Second World

but the main concern is should all the different languages be mandatory, or just one? Should all the other languages just be electives? In the United States, Spanish should be the one mandatory language. In the United States, Spanish has been the second most spoken language for a long time, but people should not…

The phenomenon that has been going on in the realm of bilingualism with regard to parenting, schooling, and education is that more and more parents, monolingual parents included, start to become aware of and appreciate the importance of mastering a second language and wish their children to be bilingual. Considering the practical advantages of being bilingual, such as better future career opportunities, positive effects on self-image, and the development of skills of enabling effective…

Why a Second Language Should Be Required Imagine traveling to a different country and getting to communicate to the land people. Imagine a person applying for a high paying job and getting hired because their brain able to retain and study information. Imagine a person’s brain being so far along compared to others that it delays the onset of diseases. All of these things are factors students will receive when learning a foreign language. Students should be required to learn a foreign language…

that “the English language has been the common language of the world for decades. It is now impossible to find a country where learning English has not become a norm. While there are some people who would like to stick with their native language and who would prefer not to learn English, the benefits of learning and mastering English goes beyond the four corners of one’s own country. English is the most spoken language around the world. 1 out 5 persons understands it. It is estimated that there…

interwoven so that one cannot separate the two without losing the significance of either language and culture.”. By knowing the culture, we can know why people think and speak the way they do. (David Elmes, 2013) In Malaysia, we learn English as a second language and therefore the learning of pragmatics of English is about intercultural communication. We do not teach culture of different races in the classroom because they might be more than three different races in the classroom and it is not…

word is how parents communicate with their children, and it is how their children learn how to communicate with their parents and others. In America almost everybody speaks English to a certain degree, and 500 million people speak english around the world (Marcos), is the national language of a dozen countries, is an official U.N. language and plenty of business negotiations are conducted in English. So it’s understandable why Americans, who know English as their primary language do not feel the…

The book, “Things Fall Apart”, by Chinua Achebe gets its name from the poem, “The Second Coming”, by W. B. Yeats. These two written works have many things in common. They share a common theme and back it up with several literary elements. However, “The Second Coming” by W.B Yeats isn’t the only poem similar to the book, “Things Fall Apart”, by Chinua Achebe. “Things Fall Apart” is also similar to another poem called “Welcome Change”, by Gina Whitacre. All three of these pieces of literature…

According to Mia Nacamuli, a TED-Ed Educator, three types of bilinguals can exist: Compound, learning two languages simultaneously; Coordinate, learning one language while continuing to speak a native one; and Subordinate, learning a language through the filtration of native speech (Nacamuli). Through scientific studies and observations, Nacamuli discovered that learning another language had numerous effects on the brain (Nacamuli). Contrary to previous belief that bilingualism stunted a student…

view has already been translated into Russian, and everything else is not worth it for the sake of this study a second language. But if they do not know it, they are not able to truly appreciate its benefits. Especially that only ignorance of any language is flawed, not possession. Each language has its own characteristics - this we know from childhood, but how language can change our world - it is currently not everyone. The fact that each language reflects the…

In Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex”, she explains how women are encouraged to behave like a woman solely for the entertainment for men. She explains how “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman” in her work which shows that women are constructed by society’s norms which shapes them into a woman. These external processors change her into an ideal doll. Her claim is completely accurate because throughout history and till this day, women have been expected to act a certain way and live up…