The Story of Human Language Part I Professor John McWhorter THE TEACHING COMPANY ® John McWhorter‚ Ph.D. Senior Fellow in Public Policy‚ Manhattan Institute John McWhorter‚ Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute‚ earned his Ph.D. in linguistics from Stanford University in 1993 and became Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley after teaching at Cornell University. His academic specialty is language change and language contact. He is the author of The Power of Babel: A
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Literature in the Language Classroom Traditional Approaches The teaching of literature has recently been resurrected as a vital component of English language teaching. Over the past few decades‚ there has been much discussion on the value of attempting to teach any kind of literature‚ whether it be the classics or any imaginative work written in English‚ as part of an English language syllabus. For instance‚ in the sixties and seventies‚ there was a distinct reaction against the use of any literary
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dream means a goal that you should reach . So Chinese dream means Chinese goals what are about the development of economy ‚ the freedom of words and deeds ‚ the transparent of government and the progress of law . These are Chinese goals ‚ also Chinese dreams . So what is my Chinese dream ? I don’t know . I mean I just want to try my best to do what I can do to make my Chinese dream come true ‚ not the things that I can’t do
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acknowledge the Khan as his ruler. This supposedly happened on New Year’s Day. 2: There was disease that killed many of the Chinese soldiers‚ and their having of horses also helped the Mongols win the war very much. 3: To keep Chinese culture separate from Mongol culture‚ the Kahn and the Mongols used some Chinese systems of government‚ but only to strengthen the Mongol rule. Also‚ the Chinese had low class jobs‚ while the Mongols had higher class jobs such as scribing. 3: Millions of people
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commonly uttered by foreign language learners and are too familiar to the foreign language learners this stamen indicate an important problem that the majority of students face in learning and particularly speaking a second or foreigner language. Many learners express their inability and sometimes even acknowledge their failure in learning to speak a second foreign language. These learners may be good at learning other skills but‚ when it comes to learning to speak another language‚ they claim to have a
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Abstract: Translation as a way of communication not only transforms languages but also transplants cultural information. Thus‚ brand name translation as other translation is a form of cross-cultural communication and is influenced by various cultural factors. This paper tries to explore the methods of English-Chinese brand name translation in light of the features of Chinese consumer psychology. Key words: brand names; Chinese consumer psychology; translation; methodsIntroductionNowadays‚ brand
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In my mind‚ Chinese women’s family and society status are lower than men. They are less free and have a great deal of unfair treatment‚ like‚ build a marriage. I hope to read some books related to Chinese women in the past few years to know more issue about them. I choose to read "Personal voices: Chinese Women in the 1980’s" to do a book report and know something about Chinese’s women. The authors of the book are Emily Honig and Gail Hershatter. Emily Honing is Assistant Professor of History and
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A KILLER LANGUAGE It is undeniable that English language is a powerful language. It is spoken in most part of the world especially in developed countries for instance the United States‚ Great Britain‚ and Canada. This is an inescapable process of globalization‚ the process of extending social relations across world-space. Globalization leads to the commonness of English in several fields such as science‚ technology‚ economy‚ politic etc. The result of this is English dominating the world and disregarding
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A Comparative Study of English Translations of Tu Fu’s “Chūn Wàng” As Francis K. H. So says‚ “[w]hether or not a student of Chinese literature likes pathetic style‚ he has to know Tu Fu‚ whose seven-syllable verse perhaps reaches the acme of its kind in the golden age of poetry‚” 1 translations of Tu Fu’s poetry could be more precise than others due to its popularity. Therefore‚ his five-character eight-line regulated verse “Chūn Wàng” would be discussed in the essay. There are four
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studying‚ sacrifice and most of all‚ love of what you are doing.” This quote by Pele‚ a soccer player regarded as one of the best of all time‚ describes the determination that it took for Adeline to succeed and overcome her childhood. In the memoir‚ Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah‚ the author writes about the support from Ye Ye‚ Aunt Baba‚ and also rising above her abusive childhood. Ye Ye is one of the reasons why Adeline was able to succeed. Adeline’s grandfather stated‚ “‘I ordered the maids
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