Foreign Language Elective Preferences of High School Students of St. Scholastica’s Academy Marikina _____________________________________________ A Research Paper Presented to The Faculty of High School Department St. Scholastica’s Academy Marikina ___________________________________________________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in English 4 ___________________________________________________ Submitted by 08 Micah Buela 10 Maikee Capati 13 Pauline Chan 18 Melissa Despojo
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origins or mother tongue. For example‚ Bill pronounces the ‘not’ in ‘not really’‚ ‘correct’‚ ‘just’ and ‘want’ by ending with a glottal stop (/ʔ/)‚ rather than the voiceless consonant (/t/). This occurs as final consonants are much less frequent in Mandarin than in English and thus they are normally dropped or replaced by a glottal stop. This could give linguists a clue on his origins or mother tongue. Bill also values the Australian accent‚ but there are also traces of American English in his speech
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Hi I’m Jinfei Zhang and I think I’d be a great fit as a Mandarin Immersion Homeroom teacher at Presidio Knolls. After learning about the school and its vision as well as the job requirements‚ I wanted to write this letter to give you some background about myself. I am a 2013 graduate of Valparaiso University where I graduated with my Master of Education degree with endorsement in Mandarin Chinese in addition to being a native speaker from northern China. My ability to build positive relationships
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One of the most remarkable aspects of Singapore is the truly cosmopolitan nature of her population‚ a natural result of the country’s geographical position and commercial success. Established by Thomas Stamford Raffles as a trading post on 29 January 1819‚ the small sea town of Singapore soon attracted migrants and merchants from China‚ the Indian sub-continent‚ Indonesia‚ the Malay Peninsula and the Middle East. Drawn by the lure of better prospects‚ the immigrants brought with them their own
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degree. Since I can speak Mandarin‚ I will sometimes converse with my Chinese colleague in Mandarin. However‚ we do not talk about work related topics. Rather‚ we converse about how our weekend went and talk about our hobbies. However‚ this can make other colleagues feel left out who are going out to lunch with us because they are not able to communicate with us because they do not speak Mandarin. There was an instance where my Chinese colleague and I spoke Mandarin during lunch and a colleague
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culprits. To do this‚ he asked for assistance from the Chinese authorities of Fujian‚ who welcomed the young Dasmariñas’ ambassadors and offered them their help as well. The second episode happened 10 years later‚ in the spring of 1603‚ when “three mandarins” arrived in Manila on a strange mission: to reconnoiter a "mountain of gold" abundant with trees that bore gold. This visit raised the suspicion of the Spaniards in the Philippines‚ already so accustomed to intermittent threats of conquest‚ particularly
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on the language in which I use. Utterances are not filmclips of an event (Slobin‚ 2003‚ p. 159) Rather‚ Utterances present a sketch of events‚ and they include different features of the events‚ depending on the language. I find when I am speaking Mandarin‚ I feel like I am much more a “noisy” and “harsh” person. In English‚ I feel like I am more a “relaxed”‚ “cool” and “extroverted” person. When I am around Japanese and Korean‚ I find myself a “shy”‚ “polite” and “reserved” person. In Japanese language
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this paper will consider the debate in context of cross-cultural implications. The extent to which people from different cultures construe‚ analyze and interact with the world differently will be analyzed. For the purpose of this paper‚ the Chinese (Mandarin) and English languages will be focused on in particular. Building upon existing literature‚ this paper will consider two central thesis statements: 1.) The use of spatiotemporal metaphors affect the way individuals think about time in the long term
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The three films Gittell analyses to make his argument clear about American’s New Favorite Villian Is a Rich Guy are Lone Ranger‚ White House Down‚ and Iron Man 3. For example‚ in the film White House Down‚ Gittell demonstrates how our “new enemy of the moment…doesn’t come from overseas” (478). Gittell indicates that our enemies do not necessary need to be from a foreign country‚ but that our enemies can be among us. In the film‚ White House Down‚ the White House is under attack by 2 domestic terrorist
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after hardships in her life due to her fate and karma. Kieu was born into a well-educated family and loved a young scholar named Kim Trong. Then disaster struck her family when her father and brother were falsely accused and imprisoned by the local mandarin. In order to save them‚ Kieu decided to sell herself to Scholar Ma Giam
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