bastions of urban Americana. Yet‚ when one mentions New England‚ an image of “olden times” comes to mind: Brahmin men and women with buckles on their shoes‚ lacking rhoticity‚ using thee/thou/thy. It is interesting then to discover that the New England dialect is in fact a fairly novel convention. The Boston Brahmins were a wealthy‚ élite group of upper-class New England families that prided themselves patrons of art and at the forefront of all things fashionable. Their distinct style of speaking
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Advantages of teaching children Language acquisition‚ the ability to understand and use language‚ is a product of dynamic‚ repetitive and multifaceted learning. This key feature distinguishes humans from other organisms. Understand language isn’t in genetic code or nor acquired by magic‚ language is learned. Learning a language affords wondrous opportunities for growth and development in young children‚ and it also provides an extraordinary way to communicate. Some evidence suggests multilingualism
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Knowing the basics in the culture‚ customs and language of a country is an expandable knowledge when making strong foreign alliances. China is the world’s second largest economy after the United States of America. With an average growth rate of 10% for the past 30 years‚ China has a large promise to become the world’s leading economical power. Business oriented individuals have their eyes set on Chin. Background and Purposes We understand that the integration of a course oriented to train the
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2013 Huayu Enrichment Scholarship Taiwan Ministry of Education Introduction 1. Purpose To encourage international students (excluding Mainland China‚ Hong Kong‚ Macao SAR students) to undertake Mandarin language (Huayu) courses in the Republic of China (Taiwan)‚ in order to provide them with opportunities to increase their understanding of Taiwanese culture and society‚ and to promote mutual understanding and interactions between Taiwan and the international community. 2. Award Value A monthly
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IF I AM GIVEN A CHANCE‚ I REALLY WANT TO VISIT KOREA.. WHY SHOULD I?? IF I WHERE TO CHOOSE ON WHAT COUNTRY WOULD I PICK IF I CAN VISIT ONE.. I WOULD DIFINITELY CHOSE KOREA.. WHY KOREA?? Well‚ Hi everyone‚ I am ******* I am 18 and I am from PHILIPPINES. Woow! Far‚ far places from korea. Heheheh.:)) There are many reasons to why I would want to visit korea.. FOR ONCE in my life‚ I have been dying to visit korea. Though I don’t think I can afford‚ but I think I CANT! I have live my 18years on a
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Carolina Exit Exam and displayed dialect diversity. The purpose of the study was to allow linguistic learners to share what they know and to provide them with instructional strategies to code switch. The two students discussed in the case study‚ Demain and Josiah are both native speakers of the African American English dialect‚ known in Charleston as the Sea Island Dialect. The researchers wanted to provide the students with strategies to code switch between the Island Dialect and Standard English. Demain
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Abraham Lincoln: The Abolishment of Slavery Through Dialect Abraham Lincoln was a dialogic rhetorician who seemed intent on prompting others to discussion and action through the power of words. The one great consistency that exists across the rhetoric of Lincoln’s early administration is that‚ in conversations with friends and critics‚ in his written correspondence and in his public speeches‚ he listened‚ considered‚ and then replied to the arguments of others. With the determination to abolish
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A Personal Dialect In Amy Tan’s essay‚ “Mother Tongue‚” Tan expresses that she uses different versions of the English language depending on the type of relationship she shares with particular individuals. While Tan gave a speech to a group of people‚ she noticed a difference in her register of speech when she spoke to a group of people versus when she spoke to her mother. She noticed her use of “carefully wrought grammatical phrases” and “the forms of standard English that I had learned in school
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Chinese clan or dialect associations in past and present day Singapore 1. Introduction Ever since the immigration of the Chinese into Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century‚ they had started grouping themselves into different types of traditional organizations. In even a small country like Singapore‚ a respectable number of organizations were set up. There were clans‚ dialect associations‚ hui kuans‚ guilds‚ bangs and secret societies. These traditional organizations served a variety of functions
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characteristics to distinguish it from the other varieties of Chinese dialects. This period in Chinese history is seen as one of the most glorious to the Cantonese people and is why they refer to themselves as Tong yan‚ or literally people of the Tang dynasty. The fact that Cantonese has anywhere from six to nine tones and keeps the final consonants of the older language makes it the closest out of all the other Chinese dialects to Ancient Chinese. Learners of any tonal language find themselves at
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