Official language

Being able to speak more than one language gives us a greater opportunity to succeed, especially in the United States because it’s one of the most diverse countries in the world. Being bilingual or trilingual opens many doors for people to be able to progress, but some people feel that multilingualism is detrimental to the American Culture and that the only language that should be spoken is English. However, there are also people such as Warren Blumenfeld, who believe that multilingualism is a…

When humans are just born, they have been educated about language from the time we entered school. But much of what we learn about language in schools belongs more to a folk model than to an analytic model of language. In learning your native language, it is a way for you to connect with your culture, community and also yourself. In my viewpoint, learning your native langauge is very important so certain languages don’t vanish. When I was reading the article ‘’Vanishing Voices,’’ Russ Rymer was…

Nicholas I sat there on the couch, flipping endlessly through the channels, but all of it was just boring Golf. Golf was always to me a boring sport for boring people, but what I have discovered was just as exciting as a nail-biter basketball game or a high-speed soccer match. I learned of a sport that I love, that at one point I never would have considered playing. I never imagined that I, of all people, would enjoy golf, but I was wrong. I believe that trying new things, leads to new interests…

Making English The “Official” Language of The United States In the essay, In Plain English: Let’s Make It Official by Charles Krauthammer. Charles talks about how the United States came the conclusion of making English an official language. He also says that it was not an easy process to make it official. The United States being a very diverse place with multiple different cultures and languages it makes it very difficult to choose the most used language. But, in the end the United States made…

Some substantial of freedoms guaranteed by liberalism are the minority rights and language rights. Quite frequently minority groups have to struggle to receive the same freedoms as their majority counterparts. In a society governed by liberalism, minority groups do not usually have to fight as much as they would have to in a illiberal…

American Language Policy Should there be an official language policy that needs to be adopted such as in other countries? The United States was created by immigrants that left their countries due to many reasons. With such a diverse crowd of ethnicities full of culture and traditions, it would come as no surprise that these ethnic groups would have their own languages. One reason some feel that there should be a language policy is that of communication problems between two different language…

title is not only meant to intrigue the reader, but it also gives us an idea of what we will find when we click on this section. This section’s primary focus is the invention of new words and the way language is a social phenomenon. In the subsection titled, “ Sez Who” Walt Wolfram says that language changes, “not by the media; it’s the middle class.” Within this section we also find “The Power of Slang.” Not only is slang described as establishing a sense of commonality, but it is also a core…

Frank Smith once said, “One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.” The United States should take steps towards becoming a bilingual country. Making English the official language in this country would be unconstitutional. Being able to speak more than one language has several different advantages: cognitive and financial. Spanish speakers form the biggest group of people that speak a language other than English in the United States. Bilingualism…

Sociolinguistics refers to the study of language that relates with the society and the social factors. Language and dialects are both two different things. Taking into account Linguistic Variation, a language and dialect is differentiated based on mutual intelligibility. Mutual intelligibility refers to two speakers who speak the same language and understand each other but in different dialects. Dialects can be based on regional dialects which means with regards to geographical locations or it…

politically as the cause of different regions taking on different identities through the recognition of multiple languages as being national. This has led to many regions institutionally standardizing different languages of their own community, leading to over twenty-five being at least regionally accepted as official. Yet above all national recognitions in India, the English and Hindi languages are the only ones used by the Republic’s government. With Hindi being…