LaGuardia Community College The English Language Center Zully Katherin Patiño Viviescas Professor Paul Metzger June 8‚ 2013 Saturday Program Level 6- Spring 2013 Spanish versus English Proficiency in a second language involves the acquisition of range of knowledge and skills conditioned in part by experiences lived that will help you in your personal or
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but the most common by far is English‚ although other languages such as Spanish and French are also quite common. According to the CIA World Factbook‚ on a census taken in 2000: 82.1% of Americans speak English 10.7% of Americans speak Spanish 3.8% of Americans speak another Indo-European language (www.cia.gov) These results can be slightly surprising since the assumption by many Americans would be that there are a higher percentage of people who speak English in the United States. Enrollment
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knows. Summary of My English Julia Alvarez is a Dominican-American writer. She describes the struggle and the achievements she had in the essay ‘My English’. She lived in the Dominican Republic with her family‚ who spoke only Spanish at home. She grew up learning Spanish by heart. It was her first language. She and her sister joined Carol Morgan School and became a bilingual family. She had to use English in school. As Spanish had its many tongues‚ she thought of English as another and harder version
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English Philology Department Gender in the English language: a diachronic perspective 8.030502 – the English Language and Literature Course Paper CONTENTS INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………3-5 CHAPTER I. THEORETICAL BASIS FOR THE STUDY OF THE CATEGORY OF GENDER IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1.1. The study of Gender in Modern Linguistics……………………….6-8 1.2. Contradictory Views on Gender in Modern English………………8-10 1.3. The Category of Gender in Germanic
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natural growth of the English language and literature. The Old English or Anglo-Saxon had been a purely Germanic speech‚ with a complicated grammar and a full set of inflections. For three hundred years following the battle of Hastings this native tongue was driven from the king’s court and the courts of law‚ from Parliament‚ school‚ and university. During all this time there were two languages spoken in England. Norman French was the birth-tongue of the upper classes and English of the lower. When
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Maggi’s Brand Extension: In 1998‚ Nestle launched Maggi’s first brand extension‚ Maggi soup. At this stage‚ There was no organized packaged soup market in India. Nestle planned to create a market for packaged soup as it felt the category had a lot of potential. However‚ according to analysis‚ the company had introduced soups only to cash in on the Maggi’s brand name‚ and was never very serious about the segment. In 1993‚ “Sweet Maggi”‚ the first variant of Maggi noodles was launched. The company
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teaching and learning process in all subjects. English‚ as the known international language‚ is the most common medium utilized in the school systems. According to the report of the British Council and University of Oxford’s department of education‚ English language is increasingly becoming the lingua franca of education institutions across the world – from primary schools to higher education. Materials such as books and journals are written in English‚ including Mathematics – as one of the core subject
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desire which was in my mind on Globalization Of English. As we see the World most of the people speak english Some as their native language and some othe ras a second language and specially some learn english to connect or communicater with other people. So many people says it si an global language But It is not the worlds’ 1st highest spoken language.Its only 2nd highest spoken language. Now a question raises for me i think for others too “how can english language be the Global language ???” there
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IMPORTANCE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN NEPAL IMPORTANCE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN NEPAL Nearly 4000 languages are spoken in the world.some language are confined in a small area.but some language are widely spoken.English language is an international language.it is spoken as native language is Canada‚Australia‚the USA and the UK.it is used as official language in some counties.such as in India and ‚it is used as foreign language in most of the countries in the world. English language is that window
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The role of English language in the modern time To date‚ none of the artificial languages‚ ever invented by mankind‚ never became a common world language. As a means of international communication‚ people still use natural languages. So the United Nations (UN)‚ on the basis of the real distribution and use of languages in the world (based on the total number of speakers and the number of countries using one or another language)‚ has selected their official languages of the following 6 languages:
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