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A foreign language is a language that is native for the citizen of another country. For example, the foreign language that the Malaysian had studied when in primary school was the Mandarin, English, Malay or Tamil as compare to America citizen who has to wait till secondary school. Learning a foreign language should be made compulsory for all primary school students because the students could learn it easily, make them smarter, could communicate with citizen from other countries but also have a…

Speaker recognition is a biometric technique that uses an individual’s voice for identification or verification purpose. There are many people who often confuse themselves thinking that voice (speaker) recognition and speech recognition are one and the same but there is a fundamental difference between the two. Speech recognition system recognizes what is being spoken irrespective of the speaker whereas speaker recognition system identifies or verifies the speaker who has made an utterance.…

In today’s world, fitting into society is complicated, especially when people don’t know their true identity. Most people struggle because of their culture norms, whether that is racial or gender bias. After reading two essays from the book The Prose Reader essays for Thinking Reading and Writing ¬¬by Kim and Michael Flachman, it’s clear that identity and culture come hand in hand. The first essay For “My Indian Daughter” by Lewis Sawaquat, he talks about what he went through and some of the…

The Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once said, “The limits of my language are the limits of my world.” Language can unlock many doors, but our world can also be limited to what we know about it. This is the cruel reality that many of us face when arriving in a new country, not being able to speak the language. One feels as everything around us has broadened, but our world has shrunken. One feels impotent, unable to communicate with the people that surround us. For this reason,…

meaning of the author often influences the reader's ability to fully comprehend translated texts. Similarly, in Victor Hugo's historical novel Les Misérables, much of Hugo's brilliant contemplations of the French language is often lost in English…

Not-so Empty Rhetoric If you were to tune into the news in the past few weeks you most likely have heard someone saying something along the lines of "It's just empty rhetoric." However, if you really analyze at this statement, it does not necessarily make sense. According the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, rhetoric is defined as "the art of speaking or writing effectively." How could someone's ability be "empty" if rhetoric is being able to write or speak efficiently? It does not make sense. I…

in English and Vietnamese In process of communication in a community, request is one of the most important speech acts. In fact, it is used a lot in all aspects of life such as social interaction, working, studying, language teaching, etc. Especially, when teaching and studying language, many Vietnamese teachers and students find difficulty in understanding the similarities and differences between requests in English and Vietnamese. They can not appropriately express requests in English…

aristocracy or even The Royal Family. Moreover, the social dialects could be used in the whole United Kingdom and it does not matter where these users come from, Northern England or Cornwall, but the Cockney exist only in London. In "Varieties of English, Second Edition" (page 75) by Dennis Freeborn social variable is dramatise as "The first, and most obvious, social grouping related to accent is social class. Although we often label regional accents as coming from particular geographical areas…

Argumentative Essay “You can’t see other people’s point of view when you have only one language.” declared the psycholinguist, Frank Smith. This quote inspires people to learn foreign languages. Young people should learn a foreign language at an early age because of the advantages. When learning a foreign language at an early age, it helps people to focus, increase realization, and brilliance. Also, at a young age, the mind is new so the person can take in more information and can easily master…

confronted in this area: linguistic relativity and linguistic determinism. Relativity is straightforward to show. To speak any language, you have to pay attention to the meanings that are grammatically marked in that language. For illustration, in English it is necessary to mark the verb to indicate enough time of occurrence of an event you are speaking about: It's raining; That rained; etc. So, different languages and cultures are " light ", but language run deep. This is a clear effect of…