Russian language

centralizing Russian government, expanding the empire, and gaining the loyalty and respect of the people. She reorganized provincial government, codified laws, and enacted state-sponsored education for boys and girls. As well as gaining power of the warm-water port on the Black sea in 1774 and seizing land from Poland. To gain the respect of her people, Catherine put together a group of delegates in 1767 that would help her know the people’s wishes and would contribute in making a Russian…

increased demand for people who were able to translate foreign information, a responsibility given to professional linguists. As defined by Merriam-Webster’s College Dictionary, a linguist is “a specialist in linguistics [which is] the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics” (“Linguist”).…

I have a very standard culture, and I grew up in a very standard home. My culture mixes with the culture of the different sides of my family, as well as the different cultures of my friends and peers, but all cultures I come in contact with are unique and it’s all different and extremely exciting. I decided that, for this essay, I will go back in time to another country to discover how a small Lithuanian family worked together through World War II, and how the culture they were raised with aids…

Languages. German, French, English, Italian, Mandarin or even Russian. They are thousands of languages still spoken today. By all means, language is a powerful and vital tool for every single person’s life. In fact, it is something that has been around for hundreds and hundreds of years. It is something so unique and complex, yet so beautiful in the same time. Taking that into account, linguistics has a very difficult, yet significant job, in today’s society. Linguistics. What is it exactly?…

The Pohnpeian Language I. Introduction As human beings we communicate in some form weather its using our mouths, sounds, motions, clicking sounds, etc. Either way we communicate to build relationships or to simply get a task done. There are roughly about 7,000 different languages spoken around the world and changes yearly (BBC). All different and from various regions of the world all have one thing in common and that is grammatical structure. A. Background Information First, thing about writing…

The relationship between language and culture is deeply rooted in the human mind. Language is used to maintain and convey culture and cultural ties. Different ideas stem from differing language use within one’s culture and the whole intertwining of these relationships start at one’s birth. It is not until the child is exposed to their surroundings that they become individuals in and of their cultural group. From birth, the child’s life, opinions, and language are shaped by what it comes in…

Does the language unite or separate people? This issue is very complicated, I think. There are many countries and nations throughout the world. The world speaks different languages. Even in one country there may be many different languages, for example in Russia. There are accents, which are blurred depending on the region. Or even several official languages can exist in one country, for example, in Switzerland people speak three different languages - Italian, German and French. People often say…

Abroad: A Cross-Language Study”, reports on a study conducted by Francesca Di Silvio, Wenhao Diao, and Anne Donovan. Published in The Modern Language Journal in 2016, this quantitative research investigated on different aspects regarding learners’ improvement in fluency and holistic proficiency after a semester abroad. Research Questions In this study, the authors addressed three research questions regarding L2 fluency. The first research question was: “Do learners of Mandarin, Russian, and…

learn to speak Russian at home and around family, but English at school and around friends. It’s a difficult time switching between two languages in two different places and types of people separating the two languages. There are two essays called “The New Bathroom Policy at English High School” by Martin Espada and “Hunger of Memory” by Richard Rodriguez which both explain different perspectives of bilingualism. In bilingualism, there is a private language for home and a public language for…

The Art of Sign Language American Sign Language, or ASL, is just like every other language in the world. It has its own roots, grammar, and pronunciations. While some words in ASL are derived from the English language, it is not a mimed form of English. With its own distinct grammar and punctuations, American Sign Language is a complete and complex language, like many around the world. Can this language help more than it is intended for? American Sign Language has no set origin. Karen Nakamura…