International Mother Language Day Essay

To talk about how the English language is related to social status and economic power in ESL countries, I will instantly think of Hong Kong, as the English language has marked significant influence in Hong Kong educational system and it represents a status of power. Basically, Hong Kong has a colonial history, it was occupied by the British army and then subsequently ceded to England as a colony in the mid-19th century. So in ESL countries, the British cultural influences keep on featuring…

their economy and languages become more important to communicate between individuals, Rosetta Stone wants to help people to learn languages quickly and effectively. According to The Nielsen Company in the textbook, they find out that “the language-learning industry produced over US 83 billion in consumer spending.” The founder, Allen Stoltzfus, used his own learning Russian experience to simulate the way people have learned their mother language in order to learn new languages. When the…

Tom is an international student, studying abroad for the first time in his life. He, on his first day of college, could not communicate with his classmates and nor fully understand what the professor had said. He struggled every day to overcome the language barrier and other challenges in college. He is now suffering from mental health problems, such as depression and eating disorders. As we can see in this case, international college students, having more stresses than local college students,…

different resources that enable these companies to progress . The language may be thing that keeps the companies go forward , so the language which will be chosen is absolutely very famous and useful in the earth . It can be clearly said that English is the most popular language that rely on business . However, the majority of industrialised countries that have largest complexes depend on English . Even though , English is not the mother tongue in these countries . Taking an example for long…

After kindergarten, I was enrolled in one of the Greater Toronto Areas’s private schools, where I was expected to achieve top marks. At the same time, my course load was predetermined. I was expected to study mathematics and sciences, maintain three language courses, and include time for Jewish studies classes. After classes, I was made to study the Korean martial art of Tae-Keuk-Do, and attend weekly tennis lessons. Not once was I asked what I would like to study, nor whether I enjoyed the arts…

“Lice or Rice” or “The Foreign Language and the Accent” Long time ago in a faraway land named Japan, a young lady was being asked by her Japanese host mother, if she wanted to eat some lice. Needless to say she was horrified! Japanese eat lice! How disgusting! She thought to herself. As she looked at her host mother she quickly realized that she was trying to say rice and not lice! This was my first experience many years ago with accents. This is when I realized how important accents are. What…

child, my biggest dream had been to live in the nation’s capital and one day attend college there. Little did I know that I would be traveling a little further than 5 hours by bus, but rather by airplane across…

to Buenos Aires, Argentina. My mother laughed at the thought of me living abroad; consistently making it known my ideas were childish, financially unstable, and unattainable. With a slight grin pulling at my lips, I close my eyes and begin to wonder what the world will look like on the other side of that airplane door. Living in two worlds simultaneously, or at least trying to, may be a cliché, but is a strong reality for the children of immigrant parents. My mother and I are the only two of…

When I was at primary school, I witnessed my mother go to the Libyan Supreme Court countless times. As I grew older, I started asking questions about her involvement with the Court. After an agonizing period of twenty years, my mother won her twenty-thousand-dollar verdict of accumulated unpaid salaries. That was my first motivation to become a lawyer one day. During my final year in high school, I spent my days researching universities, planning to enroll in a prestigious law school in the…

special programs where they learn the official language of the country with the help of specialised teachers; so they do not learn in their mother tongue. Is this methodology the most apropiate one? As I see it, Spain provides an appropiate education for this students for many reasons: first of all, they are integrated in the rest of the class, so children are more open-minded with other cultures and religions; in addition, the learn a second language through social interacction, in real…