Swedish language

many of the Swedish immigrants not only remained Lutheran, but they kept their “diasporic nationalism” (Tweed 110-111). Although they moved to a new country, they still considered themselves as Swedish. The push for their immigration was centered on having a better life economically and have freedoms that they did not have in their homelands. The move was never to forget about where they came from. For those purposes, they kept their diasporic nationalism. The first wave of Swedish immigrants…

of language and how it communicates one’s culture. He first writes about growing up in Kenya; describing the language, Gikuyu, and how storytellers told stories that were mostly about animals or humans. He considers Gikuyu as the language of his community, culture, and work. Later, due to the English colonization in Africa, he went to a “colonial school” where he was forced to learn English. In Kenya, English became the dominant language and if anyone was caught speaking their native language;…

The fact that Americans are only limited to learning English as the common language directly affects my personal life as well as my professional future due to my native tongue being Spanish. My mother was the one who originally taught me English, as well as my grandfather who was a U.S. Marine and would always speak English to all of my family. My mother was an English teacher so that facilitated my learning experience as well as fixing accent and grammatical errors. Coming to America I…

ASSIST ONE (Chaitanya Madduru, Harini Musunuru, Neelima Potluri) Abstract Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) means communicating through gestures, signs or any form of communication excluding speech. This type of communication aids people who are suffering from speech disorders. Assist One is an android based application that enables augmentative and alternative form of communication especially for children suffering from autism, cerebral palsy and many various types of speech…

Introduction "Our language has more rhythmic tones," Ms. Hudson said. To some people, 'she be going ' just flows, it 's just a natural thing." Over decades, Linguists have attest to the Black English Vernacular (BEV) as being a remnants and a fusion of the West African Language used by enslaved persons brought to the Americas over 400 years ago. Enslaved people were denied a formal education, but were required to learn the language to communicate with white master, hence the BEV dialect was…

Indexicality of language and style-shifting in Kebab Norwegian “Kebab Norwegian” is traced to “Kebab Svenska” (Kebab Swedish, now “Rinkebysvenska”) and was imported to Norway in the mid-1990s. Kebab Norwegian was rapidly adopted by the media and by word of mouth, and generally refers to the vernacular, the most relaxed and least conscious way of speaking, Norwegian amongst young people with and without immigrant background in the multilingual urban spaces of Oslo. The term was first coined in…

world like ours, it is fundamental to master foreign languages; and learning a language involves learning how to communicate in that language. In this way, bilingualism can be defined as to be competent in the use of two languages; that means, to be proficient in two different languages. However, it should be present that this concept is complex. More concretely, according to Cohen (1975), bilingual education is the use of two or more languages as a means of instruction in a part of the school…

to countries that speak Scandinavian languages that derived from an old Germanic language that evolved into a language called Old Norse. It then evolved into the languages they speak there today which are Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. These languages are very similar and with some training, can be understood by people from each of these three countries. On the other hand Finnish, which is spoken in Finland, is not at all similar to the Scandinavian languages, which can explain why Finland is…

Although both my grandfather and father are Italian, since my grandfather had immigrated to the United States as a child, he only knew bits and pieces - not enough to have a conversation - so although I have Italian blood, I never knew any of the language until I entered high school. This past year, I finally got my chance. I am a competitive figure skater. Unlike much of the figure skating shown on tv, I compete on a synchronized figure skating team, where 16 skaters compete together. In a…

is a doctor, my father an economic consultant and I have one older brother. When I was an adolescent, I travelled to the USA and to England for a holiday trip with my family which was a very interesting experience that I enjoyed a lot. The english language and english speaking countries fascinated me since I started learning about it in third grade. That is why I chose to go to a bilingual class in high school. The english subjects, biology, history, music and geography, changed every year from…