly-reputed "Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary" is available on every page in this site (top-left corner). This dictionary is used by 35 million learners of English worldwide and is particularly useful when you come across phrasal verbs or idiomatic expressions in your online reading experience. It is also possible to get the meaning of a word by double-clicking on it. This feature comes from the Macmillan Dictionary.
    6. I have added the automatic Google machine translator to allow instantaneous translation of my pages into some 50 languages. You will find it right at the top left-hand corner of every page (under "Select Language"). As you know, machine translations can be hilarious at times, especially when they concern idiomatic expressions, but nevertheless they still do give the gist of what a page is all about. If you don't like the look of it, just click on "Show original" in the "Google translate" banner at the top of the page.

Ok, that's all for now. Just take a look around and have fun surfing! - Webmaster.

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