1- In the article “the nomads of language” the author Ariel Dorfman claims that people from Colombian villages took their ancestors’ bones as a reminder of their history and to remain connected to the people who generated them. Until now people when they migrate, they could take their family pictures with them. According to Dorfman, not all people carry their ancestors’ bones to the new land, but all of them carry their own language to the migrant country. Language conveys people’s history, traditions, customs. Dorfman says “to defy the fluctuation of time and geography” these villagers assumed that taking their ancestors’ bone would assist them to withstand the change in culture and language.
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Even though when you learn new accent of your language, you could new taste of life such as new customs. Dorfman states that “we can’t avoid the need to live in two languages.” When people migrate to a new country, they should speak the official language because of that all the daily activities are carried out by the country language such as the selling the food, conducting with people, neighbor and their native language which they communicate with it with their families. Although Helen Keller was five years old, she got her second birth when she was able to understand the language. In addition, her aggressive behavior changed. When I came to US four years ago I spoke only Arabic, I learned some English and I mixed some Arabic words with English especially when I speak with my family. I feel joy when I can speak the two language simultaneously as Dorfman says “we live in the two languages”. I can say that language speaks us. It can take us from our fantasy to a new one with new adventures. It transfers us from certain borders to new world and open new doors for us. In the movie “The theory of everything” directed by James Marsh emphasizes on how communication …show more content…
They look for one identity which is impossible to be attained. Some people try to assimilate to the new country and forgetting the native language. They imitate the accent and behave like the local people. Even though they can’t be like native speakers, they believe in some day, their children or their grandchildren will become monolingual. An example of the assimilation is Isemen in” Antigone” by Sophocles. She assimilates to Creon’s orders and she doesn’t want to help her sister to bury her brother’s corpse because she is afraid to defy the king. The assimilation leads Isemene to abdicate her beliefs and her gods’ laws. Consequently Isemene lost herself and her identity. Therefore, these assimilates people will lose their selves and never will be like native speakers The other strategy is rejection. These people avoid the learning of the host country language in hope that they will return back home in someday. They speak their own slang form of their language and their countries may stop using it. I agree with the author that my Chinese neighbor speaks mainly Chinese. He refuses to speak or learns English. He depends on that there are many Chinese around them and he communicate effectively with them, so there is no need for learning English. He buys their food from Chinese stores, purchase their clothes and stuff from Chinese stores. Although these people can live as they are in
2- People take with them their language which …show more content…
Even though when you learn new accent of your language, you could new taste of life such as new customs. Dorfman states that “we can’t avoid the need to live in two languages.” When people migrate to a new country, they should speak the official language because of that all the daily activities are carried out by the country language such as the selling the food, conducting with people, neighbor and their native language which they communicate with it with their families. Although Helen Keller was five years old, she got her second birth when she was able to understand the language. In addition, her aggressive behavior changed. When I came to US four years ago I spoke only Arabic, I learned some English and I mixed some Arabic words with English especially when I speak with my family. I feel joy when I can speak the two language simultaneously as Dorfman says “we live in the two languages”. I can say that language speaks us. It can take us from our fantasy to a new one with new adventures. It transfers us from certain borders to new world and open new doors for us. In the movie “The theory of everything” directed by James Marsh emphasizes on how communication …show more content…
They look for one identity which is impossible to be attained. Some people try to assimilate to the new country and forgetting the native language. They imitate the accent and behave like the local people. Even though they can’t be like native speakers, they believe in some day, their children or their grandchildren will become monolingual. An example of the assimilation is Isemen in” Antigone” by Sophocles. She assimilates to Creon’s orders and she doesn’t want to help her sister to bury her brother’s corpse because she is afraid to defy the king. The assimilation leads Isemene to abdicate her beliefs and her gods’ laws. Consequently Isemene lost herself and her identity. Therefore, these assimilates people will lose their selves and never will be like native speakers The other strategy is rejection. These people avoid the learning of the host country language in hope that they will return back home in someday. They speak their own slang form of their language and their countries may stop using it. I agree with the author that my Chinese neighbor speaks mainly Chinese. He refuses to speak or learns English. He depends on that there are many Chinese around them and he communicate effectively with them, so there is no need for learning English. He buys their food from Chinese stores, purchase their clothes and stuff from Chinese stores. Although these people can live as they are in