Languages of the United States

two sectors. One of the largest financial companies in the United States and in the world is Fidelity Investments. Currently I work as a Temp at Fidelity Investments in the operations department focusing on retirement. I thought it would be interesting to compare a position on the other side of Finance. When I first read about the project, I decided I would search for jobs in European countries as I am more familiar with European languages and culture. Having visited England before, I decided…

here? These are questions that most children born in the United States do not have to ask themselves when they enter for their first day of school. However, there are many children coming from countries such as Mexico and Sudan, where these are questions that children ask themselves every day. Accordingly, I began to ask myself the question what different aspects of a daily classroom routine that might prove to be challenging for English Language Learners due to cultural mismatches or…

Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, “the limits of my language are the limits of my universe.” There is no doubt that learning Spanish will expand your own personal universe. Spanish is everywhere and it can be sometimes be important to study them in order to understand people from Hispanic countries, with well over 35 million Spanish speakers in United States, and with over 40% of the population…

learning English as a second language and after that to improve it. It is not easy, and I am sure as people get older, learning a new language can be incredibly challenging. Many years has gone by; I am still struggling to try to improve my English. I am not going to denial that I still feel more comfortable speaking my native languages. However, the fact is I understand that English is a common language here in the U.S., and it is critical to learning the language so I can voice my opinion…

There are many immigrants in the United States, and I believe that every immigrant is bi-cultural. I am also bi-cultural. Cambodia has a king, and the United States has a president. People of Cambodia usually are dependent, quiet, and traditional. People of American are independent and outspoken. Khmer is Cambodia language, and English is the American language. Being bi-cultural in the US, I am influenced by the language, figure it out my identity and how to cope and understand the different…

The United States vs. Italy. The world is filled with about 200 countries and they all differ from each other. A country is defined as a nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory (English Oxford Living Dictionaries). Nonetheless not all countries are the same, and there are numerous things that distinguish one from another. The United States and Italy are two very diverse countries because they differ in their location, historical background, language, culture,…

people who study language, all spoken languages change over time. The rate of this change is not always at the same rate. For example, Japanese has changed relatively little over the past 1000 years, while English has changed rapidly in the past 300 years. There are two main aspects of change. They are: 1) terms used for objects, actions, and concepts and 2) how words are pronounced. Of these aspects of change, terms are the first to change. Some terms are borrowed from other languages. For…

celebrate the return of the trip because he is grieving the loss of his captain. Whitman wrote this poem after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln shortly after the Civil War. The poem consists of many metaphors, imagery, figurative and literal language, symbolism, personification, alliteration, repetition, rhyme scheme, apostrophe, allusion, diction, and tone. “O Captain! My Captain!” is composed of many metaphors. A metaphor is a statement that one thing is something else, which, in literal…

My viewpoint on my own culture as well as other cultures has not changed by reading this module but perhaps it has been enhanced and become more solidified. “Culture is the knowledge, language, values, customs and material objects that are passed from person to person and from one generation to the next in a human group or society” (Kendall, 2016, p. 45). Each person and every culture brings a uniqueness to the world that would create a void if lost. American culture is wonderful, but so is…

Ms. Marie came to the United States from a small town in Mexico. She said that she did not think anyone she knew spoke English in her town. She attended a small school for a few years in Mexico. When she was 8 years old, her father got the opportunity to work with his cousin in the United States. The family moved first to Laredo, Texas. In Laredo, she started school and began to be taught to speak English. In this school, there were many children…