Gloria Anzaldua in How to Tame a Wild Tongue and Amy Tan in Mother Tongue both share a similar message in their essays‚ they argue that every single culture faces different language obstacles when learning the english language. Both struggle to develop the correct form of english‚ the one considered acceptable by society. Both Tan and Anzaldua teach us about their ethnic backgrounds‚ in an effort to better help us learn of their struggles. Amy Tan‚ is of asian descent‚ and tells us how growing up
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Every living being in this world use languages to communicate with each other. There are many languages in this world such as English‚ Mandarin‚ Indonesian‚ etc. However‚ English language well known as international language. As well-known languages in this world‚ many people want to learn it while the other think learning English is not important. I would like to share my point of view about English‚ it is important or not. English is a worldwide language. Many books‚ magazine‚ technology‚ newspaper
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The choice of a dictionary – Collins or Longman? Nowadays many learners of English face a problem – which dictionary to choose as their main aid in learning the language. There is a variety of dictionaries from different publishers available at the market now‚ but we can focus here on two – Collins and Longman which are quite good reference books for everybody. Although they are both equally preferred by English learners‚ they posses a number of features which leave the buyer with not an easy
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Spanish and English have a similar alphabet‚ but the phonologies of the two languages have several differences. For this reason‚ some Spanish learners get in trouble in English pronunciation. For example‚ as Gorman and Kester (n.d.) stated‚ Spanish and English share several consonantal phonemes including the stop sounds /p/‚ /t/‚ /k/‚ /b/‚ /d/‚ /g/‚ the nasals /m/‚ /n/‚ the fricatives /s/‚ /f/‚ the liquid /l/‚ the glide /w/‚ /j/‚ and the glottal /h/. Despite these common phonetic symbols‚ it is
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American English Chapter 12 Monday‚ 4th of Feb. Haifa Almotiary 1. How did the values of “Puritanism” and “republicanism” contribute to the will to simplify American English during the 1770s--1830s? The first ideal may be linked to the Puritanism value of thriftiness and the second to republicanism‚ that is‚ democratic ideas about social sharing and the role of any privileged class in interpreting language for other less privileged classes 2. What are some of the simplifications
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In a globalised world the spread of English has adversely affected language diversity and cultural identity. Agree‚ disagree or partly agree. This essay examines the impact the adoption of English as a common language has had on the languages and culture of the Aboriginal people of Australia. I will argue that factors other than the spread of English have adversely affected Australian Aboriginal (Aboriginal) language diversity and that Aboriginal cultural identity is not rooted solely in language
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A STUDY ON THE IMPORTANCE OF ENGLISH COMPETENCY IN MALAYSIA EMPLOYABILITY Introduction Background of study -background of my topic -what employability is -malaysia context -relation of English competency with employability -cite who was doing research anchoring this study outside Malaysia -cite () inside Malaysia In the new landscape of global employment‚ most business organizations require employees to possess not only industry-specific technical knowledge but also employability skills
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If you want to speak Chinese the very first thing you should do is to spend at least a month just mastering the basic phonetics of the Chinese alphabet. However Chinese alphabets are not the same as English. We have other name to call it Pinyin. Chinese is a tonal language: say Pinyin seems like “Alphabets + Tones” like: “nǐhǎo !”—hello! Learn the Tones Mandarin is a tonal language‚ which means if you say a word with the wrong tone or inflection‚ you can be misunderstood. For example: “ma”There
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Modern Use of Euphemisms Code switching‚ lying‚ and slang play important roles in how people interact with one another. As society moves into a more technological age‚ the way humans interact with each other changes drastically. The most important areas in which code changing plays its role would appear in how people‚ particularly teenagers‚ interact with parents‚ friends‚ and teachers. As they “are milder or less abrasive form of a negative description instead of its original‚ unsympathetic form”
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In the essay “If Black English Isn’t a Language‚ Then Tell Me‚ What Is?”‚ James Baldwin argues that languages evolve based on the environments in which they are spoken. Baldwin claims that‚ “people evolve a language in order to describe and thus control their circumstances [...] [People from different regions] are not saying‚ and cannot be saying‚ the same things: They each have very different realities to articulate” (1). Essentially‚ people’s environments play a large role in the way they speak
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