Portuguese language

ingredients, my ethnicities include Japanese from my dad, and Brazilian from my mom. Living in a multicultural household my family has merged two completely different cultures into one, so to speak. Everything down to our values, traditions, and language is a direct reflection of my cultural identity. Our family values is a combination of my two ethnic backgrounds. My dad highly values taking pride in everything you do or in his words, “If you do it, do it good!” I used to sarcastically roll my…

definition may be, I believe that communication is all about creating meaning. Language is a very broad structured system of symbols that allow people to express ideas and feelings to others.The fact that we process language does not always mean that we are communicating well and in a proper manner. Within language there are four key elements: Sounds, words, grammar, and meaning. As a person who speaks multiple foreign languages I have noticed that the element of grammar…

“Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children” (Michael Grove). For children just beginning their journey in school their enthusiasm to learn is profound. They are excited to learn anything and everything. For most schools this includes the basics such as math and reading, but for Morningside Elementary School this is not the case. The children at this…

insular and counter-intuitive in trying to promote the spread of Zamenhof’s work, the UEA prove much the opposite. In the years 1948 and 1966, two petitions were sent to the UN to have Esperanto’s existence and practicality as a solution to their language problems pointed out to them. In 1948, the…

Ancient civilizations in Latin America created the building blocks for a vibrant, diverse region in the future with their athletics, architecture and language. To begin with, the Mayan people created a complex, competitive ball game that shaped the future of sports. They had rules about what body parts to use, where to aim the ball, how to score before the Europeans could create anything more advanced than jousting. Starting place for many modern day sports, the ball game inspired many athletic…

became based off of the government of the European country that colonized them, and new technologies from Europe were introduced to native Africans, as well as, new languages and cultural norms. Africans in some colonies were treated harshly. For example, in Portugal, even though native Portuguese people tended to not like Africans, Portuguese men raped African women and had biracial children with them. Even though these children were equally dependent on both their father and mother, the…

their focus on what are ‘creole’ and ‘pidgin’ languages and what the public has generally understood by the two languages. Creolist do not agree with the precise definition of the two terms, nor do they specify that how many languages have been considered under the two categories. It is a language that represents speech-forms that do not have any native speakers and is generally used by the people, as a form of communication, who do not share a common language. The stage of development and…

These skills pave the way for higher education classes like calculus, critical reading, and writing. A problem people believe that dual language education has is that the native language is lost as the child learns english and thus they are against the program. However, bilingual education is as important as special needs education because it allows english language learners to…

used to be the language of British rulers and a few aristocratic Indians who were deeply enthralled by this language of their subjugators. Makarand Paranjape in Indian Poetry in English mentions the two preconditions that were to be met before Indians could write poetry in En¬glish: “First, the English language had to be sufficiently Indianized to be able to express the reality of the Indian situation; secondly, Indians had to be sufficiently Anglicized to use the English language to express…

fascinating aspect of the plethora of languages spoken throughout the planet, is the information they require their speakers to provide whenever describing something. For example, in the English language, there are many nouns to describe humans that do not differentiate between male and female, like friend. However, in Spanish, if one wants to refer to someone they consider a friend, it is necessary to use either the masculine or feminine form. The information a language requires its speakers to…