generates as much as 20% of China’s GDP. The river is an important physical and cultural dividing line between North and South China. Chinese living north of the Yangtze speaks varying dialects of Mandarin. Most of the provinces south of the river have native Sinitic languages that are unintelligible to Mandarin-speakers. The Yangtze River flows through a diverse array of ecosystems and is itself habitat to several endemic and endangered species including the Yangtze River dolphin‚ Chinese alligator
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viewed a documentary called Speaking in Tongues by California Visions. The film featured four students‚ Durrell‚ Kelly‚ Jason‚ and Julian from four different public schools in San Francisco area. Durell is an African-American second-grader who learns Mandarin. Kelly is a Chinese-American who learns Cantonese‚ the language of her parents’. Jason learns both English and Spanish in his middle school‚ and Julian is a Caucasian 8th grader who learns Cantonese. These four students
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learning English. Richard felt most comfortable speaking Spanish at school and refused to speak English. What motivated him to learn English was his realization that he’s an American. For Amy Tan‚ she grew up with exposure to both English and Mandarin in her household. She embraced English and felt at ease with translating for her mother. This encouraged her to learn English to the best of her ability at school. What motivated her to learn English was the challenge and opportunity to go against
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Tips for CX Cabin Crew Interview I’ve just got the contract call from CX and now would like to share the experience to you all in order to help everyone go smoothly through for the interview procedures. Probably some of you have already known the procedures quite well‚ the following is the summary of the whole recruitment procedures with detailed and tips‚ to tell you how to win an offer with CX. Are you ready? Let’s go! ONLINE APPLICATION CX doesn’t accept any submittion method EXCEPT online
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[Can you help me come up with a hook for this story?] Summer is a great time of the year for every person younger than eighteen because it is a time of year you have little to no responsibilities. You can sleep in‚ relax‚ hang out with friends or just do whatever you want all summer long. These are the reasons I love summer. My summer this year has been great because there was always something to do‚ whether it was playing games‚ to going to seeing a movie‚ to hanging out with friends. The
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Why English Is Important. Summary: Discusses the importance of studying the English language. Describes how a strong grasp of the language leades to strong literacy skills and increased educational opportunities. Imagine if people didn’t study English. How would people be speaking and learning today? In order to sound educated and literate people need to thoroughly study English. It is also heavily needed in the business world as well as your own private world. English also teaches you to communicate
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Lingua Franca is a pidgin‚ a trade language used by numerous language communities around the Mediterranean‚ to communicate with others whose language they did not speak. It is‚ in fact‚ the mother of all pidgins‚ seemingly in use since the Middle Ages and surviving until the nineteenth century‚ when it disappeared with hardly a trace‚ probably under the onslaught of the triumphant French language‚ leaving only a few anecdotal quotations in the writings of travelers or observers‚ an imperfect French/Lingua
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What is the future of English as a global language? The world is changing so rapidly‚ from national politics to people’s livelihood. Definitely‚ language is one of the most important characteristic among there. English‚ which is considered as the world language at present‚ facing with sophisticated problems. Actually‚ the situation could persist on till the future. In my view‚ the future of English as a global language may be as the concave and convex sides of a nutshell‚ it is hard to foresee that
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be seen in a positive light because the use of English as a common language brings efficiency and greater understanding. Nevertheless there some people who believe that this fact has changed and that now it is more important to learn Spanish and Mandarin than the English language. Anzaldua dealt with this issue on a consistent basis in her school life. Though she was not told to lose her Spanish ways‚ she felt that speaking English would not allow her to express herself. Especially in the American
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Language plays large part of your identity as a person.Without learning how to communicate with a specific culture’s language‚ you’re unable to fully participate within that group. As a personal example‚ in China they speak Mandarin and if I had stayed there I probably would speak Mandarin too‚ instead of English. Some more important aspects of culture are values beliefs‚ and norms. Values and beliefs are directly related to one another‚ in the way that they are both shared assumptions cultures have. Beliefs
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