people who hear me speak Spanish (my mother tongue is English) that I am fluent in it. That alone should be enough for me to call myself bilingual. However‚ I have encountered numerous situations over the years where I felt completely lost in Spanish. So‚ if I am so fluent‚ why would this happen to me? The answer is a simple but often overlooked one. Bilinguals usually acquire and use their second ( or third or fourth) language for specific purposes and when they get outside of this specific linguistic
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disrupted. The downside of watching too much television is that it will make the children less creative and more passive where they refuse to leave the spot and would rather just ask someone near them to fetch necessities for them. Thus‚ engendering the effects on the body-activity to malfunction. The body monitors and handles the distribution of energy where it needs the most of it. When you just sit there and watch‚ your body will get confused and the energy distribution will go haywire as it doesn’t have
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"No‚ I want my child to study. I want him to get what I did not get in my childhood. I will give him education even if I have to pay a huge amount of money to the educational institutions" These are some lines which are said by the parents of this modern era. Every parent tries their level best to provide quality education to his ward and to fulfill their dreams they spend a lumpsum amount of money so that their ward is able to study in the best educational institution. Schools‚ coaching centers
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Facebook has rapidly become an important aspect of the lives of many individuals as they go through their daily routines. Every day hundreds of millions of people across the globe log into their Facebook accounts to chat‚ play games‚ send messages‚ post on walls and share a plethora of personal information. While many view these activities as harmless and fun‚ an unfortunate drawback are some of the ways Facebook use can negatively impact relationships. Relationships affected by Facebook can be
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Kelsie Sanker Miss Sangster College English II February 19‚ 2013 An Apple A Day‚ Keeps The Doctor Away One teaspoon of granulated sugar equals 4 grams of sugar; a typical coke contains 39 grams of sugar which is about 9.75 teaspoons. Students need to understand that high sugar foods even though they are scrumptious are very bad for their health and can do a heap load of damage to them in the longer run. High sugar foods and sodas should not be sold in vending machines in schools in order to protect
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The Socs also endure pains and sufferings in their life as well. The source states‚(Hinton 128-129)‚ how Bob was spoiled a lot by his parents‚ and he didn’t enjoy it either. By saying this‚ it shows that he was frustrated that his parents would just spoil him and not listen to him. It also means‚ that he would probably take out the anger he has‚from his parents not listening to him‚ on another kid who would most likely be a greaser. The Socs also get out of trouble easily. For example‚ in the article
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Decades ago‚ being bilingual was an aspect of an individual that made them stand out from the others and be different. What if I tell you that in this modern society‚ being bilingual is just being one of the many thousands? A bilingual person is one who has the knowledge or intelligence of knowing two or more languages. However‚ there are different levels and stages of bilingualism. There is individual bilingualism which is when a person knows his/her mother tongue and another language that is used
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Ms. Cruz CRE: Bilingual Policy in the Philippines By King Alandy Dy Foreigners often perceive the Philippines as a country with excellent English. Many businesses rush to the Philippines to put up international call centers while Asian students come to the Philippines to learn English. This is largely due to the bilingual education which we receive in the Philippines. There are many laws which state that both English and Filipino must be used in education but the way these laws are
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by developmental psychologists revealed that parents should take an active role in increasing the mental ability of their bilingual children. In the US‚ around 20 percent of children speak a foreign language at home. There are major differences on how young children of bilinguals learn a new language compared to those who only know one language. The education of bilinguals starts at a young age‚ and they begin to learn to speak and write by observing the people around them. An example is the
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University‚ published a preface called “Bilingual lives‚ bilingual experience” in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development‚ in which she claims that a bilingual faces some problems in expressing and distinguishing between emotions on both languages. She gives the example of her Polish-English background and supports that often people who are bilingual make confusions regarding the cultural and deeper meaning of emotions. However‚ I argue that a bilingual learns to perceive the world in a
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