Languages

Sign language is one of the many languages that have different controversies within it. Sign language is a system of communication using visual gestures and signs, as used by deaf people (Shkoukani, 2013). Many people believe that sign language should be treated like any other language that is used all around the world. One of the biggest controversies that sign language has, is whether it should be accepted as a foreign language. Some problems associated with this language is that many people…

ladies and gentlemen , Today i will be talking about the topic Language and Power. Can anyone tell me , What is language? “A language is the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.” That’s the definition from the Oxford Dictionary. Now I’m not interested in the surface definition , this is for grade 5 kids in elementary school. I wanna go in - depth to applying it in real life situations to everything we do.…

watching sign language, anyone can tell you how expressive the language is and how beautiful the words simply flow from hand to hand, to each facial expression and gesture. Sign language is a beautiful gift that can be given to anyone, if they just took the time to learn it. Parents who know sign language and pass this down to their children in the infancy stage of their lives are benefiting their offspring more than they know. By teaching hearing, not only deaf, infants and toddlers sign…

the United States peaks when discussing other countries. If every American is required to learn a second language this cultural confusion would cease to exist. Employers love when possible employees can speak other languages and communicate with customers in a more direct way. Being bilingual is becoming more and more essential to being part of the global economy. Speaking a second language is great for traveling. It can help give one confidence to travel too. When one can communicate in a…

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…

INTRODUCTION Bodo is one of the famous languages of North-East India. It is the major language of the Bodo group of the Indo-Mongoloid family which fall within the Assam-Burmese section and is spoken by Bodo people of North-Eastern India. The Bodo language is amongst the official languages of the Indian state of Assam and it is one of the 22 languages which has been recognized by eighth schedule of the Indian Constitution. 1.2:LINGUISTIC CLASSIFICATION The Bodo language belonging to the…

have created a sign language review video and a sign language booklet, that are both specific to one individual who has a developmental disability and uses sign language. For this project I will discuss why the individual uses sign language and why these materials are useful to her. I will explain the need for the video and the booklet in addition to the process of creating them step by step. Additionally in this project is information from research on the use of sign language by individuals…

Khoisan languages are facing a decline of speakers and subsequently these figures can further decline for the reason that minority languages usually have a decline in speakers rather than a gain. In Tanzania there are 126 languages so it would take an enormous growth of population in the Khoisan region for the minority language to become a majority language among all the other languages in Tanzania. Minority languages have a small amount of speakers belonging to a minority group. Khoisan is a…

Informal Border Language People shouldn’t be ashamed about the way they speak both English and Spanish at the same time. Yes, it may sound improper in the way they are communicating to another person especially if that person to which they are communicating to does not know Spanish at all. It’s proper to talk in one language while speaking to a person. Whether it’s English, Spanish or any other language sticking to one language sounds more formal. In my opinion, to me the only time that they…

just how important language is in the world. English is the only language that I speak and I learned this language from my parents. English is the only language that my parents know how to speak. Although, interestingly enough, when my mother was a child, her mother and father would speak Italian throughout the house. They soon stopped speaking Italian when my mother began to catch onto their private conversations. My mother lost her ability to understand the Italian language quickly after that.…