Prek Language

Everyday people live they string together their individual thoughts and ideas into mosaics of words and writings. Driven by the human brain 's endless imagination, creativity, and rapid fire thinking, these mosaics are unique to each individual person and the language they consistently shape on their own. But where does this originality in a common language come from? What is it that forms people’s own dialects and manners when speaking? It is a possibility that it may be from family, but it is both statistically and logically a much higher possibility that it is from one’s peers and surroundings. For most of people, it is normal to have a grasp on the English language and to be able to hold very basic conversations before they enter school. …show more content…
My teacher, who’s name I have regrettably forgotten, standing above us all doing her best to try and get us to learn key words in the English language and understand the difference between closely related words such as “he” and “she” would always ensure that no matter what background we came from or what language we started speaking before English if that was not our first, that we would all leave with a better grasp and understanding. She would teach us the words and sentence structures, demonstrating as she went along, while the rest of the class and I would be staring back at her and …show more content…
How can I be so sure? Well there is a bit of math behind it. Many people will be gone from their homes for about eight hours a day during the weekdays, whether they be in school or gone off to work. Some may decide to leave their houses on the weekends as well for a few more hours, however for simplicity 's sake that time will be disregarded. For the amount of time spent sleeping, I will use the statistics gathered by the United States Department of Labor, which states that the average American over fifteen years old spends a little over seven and a half hours a day sleeping. Taking all this into account, people spend about ninety-three hours a week between sleeping and being away from their homes for work or school. As of this stage in the math one might be wondering where this is headed since people still spend a total of thirty-five hours at home with family rather than with peers. Well, this is where the scales begin to tip. Lets think for a moment about how one spends their time at home, and who they continue to interact with while at home. In modern times, many people have continued to communicate with their friends through text messages or other means, adding up to them spending equal to or more time at home communicating with friends rather than family. My friends and I would personally