Introduction In this essay we attempt to describe the Louisiana Creole according to its history or origin‚ its speech community‚ its geographical location and the reasons why it is considered a Creole and not a language. Pidgin and Creole We can start this assignment by defining what a Creole is. However‚ in order to do this‚ we also have to define what a Pidgin is. Let us begin in that way. A Pidgin is a language with no native speakers; it is a contact language. In fact‚ the term pidgin
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English Should Be the Only Official Language in the U.S. Right after Qing Shi Huang‚ the First Emperor of Qin Dynasty‚ unified ancient China in 221 B.C‚ he promoted a series of revolutionary policies. One of them is “Shu Tong Wen”‚ meaning over the kingdom‚ all writing should be with the same characters. It was the first time that China has an “official language”. Before then‚ one Chinese character could be written in several versions and sound extremely different‚ which was a great hinder to production
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THE USE OF SLANG LANGUAGE BY INDONESIAN TEENAGERS I. INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Background It is stated in Kompasiana (2011) that “Social networking is a medium that is widely used by speakers of the language to communicate with each other remotely via the internet. They have interaction by using slang language. Social networks are much in demand by the public‚ namely facebook and twitter. In facebook and twitter‚ the user can write down what he was thinking in the "status" and are able to
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Do you think learning English is important? English is currently the most wide spread language in the world‚ it is second only to Mandarin Chinese in terms of the amount of people which speak it‚ but second to none in terms of the number of people learning it. It is currently the primary language used on the World Wide Web‚ in the political and business arenas. It has even become the language of today’s pop culture. So yes‚ I definitely think that learning English is important. While English
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Those who have studied the psycholinguistic development of a child are very clear about their findings. They say that language and cognitive development are intimately related. According to them‚ a child learns best in his mother tongue because he is not doubly burdened with the task of acquiring literacy skills simultaneously with learning another language not his own. That is why very often the student taught in a non-mother tongue learns to read syllable by syllable with very little comprehension
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What is Maritime English and how does it contributed to my career in maritime field. Maritime English is very important since English is the universal language; seafarers should learn different terms concerning navigation for ensuring safety‚ efficient and profitable ship operation. Language learning is to improve the student’s four skills of listening‚ speaking‚ reading and writing‚ with the base of good grammar and large vocabulary‚ including technical and maritime jargon. It is also an English
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Sean Young English 101 Professor Zednik September 18‚ 2012 Communication What? Tannen‚ Munoz‚ and Tan wrote personal essays explaining the impact of language in their lives. Problems arising from lack of communication are happening now more than ever‚ and these three authors state three completely different ways about how language is affecting their own lives as well as others. Though the three authors come from different backgrounds and share different stories‚ all the problems written by
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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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English Language: Key to Global Access By: Kyle A. Tumapang “Language is the blood of the soul in which thoughts run and out of which they grow‚” as once said by Oliver Wendell Holmes. We cannot deny that we are all experiencing the effects of globalization. Globalization‚ as we all know‚ is the process of interaction‚ and integration among peoples‚ companies‚ and governments of different nations. Due to its continuous rise‚ the unity of people around the world is greatly needed. But how can unity
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Even if Julia Alvazer was born in NY‚ her first language is Spanish. The struggle she has to go through to “keep up” w/ her own language thinking as its somehow superior then what she already knows. Summary of My English Julia Alvarez is a Dominican-American writer. She describes the struggle and the achievements she had in the essay ‘My English’. She lived in the Dominican Republic with her family‚ who spoke only Spanish at home. She grew up learning Spanish by heart. It was her first language
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