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Code Switching In The Song 'How Great Is Our God'
This song demonstrates code switching. Code switching is when a person switches from one language to another in a conversation. It is the process of alternating between two or more languages. The song, "How Great Is Our God” is sung in English, Hindi, Indonesian, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Zulu, Afrikaans and Mandarin. This song switches from one language to the next. Often times people who are multilingual will weave from one language to another in a conversation, which is known as code switching. Another way people code switch is when they speak formally and switch to informally, or vice
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