Beijing dialect

Different dialects, pronunciation, forms, and accents all make up the subtle differences of languages spoken around the world. Because America is a “melting pot” for so many different cultures, it can be easy to walk down the street and hear a version of English not native to you. As you travel around the county and the world, you will observe that the language changes are very apparent and are easily identifiable because of their unfamiliarity to you. I feel that the different dialects,…

Suddenly, America has become extremely diverse, and with the array of languages forming from that, it would be unprecedented to think that every person can speak English. Two authors, Martin Espada and Richard Rodriguez discuss the issues and challenges towards bilingualism. “The new bathroom policy at english high school “ by Martin Espada and “Hunger of Memory” by Richard Rodriguez, each have opposing views on the same topics involving languages. Ranging from political issues to social/ family…

Language is a big part in our life because it helps us in many ways, such as communicating, and translating to others. Personally knowing two languages has helped me communicate with many people that have come across me. Despite the complication of growing up speaking only one language and transitioning from one to another. Although language can be complicated to learn and also there can be times when a certain language makes one feel uncomfortable but is beneficial, such as me I know English…

The two works both make use of regional dialect and slang, and they both use language as a means of communicating culture and literary themes. Without a doubt, within Brother Man, language is essential to understanding the characters. Though none of the characters in this novel uses “Standard British…

English is my native language. Southern English is my dialect. I traveled all over the world, many times over and I have many observations on languages. I grew up in Northern California, son of father from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a mother from Graceville, Florida. Though English was my natural language, but needless to say, I was surrounded by a large variety of dialects. I always said yes sir, yes ma’am to any adult. If called by an adult, I was to answer with “Sir/Ma’am”. I had…

would get tongue tied. There was one instance in particular that I remember when he had to speak with an insurance company about an accident. Someone had hit him from the rear and he had to describe in detail what happened. I could feel his anxiety as soon as he started to speak to the agent over the phone. My mother was making comments in the background about how he should have written down exactly what he was going to say because he seemed so flustered and tongue tied. As a result of these…

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…

It can include many varieties, i.e. standard British or American English, regional or social dialects, etc. TL implies a second-language-acquisition perspective in which the target language is accessible. Another term used for roughly the same concept is “superstrate language” which stresses power and accessibility and leaves it open as to whether…

“Language is a flexible changing, living organism that belongs to the people who speak it” (Simon 336). The different regions have their own slangs, dialects, and accents due to the influence of those people who infiltrated the region many years ago when America was first established. The different cultures that incorporated their homeland’s dialect mixed their language with our version of English to transform and over time eventually change their language to the type of English we recognize…

In the article Mother Tongue by Amy Tan, she scrutinizes her mother’s language, her own use of English and society’s response to different peoples English usage, to show us the power of a language. It’s not very often that we see Asian- Americans writing books and getting big hits, because some English that they write or speak is not fully understood. Tan uses her own personal experiences to get us to realize that language is so broad. She uses a lot of examples of her mother’s “broken” English,…