Cultural Differences Between Language And Culture

When learning a new language, the culture of that language is intertwined into the teaching. There are many differences between language and culture but the similarities connect the two and help make up a society with the different ethnic groups within the society. By learning the language and the culture you pick or develop their cognitive abilities. Within a Culture there are many things that help define the certain culture by the aspects and beliefs of how the society or ethnic group decides how they want to fulfill the culture but within the culture you have a language that the ethnic group picked up by their ancestors. A generation can be taught a language or cultural story by the generations before them story or tales that they share …show more content…
As an example I am a latino male and I practice many of the hispanic celebrations that the hispanic do, but I’m also a white male that practices everything that the english society does. “Person’s self conception and self-perception and is related to nationality, ethnicity, or any kind of social group that has its own distinct culture” (LeBaron) “ The implications of language being completely entwined in culture, in regards language teaching and language policy are far reaching.” (Leverridge) This part of the article helps us realize that our cultural identity has created upon a society that the language policy and the teaching of a language is far reached for language being completely connected to culture. Particular language will tend to point to the culture and the specific ethnic group and that tends to leads to the question how can language be influenced by …show more content…
Language is being taught without knowing because we are focused on the culture. Language is also being taught with the values of culture and the values of culture are being taught to learn all of cultures different values. “ The relationship between language and culture is deeply rooted. Language is used to maintain and convey culture and cultural ties” (Leveridge). This can connect to our topic because culture has a straight connection to language and language to culture. Engelbert describes: “ ….to teach a foreign language is also to teach a foreign culture, and it is important to be sensitive to the fact….” ( Englebert). The implications of the language being taught is how effective is is taught and how students grasp