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    Ways to Learn Speak English We can speak English confident if we native language is another than English‚ because we live in a homogeneous country‚ where the diversity of races abound‚ thereby dialect‚ ways of thinking‚ living and acting‚ but in this country the universal language is English‚ spoken different accents‚ so if we aren’t native north American there are several ways to learn speak English‚ for example‚ the practicing‚ living with other people who speak native English‚ learn and

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    adapt accent or dialect. My dialect contains some local Cornish words; for example;”dreekly” (later)‚ “emmet” (tourist)‚ “teasy” (cross/moody) and “mizzle” (a term used in the West Country to describe drizzle or fine rain). I also know that I occasionally use what would be considered to be non-standard grammar in expressions such as “where to?”‚ “proper job”‚ “what’s on?” and the word “some” instead of “very” (he’s ‘some handsome’). These are also reflective of local Cornish dialect. Words influenced

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    learner‚ particularly one who was also forced to learn another dialect‚ English has become confusing to me. My first dialect is Hiligaynon but I also had to learn Cebuano because I studied in Cebu. Because of this‚ my words get all mixed-up sometimes and I had to think both in Hiligaynon and Cebuano‚ which makes it complicated. This is true with my English language learning too. My words and sentences just mixes together‚ like the two dialects I speak‚ thus giving me a hard time constructing correct sentences

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    All languages change over time‚ and vary from place to place. In my opinion‚ English language is the most influenced by the change. I must say lots of factors affect language. It may be because of political or social pressures‚ such us invasions‚ imigration and colonisation. It may also change because of latest inventions‚ such as transport‚ domestic appliances and industrial equipment‚ or new sports and entertainment‚ because they also need new vocabluary. But‚ language can change by less obvious

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    Csécsei Luca 12.IB Does language shape culture? Most questions of whether and how language shapes thought start with the simple observation that languages differ from one another. And a lot! Just look at the way people talk‚ they might say. Certainly‚ speakers of different languages must attend to strikingly different aspects of the world just so they can use their language properly. The word order can be completely different among languages. And also there are tenses in some languages that

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    metaphysical and intricate‚ as it is in As Kingfishers Catch Fire‚ where he leaps from one image to another to show how each thing expresses its own uniqueness‚ and how divinity reflects itself through all of them. He uses many archaic and dialect words‚ but also coins new words. One example of this is twindles‚ which seems from its context in Inversnaid to mean a combination of twines and dwindles. He often creates compound adjectives‚ sometimes with a hyphen (such as dapple-dawn-drawn falcon)

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    the national identity of Australia. The creation of the Australian accent emanated from the need of the first generation Australians to be identified as Australian and not of the nationality of their migrant parents. The levelling of dialects allowed for a new dialect of English to be formed‚ distinct from that of their parents and similar to that of each other. The Australian accent was then passed from the first generation to the second generation‚ thus stabilising the phonemes used and hence establishing

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    into the origin of the Gullah language. For seven years‚ Dow studied and spoke the language of Gullah and interviewed the Gullah speaking people of the Sea Islands. Dow-Turner conducted similar interviews in Africa in order to compare the dialects. Dialect -Linguistics. a variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features of phonology‚ grammar[->0]‚ and vocabulary[->1]‚ and by its use by a group of speakers who are set[->2] off from others geographically

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    not the contrary. People speak different languages; this difference is used to identify and distinguish between different people‚ different ethnicities and races. The human need to belong to a group makes them abide to a specific language and dialect that represents their specific community and differentiate it from the rest. Language is what connects people to their communities; they are directly connected to people who speak the same language as them. Anzaldua argues that “Ethnic identity is

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    Differences in Sociolinguistic Rules and the Misunderstandings Language learners are used to taking advantages of knowledge of their mother tongue language when they are studying foreign languages‚ they may have some misinterpretations that caused by the differences in sociolinguistic rules. For a better understanding of sociolinguistics‚ Wardhaugh (2006‚ p.13) stated that sociolinguistics how people’s talking are influenced by the society and how people’s class‚ gender‚ and age contribute to

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