Lingua franca

English is the bread winning rather prestigious language. It penetrates every nook and corner of the world. The necessity of English is enormous. One cannot deny the usages of English Language in India. In the recent years, most of the young parents send their children to English medium schools knowing the importance of English. English is indispensible in the life of Indians. Scrase remarks that “English is recognised as an important global or international language essential for professional…

Charlemagne once said, “To have another language is to have a second soul” (BrainyQuote). As a native Spanish speaker, I find this statement to be true since I think about objects different than an English native speaker would. For example, when thinking about objects Spanish speakers tend to associate objects with genders while English speakers do not. The topic of language and how people think has been studied by a few Linguists, Psychologists, and Neuroscientists. Research and studies have…

In the essay “How To Tame A Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzaldua the author touches upon issues like the division within and between languages and how an attack on her language is an attack on her as a human being. The author overcomes much adversity as she is not only prosecuted for her language by English speakers but by some people within her own culture.Her own mother had told her that without learning to speak English without an accent she would never be able to amount to anything worthwhile in…

The Importance of English Proficiency Among Immigrants Hindrance in communication alone highlights the importance for immigrants to learn the dominant language in any country they move to, more specifically, the necessity of learning English in the United States. The Importance of English Proficiency Among Immigrants Among the various challenges and expectations that immigrants are faced with when moving to a new country, the importance of second language acquisition supersedes the…

Abstract: English has become the international language in the world; it has become the one of most used in every level of aspect in communication. Because of its important, English should be taught since early stage in order to make them familiar with the English words. Teaching English to Young Learners has become primarily need especially in non-native English country. Teaching young learners is different from teaching adults, because young learners tend to get new information through fun…

In the piece, “Mother Tongue”written by Amy Tan, Tan made the example with her mother and the hospital to prove to the readers that those who cannot speak perfect, or fluent English will be often disregarded or not equally treated compared to those who speak English well. When Tan described the example with the stockbroker, she wanted the audience to realize how her mother couldn’t get around in California properly with, for lack of a better word, broken English. She also described the feeling…

The Latin Language’s Impact - Jessica Blelloch Intro Today 800 million people worldwide speak Romance languages, or languages derived from latin roots, and 335 million speak English. Spanish (410 million),Portuguese (216 million), French (75 million), Italian (60 million), Romanian (25 million) Language is one of the most important things. We use it every single day, and with bout it the world wouldn't be what it is now. Though some may consider Latin a dead language that no longer matters,…

In the article, Mother Tongue, the author Amy Tan explicitly demonstrates how she has developed her perspectives about language and the way of thinking under the influence of her mother’s limited English skill. The strategies Tan used to support her argument include vivid anecdote, striking contrast, and emotionally appealing parallelism. This journal is going to analyse how those rhetorical devices were being used during the delivery of Tan’s stories, and present my connections with her. At…

In the essay “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan. Tan emphasizes that we all speak in different languages in our own way, and how we are categorized by the way we speak. In this essay she is talking about how her Asian mom talks in a different kind of English and how that affected her growing up. Tan has a mother who is from Asia, she speaks in a language that Americans would call “broken English.” Tan said that she would all ways have to make phone calls or talk for her mom when they would go places…

When I came to the United States, everything such as people, culture, tradition, language and college was strange to me. Especially language was an issue tome. Although I went to International language Institution in my country, I had troubles in most English classes when I first arrived to the U.S. As an immigrant student who was new in a different atmosphere would feel homesick to establish the social networks as in my country. As a matter of fact, I had a restricted social networks at…