Making English The “Official” Language of The United States In the essay, In Plain English: Let’s Make It Official by Charles Krauthammer. Charles talks about how the United States came the conclusion of making English an official language. He also says that it was not an easy process to make it official. The United States being a very diverse place with multiple different cultures and languages it makes it very difficult to choose the most used language. But, in the end the United States made…
holiday trip with my family which was a very interesting experience that I enjoyed a lot. The english language and english speaking countries fascinated me since I started learning about it in third grade. That is why I chose to go to a bilingual class in high school. The english subjects, biology, history, music and geography, changed every year from sixth to tenth grade. Apart from my interest in english, I liked math, physics and biology during my school eduaction…
people to learn multiple languages. With the right techniques and a decent amount of dedication, language learners can quickly master their next language. Start With Motivation Learning a language takes hundreds or thousands of hours. To do all of this work, individuals have to find the right motivation. While some people just want to communicate with a variety of people, other individuals want to study ancient texts. Whatever the reason, language learners should start the process by…
Rachel L. Jones believes that there is a problem with children continuing their path while using Ebonics or Vernacular. She expresses her opinion in an article called What’s Wrong with Black English. But a linguist named William Labov, had once said “’It is the goal of most black Americans to acquire full control of the standard language without givin gup their own culture.’” (Jones 349.) Jones had gone to a school were “talking white” as they called it, was not acceptable by the other students.…
Ever since I was born, I was raised by the same Latino family. I was taught how to speak both Spanish and English; Spanish was their primary goal mainly because it was our family’s main language. When I started kindergarten, no one else could speak Spanish so I really didn’t have any other choice but to stick to English. Later, however, we noticed that I got too comfortable with English. It eventually got to the point where I was beginning to become monolingual instead of bilingual. Something…
My Journey with Two Different Literacy’s I have been struggling with reading and writing from what I remember. But at such a young age I did have a passion for reading until I had to learn English. Before I started learning English I had a mysterious attraction to different types of genres when it came down to books. I was born in Worcester, Massachusetts one of the coldest state ever in the winter. As I turned one my grandmother got very sick and she needed help so we ended up moving down to…
in the world, but more than half of them are at risk of becoming extinct. Many of the languages are at risk because there are only so many people speaking the language. Many languages are at risk of becoming extinct because they are not common to learn among people. Many people tend to use second language instead of using primary language. People find second language as more important than their native language because they are surround by the people who speaks the second language. After doing…
Translator Association. However, he does not translate “which is” to Korean, and just speaks like an English speaker. The reason is that part is hard to translate to Korean. Korean is a postposition language, so they put the described words or sentence before the word, but English is a postposition language such as they can use “which is” to describe the word. Therefore, in this dialogue, P switched English grammar system to explain ATA at the end of sentence. In addition, that part is also hard…
to have an equal learning field. With that, children who do not speak English should be put in classes where their language is spoken to help them get through an already difficult transition; school. Success in this country lies in what kind of education one receives, and with the influx of minorities coming in to receive a good education one runs into the problem of what is the best way to teach English to these non- English speakers. The apparent best solution would…
Growing up in a big mixed family is a must to know two different languages, Spanish and English. It’s a great disadvantage because Today, I 'm a bilingual. Well, semi-bilingual. It’s useful to be able to communicate with my family, for work, and pretty much everywhere I go. But at the end of it all, it’s a blessing and curse. It was a challenge for me as a kid growing up, to identify the difference language barrier. I felt comfortable to read, write and speak Spanish very well because the school…