International Mother Language Day

the weekend I had to find ways to communicate with others and order meals when my family and I went out. Luckily, my mother is somewhat familiar with sign language. My father, however is not. Much of the communication between my father and I was conducted through vague hand gestures and finger spelling. On the first day of my project, my father and I were awake long before my mother. I had shown my father a few of the signs I would be using the night before, which made it a bit easier for us…

I have been working in retail management with Target Corporation for the past three years. For many business professionals, each day at work may seem mundane and repetitive. For me, I often find that each day in the retail world provides fresh challenges and new obstacles to overcome. In my professional experience thus far, I have had the opportunity to learn all aspects of business operations from sales and marketing to human resources and logistics. I believe to become a great business…

through numerous factors, such as the development of multinational corporations, the construction of international organizations, and the strengthening of international relations. One contributing factor, that is often marginalized by politicians and citizens alike, is the growing demand for learning foreign languages. More and more people around the world have been taking second, third language classes for multiple purposes, especially professional advancement. Being multilingual has become so…

too young to get a summer job. One day I received an email from the University of Chicago’s office of admissions. The e-mail was encouraging high school students to attend their summer open house. My interested piqued and I immediately filled out the visitor information form. After leaving the open house highly satisfied, I told my mother that I wanted to go to UChicago. Similar to this prompt, my mother curiously asked me,”Why UChicago?”. I replied to my mother as if she had just offended…

foreign, my parents registered me to the bilingual program since primary school. The language I learned however wasn’t English, it was French. For ten years I learned French and for ten years I dreamed of living in France, studying at a Parisian University and perhaps travel from France to the rest of Europe. The dream was almost in hand, the French Language test was soon to happen, and one fateful afternoon, my mother came to my room and told me that the family is moving to America and I have…

The professionals in teaching languages have had an academic setting in the field of mother tongue and foreign languages, in their structure or form and at their contextual use. However, given the interinstitutional and international agreements, in itself the globalization, language teachers have been displaced into the backdrop. Now the native speakers (from other disciplines) are certified as a professional instructor of languages. On the one hand, they are supposed to manage the grammar form…

1.1 Background “ Of all language in the world today English deserves to be regarded as a word language. It is world’s most widely spoken language. It is the common means of communication between the people of different nations. One person out of every four on earth can be reached through English… In India, English continues to be the medium of instruction in school, colleges and universities, and is also the language of administration. These words written by C.Paul verghese successfully…

my parents struggled to adjust to the United States. American resources and services are difficult to attain by anyone not raised here. Language barriers, job availability, and opportunity to ‘move up the ladder’ has kept my parents in a certain lifestyle.…

The English language is spoken roughly by 1 to 1.5 billion people. English has managed to occupy powerful domains such as global education, technology, communication, etc … The English language is considered to be the international language due to the growth of global society. English plays an important role of our lives since it is widely spoken by many of the population in the world. Furthermore, it is also comes in different varieties as it is considered to be a native language in some parts…

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa. When he was only 3 years of age his mother brought him and his younger brother, Hilary, to live in England, where she was originally from. Tolkien's father died soon after, whilst he was still in South Africa by himself, thus the family remained in England. During the summer of 1896 his mother found them a home in the hamlet of Sarehole, which is located just outside the city Birmingham (Curles). Tolkien and…